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Al Qaeda Militants Capture US Black Hawk Helicopters In Iraq
Just when one thought US foreign policy couldn't sink any deeper into the hole of its embarrassment, it takes out a shovel and starts digging. Overnight, in what AP describes as a stunning assault that exposed Iraq's eroding central authority, Al Qaida-inspired militants from ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, overran much of Mosul on Tuesday, seizing government buildings, pushing out security forces and capturing military vehicles as thousands of residents fled the second-largest city.
For those who may have forgotten, Iraq was one of those countries "liberated" by the the United States, which unlike Afghanistan where the opium trade is still important, did pull out its troops two and a half years ago.
Ths shocking takeover of Mosul took place months after Al Qaeda-linked fighers took over another Iraqi town, Fallujah, earlier in the year and which they have successfully defended against government attempts to reclaim it.
That however, was just the appetizer: Mosul is a much bigger, more strategic prize. The city and surrounding Ninevah province, which is on the doorstep of Iraq's relatively prosperous Kurdish region, are a major export route for Iraqi oil and a gateway to Syria.
"This isn't Fallujah. This isn't a place you can just cordon off and forget about," said Michael Knights, a regional security analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, cited by AP. "It's essential to Iraq."
The WSJ adds that hours after government forces fled Mosul in disarray following four days of fighting, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki declared a nationwide "state of maximum preparedness" but didn't indicate whether government forces were mobilizing to retake the Iraqi city, 220 miles north of the capital Baghdad.
The capture of Mosul by rebels linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, is the latest evidence of the weakness and disorganization that have beset Iraq's security forces since the U.S. forces withdrew from the country in December 2011.
Residents of Mosul said they were shocked at the ease of the rebel takeover of government buildings, television stations and military installations where U.S.-supplied fighter airplanes, helicopters and other heavy weaponry are based.
"The whole of Mosul collapsed today. We've fled our homes and neighborhoods, and we're looking for God's mercy," said Mahmoud Al Taie, a dentist. "We are waiting to die."
Videos showed victorious insurgents waving black flags emblazoned with an Islamic script—the standard brandished by al Qaeda militants world-wide.
The biggest irony here is that while the US is arming "rebels" in neighboring Syria, among which numerous Al-Qaeda rebels, the weapons and the trained "fighters" then promptly make their way across the border and continue fighting the US-blessed government in Iraq!
Jessica Lewis, a former U.S. Army intelligence officer, said ISIS fighters won a notable victory in Mosul.
"ISIS is designing its campaign around the state that it believes it has already created," said Ms. Lewis, currently research director for the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, D.C.
"I think that means that Iraq is going to start to look more like Syria. It's a gauge of the severity of the conflict and the trajectory that it's on. That's a very bad sign."
The ISIS-controlled areas of Iraq.
And to think none of this could have been accomplished without the assistance of the US state department.
The Obama administration, responding to the fall of Mosul, said ISIS "is not only a threat to the stability of Iraq but a threat to the entire region."
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the group has drawn strength from the Syrian civil war, where it can acquire recruits, weapons and other resources for its fight in Iraq.
Perhaps miss Psaki should have answered questions about where the ISIS force was getting its weapons. The U.S.-trained and equipped Iraqi security forces, which have floundered since the U.S. pullout, haven't succeeded in thwarting ISIS's emergence as a formidable paramilitary force.
Below is a detailed narrative of just how Al-Qaeda managed to take over yet another garrison in the middle east:
Despite the security precautions, ISIS fighters raided the western half of Mosul early Friday, forcing military personnel and federal police forces to retreat over bridges to the eastern bank of the Tigris River, which divides the city.
For three days, residents in the eastern half of the city huddled in their houses and parceled out their ever-dwindling supply of food and other staples, as authorities tried to secure the city.
Mosul governor Atheel Nujaifi, appearing Monday evening on national television, made a desperate call for city residents to form ad hoc committees to defend themselves. But he fled on Monday night.
In the early-morning darkness of Tuesday, local resistance dissolved, as insurgents poured across the bridges separating east from west. According to witnesses, government soldiers fled on foot, leaving the streets littered with abandoned army vehicles, weapons and uniforms.
The vanquished soldiers knocked on doors and begged for civilian clothes, so they could escape without being identified, said Ahmed Khaza'al, a cosmetic dealer.
The victory by ISIS and its allies means they control sizable regions in at least three of Iraq's 18 provinces. Upon news of Mosul's fall, fears of more fighting rippled across the country.
The US has pledged to help Iraqi leaders "push back against this aggression" as the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki asked parliament to declare a state of emergency that would give him extraordinary powers to tackle the crisis. The rampage by the black banner-waving insurgents was a heavy defeat for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as he tries to hold onto power, and highlighted the growing strength of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The group has been advancing in both Iraq and neighboring Syria, capturing territory in a campaign to set up a militant enclave straddling the border.
