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US evacuates Baghdad embassy as brutal ISIS forces advance ... [Breaking!]
The Mail Online ^ | Sunday, June 15. 2014 | Michael Zennie and Damien Gayle

Posted on 06/15/2014 3:39:08 PM PDT by Star Traveler

The United States has evacuated most of its personnel from the Embassy in Baghdad and dramatically stepped up security for those who remain as thousands of Islamic fighters bear down on Iraq's capital city.

Some 5,500 people work in the massive Embassy complex in the heavily-fortified Green Zone in Baghdad. Many will be airlifted to Amman, Jordan, and others will be sent to consulates in Basra, in the south, and Erbil, in the Kurdish north.

Other workers will remain in Baghdad.

Some 12,000 fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) are marching on Baghdad after quickly capturing Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, last week.

The fighters, who are predominately Sunni Muslims - a large minority in Iraq, then turned south and began baring down on Baghdad, capturing towns along the way.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: baghdad; bho44; bhomiddleeast; evacuation; iraq; isis; muslims; soskerry; sunni; sunnimuslims; toolatealamo; usembassy
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To: Jack Hydrazine

April 30th 1975. Almost time for the Saigon last helicopter out leaving from the top of the US Embassy.


41 posted on 06/15/2014 4:13:35 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: EternalVigilance

This is be organized by Baathists/Saddam era Iraqi Army who are using ISIS as a front or mayhem. This required professional skill and years of infiltration and organization.


42 posted on 06/15/2014 4:13:38 PM PDT by sunrise_sunset
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To: tcrlaf

Unconfirmed also.

Baghdad airport is now under attack by ISIS rockets.


43 posted on 06/15/2014 4:14:48 PM PDT by McGruff (ISIS Terror Leader Was Released By Obama from Camp Bucca in 2009)
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To: gogeo

I said it very early after Obama was re-elected. The comparison was just too obvious.


44 posted on 06/15/2014 4:17:21 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: All

Sounds like the same meaning as “frequent wind” from the fall of saigon. sigh.


45 posted on 06/15/2014 4:17:36 PM PDT by mulder1 ("The past is prologue")
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To: sunrise_sunset

And none of it would be happening if the pretender in the White House didn’t want it to.


46 posted on 06/15/2014 4:17:52 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

Good job Obama.


47 posted on 06/15/2014 4:19:29 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: tcrlaf

UNREAL! CNN can’t stand televising a failure for a democratic administration.


48 posted on 06/15/2014 4:20:41 PM PDT by mulder1 ("The past is prologue")
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To: Genoa

“Prediction: stalemate. Kurds and Sunnis to the north, and Shiites to the south forming a branch office for Iran and an intolerable situation for Saudi Arabia.”

That’s going to be the end game. Kurds in the far north, where they’ve always been, Sunnis in the middle, and Shiites in the South. The Shiites WILL DEFEND Basra which is their territory (with help from Iran), but they WILL NOT DEFEND Baghdad, which is Sunni. The Kurds, of course, are not about to let the ISIS bunch get near them.

The country will be partitioned...in the way it should have always been.


49 posted on 06/15/2014 4:21:30 PM PDT by BobL
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To: sunrise_sunset

The invading jihadists have no intent to split anything up. They want it all. And they have U.S. backing.

Just like Serbia/Kosovo, Iran Green Revolution, Egypt, Lybia, Syria, and now Iraq. Clinton and Hussein have ALWAYS backed and supported the jihadists.

Every. Time.

No one should be the least surprised about what is going on now.


50 posted on 06/15/2014 4:21:45 PM PDT by BigBobber (`)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
It’s Iran 1979 all over again.

Only who would have guessed we would ever have a weaker president than Carter?
51 posted on 06/15/2014 4:24:05 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: hoagy62

Yes.


52 posted on 06/15/2014 4:24:53 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: tcrlaf

Unbelievable! They broadcast 24/7 from Egypt when there a turmoil there....but not here. Hmm....wonder why?/sarc


53 posted on 06/15/2014 4:25:12 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: eyedigress
U.S. Constitution, Article IV, Section 4:

The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government,

and shall protect each of them against invasion


54 posted on 06/15/2014 4:26:12 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: gitmo
I can't believe Obama has not even sent in air support.

...but I suspect it would look even worse for Obama if our planes got shot down by stinger missiles from Libya.

55 posted on 06/15/2014 4:27:24 PM PDT by mware
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To: Star Traveler

HE will read about the slaughter in the newspaper or maybe on TV after his golf game. What an incredible jerk!


56 posted on 06/15/2014 4:28:07 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Star Traveler

http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/complete/2014-06-13

Friday, June 13 2014

11:55 am The President and First Lady depart the White House en route Joint Base Andrews

12:10 pm The President and First Lady depart Joint Base Andrews

2:45 pm The President and First Lady arrive Bismarck, North Dakota

3:40 pm The President and First Lady participate in a roundtable discussion with Native American Youth

4:45 pm The President and First Lady attend the Cannon Ball Flag Day Celebration

6:20 pm The President and First Lady depart Bismarck, North Dakota en route Palm Springs, California

9:20 pm The President and First Lady arrive Palm Springs, California

Saturday, June 14 2014

Golfing in Palm Springs

Sunday, June 15 2014

Golfing in Palm Springs

Monday, June 16 2014

Fundraising, chatting with various groups about Climate Change


57 posted on 06/15/2014 4:31:04 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: McGruff

I read bout an hour ago that the head of al Nusra had been assassinated in Syria, and now the ISIS commander is in charge. Al Nusra was a rival organization that has been displaced by ISIS.


58 posted on 06/15/2014 4:31:44 PM PDT by livius
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To: Genoa

They’d be doing the job enthusiastically if the president had an “(R)” after his name.


59 posted on 06/15/2014 4:32:26 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Brown Deer
Monday, June 16 2014 Fundraising, chatting with various groups about Climate Change

Heard it's getting mighty hot in Baghdad.

60 posted on 06/15/2014 4:32:52 PM PDT by mware
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