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

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Western Mosul to be fully liberated on Friday, military official expects

 

by 21434144ead82a08d58720e165a6a4a2?s=80&d= Nehal Mostafa May 16, 2017, 4:15 pm

Iraqi Counter Terrorism Services (CTS) soldier is seen during a battle between CTS and Daesh militants in western Mosul, Iraq, April 25, 2017. ( Reuters)

 

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi army official in Nineveh province has expected full liberation of the western side of Mosul by end of this week.

“Iraqi troops were able to retake most the regions and districts in western Mosul from Islamic State militants,” a commander in the Iraqi army told Sputnik on Tuesday, expecting the whole region to be freed by Friday.

In a statement earlier on Tuesday, Federal Police Chief Lt.Gen. Shaker Jawdat announced his troops are in control of 80 percent of Iqtisidayeen and 17 Tamuz (July 17th) districts, in addition to eight other pivotal targets that were previously retaken.

“The troops shelled IS defenses as well as their headquarters in north of the Old City and killed dozens of the militants. Fifteen square km were freed, 168 booby-trapped vehicles were destroyed, 200 landmines were removed while 24 bombs were defused,” he added.

“Six families detained by IS in 17 Tamuz were freed. They were kept for several days inside one of the houses with the doors locked and the house booby-trapped to prevent them escape,” he added.

“The total number of families evacuated from battlefields have reached 850 so far since the start of the last phase of military operations in western Mosul on May 6,” Jawdat said.

In a press conference, the Joint Operations Command declared on Tuesday controlling 89.5 percent of western Mosul and killing 16,467 members of Islamic State since beginning of operations in western Mosul.

Iraqi commanders had predicted recapturing the remaining parts of the city this month

 

http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/western-mosul-fully-liberated-friday-military-official-expects/

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Thank God for the advances. Its amazing what you can accomplish when the enemy doesn't have a leaflet from a Kenyan that is living rent free in the WH.

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Seven IS militants killed in western Mosul airstrike

 

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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Seven Islamic State members were killed Tuesday when unidentified fighter jets bombarded a house in western Mosul, a security source was quoted saying as operations reach the group’s last few entrenchments.

A security source told Shafaaq news website that the strike targeted a house at Iktisadiyeen neighborhood, where intense fighting is ongoing between the group and Iraqi troops eyeing the neighboring Old City.

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Those killed included the group’s commander in charge of booby-trapped vehicles attacks, according to the source.

Iraqi government forces are close to retaking western Mosul and declaring the full recapture of the city that fell in IS grip in 2014. The eastern section was retaken in January.

Earlier on Tuesday, Brig. Gen. Yahia Rasoul, spokesperson of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command, said Iraqi troops became in control over 89.5 percent of territory at western Mosul, having killed more than 16000 militants since the launch of Mosul operations in October.

Iraqi government forces are eyeing the ancient, densely structured and populated Old City, the place where Islamic State’s supreme leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the establishment of an “Islamic Caliphate” in 2014. Troops besieged the area for weeks from the south, but turned to the northwestern axis to invade the city earlier this month. IS fighters are believed to have been holding hundreds of thousands at that area as human shields.

 

http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/seven-militants-killed-western-mosul-airstrike/

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Iraqi jets drop leaflets over Mosul

May 16 2017 10:15 AM
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Jet dropping leaflets

 

 

Iraqi jets on Tuesday dropped thousands of leaflets over Mosul, including recommendations and warnings for civilians there.

The leaflets included recommendations relating to the barring of using motorcycles and vehicles until the full liberation of these areas, military media cell said in a statement.

To our fellow citizens in the areas still occupied by the ISIS terrorists, victory has become very near by the hands of your armed forces. And to hasten the declaration of victory with the least portion of losses inflicted on us, we call on you not to use vehicles or motorcycles, the leaflets read.


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The terrorist group uses these leaflets in mounting attacks on our forces under the pretense of moving the displaced families, it added.

The cell previously called on civilians residing in the ISIS-held districts to refrain from riding all means of transportation until liberating these areas.

The Iraqi forces are pushing against ISIS in the right bank of Mosul since February 19th with the aid of the US-led coalition.

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/10620/Iraqi-jets-drop-leaflets-over-Mosul#section_235

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IMIS forces civilians from home in villages near al-Qayrawan district

May 16 2017 02:21 PM
Civilians harshly tormented by IMIS in Mosul
Civilians harshly tormented by IMIS in Mosul

 

 

IMIS terror militia has continued its blatant sectarian violations against civilians in Nineveh.

 

It adds to its criminal record the forcing of families in villages near the district of al-Qayrawan west of Mosul.
 

 

 IMIS terrorists have forced dozens of families in this area from home, leading them to Tal al-Sultan village south of al-Qayrawan district, a source told the Baghdad Post.
 

