Posted on 04/15/2014 12:27:55 PM PDT by Dave346
The Iraqi army began buttressing its defense lines on April 12 to save parts of the capital city of Baghdad from the approaching danger of falling to al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). Iraqi intelligence reports that terrorist forces have broken through into the city’s western outskirts and preparing to head out to other parts of the city of more than seven million and the Green Zone government headquarters.
In addition to the lethal bombings and shootings which have reduced the country to misery, Debkafile’s counter-terrorism sources describe a more insidious ISIS tactic of conquest: Armed al Qaeda fighters in brown military fatigues are going around Baghdad city quarters distributing candy to children. Notes attached to the packets invite their parents to attend “repentance” rites, which are really oaths of adherence to al Qaeda.
Six years ago, the contest between US troops and al Qaeda’s savage Iraqi commander, the Jordanian Mussab Al Zarqawi, ended in his death at American hands and saved Baghdad. Two years ago, President Barack Obama ordered US forces to shake the dust of Iraq off their boots.
Now the Americans are back – only now they are not US soldiers but jihadi fighters of al Qaeda, fighting to overrun Iraq and establish an Islamist state there. They are pushing towards Baghdad after seizing the western province of Anbar, the city of Tikrit and the eastern province of Diyala on the border of Iran.
They show their faces openly, unafraid of Iraq security, in parts of Baghdad as well as in the big Iraqi cities of Falluja, Ramadi, Baquba, Salahudeen and Nineveh.
Al Qaeda’s operational arm in Iraq fields more Western fighters than any other of its branches. They are nationals of the US, Canada, the UK, France, Holland, Belgium and Italy.
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Obama’s chickens coming home to roost from his incompetence and inability to get a status of forces agreement.
He didn’t want one. More money for EBT nation.
In Iraq, Shiites outnumber Sunnis 2-1. If the Shiites just start killing Sunnis, it’s going to get ugly.
Hillary made such a great SS. What could go wrong with her at the helm?
Impeach!
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Debka. I’ll wait for confirmation.
Saddam would’ve had this sh*t rolled up in weeks. When the decision was made to overthrow him, the U.S. should’ve colluded with elements of the Ba’ath Party.
Just like Vietnam was ultimately LBJ's war. Not Nixon's war, not Ford's war, but LBJ's war. The same applies here.
4400+US troops died to liberate these people.
Absolutely. The higher level Ba'ath people were criminals, and belonged in jail or at the gallows. But the lower level people were just members because they had to be. Those folks should have been allowed to stay and build a new Iraq. Just as it was done in Germany and Japan.
But the Bush people (and Paul Bremer in particular) would have none of that. They demobilized the entire Iraqi army and sent it home, bitter and humiliated but not disarmed.
It was one stupid and arrogant decision after another.
Not worth it
Exactly. I’ve yet to see anything from Debka to turn out true.
and president mom jeans stands with these muslims.
he’s happy to let them undo all the work and sacrifice done in iraq.
what can you expect from a radical foreign gay marxist muslim president.
Those spats have been ongoing in the past few months, if no longer. But I am not sure if either support the AQ or Taliban. I doubt it.
Iraqi Al Qaeda = Sunnis (and foreign mercenaries)
Sooner or later the Shiite government will compromise enough with the Sunnis, and just as in the past, the attacks will magically stop.
This is just the Sunnis recapturing the Iraq they lost when Dubya handed it over to the Shi’ites. Iran must be unhappy.
They show their faces openly, unafraid of Iraq security, in parts of Baghdad as well as in the big Iraqi cities of Falluja, Ramadi, Baquba, Salahudeen and Nineveh.
We saw a black guy walking around in northeast Baghdad in a crowd of brown faces. Turned out he was an African jihadi who came to Iraq to kill Americans as promised by his AQ handlers. As soon as he got there, they told him he drew suicide bomber duty. He told 'em to screw off, and left, but now he's stuck in Iraq. Crazy place.
All those good lives— all that money. Sad.
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