Conclusion of a week victory ceremony lit up the skies of Baghdad

[jg1]

Ok Iraqee's. You have your freedom. Dont throw it away again and vote for another malarki, or turn your head when you see a extremst islamic person, or you see a beheading or someone being stoned to death, rape children, ect.

Ohh, forgot this is all legal in iraq. 

Ohhh, and everyone that fled iraq, has the all clear to return home.

[DinarThug]

Complete preparations for organizing the Victory Week

08/7/2017 12:00 am  A plan to rehabilitate the children of Mosul psychologically and socially  Baghdad / Sabah delegates  The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs prepared an integrated plan to rehabilitate the children of Mosul psychologically and socially in coordination with 12 ministries. As the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities completed its preparations for organizing the events of the victory week, Ninawa held a celebration to sing the victories of the armed forces.  The Director of the Special Needs Department Abeer Al-Chalabi told Al-Sabah that an integrated program developed by the Child Welfare Authority, which includes 12 ministries, including the Ministries of Education and Health, as well as a number of civil society organizations, includes the opening of rehabilitation centers for children, And the establishment of areas such as the establishment of gardens and child friendly in coordination with the Ministry of Culture, in addition to the establishment of activities and activating the theater of the child because it works to instill the right ideas and principles of peaceful coexistence.  She noted that children aged between 5 and 10 years will be placed in rehabilitation centers commensurate with their age to reintegrate them into society after being subjected to specialized programs by psychological supervisors.  Abeer pointed out that the most difficult difficulties facing the work of the Commission will be the reconstruction limited between 15-18 years because in normal circumstances, families face difficulty in dealing with them because they are characterized by sharp printing and overcome the feelings of violence and revolution on their behavior and the speed of acceptance of ideas and faith in them, The city of Mosul has made them more responsive and influenced by the ideas that were planted by the gangs of «Da'ash» terrorist, and thus will be rehabilitated according to intensive psychological programs to re-tame their ideas and work to bring them back to school and use their energy in a positive way.  She explained that the program aims to reintegrate the children in society properly and purge them of all the planted Tkfirip ideas and extremism and all the sediments that were suspended by their ideas during the presence of «da'ash», as well as the rehabilitation of the family and its construction to play its right role in social construction.    Intensive platform for Victory Week  In the meantime, the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities prepared a platform to celebrate the victory week, which is expected to start if the completion of the liberation of the city of Mosul from the «Da'ash» terrorist.  The official spokesman of the ministry, Amran al-Obeidi, told the delegate of the morning, "Hadeer Imad: that the ministry prepared a busy platform to celebrate the victory week after the liberation of the city of Mosul from the terrorists« Da'sh »and announce this by the Prime Minister, including the establishment of a national song festival on the national stage permeated by Poetry poems, an exhibition of photographs, plastic exhibitions, and an exhibition of important documents that show the beginnings of archeological excavations and book fairs in Qishla Square, as well as fashion shows.  The celebration will continue for a week and will be organized by the ministry departments represented by cinema, theater, musical arts, cultural affairs, plastic arts, children culture, cultural relations, archeology and tourism, blessed by the Iraqis, the armed forces and the popular crowd the great victories achieved and the expulsion of the remnants of evil from Mesopotamia and the liberation of Mosul al-Hadba.  Al-Obeidi called on all institutions and ministries to give this victory what it deserves to celebrate, pointing out that the sacrifices and steadfastness of our people in the face of the criminal gangs of "da'ash" is a source of pride and pride for the whole world.  A celebration on the land of Hadba  In the same vein, the Ministry of Education in coordination with UNICEF organized a technical festival in Nineveh province to celebrate the victories.  The director of relations and information at the Ministry of Education Boshra Hassan Hamoudi to the representative of the «morning» Esra Samarrai, the General Directorate of Education Nineveh set up on the land of Hadbaa artistic festival expresses the joy of liberation from gangs «Da'ash» terrorist.  The festival was held in coordination with the Directorate of Sports Activity and UNICEF. It was organized under the slogan «Liberation Festival». The presence of the Director General of Education Nineveh, the assistants of the Directorate and Deputy Governor of Nineveh and a number of members of the Provincial Council and UNICEF, as well as the participation of educators, .  She added that the festival included artistic activities and Aubrita students and students of Mosul embodied crimes "calling" against the people of Nineveh, as well as activities illustrating the achievements of the security forces of the honorable results in the liberation of Mosul.  In her turn, Nineveh Education Director Lamis Ahmed Hassan praised the achievements in Nineveh governorate as a result of which the educational life will return to normal.  She appreciated the great sacrifices made by the armed forces to liberate Nineveh from the desecration of terrorism. This is an important step to restore social cohesion among all sectors of society and to take responsibility and resolve towards the people of Nineveh to serve them in various fields. Students and educational institutions to move towards a bright future   http://www.alsabaah.iq/Article.....?ID=140224

