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Voiceover by Harold Hoover
Since the start of the operation in western Mosul on February 19, the Iraqi Army and the Federal Police have retaken a number of areas from ISIS terrorists, including the Mosul Airport, the Ghazlani military camp, the districts of Jawsaq and al-Tayaran and further advanced inside the city.
According to reports from the ground, US Special Forces are actively participating in the operation. They play role of forward air controllers and at least sometimes offensive units. For example, US troops were directly engaged in clashes against ISIS in al-Tayaran. At the same time, available photos show that ISIS had made an antitank ditch between the Mosul Airport and the southwestern neighborhood of Mosul. This means that ISIS units had withdrawn from the airport almost without fighting in order to avoid casualties from artillery and air strikes. This also allowed the terrorist group to increase defenses in the urbanized areas.
Meanwhile, Iraqi government forces and its allies were still not able to set a pontoon ferry and to cut across the Tigris from eastern Mosul. The attempt was made at the Fourth Bridge but the Iraqi troops deployed at the western bank were attacked by ISIS terrorists and pushed to retreat. At the same time, Iraqi government forces entrenched at the eastern bank of the Tigris, preparing for possible diversions and raids by the terrorist group’s members.
US sources now estimate the number of ISIS fighters inside the city is about 2,000 fighters. This pushes ISIS to retreat further inside western Mosul in order to shorten the frontline. Just a month ago, US sources reported about 10,000-15,000 ISIS militants in western Mosul. Thus, a major part of the terrorist likely withdrew from the city or the initial reports were very wrong. Most likely ISIS just preferred a guerrilla warfare to the direct confrontation against the superior enemy.
These facts explain the rapid advances of the anti-ISIS forces and indicate that even if western Mosul is liberated the war will be far from its over.
I can’t even view the video – I guess South Front is doing a good job. How will this end.
I had what seemed to be a personal response from Wikipedia – here it is below
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28/02/2017 20:44 – Ann Watson wrote:
> Wikipedia – you should be ashamed…partisan encyclopedia ? What
> nonsense…as if information should be partisan – Information is
> universal..so should Wikipedia be.
>
> I’m disgusted.
>
> Ann Watson
>
The article states that US troops are directly engaged in clashes against ISIS. In other words, US troops are directly engaged against mercenaries that it pays for and controls. That is total bullshit. For some reason Southfront (and Russia) thinks it is beneficial to maintain the fiction that ISIS is somehow independent of USA . They are not independent. They have not gone rogue. My sense is that the Iraqi army and the US are fighting an actual homegrown opposition.
Google is not letting me on the southfront page, it is saying it is unsecure, this is from google and internet explorer!!
Yes I tried it to. And it looks like there is an attack on SouthFront. It must have been hurting the Empire too much. They need to do what Saker has done and get their site out of the US’s grasp.
Apparently Google had a major “outage” Feb 28 in their key servers on the US east Coast that affected redirects from a large number of “popular” sites… maybe they had to shut down to ensure the installation of system-wide blocking/choking access to sites like Southfront?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-28/amazon-cloud-reporting-increased-error-rates-secgov-possibly-impacted
My internet here in Ontario Canada is suddenly faster than it has been for about a week. Makes ya go HHHMMMM…
The whole google-outage thing is odd, given the internet architecture is supposed to be node-fail resistant, and one would think an outfit as big as CIA/Google would be at least double-redundant. Probably a symptom of all internet/phone traffic being routed through a few geographically separated key points to simplify NSA/Five Eyes data stealing.
Conveniently just before Trumpy shoots his mouth off before Congress and while Wikipedia is crapping on Southfront. Coincidence is not correlation or causation, but the timing sure is suspect.
A first-line fix is to delete any cookies related to the site you’re having problems with, including Google. That is often where the data to force browser-redirect-hijacks are stored. You may lose some auto-logins and other viewing preferences, but it is a common/simple way to block access to specific sites without installing a virus/trojan.
I regularly use crapcleaner from https://www.piriform.com/
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download
They produce
CCleaner
Defraggler
Recuva
Speccy
— in fact several times a day because my ancient, cheap, E-machine with only a GB ram keeps crashing and I have reboot and clean the cache, cookies, etc.
Those zionazis move fast and as a monolithic block, don’t they.
southfront.org is not accessible due to a so-called certificate error on their part. Hope this helps.
Here what I get on a modern Firefox on Linux:
Your connection is not secure
The owner of southfront.org has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website.
This site uses HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) to specify that Firefox only connect to it securely. As a result, it is not possible to add an exception for this certificate.
Learn more…
southfront.org uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate expired on 02/28/17 11:59 PM. The current time is 03/ 1/17 05:39 AM. Error code: SEC_ERROR_EXPIRED_CERTIFICATE
It expired on 28th — but firefox won’t let me create an exception so I can see it anyway (the ‘encryption’ button talked about doesn’t exist on my menus). Yandex will, but the video download won’t work — just get zero bytes — and there are so many interruptions I can’t hear it on line. Explorer doesn’t display the page right so I can read it, and the video player doesn’t load.
