Apparently, these Muslim groups in Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, Egypt, Israel, Russia, Thailand, Burma, Lebanon, China, UK, and across the world haven’t seen CAIR’s bus ads!
And al Qaeda didn’t get Obama’s talking points. They are on the run. They are vanquished! If Obama says it, it is so. Isn’t that right? Tell that to the headless.
That fact is that they are coming for us. it’s only a matter of time. Obama can lie, obfuscate and dance as fast as he can. But he has disarmed this nation.
The foreign agent in the White House is mulling moving American bases located across Europe and the Pacific (that are still there in order to secure the victory of World War II) not to combat the gravest threat to freedom — the global jihad — but to fight …climate change. Any gains made by previous pro-American administrations have been destroyed and dismantled by the islamophile in the White House.
Here are the poisonous fruits of Obama’s post-Iraq statecraft. ABC news is reporting that Iraq confirms the jihadists “looted $429 million from Mosul banks, making them richer than some small countries.”
Add this to Obama’s towering pile of monumental, game-changing failures.
The Telegraph is liveblogging the al Qaeda take over of Iraq.
Iraq crisis: al-Qaeda forces seize Mosul and Tikrit – live
Mass beheadings reported in northern Iraq as al-Qaeda forces take Mosul and Tikrit, Saddam Hussein’s home town – follow latest developments18.24 A Turkish foreign ministry official has just called for an urgent Nato meeting on Iraq.
As you’ll remember (see 17.44), 80 Turkish citizens are currently being held hostage.
18.08 AFP – Iran offers Iraq support against ‘terrorism:’ foreign minister
People gather at the site of a suicide-bomb attack in Baghdad’s Shi’ite slum of Sadr city today
17.44 Turkey is now claiming 80 citizens are being held in two separate incidents in Mosul.
The ministry said 49 of its citizens had been seized at its consulate-general and transferred to another part of the city, while 31 others – truck drivers who were abducted on Tuesday – were being held hostage at a power station in Mosul.
17.40 As al-Qaeda forces sweep across northern Iraq, Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent, assesseswho ISIS is, who there leader is and how they have become so dominant:
Q. How did ISIS become so dominant in western Iraq? Wasn’t it supposed to have been defeated before the Americans pulled out of Iraq in 2011?
A. The so-called “surge” launched by President George W. Bush did indeed reduce both Shia and Sunni violence in Iraq between 2006 and 2008.
However, lower level violence, including bombings by ISI especially of Shia pilgrimages and police stations continued, rising slowly last year.
Then, in a lightning strike in December, ISIS seized control of Fallujah and Ramadi, the two major Sunni strongholds of western Anbar province, neighbouring Syria. The Iraqi security forces made some inroads against them, but without any apparent strategy either to retake the cities or to win back their populations. Last week, ISIS began a major assault against other Iraqi cities in Sunni areas, including both Samarra, north of Baghdad, and Mosul.
17.35 The Telegraph’s Colin Freeman explains the crisis in Iraq – in 60 seconds:
17.25 Turkey’s foreign minister has said Ankara will respond if any of its citizens held captive in Iraq are harmed, Reuters reports.
“ISIS fighters happy as they head to Samarra. Sunni city w\ important Shiite Al-Askari mosque”
17.00 Robert Tait, Telegraph Middle East correspondent reports:
Ozturk Yilmaz, consul general at the Turkish mission in the Iraqi city, worked as Mr Erdogan’s foreign policy adviser, based in Ankara, Turkey’s capital, before being appointed to his current post, the English-language Hurriyet Daily News reported.
Mr Yilmaz, a career diplomat and a Middle East specialist, previously worked at the Turkish mission to the EU in Brussels.
He was seized along with 47 other consular staff and their family members when forces from the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIS) overran the consulate compound.
Mr Yilmaz had prepared an evacuation plan on Monday but had been unable to put it into effect because of “security circumstances” in the surrounding area, according to Hurriyet. However, consular staff successfully defused an encrypted computer and destroyed confidential diplomatic documents, sources said.
An image grab taken from a video uploaded on Youtube on 11 June 11 2014, allegedly shows a damaged Iraqi forces vehicle on a street in Iraq’s second city Mosul, following fighting with Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) militants
16.53 The US has said it will come to the aid of the 500,000 people who have fled fierce fighting in Iraq.
Denouncing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) as “one of the most dangerous terrorist groups in the world,” Stuart Jones, the nominee to be the next US envoy to Baghdad, told US politicians the United States “will continue to monitor the situation closely, and will work with our international partners to try to meet the needs of those who have been displaced”.
16.32 Telegraph video showing the devastation caused by ISIS troops sweeping through northern Iraq:
16.25 The European Union and the League of Arab states have urged democratic forces in Iraq to unite against Islamic jihadists. EU and Arab foreign ministers released a joint statement following a meeting in Athens:
In particular, the LAS and the EU call on the government of Iraq and the government of the Kurdistan region to combine their political and military forces in order to restore security to Mosul and Nineveh.
16.22 Jenan Moussa, from the Arabic Al Aan TV station, tweets:
<noframe>Twitter: Jenan Moussa – More military gear taken by ISIS in <a href=”https://twitter.com/
search?src=hash&q=%23Iraq” target=”_blank”>#Iraq</ a> is driven to <a href=”https://twitter.com/ search?src=hash&q=%23Syria ” target=”_blank”>#Syria</ a>. ISIS says they are sharing “war spoils”: <a href=”http://t.co/Sl2uu4IHuG” target=”_blank”>http://t. co/Sl2uu4IHuG</a></ noframe> 16.10 Militants seized 48 Turks in an attack on the Turkish consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Reuters reports, including the consul-general, three children and several members of Turkey’s special forces, a source in the prime minister’s office said.