But the battle, for the time being, seemed to be over. Some police were discarding uniforms and weapons and fleeing a city where the black flag of ISIL now flew over government buildings.
"We have lost Mosul this morning," said a colonel at a local military command center. "Army and police forces left their positions and ISIL terrorists are in full control.
"It’s a total collapse of the security forces."
This is the aftermath in clips and images:
Assyrian church set ablaze...
Iraqi troop uniforms left behind...
Smoke everywhere...
As the roads are full amid the mass exodus...
* * *
But the worst news by far for the US is that as a result of the takeover of Mosul by ISIS forces, an unknown number, and at least one, US ultramodern Blackhawk and Kiowa helicopters parked at the Mosul airport, are now in, you guessed it, Al Qaeda hands.
#Mosul airport is normally crowded with #Blackhawk and #Kiowa helis.
Let's see how many ended up in #ISIS hands... pic.twitter.com/KY51KidfQP
— ConflictReporter (@MiddleEast_BRK) June 10, 2014
Black Hawk, one of ghaneemas taken by #ISIS. #Mosul #Iraq pic.twitter.com/zLoSrbve7R
— ?? ????? #????? (@Ghareeba_7) June 10, 2014
Guys, a base of these was captured by Dawla in Mosul... Imagine what could be done with them. Black Hawk choppers. pic.twitter.com/HXzL0Z8637
— Ghazi (@ghazishami) June 10, 2014
So Mosul has fallen and the ISIS jihadists now have blackhawks and humvees and guns,courtesy of Uncle Sam
— Hemil (@cravingHedonist) June 10, 2014
PT: Worth noting that ISIS has captured parts of #Mosul airport, where #Iraq forces maintain a fleet of UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters.
— Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) June 10, 2014
Mosul airport viewed through Google maps: grounded helicopters can be easily seen just east of the main airstrip:
Thank you US State Department: once again, this smashing Al-Qaeda success could not have been achieved without your help.
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I'm surprised it took this long. Six months after we left Viet Nam in a political retreat, the enemy rose up and took it. I knew shortly after we left Iraq, the same would happen.
Nobody with a brain fights and dies vs the US. Just wait until they get bored and leave, you have the place to yourself.
That's what happens when you have a nation of passive obedient serfs.
I have often wondered why certain cultures are pushed more in the media and having seen how people have changed in my lifetime it's obvious the pricks on the river have been trying to manufacture an aggressive and steroid driven country.
It's plain as day what the CFR and those pricks have been doing. Trying to breed an obedient human by engineering a world with an "authority". Social Engineers thinking they can control everything...
"Trying to breed an obedient human"
You wouldn't think that if you met my wife.
They're obviously failing.
For your summer reading list:
The Taming of The Shrew- William Shakespeare
This is why nation building foreign aid needs to be abolished. Bush should have left Iraq in 2004 after Saddam was captured and no wmds found.
Lessons learned. No more nation building with US taxpayer money ever again!!
Even more telling is that there were no WMD found BEFORE the invasion.
Duh
Asking4it - No we're done nation building. It is now China's problem. There reserve currency, there job as new global policeman also comes with the privalege. Anybody have a link about Haliburton giving the lucrative oil contracts to China?
I wish I saved some of that stuff. Anyways, say these things for you to recognize cycles and profit rather than to bitch. Jim Willie just tells you the money is heading into China and they will be the next powerhouse for the next century. He never really tells you why about reserve currencies and there shelf life as a predicted model does he? Gotta milk muppets but he adds a lot of value in the process. Everyone has a racket.
Here is a thought kind of along the lines of reserve currency and debt. Who does America owe 18 Trillion to and have to pay 1/2 trillion a year to? This one concerns and bugs me. Any insights?
The people here worried about inflation sweeping the shores as dollars "rush home" as no one wants to hold them. Can't rush home if they become denominated in Yuan as the IMF stated it is doing can they? This one does not concern and bug me.
The way I have come to understand the situation is that bonds should not be seen as a risk free investment, no matter the rating, any longer. I think it has been clearly displayed in Europe if the majority of "parties" have similar vested interests, sovereign states will be able to "write down" debt coupons, and maintain interest rates at sustainable levels.
It's my opinion we will see something similar in America. Keep in mind concentration of wealth, and the shear complexity of government statistics. There is quite a bit of wiggle room here.
Dying demand for the dollar is something you should be more concerned with, IMO, as it is not necessarily the flood of dollars returning to America, but more so the decreased demand in the global economy. Think of it as, you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. As more countries conduct commerce outside the $, for which there are many beneficial reasons, the $ will begin to lose it's purchasing power. The bilateral trade agreements you see developing around the globe are truly the death knell for a reserve currency. The unfortunate truth being most countries will be better off dealing in direct trade as opposed to the heavy manipulated dollar denominated deals. It's about velocity which is demand, and as it loses momentum you are not going to want to be holding dollars. I would be watching for large multi-nationals to be leading the way here. Hopefully ZH can keep up the good work.
