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Baghdad fights back: Thousands young and old answer government's call
The Daily Mail ^
| 12 June, 2014
| Jill Reilly
Posted on 06/12/2014 6:46:52 AM PDT by Shery
Its taken a week, but the long-awaited fight back has finally come. Thousands of Iraqis young and old have answered the beleaguered Shia-led governments call to arms and signed up to protect the capital, and country, from ISIS militants. As jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant march on Baghdad after capturing swathes of northern Iraq male supporters of the government turned out in droves today to enlist and fight back. The militants have already seized control of Iraq's second largest city Mosul and oil-rich Tikrit in less than 48 hours, but so far government forces have stalled the militants' remarkably rapid advance near Samarra, a city just 110km (68 miles) north of Baghdad.
Nevertheless ISIS is pushing ahead with its aim...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: baghdad; insurgents
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Doesn't look good, and after seeing the pictures at the site, what will the volunteers have to fight with? It states that they (Iraqi officials) are asking for the US to make air strikes and Iran is intervening, as well. This looks like a pretty desperate situation. Not only is AQ not on the run, but new groups are organizing as fast as they can, and a new leader has emerged that is more deadly than Osama bin Laden. The ME is exploding! The article states that the Iraqi forces have stalled this group, but I wonder. It would be hard to stall a group that fears no one and has made such strides in a couple days. It appears to me that the Iraqi government has been descending into chaos, itself, here recently so how effective will it be? And one has to ask the question...what happens if they capture Maliki and other top officials and publicly shoot them?
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posted on
06/12/2014 6:46:52 AM PDT
by
Shery
To: Shery
How many men do we have left in Iraq? Are they all in Baghdad?
Thanks.
To: Shery
Biblical prophecy being fulfilled before our eyes.
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06/12/2014 6:48:31 AM PDT
by
Westbrook
(Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
To: Shery
Iraq's government has indicated a willingness for the US military to conduct airstrikes against radical Islamist militantsI'm sure we'd be willing to accept Iraqi help in fighting the Taliban, too.
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posted on
06/12/2014 6:51:34 AM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: Westbrook
This sounds like the final days in Berlin when Hitler had young boys and old men defend the city against the Allied advance.
To: Shery
10 years and billions of dollars of building the iraq army...
And they are taking kids off the street to fight.
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posted on
06/12/2014 6:53:25 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Shery
Wait.....IRAN has sent troops into IRAQ? And nobody is screaming?
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posted on
06/12/2014 6:53:52 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Col Frank Slade
This sounds like the final days in Berlin when Hitler had young boys and old men defend the city against the Allied advance.With roaming death squads killing anyone who refused to fight.
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posted on
06/12/2014 6:53:57 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Shery
and Iran is intervening On which side?
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posted on
06/12/2014 6:54:39 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Doctor 2Brains
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posted on
06/12/2014 6:55:51 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Westbrook
You're the first person to make that claim in 2,000 years.
To: Shery
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06/12/2014 6:59:09 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: thackney
To: Shery
They’ll be fighting us since they’ll be fighting people using our weapons.
To: Col Frank Slade
Since this is in the aftermath of a U.S. withdrawal of forces, I’d draw a comparison with the fall of Saigon in 1975.
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posted on
06/12/2014 7:05:30 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
To: 2banana
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posted on
06/12/2014 7:07:31 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Shery; All
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posted on
06/12/2014 7:09:06 AM PDT
by
PGalt
To: thackney
I wonder if Obama has a plan to secure those Abrams tanks. 140 tanks... that’s about 3 tank battalions-worth of first-class armor that’s about to get handed over to the Syrians, Sov-er-Russians or the Chinese.
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06/12/2014 7:09:26 AM PDT
by
Tallguy
To: blueunicorn6
Itan, Syria and maybe Turkey might be the only way to stop the terrorists which the US has armed and trained. It would be an odd coalition, but none of them gain from ISIS becoming even more powerful.
I was appalled when that military leader took over Egypt and mowed down the crazies. Now, it seems like he got it right. It's the only way to stop them, with all of the assets Obama has given them.
And meanwhile, the US is still arming and training the more reasonable terrorists to fight Assad? How nutty is that?
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posted on
06/12/2014 7:09:54 AM PDT
by
grania
To: Tallguy
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06/12/2014 7:13:10 AM PDT
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thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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