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ISIS Flees Ramadi, This Is What They Left Behind: Photo Album "From The Devil's Grasp"
Last Tuesday, Iraqi troops made a concerted effort to retake Ramadi, which is around 60 miles west of Baghdad.
The city fell to Islamic State back in May when, according to Ash Carter’s assessment anyway, the army showed no will to fight in the face of the advancing ISIS hordes. Once the army, with the help of Sunni tribal fighters, retook a strategic command center they began to advance on a government complex where, according to sources, some 100 militants were dug in.
Despite sniper fire, suicide bombers, and IEDs the Iraqis were able to capture the government complex, marking the latest in a string of strategic and psychological victories for Baghdad’s much maligned forces.
Ramadi has been “fully liberated,” Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool said on Monday. Here's the statement from the Joint Operations Command:
“Yes, Ramadi city has been liberated and security forces, like the heroes of the counter terrorism forces, flew the Iraqi flag over the government compound building in Anbar. The flag is flying now to write a new history, and with the grace of God, the rest of the cities will be liberated.”
As you can see from the map shown above however, merely retaking the government complex doesn’t mean the city is an “ISIS-free zone” (to use the ridiculous term the US and Turkey made up for the area north of Aleppo and West of the Euphrates in Syria). "Operations continued Monday to clear remaining Islamic State militants from other areas of Ramadi, security officials said, particularly in the eastern suburbs where many of the group’s holdouts had fled the day before as Iraqi forces advanced," WSJ notes.
“Gen. Ismail al-Mahlawi, head of military operations in Anbar, quickly clarified that government forces had only retaken a strategic government complex and that parts of the city remained under IS control,” AP writes, adding that although “IS fighters have retreated from about 70 percent of city, [they] still control the rest and government forces still don't fully control many of the districts from which the IS fighters have retreated.”
Right. And it’s unlikely that they’ll ever regain “full control” of the city where “ever” means sometime in the foreseeable future. There’s been talk of stationing the Sunni tribesmen in captured areas to ensure “the terrorists” don’t come back. Ramadi is Iraq’s Sunni heartland and thus Abadi isn’t keen on enlisting the assistance of Iran’s Shiite militias either to help with the fight or to occupy the city once it finally is fully liberated.
In short, Iraq doesn’t want the city to descend into sectarian violence in the wake of the ISIS withdrawal, but the Sunni fighters are undertrained and ill-equipped which leads one to question how effective they’ll ultimately be when it comes to defending captured ground.
In any event, here are some images which depict the aftermath of the latest fighting and should give you a good idea of what the Iraqis found when they entered the city which The Daily Mail says has been wrenched from the "Devil's grasp":
So there you have it. A smoldering pile of rubble is 70% of the way "liberated." Hallelujah.
Don't forget that the scenes shown above are from a city that is just an hour by car from the capital of a country the US supposedly "saved" from a bleak future under a brutal dictator more than a decade ago. This, we suppose, is what a thriving democracy looks 12 years after a US intervention.
Next on the list is Mosul. In light of the following image which appeared in a piece of ISIS propaganda released earlier this year, we're interested to see what the city actually looks like now that the group has been in control for some 18 months...
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After the invasion we should have given the most powerful Iraqi generals a billion dollars each and 72 Real Live Virgins to keep order as it has been done for centuries. We only stayed so Wall Street could make billions.
Yep. The US military did the job it was designed for, quickly winning a war.
Then the politician George W decided he'd make a mohammedan country, riven by competing mohammedan factions, into a beacon of democracy, so he disbanded the Iraqi army, the one source of stability, and went on his mad rampage of "nation building". After all, he knew mahommedanism is a "religion of peace", and they all just wanted to love one another.
You, sir, are 100% correct.
NATO'S SECRET ARMY:
Iraqi MP: Turkey Continues Supporting ISIL, Provides Safe Haven of Terrorists Operating in Iraq
http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/12/28/iraqi-mp-turkey-continues-supporti...
<--- ISIS-free zones
<--- NATO-free zones
Wild-assed guess...
Halliburton gets the no-bid rebuilding contract.
American politicians and their Israeli rabid Jew-dog handlers are the SCUM of humanity....
Another fine Mission Accomplished. Exceptional job, boys!
I have to keep saying. God bless the USA for all that we've made possible !! And in so many Countries !! Now we're going back into Libya to finish that job? God bless the USA !!
I get your snark.
orck, I get your snark too. Uparrow.
More like the following: "U.S. proxy army/militants Flees Ramadi, This Is What They Left Behind: Photo Album "From The Devil's Grasp"
To be followed with billions to rebuild from uncle sambo and friends.
This is thanks largely to Russia. These NATO/Gulf terrorists cant fight a two front war (who can?) and when the heat is turned up in alternate theatres, they will inevitably commence retreating. They're far from done of course but it's certainly starting to look good. It pains me somewhat as an Irishman to quote Churchill but "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
Looks like a war zone... oh wait, Obama.
Another Journalist shot and murdered in Turkey.
https://www.rt.com/news/327226-syrian-journalist-assassination-turkey/
Maybe if we bomb the fuck out of a few more countries things will change for the better. What do you guys think? Does that sound like a plan? Not dumb bombs... but these Freedum bombs.
