This is Fallujah we are talking about .
They are not dead just mixed in with their crowd , soon to disperse and pop up somewhere else.
Libya just got a bunch of money from 0 , would wager that is where they will be popping up .
It’s not over.
“This is Fallujah we are talking about .
They are not dead just mixed in with their crowd”
I hear you on that. Unlike most ISIS strongholds, their troops in Fallujah are overwhelmingly locals (estimated around 85%).
But this time, it is not well trained and disciplined US Marines sorting through the crowd, but Shi’ite militiamen, guided by Iranian officers. There have been a mountain of reports of torture, and disappearances of young men. The assault this month came after months of artillery prep - so they are doing their damnedest to reduce the place to rubble and depopulate it.
General Sulemani, the point man for Iran, spent eight years fighting Iraq as a young man - akin to eight years on the front in in one of the World Wars. It is an historic payback opportunity for them, and an historic opportunity to shape the future.
The Iranian strategic plan is to annihilate Sunni resistance, Sectarian/ethnically cleanse areas, and establish de facto control over parts of Iraq, like they did in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon with Hizbullah. Diyala Province will be (is) their stronghold, and Fallujah is perhaps the heartland of Sunni resistance. The Iranians will try to get as much done to the Fallujans as they can, during this historic opportunity. A bunch of the local jihadi sympathizers are in for a third world/muslim-style purge. Happy Ramadan fellas!
They will still need US air cover for the assault on Mosul though, so there is still some restraint, at least with public relations and the press...
Exactly.
I spoke face-to-face with a senior Muslim terrorist about the very mix-in, disperse, re-form, or relocate tactics you mention. The US hasn’t learned a thing in three decades and ignores thousands of years of ME history.
Good call on Libya too; Egypt is in for a nasty future.
I agree. Never be over until we blow ‘em off the earth.