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ISIS Carried Out A 'Complex And Penetrating Attack' In The Capital Of Iraq For The First Time
BI ^ | 9-18-2014 | The Institute for the Study of War

Posted on 09/18/2014 9:27:56 PM PDT by blam

The Institute for the Study of War
September. 18, 2014

On September 18, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) launched a complex attack likely targeting the Adala Prison in Baghdad’s Kadhmiyah neighborhood in northern Baghdad. According to the Baghdad Operations Command, the attack was intended to break into the prison but was foiled. ISIS also launched another attack in Baghdad’s Iskan neighborhood that likely targeted the offices of the Iraqi Shi’a political group and militia, the Badr Organization.

Institute for the Study of War

The Attack

ISIS’s attack included mortar rounds, Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (VBIEDs), and Suicide Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (SVBIEDs). The mortars were likely launched from the areas of the northern Baghdad belt including Taji. Fourteen mortar rounds reportedly targeted the Adala prison and in the vicinity of Kadhmiyah, and other mortar rounds fell in the Greaat area in northern Baghdad which is adjacent to Kadhmiyah.

An SVBIED also targeted the prison, resulting in the death of three people and injury of 10. Two attackers who had intended to attack the prison while wearing an explosive vest (SVEST) were arrested. Another VBIED exploded in a restaurant area in Kadhmiyah that resulted in the death of four people and the injury of 11 people. Iraqi police also defused yet another VBIED that was also found in Kadhmiyah. As a result of these attacks, security forces raised alert levels in Kadhmiyah.

Security Forces also ordered commercial shops to be closed in the predominantly Iraqi Sunni neighborhood of Adhamiyah. Adhamiyah lies just across the Aaima bridge from Kadhmiyah. Elsewhere in Baghdad, a VBIED detonated in the Iskan area in western Baghdad. The VBIED targeted the office of the Badr Organization, a Shi’a militia organization

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baghdad; iraq; isis; isw; terror

1 posted on 09/18/2014 9:27:56 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

George W tried to warn us.


2 posted on 09/18/2014 9:30:10 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: blam

I thought they were supposed to wait a year until Øbama’s guys were ready.


3 posted on 09/18/2014 9:31:27 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
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To: NonValueAdded

even ISIS knows not to wait for the one, he is never ready. /semi sarcasm


4 posted on 09/18/2014 9:35:12 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: blam

There’s never an M6l Vulcan 20mm gatling cannon around when you really need one ...
I think our sheriff’s dept. got one recently.


5 posted on 09/18/2014 9:43:40 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: blam; no-to-illegals; 2ndDivisionVet; All

ISIS/Bagdad attack ping.


6 posted on 09/18/2014 9:47:12 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: blam

Jerusalem Post nails Obama`s “Phony War” and Turkey`s support of ISIS

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Obamas-self-defeating-fight-375428


7 posted on 09/18/2014 10:11:18 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: blam
Are we taking bets when the $1 billion US Embassy in Baghdad will fall?
8 posted on 09/18/2014 10:16:18 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Chgogal

Soon, should have got everyone out of there while they still could.


9 posted on 09/18/2014 10:23:54 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: Chgogal

When they were building that pleasure-dome thing, I remember thinking to myself something along the lines, “That’s gonna be like giving a diamond ring to a stripper/pole-dancer.”
Obama will make a gift of it to guys who are not his Brothers.


10 posted on 09/18/2014 10:31:06 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: easternsky
I think they have started. You wouldn't know it though since MSM does not report it.

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/06/12/u-s-embassy-in-baghdad-preparing-to-evacuate-fyi-largest-u-s-embassy-ever-built-in-world-at-a-cost-of-700000000/

11 posted on 09/18/2014 10:33:19 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: bunkerhill7

That editorial deserves a thread of its own. It’s excellent.


12 posted on 09/19/2014 2:26:20 AM PDT by livius
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To: livius

“Coming to a city near you”.

With our borders wide open on the south, I anticipate there will be another event similar to Oklahoma City in the not to distant future. It WILL happen, its only a matter of time and location.

Perhaps we should hire the Australians to come up and give us a hand in AVOIDING it all together. (sarc)

Lock and load people.


13 posted on 09/19/2014 6:11:46 AM PDT by DaveA37
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