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

[Synopsis]

41 minutes ago, 10 YEARS LATER said:

Awfully good 😊 idea you have there "S" - you'd make a fine " Chief of Interogations & Cleansing Dept. "

 

and  to You, Brother 10 Years Later!

 

[Synopsis]

Looks like progress is being made in Old Mosul!

 

 

[pokerplayer]

42 minutes ago, Synopsis said:

Looks like progress is being made in Old Mosul!

 

 

 

 

ISIS controlled areas in white ? I don't see any white !! 

 

And thats a great thing !!

 

pp

[Synopsis]

Just now, pokerplayer said:

 

 

ISIS controlled areas in white ? I don't see any white !! 

 

And thats a great thing !!

 

pp

 

I agree, PokerPlayer! 

 

I am very interested to see the fulfillment of the news articles stating Abadi will imminently announce full victory over ISIS in Mosul!

[tigergorzow]

ISIS takes 400 Iraqi youths human shields in Mosul left bank

June 28 2017 08:16 PM

ISIS terrorists

 

ISIS terrorist group plans to take more than 400 Iraqi youths as human shields in Mosul's left bank, a security official in Kirkuk confirmed on Wednesday. 

The young people from Hawija and Abbasi neighborhoods have been taken to Al Shirqat in the left bank, the source confirmed. 

ISIS terrorists have used thousands of Iraqis, mostly women and children as human shields against air and missile strikes. 

A fierce fighting erupted over the past 72 hours between ISIS terrorists and Iraqi armed forces. At least 60 terrorists were killed and wounded. 

The fighting erupted after Iraqi forces killed a senior ISIS leader named Al-Ramah with two of his aides in addition to the killing of a number of terrorists over the past months. 

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/13656/ISIS-takes-400-Iraqi-youths-human-shields-in-Mosul-left-bank

[tigergorzow]

Haidar Sumeri‏ @IraqiSecurity 8h8 hours ago

 

Black flags ripped down as #Iraq's armed forces have roughly retaken half of #Mosul's old city

pic.twitter.com/wjdajzmG5Q

 

2:49 AM - 28 Jun 2017

[10 YEARS LATER]

7 minutes ago, tigergorzow said:

ISIS takes 400 Iraqi youths human shields in Mosul left bank

 

June 28 2017 08:16 PM

ISIS terrorists

 

ISIS terrorist group plans to take more than 400 Iraqi youths as human shields in Mosul's left bank, a security official in Kirkuk confirmed on Wednesday. 

The young people from Hawija and Abbasi neighborhoods have been taken to Al Shirqat in the left bank, the source confirmed. 

ISIS terrorists have used thousands of Iraqis, mostly women and children as human shields against air and missile strikes. 

A fierce fighting erupted over the past 72 hours between ISIS terrorists and Iraqi armed forces. At least 60 terrorists were killed and wounded. 

The fighting erupted after Iraqi forces killed a senior ISIS leader named Al-Ramah with two of his aides in addition to the killing of a number of terrorists over the past months. 

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/13656/ISIS-takes-400-Iraqi-youths-human-shields-in-Mosul-left-bank

 

This is such a feverish blood lust the likes of which every government around the globe should take very, very seriously - instead of referring to ISIS as the " JV TEAM " as that feckless fool, Obama so laughingly stated.

[tigergorzow]

Martin Jay‏Verified account @MartinRJay 4m4 minutes ago

 

#Germany may run #EU #army in #Iraq after #Mosul but will #NATO work under it? My latest https://on.rt.com/8gbc  #Romania #CzechRepublicpic.twitter.com/QxNJDzrh1i

 

 

10:31 AM - 28 Jun 2017

[DinarThug]

Police say 70% of Mosul’s Old City recaptured from Islamic State

 

by Mohamed MostafaJun 28, 2017, 10:46 am

 

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi forces have taken over 70 percent of western Mosul’s Old City district, Islamic State militants’ last refuge in Iraq’s second largest city, police forces said.

Federal Police chief, Lt. Gen. Shaker Jawdat, said his forces moved Wednesday through al-Farouq street towards Bab al-Toub, Serjkhana, Bab Jadid and Bab Lakash, all areas in the middle of the medieval district.

He said troops were engaging in fierce battles with an estimated 300 IS fighters, backed by warplanes and drones.

 

Al-Farouq district, western Mosul (google maps)

During the advances, Jawdat said, police troops killed 63 militants. Those, he said, included Ahmed al-Jubouri, the commander of IS’s so-called “military police service”, Abu Fatema al-Ansari, a Moroccan who served as the top military commander for western Mosul, Abu Anas al-Suri, a Syrian in charge of detachments, and Abu Ruqaya, a top ammunition keeper.

