U.S. Intelligence Knew 3 Days Before Mosul Fell That ISIS Was Preparing For A Major Attack

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Officials: U.S. Knew 3 Days Before Mosul Fell That Islamic State Was Moving Forces -- Sacramento Bee/McClatchy News

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration knew an attack was in the works three days in advance of the Islamic State’s offensive in northern Iraq, but U.S. efforts to mount a response were hampered by the Iraqi government’s insistence that it could handle the threat, two top U.S. architects of Iraq policy said Wednesday.

The officials faced bipartisan criticism from the House Foreign Affairs Committee as members accused the Obama administration of taking insufficient steps to counter the expansionist goals of the Islamic State, also known by the acronyms ISIS or ISIL, an al Qaida spinoff that now operates freely throughout most of eastern Syria and across the vast swaths of northwestern Iraq that it seized last month.

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My Comment: Three days or three months .... it would not have made any difference. The Iraqi army was not up to the task, and even if given a few weeks warning .... they were not willing or capable of withstanding the ISIS onslaught.