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    Drudge Report: IRAQ TURNS TO IRAN FOR HELP - USA EVACUATES EMBASSY AS BOMBS, FIGHTING

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    IRAQ TURNS TO IRAN FOR HELP
    USA EVACUATES EMBASSY AS BOMBS, FIGHTING ROCK IRAQ...



    Iran sends troops into Iraq to aid fight against Isis militants

    Tehran and Washington form fragile alliance to aid Nouri al-maliki as jihadist...
    the Guardian|By Martin Chulov

    Iran sends troops into Iraq to aid fight against Isis militants

    Tehran hints at cooperation with US to aid Nouri al-Maliki as jihadist group threatens to take Baghdad

    Martin Chulov in Baghdad, and agencies
    theguardian.com, Saturday 14 June 2014 11.29 EDT


    Iraqi security forces and volunteers on the outskirts of Diyala province. Photograph: Reuters

    Iran has sent 2,000 advance troops to Iraq in the past 48 hours to help tackle a jihadist insurgency, a senior Iraqi official has told the Guardian.
    The confirmation comes as the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, said Iran was ready to support Iraq from the mortal threat fast spreading through the country, while the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, called on citizens to take up arms in their country's defence.
    Addressing the country on Saturday, Maliki said rebels from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) had given "an incentive to the army and to Iraqis to act bravely". His call to arms came after reports surfaced that hundreds of young men were flocking to volunteer centres across Baghdad to join the fight against Isis.
    In Iran, Rouhani raised the prospect of Teheran cooperating with its old enemy Washington to defeat the Sunni insurgent group – which is attempting to ignite a sectarian war beyond Iraq's borders.
    The Iraqi official said 1,500 basiji forces had crossed the border into the town of Khanaqin, in Diyala province, in central Iraq on Friday, while another 500 had entered the Badra Jassan area in Wasat province overnight. The Guardian confirmed on Friday that Major General Qassem Suleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force, had arrived in Baghdad to oversee the defence of the capital.
    There is growing evidence in Baghdad of Shia militias continuing to reorganise, with some heading to the central city of Samarra, 70 miles (110km) north of the capital, to defend two Shia shrines from Sunni jihadist groups surrounding them.
    The volunteers signing up were responding to a call by Iraq's most revered Shia cleric, the Iranian-born grand ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, to defend their country after Isis seized Mosul and Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit in a lightning advance this week. Samarra is now the next town in the Islamists' path to Baghdad.
    "Citizens who can carry weapons and fight the terrorists in defence of their country, its people and its holy sites should volunteer and join the security forces," Sheik Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalaie, Sistani's representative, said on Friday in a sermon at the holy Shia city of Kerbala.
    He warned that Iraq faced great danger and that fighting the militants "is everybody's responsibility, and is not limited to one specific sect or group", Associated Press reported. Karbalaie's comments have consistently been thought to reflect Sistani's views.
    Meanwhile, Iraqi troops had been ordered out of the northern city of Kirkuk by Kurdish fighters who have taken full control of the regional oil hub and surrounding areas, according to a mid-ranking army officer.
    His account was corroborated by an Arab tribal sheik and a photographer who witnessed the looting of army bases after troops left and who related similar accounts of the takeover from relatives in the army, the Associated Press reported.
    "They said they would defend Kirkuk from the Islamic State [Isis]," said the Arab officer, who oversaw a warehouse in the city's central military base.
    He insisted the Iraqi troops had not planned to retreat before the Islamic State. "We were ready to battle to death. We were completely ready," he said at a roadside rest house just inside the semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
    A spokesman for Kurdish forces, known as the peshmerga, said they had only moved in after Iraqi troops retreated, assuming control of the "majority of the Kurdistan region" outside the semi-autonomous Kurdish regional government.
    "Peshmerga forces have helped Iraqi soldiers and military leaders when they abandoned their positions," including by helping three generals to fly back to Baghdad from the Kurdish regional capital of Erbil, said Lieutenant General Jabbar Yawar in a statement on the regional government's website.
    A supporter of Maliki in the Iraqi parliament condemned the peshmerga's move, calling it a plot carried out in co-ordination with the regional government that would lead to problems.
    "The Kurds have taken advantage of the current situation. They seized Kirkuk and they have other plans to swallow other areas," Mohammed Sadoun said.
    A colonel from the military command responsible for Samarra said Iraqi security forces were preparing a counter-offensive against Isis on Saturday. The colonel, whom Maliki announced had been granted "unlimited powers" by the Iraqi cabinet, said reinforcements from the federal police and army arrived on Friday, according to Agence France-Presse.
    The officer said the reinforcements were for a drive against areas north of the city, including Dur and Tikrit, and forces were awaiting orders to begin.
    Sunni residents of west Baghdad said on Saturday Shia militias had taunted them with anti-Sunni chants. Baghdad has remained in virtual lockdown for the past three days as Isis jihadists threatened to storm the capital. However, Saturday morning saw relative normality return to deserted streets, with many residents returning to shops to stockpile supplies.
    Residents offered little reaction to Barack Obama's statement late on Friday in which he appeared to condition renewed US military support on Iraqi leaders first making efforts to pull the country back from the brink. The US and Iran, foes throughout the US occupation of Iraq, share a common interest in defeating Isis, and Iran has so far expressed no opposition to US threats to send military support to Maliki.
    Rouhani, asked at a televised press conference on Saturday whether Tehran could work with the US to tackle Isis, said: "We can think about it if we see America starts confronting the terrorist groups in Iraq or elsewhere. We all should practically and verbally confront terrorist groups."
    Reuters reported US officials as saying there were no contacts taking place with Iran over the crisis in Iraq.
    Meanwhile, the British foreign secretary, William Hague, had held talks with his Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu, "urgently to co-ordinate approaches to the instability in Iraq and links to Syria conflict", he said on Twitter. Britain is to give £3m ($5.1m) of aid to Iraq as the first step in dealing with the humanitarian consequences of the insurgency.
    The international development secretary, Justine Greening, said the initial tranche of emergency funding would allow agencies to supply water, sanitation, medicine, hygiene kits and basic household items.