The forces, according to Jawdat, destroyed 14 booby-trapped cars and detonated 52 explosive devices. They also seized stacks of chemical substances and other munitions.

Operations to recapture western Mosul launched in mid February. Government forces took over the eastern side of the city in January.

The Old City hosts the Grand Nuri Mosque from where Islamic State’s supreme leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ascended a pulpit to proclaim the establishment of the group’s rule in Iraq and Syria.

 

http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-.....mic-state/

 

[SnowGlobe7]

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[DinarThug]

http://www.almaalomah.com/2017.....28/170628/

Council of Nineveh: one square km only separates advertising full editing of Mosul

 

13:52 - 28/06/2017

 

Announced the Council of Nineveh province, on Wednesday, announced the arrival of military units to street irons, noting that one square km only separated from the Emancipation Proclamation right side of the connector fully.

A provincial council member Hossam Alabbar's / information / "The military units in constant progress and managed to cross the Farouk Street, which is the most dangerous and the most difficult now reached irons Street."

He added that "the remaining space that separates from the Emancipation Proclamation of Mosul is the only one of the old square kilometer area," adding that "booby-trapping buildings and the presence of civilians hinders progress rapidly" .anthy

 

[DinarThug]

 

(by beas45)

 

U.N. goes stealth to help rebuild ISIS-ravaged Iraq

 

 

WASHINGTON -- U.S.-backed Iraqi forces are close to tearing the city of Mosul out of ISIS' stranglehold. Once they do, the sprawling city will join dozens of other towns and villages that need to be rebuilt virtually from the ground up. A vast swath of northern Iraq is reeling from violence and destruction that has forced almost 900,000 people to flee their homes in the last year alone.

Efforts to bring those Iraqis back home are robust -- and unique; the United Nations has more than 800 stabilization efforts underway across the country -- work the U.N. has done in many countries following many conflicts. But this time, the work is aimed at building confidence in local governance as much as it is at rebuilding Iraq's shattered infrastructure.

U.N. equipment and supplies are not stamped with the instantly-recognizable blue globe insignia, and local Iraqi contractors are carrying out the work in the name of the Iraqi government, rather than foreign contractors. The U.N.'s new strategy is designed to minimize the promotion of its own work, and to instead quietly facilitate a "for the country, by the country" reconstruction.

"The Iraqis coming home don't necessarily know that it is the U.N. that is helping them. They see that the government cares for them and the government is doing things for them,"Lise Grande, Deputy Special Representative of the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq, tells CBS News. "That helps to reinforce a sense of confidence in the government; as citizens, they need to know that the government is for them."

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Iraqi forces make final push to drive ISIS out of Mosul
Rebuilding and reviving ISIS-destroyed towns means wires running along dusty neighborhood roads, connecting small, efficient electrical grids to homes to bring back electricity. It means temporary piping to give residents water to bathe and cook upon their return. The makeshift, temporary nature of the repairs means many liberated Iraqi towns look a little messy, but it is a mess in the name of vitality, not destruction.

The efforts are deliberately scrappy because speed is a priority. The day that Ramadi was liberated the UN brought in 71 mobile grids. They were operational in 2 hours. Each was able to connect to 250 home each meant a large portion of the city had power immediately. The idea is simple: if there is power and water displaced families are more likely to come home. Once they are home, the desolate towns begin social revival.

The small stabilization power grids won't be the long-term fix. But setup is fast and they do not require the high-in-demand inputs like cement. While they are working to light up homes, efforts to repair the larger power grid gets underway.

Grande has been on the ground for two and a half years and she is in constant contact with all members of the Iraqi government across the country to push forward and get effective stabilization efforts up and running. She has been on the ground for the UN in India, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

 
The battle to retake Mosul
Veterans of wars in the Middle East view this overall approach positively. They note that the stabilization efforts in Afghanistan followed a very top-down approach, which proved to be a failure.

"If you are going to have success in Iraq people have to see a reason to have faith in the central government. Whatever happens in the UN name is never going to deal with sectarian, tribal and ethnic tensions," says Anthony Cordesman, a former U.S. government advisor who is now an analyst for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. He sees the current U.N. strategy as a means of building trust in the central government of Iraq, increasing hopes for long-term stability.

U.N. workers on the ground say Iraqis themselves are ready to go to work once they get home. In many cases, they have spent their life's savings just staying alive; moving to safe areas and finding food and shelter for their families. That means when they can return home, they want to be part of what Grande calls the "renaissance."

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ISIS mounts bloody last stand in Mosul
She says the locals are eager to help, especially when the faces leading the charge are familiar to them. This year in Fallujah, a local businessman working with the U.N. started to hire widows who had no other source of income to help build a new secondary school. He knew the local market and the local people -- innate insights that a large multinational company or organization would have been without. It was a brave move; women in the workforce is still a taboo topic to many Iraqis.

