Five years later .. Nujaifi reveals the "real cause" of the fall of Mosul

[Gypsygirl11]

Sad and good news all in one. 

Thanks Synopsis!  Now that this nightmare is wiped out ( for now anyway ), will they please do something with their currency! 

Edited June 21, 2017 by Gypsygirl11

[fnbplanet]

I knew they'd do this weeks ago.  Just glad they didn't wait until IDF were inside.  No way these barbarians were going to let anyone else use that mosque.

 

Destroying historical landmarks kinda reminds me of what the revisionistas are doing down south with civil war memorials......

[Synopsis]

One thought that just crossed my mind. With the caliphate lost in the Mosul Old City, ISIS may choose to withdraw its elements back into Syria from Iraq since ISIS no longer has any strategic hold in or significant income from Iraq. This would make the IDF advances much faster through the Iraqi villages and the previous remaining ISIS key areas in Iraq. Could be days not weeks or months.

 

Only a thought and a thought only!

 

Go Moola Nova!

[Synopsis]

Just now, Gypsygirl11 said:

Sad and good news all in one. 

Thanks Synopsis!  Now that this nightmare is wiped out ( for now anyway ), will they please do something with their currency! 

 

Yeah, GypsyGirl11, ISIS is nearly wiped out and the smile on my face can't be wiped off for what is likely around the bend!!!       

 

Go Moola Nova!

[boosterbglee]

The name of our ship......"The Moola Nova"

[Synopsis]

14 minutes ago, boosterbglee said:

The name of our ship......"The Moola Nova"

 

Aye, Matee!

[mr.unlikely]

It does not surprise me at all that those evil bastards would do that. One can only hope it was a giant suicide bomb. Now let's keep after these rabid dogs and don't stop until every last drop of ISIS blood has been used to fertilizer the tree of liberty in Iraq. Meanwhile back at the CBI, well Ali you know what you have to do, so do it already.

okay I'll show him one more time... 1182.00:1 this is what you have.  1.182:1 this s is what you want to have. Any questions?

[pokerplayer]

17 minutes ago, mr.unlikely said:

It does not surprise me at all that those evil bastards would do that. One can only hope it was a giant suicide bomb. Now let's keep after these rabid dogs and don't stop until every last drop of ISIS blood has been used to fertilizer the tree of liberty in Iraq. Meanwhile back at the CBI, well Ali you know what you have to do, so do it already.

okay I'll show him one more time... 1182.00:1 this is what you have.  1.182:1 this s is what you want to have. Any questions?

 

 

Well you got my attention with that post    Definitely worth a +1 from me !!

 

pp

[siberian_shaddow]

Well they won't be taking any prisoners now, it's mind blowing how they could just destroy so much history and take so many innocent lives. this is going to be a huge turning point for iraq and there future.

[SnowGlobe7]

I hope there were no prisoners inside.

[pokerplayer]

52 minutes ago, siberian_shaddow said:

Well they won't be taking any prisoners now, it's mind blowing how they could just destroy so much history and take so many innocent lives. this is going to be a huge turning point for iraq and there future.

 

Not to mention the history stolen from every generation from here on out. That alone is criminal in itself. Very sad and to think they feel justified in doing this. 

 

pp

[jmartin1145]

You mean they finally did something right. Just kidding. I don't need a visit from the Obummer leftovers.

[10 YEARS LATER]

8 hours ago, boosterbglee said:

Bounty Hunters needed!

 

Looks like I'm Back in the Saddle Again . . . Weapons oiled & ammo at the ready.   

[TLHUBER]

I guess ISIS got tired of being tracked down and decided to end this battle quickly.  Now, what is Iraq and Abadi going to use as an excuse to not go international?

[10 YEARS LATER]

Oh ! It's really gonna suck for any ISIS fighters still alive after Blowing up the Al-Nuri Mosque. They're tearing the heart right out of the peaceful & faithful Muslims the world over . . . The IDF is gonna ROAST these guys on a spit !

 

REALLY SUCKS to be ISIS these days ! ! ! !

 

Beyond this, no such thing as an atrocity committed when it comes to dealing with ISIS fighters.

