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

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What happened when 100 young men from Mosul visited Iraq's south? 

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Iraqi army: Victory against ISIS is imminent 

Published on Jul 8, 2017

The Iraqi army says they are on the verge of declaring victory over ISIS in Mosul. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.

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World News | Sun Jul 9, 2017 | 6:02am EDT

Iraqi forces battling Islamic State reach Mosul Old City's Tigris riverbank: state TV

A U.S.-trained elite Iraqi force battling Islamic State in the Old City of Mosul on Sunday reached the Tigris riverbank, state TV said, indicating that the insurgents' last redoubt in the city was on the verge of falling.

"Forces from the Counter Terrorism Service raised the Iraqi flag on the Tigris riverbank in the Old City of Mosul," read an on-screen headline on Iraqiya News.

 

(Writing by Maher Chmaytelli; editing by John Stonestreet)

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-mosul-river-idUSKBN19U0AY?il=0

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A picture of the nearly complete disappearance of "Daash" in the map of the old city of Mosul, after dozens of them were killed, among them Arab and Arab leaders, was revealed yesterday by the military information cell, in addition to others surrendering to our forces. Dozens of these fugitives and many displaced persons have also been arrested under detailed lists of information held by intelligence detachments.

The military information cell of the Joint Operations Command published on Saturday the latest update of the right coastal map, specifically the old city of Mosul. The map showed a near complete disappearance of the Da'ash control areas, which means the liberation of Mosul, except for a very small area. Troops in three axes, the anti-terrorist and federal police units, the 16 infantry and the 9th armored infantry,

A statement by the military information cell said Ninawa operations units on the eastern bank of the Tigris killed 35 terrorists and arrested six others as they tried to sneak a swim across the river as they fled from the right coast to the Acer to escape the advance of our units in the battles of the old city of Mosul. Six terrorists were also forced to turn themselves in to anti-terrorist forces after asking for loudspeakers. A security source revealed that these terrorists were legitimate and a means to surrender their remaining hidden companions in the old city, noting that there are dozens of terrorists have requested to surrender themselves to the troops provided they undergo what they called a fair trial.

The commander of the anti-terrorism unit, Lieutenant General Abdulwahab al-Saadi, said that the forces of the device have been continuing since dawn yesterday to clean up the last meters of the short strip on the bank of the Tigris River of the area of the field within the old city in order to accelerate the decisive battle to liberate the entire right coast in preparation He said that the anti-terrorist forces killed 41 Da'asia as they tried to flee through houses and narrow alleys, chasing the remnants of the terrorists. Those trying to flee to the left side Awaltzll to other areas and subduction between the ranks of the displaced, and our troops continue to search operations and combing the alleys that were controlled to make sure they are free from Aldoaash in burrows Anonymous. و

Al-Saadi revealed that the security forces arrested a large number of evaders fleeing Ayman Mosul, adding that the military intelligence detachments are conducting extensive checks of the elements entering the families of the displaced from the old city in Mosul, indicating that these detachments have lists and detailed information on the number of alarms And their names and affiliations, which enabled them to arrest these and bring many of them to justice. . Al-Saadi pointed out that one of the priorities of the military units after the liberation of the city of Mosul in full is to move to liberate the cities of Tal Afar west of Nineveh and Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk and al-Qaim, the westernmost of Anbar, but he pointed out that these priorities are determined by the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.

On the other hand, the commander of the operations of Yaninwa team leader Abdul-Amir Yarallah said Saturday that the federal police forces completed their tasks within the area of responsibility in the old city and the entire right coast, after the completion of the liberation and clearing areas of Bab al-bricks and the market and the streets of Najafi and Najafi Street. 

.While the commander of the federal police forces Major General Raid Shaker Jawdat that his forces continue to clean areas liberated in the old city through the searches and combing these areas accurately to eliminate the terrorist strife and the possibility of hiding in the tunnels of tunnels as well as the treatment of IEDs left by the defeated in large numbers and dismantle The houses of the booby-trapped, stressing that these gangs suffered heavy losses have been eliminated seventy-four of its elements during the operations. While the team expressed his confidence that the troops achieved their goals on all axes, which gives the readiness to Zuhra Bush to announce the city of Mosul completely liberated. "These forces have killed dozens of people and arrested others in the old Mosul liberation operations, in addition to destroying three of their additives, finding a factory for car bombs and a large tunnel to transport these terrorists between alleys and neighborhoods," said the police command officer, Abdul Rahman al-Khazali. He added that our forces succeeded in saving and transporting dozens of the old people of Mosul to the camps of displacement and provided them with water, medicine and food.

