Posted on 06/11/2014 3:38:07 PM PDT by kristinn
The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is preparing contingency plans to evacuate its employees if necessary now that one of the deadliest Islamic militant groups in the region has taken control of large swaths of Iraq, a U.S. official told TheBlaze.
The State Department also warned U.S. citizens against traveling to Iraq, following several days of bloody clashes between insurgents with the Al Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Iraqi military forces. ISIL has taken control of Mosul, Tikrit and Fallujah and aims to create an Islamic state across the Iraq-Syria border.
The U.S. official told TheBlaze that the U.S. Embassy, United Nations and other foreign organizations with a presence in Iraq are “preparing contingency plans to evacuate employees.”
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Remember Benghazi??
Obama...What are you waiting for....a video??
Obama negotiates with the Taliban, trading a traitor for five top terrorists. Within two weeks, we start to lose a nation that Bush liberated.
Family and friends of the war dead and wounded from Iraq are heartsick at this moment.
If you know a vet of the Iraqi war tell them you don’t care about lying, damn politicians, that you think their service deserves the highest praise.
We should be ashamed that this nation gave the helm of this government to a 5th columnist.
Exactly what Obama wants, because he opposed us being there. Really sick, and very likely many many Americans will die as the result of his “policies”. I’m sick watching the world fall apart while the media pretends it isn’t happening.
I’m so sorry we have people who don’t know the history of these leftists, how they hate America, respect our enemies. Their twisted immoral philosophy. Anyone who knows what they did to IndoChina knows how evil they are and where this all ends up.
This is not the first time they have deliberately killed and imprisoned our allies by the millions and lost a region of the world because they can’t stand that America was winning.
Think about who is secretary of state right now, a traitor who demanded that our allies fall to communism.
This was super expensive and elaborate Embassy paid for by US taxpayers. It will now fall into Al Qaeda hands.
Well, then, it’s all Bush’s fault. Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the US didn’t even have an embassy in Iraq. Now he went and reestablished diplomatic relationships with a democratic government and as a result, the embassy has to be evacuated once the nutsos take over./s
But what does it matter?/sarcasm of course
heres the only thing that’s important right now :
when is someone going to take an American leadership position, step forward and actually DO something to remove obozo ?
This was super expensive and elaborate Embassy paid for by US taxpayers. It will now fall into Al Qaeda hands.
don’t wait for Obama ,blow it up and leave NOW
So you would have us remain in there for the past 6 years and now caught in the middle of this mess?
Is the Embassy flying a rainbow flag? That’s all that matters.
Oh... NBC News just explained that away. You know, for 13 centuries, Sunni Muslims ruled in Iraq. Bush put Shiites in charge.. and now, naturally, the Sunni's want it back. Because they were "shut out from the new government".
So... really, there was NOTHING Obummer could have done about this... It was all W's fault.
Surely you jest.
This puke is finding out that not being George Bush is not a foreign policy.
The U.S. Embassy advises U.S. citizens resident in Iraq of ongoing large-scale military action between insurgent and terrorist groups and Iraqi military forces in Mosul, the capital of Ninewah province. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) forces have reportedly taken control of the city, including the airport. There have been recent large-scale actions taken in cities in Salahadin province as well and fighting continues in Anbar province. We strongly encourage all U.S. citizens to avoid these areas, to review the existing Travel Warning for Iraq, and take appropriate measures to ensure their safety if travel to Iraq is necessary.
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