Posted on 06/15/2014 3:39:08 PM PDT by Star Traveler
The United States has evacuated most of its personnel from the Embassy in Baghdad and dramatically stepped up security for those who remain as thousands of Islamic fighters bear down on Iraq's capital city.
Some 5,500 people work in the massive Embassy complex in the heavily-fortified Green Zone in Baghdad. Many will be airlifted to Amman, Jordan, and others will be sent to consulates in Basra, in the south, and Erbil, in the Kurdish north.
Other workers will remain in Baghdad.
Some 12,000 fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) are marching on Baghdad after quickly capturing Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, last week.
The fighters, who are predominately Sunni Muslims - a large minority in Iraq, then turned south and began baring down on Baghdad, capturing towns along the way.
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just like Benghazi, the Official US Embassy FACEBOOK page will have terrorists postings and warning all over it.
https://www.facebook.com/USEmbassyBaghdad
The message “Too late Alamo” does sound like it is too late to stop this.
The pictures of the bagdad airport and the story of “too late alamo” are all a hoax. Already confirmed on another thread by janetjanet.
I don’t think it would be very hard to wipe 12,000 soldiers on the march. They can’t hold ground with that few soldiers. If there was any will at all they could be dealt with
My money’s on the US Marines, even if it is only a hundred of them. I hope that our contractors have some good security folks with them too.
This president always err’s on the side of America’s enemies. It’s uncanny.
Obama has certainly effed everything up.
Other workers will remain in Baghdad
This media blackout is giving me a really bad feeling. I just hope they are more than 100 armed security in that Green Zone.
Congratulations on your victory, Barack.
Breaking Iraq into three parts gives Iran massive power in the region. Iran will take the southern part with the oil... Sunnis will get the crap in the middle and Turkey will go hard line and take the north. It’s not a good solution for the United States. I guess to cement the deal the Iranians could step in and ‘save’ the Americans... Nah, it can’t go that weird...
I’m afraid we won’t know what’s going on until after it’s happened, and probably not until someone at Fox News/Breitbart/etc. has done some digging.
Obama brings us peace.
Refusing to do their jobs.
I hope they managed to destroy all of the classified material.
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Lois Lerner, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Or China in the U.S.
They have to get their talking points together. Otherwise, they would have to report this as a massive Obama Administration failure. And they couldn't possibly do that.
If they had favorable ROE, the 100 would just do fine.
Well Fox has Stossel on now and at 11:00PM they are going to re-run the Bush thing. CNN now has a Bush memorial on and at 11:00PM they are going to rerun it so basically there is no news coming our way at 11:00PM. Beyond bizarre!
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