Posted on 01/18/2015 6:35:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
BAGHDAD - - A year after ISIL fighters captured Fallujah in Iraq’s Anbar province, the country’s Shiite-led government remains incapable of mounting a major offensive to retake the city or any of the key areas still held by the group.
In January last year, Fallujah, 70 kilometres west of Baghdad, became the first major city to fall to ISIL. This was followed by a summer campaign that seized the country’s second-largest city, Mosul, and Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit, along with most of northern and western Iraq.
Iraq’s slow-moving fight against ISIL has also highlighted the country’s sectarian tensions, given Iran a key role in military operations, and laid bare the country’s love-hate relationship with the United States, whose troops only withdrew from Iraq in 2011 after invading eight years before.
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øbola should go on a state visit to Iraq and wow isis with his basketball skills. That’d learn ‘em.
And yet he doesn’t care about his own advice when dealing with some known crooked individuals in the Middle East. After so many years, you’d think that big shot politicians would think our waste of money, troops, and even our oil(we lost more then we can hope to gain) would prove the point.
Falluja should be urban renewed, razed to the ground for a start.
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