It's worse.
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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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Do you really think this administrations personal are that smart ? little bit of sarcasm in that question. nothing personal ;)
Twitter: Al-Arabia channel just confirmed that #Baghdad airport is being attacked.
I wonder what the headline will be when I wake up tomorrow morning?
Oops - I posted that after Obama was FIRST elected, not upon his re-election. His re-election is the THIRD term of Jimmy Carter.
Plan A was to evacuate Embassy Staff via commercial airlines.
Plan B is um.....um....um?
The Iraqi Army consists of about 800,000 active and reserve. isis has 10-20,000.
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”!
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.
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.
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.
LANA! LANA!
LAAANAAA!
aljazerra reporting that Iraqi army has retaken two towns from ISIS.
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...
I just read that the ISIS rockets hit the control tower.
It's worse.
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We shall see. God Bless
The largest most expensive embassy ever, goes down in flames.
any chance for some drone strikes or even airstrikes after the NBA game?
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.
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