Iran covert war in GWB's Iraq War
By no means do I condone another quagmire in the middle east in retaliation for Iran killing hundreds of American soldiers during the GWB Iraq War, but it should be known that Iran killed hundreds of...
View ArticleEither WaPo's David Ignatius Is Crazy Linking Iran With Al Qaeda Or He Thinks...
The editors at the Washington Post let this go forward. They've published a Washington Post Syndicate column titled "Iran’s fingerprints in Fallujah."The claim goes that Iran has inserted Al Qaeda...
View ArticleISIS In Iraq: U.S. Drone & F/A-18 Strikes Start and a Big Iraqi-Iranian...
The story we are getting from corporate MSM does not match up with ISIS defeats in Iraq. ISIS got slaughtered in a major battle at Samarra that was reported widely abroad. But U.S. media dropped the...
View ArticleHow's Chances That ISIS is a One-Trick Pony ??? All Attack, Not Much Else
[FINAL]In the first weeks of June, ISIS drove through token opposition at Mosul and went on to capture dozens of towns that lacked perimeter defense systems. The Iraqi Army in Nineveh Province had been...
View ArticleDaily Beast covers Iraq with Ignorance, Apathy, Ignoratio Elenchi and Obama...
Daily Beast argues today that central and western Iraq should be left to Al Qaeda in Iraq, renamed severally including "ISIS." Salafi hate-based terrorism is fine. Giving terrorists 25 million people...
View Article"Milestone" Fantasies and How "The Surge" Boondoggle Launched AQI into ISIS
"Milestone,""Mile Post," and "Turning Point" are key markers for Perpetual War sales pitches. There's also "turn the corner.""A new day" comes up as well, applied to Iraqi politics.If they had to stick...
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Iraq and ISIS: Are the RW "Experts" condemned to eternal ignorance ???
Who, what, where, when, how and why ??? Do they ever get it right?For conservatives, getting the best of analysis from "their guys" means relying on American Enterprise Institute and Heritage...
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Good News in Iraq: Jurf al-Sakhar Surrounded and Retaken from ISIS.
November 5, 2014.Jurf al-Sakhar is a city of 80,000 on a line from Baghdad going south-by-southwest toward Karbala. Back in early June an ISIS attack group took the city unopposed. Since then this was...
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ISIS in Iraq: Bandar Bush's Psychos Slaughter Sunni Civilians. 220+ Murdered...
Didn't you just love it when President George W. Bush walked hand in hand with his favorite Saudi potentate ???That's Prince Abdullah. Effectively the ruler of Saudi Arabia.Thing is, that personal...
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Forty Days celebration will bring 20,000,000 to Karbala, Iraq in January....
This is a big deal.The single largest religious gathering on the planet is going off in January, in Iraq, and with ISIS kicked to the curb.You may have missed the diary, here, in November celebrating...
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"A City on Death Row": al-Jazeera tags Mosul as the Coalition prepares a...
The Coalition working out of Tikrit has retaken a couple hundred villages and towns in northern Iraq. Between human spotters and drones identifying ISIS assets, destruction of ISIS hardware has been...
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Update Iraq: ISIS strips Mosul but leaves troops in place. Pentagon adopts...
Truck loads of critical gear and medicines were evacuated out of Mosul last week. Eye witness accounts from Mosul backed up by Kurdish eye-on-the-ground sources had them leaving the town headed up...
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Israel kills more anti-Islamists in Syria. Boehner: "Thanks, Bibi. Come by...
This is crazy stuff. The United States and Israel are on opposite sides in the ISIS War.Same time Jordan sends its Air Force in to pummel the Islamists, Israel under Bibi Netanyahu kills more of the...
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Alrighty, then. What is happening at Tikrit ??? ::UPDATE
Back in September we had a telephone conversation with two men in Tikrit related to observance of Eid al-Adha. This holiday involves obtaining a meat animal, sacrifice/butchering, and distribution of...
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Bad Week for the Black Flags in Syria and Iraq
All in all this looks to have been the worst week for the Islamists since May of 2011 when Osama bin Laden was killed and his files and computers were seized in the same raid. For every Saudi/GCC proxy...
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Tikrit artillery barrages augmented with U.S. air strikes
The southwest section of Tikrit is a burning ruin. After a week of artillery the residences have been leveled and bombs left by the ISIS and allied Sunni fighters have been detonated. The area...
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M198 rules !! Coalition occupies Tikrit for a dozen casualties. 200 ISIS...
Of course the Department of Defense claimed this is "with American help." A handful of smart missiles hit targets, but the big help was the old M198 155mm field guns.The contested area was the...
View ArticleWall St J: The Pentagon advises Iraq to adopt a ground strategy from '07/'08....
Welcome to Iraq.America's military experts advise Iraq to push ISIS back into Syria.Here's the conversation in Wall Street Journal:Iraqi security forces and their U.S. partners are divided about where...
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The 2015 Ramadi Government Center attack. What is going on over there?
In Ramadi, Iraq, last week a force of some 200 ISIS fighters carried out a successful suicide-based attack on the Government Center building. A chain of cars drove in and blasted check points and...
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The Economist: "Caliphate Strikes Back." The Coalition corrects Iraq map,...
The Economist tries to get it right. The center of Ramadi is indeed under ISIS control.That's "ISIS" as an acronym for Islamic State Is Shxt.What matters most in Iraq goes to three things:-- The Sunnis...
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