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Despite US Airstrikes, ISIS Captures Anbar City in Coordinated Offensive Ahead Of Baghdad Attacks
Day after day we are told of the ongoing success of the ongoing airstrikes of an ongoing coalition of allies fighting against ISIS. However, as ISW reports, on October 2, ISIS detonated three SVBIEDs in Hit, a city between Ramadi and Haditha, targeting security checkpoints at the western and eastern entrances of the city as well as the city center. Hit is one of the few remaining areas in the Thar Thar area of Anbar Province that is not under ISIS control. Local nationals report ISIS members moving freely around the city and black flags flying over government buildings. It appears Iraq is off the grid now and all Washington eyes are focused on Syria (and its Qatari pipeline).
On October 2, ISIS detonated three SVBIEDs in Hit, a city between Ramadi and Haditha, targeting security checkpoints at the western and eastern entrances of the city as well as the city center. Hit is one of the few remaining areas in the Thar Thar area of Anbar Province that is not under ISIS control. ISIS followed this initial SVBIED wave with a ground attack and now reportedly controls between 70 and 90% of Hit. Local nationals report ISIS members moving freely around the city and black flags flying over government buildings.
Hit occupies a strategic position along the Euphrates River Valley arm, and ISIS likely seeks to control Hit in order to counterbalance ISF control of Haditha, a city that has been highly contested between ISF and ISIS for the past several months. The attack on Hit is the latest in a series of operations that ISIS has conducted in Anbar province in order to gain freedom of movement and maneuver and to develop a secure staging area in preparation for further consolidating territory in the western Baghdad avenue of approach. Additionally, ISIS could be intensifying its effort in Anbar Province to eliminate tribal retaliatory attack planning. In the past two weeks ISIS has besieged an ISF base in Albu Aitha, north of Ramadi and overrun a second ISF position in Saqlawiyah northwest of Fallujah. ISIS persistently conducts attacks against emplaced ISF positions in the Euphrates River corridor to prevent ISF reinforcements from entering the province and to break ISF lines of communication to the outer Euphrates River belt.
ISIS’s Anbar urban offensive likely employs several different pincer movements in the outer Baghdad Belts and in the Euphrates River Valley, deliberately alternating its tactical engagements in time and space in order to keep the ISF and other adversarial forces off balance. ISIS attacks northwest of Baghdad appear to offset from ISIS attacks southwest of Baghdad, for example, and ISIS is offensives in eastern Anbar appear to offset from attacks in outer Anbar near Haditha. ISIS has been active in each of these locations over the last few weeks. ISIS tactics in the outer Anbar province also suggest ISIS commands from at least two distinct operational headquarter in Anbar. These two commands frame the Haditha-Ramadi corridor.
One headquarters element exercises control from the outer northwest Thar Thar region to middle Anbar, a block we have previously assessed to conduct attacks and provide strategic reinforcement along this corridor. The Thar Thar region that stretches from Fallujah north to Samarra is a likely stronghold for ISIS since the Abu Ghraib Prison attack in July 2013. ISIS took control of the Muthanna Complex there on June 11, 2014 - only a day after Mosul fell. The ISF have increasingly targeted villages on the southern edge of the region, such as Garma, after ISIS entered Fallujah in December 2013, but the evidence indicates that ISIS probably maintains a significant force in this zone.
The other element is likely in southwestern Anbar along the southern bank of the Euphrates near Haditha and Ana. This element is most likely responsible for attacks from far western Anbar towards the Haditha - Ramadi axis. ISIS was conducting attacks in Haditha at an almost daily rate in early September 2014. However, ISIS has been unsuccessful penetrating ISF defenses in Haditha and has shifted both logistical and operational focus farther down the Euphrates River Valley corridor. ISIS likely seeks to merge the efforts of these two Anbar elements and close the gap at Hit. If ISIS succeeds in this, it will isolate pro-government tribes that are fighting ISIS in Haditha and Ramadi from ISF reinforcements. It will also relieve ISIS elements in Anbar by diminishing the local population’s opportunity to resist. The ISIS offensive for Anbar is closely linked to the ISIS campaign for the Baghdad Belts. If ISIS can consolidate its core strength in Anbar, then its reinforcements that are currently augmenting attacks in this zone will likely shift to reinforce the northern and southern Baghdad Belts and prepare to attack the capital.
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don't fall for it sheeple, boots on the ground will be a disaster of biblical proportions.
