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As Obama Launches Another Iraq Assault, Here Is An Undercover Look Inside ISIS
While the biggest geopolitical news of the past week was Obama's announcement he would become only the fourth president in a row to order military action in Iraq, explicitly targeting the ISIS jihadists, the far bigger question are the developments that spurred the administration to finally act.
The NYT reports that "as the tension mounted in Washington" the catalyst for Obama's decision was sudden developments surrounding the Kurdistan capital, Erbil. "Kurdish forces who had been fighting the militants in three nearby Christian villages abruptly fell back toward the gates of the city, fanning fears that the city might soon fall. By Thursday morning, people were thronging the airport, desperate for flights out of town. "The situation near Erbil was becoming more dire than anyone expected," said a senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe the White House’s internal deliberations. “We didn’t want another Benghazi."
The reason for this is that the US has an embassy in Erbil: that falling to ISIS would be the supreme punch in the gut for an administration whose foreign policy has become the butt of all global jokes. What's worse, now that ISIS had taken control of a critical dam in Mosul (which as we reported earlier controls water levels on the Tigris levels as far as Baghdad, and whose capture "shook Kurdish officials and fueled the sense of crisis" as it gave ISIS all of the leverage) the US embassy could be flooded should ISIS blow up the dam in question.
In other words, Obama merely took to arms after the threat of another massive foreign humiliation became all too real and when the reality that the Kurdish defense was about to fall. Of course, the actual stated reason for intervention was different, a far more noble one.
At a 90-minute meeting in the Situation Room on Thursday morning, Mr. Obama was briefed again about the plight of the Iraqis stranded on Mount Sinjar. Members of an ancient religious sect known as Yazidi, they were branded as devil worshipers by the militants. The women were to be enslaved; the men were to be slaughtered.
Officials told Mr. Obama there was a real danger of genocide, under the legal definition of the term. “While we have faced difficult humanitarian challenges, this was in a different category,” said an official. “That kind of shakes you up, gets your attention.”
At 11:20 a.m., Mr. Obama left the meeting to travel to Fort Belvoir, Va., where he signed a bill expanding health care for veterans. He had all but made up his mind to authorize airstrikes, officials said, and while he was away, his team drafted specific military options.
When the president returned to the White House barely an hour later, he went back into meetings with his staff. By then, there were news reports of airdrops and possible strikes. But the White House “hunkered down,” an official said, refusing to comment on the reports for fear of endangering a nighttime airdrop over Mount Sinjar.
Mr. Obama did not announce the operations until dawn had broken in Iraq, a delay of several hours that added to the panic in Erbil. Reports of explosions near the city at dusk on Thursday night sowed confusion after Kurdish officials said the United States had begun airstrikes on the militants. The Pentagon flatly denied the reports.
The rest is now well-known (the full breakdown can be found here), and culminated with Obama's Thursday announcement as well as the immediate launch of bombing raids on ISIS militants.
Here is the most recent Iraq situation report courtesy of the Institute for the Study of War.
Within the past 24 hours, ISIS seized Mosul Dam. This capture provides ISIS strategic advantage over the Iraqi state. The dam's collapse would severely damage vast areas of the country where ISIS seeks to achieve military victory but has encountered heavy resistance. Also, ISIS now controls electricity production to Mosul and the group extends its claimed territory farther north. ISIS continues to fight the Peshmerga in Makhmour, south of Mosul and the IA in Dhuluiya, north of Baghdad. Although the United States conducted two rounds of targeted airstrikes against ISIS held territory outside of Arbil and Mosul, it remains too early to determine whether or not the group will adjust its military strategy. ISIS is likely hardening territorial boundaries for the Islamic Caliphate east of Mosul, but ISW assess ISIS will not attempt to seize Erbil. Still, fear of an ISIS attack on Erbil has peaked.
So now that the attention is once again back to ISIS, whose dramatic success in forming the caliphate was lost to the world following the return of hostilities in Ukraine and the escalation of the second Cold War, here are, courtesy of Vice News, the first two parts of a series looking at life in the Islamic State caliphate. Vice News reporter Medyan Dairieh spent three weeks embedded with the Islamic State, gaining access to the group in Iraq and Syria as the first and only journalist to document its inner workings.
In part 1, Dairieh heads to the frontline in Raqqa, where Islamic State fighters are laying siege to the Syrian Army’s division 17 base.
In Part 2 filmmaker Medyan Dairieh meets an Islamic State member from Belgium who works to indoctrinate some of the youngest members of the group. He also gains further insight into the minds of Islamic State fighters as they host celebrations and military parades featuring American tanks and APCs seized from the Iraqi army.
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keep dreaming amigo ... i guess you got a few more hours to sleep ...
This reply to the polite well thought out and informative post above by ultramaroon is ample proof that he/she is nothing but a troll.
