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Iraq Update: Jihadists Seize 2 More Iraqi Towns; Close To 30 Miles Of Baghdad; Iran Rushes To Help
While the US scrambles to figure out what the least painful way is to admit yet another humiliating foreign policy defeat, things in Iraq continue to deteriorate as the relentless blitzkrieg unleashed by the ISIS/ISIL Al-Qaeda spin off, which has shocked everyone by its speed and scale, takes two more towns, as it rushes for its target: Baghdad itself.
As Reuters reports, "Islamist rebel fighters captured two more Iraqi towns overnight in a relentless sweep south towards the capital Baghdad in a campaign to recreate a medieval caliphate carved out of fragmenting Iraq and Syria. Thrusting further to the southeast after their lightning seizure of the major Iraqi city of Mosul in the far north and the late dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, ISIL entered two towns in Diyala province bordering Iran. Saadiyah and Jalawla had fallen to the Sunni Muslim insurgents after government troops fled their positions, along with several villages around the Himreen mountains that have long been a hideout for militants, security sources said."
As the following map shows, as of this moment the Al Qaeda extremeists are now just 30 miles away from Baghdad and closing fast, although Iraqi forces may have succeded in halting the advance for now near the town of Samarra.
What the map above also shows is the extensive US presence in the region, one which however as Obama stated yesterday, he is so far unwilling to unleash on the ISIS army.
Obama said military action alone was no panacea against ISIL. He alluded to long-standing Western complaints that Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has done little to heal sectarian rifts that have left many of Iraq's minority Sunnis, cut out of power since Saddam's demise, aggrieved and keen for revenge.
"This should be also a wake-up call for the Iraqi government. There has to be a political component to this," Obama said.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assured Maliki by telephone that Washington was prepared to intensify and accelerate its security support. The White House had signaled on Wednesday it was looking to strengthen Iraqi forces rather than meet what one U.S. official said were past Iraqi requests for air strikes.
But fears of jihadist violence spreading may increase pressure for robust international action. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said international powers "must deal with the situation".
In Mosul, ISIL staged a parade of American Humvee patrol vehicles seized from a collapsing Iraqi army in the two days since its fighters drove out of the desert and overran the city.
The parade can be seen in the clip below:
So will Baghdad fall as rapidly as all other cities in the north? For now that appears unlikely:
ISIL and its allies took control of Falluja at the start of the year. It lies just 50 km (30 miles) west of Maliki's office. ISIL has set up military councils to run the towns they captured, residents said. “'Our final destination will be Baghdad, the decisive battle will be there' - that’s what their leader kept repeating," said a regional tribal figure.
The senior U.N. official in Iraq assured the Security Council that Baghdad was in "no immediate danger". The council offered unanimous support to the government and condemned "terrorism".
As with the concurrent war in Syria, the conflict cuts across global alliances. The United States and Western and Gulf Arab allies back the mainly Sunni revolt against the Iranian-backed Syrian President Assad, but have had to watch as ISIL and other Islamists have come to dominate large parts of Syria.
Now the Shi'ite Islamic Republic of Iran, which in the 1980s fought Saddam for eight years at a time when the Sunni Iraqi leader enjoyed quiet U.S. support, may share an interest with the "Great Satan" Washington in bolstering mutual ally Maliki.
The global oil benchmark prices have jumped, as concerns mounted that the violence could disrupt supplies from a major OPEC exporter. Iraq's main oil export facilities are in the largely Shi'ite areas in the south and were "very, very safe", Oil Minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi said.
Until they aren't. As a reminder, ISIS's immediate ambition is to create an independent religious state-entity/caliphate that looks like this:
Which probably is why none other than the country's most senior Shiite cleric urged broad mobilization, telling people across the land to take arms:
A representative of Iraq's most influential Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, urged people in a sermon at Friday prayers to take up arms and defend their country from mostly Sunni insurgents.
Sheikh Abdulmehdi al-Karbalai, who was delivering the sermon at prayers in the city of Kerbala, holy to Iraq's majority Shi'ites, said those killed fighting the militants would be martyrs.
"People who are capable of carrying arms and fighting the terrorists in defence of their country... should volunteer to join the security forces to achieve this sacred goal," Karbalai said.
