The Iraqi government told Mosul residents to stay put. Now they are paying a heavy price

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The Iraqi government told Mosul residents to stay put. Now they are paying a heavy price

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske - Contact Reporter

December 23 2016 / Reporting from Gogjali Iraq

Samar Hussein, 11, was just waking up one morning a few weeks ago when an explosion ripped through her house. Her parents and three other relatives were killed.

She escaped with a broken right leg and wound up at a crowded hospital run by Islamic State, which controlled her neighborhood in east Mosul.

Militants captured the city of 1.2 million in 2014, but since mid-October they have slowly been losing ground to Iraqi forces aided by a U.S.-led coalition.

Before the start of the offensive, the government air-dropped leaflets and broadcast messages on television urging residents to shelter in place, because camps for displaced people were already crowded and leaders feared that Islamic State fighters would turn a mass exodus into a mass slaughter....


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http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-mosul-evacuation-2016-story.html

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1. Republican horror

Reagan and Rumsfeld are 2 of the original neo-cons who created Saddam and later used him as a piñata. Reagan created this disaster.
This tragedy falls squarely on the shoulders of babybush their heir.
Thankfully Obama was able to extract us militarily from the quagmire but these iraqis, their children suffer till this day because of these neocon assholes.
All the more reason to make sure, by whatever means necessary, that we never lose another presidential election.