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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: tet68

Do you really think this administrations personal are that smart ? little bit of sarcasm in that question. nothing personal ;)


61 posted on 06/15/2014 4:35:54 PM PDT by piroque ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
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To: Star Traveler

Twitter: Al-Arabia channel just confirmed that #Baghdad airport is being attacked.


62 posted on 06/15/2014 4:36:22 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: mware

I wonder what the headline will be when I wake up tomorrow morning?


63 posted on 06/15/2014 4:37:14 PM PDT by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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To: gogeo

Oops - I posted that after Obama was FIRST elected, not upon his re-election. His re-election is the THIRD term of Jimmy Carter.


64 posted on 06/15/2014 4:38:01 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: tcrlaf
TWEET: Baghdad Airport workers flee as rocket barrage from ISIS rains down.

Plan A was to evacuate Embassy Staff via commercial airlines.

Plan B is um.....um....um?

65 posted on 06/15/2014 4:39:10 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Star Traveler

The Iraqi Army consists of about 800,000 active and reserve. isis has 10-20,000.


66 posted on 06/15/2014 4:40:39 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where?)
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To: Eagles6

That may be “on the books” for Iraq, but we’ve already seen them “run” when the shooting starts and ISIS attacks. Iraq is an army “in name only”!


67 posted on 06/15/2014 4:43:29 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

I read a report in the Daily Mail, they interviewed one of the Iraq soldiers. He said the officers ordered them to surrender even when they had enough troops to take ISIS out.


68 posted on 06/15/2014 4:46:00 PM PDT by mware
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To: mrsmith
real name of the guerillas is the “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant”... I wonder why the media change it........media changed it to ISIS because Isis is ancient pagan super goddess and mother of war....the left is rubbing it in
69 posted on 06/15/2014 4:46:31 PM PDT by SisterK (behold a pale horse)
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To: mware

I read a report in the Daily Mail, they interviewed one of the Iraq soldiers. He said the officers ordered them to surrender even when they had enough troops to take ISIS out.

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Wow, they have crap generals just the way the US does.


70 posted on 06/15/2014 4:47:35 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: SisterK; mrsmith

ISIS stands for Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (al-Sham = the Levant, which is Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel); or some just say it stands for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.


71 posted on 06/15/2014 4:53:50 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Zeneta

LANA! LANA!

LAAANAAA!


72 posted on 06/15/2014 4:55:44 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: All

aljazerra reporting that Iraqi army has retaken two towns from ISIS.


73 posted on 06/15/2014 4:57:07 PM PDT by mulder1 ("The past is prologue")
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To: Henry Hnyellar; All

TWEET:

Fierce attacks on Baghdad airport are now reported from N, NW, W and SW..

If the airport falls, westerners in Baghdad can only be evacuated across the desert. It will be a MASSACRE...


74 posted on 06/15/2014 4:57:30 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: tcrlaf

I just read that the ISIS rockets hit the control tower.


75 posted on 06/15/2014 5:02:27 PM PDT by livius
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To: Jack Hydrazine
It’s Iran 1979 all over again.

It's worse.

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76 posted on 06/15/2014 5:03:44 PM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: Travis McGee

We shall see. God Bless


77 posted on 06/15/2014 5:03:51 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: Star Traveler

The largest most expensive embassy ever, goes down in flames.


78 posted on 06/15/2014 5:06:22 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

any chance for some drone strikes or even airstrikes after the NBA game?


79 posted on 06/15/2014 5:09:52 PM PDT by alrea
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To: Genoa

Thanks, obviously the media doesn’t want people aware of the Israel connection inherent in “Levant”.
Using “Syria” (who cares about Syria) will shape opinion better for the Dems.


80 posted on 06/15/2014 5:10:43 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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