But I'm no professional, therefor that is just an opinion :)
Wrong -- this is just another, of many, reasons Bush-Cheney's illegal Iraq War was one of the worst actions ever perpetrated by the American aristocracy.
The war wasn't illegal. It was run by the UN 17 times. It was also run by the Democrats who gladly signed on. And Obama kept it going in Afghanistan to the tune of a record number of US troop deaths. Bush/Cheney should never have gotten into a war with the intention of 'winning the hearts and minds', but Obama and the Democrats have had six years to clean it up and have made things worse. Iraq is fading away and Afghanistan has been a disaster. In addition, Obama has had us involved in over 12 MENA nations and his drone wars are neverending. Talk about bombing brown people! And don't even get me started on Obama's war on the American people.
The overall orders given to our Queen were to stamp out Arab Nationalism.
You and I have different definitions of "illegal". Perhaps you've forgotten that song and dance that went on in the UN? Remember Colon Bowel's WMD speech in the UN? You don't think lying in front of the UN to get your way isn't "illegal"?
And as far as the rubber-stamp Congress goes . . . Remember the "Patriot" Act? The American Congress is no more an independent legislative body than Germany's Reichstag was in 1938. It's a disgrace and has been for a long time.
It's true that Barry hasn't performed to perfection (to give him the benefit of doubt). But Barry didn't have much to do with starting the Iraq and Afghan wars beyond his own rubber-stamping of the operations as a senator. The Iraq illegal "regime change" was a Bush-Cheney operation no matter how you look at it. It's cost trillions of dollars, tens of thousands of American lives and millions of other innocent casualties. It is the worst debacle America has ever been involved in and America has been involved in some real hum-dingers.
For all those of you out there that are trying to reform the Bush family image and get Jeb in the WH, forget it. They're terrorists through and through (and I'm being nice).
Oh fucking get over it. Your black Jesus has doubled down on every fucking thing Bush and Cheney did. To try and insinuate that Obama was dealt a bad hand or didn't have much to work with is nothing but head up the ass excuse making.
What black Jesus? I don't have a black Jesus. I don't even own a Jesus. And I don't even like black cars or SUVs.
If you're implying that I have some affection for Barry Whatshisname, the CIA agent, you clearly have a reading disability.
Barry is a part of and an extension of the Bush-Cheney dictatorship. He's owned by the same neo-conmen oligarchs they were. You clearly have some affection for the people and policies that Barry has been protecting for the last 6 years that he inherited from the previous war-mongering bunch of CIA agents.
Or are you so stupid you can't see the connection between Barry and Bush-Cheney, the Clintons and Bush-St. Ron?
In St. Ron's defence, he was too frightened to rule the country after his first two months when it became clear that Bush Sr. was going to have him killed if he did. He knew when to fold.
I am sat next to a guy who in his former life worked for Bechtel. He told me last week that he attended a seminar, where the CEO confirmed the multi billion dollar contract of rebuilding the infrastructure of baghdad months before the invasion.
Thats foreign aid for you, destroy and rebuild, destroy again and rebuild. The cycle of defence spending and building revenue.
US NEEDS MOAR GDP!
I'm not real familiar with middle eastern goin on's, but I did catch a spirited individual gushing about the all encompassing Allah. Sounded a a bit crazy at the time, but reading about readily abandoned military bases adds some definite legitimacy to the idea
When Saddam ruled the roost "al Qaeda", aka "al CIAduh", kept a very low profile.
It's better now after spending a lot of lives and a few trillion bucks, of course. Caution! Not all improvements are obvious.
Look at the bright side.That's fewer weapons we need to smuggle into Syria to support Al Quada there.
Whats the current tab under obozo so far? Homeboy has run up many trillions in national debt with very little to show for. With the liberal media in the back pocket of the dems and repubs all factioned and depowered, america will be a full on socialist state within 6 years with a 25 trillion deficit on our hands. wth boys, our future looks bleak
Only Oclueless and Ms pastrami could thing weapons given to terrorists in a neighboring state would not find their way across a non existent border.
5 or 10 years from now we'll hear how the CIA engineered the "transfer" of US arms from Iraq to Syrian jehadists, BTW was anybody actuially killed by the Iraqi Qaida guys?
Or was the base empty?
You think our equipment would get the same treatment it got when capturted by enemies in Bosnia (bombed).
Collapse of empire sucks. When it's your empire. At least for now it's on the outer edges. We have about a year here in the us . Better be in the right place. Don't be the last joo trying to get on the last boat, metporhicaly speaking
Al Qaeda wasn't there before ......
