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Post by sevenofnine on May 17, 2015 16:37:11 GMT -5
Well only news media is covering this of course BBC and Al Jazeera
The Iraqi city of Ramadi has fallen to Islamic State (IS) after government forces abandoned their positions, officials say.
The police and military made a chaotic retreat after days of intense fighting.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had ordered troops to stand their ground, saying he was deploying Shia militia to the city.
Ramadi is the capital of Iraq's largest province, Anbar, and is just 70 miles (112km) west of Baghdad.
A statement purportedly from IS said its fighters had "purged the entire city". It said IS had taken the 8th Brigade army base, along with tanks and missile launchers
www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32773780
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Post by Daniel on May 18, 2015 8:34:03 GMT -5
Ramadi’s fall opens ISIS road to Baghdad. Jordan warns US air strikes won’t stop the terrorists’ advance
DEBKAfile Special Report May 18
Jordan’s King Abdullah has warned the Obama administration in an urgent message that US air strikes alone won’t stop the Islamic State’s advances in Iraq and Syria and, what is more, they leave his kingdom next door exposed to the Islamist peril. ISIS would at present have no difficulty in invading southern Jordan, where the army is thin on the ground, and seizing local towns and villages whose inhabitants are already sympathetic to the extremist group. The bulk of the Jordanian army is concentrated in the north on the Syrian border. Even a limited Islamist incursion in the south would also pose a threat to northern Saudi Arabia, the king pointed out.
Debkafile’s Washington sources report that US officials refused to heed Abdullah’s warning and tried to play it down, in the same way as Secretary John Kerry tried Monday, May 18, to de-emphasize to the ISIS conquest of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s largest province.
At a news conference in Seoul, Kerry dismissed the Islamists’ feat as a “target of opportunity” and expressed confidence that, in the coming days, the loss “can be reversed.”
The Secretary of State’s words were unlikely to scare the Islamists, who had caused more than 500 deaths in the battle for the town and witnessed panicky Iraqi soldiers fleeing Ramadi in Humvees and tanks.
Baghdad, only 110 km southeast of Ramadi, has more reason to be frightened, in the absence of any sizeable Iraqi military strength in the area for standing in the enemy’s path to the capital.
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www.debka.com/article/24609/Ramadi%E2%80%99s-fall-opens-ISIS-road-to-Baghdad-Jordan-warns-US-air-strikes-won%E2%80%99t-stop-the-terrorists%E2%80%99-advance
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Post by sevenofnine on May 18, 2015 16:15:09 GMT -5
Okay people break it up break it up nothing to see here yeah there is just ISIS folks
NOT LOL!
Don’t Read Too Much into Ramadi ‘Setback,’ Pentagon Says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon expressed confidence on Monday that Iraqi forces, with support of U.S.-led airstrikes, would ultimately reclaim Ramadi from Islamic State and played down any implications of the “setback” on U.S. military strategy.
“To read too much into this single fight is simply a mistake,” said Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman.
“What this means for our strategy, what this means for today, is simply that we, meaning the coalition and our Iraqi partners, now have to go back and retake Ramadi.”
Warren also said there was room for Shi’ite militia in a future operation to retake Ramadi, as long as those fighters were under Iraqi government control.
freebeacon.com/national-security/dont-read-too-much-into-ramadi-setback-pentagon-says/
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Post by Daniel on May 19, 2015 10:04:50 GMT -5
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Post by Daniel on May 20, 2015 8:29:01 GMT -5
In Iraq, ISIS Is Winning And The United States Is Losing
By Michael Snyder, on May 18th, 2015
During the Iraq war more than 4,000 U.S. soldiers died, countless others were severely injured, and the total cost to U.S. taxpayers was more than 2 trillion dollars. But now whatever the U.S. military accomplished during that war is being completely undone by ISIS. On Monday, we learned that ISIS had fully taken control of the strategically important city of Ramadi. Despite nine months of airstrikes by the U.S. military, ISIS continues to move forward and take new territory. Just a few years ago, American soldiers fought some incredibly bloody battles on the streets of Ramadi, but now that city is in the hands of the most ruthless terror organization on the entire planet. And since it is only about 70 miles from Baghdad, Ramadi is going to make a fine staging area for an all-out assault on the capital. No matter how you cut it, the cold, hard reality of the matter is that the United States is losing in Iraq and ISIS is winning. So what will the U.S. do if ISIS actually takes control of the entire country?
Ramadi is traditionally known as the ‘Gateway of Baghdad’, but in recent days it has experienced utter carnage. According to the Daily Mail, “mutilated bodies” now lie everywhere along the streets of that once proud city…
ISIS militants have held a twisted victory parade after taking the key city of Ramadi in an orgy of violence and beheadings – and the extremists could march on the Iraqi capital Baghdad within the next month.
