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The Latest News Out Of Iraq - Full Overnight Update
Events in Iraq are changing by the hour, now that US combat boots are "on the ground", expect them to change even faster. For those looking to catch up on the most recent overnight news out of this latest civil war torn country, here is the full update.
- GUNMEN ATTACK IRAQ'S BAIJI OIL REFINERY: SKY NEWS ARABIA
- ISIL TAKES TURKMEN VILLAGE 20KM FROM KIRKUK IN IRAQ: CNN-TURK
- Iraq's biggest oil refinery shut down, foreign staff evacuated (Reuters)
- Obama Sends Troops to Assist Iraq Embassy, Weighs Strikes (BBG)
- Kurds Grab Fourth-Largest Iraq Oilfield Amid ISIL Advance (BBG)
- Iraqi troops and Sunni rebels battle for control of Tal Afar (FT)
- Brent Drops as Iraqi Forces Slow Insurgent Advance (BBG)
- U.S., Iran Discuss Crisis in Iraq (WSJ)
- ISIS gunmen attacked a prison in the city of Baquba, 34 miles north of Baghdad, killing 43 inmates; Iraq military says it repelled the attack (BBG)
- Obama Courting Iran for Help in Iraq Risks Backlash (BBG)
- Kidnapped Chinese CNPC Employee Rescued in Iraq (Caixin)
- In diplomatic breakthrough, Britain says to re-open Iran embassy (Reuters)
- Iraq produced 3.125mln bbl/d of crude oil in the period from January to May, exported 2.5mln bbl/d in the period January to May while Kirkuk crude output has been 300K bbl/d since March according to the Iraq Govt. (BBG)
- India’s Iranian oil imports have risen 13.5% in May vs. April, above 2mln bbl, yet are down 0.6% in May vs. year ago. (Business Today)
- BP’s CEO Bob Dudley has said their operations in Iraq are so far unaffected by violence, with non-essential production people having left but operations continue. (RTRS)
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winning!
Hope and change!
This is just pathetic.
Anyone heard from the anti-war Left? (crickets)
No we haven't. It's astonishing.
Shit just hit the fan, take cover.
Does anyone know what the Saudi response to this is?
Iran and the U.S. wokring together/ Britain re-opening embassy, have anything to do with the Saudi's getting ready to sell in anything other than the green back?
"Hitler's last roll of the dice."
The Nobel Peace Prize recipent, I am sure, is keeping them updated at each of his $50k campaign dinners.
When he's not playing golf or with Reggie that is...
It's in the Hole!
I see what you did there.
cough, LOL......
We told you not to invade? Mind your own business, etc..
I'm also a green; I'd like to seen the "West" wean itself off oil and leave the rag heads and jews to kill each other without consequence.
"I'm also a green; I'd like to seen the "West" wean itself off oil and leave the rag heads and jews to kill each other without consequence."
So it's settled, you believe in Unicorns, fairy dust, and the idea of defying the laws of physics with 12th century windmills, 19th century photovoltaic technology, and primeval algal blooms. Congrats!
If France, Germany, the UK, Portugal, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, Ireland, Austria, New Zealand, etc.. can live on 25-35 bbl/day per 1000 then Canada, the US, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, etc dont need to use 60-119 bbl/day/1000.
Building cities with ski resorts in the desert is a fantasy land; in 50 years time they won't be able to cool, provide water for, or feed them. We're allowing the ME nations to build populations and military structures that will become very unstable when the oil eventually does run out.
Hey dumbo ... we import virtually no oil from the Middle East these days. You ever hear of the shale revolution? Any imports are from Canada, Mexico, Ven. NO REASON TO BE IN THE MIDDLE EAST ANY LONGER
America is an island.
They all got addicted to Lortab, now they're taking suboxone and Zoloft so they're only awake about 2 hours a day. They get up eat then watch dancing with the stars and crash again. Anti war left is gone with the wind right behind the middle class.
You must not be listening.
What I don't hear much of is enthusiasm from anywhere but the Neocon camp.....and they are having a tough time making their points without someone shouting them down.
We're going to not just have to hit them...but hit them hard.
And that's a fact.
The American people are not prepared for this...and I can't say even I have a clue the right argument to be used to explain this turn of events.
Come on guys, we all know they are just there to protect the embassy.
