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Tango0127 Nov 2014 10:49 p.m. PST

…Iraqi governor says. No, really.

"The Islamic State swept through northern Iraq in June, taking over the country's second largest city, Mosul, in an eruption of violence. It has terrorized people there ever since, but the governor of the surrounding province says it will be "easy" to take back the city of more than 1 million.

"It will not be a big battle. It will be easy to free Mosul," Atheel Nujaifi, the governor of Nineveh province, told the Kurdish news outlet Rudaw.

"Inside the city we now have a predominantly military force to make problems, to fight ISIS," he said, using one of the acronyms for the militant group. "Some of those people are from the groups that stopped working with ISIS, but they do not want to announce their names, as they know ISIS knows all their details. But they are now working with us."…"
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Personal logo Legion 4 Supporting Member of TMP In the TMP Dawghouse28 Nov 2014 8:29 a.m. PST

Well with Iraqi's recent combat record, I have my doubts … about anything they claim …

David Manley28 Nov 2014 11:15 a.m. PST

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Tango0128 Nov 2014 11:37 a.m. PST

What about the guys who battle so hard against the Iranians?.
All dead at "Desert Storm"?

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Personal logo Legion 4 Supporting Member of TMP In the TMP Dawghouse28 Nov 2014 2:10 p.m. PST

The Iran-Iraq War demonstrated both sides were not the best students of the art and science of modern mobile combined arms warfare …

Zargon28 Nov 2014 3:55 p.m. PST

But who really wants Mosul? Not worth anything. And the populous is not trustworthy too I'm sure.
I'd let them chew them selves to nothing.

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