"How the Constitution was designed to protect rather than undermine the rights of States"
"Why Congress, not the executive branch, was meant to be the dominant branch of government"
"and why the Founders would have argued for impeaching many modern presidents for violating the Constitution"
"Why an expansive central government was the Founders’ biggest fear"
"and how the Constitution—and the Bill of Rights— was designed to guard against it"
"Why the founding generation would regard most of the current federal budget—including “stimulus packages”—as unconstitutional"
"Why the Founding Fathers would oppose attempts to “reform” the Electoral College"
"Why the Founding Fathers would be horrified at the enormous authority of the Supreme Court, and why the Founders intended Congress, not the Court, to interpret federal law"
The problem here is, you are completely ignoring the Articles of Confederation, so you've already fallen for the approved version of history, in which the centralized federal union (which very nearly had a king and no Bill of Rights) = good, while the decentralized and explicitly voluntary confederation of independent states = bad. Constitutionalists are just another variety of Koolaid Conoisseur.
Of course the bottom line is, the Constitution has completely failed to do any of the things we are told it was intended to do. The one and only important thing it has succeeded in doing is binding the formerly independent states together under central control.
nonsense, "the Constitution" is not an agent.
People ignoring the Constitution is what caused the problem - from Supreme Court justices fixing society {in their view} by ignoring the law and "interpreting" the Commerce Clause, for example, to mean far more than it was supposed to mean etc.
Your argument is misplaced. The C isn't perfect, but it is absurd to blame a piece of paper for the failures of the American people in stopping a runaway federal government.
It doesn't matter if he has much power or not. He is the chief of the government and the commander in chief of the armed forces, so HE IS RESPONSIBLE for all the crap issued by his government and military. If he's not up to the task, he could always resign. Your "reds" are fully deserved as your argument is beyond moronic...
Look at all the trash crossing our southern border. His fault it is happening and he could stop it if he wanted to. Gotta go golfing instead? He's a big fuckin man. Golfing like Donald Trump, trying to prove he is not some 3rd world POS.
Arius: a mythical, cave-dwelling being depicted in folklore as either a giant or a dwarf, typically having a very ugly appearance.
Obama really hasnt faced alot, he has been acting as though he is voting present on many issues on one hand on the other he has exasperated difficulties, notice the funding of the Muslim Brotherhood in syria, which we are now bombing in Iraq, Notice the Failed attempt of foriegn policy in Egypt. How about the shrinking middle class? Healthcare costs that has impovished tens of thousands leaving many with out healthcare...Its not about being anti anything ... its about doing the right thing even if it goes against your ideaology.
Surf, you are absolutely correct. I am reminded of a passage in Mary Shelley's book Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus.
"Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?....Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!"
The question that must be asked is, which is the more dangerous monster, the creator or the creature?
All of the Bull matters no longer..
all that matters now is who has the most might.
eat that.. m'frs
Obama not only funded and supported ISIS along with SA and Qatar but has created the staging for the breakup of Iraq with the Kurds already voting on an independent state and take their oil with them. ISIS gets the west Iraq plus east Syria with its own oil and a corridor for the SA pipeline to europe and the rest goes to Maliki and Iran
by USA advocating independence and or federation for Kurds - the exact solution Putin proffers in East Ukraine - the rationalization of why it is "different" for Ukraine will be really really twisted - how Putin gives up the Uk pipeline with all of this is beyond comprehension
He is an illegal POTUS, since he was born British of a British subject father, and is certainly not a natural born Citizen. He is doing his assigned job of overseeing and enabling the destruction of all foundations of America by Cloward Piven.
Obama is a domestic enemy of the US, and by extension so are you.
what is the BIG deal if he is Naturally Born or Not?
I really do not get it ... you got another 300 million Naturally Born, what matters is if he is Good or Not ... and what I am saying is that at the end there are many other players who narrow the 2-3 choices that come to his desk ...
do you know what kind of evidence is put on his desk before he signed this order?
stop this BS with Naturally Born, because it wont solve anything ... you got plenty other bozos waiting down the line yes, Naturally Born if that fits your bill - stupido
Arius back off of obama member i think you need some fresh air.
He's a paid agent. I remember his name now and we've been down this road before. Probably a college student making spare cash during summer break working for OFA or some such.
He is obviously one of the dreamer ilk and votes for a living... Is it any wonder he supports his savior? All part of the attack on the sovereignty and culture that has historically been the USA... And we get to pay for idiots like this that are attempting to destroy our country... 2016 can't come soon enough, even if it means another numpty in the oval office... No one could be any worse than Obama...
Jay Carney's nom de plume Arius.
right Arius, we get it... it's just a goddamned piece of paper
i forgot about that one ... so, thats the reason hmmm ... i guess we can fix it with an Executive Order .. how is that?
How about we send you back to Guatemala where you belong...
Two words for you Arius.
