Bringing it on ……… Iraq of course

[Libertarian_Guard]

Special forces in Iraq are fighting jihadist militants who have reportedly taken over swathes of two cities.

The clashes with Sunni fighters from the al-Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) are taking place in Fallujah and Ramadi.

Both cities are in the province of Anbar where Sunni militant activity has been on the rise.

Meanwhile at least 23 people were reportedly killed in militant attacks elsewhere in Iraq.

In Anbar province, a senior police officer was quoted on Thursday as saying ISIS fighters had seized at least 10 police stations and had freed a number of prisoners.

ISIS fighters have posted videos of themselves burning government vehicles, setting up checkpoints and issuing challenges to the authority of Mr Maliki.

Sunni tribal fighters have also taken to the streets, with reports that some are fighting on the government side.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25578396

[midnight rambler]

We freed the shit out of 'em, lined up a sweet oil deal with the ChiComs (i.e. sweet for the ChiComs), gave 'em democracy, and now they've mismanaged that. Buncha fucking ingrates.

[Serpo]

Yes peace was bombed into them relentlessly for big oil

[Ponce]

Nothing happens on its own........in this case I know (and so do you) who is pulling the strings from behind the curtain.

V

[Libertarian_Guard]

Nothing happens on its own........in this case I know (and so do you) who is pulling the strings from behind the curtain.

V

Or perhaps the Sunni's are indeed the alpha males and will not settle for playing a back-up role in society / politics.

[Neuro]

Nothing happens on its own........in this case I know (and so do you) who is pulling the strings from behind the curtain.

V
No doubt! As it looks the attack on Iran has been postponed for a while... So why not stir up some shit in the neighbor for a while. The puppet regime of Iraq may just beg their trusted ally for some re-inforcements to attack Iran... errh... Quell the rebellion. Who pulls the real strings no one here can doubt!

[gunny highway]

We freed the shit out of 'em, lined up a sweet oil deal with the ChiComs (i.e. sweet for the ChiComs), gave 'em democracy, and now they've mismanaged that. Buncha fucking ingrates.
Hell, we freed thousands of them to death and they still don't appreciated us.

[Neuro]

Hell, we freed thousands of them to death and they still don't appreciated us.
I think you need to follow up on the depleted uranium donation, maybe a tanker full of agent orange to deleaf the desert? Or why not fluoridate Tigris and Eufrat until the consistency of toothpaste? I know you guys are running a bit low on industrial waste now since you exported all your industries to China the last 20 years, but you have to have a little something left for the children of Iraq...

[horseshoe3]

I think you need to follow up on the depleted uranium donation, maybe a tanker full of agent orange to deleaf the desert? Or why not fluoridate Tigris and Eufrat until the consistency of toothpaste? I know you guys are running a bit low on industrial waste now since you exported all your industries to China the last 20 years, but you have to have a little something left for the children of Iraq...

Man, I hate smug non-americans.

[Ponce]

I no longer believe anything from anyone.........maybe the bad guys are the good guys and the good guys are the bad guys?..... who the hell knows.............. all world government are in cojut to fool everyone and are acting on their own agendas.

V

[Bigjon]

Man, I hate smug non-americans.

His country isn't doing any better and I'll bet the Swede's have no clue about any of the Jews who run Sweden.

[Neuro]

Man, I hate smug non-americans.
Yeah me too!

[Neuro]

His country isn't doing any better and I'll bet the Swede's have no clue about any of the Jews who run Sweden.
Total blackout, indeed!

[midnight rambler]

Man, I hate smug non-americans.

Yeah, no one can out-smug Americans.

[horseshoe3]

Yeah, no one can out-smug Americans.

After all, we're the greatest nation in the world. USA! USA! USA!

[steyr_m]

I dunno.... Just like I say about the US -- stop the hate, separate!

[Hypertiger]

All the contempt exported out and circulating will eventually come home to roost...not over the space of decades...but in one massive combined blast...One American said...If we collapse...you will collapse too Hyper.

That is a wonderful cherished delusion...

Visible enemies do not control anything if they are visible...The invisible order is behind the visible chaos...the masterminds are invisible...The mind controlled meat shields that believe in lies masquerading as Truth are visible.

The players of the real game of chess (risk) are not pieces on the board.

[Blink]

Man, I hate smug non-americans.


Its not "smug non-americanss" you hate, but, the impotent stance of the general American population to these crimes perpetuated upon them and the rest of the world and the passive stance they've taken to address it. Non-americans are just pointing it out (not that their countries are any better). Those without sin cast the first stone kinda sh*t. If that were the case, nobody would be casting stones. America has the misfortune of being the figure head for all that is wrong in the world at this point in time. If the message offends thee, then do something to fix it.........

[Libertarian_Guard]

Iraq conflict: Sunni fighters 'control all of Fallujah'

Late on Saturday, eyewitnesses said al-Qaeda militants were in evidence on the streets of Fallujah, riding pick-up trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns.

Reuters news agency said saying troops were shelling parts of the city to try to retake it.

