Mosul readies for Islamist Muslim battle

Residents of Mosul ready for Islamist Muslim battle as local sources confirm a major assault against al-Qaeda nears

Agence France Press reported Monday, Feb. 04, on Mosul, Iraq, preparing to be a battle zone amidst confirmed reports of imminent attack targeting al-Qaeda.

Residents are stocking up on supplies to get ahead of the anticipated hardships. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said the assault aims to be a decisive blow against insurgents.

Nineveh governor Duraid Kashmoula told reporters in the provincial capital of Mosul on Saturday that the assault would start "in a few days."

The warnings come after blasts and attacks in Mosul which have killed dozens of people, including a police chief, and bombings of Baghdad markets on Friday by two mentally impaired women which killed almost 100 people.

"It is time to launch a decisive battle against terrorism," Maliki said after Saturday's meeting attended by US commander in Iraq General David Petraeus and Iraq's national security adviser Muwaffaq al-Rubaie.

"The battle that our armed forces will launch will destroy terrorism and the criminal gangs and outlaws in Nineveh," the prime minister said.

On January 25, Maliki promised a "decisive battle" against Al-Qaeda after dozens of people including a police chief were killed in bomb attacks in Mosul…

US reinforcements and Iraqi military personnel have deployed to the surrounding region, according to military reports.

"I sold in one week what I usually sell in a month," said grocer Abu Karim, 49. "The rush is continuing." …

On January 23, a cache of munitions stored by insurgents blew up in a building in west Mosul's Zanjili suburb, killing up to 60 people according to the Iraqi Red Crescent.

A suicide bomber killed provincial police chief Brigadier General Salah al-Juburi and two other officers the next day when they went to inspect the carnage.

The US military has said that Mosul is one of its intended targets in "Operation Phantom Phoenix," a major countrywide assault on Al-Qaeda launched on January 8.

"Coalition forces recognize the strategic importance of Mosul to al-Qaeda in Iraq and our operations will continue in the area," said Commander Scott Rye, a US military spokesman.

The coalition forces continue to take it to the enemy, because they can…because they are there – thanks to U.S. soldiers there, defending us – saving our [posterior], like it or not…Hoaaah?

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