Thread: The Battle For Baghdad Begins, 100 Marines Surround Embassy

The Battle For Baghdad Begins, 100 Marines Surround Embassy

in News / by Brandon Walker / on June 16, 2014 at 8:19 am /

The battle for Baghdad begins as mortars are falling on the airport runway. 100 US Marines have arrived surrounding the US Embassy as the US plans to evacuate the remaining staff.

Many news sources are reporting that the mortar fire rocked the airport in what would be day break in Baghdad. Right before they cut the internet, sources were caught tweeting by the Gateway Pundit.

Baghdad International Airport under Assault–



Idealistic Islamist @UtopianIslamist
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#Baghdad now. The fire and smoke in the background is reportedly Baghdad Airport. ISIS have been shelling it. #Iraq
8:13 PM - 15 Jun 2014



Here’s a new image reportedly of an explosion at the Baghdad airport.



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New Image - Explosion/ fire from Baghdad Airport
9:04 PM - 15 Jun 2014



The Battle for Baghdad has begun…


Idealistic Islamist @UtopianIslamist Follow THIS IS IT! The Battle of Baghdad has begun! Fierce clashes in districts between #ISIS & ISF. US is evacuating it's embassy staff. #Iraq
5:02 PM - 15 Jun 2014



Camp Taji is under assault.

Abu Umar @AbuUmar8246 Follow The Islamic State begin attack on Camp Taji from 3 directions. It protects the northern entrance to #Baghdad and is 15km from there #ISIS
10:34 AM - 15 Jun 2014



100 US Marines, US Army personnel have arrived to reinforce the American Embassy in Baghdad at State Dept request.
ISIS has begun assault on Taji base, north of Baghdad! One of the largest bases in #Iraq. Via @ghazishami




Further reports by the Times and USA Today confirm that the battle has reached Baghdad and the US plans to evacuate as many staff as they can.

ERBIL, Iraq — The American Embassy in Baghdad plans to evacuate a substantial number of its personnel this week in the face of a militant advance that rapidly swept from the north toward the capital, the State Department announced on Sunday.
The embassy, a beige fortress on the banks of the Tigris River within the heavily secured Green Zone, where Iraqi government buildings are also situated, has the largest staff of any United States Embassy.
The exact number of people being evacuated from Baghdad — the American government prefers to say they are being “relocated” — was not disclosed. But the embassy will remain open, and most of its staff will remain, according to the State Department. ~New York Times
The embassy will remain fully operational with “some additional U.S. government security personnel,” the State Department said. The embassy, inside the Green Zone near the Tigris River, employs thousands of people, some local hires and others from the United States.
The development came as photos posted on a militant website show what look to be masked fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant loading captives onto flatbed trucks before forcing them to lie face-down in a shallow ditch with their arms tied behind their backs. The bodies of the captives are then shown, soaked in blood after being shot.
The Associated Press said the images were verified and were consistent with its reporting. Iraq’s top military spokesman, Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, confirmed the authenticity of the photos Sunday and said he was aware of cases of mass murder of Iraqi soldiers.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki condemned and denounced as “horrifying” a claim by ISIL that it has massacred 1,700 Shia air force recruits in Tikrit. She called the claim “a true depiction of the bloodlust that these terrorists represent.” ~USA Today

This is the end of the Iraq we know. Get ready for Iran 2.0 with the embassy. We have ironically positioned the USS H.W. Bush off the coast but so far no shots fired from American vessels to cover the retreat.
We only need to look at the path to the capital of Iraq to see what is in store for our people if we don’t get them out. God help us.

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Everyone who ever supported President Obama should be deeply ashamed today as Iraq crumbles.
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Shame on Obama, Shame on Liberals

Posted by Tad Cronn on Jun 16, 2014 in Foreign Affairs, liberalism, Military, opinion, Politics

Over the past five years, I have been alternately annoyed, bothered, bewildered, aghast, appalled and even occasionally amused by the Obama Administration.
But NOW, I’m angry.
I’m angry because Iraq, a country we spent so much time and effort to rebuild into a nascent democracy, is falling.
I’m angry because American men and women lost blood, limbs and lives to destroy a tyrant, to crush a terrorist movement and finally to give decent people in a rough corner of the world a chance at a better future.
I’m angry because of all the years the Left spent harping on President Bush and the war effort, never once looking past their regurgitated talking points to even try to comprehend the strategy of what was going on in the Middle East.
I’m angry because those same ignorant, commo-fascists have now inflicted their demagoguery on the U.S. and the world to the point that Iraq’s roadways are littered with decapitated bodies and the ground shakes under the feet of an al-Qaida army.
I’m angry because friendly Iraqis, good men we trained to defend their country, have been abandoned by the corrupt officers we left in charge and abandoned by an equally corrupt U.S. president.



Bringing Shariah justice to Iraq.

I’m angry because while our president plays his umpteen hundredth round of golf, the White House pretends it is “doing something” by sending a lone aircraft carrier to the region while senior staffers report that Obama is thinking about maybe possibly doing something, perhaps involving drones.
I’m angry because past presidents could get missiles, aircraft and men to hot spots in a matter of hours, but this one moves like he’s stuck in molasses.
I’m angry because so many people accurately saw this coming years ago, but Obama and the deaf Left just “knew” that appeasement and allying the U.S. with the Muslim Brotherhood and all manner of al-Qaida-linked mercenaries was the way to bring peace.
I’m angry because our president aids and abets our sworn enemy by providing it arms and personnel in Syria and Libya and God knows where else and he remains a free man, wearing his treason like a sport coat.
I’m angry because it’s been widely known for years that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated this Administration and nothing is done about it because of the Left’s lock on the media and the Senate.
I’m angry because this country elected a president and instead got King Barack the Incompetent, who ignores the law, the Constitution, the truth and common decency.
Every person who ever supported this man, this Obama, should be on their knees today, begging for forgiveness for the blood being shed in Iraq in their name. They should be ashamed, deeply so. Because it is their name, their anti-war zealotry, their fascist beliefs, their ignorance of history and global events, yes even their not-so-subtle anti-Iraqi racism, that is represented by their president, Barack Hussein Obama, the lowest kind of yellow-bellied coward, who abandons his friends and leaves them to be bombed, shot, stabbed, tortured and raped, and allies himself instead with the villains who did it.

Yes, NOW I’m angry. You should be, too.

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