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Iraq crisis: Islamists force 150,000 to flee Mosul
BBC News ^ | June 10, 2014

Posted on 06/10/2014 3:54:45 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

More than 150,000 people have been forced to flee Iraq's second city of Mosul after Islamist militants effectively took control of it.

Troops were among those fleeing as hundreds of jihadists from the ISIS group overran it and much of the surrounding province of Nineveh.

Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki responded by asking parliament to declare a state of emergency to grant him greater powers.

The US said the development showed ISIS is a threat to the entire region.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; caliphate; election2008; failure; iran; iraq; iraqcrisis; isis; jihad; leadingfrombehind; mosul; muslimoutreach; muslimworld; obama; rop; warofchoice
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1 posted on 06/10/2014 3:54:45 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Al Qaeda is on the run!"

Yep. Headed east.

2 posted on 06/10/2014 3:56:00 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

before the evil hag hauled butt, did hellary leave a ‘reset button’ for iraq ?


3 posted on 06/10/2014 3:58:18 PM PDT by kingattax (a real American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This is serious and Obama is clueless. Not good, not good at all.
4 posted on 06/10/2014 3:59:07 PM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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5 posted on 06/10/2014 3:59:20 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Billthedrill

Looks like Maliki got buttfucked by Al Qaeda, who apparently didn’t receive their paychecks from Iran and decided to take a city instead.

“Hundreds” of militants. This shouldn’t have happened in Mosul, which when it was run by an American soldier/rabbi, was a peaceful place in 2003-2004.

Obama is directly responsible for this major disaster in allowing Al Qaeda and their Sunni allies to seize a lot of Iraq.

However, since Obama seems to prefer the Sunni fanatics of Iran, over the Sadr fanatic Shiites of Iraq, this was inevitable, and Obie did his best to see that it happened on his watch.

Don’t believe me, look at how Iraq has devolved into sectarian terrorism, with Al Qaeda guiding a lot of it, since Obama withdrew American troops ahead of time.

Going to happen in Afghanistan soon.

There is not end to his ability to commit TREASON.


6 posted on 06/10/2014 4:03:25 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To #5: Vince Ferrer:

PRICELESS!


7 posted on 06/10/2014 4:06:11 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

can you believe this ? Obama owns this ; the defeat and islamist overthrow of Iraq . The deserved Saddam ....Obama is a pussy and a coward and all he does is surrender ground . We deserve better . The blood of all of our fallen heroes demands better . Much better. When ?


8 posted on 06/10/2014 4:07:39 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

CBS News this evening (shocker!) actually reported that terrorists who had been fighting against Assad in Syria can freely cross the border into Iraq.


9 posted on 06/10/2014 4:11:22 PM PDT by grania
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To: LeoWindhorse

I think, given the smoke and mirrors and plots worthy of a Shogun, which are commonplace in Middle Eastern politics,

that this may be an elaborate way for

1) Syrian islamists to get their hands on good weapons to use in Syria; and

2) the Kurds to take over Mosul (which they have wanted to reclaim since Sadaam effectively took it away from them).


10 posted on 06/10/2014 4:13:01 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Is that Obama at a fund raiser in Detroit? Or East Saint Louis, Or Baltimore; Or Camden NJ, or Cleveland; or Chicago; or the Bronx; or Newark; Washington DC; or Syracuse, Rochester, Albany, Buffalo New York; Or Philadelphia; How about Gary IN; Saint Louis MO; Savanah GA; Memphis TN; Compton CA,????
Name your own Democrat poison.


11 posted on 06/10/2014 4:13:14 PM PDT by BilLies (sharyl attkisson is alive and well HOORAY!!!!!)
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To: CondorFlight

I’ll agree to that...... especially 2


12 posted on 06/10/2014 4:15:33 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Shoulda taken the money Maliki.

13 posted on 06/10/2014 4:19:21 PM PDT by Justa
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Part of O’s plan for the revival of Islam.

Mosul had a large cache of modern weaponry given to the Iraqis so they could prevail.

Like in Libya, it has now fallen into the hands of Al Qaeda.

Think back to all that happened since 2009—has Obama ever once done anything that was not to benefit the Islamic world?

And he took office just over 7 years since 9/11/2001.

Shame on us.


14 posted on 06/10/2014 4:20:14 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: CondorFlight

we need new ( military) leadership , and a sudden , dramatic re-engagementof radical islam , worldwide. We need to prosecute that war until the only ones left are crawling out from under piles of rubble with white rags tied to sticks. Where is a leader which can lead us thus ? That’s what America and the world needs ; one that will bring about the total end of islam. Worldwide.


15 posted on 06/10/2014 4:20:21 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another disastrous consequence of the pansy-azz, estrogen-driven Obamadullah administration. The womenz voted for the ‘articulate black man with swagger’ without regard to WHAT WOULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN AS A RESULT OF THEIR VOTE. Snap your fingers and welcome to reality, LADIES!!! You F’ed up BIG TIME.


16 posted on 06/10/2014 4:21:04 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama let’s five terrorist bigwigs go and the Taliban attacks the biggest airport in Pakistan.....twice.
Obama and the Democrat Party own every terrorist attack now.


17 posted on 06/10/2014 4:23:38 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: LeoWindhorse

The world must get there. But only at the last possible moment.


18 posted on 06/10/2014 4:24:31 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Radicalized via the Internet)
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To: exit82
Think back to all that happened since 2009—has Obama ever once done anything that was not to benefit the Islamic world?

Obama is an Islamist lover.

Do you remember the uprising that was attempted in Iran, early in his first term.

The Marxist did not say one thing and the evil MSM went along and didn't cover it.

The people of Iran wanted to move against their evil regime and we did nothing.

19 posted on 06/10/2014 4:27:39 PM PDT by sand88
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To: Billthedrill

After Al Qaeda takes Iraq, Obama will blame Bush.


20 posted on 06/10/2014 4:29:22 PM PDT by rbg81
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