Posted on 10/17/2016 8:42:56 AM PDT by yoe
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Near Mosul, Iraq (CNN)Iraq's military says it has inflicted "heavy losses of life and equipment" on ISIS in a district southeast of Mosul, as Iraqi-led forces close in on the city in the long-awaited battle to recapture it from the terror group. Hours after the beginning of the offensive, Iraq's military said it had inflicted losses and made advances in the Hamdaniya district, while Masoud Barzani, president of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government, said "we have achieved a lot of success so far."
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CNN - bogus since day one.
Looks like Obama finally wants to do something about ISIS, in that a victory might help HRC win...
Show me the bodies!
I don’t believe a word from CNN, all craps
this administration only gives a damn about the war on terror when it’s election time.
Keep concentrating on that "heavy loss of life" part.
I call BS.
This offensive happens just days before the next debate. Just saying.
they encounter less resistant than expected because isis forces are dispersed and are in hiding because Obama admin told their allies ISIS when the attack was coming
ISIS have all been relocated to the US.
That's actually ok. Mosul is by far the largest city ISIS controls. Losing it - with or without its garrison - is a huge problem for ISIS.
Nine thousand ISIS jihadists in Mosul are going to be redeployed to help in the siege of Deir Ezzor in SE Syria.
They aren’t being driven out of Mosul. This will simply be a cynical redeployment of White House assets.
Obama gets to claim a win just in time to help Hillary, and 9000 more murderous bastards get unleashed on Syria.
Maybe the ISIS fighters will travel up to Syria along with their child brides in a ‘humanitarian convoy’. And maybe Russia will bomb the crap out of them.
If ISIS surrenders a city with a prewar population of 2.5 million to take a city with a prewar population of 250,000 then they are stupid.
Clinton News Network. No credibility.
Drudge report blurb and some discussion of the offensive.
http://www.drudge.com/news/204530/operation-begins-retake-mosul-isis
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