 

The destruction of the structure of the «Daqash» forces not only satisfied with the victories on all outstanding axes, but managed to thwart the attempts to escape the leaders of terrorism and the destruction of the so-called (organizational structure) of gangs and urged the killing of the most prominent leaders and names, as a statement to the cell of military information about the leadership of operations (coming Nineveh) said that the Nineveh province police forces managed to kill one of the leaders of the terrorist named Abu Hafsa, while trying to escape from the right coast to the left via the Tigris River. While an official in the hawks' intelligence cell revealed what had hit the organizational structure of the most prominent leaders in old Mosul and the names of those who were killed, explaining in a press statement followed by morning, that the leadership of the terrorist organization will be left with only suicide or death, so they have recently tried to move with Their elements from the right side to the left to hit the city of Mosul after the completion of the liberation. He added that the leaders of the Daash in the old Mosul are from the committee authorized by a gang leader and called (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi) to manage the battle, they are a Syrian leader and 3 Iraqis, and that most of the fighters in Damascus old Daash are foreigners .. Among the Commission Commissioner terrorist (Abu Yahya), who was killed two days ago, and said: One of the most prominent leaders of the old Daush in Mosul, a person called (Abu Tiba, Ghanim al-Jubouri, an Iraqi nationality), one of the leaders that manage the battle, but the leaders of the second row because of the killing of the majority of leaders, , Noting that the Falcons cell is an intelligence cell working to monitor the leaders of the Dahesh in all regions of the Iraq, and was able to reveal the plans of the organization.

 

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The fight against terrorism raise the Iraqi flag on the edge of the Tigris River in Mosul old   Sunday July 9, 2017 12:42         Alsumaria News / Baghdad raised anti - terrorism forces, Sunday, the Iraqi flag on the edge of the Tigris River in the city of Mosul , the old.  According to state television in a flash he followed Alsumaria News, that "anti - terrorism forces raised the Iraqi flag on the edge of the Tigris River in the ancient city of Mosul."  The Joint Special Operations Command confirmed on Saturday, the survival of " a few tens of meters" to liberate the entire old city of Mosul, Iraqi forces confirmed the continued progress and achieve "great victories."     He acknowledged the organization "Daesh", on Sunday, losing in the old Mosul, he considered the city of Tal Afar , west of Mosul , " the alternative headquarters for his poetry major , " according to a local source in the province of Nineveh .

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Airstrike on final ISIS position in Mosul

 

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ISIS goes up in smoke: Iraq declares victory in Mosul after a bloody eight-month battle to recapture the city.
The Iraqi government has declared victory in their battle against ISIS in the strategic northern city. 

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Good morning Yota a super Sunday up to you. 

Unbelievable destruction over there, but I do believe Babylon will rise again. 

 

Buen día DV 

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18 hours ago, fnbplanet said:

Night time there now.  Guessin' this is isis' last chance to escape by jumpin' in the river and floating by the sharpshooters on that bridge.  

 

Ducks on the pond.

Fighters Daesh throwing themselves into the Tigris River to escape certain defeat

07/09/2017

 

 

(Independent) .. In an attempt to escape from the fire of security forces threw the elements of the terrorist organization Daesh themselves in the Tigris River, after they were convinced of defeat at the hands of Iraqi forces fighting to expel them from another pocket for them in the city ..

And was able to force anti-terrorism device access, on Sunday, July 9, to the bank of the Tigris River, which indicates that the last stronghold of the terrorist organization in the city is about to fall and became soon to declare victory.

Trapped at the river

Save Atasr Daesh from all over the city of Mosul, except for a patch of land on the west bank of the Tigris River, which divides the city, where stationed in the narrow alleys of the old city.

Plumes of smoke rose over the old city today and littered with decomposing bodies of the fighters of the organization in the streets. There were echoes of sporadic showers of bullets and aircraft carried out several air strikes.

Brigadier General Yahya messenger Iraqi army spokesman Iraqi television earlier in the day that 30 terrorists were killed trying to escape a swim in the Tigris River.