Holy fuck...I thought ISIS was destroyed and Ukraine and Russia are buddies again......ok..let me get back to making my own hazmat suit with plastic saran wraps and ski goggles.
Whisper Rumor that Navy is re-activating John "Can't Fly Straight" McCainus and is going to HALO drop him into Anbar Province.
John McCainus: Behind Enemy Lines Part Deux
Lindsey "Nancy Boy" Graham & Chuck "Tel Aviv & Manhattan Are the Joint Capital of the United States" Schumer are to be inserted with him on his Fire Team.
i'll bet he even got a taste for raw human liver during his last visit with his isis comrades...
Looks like oil will start heading higher now...
"""It appears Iraq is off the grid now and all Washington eyes are focused on Syria (and its Qatari pipeline).""' ...Told ya'll.....USSA Ebola and Iraq are Diversionary tactics to carpet bomb Syria for Qatar & Saudi Arabia pipeline to Europe.
Either this ISIS fiasco is going exactly according to the crackpot CIA plan, or the State Dept and Pentagram planners are the most incompetent government bunglers on Earth.
Syria warns Turkey (NATO member) about aggression:
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/10/03/380942/syria-warns-turkey-again...
so when Syria fights back, NATO has a perfect excuse to drop more bombs of peace and freedom on Syrians.
Turkey: We want to help. Let us tell you how we are willing to help.
Syria: Stay the fuck out. We don't want your 'help'. You have 'helped' enough, with the training camps and open borders.
Turkey: We insist. You need our help, whether you like it or not. We are going to 'help' the shit out of you.
Syria: ........
Airstrike on empty buildings at night doing nothing.
Those airstrikes were to make the way clear for ISIS to get to Baghdad, that is a no brainer. They most likely hit groups opposed to ISIS or just empty parked cars.
Also Liang...what we are seeing in Syria is once again the ancient fight between the Persians and the Ottoman Turks. When all is said and done quite a few neighboring countries will grow in size. Turkey, Jordan, and Israel.
Assad, seemingly the only moderate Muslim leader in the Middle East East of the Suez Canal, is the real target of the Muslim Brotherhood President.
I think there was a crackpot CIA plan at some point, then this al-Baghdadi guy took charge or went off script, got the "I'm the ONE" idea in his head and purged all the other fbi/cia/nsa/usaid/iraqi gov plants in their ranks (this was the mass executions everyone saw but were told were executions of innocent civilians) then everything went to shit. This was the 'intelligence failure' Obama spoke of. Clapper, et al thought "We have hundreds of compromised assets in ISIS ranks and leadership, we can control the whole group." Nope, somehow they were all identified and purged.
What is it with the Iraqi army? I mean if the only choice was between 1.) Die fighting. 2.) Surrender and get crucified. I'd like to think that I would go down fighting.
What a bunch of pussies.
Or you could retreat (because you're not from 'round here' any way), and keep collecting those pay cheques.
I wunth went bath fithing in Lake Thar Thar with Sylvester the cat..We caught a pith pot uthing topwather torpedothes...
Make lots... you will be rich.
It's pretty pathetic we hear about the wonderous Air Force and years of American trained Iraqi army, but they can't even stop a rag tag milita.
These military tatics smell of Russian planing. Nah, Putin would never offer strategic planning assistance to ISIS....
jb
America is now the redcoats and ISIS is America. Perhaps the replication of this formula is intentional? To create in the region a national spirit?
A billion dollars can buy off a lot of senior commanders. Especially Sunni ones being dicked over by a Shia government
Turkey wants Kurds destoryed by ISIS, then wants US to destory ISIS w their help.
Dude:
Middle East Fact 1: They all hate each other, and they will kill each other whenever they can.
Middle East Fact 2: They all will try to get outsiders to do their killing for them.
Middle East Fact 3: They all, in the end, hate the outsiders the most.
They have nothing to do over there except sit in the sand and pick at their cultural and historical scabs.
Hundreds of years w/ a tribal mentality, you bet there's a lot of scores to settle!
Something as simple as herders vs farmers, writ large. Farmers (historically) despise(d) the travelling shepherds, and shepherds likewise felt farmers were continually encroaching on their grazing lands. Hill people vs the folks in the plain, is another common one, basically your usual rural vs urban conflict, but between entire tribes.
My favorite are the horror stories from anonymous Kurds and Yazidis that ISIS is gangraping beheaded slave babies nonstop. Then you see actual video of life in cities under ISIS rule and it all looks normal (for that culture anyway). People walking around calmly, carrying guns, going to stores, using computer cafes, chatting on the internet, and so on.
