Posted on 06/15/2014 8:41:13 PM PDT by Star Traveler
Iran has sent 2,000 advance troops to Iraq in the past 48 hours to help tackle a jihadist insurgency, a senior Iraqi official has told the Guardian.
The confirmation comes as the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, said Iran was ready to support Iraq from the mortal threat fast spreading through the country, while the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, called on citizens to take up arms in their country's defence.
Addressing the country on Saturday, Maliki said rebels from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) had given "an incentive to the army and to Iraqis to act bravely". His call to arms came after reports surfaced that hundreds of young men were flocking to volunteer centres across Baghdad to join the fight against Isis.
The Iraqi official said 1,500 basiji forces had crossed the border into the town of Khanaqin, in Diyala province, in central Iraq on Friday, while another 500 had entered the Badra Jassan area in Wasat province overnight. The Guardian confirmed on Friday that Major General Qassem Suleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force, had arrived in Baghdad to oversee the defence of the capital.
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Yeah...those Russian bombers off the coast of Alaska & California a few days ago were nothing...
A true ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’ moment.
Iran would be stepping in to stop a situation for which we armed and trained both sides. (Does my "wow" top your "wow"?)
ISIL successes continue with this report of a 200,000 population city taken between Bagdad and Syria:
- lazy lying chicken crap bastard golfer Obama runs away… on vacation
- snort snort
Difficult, given that history shows Germany declared war on the United States first.
Think in terms of every nation lining the Mediterranean and MidEast having changed its government in the last 10 years when they were stable dictatorships. There is an obvious ongoing operational campaign.
It isn’t publicized.
It is controlled.
Operations are controlled by no greater than brigade sized attacks, poised to influence/maneuver much larger numbers.
Look at timelines of very small significant events planned by 15-50 personnel for control-ability.
IMHO, The US is about to be targeted more directly.
Fortunately the Shiites and the Sunnis aren’t going to stand around singing “You’ve Got Friends”.
Iran is the defacto protector of Shiite Iraq right now. A few thousand of their uniformed troops inside Iraq is just a morale booster.
What matters is how many Iranian agents are inside the Maliki govt and what do they control.
Kurds are in an interesting place. Do they stand alone against ISIS or ally with the Shiites, or with Turkey (as their protector, or both)? Oil is a mighty equalizer in that area.
Shiites. Glad to see that the Mahdi army is being resurrected, not that I like them, but the fact that they will kill the ISIS and vice versa. A little payback for their attacks on our troops.
If our troops had stayed in Iraq, this Al Qaeda invasion probably would have been defeated in the early stages with the Iraqi Air Force and armor decimating ISIS truck/car columns (little to no armor in the beginning).
Now, if the US had a fucking brain, we would have kept napalm in our aerial inventory. It is a game changer on the battle field, or as a grizzled marine told me about the fate of a VC battalion caught in the open, “it was crispy critter time”.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning. Never got to smell any in Nam but I know what it could do.
No Napalm. No more A-10’s; No more Harriers. No more America!
Obama: YES HE DID!
He should open an air base in Kurd controlled areas and run flight operations out of that air base. Perhaps the A-10s that the Air Force finally killed off.
Yup - if anyone thinks Iran is going to join the USA for the win in Iraq, they’re crazy.
Iran would love to be able to move their troops into Iraq on the pretense of being on board with the USA.
Then watch out. How could the west possibly even consider thinking these savages are trustworthy?
If the US does not hit them now and hard, the attacks will start again on the continental US...
get the hell out of Iraq.
nuke Iran.
next problem
Note: this topic was posted 6/15/2014.Thanks Star Traveler.
The Guardian confirmed on Friday that Major General Qassem Suleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force, had arrived in Baghdad to oversee the defence of the capital.
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