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Al-Qaida Establishes Islamic Caliphate across Syria, Norther Iraq
Daily Caller ^ | Joseph Miller (pen name fmr. sr. DoD)

Posted on 06/11/2014 12:38:33 PM PDT by Mount Athos

Al-Qaida has established a new Islamic Caliphate.

The Obama administration’s failure to secure a status-of-forces agreement with the government of Iraq, or to take decisive action in Syria to end that civil war, has provided al-Qaida an opportunity to fulfill its dream of creating an new Islamic Caliphate governed under Sharia law — and it is a direct threat to U.S. national security.

On Tuesday, June 10, 2014, just days shy of the two and a half year anniversary of the departure of the last U.S. combat forces from Iraq, news broke that hundreds of al-Qaida-linked terrorists belonging to Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) had taken Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, and possibly all of the surrounding Nineveh Province. Iraq security forces abandoned their posts, leaving advanced military equipment and weaponry to al-Qaida. As they advanced, 500,000 civilians out of an estimated two million that live in Mosul fled, and al-Qaida now controls the city — a gateway to Iraq’s oil rich north.

Less than 24 hours later, reports indicate that al-Qaida has now taken the city of Tikrit, the birthplace of Saddam Hussein. Al-Qaida militants are said to have driven into the city Wednesday in an organized convoy and taken over the government’s provincial headquarters building. The infamous black flag of al-Qaida now flies atop. The rapid destabilization of Northern Iraq is very alarming and dangerous. A very bloody civil war appears to be inevitable, similar to the one being fought in neighboring Syria.

Al-Qaida affiliated terrorists now control an area in Eastern Syria all the way through parts of Western and now Northern Iraq. They have subjected the locals in the areas they control to Sharia law and have engaged in acts of violent barbarism. They have beheaded locals for failing to adhere to their strict interpretation of Sunni Islam and they have set up training camps to train additional terrorists to conduct operations and external attacks. This is exactly what al-Qaida has always wanted, and the Obama administration is allowing them to have it.

Tikrit is now the third major Iraqi city to fall into the hands of al-Qaida terrorists, as the city of Fallujah was taken over in January. The United States Marine Corps fought two major battles for control of the city of Fallujah, and many Americans lost their lives or were injured fighting there. At the moment, all of that effort and sacrifice appears to have been made in vain.

Why? Because the Obama administration failed to sign a status-of-forces agreement with the government of Iraq that would have allowed for a stay-behind counterterrorism force to maintain security gains and kill al-Qaida terrorists while Iraq got on her feet.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: isil; isis
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To: Mount Athos

call your congress-critter and you’ll find out... they couldn’t care less

if we had this govt in control from 1945-1960, we would have fallen to the soviets the first time they threatened action


21 posted on 06/11/2014 12:59:52 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Mount Athos

Put the blame where it belongs: squarely on Bush and the demented neocon geniuses who destabilized the entire middle east because Richard Perle, Bill Kristol, John Bolton, and the WSJ editorial board thought it would be cool to harness 9/11 outrage by kicking Saddam’s ass. We can thank them for the extinction of Christian communities and islamic radicalization from Libya to Pakistan.


22 posted on 06/11/2014 1:00:07 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: Mount Athos

For this, Americans died.


23 posted on 06/11/2014 1:03:08 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Mount Athos
Fallujah=Khe Sanh

Mosul=Hue'

Tikrit=Da Nang.

We've saw this movie before....

24 posted on 06/11/2014 1:04:39 PM PDT by donozark (The voices inside my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!)
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To: Romulus
" and it is a direct threat to U.S. national security."

Same crap we hear before when they threatened us with an imaginary mushroom cloud. Another war would be our end with Russia and China waiting in the wings.

Your post is right on.

25 posted on 06/11/2014 1:11:24 PM PDT by ex-snook (God forgives and forgets.)
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To: Mount Athos

A government that can’t defend itself any better than that against a group of terrorists isn’t sustainable.

This seems to me to be part of the general fight between Shiites and Sunnis playing out in Syria and elsewhere.

I say let them kill each other to their hearts’ content. Maybe use the Turkish airbase at Incirlik to bomb juicy terrorist targets in northern Iraq as well.

But no ground troops.


26 posted on 06/11/2014 1:16:19 PM PDT by TroutGuy
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To: Romulus
"We can thank them for the extinction of Christian communities and islamic radicalization from Libya to Pakistan"

Bush's Fault! (TM):


27 posted on 06/11/2014 1:17:12 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Radicalized via the Internet)
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To: Uncle Miltie

At least it isn’t Islam’s Fault. Phew. That would be Rasis.


28 posted on 06/11/2014 1:18:18 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Radicalized via the Internet)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Obama said he is “Very concerned” about what is happening in Iraq.


29 posted on 06/11/2014 1:24:48 PM PDT by henbane
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To: Mount Athos

To the headline, I reply. Really? Who is the Caliph?

Obviously the news out of western Iraq and eastern Syria is bad, but calling a region that has fallen under the control of an armed band intent on enforcing its vision of Sharia as “Caliphate” is at best imprecise and at worst misses the point that the Sunni world is the chaotic hell-hole it has become in part because there is no Caliph, no central religious authority who could put a stop to every Abudul, Mohammed and Omar from setting up his own blood-soaked interpretation of Shariah.


30 posted on 06/11/2014 1:36:36 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Obama’s only “concern” is that he has yet to be publicly given the title of Caliph of the new caliphate in Iraq. Perhaps his bros in the Brotherhood lied to him.


31 posted on 06/11/2014 1:37:05 PM PDT by fivecatsandadog (OBAMA .... .....WORST.... PRESIDENT......EVER)
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To: Mount Athos

I guess we can thank Hillary for failing to secure a Status of Forces agreement, right?

I expect the press to savage her for that in 3...2...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


32 posted on 06/11/2014 1:49:28 PM PDT by bolobaby
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To: Mount Athos

And, for this we can thank Zero and 0bamunists, including the Hildebeast, and JF’inKerry, along with VJ and the rest of the sycophants in DC kowtowing to the FairyPrince.

Islam has been at war with civilization for nearly 1500 years. We are presently in the latest escalation of that conflict. We dare NOT lose.


33 posted on 06/11/2014 2:30:13 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2016; I pray we make it that long.)
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To: Mount Athos

Whoops - thought this was a story about Washington DC.


34 posted on 06/11/2014 4:50:25 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Uncle Miltie
Lots of good Americans died to make this happen.

I guess Obammy showed them.

35 posted on 06/11/2014 5:07:52 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Its my freedom. YES. I will be keeping it.)
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To: Delta 21

What arrogant, misguided freaky-ness to think that you can make these uncivilized moozlums “free” or “stable”. What a complete waste of American lives and taxpayers’ money.


36 posted on 06/11/2014 7:41:24 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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