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'They're coming out with their hands up – full scale surrender': US General says ISIS fighters
The Daily Mail ^
| Updated: 09:49 EDT, 6 October 2017
| William Crisp
Posted on 10/07/2017 7:45:26 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
'They're giving up,' said Lieutenant General Paul Funk, who commands the coalition task force fighting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. 'Their leaders are abandoning them.'
In uncommon scenes, large groups of militants were turning themselves over to Kurdish Peshmerga forces, in the city southwest of Kirkuk.
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'The speed at which the enemy gave up surprised me,' Funk said in a phone interview from Baghdad, after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the liberation of Hawija.
Funk said about 1,000 militants surrendered in the past three or four days of fighting in Hawija. The coalition had estimated up to 1,500 militants were defending the city when the offensive began.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; isis; peshmerga; surrender
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To: ExTexasRedhead
41
posted on
10/07/2017 8:06:22 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free.)
To: BigEdLB
Yes. I know some in Syria too.
ISIS has grown to fear/hate them.
42
posted on
10/07/2017 8:06:35 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: pax_et_bonum
"Thanks for posting."
Yes, since we damn sure won't see this in the American media.
43
posted on
10/07/2017 8:06:45 AM PDT
by
daler
To: Texas Fossil
So when do we bring them to the US as asylum seekers and Democrat voters?
44
posted on
10/07/2017 8:08:20 AM PDT
by
cp124
(Elections are for the serfs to think their opinion matters. It doesn't.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
China had some of the same.
45
posted on
10/07/2017 8:08:31 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: BigEdLB
How does blond hair dye make its way into a war zone?
46
posted on
10/07/2017 8:08:54 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: billyboy15
Exactly!
Just like the democrats bragging how Obama “Got” Osama.
Even if it was Seal Team 6, which existed and have plotted the Osama OPERATION before Obama’s reign.
47
posted on
10/07/2017 8:10:38 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
To: 2banana
Fight fire with fire. NO PRISONERS!
48
posted on
10/07/2017 8:11:00 AM PDT
by
Spok
To: vooch
I noted it from your previous post. Will read it, doubt I will believe it all. Some I did find interesting.
1/2 truths are dangerous. Wrong perception of importance is often fatal.
49
posted on
10/07/2017 8:11:23 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: ExGeeEye
Sorry, I’m not good at sarcasm.
50
posted on
10/07/2017 8:13:09 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: Texas Fossil; flaglady47; Maine Mariner; Seattle Conservative; pax_et_bonum; Freedom56v2; ...
I'm holding my breath till I see these U.S. combat victories exuberantly headlined in the MSM....and I foresee myself turning bluer and bluer and.......
Leni
To: KarlInOhio
Yes. Is this surrender-or an infiltration ruse?
52
posted on
10/07/2017 8:14:34 AM PDT
by
myerson
To: BigEdLB
53
posted on
10/07/2017 8:14:58 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Anime is real.)
To: daler
It is better our media has avoided war reporting in Syria and Iraq.
They would simply get it wrong.
The best coverage comes from regional and freelance writers. There have been some all along, but it is a very dangerous job.
54
posted on
10/07/2017 8:15:09 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: Texas Fossil
Iraqi forces under the New Sheriff in town!
letting the Generals do their work
55
posted on
10/07/2017 8:15:27 AM PDT
by
yoe
To: myerson
It’s surrender. But they will be checked out for weapons.
56
posted on
10/07/2017 8:15:57 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: yoe
Oh, Yes.
Night and day change since Trump became president and Mattis in charge of the military.
57
posted on
10/07/2017 8:17:31 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: Texas Fossil
Looking at the pictures, these look like locals. A lot of the Sunni tribesmen of North-West Iraq threw in with ISIS, many as mercenaries, and IIRC were being used to hold outlying areas while the hardcore was in the main show.
These would not have been as fanatical as the foreign imports.
58
posted on
10/07/2017 8:19:06 AM PDT
by
buwaya
To: myerson
Muzzies surrendering to muzzies is nothing to get too happy about. That’s they way various caliphates recruited and consolidated power down through the centuries.
59
posted on
10/07/2017 8:19:09 AM PDT
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: boycott
obama and his administration should be put on trial for war crimes.
I second that.
60
posted on
10/07/2017 8:22:07 AM PDT
by
TruthFactor
(Hang em', Hang em' High.)
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