The group was taken from the consulate building to a militant base. Turkish authorities confirmed that all of them are unharmed, the source said.
16.07 A suicide bomber has killed at least 16 people in the Baghdad Shia district of Sadr City, police and doctors have told Reuters.
Iraqi policemen are seen on patrol inside a military base in Baghdad, on June 11, 2014, after the declaration of a state of emergency by the government
16.02 UK military support for Iraq in the fight against Islamist extremists in the north of the country is “not on the table”, Downing Street has said.
David Cameron’s official spokesman said that the UK was ready to offer assistance on the diplomatic level to the Baghdad government.
But asked if British troops could be sent to the Middle Eastern country, the spokesman replied: “That is just not on the table.”
15.56 Iraq’s foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, earlier called on his country’s leaders to come together to face “the serious, mortal” threat:
15.52 Samarra is home to a revered Shia shrine that was bombed in 2006, sparking a sectarian conflict between Iraq’s Shia majority and Sunni Arab minority that left tens of thousands dead.
The city lies just 110 kilometres (70 miles) north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on the main highway from second city Mosul where jihadists launched their offensive late on Monday.
15.41 Officials said earlier that 15 security personnel in Kirkuk province were executed by ISIS forces.
15.33 Security forces are battling militants near the town of Samarra, police tell AFP.
Iraqi families fleeing violence in the northern Nineveh province are given water as they gather at a Kurdish checkpoint in Aski kalak, 40 kms West of Arbil, in the autonomous Kurdistan region
15.24 Save the Children’s Acting Country Director in Iraq, Aram Shakaram, has described the refugees fleeing the ISIS takeover of northern Iraq as “one of the largest and swiftest mass movements of people in the world in recent memory”:
Massive traffic jams and blocked roads are seriously hindering access and movement of aid, as hundreds of thousands flee from the raging violence and chaos. The most vulnerable families are those left behind and it’s extremely difficult to reach them right now as the violence continues. We are also extremely concerned over how the Kurdistan region of Iraq will cope with the influx.
Save the Children is on the ground working with refugees and displaced people in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. As an immediate emergency priority, we will distribute water, food and hygiene kits to people fleeing Mosul in coordination with local authorities and organisations responding to the crisis.
An image grab taken from a propaganda video uploaded on 11 June 2014 by jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) allegedly shows ISIS militants gathering at an undisclosed location in Iraq’s Nineveh province
15.18 Jon Williams, ABC foreign editor, tweets:
<noframe>Twitter: Jon Williams – Events in <a href=”https://twitter.com/
search?src=hash&q=%23Iraq” target=”_blank”>#Iraq</ a> extraordinary. But silence deafening from political class in US &amp; UK. Mosul embarrassing for them, catastrophic for Iraqis</noframe>
15.09 Colin Freeman on the jihadist behind the takeover of Mosul and Tikrit – and how America let him go:
Taken during his years as a detainee at the US-run Camp Bucca in southern Iraq, this is the only known photograph of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the new leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. But while he may lack the photogenic qualities of his hero, Osama bin Laden, he is fast becoming the new poster-boy for the global jihadist movement.
Well-organised and utterly ruthless, the ex-preacher is the driving force behind al-Qaeda’s resurgence throughout Syria and Iraq, putting it at the forefront of the war to topple President Bashar al-Assad and starting a fresh campaign of mayhem against the Western-backed government in Baghdad.
15.05 Police brigadier general tells AFP that the militants attacked from the north, west and south of the city, and that they were from ISIS.
The militants had apparently freed some 300 inmates from a prison in the city.
ISIS is spearheading a spectacular offensive that began late on Monday and has since overrun all of Nineveh province and its capital Mosul as well as parts of Kirkuk to its southeast and Salaheddin to its south.
14.50 Iraqi police have now confirmed that Tikrit has fallen to militants – police colonel tells AFP: “All of Tikrit is in the hands of the militants.”
Burning vehicles belonging to Iraqi security forces are seen during clashes between Iraqi security forces and al Qaeda-linked ISIS in Mosul (PHOTO: Reuters)
14.43 In Mosul, black banner-waving insurgents have raided government buildings, pushed out security forces and captured military vehicles as residents fled for their lives. Atheel al-Nujaifi, the Ninevah provincial governor, has claimed authorities have “taken practical steps in order to restore order”, but reports from the ground suggest militants are firmly in control. he said:
14.40 Militants are battling Iraqi security forces in the central city of Tikrit, officials said. Jihadists have seized a swathe of the north, after taking Iraq’s second city Mosul on Tuesday.
14.30 Follow our live blog of developments in northern Iraq, where Isis forces have now taken control of Tikrit as well as Mosul, and mass beheadings are being reported.
@ NormanF:
Amen!!!!!!
The West is doing nothing.
This is a sharp lesson for Israel’s foolish and weak leaders who rely on America to save them.
As Jeremiah wrote of Israel’s alliance with Egypt, the Princes of Zoan and Tanis could not save Egypt from the Babylonians.
This is a catastrophic threat to Israel. And if Iraq falls, Jordan will be the next domino.
The Late Great USA.