Later Iraqi news channel wrote on the screen "anti-terrorism forces raise the Iraqi flag on the edge of the Tigris River in the old city of Mosul."

She said, quoting the commander of operations "are coming, Nineveh" team of special forces. Gen. Abdul Amir Rashid Yar God "anti-terrorism forces liberated area of the field and up to the edge of the Tigris River and advancing towards Kleiaat area last goals of counter-terrorism forces and progress is still ongoing."

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Good morning Yota a super Sunday up to you. 

Unbelievable destruction over there, but I do believe Babylon will rise again. 

 

Buen día DV 

 

!Egualmente mi amigo y hermano! (Same to you my friend and brother!) 

 

Go Moola Nova!

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/09/world/middleeast/mosul-isis-liberated.html

Iraqi Prime Minister Arrives in Mosul to Declare Victory Over ISIS

By TIM ARANGO and MICHAEL R. GORDONJULY 9, 2017

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Mosul’s Old City on Sunday. Iraqi forces have been battling for months to wrest control of the city from ISIS militants. CreditAhmad Al-Rubaye/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images 

MOSUL, Iraq — Dressed in a military uniform, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived here in Mosul on Sunday to congratulate Iraq’s armed forces on their victory over the Islamic State and mark the formal end of a bloody campaign that lasted nearly nine months, left much of Iraq’s second-largest city in ruins, killed thousands of people and displaced nearly a million more.

While there were reports that troops were still mopping up the last pockets of resistance and Iraqi forces could be facing suicide bombers and guerrilla attacks for weeks, the military began to savor its win in the shattered alleyways of the old city, where the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, put up a fierce last stand.

Hanging over the declaration of victory is the reality of the hard road ahead. The security forces in Mosul still face dangers, including ISIS sleeper cells and suicide bombers. And they must clear houses rigged with explosive booby traps so civilians can return and services can be restored. Nor is the broader fight over: Other cities and towns in Iraq remain under the militants’ control

“It’s going to continue to be hard every day,” said Col. Pat Work, the commanding officer of the Second Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, which is carrying out the American advisory effort here.

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“Iraqi security forces need to be on the top of their game, and we need to be over their shoulder helping them as they move through this transition to consolidate gains and really sink their hold in on the west side,” Colonel Work said as he rolled through the streets of west Mosul recently in an armored vehicle. “ISIS will challenge this.”

The victory could have been sweeter, though, as the Iraqis were denied the symbolism of hanging the national flag from the Grand al-Nuri Mosque and its distinctive leaning minaret, which was wiped from the skyline in recent weeks as a final act of barbarity by Islamic State militants who packed it with explosives and brought it down as government troops approached.

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An Iraqi forces sniper looks out Sunday after an airstrike by U.S.-led international coalition forces targeting the Islamic State, in the Old City of Mosul. CreditAhmad Al-Rubaye/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images 

It was at that mosque in June 2014 where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi strode to the top of a pulpit and declared he was the leader of a caliphate straddling the borders of Iraq and Syria, a vast territory where for three years Islamist extremists have governed with a strict form of Islamic law, held women as sex slaves, carried out public beheadings and plotted terror attacks in the West.

This past week, as fighting raged nearby, Iraqi soldiers took selfies in front of the stump of the minaret and posed at the spot where Mr. Baghdadi made his speech. Destruction surrounded them, as did the stench of decaying bodies of Islamic State fighters, left to rot in the blazing sun.

The battle for Mosul began in October, after months of planning between Iraqis and American advisers, and some Obama administration officials had hoped it would conclude before they left office, giving a boost to the departing president’s efforts to defeat ISIS.

Instead, it lasted for nearly nine months, and was far more brutal than many expected. With dense house-to-house fighting and a ceaseless barrage of snipers and suicide bombers, the fight for Mosul was some of the toughest urban warfare since World War II, American commanders have said. Iraqi officers, whose lives have been defined by ceaseless war, said the fighting there was among the worst they have seen.

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Members of Iraqi Federal Police on Sunday carried suicide belts used by Islamic State militants in the Old City of Mosul. CreditAlaa Al-Marjani/Reuters 

“I have been with the Iraqi Army for 40 years,” said Maj. Gen. Sami al-Aradi, a commander of Iraq’s special forces. “I have participated in all of the battles of Iraq, but I’ve never seen anything like the battle for the old city.” He continued: “We have been fighting for each meter. And when I say we have been fighting for each meter, I mean it literally.”