/sarc
Yep. They're probably just advising like in Vietnam.
They were reportedly sent to defend the embassy in Baghdad.
why defend and empty building?
And our freedoms
a couple of more updates:
THe Syrian Air force has bombed several ISIS convoys, providing the SOLE country in the world at this point assisting. They know what the US / Saudi trained ISIS is all about though. There is a virtual blackout on this. FOx mentioned it yesterday briefly but it flies in the face of the MSM lies.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0a9_1402999014
http://www.islamicinvitationturkey.com/2014/06/16/syria-pounds-isil-posi...
note the above, the syrian lavatory for human rights, the one man propaganda crew for the rebels posted in the UK even confirms this. It is said that the bombing has straddled the border.
Thousands of SUNNI muslims have answered the call to help fight ISIS in Iraq, flying in the face of this being a civil war.
http://www.islamicinvitationturkey.com/2014/06/17/thousands-of-sunni-mus...
at least 300 isis members whacked
http://www.islamicinvitationturkey.com/2014/06/16/at-least-300-isil-terr...
Iraqi forces taking back control
http://www.islamicinvitationturkey.com/2014/06/16/this-is-how-the-isis-t...
So I hate to spoil the party that says this is a rabid civil sectarian war that the evil ruling shia iraqis are losing.
Who are they fooling? Everyone knows US troops never left in the first place.
We'll have boots in the ground by thanksgiving.
Labor Day
4th of July
Today actually.
Uh, if we send combat troops it will be a hell of a lot sooner than that.
What I don't get is in the first Gulf War two fucking A-10s beat the living shit out of an Iraqi column. Someone please tell me that a decently planned air campaign couldn't take out an army advancing army of beheading SOBs.
You are missing the bigger picture. US fucked up in Syria and fucked up in Ukraine. Who do you think is behind this. Look at the map and tell me how would you bypass Syria if you had to.
in that bigger picture you have also to put the George Bush supercarrier that can safely enter the Persian Gulf, thanks to the fact that Iranian and US interests are now on the same side in Iraq. as often, politics makes strange bedfellows. welcome to the new US-Iran military partnership against religious fundamentalism. no /sarc necessary
... welcome to the new US-Iran military partnership against religious fundamentalism.
Welcome to the new US-Iran military partnership of religious fundamentalism against religious fundamentalism.
Iran is Shiite. The advancing rebels are Sunni. Both Islamic. To be fair, though - I suppose you could argue that one group is more fundamental than the other. But is that a distinction with any relevant difference?
The "bigger bigger picture" is that the CIA (ISIS) has now attacked the State Baghdad.
Talk about "Pentagon heaven."
Can't do that under the current "Rules of Engagement". An American soldier must be beheaded first.
Ovomit's Current rules of engagement will allow U.S. special forces to hand spank every murdering savage they can capture, then fly them to bermuda for R & R.
Nothing like an A-10 flying around blasting anything that moves because the ISIS are using civilian vehicles.
The "Hobby Lobby Counteroffensive."
I like this.
Sounds like a job for cluster bombs...
Cluster-something, alright...
A10 is too efficient & cost effective for MIC. Can't have that going on, might spread to other areas. Better idea to use F-35.
No sarc tag needed here.
http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-15/soldiers-fight-to-sav...
Un-fucking-real. US Gov is pure, treasonous criminality.
They've just attacked themselves. Brennan and Kerry are done.
I'd save (more like update!) the A-10 too, but we do have lots of alternatives, from cluster bombs to PGM to Apache choppers with hellfires, and of course drones drones drones.
A single B-1 could carry enough 2000lb PGM to turn a two mile column into a canal ... though I don't know that we have the dynamic targeting skills to do it quite that way, but we should - and we might.
The beauty of the A-10 over all the other alternatives is that you just can't knock that motherfucker out of the sky from the ground. It is literally a flying tank.
Got Stingers? The CIA has been doling them out like lollipops. At least one American chopper in Afghanistan has been confirmed down due to a recent vintage Stinger missile - most were bound for Syria (ISIS?) but some got rerouted to Afghanistan.
Because, the "rebels" are adapting and evolving from when A10s meant shit, this new breed of fighter in the ME understands the the US military better then we understand the US military! When they conquer a city now, they are seperating the commanding officers, police, businessmen and others"collaborators" and executing them immediately, hense destroying any hope or investment we made in these people! We have lost literally 100's of billions in training and equipment, time and effort in just the last 72 hours over there!
