ICC Note:

As the battle for Mosul, Iraq continues, ISIS seems to be taking drastic action in order to secure their dominance over the area. Iraqi forces have been pushing the militants back for the last couple months and ISIS is reported to now be retaliating with an armor-plated explosive industrial bulldozer. While the removal of this terrorist group would prove beneficial for this abused country, the ruin and destruction may leave displaced Christians with nothing to return home to.

3/23/2017 Iraq (Middle East Eye) – Radios crackle, alerting the Iraqi forces advancing through the first of Mosul’s labyrinthine souks that drones circulating overhead have spotted an Islamic State car bomb moving towards the frontline.

The incoming vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) is of terrifying proportions: an armour-plated industrial bulldozer on tracks. Its shovel is fixed low to push through Iraqi army frontline defences of high sand berms and armoured vehicles.

Reinforcement soldiers, who have been resting in abandoned shops, their shutters torn open by fighting, leap to their feet, wrapping lengths of machine-gun ammunition around their shoulders and loading rocket-propelled-grenade (RPG) launchers.

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