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To: Enlightened1

This is coming from a Three Star General Director of Defense Intelligence.


2 posted on 08/09/2015 5:28:43 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1; 2ndDivisionVet; All

This mess really got off the ground when all the senior Iraqi military leaders were fired, and then all the low level troops were fired too. Instead of being taken over by non Saddam Hussein loyalists and retrained. A significant part of ISIL is former Iraq military leadership.

Meanwhile, the Iraq prime minister and Cabinet are proposing sweeping reforms to fight corruption and sectarianism.

https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/iraq-cabinet-backs-pm-abbadis-sweeping-reform-measures-175745985.html

http://www.wsj.com/articles/iraq-cabinet-approves-sweeping-reforms-to-political-system-1439133137?mod=fox_australian

In other news Turkey is reportedly killing hundreds of Kurds in northern Iraq.


14 posted on 08/09/2015 5:45:43 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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