Iraqi forces are being typically light on details about their ongoing offensive against the ISIS-held city of Tikrit, except to say that they believe they are “gaining ground.”
Despite claiming a 30,000-strong force, the Iraqi forces aren’t overwhelming ISIS, and the indications are that ISIS snipers and booby traps are keeping the process going extremely slowly.
Reports out of ISIS are also claiming at least one major suicide truck bombing, near the city of Samarra, which killed dozens of Iraqi troops. The suicide bomber was said to be American.
Iraqi forces had previously attacked Tikrit in early summer, claiming repeatedly for weeks that they had either retaken the city or were about to retake it. Ultimately, they fled, and the city remained in ISIS hands.
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Sniper fires? Who trained them?
Get the Iranians on this ASAP: http://blogs.rediff.com/mkbhadrakumar/2015/03/03/…
They've shown that ISIS can be defeated if one really wants to, instead of using them as a future proxy force for regional ambitions when sending in USSA stormtroopers ts too unpalatable politically at home.
Ukraine democracy was completely destroyed by snipers, in just a couple hours with over a hundred protesters and police alike lying dead and bleeding, such fascist violence was fully rewarded by having all of society terrorized and in submission.
For if a government has not the will and ability to maintain a monopoly on the use of force and violence, fascism breeds like wildfire and it’s overthrow is but a heartbeat away.