Get Fucked.
.gov troll. It's not "naturally born", it's "natural born Citizen". You and your fellow travelers always try to change words and the meaning of them. That's how liars roll.
This is the SCOTUS definition:
"The Constitution does not in words say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners." Minor v. Happersett, 88 US 162, 167 (1874).
The purpose of the requirement is to ensure allegiance and attachment. Qualities that Obama OBVIOUSLY does not have. When there us no LEGAL executor of the law, then there is no law. That's why it's important.
The only requirement of "allegiance and attachment" for the POTUS today is towards Israel.
It matters greatly as it is a Constitutional requirement of eligibility to hold the office of President of the United States. To even ask the question shows your ignorance of the Constitution.
Here's the BIG Deal -
Rex Lex or Lex Rex?
Arius, you're such a worthless libtard tool. Go suck Obama's dick.
There, done with the ad-hominem stuff.
Obama inherited the Iraqi mess, true 'nuff. But history will lay to Obama's charge the fact that his foriegn policy has no overarching goals. What is Obama's final objective concerning foreign policy? That's right, there is none, except perhaps, vaguely, to simultaneously stretch out dollar reserve currency status while destroying America's cultural, legal and Constitutional foundations. I don't know if you're old enough to remember Nixon's "peace with honor" schtick in Vietnam, but basically, it was a bankrupt policy that kept the war going for 4 more years. Nixon campaigned on getting the US out of Vietnam, and then expanded the war, etc.
Obama's foriegn policy is the same X 100. When you need to get up and leave the table, you need to just get the fuck up and leave the table. Obama is really good at using executive orders to go around Congress, but when it comes to using the power he actually he does have Constitutionally, as the Commander in Chief, to order the amred forces to do something, Obama dithers and executes half measures and pussified rear-guard actions that have no strategic big-picture value. Obama is so fucking incompetent in his overall military vision it is almost incomprehensible that someone can be that horribly fucking clueless.
Bottom line, the man doesn't know what he wants to do becuse he doesn't know who he is or what he stands for. Hell, at least Bush knew he stood for American domination of oil and control of the entire planet, and even though the plan was cockamamie and built upon lies and murder and criminal conspiracy, Bush followed the plan. Obama doesn't even have that much.
Historians will someday point to the defeat of Ron Paul by the Republican establishment as the loss of the one last opportunity for America to return to greatness. This nation is fucking finished, and Obama lit the fucking match. not through diabolical genius, but through wretched incompetence.
Fuck you, Arius, you dick-sucking Obama robot troll.
I read the whole thing, great rant.
Arius - an American who was a Political Troll active on Zero Hedge and who was declared a heretic for his doctrines about Obama
why does Society have any laws at all? who cares? lets vote Putin as president who cares?
I believe POTUS was born in Hawaii, to Stanley Ann Dunham and Frank M. Davis. And I believe that in the not too distant future, the sheeple will be informed of that.
Get out of your parents basement and get a job and wake the fuck up. This presidents wife has more balls. If he didn't want to do his job he should quit because his job is to defend the constitution and enforce the law not make law and bomb people without congressional approval and go on vacation. LIBERAL
Surely you are being sarcastic, Arius. If not, then you are significantly devoid of the facts.
I was pretty sure you weren't the sharpest tool in the shed, though you are a tool, from previous comments you've made. Now you've removed all doubt. Congratulations. Here's your flag. Go wave it.
"Everyone should be supporting the President!"
NO, everyone should be holding the rope!
Arius - you forgot the /sarc tag.
Unfortunately, I am pretty sure he didn't forget...
8>D
I've worked 60 hours this week already supporting the muthafokker. May I have a little time off this weekend?
Himaroid, thanks for the hard work, but I'm sure you've gotten your thank you card from the FSA and IRS this week, right?
what is so difficult about retreat?
Was it a mystery that being POUTS is hard? If thise illusion of a man was not reasdy for the job then he should have stayed in Chicago and used the race card to organize that dump of a city. The fact is he thought he could just yell racist around the world and get respect. This POS had everything handed to him, and it turns out leaders from other nations weren't willing to to do it. Hedgers don't want this idiot to solve all the problems in the world, but we would love if he would stop causing new ones, and get out the way and let an actual business cycle clear out some of the shit in our system. Obama is the woest parts of Nixon and Carter combined. Shoot might even dash in a little Johnson seeing they are both racist as fuck.
Arius to you I say fuck you. Now get back to looking at those naked selfies of your hero Reggie Love.
He has complete support from the moslems. Isn't that enough?
Arius:
"Obama has been doing all he can under very difficult circumstances. "
I logged in just to down vote you. The single up vote is probably you. You suck as a troll and as a human being. This action of creating and supporting ISIS is aiding the enemy and is an act of treason. If China and/or Russia got involved ISIS would be a stain on the desert and this would be over.
