Greetings Readers,
I have tried Yahoo, AOL, and Asian connections to acquire the latest status on the Mosul Offensive. Feed-back information and updates are old and stale from October through November. It appears the news is censored. Iraq nor the Pentagon are releasing bulletins. I have wondered if Iraq’s second largest city had fallen? Finally through another search engine I received a statement dated 6 December by Defense Secretary Ash Carter, ‘Mosul can be taken before Trump takes office.’ And ‘in the face of considerable ISIS counter attacks.’
Recall there were supposedly only six thousand dedicated ISIS in the entire Mosul area surrounded by near 100,000 coalition and Iraqi forces. A Pentagon release last week stated during the past two years 50,000 ISIS type fighters have been killed as well as many of their top leaders.
The offensive has been ongoing for more than eight weeks. In October the…
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