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.
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I sure wish he would
Could someone interrupt Zeros golf game. Where are the Da mn attack drones.
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
“Obama says that he has asked Jesus into his life.”
I wonder what the answer was?
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.
Yeah, lotsa unknowns
Assuming the answer was NO until he stops supporting abortion etc, but I doubt he even asked
“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!!!
Laissez Le Bonne ISIS Rouler!
( 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?
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