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I find it highly unlikely that the majority of citizens in any city be it in Iraq, Syria let alone the world that are/were to be controlled by Daesh would support them.
In Mosul invaluable ancient Arab/Semitic heritage has been destroyed and I blame the locals for just looking on doing little. I mean Mosul has been a bigger hotbed for Daesh/AQI than even Fallujah since 2003 and the Western outskirts of Baghdad so it really amuses me that the locals did not know what they were getting into. Especially as large parts of Al-Anbar, Diyala, Salah ad-Din and Babil province already tried living under AQI during the civil war back in 2006 and 2007 although it was briefly.
Maslawis being relatively well off is nothing strange considering their reputation for being cheap, lol.
Regarding Anbar then as I wrote then the majority of the tribes and clans there are loyal to the state. Still a significant portion are not.
Well, of course I am not saying that a young family in Adhamiya for instance with 1 Ak-47 can stand a chance against Daesh members breaking into their house looking to earn some money by doing extortion etc. Having weapons at home gives a sense of security for most. That's the same case in other Arab countries. People love their weapons.
They might have a point here. After all the government is still using those fake detectors for God's know what reason. I saw videos of ordinary people getting all the way into the Green Zone with light weapons in their cars (they did this to proof a point despite the risks of getting caught) just to demonstrate that those "bomb detectors" are good for nothing.
Anyway not sure where else to ask you but what is your opinion about Basra wanting to become a federal state and other regions possibly looking for the same thing? Would you support a Shia Arab South if Iraq really broke up into 3 states?
Don't forget, up until the Maliki was replaced this entire storm was seen as a "revolution". The media has for years been supporting these groups and making the public assume that they were right until things got real.
But again corruption was another major reason, Maliki left the everything unchecked and was major cause of the collapse. Everyone is responsible for this mess. Maliki for ignoring and ALLOWING corruption, sunni and Kurdish politicians for actively supporting IS and calling them revolutionaries.. It's a long story which I mentioned multiple times so I won't go into details.
As for a southern shia Iraqi state. It's not happening. The social fabric between the areas is too mixed for any seperation.
The only way for for a new iraqi map which would include the "shia" state from southern Tikrit, Diyala, Baghdad belt and the entire south.
But again that won't stop the battles, it's just going to create a never ending war between two states.
As for the federal regions, Iraq has been for far two long depended on the central government. People in southern Iraq are getting fed up because of corruption and lack of development.
The southerners want to go one with development and construction and not have go stall each time there's problems in Baghdad or the north. The current conflict has stalled many laws and investments in the south which is unjustified.
A less centric government would allow the southern provinces without having to wait for Baghdads approval.
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Feb. 3rd, 2015 - The heaviest air strike on Mosul
About 8:30 PM local time, on Feb. 3rd, 2015, Coalition aircrafts flew over the City of Mosul. Within moments, bombs scattered throughout the city, and it was the heaviest air strikes ever conducted since the beginning of the military operations against ISIL.
What was targeted during this air strike and what was ISIL’s loss?
Mosul - 9 missiles - Western Bank of Mosul
Locations:
1- Mechanical workshop belongs Badoosh’s cement factory at Wadi Eqab. ISIl uses this facility, which extends on a wide area at the Industrial district, to manufacture explosive devices and car bombs. Also, ISIL uses the facility as a training camp and permanent residence for the Asian ISIL agents, where their numbers have increased drastically in the past few days at the district, which then later become clear that this workshop was their main camp. the aircrafts bombed the location with three missiles sequentially and left ISIL with severe losses in cars and equipment and great number of casualties. Officials say that over 40 agents were killed and an active explosive devices factory was fully destroyed during this strike.
2- Bawabat Alsham - the road towards Badoosh: the aircrafts struk 3 cars belong to ISIL with two missiles and destroyed them all. more than 12 agents were killed during this drop.
3- Al Hermat Althaniya - a complex that ISIL is using as a camp as well as workshop for producing explosive devices. Prior information has indicated that this workshop produces at least 300 device per day. the site was bombed with two missiles.
4- Musherifa - Among the sites targeted during this air strike was another explosives factory at musherifa. the residents of the area mentioned that foreign ISIL insurgents were in the location before the bombing started, and no one left afterwards. Ambulances fetched about 8 bodies from this location. the place was struck with two missiles. the place continued to explode as the explosives were bursting as result of bombarding the place.
Reactions about this air strike:
Many people have suggested that those bombings coincided with brutal execution of the Jordanian pilot Moaz Al Kasasbeh and many of them felt a great deal of relief for conducting such bombings. Moreover to mention, the residents described the bombings “were very accurate and the civilians are so confident that the coalition will not bomb civilians by mistake as they are sure of the high accuracy of the coalition’s air crafts”.
As for ISIL (A.K.A Daaish), it had lost plenty of its equipment and insurgents, and lost the lodest of its explosives workshops at Musherifa and Wadi Eqab Industrial district, forcing ISIL insurgents to use hiding tactics the next day in fear of being bombed again. But the coalition struck them again in the next day and bombed their locations at the outskirts of Alarabi neighborhood and Alrashidiya and killed at least 25 and injured about 40 more ISIL insurgents.
