Fallujah has fallen to Al Qaeda and Militants. Ramadi is also under siege.

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http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-132792-Qaeda-militants-make-gains-in-Iraq-city:-police

 

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Invade a country under lies that the Dictator is affiliated with Al Qaeda, spend billions upon billions of dollars and human lives getting rid of the dictator, and then have Al Qaeda take over two major cities in the same country brehs (and then also advocate funding, arming, supplying and sharing intelligence to the same terrorists in Syria for good measure breh breh).

 

[88m3]

Maliki is a fukking piece of shyt, I wouldn't be surprised if we did it on purpose.

 

[Techniec]

Maliki is a piece of shyt

The Shias are never going back to the way things were

The Sunnis are marginalized

Al Qaeda is back



Iraq is fukked


On a side note, to my al Anbar ridahs

 

[Kritic]

'The Country You Destroyed': A Letter to George W. Bush

A few days ago I received a personalized letter from your Presidential Center which included a solicitation card for donations that actually provided words for my reply. They included “I’m honored to help tell the story of the Bush Presidency” and “I’m thrilled that the Bush Institute is advancing timeless principles and practical solutions to the challenges facing our world.” (Below were categories of “tax-deductible contributions” starting with $25 and going upward.)

Did you mean the “timeless principles” that drove you and Mr. Cheney to invade the country of Iraq which, contrary to your fabrications, deceptions and cover-ups, never threatened the United States? Nor could Iraq [under its dictator and his dilapidated military] threaten its far more powerful neighbors, even if the Iraqi regime wanted to do so.

Today, Iraq remains a country (roughly the size and population of Texas) you destroyed, a country where over a million Iraqis, including many children and infants (remember Fallujah?) lost their lives, millions more were sickened or injured, and millions more were forced to become refugees, including most of the Iraqi Christians. Iraq is a country rife with sectarian strife that your prolonged invasion provoked into what is now open warfare. Iraq is a country where al-Qaeda is spreading with explosions taking 20, 30, 40, 50 or 60 lives per day. Just this week, it was reported that the U.S. has sent Hellfire air-to-ground missiles to Iraq’s air force to be used against encampments of “the country’s branch of al-Qaeda.” There was no al-Qaeda in Iraq before your invasion. Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein were mortal enemies.

The Bush/Cheney sociocide of Iraq, together with the loss of tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers’ lives, countless injuries and illnesses, registers, with the passage of time, no recognition by you that you did anything wrong nor have you accepted responsibility for the illegality of your military actions without a Congressional declaration of war. You even turned your back on Iraqis who worked with U.S. military occupation forces as drivers, translators etc. at great risk to themselves and their families and were desperately requesting visas to the U.S., often with the backing of U.S. military personnel. Your administration allowed fewer Iraqis into the U.S. than did Sweden in that same period and far, far fewer than Vietnamese refugees coming to the U.S. during the nineteen seventies.

When you were a candidate, I called you a corporation running for the Presidency masquerading as a human being. In time you turned a metaphor into a reality. As a corporation, you express no remorse, no shame, no compassion and a resistance to admit anything other than that you have done nothing wrong.

Day after day Iraqis, including children, continue to die or suffer terribly. When the paraplegic, U.S. army veteran, Tomas Young, wrote you last year seeking some kind of recognition that many things went horribly criminal for many American soldiers and Iraqis, you did not deign to reply, as you did not deign to reply to Cindy Sheehan, who lost her son, Casey, in Iraq. As you said, “the interesting thing about being the president” is that you “don’t feel like [you] owe anybody an explanation.” As a former President, nothing has changed as you make very lucrative speeches before business groups and, remarkably, ask Americans for money to support your “continued work in public service.”

Pollsters have said that they believe a majority of Iraqis would say that life today is worse for them than under the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. They would also say George W. Bush left Iraq worse off than when he entered it, despite the U.S. led sanctions prior to 2003 that took so many lives of Iraqi children and damaged the health of so many civilian families.