It's all Saddam's fault. He shouldn't have let the Americans in.
OBAMA!!
Greatest pResident the Taliban ever had!
Al-Shazam Sergeant!
(Must be said with a nasally southern gomeresque accent.)
Is there a competent politician or military officer left in this nation? I'm thinking not. America looks like a monkey fucking a football. Where are the adults?
very funnie
if it wasn't the truth..
That's our love loaf and her name is Wilson.
Additionally, we also look like a chicken fucking a basketball.
they will have to send a few of their AQ boys over here (US) for flight training.
oh well...at least "bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive"
bin Laden is dead and General Motors is still killing people.
Is Bin Laden dead? That we don't know. Some say (and write and tape) Osama is alive and well. On the other hand, GM is still killing people all right.
Don't you love the "democratization" of Irak?
Ole Bin died in 2001.
The most probable explanation is that Osama bin Laden died in 2001 due to complications from Marfan syndrome.
In drone warfare these choppers are ancient relics, to be honest, as well as any kind of a manned vehicle. If you can't get a constant supply of replacement parts and ammunition, the chopper is as good as a disposable toy. Taliban will be lucky to fly it till the fuel runs out. In addition, I recall the early days of the Iraq war where army contractors were deliberately wearing down equipment, sending brand new trucks through sand storms with removed air filters... things like that, and then writing them off as combat losses. This could just as well be deliberate.
Taxpayers will be billed regardless.
They probably only need it to fly once. Probably against someone who has inferior technology.
LOL they will never fly it. It is a highly advanced piece of equipment that requires specialized pilot training, support staff, maintenance and upkeep. It's not like in the movies.
Hi tech choppers indeed. I was working out of Blackhawks 30 years ago! Electronics are no doubt better now but c'mon folks this ain't exactly cutting edge equipment.
Machinery run without air filters in sand storms would literally last no longer than 3 - 5 minutes.
What idiot is driving them? It's a long walk home
Machinery run without air filters in sand storms would literally last no longer than 3 - 5 minutes.
What idiot is driving them? It's a long walk home
All the soilders that fought and lost their lives to rebuild Iraq ! This must make them feel reasl good !!
Good job Mr. President !
Captured aka "CIA signed off on" with stinger missles inside.
My best guess is that a few of them are already in Iran.Money from Iran talks so that means that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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Doesn't seem very probable. Unlike the Vichy DC government, Iran actually considers Al Qaeda a bitter enemy.
You are forgetting the Shia makeup of the made up country of Iraq.
LC No he's not. Forgetting that is. The Shia are the guys who lost the city. The Shia are aligned with Iran. The CIA/AL Q construct called ISIS is opposed to Shia Iran, as one would expect. So no, not likely for sale to Iran.
Thanks!
You know, it is really getting confusing.
Obama has Al Qaeda on the run!
Abdul! The Amerikis left the IFF transponders installed!
Excellent, Achmed. The Iranians can provide a ship! We will take them to NYC and surprise the Zionist Overlords.
Abdul! Here is a bunker with the weapons pods!
Excellent, Mohammed! We will gun the Zionists down on 47th Street. I used to drive a taxi there!
Yet if Sadaam Hussein were still in power this could have never happened. So who is relly to blame for this?
Anyway, the Blackhawk is a known death trap. When I was at Tracor 30 years ago we put something in it called Quick Fix, it was a ELINT platform. No one wanted to fly in it for the testing because it was well known these things had a habit of just falling out of the sky. Basically they are booby traps of the worst kind.
But Iraqi oil sells in dollars now! Who cares!
Luckily, all the controls are in English so they won't know which switch to pull/press.
Well, since Al Queda captured all the helicopters already, at least the US will be spared the embarrassment of a video of the US embassy in Bagdad being evacuated by helicopter at the end of this war like we had in Viet Nam
Call Dick Cheney, he'll know what to do [snicker, snicker]....They'll probably park the chopper next to the George Bush Statue....
"Mission Accomplished." LOL
Are you sure the helicopters were captured and not given? These guys are now our allies in Syria....
Small groups of determined men trump dim-witted big-name politicians EACH and EVERY time....
What's wrong with those dumb terrorists. Everybody knows the Title is more important than the actual vehicle. They'll never get those choppers registered and insured.
The only question that matters: Who is going to get the oil?
Imagine Putins thoughts today! The Self Defense Forces of East Ukraine, who are being attacked by Obama's Right Sector fighters aided by some loyal west Ukrainian army forces, must feel happy that Iraq has come along to draw American arms and money away from the attack on them. How many wars is the USA running now? We fund them all, from Syria, to Libya, to Iraq, to Ukraine, to Georgia, to Yemen and fuck knows where else. All these are aided, planned and funded by the Neo-con State Depatrment and Pentagon. Mission Accomplished in Iraq just went to shit at the exact moment the US has declared war on Russia. How far is this lunacy going to go? Just as Obama announced money and military training for Kiev and the Right Sector, along comes a shit storm in Iraq, caused by America's allies in Al-Qaeda. Syria and Iraq share Al-Qaeda fighters, only the USA funds, arms and trains the ones in Syria, as if there was no border connection to Iraq.
