If you say so...Mosul looks pretty destroyed to me.
Posted on 03/26/2018 6:14:03 PM PDT by marshmallow
Months after Isis was forced out and tired of waiting for government action, volunteers have begun the urgent job of rebuilding Iraq’s cities
Even if we work every day for the next six months, we still won’t finish this job – we don’t have enough support or equipment,” says Muhammed Shaban, an officer of the Civil Defence Force in west Mosul, in the exhausted tone of someone who is unable to separate his life from his work.
Shaban and his colleagues were recovering as many as 30 bodies a day in August last year, one month after the fighting ceased. More bodies still lie under the rubble along the banks of the Tigris river, where the last bloody battles were fought. “We are working with our hands and it is so hard,” says Shaban. He is still waiting to be paid.
Thoughts of rebuilding Mosul are far from the minds of the men tasked with recovering the dead. The true number of the lives lost in the battle against Isis here – when, in the final months of the campaign, families trapped by Iraqi forces had no escape from airstrikes and snipers – is not known, but the Associated Press reported nearly 10,000 civilian deaths; the UN found the figure to be 2,521 at a minimum. The old city, once Mosul’s economic centre and beating heart, became a burial chamber.
But when Iraqi forces pushed Isis out of their last urban stronghold in Mosul – leading the Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi to declare 10 December a day of celebration – a new job began: the work of moving on.
Across the city, volunteers began to clean streets, libraries and universities – to reinvigorate a city that had been suppressed under ISIS.
Progress is slow. Fifteen neighbourhoods were razed to.....
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Hey Muhammed, why should we put a dime into your shit hole city?
It took the Brits several decades to rebuild after World War II, and the Germans just finished in 2004. Sounds like this dude is just panhandling for money.
Didn't the United States destroy the city in an air campaign?
The U.S. has not destroyed a city since WWII. We now don’t declare war and run PC warfighting and do everything possible to not inflict collateral damage. Americans died taking the city the first time along with so many others and f-ing Obama gave it right back to his butt boys ISIS.
“The U.S. hasn’t destroyed a city since WWII’’ Uh, I dunno. I think we did a pretty good job on Baghdad.
If you say so...Mosul looks pretty destroyed to me.
Anything you conquer becomes your problem. Having destroyed Mosul for dubious reasons we are on the hook for fixing it.
Anything you conquer becomes your problem. Having destroyed Mosul for dubious reasons we are on the hook for fixing it.
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