[DinarThug]

Iraqi PM Prepares to Announce End of Mosul Operation
 

MOSUL — All streets in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul have been cleared of Islamic State (IS) militants, a reliable source inside the city said on Friday.
According to the source, the Iraqi Federal Police together with the army are preparing themselves for a victory parade in Mosul, as the Prime Minister of Iraq, Haider al-Abadi, is about to declare the complete liberation of the city.

Military commanders said earlier on Friday that they expect the Iraqi PM’s statement on end of the operation of Mosul to be read in the upcoming hours.

The Iraqi forces recaptured the Grand al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul’s Old City, which marked the defeat of IS in the city.

 

http://www.basnews.com/index.p.....raq/362262

 

Edited July 8, 2017 by DinarThug

[ChuckFinley]

2 hours ago, Wiljor said:

 

Evening Chuck, the news is looking good, nice to go into the weekend. 

Just jumping back in. News is getting better. I like the statement about security not being an issue.  This is for sure good news going into the weekend.  

[DinarThug]

Letter to the prospective Ebadi to announce the release of Mosul

Journal July 8, 2017

 

 

BAGHDAD - The Journal News

Iraqi joint operations expected to regain full control of the city of Mosul during the hours in light of the collapse of the defenses of the terrorist organization Daesh.

A security source told "Reuters", Saturday, the air strikes and artillery shells targeted the last stronghold of the terrorist organization in the city with black smoke billowed over the area.

Iraqi soldiers celebrated and danced with rifles and automatic weapons and waved Iraqi flags upon their arrival to their specific objectives without waiting for a formal declaration of victory.

The high-security sources spoke of a forthcoming letter to Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to announce the liberation of the old Mosul Daesh.

 

http://www.aljournal.com/link

 

[DinarThug]

(by don961)

Urgent disclosure statement reason not to declare victory tonight

History Tahrir:: 2017/7/8 20:38 • 3881 Crain mqrw’h

 

{Baghdad} Euphrates News media source in the military cell revealed the reasons behind not to declare a statement of victory tonight.

The source told {Euphrates News} on Saturday that "Aldoaash cowards they put civilians as human shields in front of providing a counter - terrorism forces and because the mission of these forces is to protect civilians, the work will be qualitative." 

"The declaration of victory will be delayed and will not be the issue of the day was the announcement of the victory until rescue civilians are delayed because they are more important than victory." 

The Federal Police team leader Raed Shakir Jawdat has confirmed that Daesh before his defeat began to blow up a number of booby - trapped houses in the area of al - Najafi , the federal police and accelerated to rescue civilians from the rubble.

 

http://alforatnews.com/modules.....yid=146009

 

[DinarThug]

Joint operations directed "important message" for the liberation of Mosul date

 

 

    access_time 2017/07/08 20:39 

 

Baghdad today / Baghdad 

Called on the leadership of joint operations on Saturday, the media not to rush on the final declaration of victory over the organization Daesh in Mosul, while confirming that the battles waged by the security forces will be examined in the global academies.

