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Breaking news update! Iraqis shut down internet at U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
The Examiner ^ | June 14, 2014 | Susy Raybon

Posted on 06/15/2014 3:51:52 PM PDT by Star Traveler

A three word text was released from inside the Embassy about six hours ago: “Too late Alamo.” That message is open to interpretation.

Just minutes ago news came from within the United States Embassy in Baghdad that the Iraqis have shut down internet service for those barricaded inside. Limited text messages via private cell phones are still coming through.

It is unknown how many of the more than 5,000 U.S. civilians in Baghdad are actually taking refuge inside the embassy compound. NBC war correspondent, Richard Engel reported last night that civilians in and around Baghdad have boarded up residences and businesses.

The embassy lockup is a reminder of when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in August of 1990 and U.S. civilians were held hostage for months, including those from the State Department and Department of Transportation.

This week ISIS terrorists operating in Iraq have toppled Fallujah, Ramadi, Tikrit, and Mosul, robbing the Bank of Mosul for more than $450 million dollars. ISIS leaders now claim they are the richest terror group in the world, topping al Qaeda and Hamas. This militant group has vowed to overrun Baghdad, the nation's capital, and eliminate the Shiite ruling party.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaedaspring; baghdad; bho44; bhomiddleeast; fruitsofobama; hackers; iraq; isis; obamaforeignpolicy; obamalegacy; proislamist; soskerry; toolatealamo; twitter; usembassy; waronterror
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To: bert

Zer0, with his teleprompter, his fund raisers and his staged photo ops has been all along the president imposter—they don’t call him Zer0 for nothing.

Can you imagine him going up to the satellite image touch screen and putting his finger on the image of an ISIS pickup truck and saying, “What is dis?” while clearing out the entire screen? I can imagine him asking, “Where are the snacks around here? Can’t we have some peanuts?”

I can imagine him whining like a little bitch in the White House War Room. He would make everyone so annoyed they would hand him his golf bag and tell him to go play a round of golf—or two.


221 posted on 06/15/2014 6:21:35 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: abb

IA 444 is en route. The info on the Ruskie Flight says it’s at an airport that doesn’t report departures.


222 posted on 06/15/2014 6:21:53 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: Viennacon

It was a major FOB with an airfield just outside of Baghdad on the northeast. Very close to the heavy Shi’ite Sadr City, Shaab, and Ur neighborhoods.


223 posted on 06/15/2014 6:22:22 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: jocon307

I met the family who were 1st stopped by Saddam Hussein’s troops in Kuwait entering town of Jahra from Iraq on RTE 80.

When they opened the door at 6am the Iraqi Troops asked if they could use their house they would be back That evening..
They saw all the Palestinian boys who were spies for the Iraqi’s who went to grade school with the Kuwaiti’s dressed in Military fatigues

the family took off in their 4 SUV’s thru the desert a few hours to Saudi Arabia..


224 posted on 06/15/2014 6:22:59 PM PDT by philly-d-kidder (AB-Sheen"The truth is the truth if nobody believes it,a lie is still a lie, everybody believes it")
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To: exit82

Ford was President in 1975.

I imagine a few million Cambodians are picking at his flesh today. Along with Nixon.


225 posted on 06/15/2014 6:23:05 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: Future Snake Eater

CNN have apparently asked if there are endangered animals in Iraq.

WTF?!


226 posted on 06/15/2014 6:24:00 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: ArmstedFragg

I doubt it’s going to be landing in Baghdad.


227 posted on 06/15/2014 6:24:29 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: ArmstedFragg

TK 802 from Istanbul is late departing.


228 posted on 06/15/2014 6:24:33 PM PDT by abb
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To: Kackikat

Hussein said years ago that he was planning to push gas up to the 7 dollar range. This was a promise of his.


229 posted on 06/15/2014 6:24:50 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: abb

Yeah, or late reporting.


230 posted on 06/15/2014 6:25:54 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: Star Traveler

Time to impeach obama


231 posted on 06/15/2014 6:26:25 PM PDT by Diggity
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Although it would have made world oil markets dangerously unstable. .my first choice (after a quick demolition of the Taliban in Afghanistan) after 9/11 was the Saudis. 15 of 19 came from there and their vicious wahhabi teachings have continued unabated.

But it’s hard to go after an enemy who keeps the economies of many nations functional.

It’s an ugly mess.


232 posted on 06/15/2014 6:28:16 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Bikkuri
Also, I think I understand the message.. USA (govt) didn’t come to their aid..

No one will come to their aid. If they used the word "Alamo," that can't be good. We all know what happened at the Alamo.

233 posted on 06/15/2014 6:29:51 PM PDT by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Vet 70-71 Msgt US Air Force, retired)
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To: Diggity

I think that iaw444 is going to basra first.

http://www.flightradar24.com/IAW444/39581d9


234 posted on 06/15/2014 6:30:09 PM PDT by abb
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To: Kackikat

I have been looking at modest predictions and they are not good. $6/gallon gas would be catastrophic. I am hoping it has significant impact on the mid-term elections. If the Democrats had not fought against the ANWAR and the Keystone Pipeline, we would be better positioned for a Iraq oil shutdown. The Democrats need to go.


235 posted on 06/15/2014 6:30:31 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: Mark17

Unfortunately, we don’t have the leadership, or the backbone as a country, to replicate what happened after the Alamo.


236 posted on 06/15/2014 6:32:37 PM PDT by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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To: Mark17

In lighter news.

Jihadists celebrated the capture of Mosul with chocolate cake

https://twitter.com/MsIntervention/status/478133229858619392/photo/1


237 posted on 06/15/2014 6:32:49 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: jonrick46

You are absolutely right, I thought of the Keystone Pipeline when I heard that news...of course it is just a predication at this point.


238 posted on 06/15/2014 6:32:54 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: Chickensoup

Yes, and also said by that guy he appointed as Energy Department leader..


239 posted on 06/15/2014 6:33:45 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: Star Traveler

Let’s not blame Obozo, entirely. Everything this incompetent Islamacist has done could have been predicted in 2007. Thfe welfare teatsucking Americans as well as the fornicating single moms, and entitled minorities as well as insane liberals gave us this monstosity. We did it to ourselves. eVERYTHING THAT6 ISW HAPPENING WAS PREDICTED CORRECTLY BY mITT rOMNEY!


240 posted on 06/15/2014 6:36:56 PM PDT by 2nd Amendment (Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)
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