Your national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice, said publically in 2012 that while “the arc of history” may well turn out better for post-invasion Iraq than the present day violent chaos, she did “take personal responsibility” for the casualties and the wreckage. Do you?

Can you, at the very least, publically urge the federal government to admit more civilian Iraqis, who served in the U.S. military occupation, to this country to escape the retaliation that has been visited on their similarly-situated colleagues? Isn’t that the minimumyou can do to very slightly lessen the multiple, massive blowbacks that your reckless military policies have caused? It was your own anti-terrorism White House adviser, Richard Clarke, who wrote in his book,Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror, soon after leaving his post, that the U.S. played right into Osama bin Laden’s hands by invading Iraq.

Are you privately pondering what your invasion of Iraq did to the Iraqis and American military families, the economy and to the spread of al-Qaeda attacks in numerous countries?

Sincerely yours,

Ralph Nader

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/03

 

[Mr210]

another vietnam

 

[88m3]

Iraqi forces battle al Qaeda-linked militants
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Video by Philomène REMY , Sanam SHANTYAEI

Text by FRANCE 24

Latest update : 2014-01-02

Iraqi security forces and armed tribesmen on Thursday battled al Qaeda-linked jihadist militants who reportedly seized swathes of two Sunni-majority cities in an escalation of a crisis that has gripped the country for a decade.
Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) took control of strategic areas in the western Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, setting up checkpoints, seizing jails and freeing prisoners, according to Iraqi security officials.

Fallujah and Ramadi are located in the Anbar province, which shares a border with Syria and was an area of major fighting in the immediate aftermath of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.

Following the 2011 Syrian uprising, the western Iraqi province has witnessed increased activity among fighters of the al Qaeda-affiliated ISIL, which operates on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border.

The latest fighting erupted earlier this week after Iraqi authorities moved against a protest camp in the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi following an order by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Maliki, a Shiite politician, had long sought the closure of the camp which represented a physical sign of deep-seated grievances among Iraqi Sunnis, who complain of being marginalised and targeted by the Shiite-led government and security forces.

Clashes erupted after arrest of Sunni lawmaker

Clashes broke out this week after the government moved to arrest a Sunni lawmaker wanted on terrorism charges over the weekend.

As clashes spread from Ramadi to Fallujah, ISIL militants seized control of half of Fallujah and some areas of Ramadi, an Iraqi interior ministry official told the AFP on Thursday.

But Iraqi security forces and armed tribesmen began to fight back later Thursday. "We entered Fallujah with heavy clashes," special forces commander Major General Fadhel al-Barwari said in an online statement.

In east Ramadi, fighting erupted between Iraqi tribesman and police on one side and militants on the other, according to the AFP.

Shiite cleric and militia leader arrested

The fighting in the two western cities came a day after Iraqi security forces in the capital of Baghdad arrested a controversial Shiite cleric who leads an Iranian-backed militia in a move apparently aimed at bolstering Sunni support for the government.

Wathiq al-Batat, a fiery cleric who announced the formation of a so-called Mukhtar Army to protect Shiites from attacks by Sunni extremists last year, has been wanted by the government for several months.

The Shiite cleric took responsibility in November for firing six mortar shells at a region of Saudi Arabia bordering Iraq and Kuwait, describing it as retaliation for Saudi religious decrees that allegedly insult Shiites and encourage killing them. He also claimed responsibility for attacks on a camp hosting an Iranian opposition group.

The latest fighting in Iraq has underscored the deepening sectarian divides threatening Iraq and the region as the spillover from the Syrian uprising grips Syria’s neighbours.

On Wednesday, the UN said 2013 was the deadliest year in Iraq since 2008, with at least 7,818 civilians and 1,050 members of the security forces killed in violent attacks.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP and AP)

http://www.france24.com/en/20140102...s-isil-fallujah-ramadi-sunni-shiite-fighting/