Victory came at great cost, with about a thousand deaths among the Iraqi security forces, many hundreds of civilians killed, some inadvertently by American airstrikes. At least seven journalists were killed, including two French correspondents and their fixer, an Iraqi Kurdish journalist, in a mine explosion in recent weeks.

The Iraqis and their international partners will now be confronted by the immense challenge of restoring essential services like electricity and rebuilding destroyed hospitals, schools, homes and bridges, which were wrecked in the ground combat or by the airstrikes and artillery and Himars rocket attacks carried out by the American-led coalition to help the Iraqi troops advance.

“When the fighting stops, the humanitarian crisis continues,” said Lise Grande, the deputy special representative for Iraq for the United Nations secretary general.

Western Mosul, especially its old city where the Islamic State made its last stand, was hit especially hard. As the combat has drawn to a close, thousands of civilians have begun to return. But 676,000 of those who left the western half of the city have yet to come back, according to United Nations data.

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Members of the Emergency Response Division rested on Sunday in the Old City of Mosul.CreditAlaa Al-Marjani/Reuters 

It is not hard to see why. Of the 54 neighborhoods in western Mosul, 15 neighborhoods that include 32,000 houses were heavily damaged, according to data provided by Ms. Grande. An additional 23 neighborhoods are considered to be moderately damaged. The cost of the near-term repairs and the more substantial reconstruction that is needed in Mosul has been estimated by United Nations experts at more than $700 million, she said.

Mosul was the largest city in either Iraq or Syria held by the Islamic State, and its loss signifies the waning territorial claims of a terrorist group that had its beginnings in the aftermath of the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. The group is also on the cusp of losing its de facto capital, the Syrian city of Raqqa, which is encircled by Arab and Kurdish fighters supported by the United States and backed by American firepower.

But the end of the Islamic State as a group holding territory does not mean peace is at hand, in Mosul or across Iraq. The group still holds the cities of Hawija and Tal Afar, in northern Iraq, and towns in the Euphrates River Valley in Iraq’s western Anbar Province. Iraqis expect an increase in terror attacks in urban centers, especially in the capital, Baghdad, as the group reverts to its insurgent roots.

Military victory has come without a political agreement between Iraq’s two largest communities, Sunni and Shiite Arabs, whose stark sectarian divisions led to the rise of ISIS in the first place. For many members of Iraq’s minority Sunnis, the Islamic State was seen as a protector against abuses they suffered under Iraq’s Shiite-led government, especially under the former prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.

After the Islamic State seized Mosul in 2014, many Sunnis welcomed them. Mr. Maliki was then removed from office, replaced by Mr. Abadi, a more moderate and less-sectarian leader, but one widely viewed as weak. Under Mr. Abadi, there has been no meaningful reconciliation.

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An Iraqi woman, who fled the fighting between government forces and Islamic State jihadists in the Old City of Mosul, waited on Saturday to be relocated. CreditFadel Senna/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images 

“I will leave Mosul because it has become a destroyed city,” said Aisha Abdullah, a teacher from Mosul who endured life under the Islamic State. “In every corner of it there is memory and blood.”

And while the Islamic State, with its harsh rule, alienated many of the Sunni residents it sought to represent, many residents said its ideology caught on among some of the population, especially young men.

“There is no use in reconstructing the city if the people of Mosul don’t change,” said Ms. Abdullah. “There are still many people who assist ISIS, and the acts of violence will never end.”

Marwan Saeed, another Mosul resident, who lives in the city’s east side, which was liberated in January and where life has largely been restored to normal, with schools and shops reopening and most civilians returning home, said he feared for the future, now more than ever.

“Frankly, I’m desperate over the future,” he said. “ISIS destroyed the people’s mentality, and the wars destroyed the infrastructure, and we paid the price. There is no such thing as the phase after ISIS. ISIS is a mentality, and this mentality will not end with guns alone.”

And there is the fear that many Islamic State fighters who were not captured or killed had simply put down their guns and blended in with the civilian population, to live to fight another day.

“Do you know that most of the ISIS fighters have shaved their beards and took off their clothes, and now they are free?” said Zuhair Hazim al-Jibouri, a member of Mosul’s local council.

