A top Kurdish commander says that the impending battle to liberate Mosul in northern Iraq from Islamic State forces could turn into a bloodbath. Polad Jangi Talabani says that sectarian disputes between Iraqi Arab Muslims needs to be settled somewhat before considering attacking Mosul that has been under Islamic State control since 10th June 2014. ISIL militants easily took over major parts of Iraq mainly due to the tension that exists between Sunnis and Shiites since the removal of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Ekurd Daily reports: “For two years they (IS militants) have been digging tunnels, for two years they’ve been planting IEDs, booby-traps, everything,” warned Polad Jangi Talabani. “They have kept the population there, some people have fled, but I think 80 percent of the people are still probably there, and they are going to use these people as human shields. How are you going to bomb a building with an ISIS fighter there, but a family in there also?” asked Jangi, using another acronym for the group. “You’re going to have to clean street by street, house by house, room by room. The casualties on both sides are going to be unbelievable,” he added. Mosul is the second [...]