The U.S. Embassy In Iraq. Lucas Jackson/Reuters/Landov
U.S. Embassy Prepares For Possible Evacuation as Militants Take Control in Iraq -- The Blaze
The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is preparing contingency plans to evacuate its employees if necessary now that one of the deadliest Islamic militant groups in the region has taken control of large swaths of Iraq, a U.S. official told TheBlaze.
The State Department also warned U.S. citizens against traveling to Iraq, following several days of bloody clashes between insurgents with the Al Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Iraqi military forces. ISIL has taken control of Mosul, Tikrit and Fallujah and aims to create an Islamic state across the Iraq-Syria border.
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My Comment: Talk about a disconnect to what is happening on the ground .... in U.S. Senate testimony Wednesday the outgoing and incoming US ambassadors to Iraq painted a hopeful picture of the security situation in the country .... Nominee for US ambassador to Iraq hopeful about country's security (The Guardian). If everything is honky-dory .... then why did the US State Department just issue a warning for all Americans to stay out of Iraq.
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A fave from long ago, but very apropos for now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK8N6DjJccc
Starting to hear around the traps that Iran plans to join the fight
Mattathias, they have to. Cannot let their supply line to the Syrian-Hezbollah front be cut.
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