Mutilated bodies scatter the streets of the ‘Gateway of Baghdad’, where Islamic State slaughtered around 500 and forced nearly 25,000 to flee their homes over the last few days.
Now ISIS has released images of militants celebrating, children wielding automatic weapons and a fleet of pick-up trucks carrying its jubilant fighters through the blood-stained streets of Ramadi.
U.S. military officials insist that it really isn’t that big of a deal that Ramadi has fallen, but they made similar pronouncements back during the days of the Vietnam War.
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endoftheamericandream.com/archives/in-iraq-isis-is-winning-and-the-united-states-is-losing
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Post by sevenofnine on May 20, 2015 11:37:50 GMT -5
Now here kicker they after Syria border Major ISIL gains in Syria's Palmyra reported Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have advanced into Syria's ancient town of Palmyra and seized its northern parts, according to a monitoring group. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Wednesday that ISIL have advanced into the ancient city of Palmyra, taking a third of its northern parts. Deadly clashes continued overnight between the Syrian government and ISIL, with troops firing rockets from outside the city in an attempt to block ISIL's offensive. ISIL launched an attack on Palmyra last week, causing material damage to residential areas while clashes left many dead and injured. www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/05/major-isil-gains-syria-palmyra-reported-150520130951786.html |
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Post by Daniel on May 21, 2015 9:23:48 GMT -5
ISIS seized large numbers of US weapons, military vehicles, tanks in Ramadi
AP, May 19, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — Iraqi troops abandoned dozens of U.S military vehicles, including tanks, armored personnel carriers and artillery pieces when they fled Islamic State fighters in Ramadi on Sunday, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
A Pentagon spokesman, Col. Steve Warren, estimated that a half dozen tanks were abandoned, a similar number of artillery pieces, a larger number of armored personnel carriers and about 100 wheeled vehicles like Humvees. He said some of the vehicles were in working condition; others were not because they had not been moved for months.
This repeats a pattern in which defeated Iraq security forces have, over the past year, left behind U.S.-supplied military equipment, prompting the U.S. to destroy them in subsequent airstrikes against Islamic State forces.
Asked whether the Iraqis should have destroyed the vehicles before abandoning the city in order to keep them from enhancing IS’s army, Warren said, “Certainly preferable if they had been destroyed; in this case they were not.”
Warren also said that while the U.S. is confident that Ramadi will be retaken by Iraq, “It will be difficult.”
The fall of Ramadi has prompted some to question the viability of the Obama administration’s approach in Iraq, which is a blend of retraining and rebuilding the Iraqi army, prodding Baghdad to reconcile with the nation’s Sunnis, and bombing Islamic State targets from the air without committing American ground combat troops.
“The president’s plan isn’t working.
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pamelageller.com/2015/05/isis-seized-large-numbers-of-us-weapons-militaria-tanks-in-ramadi.html/
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Post by sevenofnine on May 21, 2015 15:30:42 GMT -5
NO KIDING about the plan LOL!
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Post by sevenofnine on May 24, 2015 10:58:52 GMT -5
Of course they are wusses
Carter: Iraqis showed 'no will to fight' in Ramadi
Washington (CNN)—Defense Secretary Ash Carter, in his first comments since the key town of Ramadi fell to ISIS, blamed the weak state of Iraq's military as one major reason for the city's fall, in an exclusive interview on CNN's "State of the Union" aired Sunday.
"What apparently happened was that the Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight," Carter told CNN's Barbara Starr. "They were not outnumbered. In fact, they vastly outnumbered the opposing force, and yet they failed to fight, they withdrew from the site, and that says to me, and I think to most of us, that we have an issue with the will of the Iraqis to
edition.cnn.com/2015/05/24/politics/ashton-carter-isis-ramadi/index.html
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Post by Daniel on May 26, 2015 10:19:17 GMT -5
McCain Unloads on 'Idiot' WH Press Sec for 'Hair On Fire' Comment
Truth Revolt
5.25.2015
On Fox News this weekend, Sen. John McCain unloaded on the Obama administration—and particularly his "most unfavorite," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest—for downplaying the significance of the Islamic State taking control of Ramadi last week.
In a press conference last Tuesday, Press Secretary Earnest characterized the loss of the key strategic Iraq city of Ramadi to ISIS as a "setback" that wasn't worth "lighting our hair on fire" about:
EARNEST: Are we going to light our hair on fire every time that there is a setback in the campaign against ISIL or are we going to take very seriously our responsibility to evaluate those areas where we succeed and evaluate where steps are necessary for us to change our strategy where we sustain setbacks?
Describing the Islamic state as a "transcendent evil," McCain condemned the administration for failing to fully acknowledge the reality of the threat ISIS poses. McCain had special words for Earnest, his "most unfavorite," who he called an "idiot":more
www.truthrevolt.org/news/mccain-unloads-idiot-wh-press-sec-hair-fire-comment
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