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U.S. Embassy Prepares for Possible Evacuation as Militants Take Control in Iraq
The Blaze ^ | Wednesday, June 11, 2014 | Sara Carter

Posted on 06/11/2014 3:38:07 PM PDT by 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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; baghdad; bho44; bhogwot; iraq; iraqmeltdown; isil; isis; mosul; obama; oif; postwariraq; saigon; tikrit; usembassy
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To: don-o

Dinesh D’Souza wrote that Obama is an anti-colonialist. I really see a lot of that character flaw in Obama in all that he does. I think he believes that he is “righting” a very old “wrong” by helping Islam re-establish the caliphate of old. Obama believes that the colonialist West “wronged” the Islamic people by conquering the Ottoman Empire and attempting to establish a civilized culture in the Middle East. Obama has a hardon for seeing it become a Caliphate again.


141 posted on 06/12/2014 7:02:21 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: hinckley buzzard

“Didn’t they call it “the Green Zone?”

The MSM called it the Green Zone to draw a parallel to Beirut. Everyone over there called it the IZ (International Zone), its official name.


142 posted on 06/12/2014 7:41:41 AM PDT by Justa
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To: paristexas

“Almost as good as the CIA’s intel about the WMD’s in Iraq.”

You’re ignorant. There were many WMDs including uranium. The coalition took casualties from IEDs which included chemical weapon shells.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25546334/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/secret-us-mission-hauls-uranium-iraq/#.U5m9TckpCd4

Go back to DU and MSNBC fool.


143 posted on 06/12/2014 7:47:05 AM PDT by Justa
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To: kristinn

Send Hilliarily and Kerry Boy over to supervise the evacuation and leave them to do their thing, negotiating.


144 posted on 06/12/2014 9:34:20 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Herr Obozo will not divert resources from his war on Americans to help our Veterans!)
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To: Travis McGee

Good top hear from you. Nothing can be added to your excellent satire.

“I’m sure glad the CIA and NSA were all over this genuine threat, and nipped it in the bud with covert ops, disinformation campaigns, and so on, and thereby both warned us and allowed us to prepare for it.

Once again, the CIA and NSA came through with timely advanced warnings of imminent major attacks by thousands of Al Queda jihadis!

Thank goodness we weren’t caught flat-footed and unaware!

With intel that good, I’m sure there is no risk at all of another 9-11, or worse.”


145 posted on 06/12/2014 9:36:07 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Herr Obozo will not divert resources from his war on Americans to help our Veterans!)
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To: Williams

- Obama is playing golf in Bagdad and on his cellphone to his Al-Kidder advisors… Good morning Iraq!


146 posted on 06/12/2014 9:36:42 AM PDT by devolve (-Tell VLADIMER after my ERECTION I have more 90% more FLEXIBILITY - pre-1899 Colt SAA frames needed)
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To: Yorlik803

- Homo Electus is taking a nap…


147 posted on 06/12/2014 9:40:09 AM PDT by devolve (-Tell VLADIMER after my ERECTION I have more 90% more FLEXIBILITY - pre-1899 Colt SAA frames needed)
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To: SomeCallMeTim

Except someone should tell NBC that the Sunnis are a distinct minority in Iraq. So maybe the whites should return to ruling South Africa. They did for 3 centuries. It’s positively scary how much knowledge the Media does not have about anything.


148 posted on 06/12/2014 12:52:57 PM PDT by xkaydet65 (.You have never tasted freedom, else you would know it is purchased not with gold but with steel)
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To: Tzimisce
"You voted for this America.

Enjoy it."

I am sure the progressves at DU and HuffPost are getting their jollies.

149 posted on 06/12/2014 1:47:23 PM PDT by buckalfa (Charter Member of the Group W Bench)
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To: kristinn
Obama is causing Christians to be killed and persecuted everywhere since taking office. He has directly been responsible by his actions and orchestrations and policies for Christians to be murdered in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, nearly all the middle east, all of Africa, and persecution in the Untied States from his support of gay marriage, homosexuality, abortion and contraception forced upon all Christian and Catholic hospitals, universities, schools, charities, businesses through obamacare. He supports all muslim causes and attacks God's chosen people in Israel. He is supported by everything and everyone that is apposed to morality and Christian values. He is doing the devil's work and fiddling as the world burns and his final act will be to cause nuclear war. From Ukraine to Iran he is setting the stage for nuclear confrontation. China and Russia are flexing their muscle and Obama cuts back America to its weakest point since WWII. He is setting up the world for the final trumpet call.
150 posted on 06/12/2014 2:50:06 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: VerySadAmerican

Obama Says Short-Term Military Actions Required in Iraq
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3167035/posts

Precisely.


151 posted on 06/12/2014 4:13:16 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

Well said.


152 posted on 06/12/2014 4:14:33 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Justa

Excellent summary.


153 posted on 06/12/2014 6:23:09 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer to drink a bunch of them. Stay thirsty my FRiends)
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To: kristinn

This is as sickening as it was predictable. Mr. -telegraph every move to the terrorists- president. Leaving a new ally behind in the dust in order to get re-elected. This was completely unnecessary. He should be impeached today! Too much blood of good young Americans was lost winning this war, and he threw it all away for nothing!


154 posted on 06/12/2014 7:19:34 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: Justa

“’Almost as good as the CIA’s intel about the WMD’s in Iraq.’

You’re ignorant. There were many WMDs including uranium. The coalition took casualties from IEDs which included chemical weapon shells.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25546334/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/secret-us-mission-hauls-uranium-iraq/#.U5m9TckpCd4

Okay, I took a look at your NBC story about the yellowcake uranium being found in Iraq. Yellowcake uranium is not a WMD. If you read the NBC article you saw that post-Saddam Iraq tried to get rid of it by putting it up for sale on the commercial market where the going price was $60 a pound. Hint, WMD’s are not sold on the commercial market for $60 a pound.

Now, I have a source for you about those non-existent WMD’s. A source, I think you will agree, who knows more about the WMD’s in Iraq than anyone else in the world, ex-president George Bush. He has said many times that one of the biggest regrests of his presidency was not finding WMD’s in Iraq. Here are three examples that took me about five minutes to locate:

“August 21, 2006 press conference
Now, look, I didn’t — part of the reason we went into Iraq was — the main reason we went into Iraq at the time was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction. It turns out he didn’t, .....

Decision Points, by George Bush
In discussing the absence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Bush notes, “That was a massive blow to our credibility—my credibility—that would shake the confidence of the American people.” He then adds: “No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.”

Interview The Times, November 10, 2010
Former US President George W Bush has said he regretted flying a “Mission Accomplished” banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln in 2003 and inaccurate information on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
64-year-old Bush told ‘The Times’ newspaper among his regrets were “flying a Mission Accomplished banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln in 2003, the premature reduction of US troop numbers in Iraq after the invasion and, above all, the inaccurate information on WMD.”
He said: “The reality was that I had sent American troops into combat based in large part on intelligence that proved false.”

So if I am ignorant about the existence of WMD’s in Iraq, then so is George Bush. We just don’t have the good sources of information that you have. Perhaps you should share your inside information with President Bush, to ease his burden.


155 posted on 06/12/2014 7:46:29 PM PDT by paristexas
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To: kristinn

If we close the embassy in Baghdad and fire all of the employees, our people and Iraqs. We could use the yearly expenses to fund better care for our wounded warrior Vets in America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_Baghdad


156 posted on 06/14/2014 8:15:34 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Herr Obozo, the Sunni WonDoer, will not divert $'s from his war on Americans to help our Veterans!)
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