LMFAO!!!!!!!
Here's my support for Barry - Barry, you are a weakling and taking a beating - a well deserved one.
I (and many many others) thoroughly enjoy watching the world's dictators kick you around like a soccer ball.
Barry, you're a joke of a human being.
How's that for support Arius??? That ok???
1 - STFU
2 - GTFO
3 - self positiv vote when especially you are the only one make you definitivly a fucktard.
Arius - you are either a very funny sarcastic guy or a very big moron.
obombya will be arrested. Tried and prosecuted.
Grimaldus
...and then (hopefully) drug naked through the streets and hung from a lamppost?
That's so Benghazi!
Dear Arius; That is one of the most fuckwad statements I've ever seen on Zerohedge. It took my breath away.
glad to be of help ... now go get a beer and lie on the couch ... enough heavy reading for today ... relax and watch some TV
watching TV may be part of the problem, Arius.
bread and circus the same as ever was ....
survivor is the today's version of gladiators ...
Maybe if he was on top of all this shit instead of playing golf? I manage a group of people and everyone makes mistakes, but some always are behind, fail to plan ahead and always seem to need help. They are the ones I work to rid my department of. President is a full time job with a lot of over time.
Even a Manchurian candidate type has some work that needs to get done. TPTB don't do it all.
How the fuck did this loser get ANY up votes here?
hmmm good point ... interesting isn't?
come to think of it many of these people VOTED for Obama as well ... you never know now do you?
good psyop :-)
The psyop only works when everyone doesn't know it's a psyop.
I want to be a martyr for Barack Hussein and Allah...
I wants me some thick virgins.
Watch out infidels...Ima coming for you.
F u and obama too. He would probably enjoy it though. As Truman said, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."Most of these so called crises were brought about by obama and his henchmen to create chaos. It is his meme to bring order out of chaos, so you can understand that first he needs to create chaos first.
F u and obama too. He would probably enjoy it though. As Truman said, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."Most of these so called crises were brought about by obama and his henchmen to create chaos. It is his meme to bring order out of chaos, so you can understand that first he needs to create chaos first.
The problems only escalate when you are a poor leader. The great leaders and problem solvers know how to make the extraordinarily complicated seem simple when others look back at the solutions. Obama is simply way over his head unless you believe like I do that this chaos is often welcomed as part of his plan to transform the country.
Obamacare, IRS, VA, Fast and Furious, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Israel, etc. will only get worse as it is seen how ineffective his actions taken are toward solving the problems. All designed to weaken this country's leadership in the world at the same time. Do not forget this is his domestic and foreign policy on display and it is by design that the United States no longer take the lead in foreign affairs. This is very dangerous but that's the very liberal new world order plan we are on with Obama at the helm.
While I appreciate your empathy for "the put upon" Obama, much of what he is facing is due to his foreign policy failings. By not engaging in and projecting a strong foreign policy, Obama has in many ways allowed these various fronts to develop. So your assertion is almost as pathetic as Obama's apology to the world early in his Presidency. Will he apologize for his failings and the global discord he has allowed to develop?
You soviet puppet! YOU SHOULD DIE! YOU ARE THE LOVE CHILD OF LILLIAN HELLMAN AND WALTER DURANTY!
I regret I only have one down-vote to assign to your comment, 'Obama has been doing all he can under very difficult circumstances.' I truly hope, for your own well-being, the chin-strap on your helmet is sufficiently tightened to prevent injury.
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@Aruis
Holy shit are you serious? I take the reds to mean yes you are. really? wake up dude...
Zero Hedger's just love to critisize but offer no solutions. To the most negative site on the web....FUCK You...eliteist assholes!
Everyone should be supporting the President!
fuck you damned traitor
this arsehole needs to resign, as the same ilk as you that he is.
glass over ISIL, HAMAS, and the rest of those mudering pigs
Geopolitical casino...
Last summer we were being urged to bomb Assad in support of these people because genocide was being committed.
Now we are told we must bomb the people we were told we had to support because they about to commit genocide...
Get it?
Place your bets...
Junked by MCain's ballsack
ah the muslilm world, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and that freindship lasts exactly as long as conditions, and can be opposite two miles away. lovely people, unless you know their families, where the lack of a -forgiveness- theology messes up family after family and under the burka facade, the whole society of the muslim world is wreckage, but denied.
isis, the only true muslims.
What fucking moron downvotes this?
people who studied Islam outside a neocon think tank?
But by all means, try to understand a religion of over a billion people by the actions of a tiny minority of extremists, most of whom probably aren't even religious but are simply sociopaths.
Who do you think makes up groups like the former Blackwater? Fellas looking to promote freedom and justice?
Get fucked half-wits.
When I saw the video of them beheading little kids.....I pretty much had it figured out.
Fuck you Muzzie ass licking fool.
