Battle for Mosul

[Ryoki]

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Sobering watch.

[PhoeniX]

Looks pretty good, will watch later - cheers

[PhoeniX]

Interesting stuff. Must be pretty hard to be there as journalist without a gun to protect yourself and relying on others. Pretty sure ISIS wouldn't think twice about taking out a reporter/aid worker.

[scared?]

Lol ISIS is propaganda... It's Sunni vs Shia... Grow up...

[Ryoki]

More of the same but in article format: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/ ... stroy-isis

[Ryoki]

This is an incredibly bitter fight, probably the most vicious urban combat the world has seen in decades. These guys are not being supported and resupplied like they should be - especially those poor SWAT fuckers apparently.

[AndyW]

You cannot down anything if youre windows look like creamed with vaseline!

[losCHUNK]

My uncle used to do shit similiar to that, the way he described it anyway (dossing in safe houses / riding in convoys), he would escort high value cargo. He done 2 tours, 6 months a piece and lost his best mate of 20+ years to an iED, he has dash cam footage of it somewhere, its fucking brutal. He came back completely fucked up, thinking he could speak to ghosts n shit, Dereck Acorah style. Thought his dead mates dog was his mates incarnation. Freaked a lot of people out, lost his wife. Big shame cos he is a cracking geezer, done loads for me, hes doing a lot better now. Always seemed the kinda guy that wouldnt lose his marrbles too.

[AndyW]

Obama used to drop Bombs at tons, but those were "good" bombs, right?
Lets see if Trump will get a mass-murder too... Like the "Nobel-Price-Obama" bomber!
Media in Gemany is just about trolling&joking Trump, acting like left facists!
Never trust ANY politifaggs, theyre just out fo´yo´money!

[Transient]

The grenade-dropping drone is fucked up.

[Captain]

Interesting stuff. Must be pretty hard to be there as journalist without a gun to protect yourself and relying on others. Pretty sure ISIS wouldn't think twice about taking out a reporter/aid worker.

lol, Blackwater/Academi and Mossad are far greater threats to honest journalists than ISIS could ever be.

[Whiskey 7]

My uncle used to do shit similiar to that, the way he described it anyway (dossing in safe houses / riding in convoys), he would escort high value cargo. He done 2 tours, 6 months a piece and lost his best mate of 20+ years to an iED, he has dash cam footage of it somewhere, its fucking brutal. He came back completely fucked up, thinking he could speak to ghosts n shit, Dereck Acorah style. Thought his dead mates dog was his mates incarnation. Freaked a lot of people out, lost his wife. Big shame cos he is a cracking geezer, done loads for me, hes doing a lot better now. Always seemed the kinda guy that wouldnt lose his marrbles too.

That's sad losCHUNK. Made me think of my uncle Terry long passed.

[SoM]

The grenade-dropping drone is fucked up.

it's a new version from the barrel dropping

[feedback]

Interesting stuff. Must be pretty hard to be there as journalist without a gun to protect yourself and relying on others. Pretty sure ISIS wouldn't think twice about taking out a reporter/aid worker.

lol, Blackwater/Academi and Mossad are far greater threats to honest journalists than ISIS could ever be.

lol

[Eraser]

Completely horrific. I find it unfathomable how people can do something like this to each other.
Why don't those civilians get the fuck out of there though?

[Ryoki]

Aye it's fascinating, reminds me of what i've read about Stalingrad.

Neither side appear to allow civilians to get out; IS because they'd lose a decisive edge in battle, the security forces because of distrust (mainly, it seems) and the immense problems several hundred thousand internally displaced persons would create.

[Whiskey 7]

I finally viewed so thanks for the topic Ryoki and as you said, a sobering watch.

[seremtan]

pretty brutal, and no easy answers

let's also just take a moment to remind ourselves that this ugly shitfest is a result of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and before that the carving up of the ME by colonial powers in such a way as to practically guarantee future conflict

[seremtan]

apropos of something

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