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Iraq crisis: US embassy workers evacuated as Republicans slam Obama
The Guardian ^ | Sunday, June 15, 2014 | Dominic Rushe

Posted on 06/15/2014 4:38:58 PM PDT by Star Traveler

Mike McCaul, the Republican chair of the House homeland security committee, told ABC's This Week: “Well, this is a crisis. It does call for a response, not going to Palm Springs for a fundraiser.”

Later on Sunday, Psaki released a statement on security at US embassies. The Obama administration faces ongoing congressional scrutiny of its response to an attack on a US facility in Benghazi in September 2012, in which four Americans, including the ambassador to Libya, were killed.

In Baghdad later on Sunday, a series of explosions killed at least 15 people and injured more than 30, police and hospital officials said.

Insurgents also seized Tal Afar, a mainly ethnic Turkmen city in the north west of the country, after heavy fighting. Residents reached by telephone said it had fallen.

"The city was overrun by militants. Severe fighting took place, and many people were killed. Shi'ite families have fled to the west and Sunni families have fled to the east," a city official who asked not to be identified told Reuters.

Graham said “this stubborn-headed president we have who thinks he knows better than anybody else, who withdrew troops and exposed this country to the inevitable, needs to change his policies quickly”.

He added that Obama was “delusional” and “detached”. “The number of people who could die in this country from getting this wrong is going to be far greater than 4,000 [a reference to the number of US troops killed so far in Iraq, actually 4,424] because they are getting hold of weapons they did not have before,” he said.

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


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraq; isis; map
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To: abb

He did. Might be loaded with Quds Forces, but then they could just hit it with a rocket.


41 posted on 06/15/2014 5:23:06 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: cripplecreek
CPANDF ‏@theratzpack · 1m @CyberRanter @2009superglide 5,500 yanks stuck in or near their embassy in #Baghdad #ISIS is comin. @BarackObama is 'weighing his options'
42 posted on 06/15/2014 5:26:03 PM PDT by mware
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To: Star Traveler

Have you seen the articles today about how Obama is bored by being President?

It’s all over but the shouting.


43 posted on 06/15/2014 5:27:20 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Viennacon

Got another flight orbiting now.


44 posted on 06/15/2014 5:30:02 PM PDT by abb
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To: abb

No callsign on that one either


45 posted on 06/15/2014 5:30:56 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Viennacon

Climbing out now and it looks like a pretty steep climb to this layman.


46 posted on 06/15/2014 5:31:04 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: blueunicorn6
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Some of us saw this day coming.

47 posted on 06/15/2014 5:31:21 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: SatinDoll

What do you base that 1957 Indonesia claim on?


48 posted on 06/15/2014 5:31:49 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: abb

No callsign? Looks like it just took off? Maybe Malaki heading to Argentina. Bomb Voyage!


49 posted on 06/15/2014 5:31:56 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: blueunicorn6

Don’t worry Barry is getting ready to pow wow with Iran. They will know what to do.


50 posted on 06/15/2014 5:35:41 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: cripplecreek; SkyDancer

Great Map, but an OH SH!T map.


51 posted on 06/15/2014 5:40:00 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“Well, I wouldn’t want to be in ISIS’ shoes. When Obama’s mad....whoa boy, look out! Nobody’s madder than Obama.”
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And when he’s REALLY angry, you can count on the BRILLIANT Barry Obama to announce “They had better not call my bluff”.


52 posted on 06/15/2014 5:45:30 PM PDT by House Atreides (ELL)
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To: House Atreides

Meanwhile, Wookie sends a hashtag!


53 posted on 06/15/2014 5:46:29 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: cripplecreek

@6:18 pm PDT, there is a Quatar cargo plane approaching.

http://www.flightradar24.com/33.67,44.21/9

That plane veered off at 6:19 pm PDT

A KLM plane was/is approaching the airport now.

http://www.flightradar24.com/33.67,44.21/9


54 posted on 06/15/2014 6:21:06 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Herr Obozo, the Sunni WonDoer, will not divert $'s from his war on Americans to help our Veterans!)
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To: Grampa Dave

At 6:23 PDT, the KLM plane appears to veering off:

http://www.flightradar24.com/33.67,44.21/9


55 posted on 06/15/2014 6:22:43 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Herr Obozo, the Sunni WonDoer, will not divert $'s from his war on Americans to help our Veterans!)
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To: lavaroise
Instead of complaining, why dont they impeach him and replace him with someone to do the job while he is gone...

Given the past acts of treason by Traitorobama and his Gestapo regime, for which they did nothing but whine, the GOP in Congress have demonstrated they are gutless cowards or traitors.

Congress will avoid their doing their duty this time as well.

56 posted on 06/15/2014 6:27:31 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Grampa Dave

Should be dawn in Iraq pretty soon.


57 posted on 06/15/2014 6:39:09 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Grampa Dave
Smoke rising over the airport.

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58 posted on 06/15/2014 6:44:09 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: cripplecreek

Shock and Awe II


59 posted on 06/15/2014 6:46:55 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: TADSLOS

Apparently that photo is from Gaza 2012. There are other photos coming in but I’ll wait to see what pans out. Should be about daylight now.


60 posted on 06/15/2014 6:49:02 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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