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ISIS Fighters Reportedly Seize Parts Of Iraqi Town, Threatening U.S. Marine Base
Huffing and Puffinvgton Post ^ | February 12, 2015

Posted on 02/12/2015 6:46:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

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To: robowombat

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.


21 posted on 02/12/2015 7:47:12 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: jocon307

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.


22 posted on 02/12/2015 7:47:54 PM PST by txhurl
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
These marines could use about 20 of these:

Perfect place for application.

23 posted on 02/12/2015 7:49:46 PM PST by Monty22002
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To: txhurl

These iraqi shiites suck. I knew they couldn’t fight the Wahhabi sunni bastards. They are women in the face of real Wahhabi fighters.


24 posted on 02/12/2015 7:55:09 PM PST by iowacornman (Romney is the father of government health care.)
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To: iowacornman

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.


25 posted on 02/12/2015 7:57:54 PM PST by txhurl
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To: txhurl

“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


26 posted on 02/12/2015 8:00:01 PM PST by Slambat
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To: txhurl
it’s daylight there now. We should be getting back some data by now.

What does the lighting have to do with multiple channels of communication?

27 posted on 02/12/2015 8:05:14 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Slambat

Wi-fi is dragging.. what’s in the utube?


28 posted on 02/12/2015 8:05:31 PM PST by txhurl
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To: dragnet2

Pics and twitter by locals bragging for IS? Maybe nothing happened, except the capture of al-Baghdadi.


29 posted on 02/12/2015 8:09:32 PM PST by txhurl
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


30 posted on 02/12/2015 8:10:24 PM PST by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: txhurl

The military has many means to communicate, on and off the grid.


31 posted on 02/12/2015 8:12:51 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: robowombat
Marines’ personal weapons were “rendered inoperable” at the airport, and their destroyed components were left behind.

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.

32 posted on 02/12/2015 8:27:32 PM PST by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: dragnet2

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.


33 posted on 02/12/2015 8:32:01 PM PST by txhurl
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To: txhurl
I’m not talking about .mil, I’m talking about social media discussing what did or did not happen. IS blabs about everything.

Oh, you're waiting to hear what the bad guys disseminate to the social media?

Got it.

34 posted on 02/12/2015 8:54:22 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: txhurl

Bill Clinton “It Depends on what the meaning of the word is is”.


35 posted on 02/12/2015 8:58:26 PM PST by Slambat
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To: Viennacon

Nothing about this on Drudge. When I see it on drudge, I’ll pay attention.


36 posted on 02/12/2015 9:04:29 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: onyx

When I see it on Drudge, I’ll pay attention.


37 posted on 02/12/2015 9:05:19 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: blueunicorn6

>What the hell is it going to take before the American Press quits covering for this dipstick?<

.
How do you think he ended up in the WH in the first place but with the support of the MSM?


38 posted on 02/12/2015 9:09:23 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: dragnet2

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.


39 posted on 02/12/2015 9:09:43 PM PST by txhurl
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To: robowombat

Marines took a big chance of being massacred after disarming themselves.

Thanks be to God no Marine got hurt.


40 posted on 02/12/2015 9:19:17 PM PST by 353FMG
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