Yup...just like what Stalin did to the Polish freedom fighters in Warsaw during WW Deuce...Stalin let the Krauts kill off the Polish commie haters and then went in to Warsaw to kick Hiney dupah.
ISIS is also taking Kobani is northern Syria. In other words they are making major advances despite our bombs.
> don't fall for it sheeple, boots on the ground will be a disaster of biblical proportions.
Wrong. Either we fight the war to win it, or we don't fight it at all. You don't pull your punches and simply kick the nest like this idiot president is doing.
The result of the US supposed war on ISIS will be worse than Iraq. It is likely to become a regional war. Turkey is entering the war (now officially), then Iran.
You're assuming those the leaders sending troops to fight ISIS actually want it defeated. Which they dont.
And funny, too!
Syrian rebels recently aided by the USA capture recent military target of USA defended by recent enemies of the USA.
All I know for sure is that somebody is making a metric-buttload of money off of this.
Those fat military industrial complex and government pensions sure as hell don't pay themselves...
I am surprised with the recent uptick in use of Hellfire missiles that the price of silver has GONE DOWN. Maybe they need to restock at a more favorable price point.
Actually, that makes perfect sense when you realize the game is rigged.
Of COURSE the stuff that gets used more goes down in price...until the government stops using it. THEN the price jumps to insane levels, so businesses can make a profit after losing money to Uncle Sam.
Surprised you missed this one... Biden blames US allies in Middle East for rise of ISIS (Publ. October 03, 2014 13:02)
US Vice-President Joe Biden has accused America’s key allies in the Middle East of allowing the rise of the Islamic State (IS), saying they supported extremists with money and weapons in their eagerness to oust the Assad regime in Syria.
America’s “biggest problem” in Syria is its regional allies, Biden told students at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University on Thursday.
“Our allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria,” he said, explaining that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were “so determined to take down Assad,” that in a sense they started a “proxy Sunni-Shia war” by pouring “hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons” towards anyone who would fight against Assad.
“And we could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them,” said Biden, thus disassociating the US from unleashing the civil war in Syria.
“The outcome of such a policy now is more visible,” he said, as it turned out they supplied extremists from Al-Nusra Front and Al-Qaeda.
Who would've thought it -- Biden, a "Closet ZHer".
WOW!
A broken clock can be right sometimes...
the broken clock is right once every 24 hours
It will be right twice as often if you switch it back to 12 hour format.
Really strange comment for Biden to make about the members of our coalition fighting ISIS. I mean, does he want their help or not? Blaming them for creating ISIS while asking them to fight ISIS? Is he trying to shame them into compliance, because I don't think that is a good strategy for Westerners to use against Arabs.
“And we could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them,” said Biden, thus disassociating the US from unleashing the civil war in Syria."
Read again, "we could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them,” said Biden, thus disassociating the US from unleashing the civil war in Syria."
And then this, "The U.S. Senate approved legislation Sept. 18 to authorize equipping and training Syrian rebels through Dec. 11, sending the bill to President Obama for a signature. The House passed the same bill the day before."
http://cir.ca/news/global-efforts-to-aid-syrian-rebels
Pu-leeze.
Biden is trying to disconnect the US from the creation of ISIS.
Sorry, it won't work. ISIS is the US' baby.
I have a vacation hut on scenic Lake Thar Thar. Such peace. Such tranquility.
On a clear, quiet morning, you can hear the beheadings happening miles away. It's better than waking up with Folgers!
can't we have both?
But stay away from the Steak Thar Thar.
Here all week. Try the Salad Bar, catered by Alan's Snack Bar. And be sure to tip the staff.
Is it 'better than expected'?
Fight a war without political intervention or get the hell out.
It's almost as if they knew what we were doing all along...
Chalk another one up for the Obama / Bandar coalition.
NSA Data>Israel>ISIS. What's so difficult?
ISIL = JSIL, trending on the twitter anyway...
(Greater) Jewish State of Israel on the Levant?
Interesting that the two groups share a philosophy, the God-given right to build their state.
full story on JSIL, the logic is undeniable:
http://rt.com/news/192552-israel-jsil-twitter-isis/
Everything must be fine because it's Friday and the markets are green.
The cradle of civilization is becoming its grave, but the markets are GREEN.
the algos have determined that ebola infected people with only 2 weeks left to live will quit their jobs and spend their remaining hours on earth doing what they love to do - Buy Stocks!
i guess we're not in kansas anymore -
We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.
