Posted on 06/11/2014 10:31:39 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Islamist insurgents in Iraq have seized the city of Tikrit, their second major gain after capturing Mosul on Tuesday, security officials say.
Tikrit, the hometown of former leader Saddam Hussein, lies just 150km (95 miles) north of the capital Baghdad.
Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki vowed to fight back against the jihadists and punish those in the security forces who fled, offering little or no resistance.
The insurgents are from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).
ISIS, which is also known as ISIL, is an offshoot of al-Qaeda.
It controls considerable territory in eastern Syria and western and central Iraq, in a campaign to set up a Sunni militant enclave straddling the border.
There were also reports on Wednesday of fighting further south, in Samarra, 110km north of Baghdad.
Separately, at least 21 people were killed and 45 hurt by a suicide bomber at a Shia meeting in Baghdad, police said.
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I’m guessing this will end with Iraq being partitioned between Al Qaeda to the West and Iran to the East. Iran will likely move in to safeguard the Shite population—no doubt with the tacit approval of Obama.
Mission accomplished.
How about we do our version of the media’s daily body count that turned people against Iraq by its relentless, never-ending drumbeat? Whenever the jihadis take back a town, we keep track of the number of Americans who died taking it. Obama is purposely making each and every one of those sacrifices for naught.
Dubya won Iraq for the Shia, but the Sunnis are going to take it back — unless Iran intervenes.
They’re plunderers and looters from way back. They have a history.
The ARVN performed admirably in defending the South until the Democrats pulled the plug and even then they lasted longer than many supposed.
Failed? How can you fail when your intention is to rewrite all of history by destroying the West?
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