Perfect place for application.
Posted on 02/12/2015 6:46:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Islamic State insurgents took control on Thursday of large parts of the western Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi, threatening an air base where U.S. Marines are training Iraqi troops, officials said.
Al-Baghdadi, about 85 km (50 miles) northwest of Ramadi in Anbar province, has been besieged for months by the radical Sunni Islamist militants who captured vast swathes of northern and western Iraq last year.
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That they were ordered to disarm and destroy their own arms is frightening enough.
Those men should have never been relieved of so much as a MRE.
7 hours later, no new info either way.
Did the Iraqis in training turn? IS isn’t bragging, no tweets anywhere... did IS get a drone up with a manpad on it? This is now a huge scoop if nothing happened, or if something did... but no info.
Perfect place for application.
These iraqi shiites suck. I knew they couldn’t fight the Wahhabi sunni bastards. They are women in the face of real Wahhabi fighters.
What if Iran ICBMd them? They’ve been insistent about the 12th imam lately... it’s daylight there now. We should be getting back some data by now.
“Did the Iraqis in training turn? IS isn’t bragging, no tweets anywhere... did IS get a drone up with a manpad on it?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4XT-l-_3y0
What does the lighting have to do with multiple channels of communication?
Wi-fi is dragging.. what’s in the utube?
Pics and twitter by locals bragging for IS? Maybe nothing happened, except the capture of al-Baghdadi.
The earliest report on this is the Reuters story posted at 2:45 pm EDT on Thursday. All subsequent news stories since then are rewrites of that report. No one apparently knows what the situation there is at this time.
The military has many means to communicate, on and off the grid.
Great strategy here....just gave them some nice bits of high tensile steel to put in EID's...
...expect to receive the gun parts back shortly.
I’m not talking about .mil, I’m talking about social media discussing what did or did not happen. IS blabs about everything. If they could even fabricate footage about the base, they’d publish it, and by now. So I lean towards the rubbling of al-Baghdadi... and hope we don’t wake up to WWIII in the AM.
Just odd to go this long with no new info than initially reported.
Oh, you're waiting to hear what the bad guys disseminate to the social media?
Got it.
Bill Clinton “It Depends on what the meaning of the word is is”.
Nothing about this on Drudge. When I see it on drudge, I’ll pay attention.
When I see it on Drudge, I’ll pay attention.
>What the hell is it going to take before the American Press quits covering for this dipstick?<
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How do you think he ended up in the WH in the first place but with the support of the MSM?
If Reuters hadn’t repeated this, I’d have ignored it, along with about 50 million other people. Maybe - hopefully - it’s disinfo to see who lights up.
Guess we’ll know when we wake up.
Marines took a big chance of being massacred after disarming themselves.
Thanks be to God no Marine got hurt.
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