If it were such a tiny minority of extremists the other billion or so of "moderate" Moo-slums would have taken care of them.
But every time the radicals ( which by radical I mean the true Muzzies ) come to town the police run away, the army runs away and the people bend over and offer their ass to them.
Fuck the Muzzies. Cowardly pigs. Clean up your own shit. Start by killing these radicals and their families. Wipe their seed from the earth as a lesson that if you take out the sword for Allah....we are going to jam it into your ass and kill your children before we take it out.
Enough of the bullshit. These animals must die by the hands of the "moderates" and atonement given by the larger "moderate" group for letting their people get out of hand.
Until then......fuck all cowardly Muzzies.
isis
100% kosher
full rabbi talmudic blood ritual certification
corrected it for you numbnuts
The saying "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" should actually be... "The enemy of my enemy is my ally".
Friendships are meant to last. Alliances are not. That's why nations and Elite (Aristocrats, Monarchs, Rulers, Oligarchs, Crime lords and Ploticians) form ALLIANCES.
I believe it was a Sicilian proverb originally...
I always wondered what it looked like when your head was so far up your ass it came out the other end.
Two stars of America's third party that very few ever realized existed.
-lol....
i think you were too generous.... their mouths look like their ARSES
McQaida! I love it! Brought to us by Nuland Etal.
At the very least they may commit suicide just so they do not have to listen to him
VICE NEWS is a Soros-zio news source.
Freddie, I don't know about Soros or Israel/Jewish stuff but I noted that its coverage of Ukraine was simply a more MTVish or sham gonzo mainstream media type hatchet job.
VICE was great, they have some fantastic stuff up on youtube... But Israeli citizen Simon Ostrovsky's romp through Eastern Ukraine completely ignored the genuine fascists and violence that was part of the Maiden Square story, basically ignored US interference, the role of NGOs, and he set out, mere weeks after a violent coup overthrew a government, to try to convince everyone that there was no legitimacy to the coup amongst ethnic Russians, or to the desire of the majority of Crimeans to rejoin Russia rather than be ruled under the new putsch regime.
When Ted Turner sold, or was forced to sell CNN, when Disney was sold... the trend was toward homogenization of message.
Shane Smith does not strike me as a full of shit kind of guy - but did he get paid off, or, possibly, is it just that they let different VICE reporters approach topics with their own bias and viewpoint, which is fine, too - I'm prepared to accept anti-Putin dispatches so long as they also are willing to present anti-Kiev ones.
My sense is that, like The Young Turks, which I also used to really like, but jumped the shark for me when covering the fake flyers about Jews in Eastern Ukraine which were complete fakes, and possibly tied back to the ADL in NY...all of a sudden Cenk is reporting on what looked like obvious propagand as truth, seeming to forget that it was the Kiev putsch regime that had used actual street Nazis to help take over buildings, and that the Russians lost tens of millions fighting Nazis...
Medis gets to a certain size and corporate interests buy it up, and that means homogenization of message.
John McInsane has long since exceeded his shelf life. You would think that after his reckless abuse of USN equipment on the USS Forrestal that resulted in so many deaths that he would have retired as soon as he could. No way. While he has breath in him his sole obsession is to create as much havoc and turn as many lives as he can upside down.
I think of McCain and I think of the people in Arizona. Somehow I convince myself that the elections MUST be fixed as they can't really be that blind right?
Things are heating up fast in Anbar Province, Erbil (or is it Irbil) and points north in Iraq. President Obama to deliver a statement on Iraq at 10:25 a.m. Eastern time today, real short notice. Looks like more heavily armed U.S. soldiers will be setting up shop in the Kurdish enclave. Which means the remote control war with drones and precision (?) bombing may not be enough, so out come the ground attack aircraft and possibly, some M1A1 tanks for the Kurds. Now did someone tell the CIA to stop the direct deposits for our former freedom fighters in Syria who now work for ISIS? Stopping those war wages payments will really get those ISIS mercenaries hopping mad.
"...Looks like more heavily armed U.S. soldiers will be setting up shop in the Kurdish enclave..."
Er... you're a couple of years late, junction. The U.S. has a huge base somewhere around Irbil for mercs and JSOC death-squad types. They're in the process of expanding it for those guys. 500? A couple thousand? There's a whole illegal covert U.S. army there protecting the Kurdish oligarchs. They're pretty heavily armed. You're right, though. More will show up.
Notice the first bombings were near Irbil and not anywhere near were the Yezidi civilians are under attack. Sure, the two are always reported simultaneously. The American public is tricked into assuming we're bombing to save them when - in fact - we're bombing to either protect our mercenaries and CIA thugs, or to protect the corrupt KDP leaders on the U.S. or Israeli payrolls.
