Saturday, November 5, 2016

Arwa Damon (a CNN reporter) gets caught for 24 hours in the middle of a battle in Mosul


She was riding in an armored personnel carrier into Mosul with around 10 to 25 armored vehicles when they were attacked by suicide car bombs from the front and the rear on a street in Mosul I believe. They have video of all this on CNN because I saw it just now on CNN newsroom with Poppy Harlow.

ISIS blew up the front and rear Armored personnel carriers so they were all trapped in Mosul on a street. There were at least 25 soldiers with Arwa and her cameraman during this 24 hour siege before she found a way out of there. At the end there were only 6 unwounded soldiers with them by the next morning. ISIS was in the next building to them throwing grenades at them through the windows. Then U.S. aircraft blew up the building with the ISIS soldiers in it and in this way Arwa Damon and her Cameraman found a way out likely with a helicopter or something. She said this was the worst situation she had ever been in as a Reporter where she finally realized she very well might die because this got so bad that only 6 unwounded soldiers were left. Any wounded soldier who could shoot or throw grenades was fighting until the ISIS occupied building next door was blown up by aircraft.

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