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ISIS within 8 miles of Baghdad Airport
CBS via Newsplex.com ^ | Oct. 10, 2014

Posted on 10/10/2014 7:58:44 AM PDT by GonzoII

CBS News - Militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have infiltrated one of Baghdad's outer suburbs, Abu Ghraib which is only eight miles from the runway perimeter of Baghdad's international airport.

It's cause for serious concern now that the Iraqi Defense Ministry has confirmed ISIS has MANPADs, shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles.

The Iraqi army is still patrolling Abu Ghraib, but they play cat and mouse with the ISIS fighters who stage hit and run attacks on security forces.

It's a mixed picture around the city. ISIS took over the city of Fallujah -- only about 40 miles west of Baghdad -- in January, and the Iraqi security forces have fought in vain for a year to force them out.

Instead, and in spite of weeks of U.S.-led airstrikes, ISIS has gradually extended its reach. The extremist group is now either present or in control of a huge swath of countryside, forming a 180-degree arc around the Iraqi capital from due north around to the west, and all the way to the south.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: baghdad; benghazi; benghazimanpads; iraq; isis; manpads; obamamanpads
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To: GonzoII

I am pretty amazed at just how effective IS have been, and how pathetic the Iraqi military have been.

To be clear, IS had rerouted most of its fighters to Syria to seize Kobani. The fact that the Iraqi military cannot make any gains in Iraq in spite of that fact is troubling to say the least.

What will happen to Baghdad once Kobani falls, and the victorious Jihadists who took it return back to Iraq in force, with newly looted money and hardware?

Meanwhile, Obola plays through. FORE!


21 posted on 10/10/2014 8:43:24 AM PDT by Viennacon (Obola is a muslim terrorist & his viral illegals need to be deported NOW!)
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To: GonzoII
"It's cause for serious concern"

Cause for serious concern for who? I don't see anyone seriously concerned enough to raise a military force to counter ISIS. All I see are people sitting around waiting for the USA (once again) to come and help them out ... until the next crisis, and the next, and the next.

No, they'd rather use our military for cheap and then berate us later for 'interfering' in the Middle East.

To hell with them. Let ISIS take Bagdad and let's mock them everyone in the Middle East for being weak little bunnies who can't even defend themselves or their people without outside help (and then cry when they don't get help).

Seriously, we need to pass out flags of all the nations in the region who are doing nothing (except cry help! help!) People in the USA need to publically burn them their flags mock these people as the wusses they are.

Sick of it.

22 posted on 10/10/2014 8:43:27 AM PDT by Lorianne (.)
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To: Ghost of SVR4

Can’t imagine. Maybe Hillary would have some idea about it.


23 posted on 10/10/2014 8:45:06 AM PDT by Lorianne (.)
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To: GonzoII

24 posted on 10/10/2014 8:55:57 AM PDT by PROCON (I WILL NOT SUBMIT TO TYRANNY!)
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To: PROCON

Thanks, Bob! I was getting worried there for a minute..


25 posted on 10/10/2014 9:05:56 AM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: GonzoII

Ihr willkommen.


26 posted on 10/10/2014 9:13:15 AM PDT by PROCON (I WILL NOT SUBMIT TO TYRANNY!)
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To: GonzoII

If Baghdad falls to ISIS will Obozo say he ONLY learned about it an hour ago through MSM reports? /s


27 posted on 10/10/2014 9:21:40 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: GonzoII

They need to arrive at least 2 hours early in order to board their flight to Washington...


28 posted on 10/10/2014 9:22:16 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Turbo Pig

I think I know how she gets her movie roles. She says the samething to the movie producer and they go over to the casting couch.


29 posted on 10/10/2014 9:36:03 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

oops... : )


30 posted on 10/10/2014 9:36:34 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: GonzoII

Pretty close to the range of some MANPADS.


31 posted on 10/10/2014 9:48:17 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (AGW-e is the climate "Domino Theory")
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To: minnesota_bound

I predict Baghdad will fall—to be the new capital of the IS. Then they will move south to Basra and Sumer. Then Kuait and the Gulf. They will use car bombs, then Rockets, lastly Poison Gas.


32 posted on 10/10/2014 11:39:39 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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