In response, worshippers chanted "Labbeik Ya Hussein", meaning they would act at the behest of Imam Hussein, who is buried in a shrine in Kerbala.
But what virtually assures that it is only a moment of time before the situation spirals out of control is the arrival of Iran troops who are now being sent to guard Baghdad, and fight Al Qaeda:
Reports coming out of security sources in Iran say that two battalions of Quds Force troops from the nation’s Revolutionary Guard have deployed into neighboring Iraq to guard Shi’ite holy sites as well as the capital city of Baghdad. Some have also reportedly taken part in fighting in Tikrit.
The move comes in response to al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) taking most of the country’s Sunni west, and moving dangerously close to Baghdad on multiple fronts. Iraq’s Shi’ite government is on good terms with Iran.
Earlier today, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said his country can’t tolerate the growth of a terrorist group so close to their borders, and promised unspecified aid to the Maliki government.
Iran has already been aiding the Assad government in Syria against AQI’s advances there, albeit without much success. As the problem of this new AQI-run state grows, Iran is likely to try to increase support for its struggling allies, out of whose territory the state is being carved.
More from Reuters, which reports that Iran, a Shiite republic, is so alarmed by Sunni insurgent gains in Iraq that it may be willing to cooperate with Washington in helping Baghdad fight back, a senior Iranian official told Reuters. The idea is being discussed internally among the Islamic Republic's leadership, the senior Iranian official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. The official had no word on whether the idea had been raised with any other party.
Officials say Iran will send its neighbor advisers and weaponry, although probably not troops, to help its ally Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki check what Tehran sees as a profound threat to regional stability, officials and analysts say.
Islamist militants have captured swathes of territory including the country's second biggest city Mosul.
Tehran is open to the possibility of working with the United States to support Baghdad, the senior official said.
"We can work with Americans to end the insurgency in the Middle East," the official said, referring to events in Iraq. "We are very influential in Iraq, Syria and many other countries."
For many years, Iran has been aggrieved by what it sees as U.S. efforts to marginalize it. Tehran wants to be recognized as a significant player in regional security.
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Rouhani on Thursday strongly condemned what he called violent acts by insurgent groups in the Middle East.
“Today, in our region, unfortunately, we are witnessing violence, killing, terror and displacement," Rouhani said.
"Iran will not tolerate the terror and violence ... we will fight against terrorism, factionalism and violence.”
That's right: as a result of the epic US leftover mess in Iraq, it is now up to its arch nemesis Iran to get in and protect the country from none other than Al-Qaeda. And not only that, but Iran is prepared to work with the "great Statan", America, to defend the middle east from Al-Qaeda!
And to think: this is only the beginning.
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THEN....Fuckbama will sneak out and do one of his "Afghani-surprises"...and get in 9 holes....
both at the club..with his pee pee later and bunghole.....and niblick brassie rut iron wearing Mom shorts and a goofy grin....waving to the sheeple gathered to worship his hine-ass....
They know the financial system is going to crash, so they need to have something to blame it on. What better than high fuel costs?
IraqIran....Euphrasia....I speak very very...fluent Spanish...
Stevie...
as for these idiots slugging it out...let them....
wasted money on the elite of the world to ongoingly finance this sand shit show...
tired of hearing the FUCKING WORDS IRAQ AND IRAN.....
FUCK THEM
Did he really say military action was no panacea against ISIL? I mean WTF? It is a shooting fight, isn't it? Clearly, Iraq has been cut loose. Obama has handed it over. And this crap about a political solution? He is telling the gov surrender.
Biden "assuring" Maliki is akin;
to a drunk adamantly telling you that he is OK to drive...
to one bought off paid for lackey telling the other bought off lackey that "we might get doughnuts today"
to a father of a Ukrainian gas board member to an EU oil bitch that : "fuck it..guns and shit are coming......back"
And just like that Iran steps onto the world stage with the Russians and United States courting them. Well played Iran, well played.
This does not help Iran, they are already spread thin and adds another unfriendly player to this F'd up stage.
