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Iraq
ISIS within 8 mi of Baghdad and armed with MANPADS
2014-10-11
[SeeBS] BAGHDAD -- 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.
Picture if you will, a 25 mile long convoy headed south from Baghdad to Ali al Salem air base in Kuwait.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  :-D
Posted by: Barbara   2014-10-11 18:12  

#7  You have been naughty Besoeker, go to your room. (Cough, guffaw, chuckle, chuckle.) ;-)
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-10-11 16:10  

#6  In secret, clandestine operation, battle hardened Marines rescue ISIS sex slaves.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-10-11 11:40  

#5  I'm sure this disaster is all Bush's fault somehow. What spin are they going to use for that?
Posted by: AlanC   2014-10-11 11:01  

#4  I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.


It'd also send a nice message
Posted by: Silentbrick   2014-10-11 07:00  

#3  Are we gonna let Iran (Hezbollah) defend Baghdad or will we intervene?
Winner gets to keep control and influence in Iraq proper.

Or will both US and Iran sit this one out and let ISIS have Baghdad?

Obama's ego and vanity will not permit him to send troops into Iraq. That's how dogmatic he is.

Thousands of people have to die because he's too goddam stubborn to rise above the fray and become a real POTUS, a real LEADER.
Posted by: Mikey Hunt   2014-10-11 02:30  

#2  Pragmatically, "Neo-Persianist", future OWG Co-Superpower Rising Iran cannot allow the ISIS/ISIL or any other entity to threaten or de facto block its strategic access to the Eastern Med + Black Sea.

The alternative is to see the ISIS/ISIL, peacefully or forcibly, destabilize + takeover Islamist IRAN - KISS GOODBYE TO CENTRAL ASIA, + POSSIBLY PART OR ALL, OF NUKE-ARMED CHINA.

The Pro-Secular Marxists-Commies + aligned Lefties, Special Interests, etal. are deluding themselves iff they believe their new post-2015, OWG- + WOT-led Commie-Socialist order in Amerika means they're safe from the Global [Nuclear?]Jihad.

Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-10-11 01:21  

#1  The roads will be too jammed with fleeing Shiia, for it too move.
Posted by: phil_b   2014-10-11 00:13  

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