Posted on 09/29/2014 9:18:37 PM PDT by Signalman
Fierce fighting has been reported on the outskirts of Baghdad where ISIS militants are attempting to seize control of the Iraqi capital - despite ongoing Western airstrikes against the terror group.
The fighting is taking place just one mile to the west of the city, with government forces desperately trying to hold off the militants, who allegedly killed up to 1,000 soldiers during clashes yesterday.
ISIS have held a number of towns and villages close to the Iraqi capital since earlier in the year, when government troops melted away following a lightning advance in the west of the country - enabling the terrorist group to seize further swaths of territory for their so-called caliphate.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
This is very serious stuff going on. Everyone should be very concerned. With our borders wide open and mid eastern engineering students in U.S going missing all of a sudden, and total ineptitude in the White House we could be looking at some very ugly times ahead right here in our country.
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Arm the Kurds with heavy weapons, you fools.
If ISIS enters Baghdad, we will not be able to easily evacuate the American forces. It will be time to call Broken Arrow. Bring in the B-2s, B-52s, and everything else. Get ready to drop in the 82nd, etc.
“the fall of Baghdad or the establishment of an ISIS state would be a strategic disaster for Iran.” — Agreed. Especially now that Obama also refocusing on overthrowing Assad in Syria.
The Kurds were complaining of not having heavy weapons to match I.S. weeks ago, and whatever they got was delayed and insufficient. A lot of guff and PR around ‘coalition’ bombing I.S. etc.. but in reality it seems whatever is being done is ineffective. Maybe they really don’t want I.S. gone.
They're not disorganized, actually from what we've seen, they've been very organized. What if the "oil Sheikhs" in the Gulf are also the ones helping them, at least in parts? No one wants to outwardly recognize what has been labelled a "terrorist group", supporting them surreptitiously is something else. I.S. is in Iraq to stay, perhaps with another name-change down the track.
Kuwait’s silence is deafening!
Lol, it is. But no need for them to bark when things so far going their way!
Thanks for this report.
Our Sunni President Iman Obozo’s mediots have kept this off the front pages.
“The advance by ISIS toward Baghdad shows that the group isn’t weakening despite U.S.-led airstrikes in Iraq. ISIS executed 300 Iraqi soldiers last week during their march toward the Iraqi capital and attempted to break into a prison in northern Baghdad.
http://www.ibtimes.com/isis-baghdad-march-islamic-state-1-mile-away-iraqi-capital-1696256
FYI....
British jets carry out first airstrikes on IS group in Iraq...(British defence secretary)
http://f24.my/1DW3dED
The victory, which could make it harder for militants to operate on both sides of the frontier, was also achieved with help from Kurds from the Syrian side of the frontier, a new sign of cooperation across the border.....http://www.benlatestnews.com/2014/09/top-news-kurds-seize-iraqsyria-border.html
The US has done so much harm with regime change, actually since GWB and Iraq (blame both Obama and GWB) that someone else will have to clean up the mess while hopefully we clean up our own problems.
Egypt's military is the only military, globally, that's done anything to turn back the mess US policy has created.
At least 25 people were killed in car bomb and mortar attacks in mainly Shi'ite Muslim districts of Baghdad on Tuesday, in the al-Horreyya district 35 wounded................There was also a mortar attack in the Sab al-Bour neighborhood of northern Baghdad that killed five people and wounded 15.
This is an ISIS tactic...to scare the locals before they take a community....they send in car bombs and suicide killers to get people to go indoors...there will be more until the people are too afraid to be on the streets...so this tactic clears out the streets before they charge in.
America under Obama is no longer America used to be decades ago. That’s “hope and change”.
ISIS is set to take the city of Baghdad. That sentence should terrify many there....
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