Falih Hassan contributed reporting from Mosul, Iraq, Omar al-Jawoshy contributed from Baghdad and an employee of The New York Times from Erbil, Iraq.

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GM everyone!

looks like this is finally over......now let's get down to business!

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I enlarged that map and found one tiny speck of red down by the river- an isis soldier hiding in a porta potty - wait!  Never mind, it's gone now.

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Yesterday......

Mosul Liberated as Islamic State Faces Total Defeat in Iraq

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© AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images An Iraqi federal police member waves his country's national flag as he celebrates in the Old City of Mosul on July 9, 2017 after the government's announcement of the 'liberation' of the embattled city.

(Bloomberg) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi traveled to Mosul to declare it liberated from Islamic State, three years after the city’s abrupt fall to the jihadists alerted the world to the group’s growing strength, territorial ambitions and barbarity.

Abadi congratulated the Iraqi people and fighters on a “great victory” as the last pockets under Islamic State control were being retaken, according to a tweet from his media office.

The campaign to free Mosul from Islamic State entered its final phase in the narrow streets of the Old City in mid-June, eight months after thousands of Iraqi troops and Kurdish fighters backed by U.S.-led airstrikes began their offensive. Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend, commander of the coalition, has described it as the toughest urban warfare he has seen in 34 years of service.

Retaking Mosul marks a major blow against Islamic State, whose leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made his first speech as self-proclaimed caliph from one of the city’s mosques in 2014. The group is now diminished, having lost much of its territory spanning northeastern Syria and northwestern Iraq. Its ability to attract foreign fighters is also dented, although it continues to inspire militants abroad who have staged terrorist attacks from London to Tehran. For Abadi, whose government has struggled to overcome political and sectarian challenges and rebuild an economy stripped of oil revenue, it’s a major success.

There have been scenes of jubilation as Iraqi forces have slowly taken back control of Mosul, removing the black banners of the jihadist group. The United Nations says as many as 150,000 residents were trapped in the Old City when the battle there began, with illness and disease spreading as clean drinking water, food and medicine ran low. Islamic State used those who stayed as human shields, according to the UN. Over the last few months, it has massacred hundreds who attempted to flee the city in an attempt to deter others from doing the same.

Brutal Punishment

In one of its final acts of defiance, Islamic State blew up the Great Mosque of al-Nuri on June 22. The monument, whose iconic leaning minaret is pictured on Iraq’s 10,000-dinar note, once towered above the historic city center. It was there that Baghdadi made his first sermon as self-proclaimed caliph and called on the world’s Muslims to obey him, dressed in a black robe and turban to signify his claim of descent from the Prophet Muhammad.

As the group sought to entrench its strict interpretation of Islam, it meted out brutal punishments to those who opposed it. Children were trained to be fighters. It also destroyed ancient sites it said were heresy to its ideology -- apart from the Great Mosque, Mosul also lost the Tomb of Jonah. Its museum was ransacked. 

Lightning Assault

Mosul was Islamic State’s most important bastion along with Raqqa in Syria, its self-styled capital. It featured in its propaganda videos, many filmed in the style of television news reports. British hostage John Cantlie appeared in at least five that sought to portray the city as an example of utopian governance with a bustling economy. In reality, residents described shortages and struggles to cope with rising prices for basic foods and fuel.

An estimated 2.4 million people lived in Mosul before the war, making it northern Iraq’s largest city. Hundreds of thousands fled after it was captured and as operations began to retake it in October 2016, with many seeking refuge in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region and camps nearby.

Islamic State evolved from al-Qaeda in Iraq, which U.S. troops and Sunni militias defeated after its powers peaked in 2006 to 2007 in a campaign that was known as the Awakening. It was able to expand in 2013 in Syria, where a civil war has raged for more than six years, attracting fighters from Chechnya, Afghanistan, North Africa and Europe.

The extremists took advantage of the poor military performance of Iraqi troops -- portraying themselves as a champion of Sunni Arabs who felt alienated by a Shiite-led government -- in a lightening assault across northern Iraq in the summer of 2014. The group then headed south toward Baghdad, triggering fears of the country’s breakup as ethnic and sectarian tensions surged.

