Then we need to start the process of hunting down and killing every last ISIS adherent like rabid animal psychopaths they are.

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dailymail.co.uk

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has admitted defeat in Iraq and ordered militants to either flee or kill themselves in suicide attacks, it has been claimed.

The terror mastermind is said to have issued a statement called 'farewell speech' which was distributed among ISIS preachers and clerics in parts of Iraq it still controls.

According to local media, he urged supporters to run and hide and told 'non-Arab fighters' to either return home or blow themselves up with the promise of '72 women in heaven'.

News of the statement, which has yet to be verified, comes as US-backed Iraqi army units took control of the last major road out of western Mosul that had been in ISIS' hands.

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News of the statement, which has yet to be verified, comes as US-backed Iraqi army units took control of the last major road out of western Mosul that had been in ISIS' hands

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The U.S. commander in Iraq has said he believes U.S.-backed forces will recapture both Mosul and Raqqa, Islamic State's Syria stronghold in neighbouring Syria, within six months.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said around the new year that he expected his forces would need three more months to rid the country of IS.

Just days ago, British Defence Minister Michael Fallon said that he expected to see ISIS expelled from the country's major towns by the end of 2017

Retaking the northern city would deal a death blow to the 'caliphate' and any claim that ISIS is still running a 'state', but the group retains control of several populated areas.

In Iraq, ISIS still holds Hawijah, a large town southeast of Mosul, and the town of Al-Qaim on the western border with Syria.

When Iraqi forces retake Mosul, the jihadists' last major hub will be the city of Raqqa in neighbouring Syria.

ROSAL

Sounds like we might need to adjust/lead a few MILS to get on target ...

Mattis is coming for you boy!

PLEASE, do not let these bastards escape and melt into the population.

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Originally posted by MNSIG:
PLEASE, do not let these bastards escape and melt into the population.

Way too late for that.

tac

http://www.militarytimes.com/a...t-buildings-in-mosul

U.S.-backed Iraqi forces are closing in on government buildings long held by the Islamic State group in the city of Mosul, according to Reuters.

Iraqi forces are within firing range of Mosul’s main government buildings, a major target in the recent offensive to rid ISIS fighters from the western side of the city. After 100 days of fighting, Iraqi forces captured the eastern side of Mosul in January.

“Within the next six months I think we'll see both [the Mosul and Raqqa campaigns] conclude,” said U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, Commander of Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S. military campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

On Feb. 19, Iraqi forces began the offensive across the Tigris River into districts on the western side of Mosul.

http://www.reuters.com/article...-mosul-idUSKBN1670UH

"The provincial council and the governorate building are within the firing range of the Rapid Response forces," a media officer with the elite Interior Ministry units told Reuters, referring to within machinegun range or about 400 meters (1,300 feet).

U.S.-trained Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) units battled Islamic State sniper and mortar fire as they moved eastwards through Wadi al-Hajar district to link up with Rapid Response and Federal Police deployed by the riverside, in a move that would seal off all southern access to the city.

The militants set ablaze homes, shops and cars to hide their movement and positions from air surveillance. Satellite pictures also showed a fabric cover set up over a street in the old city center.

Residents in districts held by the militants said they were forced to take their cars out of garages onto the street to obstruct the advance of military vehicles.

Several thousand militants, including many who traveled from Western countries to join up, are believed to be in Mosul among a remaining civilian population estimated at the start of the offensive at 750,000.

They are using mortar, sniper fire, booby traps and suicide car bombs to fight the offensive carried out by a 100,000-strong force made up of Iraqi armed forces, regional Kurdish peshmerga fighters and Iranian-trained Shi'ite Muslim paramilitary groups.

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There's a Raqqa campaign. When did that start?

When we turn it into a parking lot, give me a call.

Sounds like these Muslim TERRORIST boys wuz countin' on Hillary to win...

Great news, but ... its like the tide going inand out.


ISIS? AlQuaeda? Taliban? Muslim Brotherhood?

What's the common denominator?

Until we can turn and face the enemy, we're just playing Whack-A-Mole.

I would suggest that a some what large portion of the "Residents" are ISIS Supporters.
Until we can get photos/bounties on this scum they will life to fight another day...

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Originally posted by RichardC:
Great news, but ... its like the tide going inand out.


ISIS? AlQuaeda? Taliban? Muslim Brotherhood?

What's the common denominator?

Until we can turn and face the enemy, we're just playing Whack-A-Mole.

Who knows, maybe now that the indigenous people have had a taste of the caliphate firehose, maybe they'll decide to cast off the chains of theocracy.

Maybe they were all hired at Starbucks?

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:

Click on OP's link. There's a flame throwing drone video. That's cool, I want one. Not sure what I'd do with it but I definitely need one.