“This is Fallujah we are talking about .
They are not dead just mixed in with their crowd”
I hear you on that. Unlike most ISIS strongholds, their troops in Fallujah are overwhelmingly locals (estimated around 85%).
But this time, it is not well trained and disciplined US Marines sorting through the crowd, but Shi’ite militiamen, guided by Iranian officers. There have been a mountain of reports of torture, and disappearances of young men. The assault this month came after months of artillery prep - so they are doing their damnedest to reduce the place to rubble and depopulate it.
General Sulemani, the point man for Iran, spent eight years fighting Iraq as a young man - akin to eight years on the front in in one of the World Wars. It is an historic payback opportunity for them, and an historic opportunity to shape the future.
The Iranian strategic plan is to annihilate Sunni resistance, Sectarian/ethnically cleanse areas, and establish de facto control over parts of Iraq, like they did in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon with Hizbullah. Diyala Province will be (is) their stronghold, and Fallujah is perhaps the heartland of Sunni resistance. The Iranians will try to get as much done to the Fallujans as they can, during this historic opportunity. A bunch of the local jihadi sympathizers are in for a third world/muslim-style purge. Happy Ramadan fellas!
They will still need US air cover for the assault on Mosul though, so there is still some restraint, at least with public relations and the press...
You can bet the leaders left dressed like women months ago.
Follow the money , many will be popping up in Libya to head into Egypt . The muslim brotherhood in Turkey is playing chess and these guys are causing the conditions for the rise of the Ottoman Empire (No one becomes the real Calif without the support of the muslim brotherhood but Al Baghdadi is still very useful to them )
Don’t be surprised if the Iranians take Mosul by flooding it.
Leaving O'bummer deeply conflicted.
If it were not for possibility that it eventually turn out as working for the greater good (the hoped-for defeat of the Great Satan, America), then O'Bummer would have no consolation.
A loss for O'Bummer's chief enemy (the nation, and object of his most deeply held hatreds) is a win, for him.
Aloha Snackbar!
Bronco Bammy was able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.!
Fallujah should have been a parking lot the first time, the rubble should be bouncing again.