Last Stronghold

Iraqi forces and militias supported by Iran had pushed Islamic State into reverse with months-long battles in key cities such as Fallujah and Ramadi, before moving on to Mosul. The air power, artillery, and intelligence provided by a U.S.-led coalition helped secure the city’s eastern neighborhoods in January. Residents returned to their homes, children went back to school, and shopkeepers reopened stores, free to sell whatever they choose.

Battlefield progress then slowed as fighting moved deeper into the Old City, as Iraqi forces entered dense neighborhoods and faced persistent counterattacks. With the offensive from the south stalling, Iraqi troops repositioned to begin a new offensive from the north in May.

While Mosul was Islamic State’s last main urban center in Iraq, it still controls several areas in the west and northeast part of the country, including Hawija near Kirkuk.

Noureddin Qablan, vice chairman of the council in Nineveh province, whose capital is Mosul, said by phone on July 3 from the city that Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish leaders have met to prevent the eruption of sectarian or nationalist conflicts. “There are possibilities, but they are weak,” he said, citing the absence of violence in parts of the city freed months ago.

Territory Losses

Keeping the peace won’t be easy, said Kamran Bokhari, a fellow with George Washington University’s Program on Extremism. Local leaders need to prevent the spiraling of tensions over sectarian differences and the region’s political and economic plight, which Islamic State would look to exploit, he said. “But will they be able to?"

As Islamic State’s territory has shrunk, the group has shifted its emphasis from state building and governance to survival, and analysts say battlefield losses don’t spell the end of its ideology. A cappella hymn, or nasheed, released this month insists the jihadist group won’t vanish despite the setbacks: “Oh people of error, it (the state) is remaining, not vanishing, Anchored like the mountains.”

The message is “clearly addressing the current losses faced by the Islamic State amid the coalition campaign against it,” said Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, an analyst at the International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence, who translated the nasheed.

“Military defeat and the loss of territory in Syria and Iraq will be insufficient to sway the views of Islamic State supporters,” IHS Markit, a London-based information and analytics group, said in a June 29 report. “The group’s video productions have declined in frequency, suggesting that it is less capable of disseminating its messages. However, it has already prepared its followers for the loss of territory.”

(Updates with comment from local official in 15th paragraph.)

To contact the reporters on this story: Caroline Alexander in London at calexander1@bloomberg.net, Donna Abu-Nasr in Beirut at dabunasr@bloomberg.net. 

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Alaa Shahine at asalha@bloomberg.net, Mark Williams, Ros Krasny 

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Although Islamic State’s caliphate has fallen, it would be a mistake to expect harmony in northern Iraq any time soon

 

 

Monday 10 July 2017 14.50 BST

By  Rani Alaaldin

 

 

 

 

After Mosul’s liberation, celebrations should mark the start of a new phase in Iraq’s history.

Photograph: Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/10/isis-expelled-mosul-west-ignore-iraq-islamic-state-caliphate

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It ant over yet you still have the last man standing, till he is gone there will be trouble

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Human rights organisations call for Iraqi government to protect innocent people and investigate civilian deaths

 

 

Fazel Hawramy in Sulaymaniyah and Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul

Tuesday 11 July 2017 01.02 BST

 

 

 

 

Vid & pics in link

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/11/we-lost-our-houses-our-cars-our-men-call-to-protect-mosul-civilians

 

 

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Recovered The Bodies Of 1700 Civilians From The Rubble In The City Of Mosul

US Army declares that the battle with the organization "Daesh" in Iraq is not over

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A local official in the Iraqi province of Nineveh on Tuesday revealed that "civil defense teams recovered the bodies of 1700 civilians from the rubble of houses in the city of Mosul , since the military campaign to liberate the city starting, October 17 / October last, at the time of Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend said, the top US military commander in Iraq , said he did not expect any major change in the level of US forces in Iraq, after the restoration of Mosul , saying that the campaign will be extended to other towns controlled by the militant group.

He added Hossam Eddin Alabbar, a member of the Nineveh provincial council, said in a statement that "there are more than 200 homes were destroyed over the population in the old city's western side of Mosul (the county), so we expect to double the number of civilian casualties, with the start of the defense teams civil operations to recover bodies. " Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, an official release of Mosul, which was the organization of "Daesh" controlled since June 2014, and was the main stronghold of the organization in Iraq.

The battles, with "Daesh" in the displacement of about half of the population of Mosul, Iraq's second city residents after the capital Baghdad, where displaced at least 920 thousand people out of the city's population, more than two million people's, as well as material destruction wide.

As Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend said, the top US military commander in Iraq, on Tuesday he did not expect any major change in the level of US forces in Iraq, after the restoration of Mosul, pointing out that the campaign will be extended to other towns controlled by the militant group. He added in a press statement , "this war is far from over. So I do not expect to see any significant change in the levels of our forces in the near future, because there is still hard work to be the coalition and Iraqis have to do." " The final battle has not yet been resolved with Daesh, and has gunmen in Tal Afar and Hawija and western Anbar." 
The old city of Mosul in the show spectacle is taken from the films end of the world, but diggers began moving to clean the streets filled with rubble in the historic center of the city liberated from the grip of the militant group. In a nearby location, moving armored vehicles to pave the way for the search for other militants hiding in the area.

And peace between Colonel Jassim Hussein from anti-terrorism forces, while the black dust trousers besmirch, "only a little left of the (fighters) terrorist groups that have lost full control, security forces chased." He added Colonel who covered one of his arms bandage after being injured during the fighting, "In fact, the battle really ended, a great victory of the security forces."

Despite the announcement of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Monday "victory over the brutality and terrorism", the soldiers are still fighting militants trapped in the Tigris River. After receiving the orders of Colonel Hussein, went Guenasan and a soldier carrying a large belt of ammunition around his neck, to a destroyed building for positioning inside and eliminate militant.

Iraqi forces continue to cleanse the city's operations, and the bodies of militants were still lying on the ground and covered in a number of streets of the old city. And turned the battles and air strikes to the ruins of the ancient city. Show the effects of destruction on the majority of the buildings of old city, which is famous for its market of ancient and its effects, and ancient mosques and homes.

The air strikes continued until late Monday afternoon, to target the last stronghold of militants, and every time, hears the sound short beep and then shake a light before the rising cloud of smoke in the sky. While still green dome of the nearby mosque loudspeakers her voice, the list despite the devastation around them. He says the commander in the fight against terrorism forces , Lieutenant - General Abdul - Wahab al - Saadi, "we are moving towards the river, within no more than 50 to 60 meters," speaking from a site where rice bags spread stored in the mosque around which elements Daesh to a warehouse stacked where dozens of food boxes. 
Thousands of civilians have managed to escape after they have lived appalling conditions, due to food shortages and use them as human shields by militants. The United Nations has warned of the continued exodus of these for several months for lack of homes uninhabitable in Mosul. From time to time, reveals the buildings in the old city, it collapsed walls and facades to reveal yellow walls and a scene clock mural hanging in one corner, while the spread cooking equipment and tea pitchers among the rubble.

When a nearby alley, and the courtyard of the Mosque of Al-Nouri, ignited by militants, was a fountain of water normally used to wash the writings covered. And they spread by volunteers to help the security forces, and they are preparing kebab grilled just steps away from the destroyed minaret constructed centuries ago. In the meantime, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Tuesday received a phone call from Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Amir of Kuwait.

Sabah gave congratulations on the occasion to declare victory and the liberation of Mosul, stressing that "this is a victory not only for Iraqis but also to Kuwait and the region in general, hoping that this victory is a good omen for Iraq and beginning to unite all Iraqis." He praised the courage of the Emir of the State of Kuwait "Abadi and the bravery of the Iraqi army, stressing the readiness of the State of Kuwait to take care to restore stability conference at the request of Iraq."

Abadi thanked the Emir of the State of Kuwait on his support for Iraq, noting that "this victory is in the security and stability of the region and its peoples service, because Daesh terrorist organization hostile to everyone." He stressed "the need to fight extremist ideology Daesh This represents a challenge for all countries in the region which have long been terrorism, noting that the security forces had dealt with the people of Mosul with the utmost humanity, and showed them all the respect Vhazat so citizens and respect the confidence of the military forces." He pointed out that "the government is destined to re-displaced people and the stability and reconstruction as soon as possible."

[ChuckFinley]

Thanks Yota for the updates. 

[pokerplayer]

Evening Chuck. Great to see you posting words of encouragement as you usually do !!

 

pp

[ChuckFinley]

2 minutes ago, pokerplayer said:

Evening Chuck. Great to see you posting words of encouragement as you usually do !!

 

pp

Your welcome PP.  It is easy to beat yourself down in this investment. Need to stay positive !!