Your analysis rings truer than any other. So is the US bases around Irbil actually still a US base or was it turned over to the 'locals' for mercenary use? Seems an excellent method for claiming we have no troops in the country while still having troops in the country. CNN, etc. never touch this facet, but not out of ignorance.
It's a 'secret' base. Just like the secret ones in Jordan used to train Fake al Nusra and Fake ISIS. And the secret ones in the Ukraine used to support whatever oligarchs the U.S. has deemed worthy of our covert support. Their our 'little green men'.
No idea if the particular one in Irbil was ever a U.S. base during the war. Its location isn't known or reported - Google reportedly has it blurred out. The locals in Irbil know where it is and that it's a U.S. base staffed by spooks, mercs and special ops. We know it exists because of the huge government contracts for all the crap they needed originally to build it and now to expand it.
None of the mercenaries are hired by Iraq - I don't think they need any aside from Maliki's private army, i.e., 500-strong security detail. The mercenaries at Irbil are whatever homicidal psychopaths the U.S. hires from Blackwater/Xe/Academi currently called "U.S. Training Center" or the once-Brit mercs WatchGuard International/Satelles Solutions/Greystone - they all work for the same company now. Of course they're not called mercs, they're private security contractors.
The Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) is largely made up of active duty U.S. military special ops types that staff the death squads. Think of them as human drones - ex-judicial, no oversight, death-squads working the kill list for Iraq. Its secret... so soldiers in it don't count as 'boots on the ground'. They're an entirely different group than the officially assigned, regular unit special ops guys like the Green Berets sent over to train Iraqi troops.
"...Seems an excellent method for claiming we have no troops in the country while still having troops in the country..."
Absolutely. And besides, why would the U.S. intelligence community want to bother with things like the U.S. constitution, the rights of other soverign nations or prosecution for war crimes by the International Criminal Court? That would make their job hard, and they want easy.
Another consideration in Iraq is that the few rational, un-corrupted members Iraqi government were actually trying as best they could to rebuild the country. They were doing so with the understanding that a semi-autonomous Kurdish region and the Northern oil fields were always going to be part of Iraq. The U.S. didn't want Russia to have access to any oil in Northern Iraq, so they just ignored the Iraqi government and made side deals with the Kurds. If the Iraqi government ever got organized, they could nullify all those contracts. So why would American/British/French oil companies think the contracts would be valid? Well, because they planned to engineer independence for Iraqi Kurdistan before anyone could interfere with their side-deal contracts. They effectively cut Russia out of the Northern oilfields by getting in early - before it was legal - and bribing Kurdish officials. After the Kurds declare independence, the oil contracts will be retroactively acknowledged as legal and there won't be any left for Vlad.
Relevance to the topic is that the Iraqis don't want the dishonest Americans around and damn sure don't want their secret squirrel base in Iraq. So it get's built in (the future) Kurdistan. The Iraqis can't touch it now, and they won't be able to touch it once the U.S. 'facilitates' Kurdish independence from Iraq.
+1 but - lots and lots of Mossad and Shin Bet up in there too, dawg.
for sure... ..
Sand to glass is only outcome available...Edit, after viewing the horror I am sure that this religious war has reached the stage of no good outcome except terminal!!!. USA has some serious blood on its hands. The time has come for a great leader to advocate a new game before the enemy USA emboldens spreads to everywhere, like your neighborhood! I have heard it first hand" we will kill you( infidel) "! Think in terms of your wife and children just got their neck sliced open! Or your grandchild... Sadly, USA policy has created this horror. It was going to happen eventually as "it is written" and the fanatics eventually control the outcome just as the neocons control DC...
where are the liberals demanding 500 separate UN resolutions and permission from the French and other?
what is the definition of insanity?
Here is one of their fellow Muslims going under cover with ISIS in Syria: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=366433353393208&fref=nf
Let ISIS be the Ebola of the Middle East.
Seriously....we should just sit back and let them take over the whole thing. Then we'll see what the Iraquis and the Syrians and the Saudis and the Persians (Iranians) are made of. We'll see if their strong, tough, macho rhetoric matches their abilities. We'll see what REAL Islamic brotherhood is really like.
Finally....it's about time to find out who is willing to do what it takes between the Shiites and the Sunnis. But on a LARGER scale....it's time for the world to finally see the quality of the Muzzies.
The Middle East is the perfect cage. Let them have a "to the death" cage match. Like the animals they are. And then....once the dust is clear......it will be VERY clear who the target is. And then we can go in there and exterminate them with no mercy.
And the world will not mind.....for they will have seen years of these animals hacking and slaying each other. The bloody mask will have been ripped off. The true horror revealed.
I think ISIS is the greatest thing to hit the Middle East ever. The truth is now going to be revealed.
F you. The Syrians have been fighting against ISIS for a few years and kicking their asses too. All brought to you by the dual citizens, Soros, Clintons, Kerry, McCain,Obama, Democrats and Neo Cons plus the Saudis.
