Members of the US anti-ISIS coalition are crowing about ISIS shutting down cellular telephone service in Mosul, saying it proves the war against ISIS is having a major impact.
“By shutting down the network they show the people that they’re not a real government because they can’t even provide mobile phone service,” insisted one Kurdish official.
ISIS shut off the phone service to thwart spotters who were providing targeting information to the coalition to launch airstrikes against ISIS forces. Service appears to still be active across much of the rest of ISIS territory.
But Mosul is the largest city ISIS has, and keeping service off there is a hardship for the people in the city, even if it does slow the number of foreign airstrikes against their territory.
It remains to be seen how long ISIS intends to keep the service shut off in Mosul, but with the US talking up an attack on Mosul as soon as January, it will likely last until then.
I do not think they are bragging about it.
They could in that case brag about a lot of things like ISIS do not control the airspace or their high technology etc.
Any normal person can see the difference.
Iraq — A paradise for Western greed
Iraq had a simple civil war, where the Sunni tribes would reestablish their 500 year old tradition of having supremacy in war and rule, thereby reestablishing peace and stability.
Problem is, since their 2003 invasion of Iraq the Western powers have done everything possible to destroy Sunni rule, surely to destroy all peace and stability by a civil war that cannot possibly end until the Sunni tribes are back in power.
The Iraqi government seems quite greedy especially the army.