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发帖数: 12853 | 1 Kurdish Troops Advance on ISIS-Held Villages East of Mosul
By MICHAEL R. GORDON and TIM ARANGOOCT. 17, 2016
The Fight for Mosul Begins
Coalition forces led by the Kurdish pesh merga have advanced on the eastern
side of the Iraqi city at the start of an offensive that aims to wrestle
control from the Islamic State. By CAMILLA SCHICK on Publish Date October 17
, 2016. Photo by Bryan Denton for The New York Times. Watch in Times Video &
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BADANA PICHWK, Iraq — Kurdish forces on Monday morning began advancing on a
string of villages east of Mosul, the start of a long-awaited campaign to
reclaim Iraq’s second-largest city from the Islamic State, which seized it
more than two years ago, officials said.
About 4,000 Kurdish pesh merga troops are involved in the operation to
retake 10 villages, the opening phase of a battle that could take weeks or
months and could involve nearly 30,000 Iraqi and Kurdish troops, with
American warplanes providing air support. Iraqi counterterrorism forces,
which work closely with American Special Operations commandos in Iraq, are
also expected to join the Kurdish forces in the coming days.
The operation began hours after Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced in
a brief speech aired on state television just before 2 a.m. that the long-
awaited campaign to liberate Mosul had begun.
“The Iraqi flag will be raised in the middle of Mosul, and in each village
and corner very soon,” Mr. Abadi said, dressed in a military uniform and
surrounded by officers.
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, in Washington, said the start of the
Mosul campaign was a “decisive moment” in the effort to defeat the Islamic
State.
Photo
Kurdish pesh merga troops fired at Islamic State positions near Badana
Pichwk on Monday. Credit Bryan Denton for The New York Times
In the first phase, the troops who have been massing at bases around Mosul
in recent weeks will encircle the city, seeking to cut it off and prevent
Islamic State fighters from fleeing, particularly west into Syria. Later,
the counterterrorism forces, which took the lead in liberating other Iraqi
cities, like Ramadi and Falluja, from the Islamic State, will join regular
army units in storming the city.
After dark on Sunday evening, armored vehicles on flatbed trucks were seen
moving west from Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region, along
with many ambulances.
The operation began under the light of the moon on Monday as pesh merga
tanks, Humvees and pickup trucks with guns mounted on the back snaked their
way toward the villages.
Although Mr. Abadi vowed that the Iraqi flag would be flown in every town,
only the tricolor flag of the Kurdish semiautonomous region could be seen
during the assault.
The Kurdish troops included the elite Zeravani paramilitary force, which
attacked on three fronts. To avoid roadside bombs, a pesh merga column drove
off the main highway, headed south on a rutted, undulating dirt road, and
it then rumbled west across a dusty field.
Photo
Smoke rose from an area near the Islamic State-controlled village of Badana
Pichwk on Monday. Credit Bryan Denton for The New York Times
There has been considerable speculation about how hard Islamic State
fighters would resist: Would the militants make a final stand in the
villages or pull back to Mosul to fight another day? The sounds of battle
Monday morning indicated there was resistance.
Attack helicopters could be heard overhead at the start of the assault,
followed by the thud of tank rounds as the pesh merga fired on Islamic State
positions across a stretch of the Nineveh Plain. There were bursts of
machine-gun fire. A powerful airstrike sent out shock waves. In the distance
, there was a funnel of black smoke.
Pesh merga officers said they expected to be joined in a couple of days by
Iraqi forces, which would help them secure their gains and, ultimately, push
farther west. But first there were villages to take and secure, and the
goal for the pesh merga on Monday was to take control of more than 45 square
miles.
The battle plans have unfolded in recent weeks against a backdrop of grave
concerns about the civilian population in Mosul, which by some estimates
numbers more than one million. United Nations officials have warned that 200
,000 people could be displaced in just the first few days of an assault on
the city, and humanitarian groups have scrambled to set up emergency camps
for the displaced.
Hoping to avert a mass exodus of civilians, which could place them in the
middle of the crossfire, the Iraqi government, in radio broadcasts into
Mosul and with thousands of leaflets dropped over the city, has urged
civilians to stay in their homes. | w********t
发帖数: 12853 | 2 这个战法实际上就是让库尔德几千人拼 ISIS 几千人，伊拉克军队两万多人在地面帮
助占据打下来的地盘，进行巩固防守，天上当然有美国飞机提供制空，地面还有 ５０
００ 美国特种兵支援。
本人军版老将，还是看着打仗过瘾。
Trump 在第二次辩论中说换了他，他会让美国出动特种兵偷偷打下 Mosul, 而不象奥
巴马政府这样没有打就大张旗鼓地宣布，可见奥巴马政府对 ISIS 的无能。
Trump ＯＫ！ OK ! OKK !
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【在 w********t 的大作中提到】
: Kurdish Troops Advance on ISIS-Held Villages East of Mosul
: By MICHAEL R. GORDON and TIM ARANGOOCT. 17, 2016
: The Fight for Mosul Begins
: Coalition forces led by the Kurdish pesh merga have advanced on the eastern
: side of the Iraqi city at the start of an offensive that aims to wrestle
: control from the Islamic State. By CAMILLA SCHICK on Publish Date October 17
: , 2016. Photo by Bryan Denton for The New York Times. Watch in Times Video &
: #187;
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发帖数: 2467 | 3 看没人理你挺可怜的，只能自顶自己的帖子。要不你发表一下对以下视频的看法？
http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t/USANews/32336107.html
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【在 w********t 的大作中提到】
: Kurdish Troops Advance on ISIS-Held Villages East of Mosul
: By MICHAEL R. GORDON and TIM ARANGOOCT. 17, 2016
: The Fight for Mosul Begins
: Coalition forces led by the Kurdish pesh merga have advanced on the eastern
: side of the Iraqi city at the start of an offensive that aims to wrestle
: control from the Islamic State. By CAMILLA SCHICK on Publish Date October 17
: , 2016. Photo by Bryan Denton for The New York Times. Watch in Times Video &
: #187;
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| w********t
发帖数: 12853 | 4 是挺可怜，这么大的事情正在发生，这里居然没有人关心。
你的视频太长，我实在没有时间全看。你以后最好总结一下推荐一下。
但是我跳着看了，好像是说民主党，希拉里发动安排一些人去做宣传，或者给对手的选
举捣乱，是不是这样 ？
我的评论就是我讨厌这些政治煽动，鼓动，希拉里就是一个为了政治不择手段的人，所
以我不奇怪她背后安排这些东西，我也不会选她。
如果 Trump 阵营能够利用已知的民主党这些竞选运作中违法的做法，用法律攻击希拉
里的团队，我举双手赞成。干得好，也许能让老床咸鱼翻身。
【在 A****y 的大作中提到】
: 看没人理你挺可怜的，只能自顶自己的帖子。要不你发表一下对以下视频的看法？
: http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t/USANews/32336107.html
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| s***5
发帖数: 453 | | b*****e
发帖数: 53215 | 6 萨拉丁就是库尔德人 阿拉伯人有个毛用
【在 s***5 的大作中提到】
: 这一个是要被灭族，一个是自家兄弟
| w********t
发帖数: 12853 | 7 什叶派不一定这么想，他们还是想打 ISIS 的。 只不过伊拉克军队肯定还是那个银
样蜡枪头的德行，如果没有人帮他们冲锋陷阵，他们根本没有战斗力。
【在 s***5 的大作中提到】
: 这一个是要被灭族，一个是自家兄弟
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