[Theseus]

Realize ISIS was once Al Qaeda and there has been chatter they want to reconcile. So if ISIS were to get wiped out, Al Qaeda would have to be wiped out. ISIS could merge seamlessly back into the ranks of Al Qaeda and a lot would be the none wiser. Until the war is fought on ideology, no matter how many ISIS's get eradicated as a group another will pop up. For example, Boko Haram in Northern Africa which sells slaves and women in the KSA and elsewhere in the muslim world. Hezbollah fighting on behalf of Iran. Muslim Brotherhood reinvented themselves as the interpreters to the west and have infiltrated the bowels of the American Government. The ideology of Islam to perpetrate violence is deeply ingrained into its very fabric. ISIS goes down its only a matter of time before another fills the vacuum because the fundamental ideology of this war has not been countered or even attempted to be countered. It was not until the mainstream of the American public went against Naziism and Communism did it become what it is today. Although there are attempts to bring both back subtly. I heard something interesting today. The fact is that violence begets stronger authoritarian rule to stop the violence but when the violence has been squashed, the authoritarian rule remains. The stronger and more deeply the violence goes, the stronger the authoritarian rule is. The Quran, not written in chronological order such as the Bible is, does have peaceful verses in it. However, these verses are no longer valid taken in a contextual framework. The peaceful verses are followed by even more threatening verses until the blood if the nonbeliever is called for. After 9-11 universities such as UNC mandated incoming freshman were to study from a lit of books. On them were the so-called peaceful verses found in the Quran. The course never said anything about these verses were abrogated with more violent verses. Nor was it said that the stories in the Quran that emulated those in the Torah and the Bible did not end the same way as the books that came before the Quran. For years the talking point was that Islam was the fastest growing religion in the World. However, that and the study today, both are faulty as each denomination of Christianity is pitted against the whole of Islam. When all of the statistics are added up for Christianity, Islam falls to number 8 on the list. Yes, growth but not as strong growth when the numbers are correct. Islam was never hijacked in the present if you look how it was born. ISIS and others still practice the 7th century Islam as it was in the 7th century. To claim Islam was hijacked is to fall into a false narrative. Only moderate muslims in the world are those who either have renounced Islam or are calling for its reform like Catholicism had. Until then ISIS may be eradicated, it may be sucked back into the ranks of AlQaeda from whence it came. Whatever the scenario, until we fight Islam on the ideology front, the portends of violent Islam will remain and fester like a puss filled wound infecting all that are in contact with it. Destroy the ideology and you will destroy not only ISIS but the terrorism that goes along with it. However, one last point is that the world sees the US on a pedestal. It is the shining beacon of light in the world that all point to. There will always be complaints and those who are willing to knock the US off the pedestal. As a nation this is what it means to be vigilant against those who seek to destroy us.     

[tigergorzow]

Federal police kill 53 ISIS terrorists in Mosul

June 22 2017 11:33 AM

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Up to 53 ISIS terrorists have been killed in the ongoing battles to retake Ras al-Jada and Bab al-Beid in Mosul's Old City, commander of federal police forces Gen. Raid Shaker Jawdat said Thursday.

In a statement, Jawdat added that the forces have encompassed the terrorists in the Old City, noting that 43 terrorists were killed in the fighting, including three bomb disposal experts.

According to the federal police commander,  five booby-trapped vehicles and 15 explosive device were dismantled.

Yet the forces seized an ammunition depot.

He concluded the federal police troopers are fighting the terrorists fiercely in the Old City, using machine guns, noting 10 terrorists were killed in exchange of fire.

This comes as the Iraqi forces, with the aid of the US-led coalition, have been waging an all-out offensive to retake the right bank of Mosul since February.

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/13400/Federal-police-kill-53-ISIS-terrorists-in-Mosul

[tigergorzow]

Masum denounces ISIS detonation of Mosul's al-Nouri, al-Hadba Minaret

June 22 2017 10:59 AM

Al-Nouri Mosque after being detonated

 

Iraqi President Fuad Masum has denounced the detonation of the Great Mosque of al-Nouri and al-Hadba Minaret in Mosul city at the hands of ISIS terrorists, a statement revealed on Wednesday.  
 
