Posted on 06/13/2014 12:44:26 PM PDT by mojito
...Although precautionary preparations have been made, the US embassy in Baghdad itself has not been evacuated. “The State Department said in January that it had about 5,000 personnel working at the embassy and at consulates in Basra and Irbil, including 2,000 Americans. Embassy personnel are protected by some 200 Marine Corps security guards.”
If the embassy is evacuated, it will leave what is perhaps one of the most lavish and expensive diplomatic facility in history in the hands of al-Qaeda. It contains what is probably a huge intelligence facility. “The 104-acre compound — already its biggest and most expensive in the world — currently houses 1,350 U.S. government employees in the heart of Baghdad’s International Zone and will increase its capacity because the U.S. is consolidating overall diplomatic property in Baghdad down by one-third. The most interesting upgrade is the construction of a data hall in an existing classified embassy annex building that will cost $20 to $35 million. It will require ‘electrical/telecommunication system upgrades [and] extensive mechanical and plumbing systems,’ according to a June 12 [2012] notice from the State Department.”
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If the embassy is evacuated as al-Qaeda reaches Baghdad the optics will be atrocious. The very magnificence of the buildings will underscore the magnitude of the defeat....
But great though the loss of the buildings will be, the blow in terms of intelligence gathering capabilities, networks, facilities and dislocation will be monumental. No one knows how many translators, sub-agents and locals who have risked their lives for the US will be left twisting in the wind.
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Set charges all over the compound and when they attempt to take it, blow them all up. Win-win.
The politicized, neutered, bureaucratic, feckless US Government is so big, it has to extend its uselessness and failure to other countries.
As the choppers depart, the cruise missiles come roaring in...
And the compound with it. All of it.
It looks like something Uday and Qusay would build for themselves.
Bump
It truly is the Snake Department.
Let them be entombed within the ruble and let it stand for a thousand years as a warning there were some in the US would have the final word.
> Set charges all over the compound and when they attempt to take it, blow them all up. Win-win.
Agreed. I can see those idiots storming the compound now:
“We have won! We have won! Look at the infidels run in fear!
Click....What was that? BOOM!!!
The overwhelming majority of Americans working at the Embassy don’t work for the State Department.
interesting - it looks like some kind of Roman Temple.
I’m a girl, what do I know of military strategy, I don’t play war games, but even I could administer this one.
Stat someone send this thread to Hagel and his generals. Get McCrystal and Petreus, tell them to delay working on their memoirs. There is one more battle to fight, a stealth one cooked up by someone who wears cut off shorts and an apron all day.
If there are so many working on intelligence, where did the OAKS come from?
If there are so many working on intelligence, where did the ISIS come from?
There is one more battle to fight, a stealth one cooked up by someone who wears cut off shorts and an apron all day.
>>someone who wears cut off shorts and an apron all day.<<
Is that all you wear? Tell me I’m wrong. My wife is waay tooo modest!
Intelligence didn’t want to bring attention to this problem because Obama gave his formal farewells. And, besides, DC was setting up the scenario that Iraq was always meant to be a failed war. And Valerie Jarrett always wanted to have a formal alliance with her birth country of Iran to come to the US aid.
It’s not fancy, but it works.
Obama always drags his feet.
Obama always acts opposite to what his US Military Personnel advise, never takes responsibility of any blunders that he makes, and then leaves his employees to die on the battlefields caused by his blunders.
REMEMBER BENGHAZI !
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