Now we tax payers will fund emergency money, arms and maybe special forces to fight the Iraq Occupation war all over again.
Tell me Mr. Obama, How are your Al-Qaeda fighters working out as loyal allies worthy of our money, arms and training. How are the nazis of Kiev working out as conquerers of East Ukraine? Not so fucking good, eh!
It's obvious that Putin is supporting ISIS now in Iraq to take pressure of him with regards to the Ukraine. Just waiting for some Photoshopped pictures of bearded men being held up by Kerry. lol
As for drawing away American support to the Ukraine, that won't happen. The events in Iraq will have little to no bearing with regards to the Ukraine. The USA doesn't care if Iraq goes up in flames. It's actually better if it does because it keeps that one major oil producer offline in a big way.
Pressure? There's pressure?
Bath House Barry: Warlord of Earth!
Time for BO to start using his BDs...that's Beloved Drones!
Now we know what the B-2s that were moved to England will be doing over the next few hours...
and the buck stops...................where?
In the real world, the cocksucker in chief would be frog-marched out by tomorrow morning.
Cue the guys falling off the evac choppers on the embassy rooftop!
Saigon Redux!!
In the Real World, we gets what we got.
In a truly sane world, that sorry-ass bitch would be swinging from a lamp post like a birthday pinata.*
* Apologies to all of you Spanish speaking folk who are reading this, but I'm currently too inebriated to give a shit about proper punctuation.
And you know that drunken cun t Dianne Sawyer will be breaking this news on ABC World News Tonight.
sarc of course... well, except the contempt for Dianne
And you know that drunken cun t Dianne Sawyer will be breaking this news on ABC World News Tonight.
sarc of course... well, except the contempt for Dianne
uh, this is like phuuck u iraq, wezza gots the oil in the north, youzza can have the carnivores.
cancers, like 'terroists groups and militant religous peacekeepers'.
break irag into pieces this will.
headless Saddam is rolling over in his grave.
:)
Mission accomplished! Let the reinvation begin. MIC approved
My tats are on that bird. Thats mine. I made that from a blueprint.
Hang the traitors.
nooooooooooooooooo
sweet
baby
jesus
dey are flyin in choppers to america
whos gonna protact der homelands
seal team sixes is all dead
sorry i cant help
eyes got flat feet and am clinikly obese
only israeli and city of london brains can save us from a rapin and a pillagin
As the barbarians sacked Rome, many wielded captured Roman swords, wore captured Roman sandals, or carried captured Roman shields...
Not captured.
Supplied by Rome. The army that sacked Rome was a former Roman auxillery legion led by a barbarian mercenary general who was pissed about being paid in debased coins. Rome was too fucking soft at that point to recruit and train its own legions.
Put all the political BS aside and let the Peshmerga deal with Mosul.
USA out of America!
The good news is that China and Russia already have stolen this technology and don't need to buy these.
Not to worry, the CIA will already be scouring EBAY for it, soon have it back, if one deserting US soldier is worth five hardcore Jihad commanders, whats the price for a fully loaded Black Hawk choppers complete with fluffy dice and sheepskin seat covers?
Or they'll make the plane delivering the gear to its new owner mysteriously vanish over the Indian Ocean.
Fortunately the war in Iraq is over and we won (waving of flags and hysterics permitted) so, nothing to see here.
This is NOT the biggest waste of my taxes.
But it is pretty darn STUPID
Really please cease and desist. Go home. Stop. Stop Now!
Thanks USA, for creating this living hell.
Where is Harry Reid? Someone has to blame the Liberty Movement.
Buy defense stawks - the gubmint needs to order more of these to give away...
cia burp
a mossad flem cough
and an mi6 bottom fart
I guess its back to Iraq again to fight for freedom again against the forces of God, this gets confusing.
Are we still the good guys?
No.
whitey takes over brown town thanks to mossad cia and mi6 plus blackwater types and some bearded bad acts to blend in and for ziocon chatham house foto ops
cia takeover end of.
but it gets more interesting
hezbollah kicked the crap out of the city of london in syria and now hezbollah are training
Unit 3800 in iraq if they are let loose by maliki they can clean this up.
it is such an upside down back to front world.
we are the bad guys hezbollah are the good.
If they find any bearded guys they will blame Russia for encouraging and supporting the uprising.
My advise to the us goverment: TAKE A TIME OUT
The USSA now regrets having a Shiite led gov't in Iraq. If only they could resurrect Saddam from the grave. 'What the warmongers,Nixon, Reagan, Bush #41/#43 have done for America's ( all fucking Republican's!) reputation is...?'
