The caliphate is a hellscape of smoke and fire – Isis has nowhere left to go

The Guardian UK ^ | 03 Mar 2019 | Bethan McKernan and Mohammed Rasool in Baghuz, Syria

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There is a flash of light in the dark town as an airstrike hits an Islamic State weapons depot. A few seconds later, a ball of flame engulfs the entire neighbourhood. The sonic boom sends shockwaves through Baghuz, shaking the ground miles away, and for a second everything and everyone is stunned into silence. Then the artillery fire starts up again...(snip)

Trapped from the east and the west by advancing Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and by the Syrian regime and Russia on the other side of the river, the caliphate is a hellscape of smoke and fire. There is nowhere left for the fighters to go.

The US-led coalition is making up for lost time in the fight to drive Isis out of its last stronghold. After a 10-day truce to evacuate women and children from the town, the offensive restarted this weekend at a tempo not seen even in the major battles for the cities of Mosul and Raqqa.

Isis snipers, suicide bombs and heat-seeking rockets are preventing the SDF from making gains on the ground during daylight. But when darkness falls...

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When will they be punished, with luck, this side of the grave, with certainty, the other.

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Thanks. That explains why I didn’t see it in this article.

Where did they get it?

Some, one wedding ring and one gold tooth at a time. Just like their allies did in the death camps.

Most, from the deep state and its friends. $1.7 billion in unmarked bills can buy a lot of gold. (About 1,300 tons. 50 tons is barely a blip in what obama gave Iran)

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I suspect this is a question the MSM really doesn’t want to deal with.

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If it could traced back to Saint obama The Divine, certainly not!

[Bob434]

[[It is all totalitarian to the core. Out of control people with no moral boundaries, and chaos, is essential to their ultimate objective, to eliminate Christianity, and kill the US as a sovereign nation, and to eliminate individual liberty.]]

thank you- Yes- they are totalitarian to the core, and it’s just mind boggling that democrats are fawning all over them since dems supposedly hate totalitarianism so much

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Mosul banks

[Former Proud Canadian]

Bring it on. Maybe the west needs a real wake up call because 9/11 wasn't enough. Maybe it's time to settle their hash once and for all. Do to them what the Romans did to the Carthaginians.