The Syrians have had some help from Hezbollah and Russia.
You know Freddie.....you look good for someone who took it up the ass and died from AIDS. But, at least we can still listen to "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Anyway.....you should take your mother's advice and not talk with your mouth full......especially when it's full of shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxiT30N6ti4
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/09/women-stoned-to-death_n_56647...
http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2014/06/updated-map-of-isis-sanctuaries-in-i...
Oh..yeah....those Syrians are SUUUUURrrrre Winning alright ! #bringbackourwins ROTFLMAO !!!!
Well, you're apparently one of the 'hedge's resident idiot trolls. What kind? Believe everything you see on CNN/Fox kind or Islamophobic/Zionist kind? Something else?
The Syrians have done pretty well for a small army facing off against tens of thousands of foreign jihadis armed, trained and given support by the US, Turkey, Israel, S.A. and Qatar.
What kind of psychopath would cheer on a group like ISIS and its deeds, whether or not backed by the US or S.A., other than some sort of clueless, anti-human racist?
Assad can't live forever.
The Syrians are like all Muzzies. Cowardly. Syrian towns are falling everyday to the strong man in town. Assad can't be the strong man everywhere. And he knows it.
Tick Tock Syria. Your new strong man is in the house. Time to start shifting your allegiance yet again.
Like you dogs have been doing for 7,000 years.
ROTFLMAO !!!!!!!!!
i am trying not to hate on yids with a mental disorder but jumbotron you make it difficult for me : )
#teabaggingmoo-hammedsdeadballs@tonywilson.com
I'll agree with you when I see ISIS target Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Riyadh.
The top-level organizers and funders in that region are not being targeted. Until then, I'm skeptical as to their true Strategic Intent.
Wherever this guy wrote "Middle East," substitute "Europe."
After all, the world had to watch centuries of those fucking stupid Euro-animals tearing each other apart.
Jumbotron hasn't figured out that what he wrote might well be said about North America before too long.
First of all, thank you Tyler. Still unsettling feelings about ISIS. Junction is correct, time to move forward, if this is a OP program, it will come out in the wash. Lastly, if ISIS replies to this report, it may turn up other information unknown to global community. Time will tell.
<just exterminate the ISIS, starting with their leader>
By now, it is too late.
After the Iraq invasion failure and leaving Iraq, the USA left behind an absolutely useless government counting that Iraq would disintegrate into many US/Israel friendly entities. But gangsters and terrorists do not always cooperate with their old masters. Now, ISIS have lots of money and they don't need their old masters.
As of now, US/NATO is back to Iraq. It will cost a lot of money, manpower commitments, and lots of uncertainties with ISIS terrorists moving to EU and the USA.
The bottom line: CIa & Mossad fucked up the situation beyond any repair. The USA badly need Iran cooperation but Israeli will not have any of this.
You may be onto something, you would think that Israel would be going nuts to get the US to get rid of ISIS so they don't become a threat. But in reality, he may be Mossad and the Israelis are getting what they want. Weak countries that are broken up by extremists and therefore not able to be a threat to Israel.
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Ya right, soon as we exterminate the Taliban and their leader Mullah Omar, and then Al-qaeda.
shhhhhhh....don't mention that...it's unpatriotic
I drop videos I don't drop bombs
but if I did that shit would be like napalm
yours would be like shredded wheat
0:41
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIJJ8iVQUQQ
ISIS: Rock on, you CIA-Mossad-Ford F350 drivin' - bank robbin' - university uranium stealin' - muthafukahs.
Why isn't Kerry Ketchup going there for a round of talks? I am sure he and his diplomacy skills can make Isis g back to their caves at no time...just like he did in Gaza.....
Oh well....
The fragger did a helluva job in Cambodia. Seared into his brain, that is.
He's a scaredy cat and doesn't want to implicate himself with Intel Operations.
One thing you cant help but notice is the condition of the muzzies. They all appear lean and strong. Compare to the Walmart crowd. Such a slothful nation america has become
Exactly. If it ever crosses either ocean, we're done for.
Bullshit. They only fight against weaker enemies. (Iran may be an acception but they could still be all bluster.)
The secular "caliphate" under the Ottomans, used primarilly German Officers in WW1 They are not military capable or have the will to fight and win against superior forces. They can die in glory by self sacrifice and they do in large numbers.
PLEASE - Stop your ignorant bullshit.
Berspanke, we may look fat, lazy, jobless, poor and stupid ... but that's only to fool the enemy.
You got your problems
(Whoa-oh-oh)
I got my eyes wide
(Whoa-oh-oh)
You got your Kalishnikovs
I got my Fed pipe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9BGLtqqkVI
Please, the Ottoman Empire had been crumbling for 100 years, prior to WWI. That was just the last straw.