Secondly they are using the tens of thousands of unarmed civilians as human shields as they march to the next city or strategic location! Hense rendering US air power ineffective, unless we want to slaughter thousands of women and children and "Iraqi military" marching on roads!
They have control of the power stations and refineries north of Baghdad, if they can cut off the airport inside Baghdad, they will essentially have Iraq conquered and under seige, and there won't be a god damn thing air power can do about it! Unless America wants to put another 500,000 men on the ground!
It's 100x worse then Vietnam from a logistical, geopolitical, and energy resource standpoint! We already spent 3-4 trillion over there and got absolutely nothing for it, had 50,000 men and women killed or wounded, oil is at 105 a barrel and will never go back,down, and we are exhausted, demoralized, and powerless to change the reality on the ground!!
AAPL it is! Thanks for the tip.
/sarc (sadly needed tag)
Look at the ISIS vehicles that are marked. Where are the markings? Not on the sides. Not on the front of back. On the hoods... they are marked to be ID'ed from above. But they have no air force.
US has admitted flying drones in Iraq for weeks...
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There is an article out today saying that the US trained ISIS fighters in Jordan last year.
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2+2 is, well that depends on what the meaning of ISIS.
Go long on camel milk.
@ $18.00/pint. hmmmm.......
Short Dollar, Long Cannabis
Cheers!
the petro dollar is dying
birth of the pot dollar...
long Zig Zag...
He lied
Obozo is unable to tell the truth.Ever.
It's worse than that, we can't do ANYTHING right.
Not we, they.
Ovomit promised to "Fundamentally transform America". He and the Iranian implant, Valerie Jarrett, that runs his regime, are accomplishing everything they promised.
This is a result of the ebonic plague that is the greatest curse ever inflicted on America.
Neverendingwar = neverending profits for....
When is the exact day America went full retard? Anybody have a good idea. I can think of several key dates but can not pinpoint the exact one.
Dec. 23rd 1913.
1000+ up votes.
Dec. 23, 1913
Nov. 22, 1963
Sep. 11, 2001
Mission accomplished ... :-(
It was death by a thousand cuts, there was no specific time frame, but closer to a hard line frame of mind which doomed the country.
Mayhaps, but for me the final thrust was 9/11.
Wasn't it amazing how the Patriot Act (because it's aimed at patriots), a four-inch thick piece of er, legislation, was ready to go some 48 hours after the cessna-trained boojiemen performed their magic?
Funny how the most odious legislation is always titled something no one would want to argue against. Who's against Patriots? Who would dare deny Affordable Care? Fucking assholes. All of them.
When building 7 was taken down for safety reasons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mxFRigYD3s
why "full retard"? if you want the date when the US became a colonial power, then I'd say April 25th, 1898, Spanish–American_War. WC's 1913's date is imho just the financial update necessary to compete with the other Powers
another important year - 1914, which makes it seem like we're celebrating the centennial of ww1 with all this renewed worldwide conflict going on
"When is the exact day America went full retard? Anybody have a good idea. I can think of several key dates but can not pinpoint the exact one."
I asked a similar question a week or so ago and I have heard several responses since. You can pick whichever one resonates for you:
1913 - Federal Reserve, Income Tax, Planning laid to bring US onto the "world stage".
1933 - Private gold holding made illegal
1963 - Assassination of Kennedy
1971 - End of gold standard
1990 - End of the Soviet Union leaves US masters of the Universe without an enemy of their scale. Hilarity ensues.
2001 - 9/11
2008/2009 - ongoing...
There are plenty of other candidates: Vietnam, Iraq, Bush II's coronation by the supremes, etc. etc... Like all things, this has been a process, with each event laying the groundwork for the next. In the end, because we still have a society where most people have access to relatively convenient dietary calories and shelter over their heads, there has never been enough discomfort to cause unrest that seriously threatens the status quo. History will not judge this kindly, but by the time the unrest breaks out, people will focus on the immediate spark and not worry about the fact that the rot at the core of our system has been building for more than a century. Ours is hardly the first empire to find ourselves in this position. Same as it ever was.
