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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; isis; peshmerga; surrender
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To: TexasRepublic

Yes. Trial necessary. In this case judged by your enemies not your peers.


81 posted on 10/07/2017 8:51:49 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

This is what happens when the U.S. rules of engagement do not tie our soldiers’ hands behind their backs and send them into the arena as bait like our last president did. When our soldiers are permitted to fight, they win.

Funny how President Trump, who never served in the military, knew that and fixed it. Haven’t seed success like this as long as I have been alive. . .and I’m old.


82 posted on 10/07/2017 8:52:13 AM PDT by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: Texas Fossil

-—May that end come soon.-—

Isis is like ebola...

It goes into hiding until it finds a new host...


83 posted on 10/07/2017 8:54:56 AM PDT by Popman
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To: BenLurkin
How does blond hair dye make its way into a war zone?

Typical ignorant question. Kurds are not Arabs.

"A study of mitochondrial DNA found that Kurds, same as Armenians, show a high incidence of mtDNA U5 lineages, which are common among Europeans, although rare elsewhere in the Near East.

The sample of Kurds in this study came from northwest Iran and northeast Iraq, where Kurds usually predominate."

The Kurds are not Arabs, Turks etc. !!

Blue eyes, blond hair. Also among Kurdish people. The Kurds. The origin in Aryan – Indo European race.


84 posted on 10/07/2017 8:55:13 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (John McCain treats GOP voters like he treated his first wife)
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To: 2banana
" Two words...

Summary executions.

Xzactly......no if-ands-buts!!!!!

These kormama brains can't be reeducation or rehabilitated.....their only earthly use is, fertilizer!!!!

85 posted on 10/07/2017 8:56:11 AM PDT by crazy scenario ( Remember me, I'm a fixer!)
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To: Texas Fossil

Yeah, the handful that are left. This snailkrieg of ours, with no encirclement around Raqqa, means that the majority of them went back to the EU or wherever. Almost all the war criminals have escaped.


86 posted on 10/07/2017 8:58:58 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: oldbrowser
It's not the army we need to defeat, it's the ideology.

We will find
sooner or later
if Achmed'll pray
to a glowing crater

87 posted on 10/07/2017 9:03:38 AM PDT by null and void (The internet gave everyone a mouth. It gave no one a brain.)
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To: BenLurkin

National Geographic once traced blonde hair/blue eyes/fair skin all the way to India by some ethnic groups among Alexander the Great’s army. And then there was the Muslim practice of taking European slaves.


88 posted on 10/07/2017 9:04:10 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: KarlInOhio

“I wonder how many will be returned to Europe for trial and a few months of imprisonment in a place that makes “Club Fed” minimum security prisons here look like Devil’s Island.”

None. The slow motion offensive was designed to let them escape. Notice how there was no encirclement to entrap them? We will see a few hundred captured at most. We deliberately avoided having to deal with thousands of war criminals. There will be no hunt for them they way there was for Nazis.
And there will be no Nuremburg trial.

And we will quickly get gusy on carving out a large chunk of the country to start an alternative Syrian sunni government, and on removal of Assad.


89 posted on 10/07/2017 9:06:47 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: Texas Fossil

If Obama were still president, we’d be herding them onto planes, sending them to red states in the US and signing them up for food stamps and section 8 housing.


90 posted on 10/07/2017 9:07:04 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: chajin
For her sake, I hope she actually finds the Lord

You are much more charitable than I am.

Hillary will gurney in 2020. I'm gonna use that!

91 posted on 10/07/2017 9:07:53 AM PDT by null and void (The internet gave everyone a mouth. It gave no one a brain.)
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To: COBOL2Java

I wager a $20 donation (over and above) to FreeRepublic that the gal in the first pic is not a natural blonde. The color of the hair is one clue. The shaved and re-inked eyebrows are another. The honey brown eyes indicate a strong possibility of a hair color other than black. But probably not blond.

But I defer to your subject matter knowledge as to the Kurds overall. Her gear, BDUs and load carrying vest look near new. Did the US recently resupply the existing Kurd fighters or is she in a new and recently formed expansion of their forces?


92 posted on 10/07/2017 9:08:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: gspurlock

We must thank Trump, Mattis and our Kurd allies.

None of this would have happened without all 3.


93 posted on 10/07/2017 9:08:36 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: jjotto

Please see my post 92


94 posted on 10/07/2017 9:08:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 2banana

1000 that need to be removed from the human gene pool.


95 posted on 10/07/2017 9:10:23 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Popman

Yes. But it will end in Syria and Iraq very soon.

After those 2 defeats and the damage to their finance system, it will be severely crippled.

The free world is united against this now.


96 posted on 10/07/2017 9:11:11 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: COBOL2Java

And they are smart, good People.


97 posted on 10/07/2017 9:11:48 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: DesertRhino

I don’t think so.

How do you know that?


98 posted on 10/07/2017 9:12:34 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Cementjungle

Absolutely.


99 posted on 10/07/2017 9:15:09 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

All that happened was America squandered a chance to give the world an object lesson of raw power against pure evil. We became the battlefield managers of a mostly sunni force inchworming its way across the ISIS zone. This is just a change of ownership to a different Islamic group.

Now prepare for the fun in Europe where we let them escape to. And Mattis will continue his lunacy of removing Assad and installing a Saudi approved government.


100 posted on 10/07/2017 9:18:54 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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