ISIS has a purpose in life beyond consumption
Here is the Walmart where ISIS shops:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/24/al-qaeda-syria-enjoying-usaid...
The Post-America world that Obamaites dreamed of looks pretty barbaric.
If ISIS would use the dollar they would give them IRAQ and Syria shit maybe even Iran but they are smarter than us they use the dollar as toilet paper
they want to create the Caliphate and that in itself is against the West etc.
Hey dumbfuck. Is spying on your citizens, militarizing the local police force, and using executive orders to circumvent laws against the West. Again Fuck and You!
they want to create a blah blah
ohhh isis
no this is a greater israel zionist project.
wipe out the goy
If you are the face of the goy, fuck head.....then as a Gentile I do hope the Zionists wipe us out.
yid who let you out of the cellar your mommy or rabbi daddy
i gave you an up vote moshe cos i love you : )
Like every vote....it was a wasted one.
Let us know when that "Caliphate" is based in Jerusalem, Mecca, or Riyadh.
Clearly some of us are not that easily fooled or distracted with BS and noise.
You should watch the above videos and this one:
WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTOS (RAW) - ISIS begins killing Christians in Mosul, CHILDREN BEHEADEDhttp://www.catholic.org/news/international/middle_east/story.php?id=56481
as for Obama, yes, he is the creator of ISIS through his interference with the Assad regime who have been fighting the ISIS for sometime. I find it odd that his 'bombing' of ISIS is less than what the ISAF troops expended in friendly fire acts in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
spread the word.
This is sick. I just can't believe this has been happening just several thousands kilometers far from here.
Obama with the comlete US goverment should be hanged for this. The US citizens should be aware that they are responsible for having their officials supported genocides and wars abroad. The time is coming when they will be called out by the rest of the world for stopping this madness. I just feel americans are not prepared to act properly, the population lives in dreams.
Do you still believe that we live under a US Govt elected by "we the people?"
Hint - IMF, World Bank, FED, BIS, Davos, TBTF, Soros, Gates, Zuckerboy and the top 100 worlwide perpetual tax exempt foundations.
This "army" was created by the West and the Gulf States to murder Gaddafi. It has mutated since then.
They did not mutate. They have always been like this and that is why Obama chose to use them to fight in Syria. They gove the weapons and now they are using them against our allies.
I highly advise anyone with a weak stomach to not click on that link, if you've already seen what these motherfuckers are doing you already have a general idea of what is happening.
They're worse than animals...they are the face of evil, they all need to die.
You forgot to mention they are funded/supported/supplied by the u.s. government
USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!
Initially, yes.
Assad = bad. Freedumb Fighter = good. Its how they think, its grade school stuff and its dangerous.
I truly think it's more evil than that. Sure some of Obama's pimp underlings are naive Ivy School marxists but the engineers of these policies know exactly what they are doing. That move against Libya and the creation of this "international jihadist" army were very much planned to create chaos in the region. Why have our "enemies" only been secular Arab leaders? Assad Jr. is nowhere near the same as his father. Now we've destroyed that country because he is "bad"? Same for Libya. They tried it in Egypt but it was too much for them. Iraq -- better off than under Saddam? Who's kidding who.
Gaddafi was moving against the islamic snackbarian murderers infesting Benghazi when Hillary Clinton stopped him. Hillary, obombya and mcstain installed AL Qaeda as rulers in Libya. A totally illegal war crime.
Hillary loves herself some murdering islam and is one of the worst traitorous dhimmis in America. Bitch should be hung by the neck until dead.
Grimaldus
Hmmm, more fitting she should be diemboweled while alive and forced to eat her intestines before being pulled apart by 4 horses.
They also set up a central bank in Libya as soon as they had got a foothold in Banghazi. That to me was the biggest clue as to motivation.
Only initially, eh?
Sir, I think the US government has more intelligence on these groups than do you or I, and I also don't think these people think in the simplistic binary terms the hoi polloi do.
No, my good man - I think they deliberately supported psychopathic barbarians, and that it had nothing to do at all with getting rid of Assad to help the Syrian people, but more to do with energy, money, and {as seems likely} Israel. I don't think the neocon plan to remake the ME went away when Obama came in.
Why do you [if you do]?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUCwCgthp_E
Liveleak.com has a full library of retrograde muslim atrocities.
For a view of problems closer to home, www.chimpout.com
The naked woman's jugular bleeding into a pan, looks like kosher slaughter to me.
This is typical for the Muzzie. They look at their enemies as sheep. Hence the sawing of the neck with a blade. Bleed the animal dry.
It's a sacrifice to the blood god Allah.
They did the same thing 1000's of years ago but to various forms of moon goddesses.
Not to mention sacrificing their children on heated braziers to Moloch. Broiled them to death.
Nothing has changed. Muzzies or moonies.......the Middle Easterner is a pagan animal. They will always be at the throat of themselves and their neighbors.