This rubble is your land, this rubble is my land, from the Persian Gulf shore to the Golan Highlands, from the Turkish border to the Saudi de-es-ert, this rubble was made by The U S A...
Clever, no way jose, not constructive.
Be grateful, not snide. Then you might live up to Tisquantum.
ISIS demonstrates how tough they are when they have to fight actual armies instead of just raping and killing 8 year olds. Fags.
ISIS are mercenaries for hire to the highest bidder, currently Israel Mossad, CIA, MI6.
Stupid boy.
low IQ sand-niggers fighting lower IQ sand-niggers booooooooooring
hey! is this 15 years old boys kidney the new kidney for soros friends?
to all jouranlists from turkey you dont need to expose whats heppening in turkey
i know anyway by just closing my eyes and letting my criminal mind into simulation mode
US got most of ISIS out before the shooting started - I have a feeling that the US know that RUSSIA is on the way !
you wish isis is an multicultural "organisation" which was created by usa under agreement with putin and russia
putin and obama agreed on
the sharing and creating a conflict in middle east of which both parties profit
russia closed its eyes when iraq was invaded and do not interfere in afganistan either
isis was obamas army of payed solders consisting out of only 30000 man
basically most G20 countries have their spys and own isis troops including russia
while russia is pretending to be the hero all they do is cooperationg with france and england on sharing syria amongst each other
russias bombings are not affecting anything and even the attacks on turkeys oil trucks are purposely only symbolic
the whole conflict is artificial and therefore not interesting at all and jew-russia is a part of ciminal activities in middle east
most of the zh readers are just stupid retired retards with alcohol problems
you guys should go back to mrNosey's fan site, best is you start with trying to figure out the country the sliver foil was produced in, just by looking
Played, aren't you. City of London Rothschild, the Square Mile is your problem. Silly boy. Do some research. It is all there. Stupid boy.
If asked to choose between ISIS and Obama as to who is worse, I would say there is no difference between the two.
FUCK OFF.
CIA MOSSAD MI6 said they their job was done when all Americans believed lies.
And here you are, ZH. Believing lies, spreading lies. FUCK OFF.
Stupid boys.
No offense intended to intelligent, wordly ones.
Broken windows, broken windows everywhere! Nothing but prosperity on the horizon!
Must apologise for my fury, Zero-Hegemon.
Ride of the Valkyries, 1620, 1776 and all that...
The world is matriarch, good sons. My son will not tolerate his mother and sister upset. NO. That will end.
Team America World Police "America, Fuck Yeah!!"
Every good boy has a good mother, a good sister, a good country. I am sorry that yours does not. Any country that uses women and children is filth.
WooHoo! The jooish bankers are going to love lending iraq the money to rebuild.
They did install a world bank there by now, right?
Sad, isn't it. All those children in Middle East ruined for the Yinon Plan, and central bankster theft.
Whatever happened to carpet bombing?
Get this straight:
ISIS are mercenaries, nothing more than that. Funded trained and armed by CIA, MI6 and Mossad for the batshit crazy idea of 'Greater Israel.' It is plain to see.
Defy. Don't comply.
MY children are threatened.
I will not tolerate that.
Do as you will. Get ready
Take the Tramp Soros and shove it up your backside; nasty nazionists.
US got their ISIS 'assets' out beforehand - I think the US KNOWS that Russia are on the way - There is NO way the Zionist/US has helped Iraq out of compassion for them - The US has murdered 1.5 million Iraqis already - they are not about to become compassionate !
Sorry is not enough, but I am sorry. So very sorry. Hell is our fate, east and west. I am sorry. All those beautiful children, killed. All for nasty nazionists, Talmudists.
So I guess this Thursday night will be pretty epic for INA.
Im gonna go ahead and open up an ISIS burger here in the US anyone want to get in privatly before the IPO .............we can also get the clothes line going..............
Stupid HasbaRAt, wise bastard.
Nasty nazionist.
Lowlife jew. Soros.Tramp. Guttersnipe.
Your Stasi Woolf DHS new Bolsheviks won't save you, and your horror show.
Yeah. You know what I' m saying. C'mon, coward, filth. Red Terrror. Let's meet, keyboard jew warrior.
You hate the world. I am going to rip your face off, and St Michael will help me.
Your sport are disgusting lowlife filth.
Get ready.
Ask yourself: could you kill a child.
Nasty nazionists do that every minute of the day. Could you?
I am not happy with George Soros behaviour, but he was a child in war, and I can't blame a child, but I must stop adults who threaten my children. That is the way of the world, apart from mysanthropists.
George Schwartz was deeply traumatised as a child. Perhaps we should remember this.
I will keep my children safe, and nazionist won't kill them. That is my will. Beware. I have friends in low places. I
I don't shoot. I delegate.
I hope the US Air Farce was able to airlift ISIS solders to an fitting safe zone.
Iraq is a shit hole - the farther north you go, the worse it gets until you end up in the asshole of Turkey.
'the army showed no will to fight in the face of the advancing ISIS hordes. '
becuz contingency was to be created so that USA def. contrators could do their work at 100x the normal (I heard in war torn areas USA & euroPeon experts make 30000 $ per month salary [yes thirty thousand pe month] )
Fuck Israel & the zionist empire thats falling fast, just not fast enough.