A spokesman for the Joint Special Operations Command Brigadier General Yahya messenger, said, "We appreciate the efforts of media professionals in the transfer of victories of the security forces, but there are some hasty channels on the final declaration of victory and brothers around the corner from achieving victory."

The Messenger, said: "Your brothers in the battle fronts are engaged in fierce battles against Daesh will consider in the Arab world and the international coalition, which impressed by the planning and leadership battles through the leadership of the Joint Operations and Planning Authority certificate academies." 

 

http://baghdadtoday.news/news/6989/link

 

[DinarThug]

Video .. "majestic moments" to raise the Iraqi flag ahead of the release of Mosul

 

 access_time 2017/07/08 20:51 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=98&v=jp9gpLmdFwo

 

 

 

Baghdad today

 

http://baghdadtoday.news/news/6990/link

 

[DinarThug]

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/.....y-of-Mosul

Security forces recapture Dikat Baraka district in Old City of Mosul

Iraqi security forces have recaptured Dikat Baraka district and Sheikh al-Shat in the Old City of Mosul, We Are Coming, Nineveh Operations Command said on Saturday.

 

In a press statement, Operations Commander Gen, Abdul-Amir Rashid Yarallah said that this victory was achieved after inflicting heavy casualties on ISIS terrorists.

The operations command also announced on Staurday that its forces liberated Bab al-Tob neighborhood, al-Sagha market and al-Nujaifi street in the Old City of Mosul.

This comes as US-backed Iraqi forces, supported by Iranian-backed Sectarian IMIS Shiite militias ousted ISIS terrorists from Mosul and currently are sweeping the war-torn city to oust ISIS remnants from it.

 

[DinarThug]

Battle for Mosul: Terrifying final moments of house-to-house advances, airstrikes

#IraqatWar

With Iraq poised to announce the full liberation of the city, MEE gives a glimpse into the brutal reality of the last phase of the battle

 

 

Emergency Response Division soldiers prepare to advance deeper into Mosul's Old City (Martyn Aim/MEE)

Tom Westcott

 

Saturday 8 July 2017 11:47 UTC

 

 

Soldiers advance through the rubble-filled alleyways of Mosul's Old City, crowd around a rugged hole smashed through a wall, as battered buildings reverberate with heavy gunfire. 
It echoes across this central area of Mosul, less than one square kilometre across, into which Islamic State group (IS) militants have now been compressed. 

During the minutes when the guns fall silent, the thin buzz of an army drone checking IS positions whirs overhead.

As the Iraqi Army on Saturday looked set to declare full victory over the city, the last desparate moments of battle seemed to be some of the most extreme of what has been a protracted and bloody battle.

"IS are just 21 metres away," a young soldier says cheerfully. He highlights that terrifying proximity with a glowing red arrow on a map on his phone, which details the narrow alleyways of the Old City, through which ground advances are now being made. 

In the 46-degree midday heat, some soldiers have discarded their shirts, wearing only vests. One by one they duck down to clamber through the hole. 

An explosion hits nearby. The smashed hole becomes a fulcrum of chaos, as a journalist pushes outwards through soldiers going in the other direction. His eyes are wide with terror beneath a lopsided helmet.

 

A Humvee carrying ERD soldiers drives near the ruins of Bab Al-Tob (Martyn Aim/MEE)

 

Temperatures, tempers running high

"Don't go out there, it is so dangerous," he mutters wildly. The back of his trousers are soaked in blood. At the end of the alleyway, his security guy yanks down the journalist's trousers, revealing a stream of crimson running from a deep shrapnel wound to the back of his thigh, and starts bandaging it. 

Grim-faced soldiers climb back through the hole. Some have bloodied arms and legs from smaller shrapnel wounds from the same grenade that injured the journalist, whose treatment is now blocking the way back out.