 

 Leader within IMIS Sami al-Masaudi declared Tuesday the militias stormed the village of Thari al-Karah near the district, he added.
 

 

The terror militia is on the loose in Qayrawan, and is committing atrocities against civilians on a daily basis, the source concluded.

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/10638/IMIS-forces-civilians-from-home-in-villages-near-al-Qayrawan-district

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First post-Islamic State liquor store opens in Mosul

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Prohibition was enforced when the city was held by the Islamic State group. The unmarked shop now gets up to 1,000 customers a day.
 

 

 

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Business is brisk at a liquor store in Mosul - the once de facto capital of the Islamic State "caliphate" in Iraq

Up to 1,000 customers a day at Mosul's first post-Islamic State liquor store http://ow.ly/Lx5C30bL2Yk pic.twitter.com/iNK4I5PrqA

 
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"I feel so relieved... it's cheaper & we want it cheaper" - customer on prices at 1st post-IS Mosul liquor shop https://yhoo.it/2pRM5Ni  @AFP

 
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2 hours ago, Wiljor said:

Awesome tiger, won't be long now brother. And, oh yes,  sure do appreciate them there updates  :backflip:

 

2 hours ago, ChuckFinley said:

Thanks for posting Tiger. Wiljor, need to head down to your part of the country to party when this is over.    :bravo:

 

All the time & anytime :D My Amigos....Looking forward to those Umbrella Drinks down in Mexico..--@@)))

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Blair prosecuted for Iraq War? Ex-PM’s legal immunity challenged in court  (Video in link)

 

Published time: 16 May, 2017 09:52 Edited time: 16 May, 2017 13:21
Blair prosecuted for Iraq War? Ex-PM’s legal immunity challenged in court
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The first steps towards overturning a legal ban on prosecuting former Prime Minister Tony Blair over the Iraq War will be considered by the High Court on Tuesday.

A private criminal prosecution against the former Labour PM was blocked last year when it was ruled Blair had immunity from any charges related to the Iraq War and that any such case could also “involve details being disclosed under the Official Secrets Act.”

 

A more senior judge will consider on Tuesday whether there are sufficient grounds to grant a judicial review of the rejection of the prosecution.

Last year’s private prosecution, brought by a former top Iraqi general now living in exile – General Abdul-Wahid ar-Ribat – wants Blair, his foreign secretary Jack Straw, and Lord Goldsmith, who was attorney-general in the run up to the invasion, to face trial in a British court.

It seeks their conviction for the crime of “aggression” and follows last year’s damning Chilcot report, which found Britain invaded Iraq under the false pretext that deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s regime had weapons of mass destruction.

The High Court judge on Tuesday will consider paper submissions made by lawyers on both sides. There will be no public hearing.

It will also decide whether the government’s top law officer, Attorney-General Jeremy Wright QC, can join the case. Wright wants the ban upheld, believing it is in the public interest that private prosecution be blocked.

“The next stage will be the court considering the papers and making a decision on whether to grant permission for a judicial review,” a spokesperson for Wright told the Guardian.

“The attorney is seeking to intervene to represent the public interest.”

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Wright argues that the case for the crime of aggression does not exist in English law, even though it does in international law.

That argument, however, appears to have been undermined in a document written by Goldsmith himself. In his 2003 memo on the legality of the Iraq War, Goldsmith, who was then attorney-general, wrote: “Aggression is a crime under customary international law which automatically forms part of domestic law.”

READ MORE: Chilcot’s forgotten witnesses – Britain’s Iraqi diaspora (VIDEO)

After the Chilcot Report was released, some families of British service personnel who died fighting in Iraq called for Blair to face criminal charges.

It is not clear when the decision by the High Court will be made public.

WATCH MORE:

 

https://www.rt.com/uk/388505-blair-iraq-war-chilcot/

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1 hour ago, tigergorzow said:

First post-Islamic State liquor store opens in Mosul

World News Earlier today
Prohibition was enforced when the city was held by the Islamic State group. The unmarked shop now gets up to 1,000 customers a day.
 

 

 

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Photo via @AFP
 
 
 
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Business is brisk at a liquor store in Mosul - the once de facto capital of the Islamic State "caliphate" in Iraq

Up to 1,000 customers a day at Mosul's first post-Islamic State liquor store http://ow.ly/Lx5C30bL2Yk pic.twitter.com/iNK4I5PrqA

 
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"I feel so relieved... it's cheaper & we want it cheaper" - customer on prices at 1st post-IS Mosul liquor shop https://yhoo.it/2pRM5Ni  @AFP

 

Ok. Liquor Bad, chopping heads, rape, pillaging good. Got it.

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