Iraq Situation Report: February 23 - 29, 2016

The New York Times First Draft Gives Great Information about this Day by Day!

I wonder how the Sunnis feel about ISIS now. Some Sunni militias are fighting ISIS. The kidnapping, raping, torturing, killing, and hostage taking by the Sunni's have taken its toll on Sunni and Shia populations. I have no doubt the Shia militias want to destroy ISIS.

SPC Jenna Bisenius It's interesting we're not seeing more information about the threat of the Mosul Dam failing. Western media is not hitting on this at all even though warnings are being issued to Americans in the area about it. It's also interesting that they have not largely publicized that ISIL executed their financial minister this week. My guess is this is the result of their financial locations being targeted eliminating much of the foreign currency they had on hand. I wonder what happened to the gold and other precious metals they looted from the banks and citizens of Iraq. I suspect much of it was removed from Iraq and into private holding of ISIL leadership. Luckily Iraqi forces in both Baghdad and Abu Ghraib were able to repulse the insurgents. A major concern is ISIL's aim at removing all moderate muslims from the area.