Temperatures and tempers are running high. Two lieutenants stand beside the hole arguing, one swiping at the blood tickling down his arm. He pauses the argument to irritably ask if anyone has a bandage. Someone hands him a dirty rag. 

A group of soldiers still waiting to advance light cigarettes and crack jokes. The young man with the phone map says he dreams of going to England one day. "Iraq no good," he says, smiling and gesturing around him at the obliterated ruins of Mosul's Old City.

This is the southwestern frontline in the battle for the Old City, where the elite Emergency Response Division (ERD) have been drafted back in to make fresh advances from the ruins of the Bab Al-Tob souk to a residential district around the Al-Khuzam mosque.

Incoming IS sniper-fire intensifies. 

A 19-year-old soldier pushes back through the hole. His face contorted in an expression of shock, he holds out his gun to show where an IS sniper bullet shattered part of the weapon. His extends a wrist, limp from the impact of the bullet jolting through the weapon. Another, laughing, says an IS bullet just skimmed his belt. More grenade explosions come from the direction where soldiers are advancing and several emerge hastily back out through the smashed hole.

Back to the frontline, again

"Back, back. Quick. It's very dangerous here," instructs Ahmed, a soldier with ERD's media department, ushering two journalists back down the labyrinthine alleyways, where small groups of dejected-looking soldiers crouch in any patch of shade they can find.

There is no shortage of bravery amongst the Iraqi forces but, amidst the rubble of these dangerous streets, the bravado and extraordinary good nature with which many soldiers here have faced the world's most feared enemy, IS, is fading. 

With the battle for Mosul now in its 10th month, even Iraq's most elite fighters are exhausted.

We finished all our designated areas of West Mosul but now we've been called back to the frontline to help. Again

- Mohammed, soldier

"We shouldn’t even be here," said ERD soldier Mohammed. "We finished all our designated areas of West Mosul, but now we've been called back to the frontline to help. Again." 

A fortnight ago, ERD troops were drafted in to help Iraqi Army units struggling to clear Mosul's Al-Shifaa district, the last remaining pocket of IS resistance outside the Old City. At the start of this week, the call came again.

"An army chief phoned us in the middle of the night, congratulating ERD on what a great job we'd done in Mosul, and calling us heroes," he said. "Then he ordered us to go to this frontline to support the Federal Police. We came here immediately."

 

A member of the Federal Police helps an ERD soldier to climb through a hole smashed through the wall of a house in Mosul Old City (Martyn Aim/MEE)

 

In the first four days of this month, IS-affiliated media outlet Amaq released a series videos from Mosul, showing members of the Federal Police killed in recent fighting - nine in one video, three in another, two in another, with one shot by an IS sniper in a fourth video.

Of all the Iraqi forces fighting IS in Mosul, the Federal Police have the most limited training and capacity, usually taking the supporting role of holding new frontline positions gained by special forces. 

But ERD commanders complained months ago about the Federal Police's frequent inability to hold such advanced positions. "Every day we make an advance and at night hand it over to the Federal Police and say please, please don't lose it; but often, by the morning, they've lost some ground," ERD captain Abbas told MEE in March. 

Federal Policemen ... sprawl on the floors in their underwear, sweating, and trying to find even momentary respite from the relentless heat

The haphazard route back from the frontline is through a network of holes smashed through houses, some barely big enough for the larger soldiers to climb through. 

In the dark and sweltering interiors of these former homes, Federal Policemen are waiting for advances to finish before they take up their overnight defence positions, sprawl on the floors in their underwear, sweating, and trying to find even momentary respite from the relentless heat. Young soldiers carry bags of oranges and cartons of cooked food through the rooms towards the frontline.

As the soldiers emerge out into the painfully bright sunshine of the souk - all but demolished by air strikes - and climb over rubble that stinks of excrement and decaying flesh, a helicopter wheels overhead, targeting IS positions just 400 meters away with a pair of missiles. The impact is massive.

