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Ambassador and staff evacuated as Iraq protesters attack US embassy (in Iraq)
The Independent (UK) | December 31 | Borzou Daragahi

Posted on 12/31/2019 2:06:22 AM PST by PghBaldy

US embassy staff and the US ambassador in Baghdad have been evacuated, according to two unnamed Iraqi Foreign Ministry officials cited by Reuters, as hundreds of Iraqi protesters swam the embassy compound.

Iraqi supporters of a powerful Iranian-backed militia were attacking the outside of the fortified zone that surrounds the US embassy compound in Baghdad, protesting against American air strikes that killed 25 fighters from the group, news agencies reported.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: baghdad; embassy; installdemocracy; iran; iraq; moabtime; neoconfailures; terrorattack; trumpiran; usembassy; worldpolice
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To: greenishness
Trump’s Benghazi.

Somehow I think the outcome will be much different. Trump won't f*ck around with these pricks.

121 posted on 12/31/2019 7:16:47 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Time to move out of your mother’s basement and get a girlfriend........


122 posted on 12/31/2019 7:17:52 AM PST by LFOD (Formerly - Iraq, Afghanistan - back home in Dixie.)
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To: PghBaldy

“I say we get our people out, take off, and nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
-Lt. Ripley, “Aliens”


123 posted on 12/31/2019 7:26:16 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: RoosterRedux

To those lurking, I really must educate on this even the focus is incorrigible.

Dying is a process of failing health that left unattended will in most cases result in death.

But death is only one outcome of dying. Other outcomes (which overlap) are:

Remission
Recovery
Cure
Resuscitation
Resurrection

For example, Viktor Shokin, Ukraine’s top prosecutor who was fired on Biden’s quid pro quo, was poisoned TWICE after being ousted. After each poisoning, he died as in his heart stopped beating long enough to be declared legally dead. But after each death he was resuscitated and lived. This according to Rudy. Incidentally, Viktor is a very likeable, credible fellow, very honest, very genuine.


124 posted on 12/31/2019 7:28:11 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Hostage

Is the white hat plan actually to free Iran?


125 posted on 12/31/2019 7:32:06 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: huldah1776

Absolutely. Just as in North Korea. It’s taking a little longer because Iran is not as isolated as NK.


126 posted on 12/31/2019 7:35:07 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: nuconvert

[They’re not being held hostage. They are pretty much one in the same.]


Pretty much the only thing keeping the embassy staff safe is the prime minister’s knowledge that there’s a potential JDAM with his name on it if he lets dozens of Americans get killed. That his family would die with him is the real bonus.


127 posted on 12/31/2019 7:35:20 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: greenishness

“Trump’s Benghazi?” Hardly. They were rescued not left to die.


128 posted on 12/31/2019 7:38:10 AM PST by Persevero (Desmond is not -Amazing- Desmond is -Abused-)
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To: unixfox

Agreed. I have confidence in this President.


129 posted on 12/31/2019 7:39:19 AM PST by greenishness
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To: Hostage

I like your clear thinking.


130 posted on 12/31/2019 7:49:47 AM PST by Shark24
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To: Alberta's Child

Aw now don’t give up we need you


131 posted on 12/31/2019 7:51:53 AM PST by Persevero (Desmond is not -Amazing- Desmond is -Abused-)
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To: PghBaldy

Globalists seem determined to get President Trump involved in a war before the next election.


132 posted on 12/31/2019 7:53:28 AM PST by Cedar
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To: grey_whiskers

I believe you are correct.

Our deep state is salivating for a North Korean missile launch, a Middle East war with Iran, or suicide bomber crazed school shootings stateside. And I’ve come to believe they participate in making such things happen as a means to control the information channels, the narrative. It’s their ammunition and unfortunately one tactical stratagem is to time their use of their ammunition (because they’re going to use it anyway) so that they’re out of ammunition when our side engages them.

After the last school shooting, our President was walking outside when he was informed there were casualties. POTUS stopped, winced, closed his eyes as if saying a brief prayer, then he resumed walking.

It was painfully obvious he knows we are in a war and that innocent blood will be shed.


133 posted on 12/31/2019 8:00:07 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: greenishness

I really do doubt that.

Where do you get that idea anyway?


134 posted on 12/31/2019 8:01:19 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: PghBaldy

Lucas Tomlinson
@LucasFoxNews
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U.S. Army Apache helicopter gunship dropped flares over U.S. Embassy in Baghdad minutes ago in ‘show of force,’ officials say
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Amichai Stein (Israeli Public Broadcasting Corp)
@AmichaiStein1
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#BREAKING: Washington to send additional Marine Corps to US Embassy in #Baghdad


135 posted on 12/31/2019 8:05:09 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PghBaldy

Lucas Tomlinson
@LucasFoxNews
~100 U.S. Marines being sent to U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to bolster security: U.S. defense official. No plans to evacuate embassy personnel.
10:47 AM · Dec 31, 2019·Twitter Web App

https://twitter.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1212037465944576000?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet


136 posted on 12/31/2019 8:07:17 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PghBaldy

Deja Vu of 1979.


137 posted on 12/31/2019 8:10:07 AM PST by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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To: PghBaldy

Vaporize Iraq


138 posted on 12/31/2019 8:11:15 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: PghBaldy

We had the chance to turn the entire area into a sheet of glass but didn’t.

We should put every American out of the ME and let them fight it out amongst the tribes.


139 posted on 12/31/2019 8:11:37 AM PST by bgill
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To: Sequoyah101

Where do you get that idea anyway?

Depending on how this is handled.

There are parallels.


140 posted on 12/31/2019 8:13:57 AM PST by greenishness
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