This Is How Ground Troops In Mosul Are Calling US Airstrikes On ISIS
“We’re dropping bombs on their heads from the sky, and they’re driving bombs at us.”
posted on Nov. 19, 2016, at 4:06 a.m.
Mike Giglio
Col. Arkan communicates with coalition forces to coordinate air strikes. Warzer Jaff for BuzzFeed News
MOSUL, Iraq — Col. Arkan turned to the French military officer beside him as another ISIS mortar bomb exploded outside. “They found us,” he said. “Those bleep.”
The Iraqi special forces commander had spent the day calling in US-led airstrikes on the militants from the roof of an abandoned house on Mosul’s edge — and then moved downstairs with his team when the mortar rounds began to hit.
The Frenchman, who was there to collect intelligence, mirrored Arkan with a moustache, an Iraqi military patch on one shoulder, and brown fatigues. “In our last position we stayed for two days, and on the second day they found us,” he said in accented English. “We have stayed two days here, and they found us again.”
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