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    It Doesn’t Add Up – With Al-Qaeda As An “Ally” in Syria, What is America’s Role With ISIS in Iraq?

    Posted on 16 June, 2014 by Rick Wells


    As I listened to Senator Lindsey Graham going off about how badly the White House mismanaged the conditions which led up to the current situation in Iraq, something didn’t seem quite right about the whole scenario.
    Things happened too quickly and the recommended corrective actions seemed all too familiar and convenient. Our actions and our lack of actions at the critical moments, such as not attacking convoys of al-Qaeda traveling in the open desert, seemed suspicious and to ultimately be helping to set the stage for conflict.
    While the occupant of the White House clearly never has the best interests of the American people at heart, Mr. Graham and his cohort John McCain have exhibited some quite disturbing behavior of their own in the past.
    Senators Graham and McCain were the chief proponents of arming al-Qaeda in Syria under the guise of them being “moderate terrorist” freedom fighters. Is that penchant for weapons expenditures somehow playing into a larger, more clandestine regional effort?.
    While it may be the right course of action to respond forcefully in Iraq, it is odd that those two have completely abdicated any responsibility for the armament. It is equally odd that nobody has raised the issue in interviews.
    They may repeat their previous assertions that they were only arming the “good terrorists” but that is foolishness, and their arguments were roundly criticized at the time as a ridiculous notion. Ridiculous or not, the funding and armaments were eventually approved by Congress this past January. One has to wonder how much other aid was provided through other, less transparent means. Those are some nice new trucks under those black flags.
    Given our presence and surveillance capabilities, nobody within the intelligence community should be surprised by what has happened. If we can read a license plate from a satellite or drone, we can and surely did detect these large-scale movements.
    Perhaps this buildup is one explanation for the regime’s stonewalling of any accounting of what happened in Benghazi. How much of the arms and equipment currently in the hands of ISIS were funneled to them through the Benghazi compound?
    Did the Senators and the regime, along with their cronies in the arms businesses, in some way encourage or lay the foundation for this present “suddenly disastrous” situation? Are we renewing our military conflict against the perpetual boogie man of al-Qaeda through the use of proxy armies, some of which are themselves al-Qaeda, re-fighting a very profitable war without having to commit American troops? Is this a pretext upon which to remain in Afghanistan, fighting their recently reinforced and reinvigorated Taliban?
    Regardless of politics or party, many of those in Washington represent the same money interests, and there is a lot of money involved in determining the future of the Middle East.
    Once again, the American people are being kept in the dark under the guise of national security as another conflict is initiated in our name.

