“Even though Iraqi forces have managed to drive ISIS jihadists out of the center of Ramadi, local tribal leaders said this week that ISIS still controls as much as 25% of the city, and significant pockets of ISIS resistance remain.” Control of Ramadi is key to control of Iraq. The outcome is not yet clear, despite the Iraqi army’s claim that the city is liberated.
“ISIS suicide bombers attack Iraqi forces at base near Ramadi,” by Pat St.Claire, CNN, January 2, 2016:
(CNN)Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and 17 wounded Friday when ISIS militants, driving 10 vehicles packed with explosives, attacked an Iraqi army base near Ramadi.
The head of the Anbar Provincial Council, Sabah Al-Karhut, told CNN the attacks happened in quick succession. He said the 10 vehicles targeted the Iraqi army’s 10th Division base northeast of Ramadi.
Even though Iraqi forces have managed to drive ISIS jihadists out of the center of Ramadi, local tribal leaders said this week that ISIS still controls as much as 25% of the city, and significant pockets of ISIS resistance remain.
Still, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi visited the bombed-out city this week, raising the Iraqi flag and declaring that 2016 “will be the year we drive ISIS out of Iraq.”…
Well, al-Abadi, I hope you pull it off. But it seems more likely that this prediction will go the way of the Nigerian military’s prediction that it would destroy Boko Haram by December 2015.

Matthieu Baudin says
“…Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi visited the bombed-out city this week, raising the Iraqi flag and declaring that 2016 “will be the year we drive ISIS out of Iraq…”
Any gain is welcome news and the Iraqi army will become battle hardened along the way.
Saleem Smith says
Jihad for the sake of Allah !!! is the last thing the Islamic State Mohammedans scream before they kill for Islam. It is said that they orgasm a 1000 times and poop their pants as they die.
There are no virgins waiting for dead jihadis in Islamic heaven (Jannah). And the Sharia Law created on earth by jihadis (and other assorted Mohammedans) following the writings found within “the perfect Quran and Muhammad’s Sunnah” will inevitably become a living hell.
We ex-Muslims living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy know that Mohammedanism is a heinous fraud that permits the evils of sex slavery, wife beating, pedophilia, etc.
Sahih Bukhari, Vol. 7, Book 62, No. 88:
Narrated Ursa: The prophet wrote the [marriage contract] with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e.’ til his death).
Here is a recent statement from a group of Bangladeshi apostates living in the UK explaining the reasons why they have abandoned Islam:
“One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives (Qur’an 33:50). He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way…
The statement continues,
Muhammad was a narcissist, like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.”
Davegreybeard says
10 (!) suicide vehicles for 3 KIA?
Seems like ISIS is slipping a bit.
mortimer says
My impression too. They have no one in charge with military wisdom not to do this sort of wild frontal attack. Most of ISIS military commanders are now dead.
ballotcode says
Diminished return.
They’ll just saddle up a couple more “foreign” fighters [they don’t speak arabic].
mortimer says
Jihadists will continue until Western countries begin a massive de-Islamification program similar to de-Nazification.
Jihadists will have to rounded up and shown the most graphic scenes of carnage and crimes against humanity until they are deprogrammed right out of Islam. Muslims need to see how preposterously absurd Islam is. A group of former mullahs should be created to help the effort of de-programming Muslims en masse.
mortimer says
My prediction following the Saudi executions is that this war will ramp up. Both Shi’ites and Sunnite Muslims will feel enraged and THREATENED. They will attack one another almost everywhere throughout the world and the world will see further examples of jihad doctrine in action. Gradually, through observation, Western people will begin to look for answers by actually reading the Islamic source texts.
The West is still horribly gullible and naïve. Most Westerners are unaware of the TAQIYYA doctrine. Shi’ites all have post-grad degrees in TAQIYYA!
Westman says
You have an interesting expectation, Mortimer. The West would be powerless to stop proxy battles carried out in its own countries.
Should an owner of a taxi fleet in New York or Los Angeles be worried?
