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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A three word text was released from inside the Embassy about six hours ago: “Too late Alamo.” That message is open to interpretation.
With that kind of cash, it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. ISIS fighters are apparently now much better paid, better armed, better organized and better supplied than even the Iraqis. Not to mention their ability to fight fanatically for their virgins.
How many of us said Obama’s election was Jimmy Carter’s second term?
OK split it in 3, who gets Baghdad and who gets the oil ?
Not as simple as it sounds.
“Too late Alamo”.
Sweet Jesus.
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Baghdad Airport workers flee as rocket barrage from
ISIS rains down.
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Shelley Lloyd, Australia Broadcasting
Staff are being evacuated from Australia’s embassy in Baghdad. Details
Meanwhile, CNN is airing a SPECIAL REPORT on O.J.Simpson!!
Biden remains a moron and so are those who see this a caliphate as a benign good thing with no consequences to the USA. Short sighted just does not cover it so I had to go with moron.
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Mossad says US embassy in Baghdad is evacuating.
They haven’t caught up to the rapidly breaking news yet!
It’s shaping up to be a good time for Putin to take over E. Ukraine. What’s next? China in Taiwan?
How very odd that these animals can just waltz in completely opposed.
Our news media is a joke.
They're all busy working on their "It's Bush's fault" stories as per their instructions from team Obozo.
Who is PROTECTING the U.S. Embassy?
Archer is great! Though sometimes I’m laughing at the sophomoric liberal beliefs of the writers harder than I’m laughing at the deliberate humor it’s always hilarious.
Tje real name of the guerillas is the “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant”... I wonder why the media change it...
Meanwhile, in Palm Springs...
...the President is approaching the 16th hole.
they make “take” it, but there’s not enough of them to hold it
gonna be a bloodbath
hope our guys who are trapped make it to a Russian embassy for protection- not carrying the US embassy’s rainbow flag, of course
CNN said ‘relocate’. Optics is all that matters in modern America.
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