These latest batch of F'd up misfits are Sunni's who hate the Shiites (Iran)
More post 911 Kabuki theater. What can we do to keep oil prices boiling, rinse and repeat.
http://thinkingaboot.blogspot.ca/2014/06/the-iraq-disinegration.html
More post 911 Kabuki theater. What can we do to keep oil prices boiling, rinse and repeat.
http://thinkingaboot.blogspot.ca/2014/06/the-iraq-disinegration.html
"Our final destination will be Baghdad, ..." (?) The BBC quoted ISIS/ISIL on the 6/11/14 evening televised news as saying their "final destination is Jerusalem." This could get interesting.
Sure, gives the Israel lobby another quote to employ when demanding $$ from Uncle Sucker.
"final destination is Jerusalem"
If only.
well this should be interesting, the Sunni militants take down the government in Baghdad, while Iran quietly slips across the border to defend (and expropriate) the rich oil fields at Basra and complete control of that hub in the Persian gulf. Iran is a more fundamentalist branch of Islam than the secular Shiites in Iraq, this has always been the point of contention in Iraqi secular violence, which devolved into a partitioning of neighborhoods. now the Sunni's are embracing the jihadist insurgents so where does Iran fit in all this? while Iran supports the regime in Syria, they are probably much closer to the insurgency than the strictly Shiite/Sunni definition assumes. during the Iraq war Iran was interested in protecting Iraqi Sunnis from persecution. (or so the narrative went) Iran is evolving into a more moderate theocracy, and are no longer the most extreme religious branch of Islam in the ME. but Al Qaeda was never a fundamentalist organization, and has no ties with Iran, had none with Iraq until Bush invaded, AQ came primarily out of Afghanistan and the mind of a Saudi, Bin Laden. just when you get all the balls in the air.
AQ had been a CIA client since the 1980s. Unfortunately, they tend to acquire CIA largesse and then do their own thing.
My sneer factor always spikes when Neo-Arabists and/or willing fools name be-headers and the like "militants.'
Aren't the neo-cons thrilled?
I thought the point was to break up the Middle East into small feuding groups who were too busy fighting each to notice the oil theft by the West.
I thought that this is what they wanted. Oh, well, maybe they didn't think it through.
Nice work USSA. You too pUKe.
Both criminal zio-brothers in arms.
A guy who can't run the Vetrans' Administration trys to jam democracy (and oil leases) down the throats of midieval warring tribsmen.
What could go wrong.
"you can say anything about his commitments (to erade poverty etc.), his views (liberal, socialist etc.), his nationality etc.
BUT DONT YOU DARE say he has not worked a day in his life !!!
He has gone through so much, through so many sleepless nights worked so hard to serve this country!"
Um, you talking about Obama?
No disrespect dude, but someone slipped something into your coffee.
"sleepless nights"?
Bbbhahahaha! Dude, you is one excellent comedian!
Where you come up with such great laugh lines!
That is a knee slapper fur sure!
So the Iraq central bank had $450 million in ash on hand? Or was it all on one computer terminal? Either way, ISIS is rich bitchezz!
I wonder if Al-Qaeda is actually the arab branch of the US Army.
or the american branch of the pan arab army.
Odd how many people simply assume 'Obama fucked up.' Ignores considerable evidence that he's been a puppet since at least Harvard Law. Also ignores that chaos and infighting, weakening Syria, drawing in Hezbollah {primarily a Lebanese guerilla org} and Iran special ops... preventing Iran from getting any pipelines through Iraq and Syria to sell to Europe... not to mention the need for lots of weapons and ammo and armor and maybe mercenaries...
All of that isn't "bad" for everyone. Far from it...
Because BOOOOOOSH!
So Iran and Saudi Arabia fight a proxy war in Iraq.
How the fuck can futures be rallying on this?...and Oil flat and Gold up $1 this is just blatant intervention, and Index buying to hold this shit up S&P up 10 really?
The Bushes and the rest of the warmongers cashed out a loooong time ago. All the blood spilled and for what?
Barry springs into action when he sees Iran sending boots on the ground. Next thing you know, Russia will be providing air support via thermobaric bombs over Sunni areas of Iraq and Syria.No need for Uncle Sam.
Probably run into his arse in Pinehurst this weekend.