In the statement, Masoum stressed that  the retaliatory crime is an evidence that the terrorist group's end has become imminent, noting that the government have to exert intensive efforts to rebuild the historical, religious and national monument as soon as possible.   

Committing such a crime reveals the barbarous mentality and distorted of ISIS terrorists and their blind hatred of Iraqis and their religious and historical heritage, the Iraqi President said. 

The Iraqi Army announced on Wednesday night that ISIS had blown up the historic mosque.

The Iraqi army had launched a push, backed by British and American forces, to regain the mosque and surrounding areas from the group's terrorists earlier in the day.

The fight to retake Mosul, which has been a key ISIS stronghold, was launched more than eight months ago and has displaced more than 850,000 people.

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/13397/Masum-denounces-ISIS-detonation-of-Mosul-s-al-Nouri-al-Hadba-Minaret

[tigergorzow]

ISIS leader responsible for explosives in Mosul killed

June 22 2017 01:13 PM

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Iraqi security forces have killed an ISIS commander responsible for explosives in the right bank of Mosul, intelligence sources said on Thursday.

The leader, named Abu-Qarfan al-Mosuli was killed in a surgical operation in the right bank of Mosul.  

This comes as the Iraqi forces, with the aid of the US-led coalition, have been waging an all-out offensive to retake the right bank of Mosul since February.

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/13405/ISIS-leader-responsible-for-explosives-in-Mosul-killed

[tigergorzow]

ISIS children turn themselves in to security forces in Mosul - MoD

June 22 2017 01:48 PM

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ISIS' children and teenagers have turned themselves in to the security forces, Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MoD) revealed in a statement on Thursday.  

In the statement, the ministry said that ISIS had exploited children and adolescents' hunger to force them to join its terrorists in Mosul.

It also noted that after ISIS terrorists besieged residents of Mosul, the city suffered from food shortage, pointing out that this led young people and children living in the city to resort to unlawful means to get food such as theft. 

This give ISIS chance to exploit those young people, threatening them either to be affiliated to the group or have their hands cut as punishment, it stated.    

According to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, teenagers of Mosul were under pressure to acquiesce and join the terrorist group.

However, it said that those youngsters did not shed blood of their fellow citizens, adding that they surrendered to security forces and expressed regret.  

In May, The UNICEF warned in a report that Iraq's children are m venerable to recruitment by armed groups. 

Children in Iraq are suffering from the ongoing military conflict, without equitable access to quality education, which puts them at high risk in the future, it noted.

It added that 40 percent of displaced families suffer from poverty and 50 percent of  displaced children in Iraq dropped out of school. 

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/13407/ISIS-children-turn-themselves-in-to-security-forces-in-Mosul-MoD

[tigergorzow]

Feuds Between IS Families and Iraqi Civilians Arise in Mosul 

 

Mira Rojkan

22/06/2017 - 01:37

Iraq

 

 

 

SOFIA — Feuds have arose recently between families and tribes in Mosul, mostly between Islamic State (IS) members and civilians who had relatives killed by the group, Nineveh province council said on Wednesday. 

According to Hossam al-Abbar, a council member from Mosul, who spoke to Almaalomah website, feuds broke out at Qayyara, Hammam al-Alil and other regions south of Mosul after more displaced civilians returned to their homes shortly after the liberation of the areas. 

About 500 people protested in Qayyara on Wednesday, demanding for families related to IS members to be deported from the liberated areas, the mayor of the town, Khaled al-Jar told al-Quds al-Arabi. 

However, based on Iraqi laws, families of IS members cannot be punished for actions committed by the IS militants related to them, but they can be deported away from the city of Mosul in order to prevent any possible tensions between them and the local civilians. 

Earlier on Tuesday, Mosul City Council said in a statement it would no longer allow IS members' families from other provinces to migrate in the recently liberated areas of the city. The IS families who already live in Mosul will be deported and sheltered in special camps where will be provided with psychological and ideological rehabilitation and integration. 