Excerpted Quotes: "On the campaign trail Obama (*ref: Obama's Wars by Woodward) had said that Iraq was a misguided enterprise, a needless and costly war of choice that had tarnished America's image. So it is not a surprise that the WH celebrated the last convoy of American soldiers left Iraq for Kuwait an Dec. 18, 2011. It was the fulfillment of a campaign promise, or as VP Biden called it, 'one of the great achievements of this administration'. When Bush left office, Iraq did look as if it was on the rebound. Gen. Patraeus's COIN strategy and surge troops in 2007 had turned a fiasco of the war into something of a success (** a designed panacea for failure, and/or anti-Sun TZU strategy to fall back on?) story. When Obama came in , Iraq was enjoying relative calm. The insurgency had ended. al-Qaeda in Iraq was a thing of the past, and the fragil peace between Shias and Sunnis was holding. But, storm clouds loomed. Iraq's gov't was hopelessly corrupt and ineffective. Iraq's constitution that confirmed sectarian divisions while requiring an overwhelming majority before a gov't could form-- which could be achieved by promising control of large areas of gov't to prospective allies to milk as they saw fit. The problem, many think, is Maliki. Since taking office in 2006 he has proven, at various times and in various ways, both ineffectual and dictatorial. He hails from the smallest of the three major Shia political parties, al-Da`awa, and has had to rely on the support of a constellation of Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish political blocs to govern. But all told, Maliki has not amounted to the kind of leader that Iraq needs. He is a weak manager, and his authoritarian style has even alienated his own Shia [ & Kurdish] allies. Maliki is deeply sectarian, still nursing anger born from years of abuse that Shias suffered at the hands of the Sunni dictator (***100% US Grade A supported) Saddam Hussein. Maliki openly embraced Shia chauvinism and talked of revenge against the Sunnis-- payback for decades of mistreatment. What he's done is stoked the fires of sectarianism (****think Turkey today or has it always been just a ruse?). Obama realizing or thought it futile to invest more time and effort in this failed project (*****afterall, it was Bush's adopted child, and not Obama's). The US Military wanted to stay longer; the generals worried about Iraq backsliding into open conflict (****** and here we are today, 2014), and Obama wanted his War in Afghanistan which he gladly entered in his first eight-months of his 1st term of office." End Quote Pgs. 143-5 "The Dispensable Nation" (American FP in Retreat) c.2013 by Vali Nasr;__ Sic & (*s) notes of my opinion.
again jmo
thankyou Tyler
Ps. Obama going into Afghanistan lost him Rahm and Exelrod that thought he was fucking nuts, so Obama's fucking Chicago over!?!
Again JMO
It took longer than I thought for Iraq to devolve into civil war. We simply cannot convert the Middle East to democracy without an occupation army and what good is a democracy which is only stable at the end of a gun? Afghanistan will be back in Taliban hands within a year or two ...
I can't believe our government let Iraq go back into civil war. What will these developments do to global oil prices?
1974 ~ $5 /bbl
2014 ~ $110 /bbl
food & energy = energy
???
I'm shocked to learn that the CIA is going into the helicopter tours business, granted it would be cool to tour Sadams palaces or what is left of them by air...
Looks like Iraq will end up being partitioned into 3 states, a Kurdistan, a Sunni state and a Shia state...with ongoing turmoil. And this fits exactly the Zionist Neocon plan for the total disruption of all nation states in near proximity to Israel. It's a wonderful world when you have no neighbors with the wherewithal to launch a military assault and you can dominate the region by virtue of being the last functional government standing.
Wonder what Turkey and Afganistan will do with their Kurds should the Iraqi Kurds get Autonomy?
And this has been exactly the long term plan of the Zionists, using the big dumb US military as muscle.
The coup was complete in 1963.
Hey George W. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!! IDIOT WAR CRIMINAL.
Looks like a pave low - not your average crash hawk....
this is the imperial us president hussein obama-the muslim terrorist: take the helicopters from the National Guard...give to the islamic extremists
If Obama can have 2 custom made helicopters then surely Allah can have one second-hand
Blackhawk.
Did anybody think this wasn't going to happen?
Coming soon to a theater near (very near) you - "Islamic militants depose government, acquire Pakistani nuclear arsenal. US SEAL teams assigned to guard facilities missing, presumed beheaded. India on high alert. Obama plays best round ever in Palm Beach. Michelle undergoing hormone replacement therapy at tightly guarded Mexican clinic. Hilary announces formation of exploratory committee - target of exploration unknown. Donald Trump announces construction of world's highest casino on Mt. Everest Base Camp 3. Moving finger sighted on wall, writing and moving on."