The final assault

Shrapnel and detritus fly through the air, scattering over military positions around which most forces are sheltering from the sun and stray incoming fire beneath blown-out shopfronts. But those walking in the open are vulnerable. Shrapnel slices into one Federal Policeman’s head and fells an ERD soldier with a deep thigh wound. 

Ambulances drive swiftly through the dust to collect the injured. Here, the wounded are, a least, close to medical treatment. From the most advanced frontline positions deep inside the Old City, it takes soldiers an average of one hour to traverse one kilometre of difficult terrain - narrow streets piled with rubble - on foot, according German NGO medic Thomas. 

Serious trauma cases and life-threatening injuries need medical attention within 15 minutes. The odds are not good for those injured on the front lines furthest inside the Old City.

 

 

A member of the Federal Police sends a message on his mobile phone (Martyn Aim/MEE)

Unperturbed by the air strike, a group of ERD fighters take a break inside a two-walled building, oddly left in perfect condition inside the demolished souk, eating lunch before their advance.

"There are dead IS everywhere. We've killed a lot," said soldier Malik, gesturing around the destroyed neighbourhood with a wide sweep of the hand. 

We're advancing steadily, and, inshallah, it will not take us much longer. We have God's power with us

- Thaet, soldier

"And now they are throwing down their weapons and trying to come out with fleeing civilians, but they're all going to get arrested."

He said advancing ERD troops are increasingly finding discarded IS weapons - mostly M16s and AK47s - lying on the ground where they have been abandoned.

"The biggest problem we're facing here are the snipers and IEDs [improvised explosive devices]. There are IEDs absolutely everywhere, and they're slowing us down," soldier Theat, 29, said. "But we're advancing steadily, and, inshallah, it will not take us much longer. We have God's power with us."

 

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/battle-mosul-terrifying-reality-final-house-house-ground-advances-251506675

 

[DinarThug]

 !Special - Mosul liberated a hundred times ... but not liberated!

  07 Jul,2017 07 Jul, 2017 

 

 

Since the start of the battle of Mosul on its right side, and the Iraqis are waiting for the announcement of the liberation of towns and cities from the grip of a hasty organization. 
Directly on air or through the transmission of  images on the social networking sites, the sons of Rafidain continued the battles, waiting for the moment of the announcement of the purge of the mother of the spring of terrorism, which was the income and announced his succession in June 2014. 
 Months passed and streets after the intervention of the Iraqi forces, while the displacement of people does not stop, until we reached the month of June. 
A few weeks ago, the Iraqi citizen felt that a competition was taking place between the Iraqi and Arab media to announce the liberation of Mosul, and the race among them at its strongest for the declaration of full liberation.  
Sometimes!  we hear that the rest of the control on the right side does not exceed 500 square meters, and sometimes we follow news that the distance is 50 meters, while the media went further to say that the number of fighters urging the remaining in all neighborhoods of old Mosul does not exceed the five Fighters! 
 But hey ! 
This news has gone on for more than 10 days, and the distance of 500 meters has returned to a thousand meters and more in other media. Is it conceivable that five fighters are still alive and standing steadfast against the joint forces amid fierce battles? t Is  Is it conceivable only five people are holding 100,000 civilians, the number issued by the UN organizations concerned with displacement? 
 So what if all these conflicting news are sometimes  far from logic ?  
We may understand that the media work during battles and wars is a weapon in itself, it frustrates the determination of the enemy and helps the army and combat forces with him to advance and support them. ... 
 But... what happened in Mosul was  not successful 
The liberation of Mosul is the demand of every Iraqi and Arab and even global, a "news" will knock drums and celebrations are held because of it. 
But to declare several times and within non-close time periods, and from unauthorized parties the declaration of liberation ?

 

http://www.alqurtasnews.com/ne.....42916/link

 

[DinarThug]

Victory bullets filled the sky ... direct Mosul to celebrate the return of the entire city to Iraq !!

