Mosul

Jonah and Nehemiah are two prophets that can teach us Christians a lot of life lessons and also how to deal with things when adversity strikes. The story of Jonah is one of the more well-known stories throughout the Bible, probably because we can learn so much from it in what is such a little book of God’s Word. It starts out with God telling Jonah to go to Nineveh, a great city that was weak in its beliefs. Jonah, instead of trusting in the Lord, fled to Tarshish. To get to Tarshish, he first had to go to Joppa and get on a ship. It was on this ship that the Lord made it clear that Jonah was not to go to Tarshish, but instead to Nineveh. Jonah and a bunch of other mariners were in the middle of the Sea when God brewed up a massive storm. The men all prayed to their pagan gods to stop the raging sea. Meanwhile, Jonah was fast asleep in the cabin of the ship. One of the men then came to Jonah and told him to pray to his God to stop the storm. When Jonah prayed to God, the Lord told him that he must get off that ship and go to Nineveh. So the sailors cast lots, and they threw things over the edge so it wouldn’t sink the ship. The lot fell on Jonah, and he was thrown overboard into the ocean, where he was swallowed up by what the Bible describes as a whale, or some sort of a massive fish. Jonah spent three days and three nights in the whale’s stomach, and was finally vomited out by the whale near shore. Jonah then finally realized it was time to go and preach to the…

Mosul is the main city in northern Iraq and second largest city with over two million people. That area is rich in oil fields which keep it wealthy along with the flow of goods. The fight for the city has lasted months and has been progressively getting worse. The on-going battle for the city has been brutal while advancing forces include roadside bombs, dug in snipers, fleets of suicide car bombs and oil fire haze. The feud has caused people to flee and seek safety from the city but many have…

Mission Command: Visualize Pablo A. Picacio Master Leader Course Mission Command: Visualize General Petraeus used the concept of visualization of mission command during the seizure of Mosul as the 101st Airborne Division entered Mosul, Iraq. Visualization is the mental process of developing situational understanding, determining a desired end state and envisioning an operational approach; by which the force will achieve that end state (pg. 1-4) The end state of General Petraeus…

WASHINGTON — In July, the Islamic State carried out one of the deadliest car bombings in Iraq since the American invasion in 2003, killing more than 300 people in Baghdad. The Pentagon responded by rushing a three-star general to the capital to offer the Iraqi authorities new technology, tactics and advisers to help thwart additional attacks. And in the weeks before the current Iraqi push to reclaim Mosul, the American-led air campaign against the militant group redoubled its strikes on car…

hate and violence against multiple groups that people have been fighting for decades to eradicate. ISIS is just one of the many extremist organizations that Iraq and many other countries have been trying to dismantle over the course of numerous years. Currently, a fight in Iraq is taking place for the anti-ISIS forces to take over one of the largest cities under the control of the terrorist group. About one million residents of the Mosul fled their city when the influence of ISIS was involuntary…

Isis fighters have taken over some cities in Iraq. Recently the city of Mosul was overtaken. Multiple nations have joined to retake the city of Mosul. Joining to help the local people are approximately 30,000 pro-government troops, with the main assault being about 4000 Kurdish Peshmerga militia. Planes from the US-led coalition are providing air support. United States special operations personnel are advising the local troops on the ground. Expected to join in the coming days is the Elite Iraqi…

In the article written by Kareem Shaheen titled: “Isis fighters destroy ancient artefacts at the Mosul museum” It details about ISIS activities of destroying ancient artifacts from museums. ISIS had posted a video of its members destroying artifacts from the Mosul museum under religious “right”. The main target of the video was the artifacts of Assyrians and Akkadians, all very valuable and dating back to even the 7th century. ISIS has destroyed many artifacts as they advanced in the region…

A Vision of Success: General Petraeus and the City of Mosul Army doctrine reference publication (ADRP) 6-0 describes mission command as “the exercise of authority and direction by the commander using mission orders to enable disciplined initiative within the commander’s intent to empower agile and adaptive leaders in the conduct of unified land operations (2012).” One component of mission command is to visualize. To visualize is to create a mental picture of a process and a result. The…

Primary Source Analysis 3 1) As most Christian histories of the crusades begin with pope urban II’s call in 1095, for the recovery of holy places. But Ibn Al-Athir being native of Mosul see it differently, as all Muslim sees the Crusades. He mention the crusades as not being recovery of holy places of Christianity, rather, it was war against the Islam religion. He further stated in his writing saying that, “They invaded the territories of Islam”. In his writing he clearly indicated that it was…

Father Douglas Bazi, the priest who was kidnapped and tortured by Al-Qaeda, said being a Christian in Iraq is “impossible.” The Baghdad-based priest spoke at a church in California and shared how Al-Qaeda militants captured him was he was on his way home from church in 2006. Within the nine days that he was held hostage by the terrorists, Father Douglas Bazi’s lost some of his teeth when his captors smashed them with a hammer, was shot in the leg, and sustained a broken nose and back, the…