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Al Qaeda Flag Flies over City Where Marines Fought Largest Battle of Iraq War
Mediaite ^ | Friday, January 3, 3014 | Noah Rothman

Posted on 01/03/2014 5:13:21 PM PST by kristinn

Just over two years since American troops entirely withdrew from Iraq, the black flag of Al Qaeda flies over the city of Fallujah’s government buildings in Iraq’s western Anbar Province. It was there that several American contractors were killed and strung up over a bridge in 2004 and American Marines fought the biggest battle of the Iraq War.

“The capture of Fallujah came amid an explosion of violence across the western desert province of Anbar in which local tribes, the Iraqi security forces and al-Qaeda militants have been fighting one another for days in a confusingly chaotic three-way war,” reads a report in the Washington Post.

From the WaPo article:

...“At the moment, there is no presence of the Iraqi state in Fallujah,” said a local journalist who asked not to be named because he fears for his safety. “The police and the army have abandoned the city, al-Qaeda has taken down all the Iraqi flags and burned them, and it has raised its own flag on all the buildings.”

At Friday prayers, held outdoors and attended by thousands of people, a masked ISIS fighter took the podium and addressed the crowd, declaring the establishment of an “Islamic emirate” in Fallujah and promising to help residents fight the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his Iranian allies.

“We don’t want to hurt you. We don’t want to take any of your possessions,” the masked man told the crowd, according to the journalist, who attended the prayers. “We want you to reopen the schools and institutions and return to your normal lives.”..

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaedainiraq; alqaedairaq; anbar; bho44; bhogwot; bush; fallujah; iran; iraq; isis; islamicimperialism; obama; obamaforeignpolicy; obamalegacy; obamasfault; obamaswars; proislamist; ramadi; shia; sunni; syria; terrorism; threatmatrix; waronterror; whywefight
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To: woofie

“At this point its too late for anything but a strike on Iraq to prevent their going nuclear...”

What?


21 posted on 01/03/2014 5:54:08 PM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Sorry I meant Iran


22 posted on 01/03/2014 5:55:20 PM PST by woofie
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To: kristinn
America cannot prop up the world. We are broke. Perhaps Europe could start saving the world, or perhaps even 'moderate' countries in the Middle East, ha ha, could do some heavy lifting.

It was always a fools errand to have any intervention. Now we are left with this.

23 posted on 01/03/2014 5:57:03 PM PST by Theoria (End Socialism : No more GOP and Dem candidates)
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To: kristinn

“We want you to reopen the schools and institutions and return to your normal lives.”..


“Relax for now.. enjoy the weekend.. we’ll wait to commence with the beheadings of your wives and children until Monday.”


24 posted on 01/03/2014 6:00:06 PM PST by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: woofie

LOL, okay. I thought I had missed some huge news event.

I agree that things will be interesting over there for the foreseeable future.


25 posted on 01/03/2014 6:01:07 PM PST by EEGator
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To: righttackle44

My stepson lost an arm and leg at Fallujah, and his younger brother and my son also fought there. November 2004, USMC.


26 posted on 01/03/2014 6:03:02 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: EEGator

Nothing.

We made a bad situation far worse by toppling the existing power structure. Secular dictatorships are the least worst option for Muslim countries.


27 posted on 01/03/2014 6:03:25 PM PST by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: Vendome

Guess we’ll be back.


Good God, I hope not.


28 posted on 01/03/2014 6:06:01 PM PST by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: ScottinVA

I agree.


29 posted on 01/03/2014 6:06:14 PM PST by EEGator
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To: kristinn; All

30 posted on 01/03/2014 6:09:28 PM PST by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
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To: kristinn

Another foreign policy success of the Obama administration.


31 posted on 01/03/2014 6:09:45 PM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: kristinn

I am sure he went way overboard but some of Saddam’s brutality was probably necessary in that particular country.


32 posted on 01/03/2014 6:12:05 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: kristinn
Why is it so hard for people to understand? Al Qaeda works for the US/NATO or, more precisely, the Globalists that control the US/NATO. Al Qaeda was used to attack the Russians, the Serbs, the Iraqis, the Libyans, and right now, the Syrians. The US/NATO funds and arms Al Qaeda to kill Christians in Syria. Next they'll be attacking the Olympics in Sochi.

Of course they are flying their flag over Iraq, just like it flies over Libya and over Syria. We put them there.

33 posted on 01/03/2014 6:14:57 PM PST by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: NEMDF

I’m so terribly sorry about your stepson and hope he is (at least relatively) okay. Semper Fi to all your boys.

My brother is now a colonel in the USMC (he was in Afghanistan most of 2002, on top of all the other places/wars).


34 posted on 01/03/2014 6:18:22 PM PST by Borax Queen
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To: hal ogen

We bailed after we lost so much blood there.I blame only ONE person. Obama. We won the war, we could have had an ally in the mideast, access to bases and oil and a stand against Iran...all we needed to do was to help them along AFTER we won.

ITS WHAT WE DID IN EUROPE WITH OUR BASES AND THE MARSHALL PLAN.

Yeah, we should have said that to the europeans”Its their turn now.”


35 posted on 01/03/2014 6:29:14 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: righttackle44

I echo your sentiment!!!!!!


36 posted on 01/03/2014 6:29:56 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: Gene Eric

thank you for the succinct comment.

Krauthammer said tonite, History will show that bailing on Iraq after we won the war will be seen as Obozo’s first and worst foreign policy mistake..all done for his poll numbers.


37 posted on 01/03/2014 6:31:53 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: phormer phrog phlyer

thank you for your service!

It is heart breaking and depressing to watch some moron like Obozo trash a hard won victory and set us up for more pain. It is a hard call to know if we had stayed to assist after the alquida was sent running, if things would have turned out different for sure. But for sure, we doomed our chances by just bolting..because of politics. and now I must get ice cream to deal with the pointlessness of it all politically.


38 posted on 01/03/2014 6:36:25 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: hal ogen

It was always their turn. Janeane Garofalo was right. What an incredible waste of blood and money.


39 posted on 01/03/2014 6:43:35 PM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

>> History will show that bailing on Iraq...

Agreed.


40 posted on 01/03/2014 6:50:21 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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