Iraqiya state television quoted Mr Maliki as saying: "We will not back down until we end all terrorist groups and save our people in Anbar."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25605459

[Libertarian_Guard]

Human rights activists have condemned abuses by both government troops and insurgents in Iraq's Anbar province.

"Apparently unlawful methods of fighting by all sides have caused civilian casualties," Human Rights Watch said in a report.

The rights group criticised Iraqi forces and militants for carrying out attacks in residential areas.

It comes as troops prepare to launch a major assault against al-Qaeda-linked militants in the city of Falluja.

Sunni militants allied to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), as well as armed tribesmen angry with the government, overran Falluja last week after clashes triggered by a raid on protest camps in the city and in the provincial capital, Ramadi.

HRW said that according to witness reports, Iraqi troops had fired "mortar and gunfire into residential areas, in some cases with apparently no al-Qaeda presence".
The rights group quoted an employee in Falluja's main hospital as saying mortar fire from army shelling had killed 25 residents and injured 190 since the fighting began.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25664351

[Libertarian_Guard]

Bombs have hit Iraq’s capital Baghdad and a village near the northern town of Baquba, killing at least 75 people, police and hospital sources said, as prime minister Nuri al-Maliki warned that militants were trying to set up an “evil statelet”.

In the most bloody incident yesterday, a bomb blew up in a funeral tent where mourners were marking the death two days ago of a Sunni Muslim pro-government militiaman, police said. It killed 18 people and wounded 16 in Shatub, a village south of Baquba.

In north-western Iraq, assailants detonated roadside bombs near a bridge in Ain al-Jahash, 40 miles south of Mosul, as an army patrol was crossing it. Six soldiers were killed and eight people were wounded, six of them civilians, police said.

Gunmen killed seven truck drivers, kidnapped two and set three trucks ablaze in the mainly Shi’ite district of Maamil in Baghdad’s eastern outskirts, police said.

A suicide bomber in an *explosives-laden fuel tanker blew it up under the bridge near the town of Saqlawiya, about six miles north of Fallujah, causing the bridge to collapse and destroying one of two army tanks parked on top, police said.


http://www.scotsman.com/news/world/iraq-baghdad-blasted-by-bombs-1-3270087

[Libertarian_Guard]

Baghdad bomb blasts kill 33

Two car bombs exploded outside the foreign ministry, near the heavily-fortified Green Zone, while a suicide bomber struck a restaurant nearby.

Another car bomb went off in Khilani Square in the city's commercial heart. Later, three car bombings were reported in the south-east of capital.

There has been a surge in sectarian violence in Iraq in the past year.

Iraqi government data says more than 1,000 people died in January, which would be the highest monthly toll for almost six years.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Wednesday's bombings, but al-Qaeda-linked Sunni militants have been waging a campaign of violence against the Shia-dominated government.

"Iraqi political leaders should show national unity in dealing with such threats and unite against terrorism," the UN envoy to Iraq, Nikolay Mladenov, said in a statement.

On Tuesday, at least seven people died in a series of bombings, while two rockets also exploded inside the Green Zone, which houses parliament, government buildings and some foreign embassies.

On Monday, 23 people died in car bombings in and around the capital.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-26045127

[Libertarian_Guard]

Iraq violence: Militants kill 15 soldiers near Mosul

Militants have killed 15 soldiers guarding an oil pipeline in a pre-dawn raid on their camp in northern Iraq and kidnapped another, officials say.

The assailants were able to gain access to the facility in the village of Ayn al-Jahish, south of Mosul, because they were wearing military uniforms.

Security sources in Nineveh said 14 of the soldiers were beheaded and the other shot dead and hung from a gate.

They said they feared for the life of the soldier seized by the militants.

An armoured military vehicle was also taken, and the sources said they suspected it might be used to mount further attacks.

Tuesday's attack targeting security forces guarding an important piece of infrastructure was similar to one in the town of Tuz Khurmatu on Sunday.

Six policemen protecting a stadium construction site there were shot dead after being forced to pray in front of their attackers, who reportedly wanted to establish that they were Shia Muslims.

There has been a surge in sectarian violence in Iraq over the past year.

Iraqi government data says more than 1,000 people were killed in January, the highest monthly toll for almost six years.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-26134598

[Blink]

Is the place not already a wasteland. Hasn't the environment been prepared enough for the bankers to roll in their new despot, errr, I mean leader that will rebuild anew with an influx of banker loans?

[mick silver]

they were doing good till we got there and free them up

[Libertarian_Guard]

Violence in Iraq's Anbar province 'displaces 300,000'

Up to 300,000 people have now been displaced by the fighting between Sunni militants and security forces in Iraq's western province of Anbar, the UN says.

Militants led by the jihadist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) took over parts of the cities of Falluja and Ramadi in late December.

Since then, troops and allied tribesmen have struggled to regain control.

The number displaced by the unrest is the highest since the peak of the sectarian insurgency from 2006 to 2008.

A further 1.1 million internally displaced people (IDPs) have still not returned to communities in Iraq wracked by violence since 2003.

The tourist village of Habbaniya, south-west of Falluja, was once a popular destination for the Iraqi elite during Saddam Hussein's rule. It has now turned into a refuge for those fleeing the fighting in Anbar.

