U.S. Embassy Prepares for Possible Evacuation as Militants Take Control in Iraq

The Blaze ^ | Wednesday, June 11, 2014 | Sara Carter

[kristinn]

The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is preparing contingency plans to evacuate its employees if necessary now that one of the deadliest Islamic militant groups in the region has taken control of large swaths of Iraq, a U.S. official told TheBlaze.

The State Department also warned U.S. citizens against traveling to Iraq, following several days of bloody clashes between insurgents with the Al Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Iraqi military forces. ISIL has taken control of Mosul, Tikrit and Fallujah and aims to create an Islamic state across the Iraq-Syria border.

The U.S. official told TheBlaze that the U.S. Embassy, United Nations and other foreign organizations with a presence in Iraq are “preparing contingency plans to evacuate employees.”

[edpc]

It’ll be both of them here real soon. Ironic how the cradle of civilization is incapable of being civilized.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Maybe we should fly the rainbow flag over the embassy, like we did in Israel. That will show those fanatics we’re serious people and not to be messed with. /S

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I wonder if Obama has read about this in the newspapers yet.

[potlatch]

One by one Obama has let the dominoes fall enabling the advance of the moslems.

[TomGuy]

Is that the huge facility Bush2 had built? Something like 90+ acres within a walled area and numerous buildings for unknown purposes?





The new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is to be the world's largest and most expensive foreign mission.

[colorado tanker]

The State Department will think it’s OK for AQ to have Mosul, but they’d better not be mean to gays.

[Mat_Helm]

Obama is a curse on the world and is the destructor. The anti-christ gay muslim deceiver and bringer of death and destruction.

[kristinn]

By Matt Murray, Deputy Editor in Chief, Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones via Twitter:

Breaking on http://wsj.com : Iraq has privately signaled that it would allow the U.S. to conduct airstrikes on Iraqi territory

[sunmars]

Here they go...

WSJ: Iraq open to US airstrikes against Al Qaeda, Obama Admin considering “kinetic support”

[leapfrog0202]

We know a Colonel that was to be promoted to General in the Iraqi military. He lives 3 miles outside Baghdad on a family farm. He was so proud of working with the Americans and freeing his country from Hussein, I can just imagine how he feels about all this.

We haven’t heard from him since he left a flight safety training class held at our base last summer. I often wonder if he’s okay.

[Tzimisce]

You voted for this America.

Enjoy it.

[sunmars]

Please do not do anything that allows Obama to f*** it up any further.

[catfish1957]

The Taliban will now have a half billion dollar fortress for world wide HQ. I’d MOAB the sucker before than letting them have it.

[leapfrog0202]

don’t wait for Obama ,blow it up and leave NOW

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I’d be hauling it out on the first form of transport I could find. Obama doesn’t care if every last one of our people there get killed.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Not we. If the Iraqis won’t fight for their freedom, they deserve to lose it.

[tbird-james]

Last days of Vietnam???

[RKBA Democrat]

Queue the pics from the fall of Saigon.

[struggle]

Hey, drop some hellfire missiles on some of them just to screw with their minds.

[Enterprise]

Any day now we should be seeing helicopters evacuating the last U.S. employees from the roof top of the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.

[VanDeKoik]

Good job, ODumbass.