Even the bad guys are scared and getting out of Dodge!....Running like rabbits....Appears many going to Syria...interesting read here....
Foreign Islamic State 'Militants' Move Families From Mosul...more than 85 foreign militants and their families joined commanders of ISIS in leaving Mosul.
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) official from the Zumar sub-district Hasan Khalo told BasNews, “Foreign militants and commanders of IS have begun moving their families from Mosul to IS controlled areas in Syria this week, and a large number of them have already left the city.”
“They are leaving Mosul in small groups to avoid causing tension,” Khalo said.
The exodus is thought to be in response to the operation to free Tikrit and other areas of Salahaddin Province, raising fears of an operation to liberate Mosul in the near future.
http://basnews.com/en/news/2015/03/04/foreign-islamic-state-militants-move-families-from-mosul/
“Even the bad guys are scared and getting out of Dodge!....Running like rabbits....Appears many going to Syria”
Retaking Iraq may go very quickly if ISIS just retreats. They are very unlikely to win against this big of an army. If the ISIS command structure flees, they will probably instruct the locals and some of their low value recruits to fight on bravely, conducting guerrilla and suicide attacks, while they dress like women and drive for the border.
Once areas are retaken, remaining ISIS and their supporters will be hunted by police, intelligence and militia death squads. Although Shia militia were famous for torturing and maiming Sunni opponents (including al quaeda), the Kurdish militias were famous for efficiently getting all the al quaeda in their areas. Not one American was killed in the Kurdish areas during years of occupation, because Kurdish intelligence was quickly investigating any new guy who came to town, and the whole population had their eyes out for them.
Kurds are mostly Sunni themselves, so it is much more a political and ethnic thing for them, not so much religious. Although Puritanical ISIS Wahabbis are generally down on the Sunni Sufism that is popular with Kurds, they kind of tolerate it to a good degree, whereas they hate Shiism as a heresy, more than almost anything else - maybe more than Jews and Christians.
On the other hand, this is the Middle East, and this is war - news reports can be unreliable or deliberately deceptive. Reports of ISIS commanders fleeing may simply be standard psyops, geared to cause a few more enemy to flee than would have otherwise. Tikrit will be a good test of ISIS resolve, and Sunni Arab sectarian sentiment. Mosul will be decisive.
