Where Absence of Evidence is Evidence for Absence: Tikrit, Iraq
Corporate MSM have gone on this past week trying to perpetrate a fantasy that the Jihaidist raiders in Iraq are fierce Soldiers of Allah. Also, despite that they haven't won a battle in two months, the MSM view of these guys remains that they are all conquering and fearsome, the purest of religious fanatics.
Allah's gift to Perpetual War.
No one is to notice that mainly this story line supports military budgets.
It's Hokum
After the first wave of attacks that took Sunni Mosul with local assistance, the Jihadists have had their back sides handed to them. That includes going at Tikrit and Samarra and losing two large attack groups including all their weapons and vehicles.
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When ISIS got to Tikrit in the second week of June, 2014, their attack group threw 500 raiders down Route # 1 from Mosul and went in to the west side of the city with little opposition. The locals had started running out of the area using everything from school buses to delivery trucks. ISIS got there without a street map and drove right by Tikrit University. Apparently they had no plan, other than winging it.
At maximum expansion, ISIS controlled 40% of western and southern Tikrit. We have that from Iraqis who stayed in the center of town. The phone system and short wave radio worked just fine. ISIS never got near Saddam's Palace. Never took the military hospital. Never even made a try at taking Tikrit Dam. Yet ISIS set about claiming that they had taken over Tikrit, much like their roll over at Mosul. And they scammed Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Herald and many others.
Corporate MSM reported that ISIS took Tikrit. With no evidence. more at link
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/31/1326079/-Where-Absence-of-Evidence-is-Evidence-for-Abscence-Tikrit-Iraq
