Baghdad is over 80% shia, so no. But that's not the point, Badhad isn't in the plan (THE PLAN). That's what the airstrikes prove btw, what the RED LINES are. The middle east is being carved up between spheres of influence. Nice huh, sunnis vs shia. As if islam isn't being f-ked enough already, now WE'RE doing the fighting ourselves to help 'them'. Anyway, F it. F the entire middle east.
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Baghdad is over 80% shia, so no. But that's not the point, Badhad isn't in the plan (THE PLAN). That's what the airstrikes prove btw, what the RED LINES are. The middle east is being carved up between spheres of influence. Nice huh, sunnis vs shia. As if islam isn't being f-ked enough already, now WE'RE doing the fighting ourselves to help 'them'. Anyway, F it. F the entire middle east.
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Believe it or not. If it wasn't for the coalition, Shiite would have been elaborated in Iraq. So, I suggest you give the coalition some credit.
Come on you Shia hating POS. GTFO with that. Over 20 million Shia and a couple thousand DAESHIS are going to kill them all? Okay, with 200.000 carbombs.
Here, for all the IDIOTS who don't see what is happening, and who don't read into this.
U.S. Saw Islamic State Coming, Let It Take Ramadi - Bloomberg View
The U.S. watched Islamic State fighters, vehicles and heavy equipment gather on the outskirts of Ramadi before the group retook the city in mid-May. But the U.S. did not order airstrikes against the convoys before the battle started. It left the fighting to Iraqi troops, who ultimately abandoned their positions.
U.S. intelligence and military officials told me recently, on the condition of anonymity, that the U.S. had significant intelligence about the pending Islamic State offensive in Ramadi. For the U.S. military, it was an open secret even at the time.
The Islamic State had been contesting territory in and around Ramadi for more than a year and had spoken of the importance of recapturing the city. The U.S. intelligence community had good warning that the Islamic State intended a new and bolder offensive on Ramadi because it was able to identify the convoys of heavy artillery, vehicle bombs and reinforcements through overhead imagery and eavesdropping on chatter from local Islamic State commanders. It surprised no one, one U.S. intelligence official told me.
BLOOMBERG. Not some Khamenei-newspaper.??
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Car bomb in Baghdad kills 10...reported by yahoo n abcnews. I'm on my cell so it's hard to post links.
Everyone complaining about the march of those captives by the Shia militias, maybe this is why they can't afford to take any chances. Remember 2 years ago over a 1000 civilians were being killed every month in Baghdad from these takfiri attacks but nobody cared.
Everyone complaining about the march of those captives by the Shia militias, maybe this is why they can't afford to take any chances. Remember 2 years ago over a 1000 civilians were being killed every month in Baghdad from these takfiri attacks but nobody cared.
True. The US wants Iraq destroyed, cut into pieces. The fight right now, for anybody who sees it, is HOW it's going to be cut up. That's why Iran is helping the government to make the most favourable terms for the Shia and pro-Iraqi Sunnis. That means a big buffer zone, that keeps the South and Baghdad safe. Because frigging Baghdad is coming with the Shia. Keep it safe boys! Sad it had to come to this. Luckily the carbomb didn't do more damage.
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Reuters / Thursday, May 28, 2015
Smoke rises from the site of car bomb attack in Baghdad, May 29, 2015. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad
6:53 p.m. EDT May 28, 2015
No U.S.-trained troops in Iraq's new fight for Ramadi
A Danish soldier leads a lesson on small-unit tactics aboard Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, as part of the U.S.-led coalition to train Iraqi troops.(Photo: Lance Cpl. Skyler Treverrow/Marine Corps)
The 7,000 Iraqi army troops who have recently completed American-led training programs are not involved in the massive counteroffensive that Iraq launched this week against Islamic State militants in Anbar province, U.S. and coalition officials said.
Instead, the Iraqi campaign will involve several thousand fighters from the Iraqi army as well as some Shiite militias and Sunni tribal forces now under command and control of the Iraqi government in Baghdad. The Iraqis launched the new campaign just days after abandoning Ramadi in a humiliating defeat May 17.
A spokesman for the American-led coalition declined to identify the deployment locations of the Iraqi troops who have received training from the U.S. coalition, citing operational security concerns.
The spokesman, Jens Lunde, said those troops have participated previously in operations in Karma, al Bagdadi and northern Baghdad and also supported protection for Shiite pilgrims going to a revered mosque in Kadhimiya, a suburb of Baghdad.
U.S. defense officials note that the American-led mission is limited to training, and follow-on personnel decisions about where to deploy those troops rest with the Iraqi government.