There have been failures with a handful of local contractors, but the minute they violate the terms and conditions of working with the U.N., they are cut off.

Grande says there is no slowing down. Last month it took just 10 days for the U.N. to add 200 stabilization projects in Eastern Mosul. In Fallujah the main water station has been completed and is now bringing safe water to more than 60 percent of the city. The effort took months to complete, "not years," Grande points out.

Despite an expedient stabilization effort, daily fears of not being able to support the huge number of displaced Iraqis haunt on-the-ground efforts. As the final push for Mosul rages, the number of Iraqis fleeing the city is on the rise every day.

The U.N. relief effort has just barely been able to handle the 6,000 to 8,000 civilians fleeing Mosul daily. The displaced are met at 19 camps on the outskirts of the city. But there are still more than 100,000 Iraqis trapped inside the Old City, where ISIS holds about a square mile of ground, and money is urgently needed to keep up with the demand.

"If very large numbers of people come out (of central Mosul) all at once, we would struggle to cope. Every single day I worry this is the day that 30,000 people will come at once," says Grande. "We are just one step ahead."

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/un.....overnment/

 

[DinarThug]

Exclusive: Map reveals latest developments in Mosul's Old City battle

June 28 2017 09:35 PM

 

 

An updated version of Mosul's map showing the latest developments in the battle to oust ISIS from the Old City in Mosul's right bank has been obtained by The Baghdad Post.

The areas in green illustrate the completely regained ones, areas in orange show the areas currently witnessing clashes while the areas in white are still controlled by ISIS terrorist group. 

Earlier this week, Iraqi military officials said ISIS terror group controls only one percent of Mosul. 

Security forces, backed by International Coalition air raids and logistic support of the US army, have retaken eastern Mosul and most of its western part after eight months of battles. These forces are focusing now on liberating Old City's districts that are still under ISIS control.   

It is estimated that there are a few of ISIS terrorists left in the second largest city of Iraq. It is expected that they will desperately defend the last pocket of the city that has been once their main stronghold in Iraq. 

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/.....ity-battle

 

 

 

2 days ago :

 

 

[dinareffic]

ISIS ousted from the Old City

INTERNATIONAL | Thousands celebrate the completion of a four-month offensive in western Mosul
by Mindy Belz 
 

• IRAQ: Emerging from nearly three years of living under ISIS control, girls in Mosul today donned pink and tiaras instead of black niqabs to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid.
  Thousands poured into the streets of Iraq’s second largest city, as Iraqi forces raised flags above buildings in western Mosul following the ouster of ISIS from the Old City district. Iraqi forces have battled the militants in the city for months, liberating eastern Mosul in January and now completing a nearly four-month offensive to take back the western side of the Tigris River.
  Vian Dakhil, the Yazidi member of the Iraqi parliament who won the Lantos Human Rights award earlier this year, recounts the horrific atrocities committed by ISIS she and others are learning about as families are liberated in Mosul and elsewhere.
  The president of Iraq’s Kurdistan region makes the case for independence ahead of the September referendum. And the government in Baghdad unveils a 10-year, $100 billion reconstruction plan.
   

[Miamiheatnic]

Looks like significant progress just from yesterday!  Hurry up!

[tigergorzow]

Iraqi airstrikes destroy 5 ISIS bastions in Mosul

June 28 2017 08:59 PM

Iraqi warplane

 

Iraqi airstrikes on Wednesday destroyed five ISIS bastions in Mahalibiya district, 35 km west of Mosul, security sources told The Baghdad Post. 

The cell said in a statement that the airstrikes were based on intelligence information and tip-offs from the 'We Are Coming, Nineveh' operations command.

The strikes resulted in the destruction of a depot of weapons and ammunition and a booby-trapped vehicle workshop.

This comes within the framework of the ongoing offensive to oust ISIS terrorists from Mosul. 

The offensive started on February 19th. The US-led coalition is giving air covering for the operations. 

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/13657/Iraqi-airstrikes-destroy-5-ISIS-bastions-in-Mosul

[DWS112]

June 28, 2017

 

 

 

[deniscanada]

[ChuckFinley]

Just getting off from work. I want to give a BIG THANK YOU  to everyone for keeping this updated.  Looks like we are down to the last mile. Wrapping this up over the weekend, if not before.   

[nannab]

16 hours ago, 10 YEARS LATER said:

 

 

 

 

Evening Gang - I have here a LINK for ALL interested in Military Terms & Definitions - - - LINK    http://www.militaryterms.net Unfortunately the term Complete Collapse is not a ( proper term ) As self-explanatory as it as, it's not a " military term.  I would have like to see their take."