A very interesting read.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-covert-re-invasion-of-iraq/5386883
US foreign policy, driven by a bribed legislature, crafted for the benefit of the war profiteers to the tune of trillions dollars and millions of lives, and rationalized for the chattering classes by a fifth column of neocons, is the problem in Iraq, Syria, Lybia, Afghanistan and Sudan. Blaming the US armed forces for the debacle, as per the Washington Post, is a malicious attempt at deflecting the focus away from the necon cancer eating away at the US State Department.
Spot on - home run.
You are a drooling drone chock full of typical ZH'ers special and particular bumpersticker intellect. NeoCons! NeoCons! Stooopid to the point of embarrassment.
How about foreign entanglements result in moral hazards for which in the end, the People must pay?
Well you've got "simple, elegant, and wrong" down, anyway.
Cookie?
I agree with you regarding foreign entanglements, but policy doesn't just happen, it is crafted. Who crafts it and why? Those questions, as painful as they might be, need to be asked and answered honestly if there are going to be any lessons learned going forwards. Perhaps you forgot that William Kristol, Robert Kagan, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, R. James Woolsey, Eliot Abrams, Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Zoellick and John Bolton were all pushing for Iraqi regime change back in 1998 under the auspices of "Project for a New American Century." The policy was implemented, and the results are not outstanding.
Indeed. See the two particular links I posted below. That these men were overwhelmingly Jewish and Zionit *and* Likudist is an integral part of the story - one that can not be discussed.... even the fact it can not be discussed can not be discussed.
That, there, is powerful magick... it relies on the relative intellectual stupor of the masses... greatly assisted by mass media and the proverbial hive mind, of course....
The two great hijackers of US foreign policy, outside pressure from the large banks, are neoconservatism [which is really just proxy Zionism] and the 'Globalism' of Zbig et. al more focused on russia and china.
Both are intellectually infirm, both are chickenhawm militarism, and both have control of your government and will find a perfect synthesis in Hillary...
Turkey has big Interests:
http://tc-nj-pac.org/
http://tcmidwestpac.org/
http://www.tc-usa-pac.org/
http://www.tccalpac.com/
http://turkishpac.org/
http://www.tenthousandturks.org/
https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00432526 (wow some money here)
http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00454140
Well you might as well add a long list of DemPervs, including BJ Clinton calling for regime change vis a vis Saddam. Me thinks these folks were 40 years too late with their vision.
William Kristol, Robert Kagan, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, R. James Woolsey, Eliot Abrams, Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Zoellick and John Bolton"
Nice list and seems Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) Joined them and Supported the Iraq War according to Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#2003_invasio... (DLC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century (PNAC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#.22Ne... (Like they were planning to go forward and announced it in a New Paper Ad)
the Basra oil fields, bitchez!
what if they don't greet us as liberators? nahhh- never happen.
Flashback Friday: Obama Declares War In Iraq Over In 2011
Good job WZ!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha a ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Our State Department in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcRRaXV-fg&feature=kp
Has to be said, usa and all its wisdom - look at the aftermath of all this occupation in Iraq for a better and free democratic Iraq campaign so to speak - HOW RIDICULOUS. Its achievements - increased blood shed between 2 factions - both of which pray to the one Allah and both who shout out loud - God is great whilst slaughtering eachother. l actually think thats what usa wants also - CREATE THE PROBLEM - AND WE HAVE A SOLUTION, CALLED DRONE STIKES BY OUR HIGHLY TRAINED GAMERS
Also - the muslims all should understand, its a ploy to divide you and its working - you should also understand you are being played and this will have further deeper reaches throughout the muslim world
Got to ask - would Allah be pleased with a Shi'te muslim killing a Sunni muslim in this name?
And follows, would Allah be pleased with a Sunni muslim killing a Shiite muslim in this name?
complete mind control
I saw where the Ukrainian mothers are refusing to allow their sons to be drafted.
Finally some sanity.At least someone has read a history book or two.
Funny story: A Washington politico type walks into the wrong building where a marine reunion of Fallujuh combat veterans are discussing the sacrifice of their dead and wounded,"WAS IT WORTH IT?".
What makes anyone think this is a foreign policy defeat for the US?
