:deadrose: @ al-Qaeda taking over Fallujah.

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This was like the bloodiest battle of the Iraq war. All for fukking nothing :russ:

BEIRUT — A rejuvenated al-Qaeda-affiliated force asserted control over the western Iraqi city of Fallujah on Friday, raising its flag over government buildings and declaring an Islamic state in one of the most crucial areas that U.S. troops fought to pacify before withdrawing from Iraq two years ago.
The capture of Fallujah came amid an explosion of violence across the western desert province of Anbar in which local tribes, Iraqi security forces and al-Qaeda-affiliated militants have been fighting one another for days in a confusingly chaotic three-way war.

The capture of Fallujah came amid an explosion of violence across the western desert province of Anbar in which local tribes, Iraqi security forces and al-Qaeda-affiliated militants have been fighting one another for days in a confusingly chaotic three-way war.

Elsewhere in the province, local tribal militias claimed they were gaining ground against the al-Qaeda militants who surged into urban areas from their desert strongholds this week after clashes erupted between local residents and the Iraqi security forces.

In Fallujah, where Marines fought the bloodiest battle of the Iraq war in 2004, the militants appeared to have the upper hand, underscoring the extent to which the Iraqi security forces have struggled to sustain the gains made by U.S. troops before they withdrew in December 2011.

The upheaval also affirmed the soaring capabilities of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the rebranded version of the al-Qaeda in Iraq organization that was formed a decade ago to confront U.S. troops and expanded into Syria last year while escalating its activities in Iraq. Roughly a third of the 4,486 U.S. troops killed in Iraq died in Anbar trying to defeat al-Qaeda in Iraq, nearly 100 of them in the November 2004 battle for control of Fallujah, the site of America’s bloodiest confrontation since the Vietnam War.

Events Friday suggested the fight may have been in vain.

“At the moment, there is no presence of the Iraqi state in Fallujah,” said a local journalist who asked not to be named because he fears for his safety. “The police and the army have abandoned the city, al-Qaeda has taken down all the Iraqi flags and burned them, and it has raised its own flag on all the buildings.”

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why is this funny to you?

The irony of it. Billions was spent invading and "liberating" Iraq on the basis that Saddam and al-Qaeda were collaborating. Fallujah and the "surge" is what turned the tied of the occupation. It's funny to me because not only was it all bullshyt (Saddam and al-Qaeda connection) but they've ended up taking over territory. The U.S. basically gave them a new place to set up shop. They would've been better off leaving Saddam alone.

Thousands of u.s. serviceman died in Iraq so the very people they were fighting ends up killing more people and claiming cities. Yeah Its sad but funny at the same time.
 

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Thousands of u.s. serviceman died in Iraq so the very people they were fighting ends up killing more people and claiming cities. Yeah Its sad but funny at the same time.
Blackstone revenue doesnt count for anything? Young widows getting a half a million dollars check before her husband's body arrives in the country doesnt count for something?
 

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Top brass expected this and even advised the upper echelon of it while they were originally playing tug-o-war with the insurgents in the area.
 

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The irony of it. Billions was spent invading and "liberating" Iraq on the basis that Saddam and al-Qaeda were collaborating. Fallujah and the "surge" is what turned the tied of the occupation. It's funny to me because not only was it all bullshyt (Saddam and al-Qaeda connection) but they've ended up taking over territory. The U.S. basically gave them a new place to set up shop. They would've been better off leaving Saddam alone.

Thousands of u.s. serviceman died in Iraq so the very people they were fighting ends up killing more people and claiming cities. Yeah Its sad but funny at the same time.
Well the American people wanted the troops to come home. Yall really cant say shyt.

Iraq was sent back to the past and now has no ability to interfere with Israels objectives. The people eventually will get tired of them Al's and a leader will rise up and they can begin the road to healing, probably after they make a deal with Israel or the Saudi's. For now, they're out of the way.

If they're setting up shop in iraq they really have limited options of places to hide right now and they will easily be targeted and merked.
 

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The irony of it. Billions was spent invading and "liberating" Iraq on the basis that Saddam and al-Qaeda were collaborating. Fallujah and the "surge" is what turned the tied of the occupation. It's funny to me because not only was it all bullshyt (Saddam and al-Qaeda connection) but they've ended up taking over territory. The U.S. basically gave them a new place to set up shop. They would've been better off leaving Saddam alone.

Thousands of u.s. serviceman died in Iraq so the very people they were fighting ends up killing more people and claiming cities. Yeah Its sad but funny at the same time.

All those dead innocent Iraqi civilians and brainwashed American soldiers... destroyed Iraqi infrastructure... decimated American middle class wealth...

Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.

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Well the American people wanted the troops to come home. Yall really cant say shyt.

Iraq was sent back to the past and now has no ability to interfere with Israels objectives. The people eventually will get tired of them Al's and a leader will rise up and they can begin the road to healing, probably after they make a deal with Israel or the Saudi's. For now, they're out of the way.

If they're setting up shop in iraq they really have limited options of places to hide right now and they will easily be targeted and merked.

Actually, that's not true at all.

Fallujah and cities like it are the perfect places to hide because the civilian population is sympathetic to their cause. It's difficult for the military to fight an enemy who's hiding in plain sight amongst non-combatants. It's a problem and the only real way to contain it is to plant people on the inside.
 
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