Dick Cheney
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/d/dickcheney165127.html#5hMFZiZ...
This can't be. The mighty US air armada is bombing every shit hole in Syria. 1 $million weapon, 1 $10 outhouse destroyed, along with 10 kids.
Now to start bombing Baghdad, in case ISIS is hiding there.
CIsisA #winning!
If ISIS takes Baghdad, it will almost certainly draw Iran directly into the conflict. As the dominant Shiite power in the region, it cannot afford to sit back and watch a Sunni terror organization metasticize across its borders.
Iran's leader made a statement on the subject this week. worth a read to get the Iranian perspective:
http://presstv.com/detail/2014/10/03/380882/leader-takfiris-created-to-s...
If ISIS takes Baghdad, it will almost certainly draw Iran directly into the conflict. As the dominant Shiite power in the region, it cannot afford to sit back and watch a Sunni terror organization metasticize across its borders.
ISIS won't even try to take Baghdad. They couldn't hope to hold it.
And Baghdad is not inside the "hornet's nest."
Finally dragging Iran into the conflict is exactly what Israhell has planned. That showdown is long overdue.
Happy yom, greedy kikes have to be home by sundown other wise turn into unleavened pumpkins... hence the "market" is stuck here until monday am
flip side is you can actually enjoy dinner and drinks in NYC, best night of the year
"All [personal] vows we are likely to make, all [personal] oaths and pledges we are likely to take between this Yom Kippur and the next Yom Kippur, we publicly renounce. Let them all be relinquished and abandoned, null and void, neither firm nor established. Let our [personal] vows, pledges and oaths be considered neither vows nor pledges nor oaths."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kol_Nidre
parenthetically: http://mycatbirdseat.com/2014/04/a-century-of-deceit-iraq-the-world-wars...
Sounds A LOT like the 'Cremation of Care' they do at Bohemian Grove!
Wonder which one came first? My knowledge of chronology is not great (/s)
ISIS=CIA/Mossad.
Everything else is bullshit.
The average American herd dweller is incapable of believing anything except bullshit.
When you've structured your personal and group identity and judgements of others on a mess of lies, then recognizing those lies as such is impossible because it would be a direct assault by the self on the self. It is impossible for a public hyped up on caffeine and gluten to recognize bullshit as bullshit. They will react violently and aggressively to any truth that threatens their belief structures. Rationalization is easier than recognizing the bullshit.
Indeed, one would be 'self-hating' merely for criticizing the actions of a Bernanke, Blankfein or Netanyahu.
Let's assume that's true. Then let's put this "Working Hypothesis" to the test...
Aside from obvious "enemies" (Israel, Jordan, Kuwait and KSA) not getting threatened or attacked -- which admittedly supports the hypothesis -- the true losers (besides US Taxpayers, or the 53% who still pay) are the Qataris, and the hidden winners are Russia and Gasprom. As long as there is fighting, NO PIPELINE CAN BE BUILT that would run to Turkey and the EU.
Conclusion: Results are Inconclusive with present data (available to us Plebeians). It looks like "It's Complicated": What may have been simple, has become complex. That's the "Laws of Unintended Consequences" for you.
Next Steps: Would suggest to Qataris to quietly pivot and connect their gasline to Iran's. And have it connect to Gasprom's, for sales to the EU and Asia. QED.
I don't get this all about the pipeline meme. What's stopping them putting it through Iraq?
Spock Mode
Captain, you have forgotten to consider the ramifications of the ISIL Conflicts upon another member of QAT's Faction: KSA.
"When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
-Euripedes
Why are we even there? We finally managed to get out, and now they are dragging us back in. You can't want something more than the people there want it.
You say that like this hasn't all been planned. lol
"We finally managed to get out, and now they are dragging us back in."
LOL...who's "they"? Nobody's dragging us back in--we're practically tripping over ourselves to go back in! What part of PERPETUAL WAR don't you get?
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/10/03/Women-Herded-Sold-to-Teens-as-Prize-for-Fighting-With-Islamist-Terrorists
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/10/02/Pope-Francis-No-Justification-for-Daily-Persecution-of-Christians-in-Middle-East
The Unfolding of Yinon’s “Zionist Plan for the Middle East”: The Crisis in Iraq and the Centrality of the National Interest of Israel
Thanks Duffy. You play the role of a good foil very well.
A good sheeple drinks the kool-aid.
A good sheeple puts the kool-aid in the basket.
PUT THE KOOL-AID BACK IN THE FUCKING BASKET!