For me it is 1913. Federal Reserve, Fed Income Tax, and popularly elected Senators. Those three things did the country in. The Federal government had imperial ideas before that with previous wars but it was held back before those three things and couldn't become the conniving imperial douche power that it is today without those three things.
Could not agree more...the US had its Bolshevek Revolution 4 years before the Russians.
@SofaPapa ...
I gave you a happy uptwinkle because you very succintly hit most of the high points. Nicely done.
However, this?: " ... Bush II's coronation by the supremes ... ."
This is the political equivalent of "global warming," and to understand the issue(s), one has to read more than just Salon, the NYT, and Democrat Underground.
Besides (just to be practical) ... do you really think things would have been better or even different with that stupid fat fuck Gore?
Good point. I stand corrected. There would have been no difference. Cheers.
Well. You certainly took that well. You're a better man than me.
1934 Silver Nationalization -US buys silver at .50 per oz sucking all the silver out of China and thus destabilizes their monitary silver standard setting them up for the Japanese invation and eventually Communism. This is after London ran the price of silver down to .24 per oz by 1931 and destroyed the Indian silver standard.
War of Northern Aggression
@saints
Read 'Internal Combustion' by Edwin Black.
Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives
Here's what I think: the ISIS and Sunni coalition aren't going to try take Baghdad. They know they can't take it with the Shia majority in the city. They're going to consolidate gains. The Kurds will take more territory.
If someone in ISIS is smart, they'll call for a referendum to split the country into 3. Which should have happened 8 years ago. Instead the US installed this Shia regime that kept all Sunnis out of the government.
Shakes head in agreement. If the DC skanks back off the nanny state democracy shit, Iraq will find its own way to reunite. IMHO..
It won't reunite. No reason to. Iraq was a British-French concoction that had nothing to do with reality.
Without the oil fields and refineries in the north, rump Iraq (the southern third) will have a hard time financing itself.
Take a look at this map
http://www.worldofmaps.net/uploads/pics/karte-oelquellen-irak.jpg
See the oil fields in the south? See the refineries? The seaport?
But no worries, Iraqi, Iranian and Syrian Shia are on their way to getting this under control.
Is it oil fields or goldfelds?
you hit the bulls eye----+1. There will be three countries-- Shite, Sunni, and Kurdish. Of course then Turkey will be in the pot with the Kurdish seperatists stirring it.
together with Iran. lots of Kurds in Iran
Turkey will not allow the Kurds to have a state on their border.
That would appear the best strategy for the Sunnis although they need to keep the Maliki thugs guessing regarding Baghdad or targets in Baghdad.
We need to stop referring to the Maliki faction as "the Iraqi Government". We are past that now. It's a sectarian conflict and the borders/living arrangements will have to be adjusted for a new reality, like it or not.
Obama and pals have succeeded in spreading chaos across the region and hastened the Iraq break-up, but it was slowly happening anyway, at least as far as the independence of the Kurdish region is concerned. The Sunnis were screwed in all this -- the US goal was the end of the Baathist Party, which pretty much meant the Sunnis and have favored the Shiites, resulting in this mess. Elsewhere, they push the Sunnis. Actually they just push chaos.
Why limit it to Iraq? The NWO plan is to "balkanize" the entire Mideast. I'm sure our NATO ally won't mind a small bite in the ass for a shiny newly minted Kurdish republic.
"Balkanize" the ME? Hmmmm...
The good news is that the oil in Iraq is safe. (but that wont stop gas from going higher)
http://online.wsj.com/articles/iraq-minister-says-oil-producing-south-is...
There several private security firms in Iraq (KBR), one of them is a subsidize of Halliburton and has about 14,000 employees located in Iraq.
http://www.securitydegreehub.com/30-most-powerful-private-security-compa...
You did note the country's largest refinery has been shut down and contractors evacuated, right?
Yeah, I saw that after posting. This is what the Minister of Oil stated on the 11th (6 days agao).
the 0830 gold smackdown, back for your gold viewing pleasure.
Fucking amazing. Gold down, chaos up. Buy Twitter stock.
Relax. Everything is mispriced until the dollar dies.
Kudos to RR.
ISIS.... the peaceful freedom loving moderates we were backing in Syria..... training in Qatar and Jordan and funding via Saudi Arabia and Qatar... oh Qatar where Gitmo jihadis go to relax and prep for phase two..