Inside the village's chalets and seven-story hotel are hundreds of families, crammed into rooms that lack adequate sanitation and other basic facilities.

In the absence of appropriate medical care due to the army's blockade of the area, skin diseases and viral and bacterial infections are spreading uncontrollably. Children and women are the most vulnerable, especially pregnant women who cannot get access to female doctors.

The main roads in and out of Fallujah and Ramadi are part of the battlefield as the army aims to secure supply routes for troops and tries to cut off militant groups.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-26150727

[Libertarian_Guard]

At least 49 people have been killed in a wave of car bombs in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Hilla, officials say.

The blasts come a day after at least 23 people were killed in bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital.

Al-Jazeera also reports that 13 Iraqi soldiers were killed in a separate battle with Sunni fighters in Fallujah in Anbar province on Tuesday.

More people were killed in Iraq in 2013 than at any point since 2008, when sectarian violence reached its peak.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-26241613

[Libertarian_Guard]

Iraq offers $17,200 reward for killing jihadists

Iraq's government has offered a reward of $17,200 (£10,300) for each foreign militant killed from al-Qaeda or the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a former affiliate.

A larger reward of $25,800 (£15,500) is being offered for the capture of militants belonging to the two groups.

At the end of December, ISIS and its allies seized control of parts of Fallujah and Ramadi, two cities in the predominantly Sunni western province of Anbar.

While security forces backed by pro-government tribesmen have made progress in retaking areas of Ramadi, they have not launched an offensive on Fallujah, instead asking locals to get the militants to leave.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-26275434

Like they carry some form of I.D.

Looks to me like a cash-cow, the dead will increase in numbers if these payouts are made.

[Ponce]

The whole world hate us for our "freedom"...... I remember and I am sad thinking what it used to be like in the old days.

V

[Libertarian_Guard]

Iraq crisis: Fifty bodies found south of Baghdad


Iraqi security forces have found the bullet-riddled bodies of 53 men in a mainly Shia area south of Baghdad.

The men, who were bound, blindfolded and had wounds to the head or chest, were found in a field outside Hamza al-Gharbi, a town in Babil province.

It was not immediately clear who the victims were or why they were killed.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28225184

[Libertarian_Guard]

Iraq forces executed 250 Sunni prisoners

Baghdad (AFP) - Iraq's security forces and allied Shiite militias executed at least 255 Sunni prisoners as they fled a lightning jihadist-led advance last month, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.

"Iraqi security forces and militias affiliated with the government appear to have unlawfully executed at least 255 prisoners... since June 9," the watchdog said in a statement.

"The mass extrajudicial killings may be evidence of war crimes or crimes against humanity," the New York-based HRW said.

It said the killings appeared to have been carried out in revenge for the onslaught led by what was still known last month as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The group, which has since rebranded itself as the Islamic State (IS), is a Sunni extremist organisation which last month overran large swathes of Iraq, including second city Mosul, and has since declared a "caliphate" straddling the border with Syria.

"Gunning down prisoners is an outrageous violation of international law," said HRW's deputy Middle East director, Joe Stork.

"While the world rightly denounces the atrocious acts of (ISIL), it should not turn a blind eye to sectarian killing sprees by government and pro-government forces."

The rights group said it had documented massacres of prisoners last month in Mosul, as well as in the towns and villages of Tal Afar, Baquba, Jumarkhe and Rawa.

"In one case the killers also set dozens of prisoners on fire, and in two cases they threw grenades into cells," HRW said.

http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-forces-executed-250-sunni-prisoners-watchdog-183857413.html

[mick silver]

it looks like a blood bath with all the freedom we gave them

[Neuro]

Iraq forces executed 250 Sunni prisoners

Baghdad (AFP) - Iraq's security forces and allied Shiite militias executed at least 255 Sunni prisoners as they fled a lightning jihadist-led advance last month, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.

"Iraqi security forces and militias affiliated with the government appear to have unlawfully executed at least 255 prisoners... since June 9," the watchdog said in a statement.

"The mass extrajudicial killings may be evidence of war crimes or crimes against humanity," the New York-based HRW said.

It said the killings appeared to have been carried out in revenge for the onslaught led by what was still known last month as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The group, which has since rebranded itself as the Islamic State (IS), is a Sunni extremist organisation which last month overran large swathes of Iraq, including second city Mosul, and has since declared a "caliphate" straddling the border with Syria.

"Gunning down prisoners is an outrageous violation of international law," said HRW's deputy Middle East director, Joe Stork.

"While the world rightly denounces the atrocious acts of (ISIL), it should not turn a blind eye to sectarian killing sprees by government and pro-government forces."

The rights group said it had documented massacres of prisoners last month in Mosul, as well as in the towns and villages of Tal Afar, Baquba, Jumarkhe and Rawa.

"In one case the killers also set dozens of prisoners on fire, and in two cases they threw grenades into cells," HRW said.

http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-forces-executed-250-sunni-prisoners-watchdog-183857413.html
I don't think Saddam Hussein ever took any steps at this scale in regards to prisoner executions at one go. Not trying to excuse him one bit, he had enough blood on his hands to deserve what he got.