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Shi'ite forces move in on Iraqi city taken by Islamic State
REUTERS ^ | May 18, 2015

Posted on 05/18/2015 6:29:41 AM PDT by McGruff

A column of Shi'ite militia fighters arrived at a military base near Ramadi on Monday as Baghdad moved to retake the western Iraqi city that fell to Islamic State militants in the biggest defeat for the government since last summer.

An eyewitness described a long line of armored vehicles and trucks mounted with machine guns and rockets, flying the yellow flags of Kataib Hezbollah, one of the militia factions, heading towards the base.

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


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: isisieaq; isisiraq; ramadi; shiamilitia; shiites; sunnis
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That was quick.
1 posted on 05/18/2015 6:29:41 AM PDT by McGruff
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Iran ready to help Iraq confront Islamic State: senior Tehran official
2 posted on 05/18/2015 6:31:45 AM PDT by McGruff (What did Hillary know and when did she know it?)
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To: McGruff

Obana


3 posted on 05/18/2015 6:31:50 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

Obama in action around the world.
Weakness makes trouble around the world.


4 posted on 05/18/2015 6:32:49 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

From Twitter: Islamic State militants advance east from Iraq’s Ramadi towards Habbaniya base, witnesses say - @Reuters


5 posted on 05/18/2015 6:33:45 AM PDT by McGruff (What did Hillary know and when did she know it?)
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To: McGruff

We should send more guns.


6 posted on 05/18/2015 6:33:47 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: McGruff

Unless there is an attempt to tax them Obama will not get involved.


7 posted on 05/18/2015 6:36:03 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: McGruff

It’s going to be a bloodbath in Ramadi soon. Especially since the Sunnis and Shi’ites really hate each other.


8 posted on 05/18/2015 6:37:41 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: McGruff
How to lose a war that was once won.

Remember the good ole days?

Jackass Obama never wanted anything to do with "Bush's War" even to the point of abandoning the country.

9 posted on 05/18/2015 6:46:05 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: McGruff

The Moslem three sided Civil War is full on. For the Shias the enemy includes especially Israel as it does for the ISIS faction of the Sunnis. The two Sunni factions intermingle at the edges and allegiances change and change again while their cores claw at each others’ throats. America is in this fight in a big way and it is not totally clear which faction America supports deep down. It seems most likely tat Sunni America will prove to be supporting the Caliphate Sunnis in the end, against the Arab states and against Iran and against Israel.


10 posted on 05/18/2015 6:47:20 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: TexasCajun

Hussein has very much made it his own war but his goals are not similar to Bush’s goals and he understands the facts on the ground much better than any gope or non Moslem Democrat ever could.


11 posted on 05/18/2015 6:49:29 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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Huh, we train and give them weapons, and when ISIS shows up and farts, they abandon their equipment and run for their lives. There must have been chickensh!t and feathers everywhere. Thanks, 0bama!

Saw a comment elsewhere saying 0bama's strategy of letting the ragheads kill each other was working perfectly and we'd go back in after the ground cooled off. SMH... Where do they get this crap?

12 posted on 05/18/2015 6:50:29 AM PDT by W. (Animals are much stupider since Noah's Ark, because of inbreeding.--Oglaf)
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To: W.

In hindsight, seems that the only person in this entire affair who was right was Joe Biden.

Three countries. One Sunni, One Shiite, One Kurd.


13 posted on 05/18/2015 6:57:42 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liawatha, because we need to beat a real commie, not a criminal posing as one.)
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To: McGruff
Iraq becomes 3 countries:


Kurdistan
Isisstan
Iranastan

14 posted on 05/18/2015 6:57:46 AM PDT by AU72
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Three countries. One Sunni, One Shiite, One Kurd.

The world doesn't need any more moslem countries.

15 posted on 05/18/2015 7:02:26 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: McGruff
No problem - Remember that ISIS is just the Jay-Vee.


16 posted on 05/18/2015 7:09:05 AM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: AppyPappy

I take your statement as sarcasm but I ask, “So the Iraqi Army can abandon them in the street when they run away?”


17 posted on 05/18/2015 7:11:46 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A free society canÂ’t let the parameters of its speech be set by murderous extremists.)
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To: TexasCajun
Yes, good sir, you have summed up the situation quite well.

Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!

18 posted on 05/18/2015 7:12:33 AM PDT by Joe Brower (The "American People" are no longer capable of self-governance.)
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To: McGruff

A bit late for that. If the Shiite forces couldn’t hold Ramadi from defensive positions, they sure aren’t going to have much luck attacking the Sunni defensive positions.


19 posted on 05/18/2015 7:14:36 AM PDT by expat2
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To: arthurus

Remain Calm!
Everything will be Better when Iran gets the Bomb!

Oh wait......


20 posted on 05/18/2015 7:14:51 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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