"The whole of Mosul collapsed today. We've fled our homes and neighborhoods, and we're looking for God's mercy," said Mahmoud Al Taie, a dentist. "We are waiting to die."
Mission Accomplished!
May the motherfucking American slime that made it all possible burn in eternal hell!
You voted for him. TWICE!
who?
President Gas
Ahahahahahaha, how many US soldiers died for NOTHING? We have BY FAR the most INCOMPETENT "leaders" in the whole fucking world. We need to overthrow this fucked up criminal government.
Iraq, a place where US soldiers and trillions of american taxpayer dollars go to die. Destroy, rebuild, walk away then lose. Now that is real genius. I'd hate to bring up something about "bang for our buck" as there could be a pun in poor taste in there somewhere.
No telling how many middle eastern lives america is responsible for taking and as has been proven over the last 3000 years or so they don't need help from the outside when it comes to killing each other.
The last joke on the citizen is that many washington elites believe the american taxpayer must pony up more in taxes, fees etc...because too many aren't paying their fair share.
a chatham house guy tonight on bbc radio 5 live said iraq is a failed state.
3 state sollution is the only way out.
also blamed iran.
mentioned support for are friends the kurds.
if you ever want to understand the rothschild position on any news story listen to bbc radio 5.
a world more freaky and surreal than willy wonkas house.
a station so full of nlp mind control and so kosher you could almost be back at your post fuckishima base at magna bsp in dimona.
*opens butt cheeks* Okay fine, how much to replace?
can helicopter fuel burn hot enough to free-fall a scyscraper?
without the technical backup those machines are worthless. but if they wanted to they would sell them to al qaeda with training (or rather if they thought they could arm the Syrian rebels to overthrow Aassad)
no doubt the americans and saudis are funding these people to destroy the very country america claims to have stabliliized because their strength in northern iraq is going to be REQUIRED to be focused on syria if they are to keep being rewarded with funding. a lot like the new ukrainian imf deal but more on the hugsh hush.
i mean, how in FUCK DO PEOPEL THINK THESE 'REBELS' ARE GETTING MONEY ADN FUNDING? YOU THINK RUSSIA OR CHINA WANTS IRAQI AL QUESDA FUCKING WITH SYRIA? LET ALONE SCREAMING ABOUT ANYTHING.
REMBMER MOTHER FUCKERS AL QUEDA ARE SUNNI OR ANYTHING BUT SHIITE AND ARE NOT ALLIGNED WITH IRAN, IF ANYTHING AGAINST IRAN.
WHAT MAKES SENSE TO MOST AMREICANS IS THAT IF THEY ALL HATE AMERICA---WHY DON'T THEY ALL TEAM UP ? WELL IT DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT MOTHERFUCKERS BECAUSE WITHOUT AMERICAN MILITARY SUPPORT THE HOUSE OF SAUD WILL FALL. THAT FUCKING SIMPLE.
THEY GIVE US OIL WE PROTECT THEM BY GIVING THEM WEAPONS AND AIR SUPPORT AND MORE. SO LONG AS THEY POSITION THEMSELVES AGAINST THE IRANIANS AND RUSSIANS.
THE DAY THAT TEH SAUDI'S BEGIN ACCEPTING YUAN OR RUBLES FOR OIL INSTEAD OF EXCLUSIVELY DOLLARS---IS THE DAY THE U.S. IS FORCED TO SIMPLY NUKE SAUDI ARABIA.
*gives you a backrub*
Shh...shh... I know.
The terrorists really belong to Saudi Arabia even though we fund them, and once our dollars stops being the reserve currency our hegemony will implode.
The U.S. is quite literally the whore of Babylon.
BTW, I'm being serious.
Maybe the Al Qaida guys are our Saudi removal team?
They're much easier to remove than Putin and the Russian govt, heck half their family wants to kill them too. (Saudis).
Is it time for the house of Saud to fall?
Cue the human rights violation clip, delete the Bush hand holding with the murderous dictators(s).
this is how Obama has your back. He abandons you at the first sign of a fight and focuses on stealing your money!
Obama needs to get out there front and center and belch out "mission accomplished" or something like that.
Why are we over there again? Oh yea, we broke the mid east.
"Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham"
Aren't we supporting those blokes in Syria....I get all these Al-salami / Al-CIA-Dugh types mixed up. Either way this was probably staged in some form or fashion to help pump up the lagging MIC sales...
I;m all for Terrorist driving out the US Terrorists and take back their own ountry and run their own country the way they want to run their own country. And they can't do that until they drive out the US Terrorists.
Another day, another clusterfuck to spin. Carney ain't as dumb as he looks. OTOH, jsut slap some snactions on them and threaten them with grave consequences... Grave consequences, are there any other kind?
Chinese would love to get their hands on them...
Pakistan give data to Chinese on stealth chopper
Iranian share drone info with Chinese.