The Sunnis in Saudi Arabia are helping the insurgents. Some of Sadam's men (Sunnis), who are still on the lam, are also helping.
The US would rather deal with Sunnis than Shi'ites. This was the plan all along.
the plan has always been - enthusiastic thievery corruption @ any amounts of Iraqi lives
Better to be born a chicken in Askole than a regular citizen of Iraq.
I wonder if the Saudis appreciate what good patsies they could make for the Israelis...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-mid...
http://www.voltairenet.org/article178638.html
Off Topic, if you'll indulge me, but I initially came to ZH as a reader last year through whatreallyhappened.com -work permitting, I watch the video feed of the radio show from 2 - 5 pm during the week... anyone else?
Anyone else know of other good sort of small indie media websites/radio shows? I mean people who aren't totally nuts.
the host, Mike Rivero's smart... I think he's lost perspective on some things... like every school shooting being a false flag and asinine claims that the injuries in Boston were fake... but gives you a different spin than CNN/Fox/NBC/ABC etc. which, of course, is the real value, even if you don't agree with all of what he comes up with...
As long as ISIS hasn't gotten onto Goldman's trading floor, the market, and our fair country, are safe.
Besides, they robbed the Central Bank in Mosul
They've got 400 million to invest
Though they do need to put some away to defend themselves against trademark infringment suit
Well, maybe the Wahabbist Saud Family can finally start packing their bags for exile and the Kingdom can offically join the Levant. Imagine a world where AlQueda, Al Quids, Fatah, Hezzbullah, Hamas, the Revoluationary Guard and the Muslim Brotherhood, etc., Et. Al. control the entire middle east. Just to try to make friends with you inch deep rabbid David Dukesters, I hope it happens and I sure as hell hope they bring in on right to the ole US of A. Bout time that the sheeple learn that politics and ideology is everything.
Wouldn't you be happier fucking off to CNN to refer to the indigenous people of Palestine as "fakestinians" and to tell people how all technology we enjoy was invented in Israel - which developed the cell phone, microchip, and jock itch cream all from scratch?
There'd be no Al Qaeda without the CIA, no Hezbollah if Israel didn't want to invade and annex Southern Lebanon for the water {and gas}, and Hamas hasn't done anything that the Irgun and other Jewish terror groups did 70 years ago - terrorism which, of course, has been whitewashed out of the narrative of Israel's creation - along with the 800k Palestinians forcible ejected and prevented from returning, and the destruction and covering over of 400+ Arab/Bedouin towns and settlements... followed by archaelogical fraud and historical revisionism.
Fuck you.
Daffy Duck, you be from Dearborn, Michigan....the proper term is Fauxlestinian. And your sense of revisionism is as palable as Joe Gobbels. Archaelogical fraud? You are a piece of shit without redemption. You forgot that the Zionists own you and your family. You can't breath without their permission. Tough being you in a Zionist world ain't it?
this whole thing is designed - lower mentality to a dumb down level such as YOU SUNNI? YOU DIE, YOU SHIITE, YOU DIE
lower population and increase a distraction for thievery, moveover, sanctions failed against Iran, so lets develop killing frenzy of Sunni in Iraq to get the majority Sunni Iran into combat mode - bring them into war
must be said - usa democRary - most of your own americans hate your own policies - if you protest and free speech now in usa - you gotta a criminal record - brilliant. yOU ARE ERODING YOUR OWN DEMOCRARY INTO VOMIT, wriiten by your own forefathers - WE THE PEOPLE STUFF
and you think your democrary is the envy of the rest of the world? - fat bastrds, zero morals and xbox ( maybe sony PS4 )
MONEY PRINTING, NO REGARD, NO NOTHING NATION - YOUR PERTOL DOLLAR IS DONE, SO FCUK OFF
HEY!
Learn to spell FUCK
It's FUCK - F U C K
FUCK
I may be repeating what others have said...none the less.
Iraq is a false construct from the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
There is no Iraq as define by the British.
Nature will take its course.
Well let's attempt to be balanced...the Ottoman Empire didn't get that way by offerring free ox carts for the masses. Just ask southern Europe.