08-07-2017 04:45 PM    

 

 

Baghdad News -

 

 

Security forces began in the old city of Mosul, the last strongholds Daesh in Nineveh, firing bullets victory, to celebrate the return of Mosul to Iraq and completely freeing its people from the control of the terrorist organization. 

An informed source said in a press statement, said that ' the joy of victories began to flare up in the old city of Mosul, with the last minute to announce the full control of the organization Daesh edit'. 

The source added that the 'federal police forces in Mosul , celebrated the great victory, and pending the issuance of a statement by the commander of the armed forces Haider al - Abadi, to officially announce the liberation of Mosul completely from the control Daesh

 

http://www.baghdadnews.info/in.....8;id=23207

 

[DinarThug]

Mosul is liberated .. operations and Baghdad threaten to arrest the shooters in the celebrations

July 8, 2017 

 

Baghdad balances News

 

Baghdad Operations Command, warned Saturday of shooting during events, threatening rocket shots with arrest.

A statement by the Operations Command received / scales News / copy of it, “Baghdad operations threaten to arrest rocket fire events.”

The statement pointed to the “determination to set up operations manageable garages Bsatrta Falcons 75”.

This warning comes to coincide with the imminent announcement of victory on the organization of “Daesh” in Almousel.anthy 29 / A 43

 

http://www.mawazin.net/%D8%A7%.....9%8A%D8%A9

 

 

[DinarThug]

Euronews :
   
Iraqi security forces are expect to take full control of Mosul in the next hours as Islamic State's defensive lines collapse, state TV reported on Saturday.

 

 

 

[DropItLikeItsHot]

 

[Floridian]

Gee, I hope this "week of victory" they're planning is nothing like the 9 days where everything was closed and we were expecting everything, and got nothing.

[Synopsis]

Just now, Floridian said:

Gee, I hope this "week of victory" they're planning is nothing like the 9 days where everything was closed and we were expecting everything, and got nothing.

 

Maybe the dry run for the real deal???!!!

 

Go Moola Nova!

[Floridian]

That's a good way to look at it Synopsis.  I hope you're right.

[ChuckFinley]

3 minutes ago, Floridian said:

That's a good way to look at it Synopsis.  I hope you're right.

Hey Floridian, you every get your Name Reserve and get into OSI?

[Floridian]

1 minute ago, ChuckFinley said:

Hey Floridian, you every get your Name Reserve info" rel="">Name Reserve and get into OSI?

 

Nope!  Can't spare $800 at this time.

[Synopsis]

2 minutes ago, Floridian said:

That's a good way to look at it Synopsis.  I hope you're right.

 

Yeah, "Iraqi Time" seems like it is like "Island Time" except the Iraqi's loop through the process a few more times before the "Real Deal"!!!

 

      

 

Go Moola Nova!

[ChuckFinley]

3 minutes ago, Floridian said:

 

Nope!  Can't spare $800 at this time.

I know what you mean, been there. Hope things get better for you. 

[Floridian]

Just now, ChuckFinley said:

I know what you mean, been there. Hope things get better for you. 

 

Thanks, Chuck.

 

[crane]

they will need another loan, for the big Fireworks display, and party hats and liquid refreshment and smoke,just watch they will be begging for dollars before the month is out ,wellfare check won,t cover the bill,. O we just can.t make it, we need more money, HorseShi^@!^^&# and time marches on,I wonder if all the Tier 4 that cashed in are going to the party?????????

 

[DinarThug]

7-8-2017   Newshound Guru Kaperoni   Article:  "Victory in Mosul 'about to be announced', Iraq state TV claims"  

 

Quote:  "It's a matter of hours," she said, citing the channel's correspondents embedded with security forces in the Old City of Mosul, by the Tigris river"   

 

This time it appears to be legit, several sources are reporting that today will be the announcement on Iraqi television.  

 

Let's hope so.