Iraq’s Mosul residents forced to strip at gunpoint to check for explosives
Desperate civilian is made to strip by an Iraqi soldier to prove he is not a terrorist suicide bomber.
Thousands fleeing ISIS in Mosul, northern Iraq – many carrying children and screaming for mercy as Special Forces troops advance.
Iraqi military who have lost hundreds of comrades to suicide bombers, order the adults to strip to show they aren’t bearing explosives.
Terrified flee as these were the heartbreaking and humiliating scenes over the weekend as the troops smashed their way into ISIS’s last remaining Iraqi stronghold.
According to the official figures released by Iraqi military yesterday show 210,000 people have fled the fighting between US-backed Iraqi forces and ISIS militants since the start of the offensive in October – 40,000 in the past week.
Yesterday, the Iraqi troops launched a new attack on the ISIS-held old-city Centre. Their advance had been held up over previous days due to bad weather.
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is nowhere to be seen. Military sources have told the Mirror they suspect the cowardly warlord is now holed up again in ISIS’s stronghold of Raqqa, in Syria.
Britain’s SAS and the US Delta Force are trying to pinpoint the Iraqi-born mastermind’s bolt hole so they can kill him. Spy drones fitted with powerful cameras are flying over Raqqa searching for any sign of al-Baghdadi, who is believed to be cowering underground.
Communications “chatter” is caught by US and UK teams in spy planes using a voice recognition computer to “cleanse” the data and identify speakers.
Press journalist for HRO media – Khizer Hayat reports.
Category: Arab uprising
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