Some experts say Iraqi leaders are making a strategic decision in holding back their troops who were trained by Americans and may be more skilled than other rank-and-file Iraqi troops.
The fight against Islamic State militants in Ramadi could be a costly battle of attrition during its initial phase, similar to the fight in Tikrit in March, said Ramzy Mardini, a former State Department official who is a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council.
"If there's little confidence that Ramadi will be a quick and decisive victory, then there's little incentive to be the ones on the front lines," Mardini said.
"There is also the reality that the Iraqi security forces, and especially the weak prime minister, cannot politically afford another humiliating defeat. So this is a way to perhaps hedge their bets. If ISIS is victorious, the blame will be placed elsewhere. If it appears ISIS is going to lose, then I imagine there's a growing likelihood the recent U.S.-trained forces will be deployed."
The Islamic State's seizure of Ramadi prompted the U.S. to fast-track a shipment of 2,000 AT4 anti-tank weapons to the Iraqi army. Those weapons are intended to counter the Islamic State's increasingly effective use of vehicle-born improvised explosive devices.
In Ramadi, some of those VBIEDs were built using armored, American-made Humvees, causing catastrophic damage and playing a key role in the militants' victory over the Iraqi forces, according to U.S. officials.
The AT4 anti-tank weapons will be delivered in June, defense officials said.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter recently ruffled feathers in Baghdad by suggesting that the Iraqi defeat in Ramadi raised questions about their "will to fight."
Speaking on CNN on Sunday, Carter said: "What apparently happened was that the Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. They were not outnumbered but in fact they vastly outnumbered the opposing force, and yet they failed to fight."
On Wednesday, on a flight to Asia, Carter told reporters that top U.S. officials are working to identify ways to make the current train-and-equip effort in Iraq more effective.
"One of the last things I did before I left Washington was meet with my team and ask them ... what can we do to enhance the effect of the train-and-equip" mission, Carter told reporters.
"I think training and equipment affect the effectiveness of the forces and therefore their ability to operate, their confidence, and their ability to operate. So there's a direct relationship."
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http://i.imgur.com/WXhKsZE.jpg
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Looks like Shia militias recieving Iranian reverse enginereed scud 'Shahab' missiles apparently to target ISIS. Although that doesn't make sense from military perspective. These militias must have really poor training/cowardice if they are using Scuds to flatten their own cities. Or they're intended for Saudi Arabia. Either way, Iranian military personnel are manning these. So whereever they're used, it's Iran's responsibility.
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Looks like Shia militias recieving Iranian reverse enginereed scud 'Shahab' missiles apparently to target ISIS. Although that doesn't make sense from military perspective. These militias must have really poor training/cowardice if they are using Scuds to flatten their own cities. Or they're intended for Saudi Arabia. Either way, Iranian military personnel are manning these. So whereever they're used, it's Iran's responsibility.
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You mean the days that every day 100 to 200 Shia have been killed on daily bases bases by bases by the hand of the sunni mojaheds ?
It's ages that we we don't produce scuds .
And how come I can't see any scud missile there in the photo.
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I was implying Shahab missiles, I wrote that in the post. They look like missiles, they wouldn't be anything else other than missiles.
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Guess only in you transport ballistic missiles upright .
Search for Shahab TEL and you see the difference.
Honestly it's funny you something you don't knew and conclude that must be Iranian Iranian build Shahab which is incidentally we are replacing with new generation and is not operational anymore. By the way in flash news Shahab 3 is 1200-2000km missile and is not suitable for targeting terrorist's bases 100 km away for that we have other other type other type of missiles .
although you are saying nonsense in defense of you brethren (ISIS) but when Ramadi and Mosel become --> " Shia militias " " their own cities" !?
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@Saif al-Arab @azzo
Don't click link, graphic. But somebody being burned alive by Shia militia in the video:
فيديو مسرب لعملية حرق شخص يدعون انه من تنظيم #داعش . | الرقة تذبح بصمت
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They claim it's an ISIS fighter. Although I won't believe for a second that these cowards fought face to face and captured an ISIS fighter. Probably ordinary civilian. What do you guys think?
Don't click link, graphic. But somebody being burned alive by Shia militia in the video:
فيديو مسرب لعملية حرق شخص يدعون انه من تنظيم #داعش . | الرقة تذبح بصمت
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They claim it's an ISIS fighter. Although I won't believe for a second that these cowards fought face to face and captured an ISIS fighter. Probably ordinary civilian. What do you guys think?
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Is that the same one where a Shiite mob burn a Sunni kid? I dont wanna see it again if it is..
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