Recent attacks in Iraq

[Barking_Mad]

Alleged footage if ISF troops withdrawing from Mosul

 

[Barking_Mad]

There goes the Iraq-Syria (Sykes-Picot) border:

 

[Kaka Tim]

Happy now you cunts?

 

[CNT36]

Nothing from him yet...most recent thing i can find is from end of April on twitter

"Our" actions? I hope that cunt isn't trying to implicate me in his bullshit.

 

[Sprocket.]

''Bringing Democracy to the Middle East''

 

[goldenecitrone]

''Bringing Democracy to the Middle East'' View attachment 55632

All those known unknowns coming home to roost.

 

[Barking_Mad]

anyone know how to fly this thing?

 

[Sprocket.]

anyone know how to fly this thing?

They could try ringing the grinning rascal in post 95!

 

[elbows]

It does sound like many of the places in the news at the moment have been associated with JRTN in the past. Especially Tikrit.

Following up on that strand:

@martinchulov
Baathists fighters prominent in Tikrit. V few #ISIS flags there - evidence of Saddam old guard in insurgency #Iraq #news

 

[SpineyNorman]

Spiritual movement, nationalistic, sufist

Strategy and re-orientation, around the signifier and symbol of the banner of Islam

What does that mean?

 

[TomUS]

Expect Maliki to request Iranian ground troops since his are running away.

 

[Barking_Mad]

What constitutes Iraq as a state at the moment? It's surely I'm danger of not so much failing, but disappearing?

 

[goldenecitrone]

What constitutes Iraq as a state at the moment? It's surely I'm danger of not so much failing, but disappearing?

If one good thing were to come out of this, it would be the creation of Kurdistan. Not sure if the Turks, Syrians or Iranians would be too happy though. Not to mention the rest of the Iraqis.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Three plane loads of US training staff being evacuated from an airbase north of Baghdad.

 

[Barking_Mad]

All 16 U.S. Intelligence agencies, told George W. Bush in January 2003 that:'the invasion of Iraq . . . would be likely to spark violent sectarian divides and provide al-Qaeda with new opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan . . . Analysts warned that war in Iraq also could provoke Iran to assert its regional influence and "probably would result in a surge of political Islam and increased funding for terrorist groups" in the Muslim world'.

 

[ska invita]

All 16 U.S. Intelligence agencies, told George W. Bush in January 2003 that:'the invasion of Iraq . . . would be likely to spark violent sectarian divides and provide al-Qaeda with new opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan . . . Analysts warned that war in Iraq also could provoke Iran to assert its regional influence and "probably would result in a surge of political Islam and increased funding for terrorist groups" in the Muslim world'.

edit: the question is whether the analysis wasn't ignored but deliberately applied

 

[quiquaquo]

Expect Maliki to request Iranian ground troops since his are running away.

There are reports Iranian forces are already in Tikrit. It is also reported that Iran has stated it will bomb any forces that come within 100km of its border and has pledged to defend Shia holy sites and cities. Can't see them sitting back and letting the nutters trash Karbala and Najaf.

 

[TomUS]

Republicans are demanding that Obama order air strikes. We could see the bizarre situation of American air power supporting Iranian troops.

 

[DownwardDog]

anyone know how to fly this thing?

That's an MH-60L Direct Action Penetrator. The Iraqis don't have any and the US would never leave one unattended at OSM.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Certainly starting to look as if this is a Sunni uprising rather than just Isis operating in isolation. Reports of fighting on the outskirts of Baghdad with ISF training complexes and the main highway to Baghdad being cut. More ISF forces turning tail if accounts to be believed.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Worth following @MemlikPasha on Twitter.

 

[Barking_Mad]

His tweets suggest ISF forces aren't even retreating to hold positions along Baghdad perimeter but are just dissolving.

 

[Barking_Mad]

"a few hundred" US contractors evacuated from Balad airbase.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/2014/06/13/U-S-companies-evacuate-major-air-base-in-Iraq.html

 

[goldenecitrone]

Certainly starting to look as if this is a Sunni uprising rather than just Isis operating in isolation.

Think they've had enough of al Maliki and his cronies.

 

[ska invita]

His tweets suggest ISF forces aren't even retreating to hold positions along Baghdad perimeter but are just dissolving.

In that video you posted of troops retreating:

Alleged footage if ISF troops withdrawing from Mosul

they all look pretty happy about it....

 

[Barking_Mad]

In that video you posted of troops retreating:

they all look pretty happy about it....

I get the impression that those who joined in the last few years were doing so for the job and not to fight. All the ones prepared to fight joined up early on and many of them killed.

 

[Barking_Mad]

I went to the doctor's the other day. He said "The good news is your cancer has gone. Unfortunately the treatment has given you HIV".

I was really upset and said I didnt want HIV. He took one look at me and said, "You're not telling me you want the cancer back are you?"

 

[Mr Moose]

Republicans are demanding that Obama order air strikes. We could see the bizarre situation of American air power supporting Iranian troops.

True. There is no favourable course of action open to the White House.

 

[ska invita]

i cant see how airstrikes would "help" - it doesnt appear as if theres enough of an ISF to take advantage of the firepower

 

[goldenecitrone]

More interesting stuff from the Independent's Robert Fisk. Are Isis about to turn on Damascus?

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...-been-bankrolled-by-saudi-arabia-9533396.html