Posted on 06/17/2014 4:01:06 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
Iraqi government forces are engaged in heavy clashes with Sunni insurgents who have made major advances in the past week.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
bfl
Sounds like ISIS forces are doing a “thunder run” to Bagdad..
I bet that there isn’t one “wedding party” struck by Iraqi airstrikes.
I have come to detest these people. They are nothing but one long continual blight on the rest of humanity.
Very informative thanks for posting.
And thanks to ZERO & Hagel they have our weapons. Many are very high tech.
Another FU by the one who is NOT VERY WISE. . . .
Let me know when they start building the pipelines from the gulf states to the Med.
Note we’re calling them “Sunni insurgents” now, so Bambi can go with the comforting myth that this is “just a sectarian squabble.” ISIS is killing Sunnis as well, that is, anybody who is not on board with the new caliphate. There are probably some disaffected Sunnis joining them, but this is AQ (in its new ISIS incarnation) and nothing but.
Is that the same T. Boone Pickens who said the future of energy is wind?
Now is the time to get the US Embassy complex ready for the mother of all demolitions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKELtjoNrPderU
Well, at least airlines have already passed through at least one fare hike in the last month...now they don’t have to use additional fuel surcharges as indirect fare hikes and masquerade them as fuel. :)
Planes are still landing at Baghdad Airport. They landed and took off all day and early evening yesterday.
Iraqi Airlines have been landing and taking off regularily since yesterday.
IAW (Iraqi Air Line) 124 landed a few minutes ago.
http://www.flightradar24.com/33.33,44.28/10
United Emerits EK944 / UAE944 just took off from Baghdad Airport. It veered east and flew over the city of Baghdad.
http://www.flightradar24.com/33.33,44.28/10
Southbound Iraqi Air 924 appears to be heading south and may loop back north to land at Baghdad Airport.
http://www.flightradar24.com/33.33,44.28/9
Southbound Iraqi Air 924 is in the approach vector to land at Baghdad Airport.
http://www.flightradar24.com/33.33,44.28/10
“Parts of the city of Baquba - just 60km (37 miles) from Baghdad - were briefly taken over by the rebels.”
I was wrong by a day. :-S
Southbound Iraqi Air 924 landed at 13:35.
The link below shows a wider area of planes flying over Iraq. Seems to be a lot more planes in Iraqi air space today:
http://www.flightradar24.com/33.33,44.28/7
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