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| Iraq |
| Shi'ite forces move in on Iraqi city taken by Islamic State |
| 2015-05-19 |
| [REUTERS] Thousands of Shi'ite Lions of Islam on Monday prepared to fight Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... turbans who seized the Iraqi bustling provincial capital Ramadi at the weekend in the biggest defeat for government forces in nearly a year. A column of 3,000 Shi'ite militia fighters assembled at a military base near Ramadi, preparing to take on Islamic State Lions of Islam advancing in armored vehicles from the captured city northwest of Baghdad, witnesses and a military officer said. The decision by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who is a Shi'ite, to send in the militias to try to retake the predominantly Sunni city could add to sectarian hostility in one of the most violent parts of Iraq. Washington, which is leading a campaign of air strikes to roll back Islamic State advances and struggling to rebuild Baghdad's shattered army, played down the significance of the loss of Ramadi, the capital of the vast western Anbar province. U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said it was a "target of opportunity," that could be retaken in a matter of days, and U.S. officials insisted there would be no change in strategy despite a failure to make major advances against Islamic State. Warplanes in the U.S.-led coalition had conducted 19 strikes near Ramadi over the past 72 hours at the request of the Iraqi security forces, a coalition front man said. The Shi'ite militia, known as Hashid Shaabi or Popular Mobilization, "reached the Habbaniya base and are now on standby," said the head of the Anbar provincial council, Sabah Karhout. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Again, as IRAN is Anti-US US OWG Globalist Obama's' = USA's BFF or BFRNF + a future "US-style" OWG Co-Superpower Sibling, WILL IRAN GIVE BACK RAMADI + ANBAR, E-T-C. TO THE IRAQI GOVT-STATE WHEN ALL IS SAID-N-DONE??? Espec iff Iraqi Shias lose at election time??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-05-19 22:57 |