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Was reading that 300 ISIS held Ramadi vs 10,000 Iraqis.
"After seven months of intense and constant fighting, all that remains in the newly 'liberated' city of Ramadi is rubble strewn streets, decimated buildings (right) and burned out vehicles (bottom left). It took 10,000 Iraqi troops, backed by US-led airstrikes, six days to wrestle the city from just 300 fanatics.
They corned the extremists in a single government complex but the shooting stopped at 8am this morning, said an Iraqi Brigadier General, who added they were either killed or had escaped. For the first time since May, Iraqi troops (top left) were able to walk and drive through town without the threat of an ISIS sniper or rocket launcher hanging over them. A senior Iraqi official hailed it as a 'great victory' and said it should be used as a launchpad to also retake the Nineveh governate.
The northern governate is home to the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, from where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was filmed making a rare public statement last year.
10,000 against 300 and it took seven months? WTF?