Iraqi us forces put squeeze on baghdad, which was under full control of al-Qaida in Iraq.
I ask, how can we tell it was al-Qaida, not the other way round?
A commander I have seen and talked to in Mosul asked me, how did they capture this city that they have lost over the past 10 years from the air?
The last thing you can say for sure in Mosul is that you can control something as remote as this in 10 years. I asked myself, ‚can you control a city like that for a very long time‘?
‚The city is like an animal, is what it tells you.‘ – Lt Col Raza Kassisar, commander of the 6th Corps in Mosul. Photo: Twitter
The answer was an unequivocal no – we can’t control such a vast area within an army that loses 50 per cent of its fighters each year. But on the other hand, when the United States, Russia and the Iraqis talk about controlling areas like this, they can’t really do it. We can’t capture a city as remote and important as this from two countries who have lost so much and who are struggling to make ends meet.
What do we mean by such control? How do we tell if the Iraqi forces were actually doing the right thing, when only five or ten per cent of them took on such difficult terrain when we first entered in September? How do we make sense of that after four years in which the Iraqi forces have grown accustomed to controlling this.
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Lt Col Raza Kassisar said: ‚The city is like an animal, is what it tells you. We try to capture it once in a while, because we know you will lose it. You can never control something that is not there yet.‘
On that note, we asked one Iraqi to tell us the story of how he managed to escape from ISIL, which was, by all 우리카지노accounts, the most brutal of all terrorist groups.
He said the enemy made him give him the Islamic State logo, which he didn’t know he was wearing.
‚I didn’t know any of my Iraqi family was there, so I was trying to hide out,‘ he said. ‚I had no idea I was being monitored or anything like that.‘
While ISIS was being driven out, Iraqi army commandos went looking for this