IRAQ’S ATTACK AGAINST ISIS CATCHES U.S. ‘BY SURPRISE’

The Daily Beast ^ | 03/02/15 | Nancy Youssef

[keat]

The Iraqi military launched a major campaign to take back a key city from the self-proclaimed Islamic State over the weekend—a move that caught the U.S. “by surprise,” in the words of one American government official.

The U.S.-led coalition forces that have conducted seven months of airstrikes on Iraq’s behalf did not participate in the attack, defense officials told The Daily Beast, and the American military has no plans to chip in.

Instead, embedded Iranian advisors and Iranian-backed Shiite militias are taking part in the offensive on the largely Sunni town, raising the prospect that the fight to beat back ISIS could become a sectarian war.

The news is the latest indication that not all is well with the American effort against the terror group. On Friday, U.S. defense officials told The Daily Beast that a planned offensive against the ISIS stronghold of Mosul had been indefinitely postponed. Over the weekend, an American-backed rebel group in Syria announced that it was dissolving, and joining an Islamist faction.

Then there was the unexpected battle for Tikrit. Over the weekend, a reported 30,000 troops and militiamen—mostly Shiites —stormed the Sunni dominated city of Tikrit, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s hometown and the symbolic birthplace of his three decades of repressive practices against the majority Shiite population.

[MacMattico]

I wonder if it's not any surprise to Obama et al, he just knows they're going to get slaughtered and doesn't want to be seen as having any part it.

[MacMattico]

So true! I always think about when I was a kid and they started saying on tv “we have satellites that can read your license plates”. But now we can't see ISIS traveling by the hundreds or thousands across an open desert! Or, a still missing plane that was supposedly in the air eight hours after being reported off course!

[Uncle Miltie]

Good. Obama is ISIS’S button buddy.

[JohnBrowdie]

What a pig f**k.

[Shery]

You got that right. He’s probably just reading about it int he newspaper right now! LOL!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[enduserindy]

I just hope its not a “field” test.

[enduserindy]

Or you could read the article...

“the American military has no plans to chip in.

Instead, embedded Iranian advisors and Iranian-backed Shiite militias are taking part in the offensive on the largely Sunni town, raising the prospect that the fight to beat back ISIS could become a sectarian war.”

[bray]

America, lead, follow or get out of the way.

Pray America is waking

[bray]

Blondie was going through the want ads for her ISIS buddies.

[MaxMax]

Absolutely correct. He announces everything.

[CyberAnt]

Actually, I don’t believe Americans were allowed to “chip in” .. due to RULES OF ENGAGEMENT .. thanks to Obama.

[maddog55]

Everything’s a surprise when you’re clueless.

[trebb]

They need to keep ALL their plans ‘secret’ from the White Hut” or they will likely be leaked to his ‘friends’ -

Exactly - the only way to surprise any of out "enemies' is to surprise our government first.

[SunkenCiv]

> embedded Iranian advisors and Iranian-backed Shiite militias are taking part in the offensive on the largely Sunni town, raising the prospect that the fight to beat back ISIS could become a sectarian war.

Horrific video claims to show a nine-year-old ‘ISIS supporter’ being executed by Shia militia
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