Posted on 06/12/2014 2:21:27 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
Signs are emerging that a top fugitive and other military officers from ousted dictator Saddam Hussein's regime are backing Al Qaeda-inspired militants in Iraq, who vowed Thursday to march against Baghdad after seizing two key northern cities.
Two senior intelligence officials told The Associated Press Thursday that an armed group led by Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri -- the late leader's former deputy who escaped the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and eluded U.S. and Iraqi forces ever since – is fighting alongside the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
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I just went to the sink and water is still wet, too.
Figured as much. No way ISIS could take that much territory in 48 hours without insiders already stationed in Mosul etc. Saddam’s (Sunni) holdovers looking for payback against now controlling Shia. These people once ruled the country and lived large.
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