I am sure Chinese would like to work with the rebels in exchange to study the hardware.
Never ending circus. And i'm outa fucking peanuts. Oh well the beers still flowing to numb my fucking brain to the point of no return. Not happening fast enough. Don't really care for drugs though.
Psquared: It took longer than I thought for Iraq to devolve into civil war. We simply cannot convert the Middle East to democracy without an occupation army and what good is a democracy which is only stable at the end of a gun? Afghanistan will be back in Taliban hands within a year or two ...
Democracy? Really? You forgot the sarcasm tag right? We went over there for to spread Democracy?
(rolling eyes).
...and....ummmm regarding Trash-can-istan getting back into the Talibans hands. Never gonna happen. The Spice must flow and the Poppies must grow.
Day-o, day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Me say day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come Mr Tali-ban come Talli me Banana
Work all night on a drink a rum
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Stack banana till the mornin' come
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come, Mister talli ban, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come, Mister talli ban, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day, me say day, me say day
(Daylight come and me wan' go home)
....sorry man, I'm hittin' the rum tonight and all this silliness about the tali-ban got to me.
Sorry I'm late everybody - had to put the kids to bed.
Here is where many folks are getting hung up:
1. We've got all these pretty, high-res satellite photos of helicopters on the ground at the Mosul Airport.
2. We can monitor HUNDREDS of millions of cell phone calls, and emails - heck, maybe TRIPLE that amount.
3. NOBODY saw this "surprise attack" coming.
Don't you worry - this will soon be recognized by all, as yet another brilliant strategic move by the U.S. in its' master plan to bring peace and harmony to the middle east.
I know a lot of folks here are skeptical, but we are *so* close to winning this one, that I can tell you that this is actually the final "Checkmate" move, on resolving this longstanding regional crisis.
I can't yet tell you exactly how we snatch victory from the jaws of this seeming "defeat", but give this 24 hours - Tops - and you will see that it really is: Game/Set/Match, USA!!
B
Are you comments remotely similar to what the German Generals were thinking at Stalingrad? (sarc)
While Americans are making every effort to ignore it Iraq is rapidly falling into chaos. Things are beginning to unravel at a rapid pace. Civilian deaths in Iraq, including police casualties, totaled 7,818 last year, surpassing the 6,787 in 2008.
This data compiled by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq gives an idea just how dire the situation has become. On top of that figure an additional 17,981 civilians were injured last year. In cities across Iraq bombs exploding and attacks against civilians have become a daily occurrence. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/01/iraq-rapidly-falling-into-chaos.h...
Iraq is already in chaos. Just a matter of time before the whole country is consumed by Al Qaeda.
It was better to have left Sadam in charge.
Chaos equals profits for the war state.
Banksters are happy. Double profits everytime.
The US PTB somehow think that all there clever manipulations, false flags, and geo-political machinations will all dovetail to their benefit....
hmm somehow the idea of "unintended consequences" never factored into their equations
Iraq was a waste of money and life.
We should stop sticking our noses in other nation's affairs.
Reported to DHS for not supporting the troops.
/sarc
Agreed......But Iraq's decision not to use the dollar for oil trade IS / WAS your affair?
Like the fukin evil USA didnt set this up
These things are networked right?
Gotta be some way to log in and run some diagnostics, no?
Ahhh, can't stand that red headed snatch shooting her big mouth off.
Anyone know if isis has pilots that can fly these things ?
Yep al ciada
LONG Al-Qaeda!
Isis???!! wtf? Is this from"wage war powers of the air myth" crowd....? or???
It should be pointed out that this will not impact President Obama's golf game or his vacation schedule.
I think this is what the Bush lover meant when he said mission accomplished. now Jeb Bush can get elected in 2016 and fight the good war against alqaeda again. Long American Flags and Caskets!! Made in China of course.
Soooo... the Iraqi government doesn't have any artillery or aircraft to take this former base out?
Why isn't that whole area rubble right now?
"Residents of Los Angeles said they were shocked at the ease of the peoples' movement takeover of government buildings, television stations and military installations where fighter airplanes, helicopters and other heavy weaponry are based."
fingers crossed.
Please God - let Hillary have been inside one of those captured Black Hawks.
For this, we humbly beseech You. (Throw in Victoria as well - if it's not too much to ask)
"Blackhawk and Kiowa helicopters parked at the Mosul airport, are now in, you guessed it, Al Qaeda hands."
Phew! you had me worried there for a moment. So the helicopters are still safely in the hands of the CIA.
Congratulations Bush and Blair on your legacy. Iraq is now a peaceful democracy. Good job with Libya as well. And Syria! And Afghanistan! Throw Yemen in there as well. I so look forward to the conversion of Africa with that history. Thank you America and Britain. You are succeeding where others have failed so miserably to kill hope.