 

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/iraq/359426

[tigergorzow]

Bombing Grand Nuri Mosque By IS Signals Group’s Defeat: Iraqi PM

 

Basnews English

22/06/2017 - 11:37

Iraq

 

 

Grand Nuri Mosque and al-Hadbaa Minaret in west Mosul

 

 

ERBIL — Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said that destroying al-Hadbaa Minaret and Nuri Grand Mosque by the Islamic State (IS) militants in west Mosul indicates the group’s defeat.

“Bombing al-Hadbaa Minaret and Nuri Mosque by IS is an official declaration of their [militants’] defeat,” Abadi said in a tweet.

Iraqi President Fuad Masoum on the other hand strongly condemned blowing up the historical Hadbaa Minaret and Grand Nuri Mosque in Mosul, stressing that this retaliatory crime is proof of the imminent defeat of IS.

He stressed the need to make every effort to restore the construction of this monumental national religious and historical sites as soon as possible.

He also called on the armed forces to speed up the liberation of the city, stressing the need to protect the trapped civilians.

The IS militants bombed on Wednesday the ancient Grand al-Nuri Mosque and al-Hadbaa Minaret where the IS leader Abu Baker al-Baghdadi first declared his self-styled caliphate in 2014.

 

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/iraq/359490

[yota691]

US ambassador: the destruction of the Mosque of Al-Nouri Daesh evidence of moral bankruptcy

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 Since 06/22/2017 14:04 am (Baghdad time)

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The US ambassador in Baghdad Douglas Silliman, on Thursday, said the destruction of the Mosque of Al-Nouri Daesh evidence of moral bankruptcy.

According to Silliman in a brief statement received / scales News /, that "the destruction of Daesh Mosque Nouri great yesterday is just another proof of the bankrupt moral. The crime of this against the people of Mosul prove that Daesh does not respect Iraq's identity, culture and religion."

Daesh terrorist and the oldest on Wednesday the bombing of Al-Nouri mosque and the minaret of humpback in the ancient city of Mosul, the ancient region last strongholds controlled Alleha.anthy 29

[tigergorzow]

1,075 Iraqi Children Killed Since 2014, 5 Million Need Urgent Aid: UNICEF

 

Basnews English

22/06/2017 - 11:54

Iraq

 

 

 

 

ERBIL — After three years into the violence in Iraq, children are still trapped in an endless cycle of violence and increasing poverty, according to a UNICEF assessment entitled ‘Nowhere to Go’ released on Thursday.

“Across Iraq, children continue to witness sheer horror and unimaginable violence,” said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF Representative in Iraq, adding that “They have been killed, injured, abducted and forced to shoot and kill in one of the most brutal wars in recent history.”

In the war-torn areas in west Mosul, “children are being deliberately targeted and killed” by the Islamic State (IS) militants to stop families from fleeing the violence, said UNICEF, noting that in less than two months, at least 23 children have been killed and 123 have been injured in west Mosul alone.

Since 2014, 1,075 children have been killed and 1,130 others have been maimed and injured, show the organisation’s statistics according to which 152 were killed and 255 were injured during the first six months of 2017

The organisation also stated that over 4,650 children have become separated or unaccompanied by their families.”

“There have been 138 attacks on schools and 58 attacks on hospitals, and over 3 million children don’t attend school on a regular basis while 1.2 million children are out of school,” according to the UNICEF’s report.

One in every four children comes from a poor household, and more than 5 million children are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance, the report added.

UNICEF called for an immediate end to the conflict and all grave violations against children.

The organization appealed US$100m for lifesaving emergency operations in Iraq and for support to the children returning to their homes and resuming their lives.

 

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/iraq/359492

[yota691]

Federal police surrounded Daesh in the old city in front of him and a chance to escape and survive

22-06-2017 02:10 PM

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Federal police chief announced on Thursday, the liquidation of a number of elements in the organization Daesh old town of Mosul.

 
Raed Shakir Jawdat team said in a statement that 'our units, besieging the extremist terrorist groups in the old city and as an opportunity to escape and survive. "

 
The statement added, 'our operations in Ras Avenue and the door Awhit- day, Yesterday that killed 43 terrorists, including 3 of booby-trapping and destroying 5 rigged wheels and the dismantling of 15 improvised explosive device experts 4 bomb houses and control of the ammunition depot'.