Posted on 02/12/2015 4:29:05 PM PST by dontreadthis
(Reuters) - Islamic State insurgents took control on Thursday of most of the western Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi, threatening an air base where U.S. Marines are training Iraqi troops, officials said.
Al-Baghdadi, about 85 km (50 miles) northwest of Ramadi in Anbar province, had been besieged for months by the radical Sunni Islamist militants who captured vast swathes of Iraq's north and west last year.
"Ninety percent of al-Baghdadi district has fallen under the control of the insurgents," district manager Naji Arak told Reuters by phone.
Militants attacked al-Baghdadi from two directions earlier in the day and then advanced on the town, intelligence sources and officials in the Jazeera and Badiya operations commands said.
The officials said another group of insurgents then attacked the heavily-guarded Ain al-Asad air base five km southwest of the town, but were unable to break into it.
About 320 U.S. Marines are training members of the Iraqi 7th Division at the base, which has been struck by mortrar fire on at least one previous occasion since December.
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Yes, 50 miles of death from above. The perfect target environment, and the bastards still have to defend the town from an aerial counterattack.
Buzzards to Al Baghdadti, please. Dinner is served!
2nd coming of Khe Sanh, maybe with B-52’s doing bombing runs from Diego Garcia.
Oh, wonder where Obama is right now???
Worrying about:
Gay marriage and gays in the military
How to get another black communist or muslim appointed to his admin.
how to kill as many white Americans as he can before leaving office
what that yellow crap is that cakes to the side of his jumbo ears
what iron to use on the 12 hole at Atlanta when in the rough at 120.
killing more Americans
what is the count of his Muslim brothers that have crossed the Southern border and is it time to activate them.
does Moochelle’s a$$ make his ears look big
and last but not least......
what does antifreeze taste like
We need to have a dozen Warthogs circling around laying down destruction on ISIS. Burn anything that takes more than 3 steps in the direction of the base and send it to hell.
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