    Rick Wells is a conservative author who recognizes that our nation, our Constitution and our traditions are under a full scale assault from multiple threats. Please “Like” him on Facebook, “Follow” him on Twitter or visit www.rickwells.us

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    ALLEN WEST: Obama Doesn’t Have A Clue About Iraq, Here’s What I’d Do




    Posted on June 16, 2014

    Everything is all fun and games until ISIS takes over in Iraq. According to Allen West, Obama doesn’t have a clue about what to do in this situation. Here are some of his own recommendations:
    First it starts with understanding who leads ISIS. According to The Daily Beast, the Islamist extremist some are now calling the most dangerous man in the world is the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who served four years at the biggest U.S. detention camp in Iraq. And he was released in 2009.

    Since Obama and the U.S. suffer from “war fatigue” and publicly state so, ISIS has no fear of U.S. intervention — but they do of Iran. Obama stated that al-Mailki has to solve this himself, and he will by siding with his Shiite brothers in Iraq — Iranian President Hasan Rouhani has already issued his intent and has the al-Quds force Commander, who was in Syria, now in Baghdad.


    The Obama administration should have seen this coming when the black al-Qaida flags showed up in al-Anbar province. The options are now few, and just shooting a bunch of Hellfire missiles from drones will not solve the problem. Air strikes would require a ground element, which could adequately bring munitions to bear against the enemy.


    Possibly the only remaining option would be to ally with the Kurdish Peshmerga Army and cut ISIS off from the rear and target their base of operations in Syria. Let us not forget that there are western fighters in ISIS ranks. As well, the last thing we would want is for an Islamist group to influence the flow of oil out of the second-largest oil producing country in the Middle East.


    The bottom line is, we can deal with ISIS now, or we will deal with them later, when they stronger and more entrenched. With Obama in charge, chances are it will be later — after all al-Qaida is decimated and on the run.



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    Read more at http://clashdaily.com/2014/06/allen-...YOKe6rrO0SI.99


    Oh he has a clue okay, he will do anything "if it hurts America"!!

    Why do we have to deal with them at all???These people don't like us, didn't want us in their Country to begin with, let them take care of it....My opinion of course!!!

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    June 16, 2014

    Let Them Kill Each Other


    By Mike Konrad

    I know, I know, the recent ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Levant) gains have everyone scared. No doubt, the Islamophilic administration will want to step in, and save Islam from itself once again. Let me advocate a course of action that will make sense to all sides in America; the left and right; from militarists to pacifists: Let the Muslims kill each other.
    After the administration blundered on Benghazi, on the Arab Spring, and Syria, Heaven itself has afforded it one last chance to set itself right. It is almost impossible for the administration to screw it up. All it has to do is nothing.
    Yes, Nothing!
    ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Levant) is presently a large group of thugs with guns. They have no navy, no air force, except for a few captured helicopters, which they will soon break. The only ones they can threaten are their fellow Muslims. If they take over Iraq, who cares? They will soon reduce the Levant to the seventh century.
    And this is a problem to us? OK, oil prices may spike for a while, but they are going to need to sell their oil because they’ve got nothing else to produce for export and can’t produce any of the fruits of modern industry. Meanwhile, the high prices will encourage domestic drilling and production of our nearly boundless reserves held in shale deposits, to the point where we will become a major oil exporter ourselves.

