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US evacuates Baghdad embassy as brutal ISIS forces advance ... [Breaking!]
The Mail Online ^ | Sunday, June 15. 2014 | Michael Zennie and Damien Gayle

Posted on 06/15/2014 3:39:08 PM PDT by Star Traveler

The United States has evacuated most of its personnel from the Embassy in Baghdad and dramatically stepped up security for those who remain as thousands of Islamic fighters bear down on Iraq's capital city.

Some 5,500 people work in the massive Embassy complex in the heavily-fortified Green Zone in Baghdad. Many will be airlifted to Amman, Jordan, and others will be sent to consulates in Basra, in the south, and Erbil, in the Kurdish north.

Other workers will remain in Baghdad.

Some 12,000 fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) are marching on Baghdad after quickly capturing Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, last week.

The fighters, who are predominately Sunni Muslims - a large minority in Iraq, then turned south and began baring down on Baghdad, capturing towns along the way.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: baghdad; bho44; bhomiddleeast; evacuation; iraq; isis; muslims; soskerry; sunni; sunnimuslims; toolatealamo; usembassy
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To: VerySadAmerican

I sure wish he would


181 posted on 06/16/2014 6:09:16 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: mrsmith

Could someone interrupt Zeros golf game. Where are the Da mn attack drones.


182 posted on 06/16/2014 9:10:42 AM PDT by Bailee
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To: bert

Obama says that he has asked Jesus into his life. I am saying he is a liar

And yes it was relevant because I was referring to the Iraqi Christian community fleeing for their lives


183 posted on 06/16/2014 3:12:18 PM PDT by Friendofgeorge (Sarah Palin 2016 OR BUST)
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To: Friendofgeorge

“Obama says that he has asked Jesus into his life.”

I wonder what the answer was?


184 posted on 06/16/2014 3:14:46 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: 21twelve

Doesn’t the Bible say “you will know them by their fruits”?

So far the only kind of fruit this group is producing is rotten.


185 posted on 06/16/2014 3:17:18 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: Future Snake Eater

Yeah, lotsa unknowns


186 posted on 06/16/2014 5:55:37 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where?)
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To: 21twelve

Assuming the answer was NO until he stops supporting abortion etc, but I doubt he even asked


187 posted on 06/16/2014 6:35:09 PM PDT by Friendofgeorge (Sarah Palin 2016 OR BUST)
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To: tcrlaf

“Meanwhile, CNN is airing a SPECIAL REPORT on O.J.Simpson!!”

Well of course, they just LOVE anniversaries, and it’s been twenty years since OJ did it! BTW I saw a preview of their special on the Sixties, and interspersed with the usual JFK/Beatles/Vietnam clips, there was a brief clip of Hillary, who had absolutely ZERO impact on that decade. That network is SLIME!!!


188 posted on 06/16/2014 9:13:02 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Star Traveler
The Obama Cut and Run strategy......Oh Yes.....he is in the Saudi's pockets deep....very deep.

Laissez Le Bonne ISIS Rouler!

 photo Baghdadweb_944_1_zps40f7728a.jpg

( Note RPG/grenade/IED defensive measures )

Not even a surprise Delta Force welcome party for them when the arrive at Al-Kindi Street in the International Zone Baghdad?

Apparently they are still hiring:

http://iraq.usembassy.gov/iraqis.html

Any bets that ISIS will avoid the US Embassy like the plague, on the Saudi string?

189 posted on 06/17/2014 1:41:24 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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