How many of you demented Culture of Death lovers are posting here today? Uh, you know Muslim and or Arab?
l for one is neither Muslim or Arab - also Arabs are Muslims too - therefore your question is fcuked up anyway
my point is usa - consume your own vomit - dont vomit over anyone else with your burgers eating saturated fats democracy, drown in it yourself and love it. How can Obama even show his face? Hes gonna fix Iraq? Cant fix Obama care - the word care in this policy was written as a means of mind control for you dumb fcuks
anyway - ITS ALL HALAL
saturated fats are actually healthy: http://www.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/donald-w-miller-jr-md/saturated-fats-are-good-for-you/
The rest of the crap you barfed out was interesting though.
before the was anything, therefore defination of anything, there was only you my lord
I think you need to be nicer to be effective. check your playbook, pal:
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Hasbara_-_overview
Nicer to Jihadists and their apologists? I mean to make them finally give back to the community... as cattle feed.
The media, and I include most of the alternative media, did NOT examine the MOVERS & SHAKERS for the Iraq war, here is the real story on Iraq.
"The war on Iraq: Conceived in Israel," February 2003
War on Iraq: Not oil but Israel October 22, 2004
A closer look: The Israeli origins of Bush II's war. April 24, 2005
I wonder how ISIS feels about the possibility of a rather large gas pipeline from Qatar to the Mediterranean and Turkey?
or the one that was supposed to go from Iran to Syria through Iraq...
or the one Israel wants to build to Europe via Cyprus from is [and Syria's and Palestine's and Lebanon's] gas claims in the eastern med. ...
:o}
Well thank God Obama's regime is destroying economical and nearly endless sources of energy in order to tilt at windmills and old Sol. I mean can you think of a more direct way of guaranteeing America's continued direct and even deeper involvement in the utter hellhole of the ME... no matter how out of control the situation evolves?
Well at least I think we can all agree that when the Jihadists overthrow the Saud Family, finally the world can breath easier. Russian, China, Iran, and all the oil will put this country in a long overdue death vice. After Europe and Japan cries uncle, we will too. I think Obama agrees with me. We are planning for the demise of the PetroDollar, are you?
what the usa saw was dumb opportunity with a devilish mind - same as the democrats fight with rebublicans - they saw this as an easy way to kill - hence a 2 party system Shiite and Sunni - one of the main reasons is they cant think beyond 2 parties - clear as day/mud
so - what does USA do best @ any cost? try and capitailize on the 2 party system whilst developing oil lines and GMO heroine in Afganistan with Mansanto and at the same time disguising the fact that they discovered huge resourses of valuable metals - lithium and copper to mention a few
and heres the biggest laugh, they think we dont know what they are doing - not every trader has the same abilities and not everyone is as fat and saturated as you - fcuk you and you're BS USA
FREE THINKING RULES - gods will
fcuk off USA - BIG TIME
go throw your egg shaped ball and organism
lets make it more
a president of the USA has to be american - yet years have past and no one can prove Obama is actually american yet president - yep, gotta be egged shaped to throw it
fcuking USA dumb ass fcukwits, got a president that you cant even agree CAN BE PRESIDENT and is gonna help rid the world of wrong do'ers
go fcuk a saturated fat, your wives
l dont know about you but l trade for a living success fcuk ully
nothing like zero hedge, to express, great forums - the best place
anytime you want a signal on nearly anything, forex, indices and or metals ( intraday preferrably ), however copper @ near 2.8865 is a buy longer term, dont say l didnt warn you
bless all free thinkers
all instruments intraday, forex, indices and metals ( soft commodities are bit more tricky, look for haarp induced famine to drive up prices )
not selling anything by the way, dont need your money
but if it helps, sure - fcuk the rich in the wallet whilst the whore wife looks in disgust - no problem
Great job Bush, Obama and neocons.
/sarcasm
That stupid ISW graphic leaves out Al-Qaeda's main prize: Saudi Arabia.
Is there anyone ever more stupid than a Western commentator on Middle East affairs?
Sheep are armed with knives and sent to clash into each other. They never figure out it is their leaders who are the real bad guys and no victory or loss of these battles has any long-term benefit to the sheep on any sides in any factions.