I spent over 2 hours trying to find information on how to get by this and can’t do it.
Video works fine on Firefox here (Windows 10).
Have you tried to load the video via Southfronts You Tube page?
Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaV101EM1QayFkP0E7zwXCg
Take Care
Kent
Southfronts site works on all browsers here (Norway, Windows 10).
Might be a “location” issue then, or simply an OS problem.
Take Care
Kent
It became accessible late last night — I’m thinking the security certificate got updated.
It’s annoying, and somewhat alarming, that firefox would not let me bypass their warning and go to the site — that means that any site can be blocked for those using firefox by doing something to make the certificate ‘invalid’. That’s a lot of power for the people in control of certificates: they could effectively shut down the entire net for many people that way. Control the browsers and you can control the world — all in the name of ‘protecting users’. Sounds a lot like what the US government is doing.
What we need from Russia is high quality, stable, secure, user friendly and user controllable:
operating system ;
browser ;
video and file sharing site which is not censored ;
basic application programs.
And, ideally, computer hardware that does not have embedded spying software and vulnerabilities — as well as alternatives fr the DNS system and other needed internet infrastructure. Russia, as well as China, India, and perhaps other nations could do this, if they all reject censorship and control of (ordinary, non-classified) information by the governments or private businesses — which is a lousy idea anyway.
In other words, Russia needs to break the increasing control of the information world by the fascist, imperialist West. This is not only a political, productive, economic, and military imperative, but would be extremely profitable.
Southfront site works OK on my Mac using either Safari or Firefox browsers. Maybe it’s a MS/PC issue?
South front no longer blocked from where I am.
Syrian Government Forces Capture Palmyra Citadel From Daesh – Reports
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703011051161257-syrian-government-forces-palmyra-citadel/
Sounds like a major breakthrough for the Syrians.
Is a direct fight between turk and pindo militaries imminent?
US Sets Up Military Base in Syrian Manbij to ‘Defend It From Turkish Attack’
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703011051156732-us-syria-manbij-base/
“The US is “taking all necessary measures” to defend the Syrian city of Manbij in the Aleppo Governorate, 30 kilometers west of the Euphrates, which is currently under control of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), from an attack by the Turkish Armed Forces and fighters from the Free Syrian Army (FSA), the SDF representative told Sputnik Turkiye.
In particular, he said, US servicemen have set up a military base in the city and are sending an additional contingent there. They are also deploying heavy weaponry and armored vehicles to the area.”
Sounds like the zionazi tuppence regime has begun to act on plans to expand america’s involvement directly in the zionazi plan of regime changing Syria and carving the country up for israeli consumption.
The turks have stated that they plan to withdraw from Syrian territory once daesh is defeated. The americans have made no such statements of withdrawal, in fact, all their statements say they plan to increase american presence in the Mideast and form a nato like monster their under israeloamerican control.
Turkey to Kick US Out of Incirlik Airbase if Washington Teams Up With Kurds
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703011051152582-turkey-us-incirlik-kurds/
“The Yeni Safak newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing own sources, that Ankara could end the permission in case of the cooperation between Washington and the Kurds during operations against the Daesh terrorist group in the area of Raqqa.
The newspaper added that Ankara was also considering the possibility to close the country’s airspace for US aircraft.
The United States, along with several other countries, uses the Incirlik base for aircraft involved in the anti-Daesh campaign in Syria.”
The turks should do this immediately as the zionazi tuppence regime looks more like the bush jr. regime every day and are clearly following a variation of the israeli strategy using a phony “fight against daesh” as a cover for the same greater israel interests the bush jr. regime was tasked with.
The tuppence regime continuing right along with the israeli regime change aggression against Syria. Their latest vote in the unsc makes it clear that trump’s pledges about halting the regime change war crimes against Syria was nothing but election bs. These zionazis are just as duplitious as the previous israeli quisling regime was.
Surprise Surprise: MSM Ignores What UN Report on Syrian Gas Attack Actually Said
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201703011051172718-syria-un-veto-expert-analysis/
“Trump, the commentator said, “is still surrounded by advisors, surrounded even by his cabinet ministers, many of whom are anti-Russian, and whom remain very much wedded to the interests of Israel and countries such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which have such financial power in the United States, the UK and elsewhere. They of course have their own agenda in backing Syria’s rebels, and still seeking to have Assad toppled or removed from the equation of any future Syria.”
Another zionazi provocation from the tuppence regime.
Russian Military Denies Airstrikes on Areas in Syria Designated by US Command
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703011051175384-russia-denies-airstrikes/
“The Russian Defense Ministry denied allegations by the US-led coalition that Russian jets had carried out airstrikes in Syria against the positions of loyal opposition groups.”
The oscar for the white helmet propaganda film, the bogus chem weapon resolution against Syria in the unsc, now false claims their sweet peas are being attacked by Russians. It’s the same daily provocations we saw with the obama quislings. The tuppence quislings are no different.