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Hundreds of Iraqis Flee Islamic Militant Advance
ABC News ^ | June 12, 2014 | By DIAA HADID

Posted on 06/12/2014 4:08:54 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Hundreds of Iraqi men, women and children crammed into vehicles fled their homes Thursday, fearing clashes, kidnapping and rape after Islamic militants seized large swathes of northern Iraq.

The families and fleeing soldiers were among some half-million people who have fled their homes since Monday, according to a U.N. estimate.

"Masked men came to our house and they threatened us: 'We will get to you.' So we fled," said Abed, a laborer who abandoned his home on the edge of Mosul Thursday. "They kidnapped other people. They took away some people for interrogation."

The young man said rumors were quickly spreading that Islamic State fighters — as well as masked bandits taking advantage of the chaos — were seizing young women for rape or forced marriage.

"They are destroying the honor of families," said Abed, who, like many of the displaced, wouldn't give his full name, fearing the Islamic State fighters.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; islam; syria; terrorism
As I understand this latest Mideast chaos, Syrian Islamist who we armed through a CIA operation in Benghazi are now raping women and slaughtering others in Iraq, and about to topple the puppet Islamist regime we armed and abandoned in 2011.
1 posted on 06/12/2014 4:08:54 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is all so unexpected...
Has Obama read about it yet?


2 posted on 06/12/2014 4:11:01 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How many bucketsful, gallons upon gallons, of blood are on the hands of the TRAITOR-IN-CHIEF?!?!


3 posted on 06/12/2014 4:11:05 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is it wrong to hope they just slaughter each other at this point?

If the last Muslim kills the second to the last Muslim, I don’t think I’d be too conflicted about that.


4 posted on 06/12/2014 4:12:19 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Radicalized via the Internet)
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To: workerbee

HE JUST DOESN’T CARE...HE DOESN’T CARE.


5 posted on 06/12/2014 4:13:00 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Well, of course HE doesn’t care. But presumably there are SOME members of the Democrat Party (**spit**) who still consider themselves “American”.


6 posted on 06/12/2014 4:14:59 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Hundreds of Iraqis Flee Islamic Militant Advance"

Pretty soon we'll be hearing that the Feds are air-lifting them to the U.S. As Obama would say, "the more, the merrier."

7 posted on 06/12/2014 4:16:03 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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Is Obama going to airlift the Islamic militants to Washington D.C?

Don’t they already have enough of them there?


8 posted on 06/12/2014 4:26:51 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: 353FMG
"Don’t they already have enough of them there?"

Yeah, they all work in his administration.

9 posted on 06/12/2014 4:33:00 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: workerbee

Not really. these people are out just for themselves. Period.


10 posted on 06/12/2014 4:37:59 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: tet68
This is all so unexpected... Has Obama read about it yet?

Take your pick of excuses from Herr Obozo, great wondoer:


11 posted on 06/12/2014 4:52:02 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Herr Obozo will not divert resources from his war on Americans to help our Veterans!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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12 posted on 06/12/2014 4:59:12 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

BO is doubling down on being the worst U.S. President ever.

What Jimmy Carter started in the Middle East, BO is finishing.


13 posted on 06/12/2014 5:19:59 PM PDT by TheDon (Californians are losing their right to keep and bear firearms one firearm at a time.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Vietnam, the collapse of Saigon specifically, all over again.


14 posted on 06/12/2014 5:40:38 PM PDT by DakotaRed (Why not just pass a law requiring criminals to obey the laws?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

God I wish I could send Iraqis the guns that fell in to the lake during my last boating trip. The Iraqi citizens need arms, leadership, and inspiration. It is no wonder they give up with Obama throwing them to the wolves. Can you imagine the peaceful civilian response if there was ONE SINGLE strong western leader inspiring them to fight for their homes? There are just too many Iraqis who want peace and liberty who need the backing of a western world that supports and inspires them.

I come from this point of view from my Polish blood. Reagan from the start encouraged my countrymen to throw out an equally vicious dictatorship. Reagan was at “the wall” inspiring eastern Europe, Poland, CR, East Germany. And we kicked the collective asses of the USSR.

There is NO ONE to inspire and lead Iraq since Bush left. Obama has thrown the middle east to AQ.

I am furious and can barely type. I know the regions. I have friends there. A simple word of encouragement from a powerful American leader would lead to a vicious vengeance to AQ Iraq. They, sadly, have no reason to trust us after GHB threw them to the wolves. GWB inspired them again and they fought. Iraq was stable with proud Iraqis rebuilding their country. Obama, gave them to AQ and Iraqi’s will never forget.

Sad and pathetic.


15 posted on 06/12/2014 5:44:15 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Prayers for all these refugees.


16 posted on 06/12/2014 5:45:30 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This country will deserve every punishment God decides to inflict upon it.


17 posted on 06/12/2014 5:47:57 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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Liberty granted by Bush, squandered by Obama.


18 posted on 06/12/2014 5:49:53 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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>> Liberty granted by Bush

More specifically, liberty granted by US troops and intelligence.


19 posted on 06/12/2014 5:51:10 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

where I live,
from time to time,
we have ‘controlled burns’.
....................
let it burn


20 posted on 06/12/2014 6:08:44 PM PDT by RockyTx
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