Meantime the ussa is being invaded by an obama created (actually valery jarrett met with the foreign reps coordinating the "spontaneous" invasion) and obama, the constitutional "expert" disregards the requirement to protect the borders.
How many acts of TREASON does this man have to commit before congess acts ????????????
How many acts of obstruction of justice does he ahve to commit ????????????
they are all in bed , boofing each other
I can see nothing at all that would suggest that the Goiter Ole Party would ever stand for anything but the next election. I utterly despise the Tory Loyalists of Beohner, McConnell, and the RNC. Yeah Glenn Beck preaches not to hate, but I'm pretty sure that the sympathizers for independence circa 1776 were not feeling brotherly love toward the King's government.
What passes for news these days is pathetic. In the olde days there would have been 'gumshoes on the ground' following the action and checking facts before releasing the stories. Today, if anyone tweets or uploads any kind of unsubstantiated report or video it becomes a headline story on national news or on one of the few remaining news organizations. As these assorted links show - we are close to having nothingness than tabloid news.
Are you in Iraq? What is your reflection of story? We await your commentary.
News? Roger Waters covered news with his lyrics years ago.
...and the Germans killed the Jews
and the Jews killed the Arabs
and the Arabs killed the Hostages
and THAT IS the News".
MSM could come on and say this in 15 Sec. every evening, freeing up 29min 45sec for political ads ind MIC ads.
275 plus a few zeros? They probably lie about that too.
Perpetual War to keep the world scared. Don't yet count out Syria and Ukraine.
Watch for some major event that nutjob and hiis handlers will attempt to use to remain in office, and if not remain in office, to make a major drive for more restriction on liberty.
The real power does not care who is in office.
Ok this is the same group of assholes who brought you the Sandy Hook simulation.
Oh no! Iraq is...whatever. Ask yourself. In a world where they simulate school shootings, do you really believe some story they tell you about what's going on the far side of the world? If you believe the events, do you believe the meaning?
Everything they say is a lie. Everything they have is stolen.
Members of a previously unheard of group ride into town with a collection of brand new Ford F-350's. M'kay. Where did they get those?
its like being in a time warp, its 2003 all over again but i am fatter and older
The rebels in Iraq are composed from redical Sunnis and from ex generals and soldiers from the Baath party ....This explains why they are so organized and well trained!!
The number of rebels is much higher than published .
This is the biggest omission of Obamas foreign policy
This is the biggest fiasco of the intellgence services of the Us since 2001.
the biggest mistake in all this mess is, imho, the US policy of treating all Baath party members in Iraq in the same way as Nazi party members were treated in Germany after 1945, though more efficiently. but this goes back to George Bush (the 2nd president, not the 1st supercarrier). of course, this might have been done on purpose, as many speculated, then
The NSA was too busy spying on US jounalists to bother with Iraq.
I think the "rebels'" a.k.a US-backed Dawlah and the Baathist staybehinds goal was to seize both Mosul and Kirkuk.
Kurds preempted the second move.
ok it is clearly another sunni shite war brewing so if ISIS is a saudi bunch of merc's Iran is being drawn in on purpose maybe it is China's turn to spank the US empires are not easy to maintain these days. can't imagine morale at the pentagon being too high with eastern europe and Iraq going tits up at the same time plus china and russia bold enough to flip us off when ever they want.
bullish
Same as it ever was,
Talking Heads - Life During Wartimehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzORu1dqEE0
Dear God those people are going to hate the US for generations.
gaffaw!
In diplomatic breakthrough, Britain says to re-open Iran embassy-Reuters
If this doesn't spell death for the USD and the fact that the rest of Western Europe is about to jettison from it leaving Israel and the U.S. to hang itself -I sure as hell don't know what does!
The Brits probably hate Iran as much as Israel with all the oil and gas projects over the past 35 years that could have been...
Good luck U.K. you've burned every conceivable bridge with Iran since 1953 your odds are worse than 1,000,000 to 1 but even you realize how badly you've fucked this one up for yourself and realize the necessity for change if you want to survive.
Hope they sold the crown jewels of secrets of the Mossad, CIA and NSA to Russia and China in order to repair the damage!
