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| Violence rages in Iraq amid diplomatic efforts to restrict 'Islamic State' |
| 2014-08-25 |
[DW.DE] The Iraqi police said the boom-mobile went kaboom!in the Shiite dominated Shuala district in northwestern Baghdad on Sunday. On Saturday, kabooms in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk killed at least 30 people. The bombings came a day after a deadly kaboom and subsequent shooting spree at a mosque northeast of Baghdad. At least 70 people were killed in the attack. Iraq is facing one of its deepest political crises in a decade, as the Jihadist group Islamic State (IS) continues with advances in Syria and Iraq. IS Lions of Islam have also seized the Tabqa military airport in Syria's northern Raqa province, the UK-based monitoring group The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said on Sunday. Regional efforts against the IS threat On Sunday, Arab foreign ministers met in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... to discuss the rise of IS. The Saudi state news agency SPA said the closed-door talks took place in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, attended by the foreign ministers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, as well as an advisor to Jordan's foreign minister. The ministers agreed on "the need to seriously work to deal with these crises and challenges to preserve security and stability in Arab countries," said the news agency. Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ... Iraq's prime minister-designate Haider al-Abadi held talks with visiting Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday to get the neighboring Shiite country's support against Sunni turbans. "Abadi pointed to the presence of many dangers posed in the region as a result of the existence of the terrorist gang Islamic State which requires regional and international efforts to exterminate this terrorist organization," his office said in a statement after the talks with Zarif. Zarif said that Tehran had no intentions of sending its soldiers to Iraq. "We do not believe that we need to be present inside Iraq to help our Iraqi brothers. They are very capable of doing that themselves," said the Iranian foreign minister in Baghdad. No German ground troops in Iraq German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... also ruled out sending troops to support the Iraqi forces. She dismissed the possibility of arming the Kurdish PKK separatists against IS. Merkel said in an interview with ARD television on Sunday that Berlin "will not under any circumstances send combat troops to Iraq," and has no "concrete plans" to send troops in any other capacity, such as training of the Iraqi army. German weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung had earlier reported that some politicians from Merkel's party were considering arming the PKK, which the EU classifies a terrorist outfit. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 RADICAL ISLAM'S COUNTER-"INK BLOT" STRATEGY FOR [Sub-]"CALIPHATE" VS US-ALLIES ORIGINAL "INK BLOT" STRATEGEM = "WAR OF THE BLOTS/INK WAR"??? So besides establishing "Caliphate" somewhere in part or the whole of INDIA, the ISIS/ISIL + similarly-minded Hard Boyz are setting up in ... * FREEREPUBLIC > ISIS TO CHICAGO [ala Twitter]: "WE ARE IN YOUR STREETS". Ditto mucho econ-troubled Detroit? Los Angeles?? * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > BOKO KARAM DECLARES ISLAMIC CALIPHATE IN NIGERIA - WASHINGTON TIMES. * GLOBALNATION.PH > [Davao City Mayor Rodrigo] DUTERTE CONFIRMS ISIS RECRUITED FILIPINO REBELS. PHIL Armed Forces denies. * FYI GROONG > [ICH.com] OBAMA DESTABILIZES EUROPE'S ECONOMY, SANCTIONS DEEPEN THE RECESSION. Among other, makes NATO-EU that much more vulnerable to local or selective infiltration + attack, etc. by the Hard Boyz + Super-Hard Boyz [ISIS/ISIL]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-08-25 22:50 |