Posted on 06/11/2014 5:35:02 AM PDT by sunmars
Militants have seized the Turkish consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and efforts are under way to ensure the safety of diplomatic staff, two Turkish government sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
Sunni insurgents from an al Qaeda splinter group, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), seized Mosul on Tuesday in a show of strength against Iraq's Shi'ite-led government.
"Certain militant groups in Mosul have been directly contacted to ensure the safety of diplomatic staff," a Turkish government source said, adding there was no immediate information on the status of the diplomats.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held an emergency meeting with the Undersecretary of Turkey's National Intelligence Agency (MIT) and Deputy Prime Minister Beşir Atalay to discuss the developments, Turkish media reported.
The seizure of the consulate comes a day after 28 Turkish truck drivers were abducted by ISIL militants while delivering diesel to a power plant in Mosul.
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Syria: The ISIS has encircled Deir el-Zour, the largest city in the eastern part of the country.
US has spent more than $25 billion on the Iraqi security services, who appear to no longer actually exist.
Who could have guessed.
I could have guessed. Start with the current leadership and their support of Syrian rebels. It is no mystery anymore that the American leadership supports Islamic terrorism and destroying governments. It’s the same thing the Democrats did in Kosovo. Support the underdog, break up the nation, loot it for spoils. These are not the actions of politicians but of criminals.
Flash News Bulletin from the White House:
Al-Qaeda is on the run. They’re running to Ramadi, Fallujah, Mosul, Takrit, etc. This is all thanks to Barrack Hussein Obama, peace be upon him, and his regime.
I also think it’s no coincidence that this all broke out right now. I think Al Qaeda was very emboldened by Obama’s surrender to the Taliban in the juicy deal the Taliban got.
They know that he has no wish to oppose them, and that they are safe from the US.
Isn’t this an act of war? The ISIL now owns Mosul—they are a “nation” now. They even have an air force? Now Turkey can invade and do the job the right way—the Turkish way—With Blood and horror we in the west could not do-— Maybe their needs to be a new Ottoman Empire—Maybe they need to learn that Islam works both ways-—the horror they inflict can be done to them! Maybe this is the way things should be and we were fools to think differently. Maybe this is the way things ought to be?
You are right, of course. Unfortunately, this will be blamed on Bush ("Bush lied us into Iraq War and torture!") and unfortunatelly many on the right, including an incredibly large number of FR members, will agree with that, because they can't separate the purpose and the goals of the mission from its execution (and by execution I mean both military — which was amazingly good under the circumstances — and sustained political and PR effort — which was amazingly poor, misguided and mishandled).
Liberals / Progressives had a handbook on eventually undermining any US military intervention, no matter how necessary or even initially overwhelmingly supported by them ("I was for it before I was against it") since Vietnam. The conservatives, and especially their leadership, should have been prepared and ready for that eventual Second Front / Fifth Column, yet they fail because not enough attention is given to or enough talent deployed for the sustained PR, which eventually leads to waning and failing mission.
Of course, no mention will be made of Afghanistan, Libya and other places where Obama made a huge mess all on his own...
Many people on FR suffer from as bad a case of BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) as those on the left. In my opinion, not all of his decisions were good, and he finally let himself be way too influenced by the Dems in his “reaching across the aisle,” but he loved his country - which in his case, refreshingly, is the US - and genuinely tried to do what he thought was right to keep the country safe against a weird, constantly morphing threat from the past: the galloping hordes of Islam.
It’s one thing to be able to fight a war with a state, but he was in new territory here and, even soon after the Iraq war started, was abandoned and even attacked by the Democrats so that he had to fight for every bit of support he got.
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