So now we get to watch the religion of peace EAT itself on a grander scale than usual. They've always been at it. Now they just do it in bigger groups with better weapons. All this because of archaic strictures against girls and boys doing what comes natually. All that pent up frustration has to have an outlet. So here we go. Fussy old men dressed in sheets telling Ahmad he can't do this and can't do that. But you CAN smite the neck of your enemy! Fatwah! God is Great! Nihilism writ large as payment due for the fears and prejudices of generations distilled to a death cult masquerading as religion.
Fuckwads, all of them
Iran to US: I would like to help you out. Which way did you come in?
Vaudeville will never die!
Talk about "just desserts"...
In addition to starting a potential range war with Russia in Ukraine and Syria I hope every single American over there including the alleged 278 the Prez just sent get snuffed out like a candle. Anyone that would willingly draw a paycheck after Benghazi, Syria and now Ukraine deserve the worst kind of unthinkable torture and murder they have coming to them!
To the DOS and CIA over there among the 500 -Hope it was worth the money you got...
The only thing that could possibly make it any better is if we could put the White House and Capitol (all members and lobbyists) under a transporter beam to Mosul.
Beam them down Scotty!!!
I WANNA TO HAVE A LITTLE TALK WITH WHO EVER'S IN CHARGE OF THIS GOD DAMMED MESS!
I'M GOING TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS AND SPIN MY WHEELS BY GOD AND LOOK GOOD DOING IT!
Did the UN approve this not a war?
Ancient Sanskrit - 4th century BC " The enemy of my enemy is my friend"
Modern Day Version - The enemy of my enemy and thier collective enemies are in no way my friend unless of course there are northern Iraq banks to rob or oil and related contracts which of course changes the calculus. Gold bullion will also be a determinent so long as it is sent to B of E or JPM in advance of friendship approval. If friendship is denied you will not be notified but we recommend you seek air raid shelter. Have a nice day!
I believe the correct way to approach Iraq would have been to lift the sanctions, let the country prosper to the best of its ability and let the Iraqi people deal with Saddam in what ever way they saw fit. Of course that scenario would not have been as much fun for the CIA and State Dept. freaks. Anyways, how much oil could we have bought for nearly $2 Trillion dollars. We pissed away $2 Trillion, did not get a quart of oil and now will have to pay increased costs for it. Yep, sure smacks of government efficiency to me....
"This is a communiQ, broadcasting on all channels."...
http://newamerica-now.blogspot.com/2014/06/iraq-real-story-about-too-ext...
Just imagine that someone invents something that has been overlooked and which makes your car run on household ingredients and let's say your morning pee. Then all this won't matter.
Don't worry. Those US troops will be "advisers" (ala Vietnam) and "trainers" since the $25 BILLION spent training individuals unwilling to die for what is rated as one of the four most corrupt governments in the world apparently wasn't enough to get them fighting for a country that's a post-WWI creation of western powers. But it will certainly work this time, right?
ARVN v2.0...
Anyone else notice the very western looking guy at the upper left edge of this pic?
Has that blackwater look while everyone else is wearing those man-dress things and sandals.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/06/iraq-mass-execution-pho...
The great empire begging the Ayatollahs of Iran. Reminds me when the Romans negotiated with the Huns. Please don't sack our caricature of an all powerful nation...
All of the news coming out of Iraq as well as the US media outlets are total bullshit. Huffingtonpost post was called on the carpet for front paging the story using photo's from six years ago and pictures of people being shot in ditches were totally staged according to boots on the ground. The real story behind this event was an attempt to keep the Iraqi P.M. Maliki and a US puppet in gaining a third term.
According to their constitution a P.M. can only serve two consecutive terms. Maliki with help from the US staged this flase flg event in an attempt to gain the third term, but the blow back caught him and the US with their pants down because the Parliament refused to vote on a State of Emergency which would have given Maliki an extended term. Another interesting fact is that no where in the manipulated press in the good ole US of A, is there even any mention of recent elections. The new PM will be Chalabi.
Back in April, Iraq floated billions in bonds at a rate of $3.71 and their stock exchange the ISX will be open for business internationally come July 1st. Honestly if you were serious about taking over the country you would go after their oil producing capabilities and oddly enough they weren't touched. Want to make a financial killing of a lifetime? Buy the Iraqi Dinar which is currently 1166 to the dollar. When the new government that was just elected is seated this week, at a minimum the Iraq Dinar will RV at $3.71. Oh happy day.