What do folks think is the right amount of praise for me to award Star Eater here, considering I don't want him to forever abandon 'Boudicca's Britain'?![]()
291 Iraqis killed, and 8200 IS fighters. That's still very good ratio considerig IS was using human shields, purging civilians, and making gas attacks inside the city. Either they count most of the dead civilians as IS casualties or learned how to separate one from another. Or they just killed eight thousand people and when inquired they said: "these dead? they were all from ISIL. In any event this number seems very low.
Mosul would not be declared secure until July 20th, by which time significant developments had occurred throughout Iraq and Syria. There was some reason to be optimistic; the sheer brutality of the Islamic State meant that the overwhelming majority of civilians welcomed the Western troops with open arms. The great irony was that this time, unlike when it was promised in 2003, some really were waving American flags. A hatred of the group had been ingrained to the point where no-one in Mosul was ready to defend them. It was not the end of the war, but it was certainly the deadliest battle Iraq would see during the Third Gulf War; 477 Americans were killed, along with 291 Iraqis, 108 Peshmerga, 92 British, 64 French, and 11 Australians. In return, an estimated 8,200 Islamic State fighters were killed. It was a victory, but a painful one.
And what in the seven hells is Peshmerga?
I don't want him to forever abandon 'Boudicca's Britain'?![]()
And what in the seven hells is Peshmerga?
I'll come back to this once my uni exams are finished on the 26th. It's nice to see this hideous updated layout makes it hard to even read my writing any more
well, other than it is structurally unsound.Mosul Dam has already been captured by the Iraqi state. So as of the present it is safe.