Talk:First Battle of Tikrit

COB Speicher Contested/Unclear as of 20/21 July 2014
As among other articles reports, Iraqi government personnel claiming to be stationed at the base state that it is still under government control, albeit continually under attack. There has yet to emerge clear video or photo proof that IS(IS) has actually taken control of the base, rather than just constantly attacking it and possibly penetrating far enough to damage some aircraft and/or facilities before tactically retreating. Yes a number of generally reliable media sources (notably the McClatchy news service whose [report] has been repeated by many of its affiliate newspapers and Long War Journal, etc.) have reported that the base has indeed been captured, but in none of the reports I've read so far has the author actually claimed to have seen clear evidence of the base's capture firsthand; rather they're based on statements from ISIS itself, from ostensible residents of the city of Tikrit, and from an ostensible Kurdish peshmerga officer who formerly operated with a central-government special forces unit, but who is not claimed to actually be on the ground in the Tikrit region. Riyuky (talk) 01:31, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

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