US Sends Troops to Baghdad

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Washington is beginning to take action as fighting rages across Iraq. The US has sent 50 to 100 Marines and Army personnel to the US embassy in Baghdad, and some embassy staff have been relocated to other consular offices, CNN reports.

Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons and chant slogans in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 15, 2014.  (AP Photo/ Nabil Al-Jurani)
Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons and chant slogans in Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 15, 2014.
(AP Photo/ Nabil Al-Jurani)

US Navy ships and the aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush have arrived in the Persian Gulf, NBC News reports. And the Wall Street Journal reports that the US is planning to open direct talks with Iran this week about ways of curbing Sunni militants in Iraq.

In other news:

  • The militants who seized much of western and northern Iraq say they’ve recently executed 1,700 people, theNew York Times reports. No official confirmation yet, but the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria posted gruesome images of massacre sites on Twitter. Most victims are reportedly Shiite Iraqi soldiers, but Sunnis affiliated with the government were among the dead.
  • The Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani revised the call to arms he issued Friday, apparently concerned about a possible wave of Sunni/Shiite reprisal killings. He urged Iraqis “to exert the highest level of self-restraint during this tumultuous period.”
  • Militants clashed with security forces near al-Khalis, northeast of Baghdad, and took over the town of Tal Afar, near the Syrian border. Sunni residents in Tal Afar say Shiite forces bombed their neighborhoods with mortar fire, Reuters reports.
  • Two bomb attacks today killed up to 21 people in central Baghdad, one in a market full of volunteers assembled to join the fight against militants, the New York Timesreports.

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9 years ago

The enemy of my enemy is my friend eh? What a bloody world!

Bill Formby
9 years ago

My comments reach way back to the Iranian hostage crisis when I watched those idiots parading up and down the streets beating themselves chains with blood running down their backs. I said to myself, you cannot defeat people in a war who want to die for their country. Jump forward to 2003 and there we are trying to defeat those same kind of people, which by e way we never did. They simply blended in until we were gone. We took at Sadaam and in essence turned it over to another tyrant. Before we decided that we needed to get rid of Sadaam to protect the , we actually had more control than we do now. Sadaam was strong enough to keep the terrorists out. Now we have crap. I had suggest before that maybe we shout make parking lots out of both Iraq and Afghanistan. That was said as a joke. Now I am beginning to wonder.

Reply to  Bill Formby
9 years ago

Removing Sadaam was always a bad call. He was an evil despot who murdered his own people but he was also able to stop Islamic fundementalists getting anywhere near Iraq.

Sometime he had to go but it had to happen by the hand of his own people not the West.

George and Tony should have kept our oars well out of it. They didn’t and now we are only just starting to rue the day…..

Josh Taylor
9 years ago

I don’t trust the reports cited. For one. Just last summer,, the chemicals weapons launched in Syria by Assad by many of these same reliable sources, have been proven erroneous. The missles were fired from a rebel (really US supported opposition) position and could not have come Assad. I mean damn we were fighting with al Quada, doesn’t it sound shady.

Going back to Iraq in 1990. Where they were “throwing babies out of incubators on to cold floor to die”. This proved to be a lie and girl was a fraud. I mean how do you think Saddam won the Iraq/Iran war so fast in the late 80s.. He used chemical weapons. Delivered by Rumsfeld personally.

Wake up people. You can’t trust any war mongering news anymore.

If you can’t see there are serious blatant questions about 9-11 then you are part of the problem.

“WTC building 7 collapsed in its own footprint without being hit by a plane. All 47 columns would have to be severed at same time for building to collapse in this manner. Im amazed and aballed the coverup has been so effective. This is the smoking gun”

Jamaco Brighton “engineers for 9/11 truth”

I encourage you to watch the Documentary “Loose Change” and see if you can debunk it

Reply to  Josh Taylor
9 years ago

Sorry Josh. 9/11 was Islamic suiciders flying planes into the Twin Towers. End of.

Islamic fundamentalists are the worlds problem mate not some jumped up X-Files conspiracy crap. Seriously mate. Think again eh?

Although…it could be aliens? 😉

Marsha Woerner
9 years ago

Wow, I have so many mixed feelings about this:
1) we never had any business in Iraq!
2) we are responsible for a lot of the current disturbance there
3) we can’t govern the world
4) I want to say “it doesn’t affect ME”
5) I’m not convinced that the problem IS based solely on companies. The Holocaust “didn’t involve me” personally, but I and a lot of my family and friends have been affected by it. And the world overall has been affected by it. Many of those in Iraq don’t care about the living, they care only about some dream they have a magician in the sky saving the world is everybody in the world prays 5 times a day: nevermind THAT they don’t all agree on the details of their rare (used Sunnis versus Shiites…)

On the one hand, it was definitely right for us to leave. On the other hand, WHAT HAVE WE GOTTEN US AND THE REST OF THE WORLD INTO
??

Reply to  Marsha Woerner
9 years ago

Mainly deep doo-doo Marsha. That’s what….

9 years ago

The tip of the spear is there again. The perpetual state of war continues. War is good for business. Invest your children. We must support our corporations.

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