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Iraq prime minister calls for state of emergency
AP ^ | 6/10/14 | SAMEER N. YACOUB and ADAM SCHRECK

Posted on 06/10/2014 10:16:15 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

Iraq's prime minister has asked parliament to declare a state of emergency over a militant attack in Mosul.

Nouri al-Maliki made the call in a televised news conference Tuesday.

Militants effectively seized of Iraq's second-largest city of Mosul on Tuesday.

Iraqi security forces abandoned their posts and militants overran the provincial government headquarters and other key buildings, dealing a serious blow to Baghdad's attempts to tame a widening insurgency in the country.

The gunmen torched several of the city's police stations, freeing detainees held in lockups.

The fighters are believed to be affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, an al-Qaida splinter group that is behind the bulk of the bloody attacks in Iraq and is among the most ruthless rebel forces in Syria.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraq; iraqcrisis; isis; mosul; stateofemergency
Isn't the quiet way this happened a bit concerning??
1 posted on 06/10/2014 10:16:15 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Iraq is going to fall apart and Iran is going to move in before the end of the year is done...

We are now perceived as that weak now, I think the prisoner exchange signaled soemthing to that effect....


2 posted on 06/10/2014 10:20:04 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: TangledUpInBlue
"Isn't the quiet way this happened a bit concerning??"

Yes, was it "quiet" because there was enough inside involvement to have a shotless coup. Or was it "quiet" because the media won't report on it, less they make Obama look bad, or their middle eastern owners upset?

3 posted on 06/10/2014 10:21:10 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: TangledUpInBlue
If the media could shut it out entirely they'd do that.

When the Iraq thing began - really, when it was restarted - in 2003 I said it would buy us time in the War Against Islam. I was hoping for 20 years. We got three. That is absolutely and directly ascribable to 0bama and nobody else.

4 posted on 06/10/2014 10:21:34 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Militants effectively seized of Iraq's second-largest city of Mosul on Tuesday.

Wut?

5 posted on 06/10/2014 10:22:07 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: GraceG

“Iraq is going to fall apart and Iran is going to move in before the end of the year is done...”

This scenario was the plot of a Tom Clancey novel..


6 posted on 06/10/2014 10:22:16 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue (I have no home. I'm the wind.)
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To: GraceG
"We are now perceived as that weak now, I think the prisoner exchange signaled soemthing to that effect..."

I think the election and reelection of Obama signaled something to that effect.

7 posted on 06/10/2014 10:22:31 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: GraceG

We are now perceived as that weak now, I think the prisoner exchange signaled soemthing to that effect....

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No doubt about that. The “exchange” was a clear sign of weakness and concession to demanding thugs. Our adversaries around the world also noticed and now see nothing but green lights ahead to do whatever they want. They see the U.S. as having backed down.

Weakness invites aggression. Always has, always will.


8 posted on 06/10/2014 10:25:32 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Billthedrill

We’re only in the first inning of this “game”. Things are going to get a lot worse IMO.


9 posted on 06/10/2014 10:27:29 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: GraceG

If Iran has anything to fear from taking Iraq, it’s either from the Sunni’s in Iraq or liberals within their country. They have nothing to fear from the US government.


10 posted on 06/10/2014 10:32:01 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Starboard
>> Weakness invites aggression. <<

And zero has rolled out the red carpet. Look for this type of activity to increase at break-neck speed.

11 posted on 06/10/2014 10:33:38 AM PDT by appalachian_dweller (Live each day as if it's your last. It might be.)
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To: GraceG

Flexibility


12 posted on 06/10/2014 10:43:42 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - ever.)
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To: GraceG

DON’T SEND OUR TROOPS. WHO CARES LET IS BURN!


13 posted on 06/10/2014 10:44:40 AM PDT by angcat
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To: appalachian_dweller
IMO Obama is looking for opportunities to weaken and humiliate America at every turn. He will happily retreat, cave in, or apologize given the chance to do as each step back takes the country down another notch. And the Left applaudes his every concession because they detest our freedom-based exceptionalism.

If its bad for America, Obama is for it.

14 posted on 06/10/2014 10:45:20 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: angcat

Yep. It’s going to hurt us to do nothing, but it’ll hurt worse to send our guys back in. Obama has successfully wrecked this country.


15 posted on 06/10/2014 10:47:40 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: GraceG

AlQeda is surging terrorists into Iraq


16 posted on 06/10/2014 10:49:49 AM PDT by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: demshateGod
Valleri Jarrett & Co are going to have luxurious fortified compounds in Tehran, with their own military guards. This administration has done more for the advancement of radical Islam as dished out by Tehran than they could ever have accomplished on their own, and at the expense of the American Taxpayers as well.

Iranian Nukes, Turning on Israel, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Taliban staffing & replenishment, Ukraine, North Korea, Japan / China relations, Afghanistan, Iraq, North Africa, and on, and on, and on,.........

The Obameffect on the globe is a plague. Remember when we were told the world was going to begin to heal itself because Obama took office in 2008?

17 posted on 06/10/2014 10:55:49 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Lockheed Martin delivers first F-16 to Iraqi air force

Lukman Faily, Iraq’s ambassador to the United States, said the F-16s will allow the rebuilding Iraqi air force to protect its own borders. Taking delivery of the first fighter sends “a clear sign to the world and the region that a stable and strong Iraq in a partnership of choice with the United States is what we are after.”

18 posted on 06/10/2014 11:26:34 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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