PrayerWarrior says
And while the pimple has supposedly been popped in Ramadi, the one is Libya is now coming to a head.
http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/libya/articles/20160102.aspx
[quote] January 2, 2016: Despite the growing prospect of massive starvation and total economic collapse, many (apparently most) of the factions in the Tripoli and Tobruk governments refuse to approve the December 17 peace deal. This self-destructive sense of entitlement and resistance to compromise is common throughout the region but Libya is an extreme case. Unless this factionalism and corruption is overcome there is no possibility of avoiding a catastrophe. At the moment the only ones benefitting from this are criminals (especially smugglers, of people and goods) and really extreme religious fanatics like ISIL (al Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant). And even ISIL is succeeding mainly because they have cash and no scruples and that appeals to enough local thugs to make recruiting possible. In Libya ISIL attracts the more fanatic men from other militias and has concentrated this evil in a few places (Sirte, Derna, Ajdabiya and Benghazi) and everywhere ISIL is under attack by local militias. ISIL is believed to have more than 4,000 armed men in Libya. While there are far more (over 100,000) armed men in other groups who oppose ISIL nearly all these other gunmen are only concerned with defending the area they live in. Thus ISIL can concentrate on expanding. [quote/]
(Dr.) Sandy Kramer says
In the Islamic civil war, please bear in mind that there is no “good guy/bad guy” dichotomy. Both Shia and Sunni Muslims are “bad guys”. It’s not zero sum and the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” does not apply. The most rational posture is “a pox on both your houses”, or as the Marines say: “Kill them all and let allah sort them out”.
Baucent says
Have I missed something? I thought I read a week ago that the Iraqi army had liberated Ramadi. Apparently reports of the demise of ISIS in Ramadi was premature.
Angemon says
ISIS is the JV team that keeps on playing.
gravenimage says
This has certainly happened before.
Jay Boo says
Sunni / Shite
Same SH-t by a different name.
Another suicide bomber doing his Islamic “DUTY”
A good Muslim’s loyalty oath must always be reproved lest anyone again suspect Muhammad foul words were not truth.
Still they shovel doo doo dogma against the tide of reality and scoop up piles of MO’s religion from his duty Ponzi scheme.
They make apostasy as a crime but, condone suicide bombers of age nine.
Don’t ask why Muslims. Contort your face then bow a bit lower as if you believe it is all truth. Wash blood stained hands five times a day to hide Islam’s disgrace and your angry god’s true satanic face.
Walter Sieruk says
Those jihadists be they ISIS members or not in their murderous evil of engaging in a jihad suicide/homicide bombing are,no doubt , so irrational and deluded as in far for reality that they think of such murdering jihad violence as something that is “good.” Likewise,the same Islamic individuals would would actually believe that living a peaceful not violent life, as in harming no one is something “bad” or even “evil.” This very warped and dangerous view of things ,as speaking of evil as good and speaking of good as evil, is condemned in the Bible. Which teaches “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil…:” Isaiah 5:20. Furthermore those jihad suicide/homicide Muslim terrorists reflect not only a delusional set of beliefs but also a mindset of evil and madness. As the Bible teaches “Truly the hearts of men are full of evil; madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they join the dead.” Ecclesiastes 9:3. As for a jihadist bomber joining the dead .After he will have a very strong and harsh reality check after death. For instead of finding himself in a paradise he will find himself trapped and suffering in the fires of an awful place that the Bible call hell. After Muslim/ jihadist dies in such a bombing attack he will then find out hard way that the Koran contains many false doctrine in it. Then after it’s too late to do anything about it . I don’t enjoy keyboarding this ,nevertheless its the Bible’s Truth. After all, the Bible teaches that a murder “will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21. As for the many false doctrines from the Koran, one of them is that of story of a sexual paradise with many virgins in it for the Muslim male who dies fighting for the cause of Islam as a “martyr.” As for believing in religious stories .No mater how enticing they may be, the Bible does warn against giving “heed to fables…” First Timothy 1:4. To be even more specific The Muslim clerics who indoctrinate the story of a flesh based lustful /lust-filled paradise into the thoughts and belief of other, Such false teachers are warned about in the Bible. Which in Second Peter 2:18, reads “They speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lust of the flesh…” Christians have something that is far better then a story/doctrine of a lust-filled and flesh-filled place with virgins. Christian have the reality of Second Peter 1:16. Which reads “For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ…” [N.K.J.v.]
Walter Sieruk says
As for heinous and terrible actions of jihad suicide/ homicide bombing attacks two things should be stated. First and foremost, that many a times a jihad -minded Muslim in his death recording talks about “the wedding withe virgins” that he will have after he becomes a “martyr.” Such a belief Jesus would denounce as being based on false doctrine. For as it is written in the Bible ” Jesus answered and said to them, ‘You are mistaken,not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry not are given in marriage, but are like the angles of God in heaven’.” Matthew 22:29,30. [N.K.J.V.]Second, those Muslim clerics ,such as the imams and mullahs, who brainwash and mind condition other people into actually wanting to become human bombs. If those Muslim clerics who mind program other people into being human bombs actually believe that engaging in such deadly actions is such a grand and wonderful thing to do, then some same Muslim clerics should then strap bomb vests on themselves and then go out and blow themselves up. That they never ,ever, do only exposes what insincere cowards and manipulative villains that really are.