Hope this helps nonetheless. More of an educational tool. This does contain All Acronyms and Abbreviations - quite lengthy. 

 

As it stands, a complete collapse suggests an utter breakdown (and) [ complete:  finish, ended, concluded - Adjectives from Thesaurus.com ] failure of ISIS: unable to coordinate and? or to sustain ANY type of offense / defense. It would appear they're now dealing with rogue elements; single, maybe several or a handful at best, looking for their Virgins in Paradise, or trying to sneak out wearing ladies clothes.

 

They're done . . . An announcement from Abadi's office should be issued shortly

 

 

You are a sweetheart 10yrs  my brain what is left was still stuck in soon in coming days etc.  I would do a back hand stand but I just came from the so called pain management

people.    

[Wiljor]

11 minutes ago, ChuckFinley said:

Just getting off from work. I want to give a BIG THANK YOU  to everyone for keeping this updated.  Looks like we are down to the last mile. Wrapping this up over the weekend, if not before.   

 

• Afternoon Chuck, hope your having a stellar day 

[10 YEARS LATER]

13 minutes ago, nannab said:

 

You are a sweetheart 10yrs  my brain what is left was still stuck in soon in coming days etc.  I would do a back hand stand but I just came from the so called pain management

people.    

 

Howdy ! Working off my phone & I missed this post, until now. You're most kind, thanx. That pain management stuff hurts-I broke my back years ago, only so much anyone can do. Exercise and keeping my weight down do me pretty good. Started Yoga a while back and that seems to help some as well. Stay healthy to spend your soon to be new found 

[jmartin1145]

10Years. I noticed you retired from oil field. What did you do? I was a roughneck back in the 80s in Wyoming.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/isis-grows-more-desperate-as-mosul-defeat-looms/ar-BBDqih1

ISIS grows more desperate as Mosul defeat loom

 

Iraqi security forces in Mosul are closing in on an increasingly desperate and shrinking band of Islamic State fighters who are using human shields to try and slow the U.S.-supported offensive, a top U.S. commander said Wednesday.

“There’s no limit to their exploitation of the people,” Army Maj. Gen. Joseph Martin told USA TODAY in an interview from Baghdad.

Worn down by airstrikes and months of ground attacks, the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, can no longer conduct effective assaults to defend its positions inside Iraq’s second-largest city. 

The ISIS force has shrunk as militants are killed, and its weapons are limited to small arms, grenades and some improvised explosives, Martin said.

Earlier this year the Pentagon estimated that fewer than 2,000 militants were in Mosul, but Iraq's military says the enemy force has been reduced to a few hundred.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said this week that victory against ISIS will be announced in a “very short time.”

© Ahmad Al-Rubaye, AFP/Getty Images Members of the Iraqi forces advance through the Old City of Mosul on June 28, 2017, as the offensive continues to retake the last district held by Islamic State.When the offensive began in October, Iraqi forces faced a sophisticated enemy that used drones for surveillance and manufactured its own weapons and ammunition. It was able to conduct coordinated attacks.

“They were a formidable military that has been brought to its knees,” Martin said.

Militants have shot people trying to escape and blown up buildings with civilians trapped inside. The United Nations reported this month an increase in the number of civilians killed by ISIS as residents tried to flee the city.

In a June 1 incident, militants shot and killed at least 163 fleeing civilians, including women and children, near a soft drink factory, the U.N. said. 

Up to 150,000 civilians remain trapped in Mosul and face a shortage of food and clean water, the U.N. said.

The remnants of ISIS are holed up in a few neighborhoods in the Old City in western Mosul, an area with narrow streets and ancient buildings.

The presence of thousands of civilians in densely packed neighborhoods has forced Iraq’s ground forces to pick their way through the parts of the city still controlled by ISIS to avoid civilian casualties.

Earlier this week, ISIS fighters attempted a counterattack to break through the Iraqi cordon and escape. Martin said the counterattack was crushed by Iraq’s military.

“They’re trapped and they’re desperate,” Martin said. “They’ve got two choices right now: surrender or die.”

The defeat of ISIS in Mosul would be a significant loss for the militants, which swept into the city three years ago as Iraq’s military collapsed in the face of the onslaught.

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the establishment of a caliphate from Mosul in 2014 after the terrorist group captured the city.

Last week militants destroyed the historic al-Nuri mosque where al-Baghdadi made the speech as Iraqi forces advanced on the site.

The U.S. military has deployed more than 5,000 troops in Iraq to support the training and assistance mission. The Iraqi forces are backed by coalition airstrikes.

The coalition support appears to be working. Iraq’s security forces have continued to advance in Mosul despite high casualties as the Iraqi forces engage militants in difficult street fighting.

“What we’re seeing in Mosul right now is grit,” Martin said.