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Iraqi capital nervously awaits Isis attack
FT ^ | July 1, 2014 | Borzou Daragahi

Posted on 07/03/2014 8:51:28 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Edited on 07/03/2014 8:58:36 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]


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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baghdad; iraqmeltdown; isis
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To: ArmstedFragg; MinorityRepublican

the iraqi soldiers defending the green zone were coming to work wearing civilian clothes under their uniforms 3 weeks ago

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/13/world/middleeast/american-intelligence-officials-said-iraqi-military-had-been-in-decline.html?_r=0

the green zone and us embassy are wide open to attack, the mahdi army is not going to come into a sunni neighbourhood to defend westerners in the green zone

the green zone walled perimeter is 4 miles, obama’s 500 soldiers is not nearly enough

AF is right, this is a disaster waiting to happen. ISIS now has access to captured weapons that may make a saigon helicopter evac impossible


41 posted on 07/03/2014 11:36:44 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Josey Wales asks: How is it with stains ?)
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To: bgill

This was created and initially funded by USA allies Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Then trained by the us in Jordan and given anti tank weapons by McCain


42 posted on 07/04/2014 3:15:51 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: bgill

The Iraqi army is useless. But the shia militias and the irani army are ready


43 posted on 07/04/2014 3:16:51 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Yes, but the shia militias and the Iranian army won’t


44 posted on 07/04/2014 3:17:49 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Greysard

They are NOT all Moslems. There were 2 million Christians there in 2003. Now there are 200,000. These are the remnants of the time when Iraq was one if the centers of the Christian world, with nearly all Christians. The ancient church of the east is still headquartered in Ctesiphon


45 posted on 07/04/2014 3:21:16 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: bgill

“I still want to know who brought about this ISIS gang of thuds who was unknown until a couple weeks ago and who’s paying for it. I highly suspect this admin created it and our tax dollars are supporting it.

As for Iraq being nervous, where the heck is their army? Or are they waiting for us to send a check and more American lives to sacrifice for their pleasure.”

Our government is not that smart


46 posted on 07/04/2014 4:14:49 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: sickoflibs; NFHale; GOPsterinMA

I tell you it’s like Iraq out here, boom boom boom (and fireworks aren’t legal here, people have to go to Indiana to get them), my poor old dog is terrified. I had no idea my neighbors loved America so much, maybe they would be interested in dying overseas for Shia Islam, err I mean “freedom”?


47 posted on 07/04/2014 10:43:34 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Impy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA
RE:”I tell you it’s like Iraq out here, boom boom boom (and fireworks aren’t legal here, people have to go to Indiana to get them), my poor old dog is terrified. I had no idea my neighbors loved America so much, maybe they would be interested in dying overseas for Shia Islam, err I mean “freedom”?”

Same here every year.

48 posted on 07/04/2014 11:32:41 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: MinorityRepublican

They may need a new leader for the Sunni Serial Killers, aka ISIS.

Hopefully, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has just met his 72 virgins, actually horney male camels, who were waiting for him.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3176260/posts

Iraqi Isis Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ‘Severely Injured and Flees to Syria’

International Business Times ^ | 07/05/2014 | Vasudevan Sridharan

Posted on 7/5/2014 6:17:01 AM by SeekAndFind

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Sunni militant outfit Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis), is said to have been severely injured in the raging battle forcing him to flee to neighbouring Syria.

According to a report in the Iraqi news network Al Sumaria, the insurgent leader was injured during a raid led by Iraq’s Shiite-led security forces in the west of Anbar.

“The Iraqi security forces carried out an operation in the city of Qaim on the border with Syria based on accurate intelligence and with the help of the Air Force where the leader of ISIL, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was seriously injured,” said Haidar al-Shara, a representative of the international parliament in Iraq.

However, the report has so far not been independently verified. If confirmed, it will be a severe blow to the militant group which has been marching on several Iraqi cities.

The Iraqi official said: “After being hit, al-Baghdadi, with a range of elements of his organisation fled into Syrian territory because of its proximity to Qaim,” adding: “al-Baghdadi might be killed as a result of the severity of his injuries.”


49 posted on 07/05/2014 10:32:34 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Herr Obozo, the Sunni Won-Doer, will not divert $'s from his war on Americans to help our Veterans!)
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To: 353FMG

Best reply of the day/week and maybe the month!

>Who is really sitting in the Oval Office?<

.
Ask Nancy Pelosi — she vetted him.


50 posted on 07/05/2014 10:33:59 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Herr Obozo, the Sunni Won-Doer, will not divert $'s from his war on Americans to help our Veterans!)
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To: sickoflibs; Impy; GOPsterinMA

When eight black powder rifles with 75 grains of powder go off, simultaneously...

The neighborhood knows it... heheh...

One Shot for Liberty... over and over again.


51 posted on 07/05/2014 1:48:14 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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