    These mujahadeen are incapable of maintaining the weapons they already have. Weapons need upkeep. Weapons have to be oiled, cleaned, and upgraded. Upkeep interferes with raping, pillaging, and chopping off heads. Within two years, they will be slaughtering each other with scimitars and rusty AK-47s.
    Iraq's president, Maliki has asked for US assistance. Oh really?
    Iraq insisted on setting up its country with an Islamic constitution; against our advice, and now he wants American help. For what? So Iraq's Shia can continue to run arms to Syria and Hezb'allah in Lebanon?
    If our State Department had men and women with intelligence instead of a love of the Qur’an, they would tell Maliki that our help would be predicated on four conditions:
    1) Get rid of the Islamic constitution, and set up a secular state
    2) Recognize Israel
    3) Naturalize the Palestinians in your state
    4) Break off ties with Iran
    If Maliki says no, we say “Fine, have your Islamic state. We are not going to decide which flavor.”
    He has no choice. No matter what he decides, the West wins. Should ISIS take over, Iran will be cut off from land routes to Syria's Assad, and Lebanon's Hezb'allah. How does this hurt the West?
    Sure! Iraq may go down. The Sunni officers in the Iraqi army will not fight for a Shia majority Iraqi state. In fact, many Sunni officers are already joining ISIS. The Shia, who are mere foot soldiers, are not prepared to fight the better trained Sunni. So what?
    When thieves fall out, honest men prosper. When Muslims fall out, civilization prospers. Take a hint from Scripture. God is telling us something.
    They found the Philistines in total confusion, striking each other with their swords. - 1 Samuel 14:20
    Now, Iran is scared.
    The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Iran sent two battalions of Iranian Revolutionary Guards to help the Iraqi government in its battle against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is hugely important, if not totally surprising given Iran's intervention in Syria. Iran has the power to crush ISIS in open combat. But Iranian intervention could also make the conflict inside Iraq much worse - VOX
    Iran is hurting. Iran may have to decide between arming Hezb'allah or the Shia in Iraq. And this hurts the West how?
    Other sources are reporting that Iran has called for international assistance to crush ISIS. Iran needs our help! The nation which has thumbed its nose at the West for 35 years, now wants our help?
    Iran officials call for international response to ISIS violence – Al Monitor
    Let them ask for Russian help, or Chinese assistance. I am sure the Russians and Chinese will be more than happy to make their nations targets for Islamic revenge. Nothing makes Muslim group A angrier than knowing that you have helped Muslim group B. And if the Russians or Chinese do intervene, good for them. Maybe international terrorism will re-direct their wrath eastward. Tell them it will be like the Chechnyans on steroids.
    If Iran is really desperate to save its supply lines across Shia Iraq to save Assad, we could strike a deal.
    You want our help. We want the Israelis to inspect your nuclear power plants; or you can go fight your fellow Muslims yourselves. Tell them, “Remember the first Iraq-Iran war.” Make the offer public. No help until the first Israeli technician comes out of the Isfahan plant and says, “All clean.”
    Tell them up front they have to stop aiding Hezb'allah. Tell them that we are enjoying this.
    At the same time, we should encourage all Euro-Muslim males to join the fight, and when they are gone, revoke their right of return to the West. Tell them, Allah Wants You; and send them off with halal meat and enough weapons to keep the Mideast in turmoil for another hundred years.
    Why is this a problem? Even if ISIS wins the Caliphate, it will revert to seventh century technology soon enough.
    Jordan is scared, now. She might be overrun. Supposedly, she is a Western-oriented state, which has the rudimentary forms of a democracy. Of course, honor killing, and wife beating are still not prohibited; and … Jordan refuses to take in more Palestinians.
    Time to make a deal. Get hold of Monty Hall and have him tell the Jordanians (and Saudis, too) that if they do not choose Door #1, what is behind Door #2, and Door #3 will not be pretty. It won't be the lovely Carol Merrill.
    And what is behind Door #1
    If they want our help:

    1) Saudis and Jordanians have to start naturalizing Palestinians
    2) Set up truly secular states
    3) protect their women
    Be upfront about it. Of course, they won't agree. So let them shoot it out. When the Mideast is a flaming wreck, the administration should encourage Putin or China to intervene. Nothing sinks empires faster than trying to tame the Muslims. We will get out, and avoid our own collapse.
    If our administration intervenes in any way, it would be foolish. Over the past two years our administration has made blunder after blunder in the Mideast, regarding Libya, Morsi, Sisi, Arab Spring, etc.
    This time it is so easy.
    All the administration has to do is … NOTHING!
    It is that simple. Heaven has offered the administration one last chance to redeem itself by doing nothing. If it does intervene, it will be clearly seen as an attempt to prop up Islam, once again.
    Let the Shia and Sunni kill each other. In the words of the late Mayor Ed Koch, “root for whoever is losing.”
    Mike Konrad is the pen name of an American who is not Jewish, Latin, or Arab. He runs a website, http://latinarabia.com, where he discusses the subculture of Arabs in Latin America. He wishes his Spanish were better.

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