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re: Insurgents seize Iraqi city of Mosul as troops flee
Posted on 6/10/14 at 12:19 pm to kingbob
Posted on 6/10/14 at 12:19 pm to kingbob
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kingbob
I am about 30 km from Mosul working right now. Mosul is not part of Kurdistan, and is within Iraq proper.
My Kurdish friends have said that ISIS does not want to attack the Kurds and actually turned away at the Mosul dam after seeing the Kurdish forces were on it. Now how true is that last sentence, I have no idea.
ETA: I do agree with most of your post though. But Mosul has been hit pretty hard by car bombings the last couple of months.
This post was edited on 6/10/14 at 12:21 pm
Posted on 6/10/14 at 12:25 pm to carbola
it wouldn't suprise me. The Kurds have been unified and well organized since before the U.S. invasion. It may or may not be true, but I could certainly believe it. The Iraqi government and military is a huge shite show, though. The police and military are rife with "insurgents" and "sympethizers". The people of the middle east have no concept of voicing political dissent through elections. Their elections are based on simple and parliamentary majorities instead of a more representative republic system. True democracy is chaos, where the 51% abuse and anhilate the 49%. The disenfranchized minorities, in this region, have been forming militias and insurgent groups, winning battles with guns that they can't win with votes. It's a real case study in "how not to build a country".
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