More than 40,000 civilians killed in Mosul

[paperino]

More than 40,000 civilians were killed in the devastating battle to retake Mosul from Isis, according to intelligence reports revealed exclusively to The Independent – a death toll far higher than previous estimates.

Residents of the besieged city were killed by Iraqi ground forces attempting to force out militants, as well as by air strikes and Isis fighters, according to Kurdish intelligence services.

Hoshyar Zebari, until recently a senior minister in Baghdad, told The Independent that many bodies “are still buried under the rubble”. “The level of human suffering is immense,” he said.

“Kurdish intelligence believes that over 40,000 civilians have been killed as a result of massive firepower used against them, especially by the federal police, air strikes and Isis itself,” Mr Zebari added.

Mr Zebari, a native of Mosul and top Kurdish official who has served as the Iraqi finance minister and prior to that foreign minister, emphasised in an exclusive interview that the unrelenting artillery bombardment by units of the Iraqi federal police, in practice a heavily armed military unit, had caused immense destruction and loss of life in west Mosul.

The figure given by Mr Zebari for the number of civilians killed in the nine-month siege is far higher than those previously reported, but the intelligence service of the Kurdistan Regional Government has a reputation for being extremely accurate and well-informed.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 48781.html

[gegiroor]

حَسْبُنَا اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ

[PanSomaliNationalist]

Goatfuckers next :goaway:

[paperino]

حَسْبُنَا اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ

[gegiroor]

[gegiroor]

In the aftermath of Mosul, the Counter-Terrorism Service is exhausted. Being the best has taken its toll: The U.S. government assesses that the Counter-Terrorism Service suffered “forty percent battle losses” in Mosul.

https://warontherocks.com/2017/07/the-b ... militancy/


The 40% casualty rate is a conservative rate. Other estimates are far higher. This casualty rate was made on the ICTS only. The casualty rate for Iraqi Federal Police, the PMU/Hashd Al-Sha'bi, and Iraqi Army in Mosul are not given.


The Rafida security forces backed by over 70 nations were crippled in Mosul, and that explains the unprecedented genocide against the Sunni civilian population in Mosul.

[Basra-]

Well it is the effects of war casualty. Stop whinning

[paperino]

https://warontherocks.com/2017/07/the-b ... militancy/


The 40% casualty rate is a conservative rate. Other estimates are far higher. This casualty rate was made on the ICTS only. The casualty rate for Iraqi Federal Police, the PMU/Hashd Al-Sha'bi, and Iraqi Army in Mosul are not given.


The Rafida security forces backed by over 70 nations were crippled in Mosul, and that explains the unprecedented genocide against the Sunni civilian population in Mosul.

This genocide is gonna haunt them and backfire big time.

Well it is the effects of war casualty. Stop whinning

Your beloved country is responsible for this. How do you plead?

[original dervish]

Notice how the article doesn't mention who was responsible for the airstrikes.

[Basra-]

Notice how the article doesn't mention who was responsible for the airstrikes.

Let me guess, u want to "inform" us it was the West strikes?

[paperino]

US SOCOM Chief Claims 60,000 to 70,000 ISIS Fighters Killed so Far
Posted on July 25, 2017

Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum over the weekend, SOCOM chief Gen. Raymond Thomas claimed that the US had, since 2014, killed an estimated 60,000 to 70,000 ISIS fighters. This was similar to previous claims about death tolls.

Gen. Thomas said the toll was necessary to resolve questions about whether the US needs to be more aggressive in the war, saying the huge number of people killed shows they are “being pretty darn prolific” with the operation.

It’s worth noting, however, that these very rough estimates reflect both the huge number of people the US has already killed in the war, and the huge number of ISIS fighters that have been recruited since that war began.

The US never estimated ISIS having anywhere near 70,000 fighters. The biggest estimates were in the 20,000 to 30,000 range, at the peak, and despite huge numbers slain, the estimate of what remains never really goes down in any serious way.

That’s a big problem for the US war strategy, as it’s mostly boiled down to just killing everyone they can and bragging about how prolific the body-count is. So long as the group can keep recruiting new people to fight, however, which ISIS clearly can, the killings are to little effect.
http://news.antiwar.com/2017/07/25/us-s ... ed-so-far/

[gegiroor]

Old City in Mosul was nuked. After it was nuked, an order was given to the sectarian Iraqi army and militia to kill every survivor. Truth will come out.

[gegiroor]

[paperino]

Old City in Mosul was nuked. After it was nuked, an order was given to the sectarian Iraqi army and militia to kill every survivor. Truth will come out.

I read interviews of sectarian soldiers who said they were ordered to kill anything moving, even children & women.