I mean, they'll stop ISIS from hitting the Kurds, but for the most part, this is all a massive bait and switch.
The March to War: Fighting ISIL is a Smokescreen for US Mobilization against Syria, Iran
War on ISIS and Media Lies: The Comic Book Simplicity Of Propaganda
"ISIS takes Anbar City"
Funny, I didn't feel a thing.
Of course they did. We wouldn't want to end this too quickly, now would we?
Will Obama be able to play through?
Seen pictures of the bombing? Rumors say O is bombing Assad and not ISIL.
No media coverage. Body count?
Securing Greater Israel one fake bombing at a time.
An American, not US subject.
Airstrikes? Yeah, buddy! In Vietnam, at the very worst our troops were hit by bombs [Yes, Virginia, that did happen], at the very best, they provided a brief respite in the fighting, but as soon as the jets left, it was ratta-tat-tat all over again.....Once during an close-encounter air strike, a huge rock landed about 2 feet from my head - 2 feet over to the left and my name would have been on the Wall...
ISIS can take Baghdad any time they want unless Iran sends in five divisions of regular troops. The question is what ISIS would do with Baghdad. Maybe they're taking bids now.
"black flags flying"
Haven't heard from Henry Rollins for a while.
Is there any doubt ISIL is a CIA/Mossad outfit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrRlCwCWSvM
Um,here in Southern Cali I take my mum to the Naval Hospital and see fellows who have lost limbs to IEDs.
Their bravery in having their lives altered,and remaining positive is truly inspirational.
That said,for towns like Fallujah and others to be fought over,pacified (?),and then handed back to the bad guys.....
No more boots on the ground.Let the local lads fight it out. Fuck all these wars for energy.....
lol... "energy" really? Have you read PNAC?
First time, they didn't let you enter.
Second time, they worked to kick you out.
Third time, they won't let you leave. Their quality of life is dependent on the United States military. Going forward, there will always be air bases in Kurdistan.
Bombings DO NOT WORK. They kill civilians, pollute the environment and cost millions (ok, as for the millions, that's probably seen as "positive" by whoever sells bombs), but they DO NOT allow to gain or hold ground. Bombings are only useful as support for ground soldiers by destroying whatever helps the enemy (weapon deposits, bridges, railroad tracks, etc). And then? Then, you send the ground troops.
Who's first?
Look! Ebola!
Obama: If I had a son, he would be like the ISIL beheading TV actors.
NEW ISIL Horror Threat!http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lVMBCangf1U
Like.....Dudes....ummmm.......these are...like....old times!!!! Where is Baghdad Bob? I want my deck of cards. Now! I need to see who the ace of spades is. Will it be Barrack Hussein Obama? Wasn't Saddam Huessein the "Ace" back in '03? And then there was chemical Ali. Would that be Chemical Lindsey, or Chemical McCain. Metinks that ISIS will make the Joker out of Vallerie Jarrett. Hillary's lover.....what is her name....you know....Weiner's wife....has to fit in there somewhere.
At least in "1984", the government had the minimal integrity of propogating to the population who was the friend today, who was the foe.
In 2014 Amerika, the population is too numb, and press too focused on some celebrities' perverted antics, to notice that we are arming, and bombing, both sides, at the same time, for actions that occur in Iraq, and Kansas, and Nigeria, and every place else.
Peak stupidity, baby!
Ahhhh.....Dude...your are killing my buzz.
Here. Have a hit off of my Victory Gin.
Chill out. Just remember:
Ignorance is Strength,
War is Peace,
Slavery is Freedom.
There. Don't you feel better now? And stop f*&king trying to think. You are blowing a blot of people's buzzes. NAd the juniper crop wasn't so great in California because of the drought. Supplies are getting tight.
This news just brough back my eye twitch.
The ISW group providing this report is, at best, sympathetic to the neo-con view of establishing US hegemony in the Middle East. They receive financial support from major defense contractors - which should make them less than objective on matters of "kinetic diplomacy."
JEN PSAKI, STATE DEPT: Well, I have no validation of those statistics. I have to say, I’ve worked for the president for 6 years, there’s a range of ways that you can get your intelligence briefings on the road, in the White House and I know that he receives those on a daily basis whenever he can."
Like, yeaaaw. Whenever.
Ever notice that the USAIPAC/CIA/Saudi weapons supply corridor
to ISIS and al Nusra extending from Iraq through Syria to Turkey
never closes or drops off the map
LOL...good!
Amazing, not a single Israeli soldier killed.