ISIS Control of Border Crossing Between Iraq & Syria: Fighters Prepare For Likely Assault On Baghdad
Source: UK Guardian
Isis Takes Control of Border Crossing Between Iraq and Syria
Militant group able to move weapons and equipment as fighters prepare for likely assault on Baghdad, say officials. The Islamic extremist group Isis has taken a crossing on the Iraq-Syria border 200 miles west of Baghdad, allowing them to move both men and heavy equipment freely, security officials have said.
After a day-long battle on Friday, during which 30 Iraqi troops were reportedly killed, the terrorist group and allied Sunni militants gained control of the crossing near the border town of Qaim, Associated Press reported police and army officials as saying.
The fighters have carved out a large fiefdom astride the border and have long travelled back and forth with ease, but the control of crossings allows them to bring up heavier weapons to different battlefields as they vow to march on Baghdad. The capture of the Qaim border crossing deals a further blow to Iraq's embattled prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, after the country's highest Shia authority, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, called on Friday for the quick formation of a new and "effective" government.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/21/isis-iraq-crossing-border-syria
Botany
(70,501 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Demeter
(85,373 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)Iraqi fighters that dropped their uniforms, weapons and gear and ran? The ones that practically handed US equipment to ISIS? Is that who Baghdad is relying on? Good luck to then, I guess.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)...the Shiite militias will be highly motivated.
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WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Say what?
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)If Baghdad is seriously threatened, there won't be any Sunnis left in Western Baghdad.
"Go ISIS." Well, you can always join them and die in the deserts of Iraq or Syria.
quadrature
(2,049 posts)there are no good guys here
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)jamzrockz
(1,333 posts)You must think this whole thing is a game and yes, I will be alerting this post. I hope cheering terrorists should not be allowed on this forum.
mother earth
(6,002 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)Thanks for the thread, big_dog.
maced666
(771 posts)If anything things have worsened since.
maced666
(771 posts)Theyll be fanatics with friendly faces like Abdirahmaan Muhumed, a 29-year-old dad from Minneapolis who personifies Jihad Cool and who is learning in Syria to kill so-called infidels.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jihadist-wannabes-u-s-flock-isis-like-groups-overseas-article-1.1837013#ixzz35JM7W0AR