MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

It’s gone perfectly according to Cheney’s plan. We successfully overthrew an Al-Qaeda hating dictator of a country supplying us with ample amounts of oil, with now very rich Al-Qaeda jihadists who have our military equipment and will cut off oil to America. We get less oil and allow another extreme religious state to rise in the Middle East.

Mission Accomplished!!!

Take a bow Georgie and Dick.

Al-Qaeda Jihadis Loot Over $400 Million From Mosul Central Bank, Seize Saddam’s Hometown

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As reported yesterday, in yet another humiliating blow to US foreign policy and the State Department, Al Qaeda-linked ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) militants took over the key northern town of Mosul, where an unknown number of US-made Black Hawk helicopters were parked and have been captured by Al Qaeda (potentially the same forces that have been trained by the US across the border in Syria).

Adding insult to injury the Al Qaeda militants also appear to have looted some $429 million from local banks. From IBtimes:

The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams (Isis) has become the richest terror group ever after looting 500 billion Iraqi dinars – the equivalent of $429m (£256m) – from Mosul’s central bank, according to the regional governor.

 

Nineveh governor Atheel al-Nujaifi confirmed Kurdish televison reports that Isis militants had stolen millions from numerous banks across Mosul. A large quantity of gold bullion is also believed to have been stolen.

 

Following the siege of the country’s second city, the bounty collected by the group has left it richer than al-Qaeda itself and as wealthy as small nations such as Tonga, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and the Falkland Islands.

 

The financial assets that Isis now possess are likely to worsen the Iraqi governement’s struggle to defeat the insurgency, which is aimed at creating an Islamic state across the Syrian-Iraqi border.

In other words, now that it is armed with US-made weapons, this particular al-Qaeda group also happens to be the world’s richest terror force!

And so with all disposable cash it needs for a long time and armed to the teeth, what is Al Qaeda to do? Why continue expanding of course. Moments ago, via Reuters, we got confirmation that the “insurgents” have just captured yet another symbolic Iraqi town, Tikrit: the birthplace of none other than Saddam.

Sunni insurgents overran parts of the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Wednesday, security sources said.

 

Tikrit, which is located 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad, is the hometown of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein

And on the map:

Will they stop here? Of course not. Expect the ISIS force to continue south until finally it overruns Baghdad itself and until all of Iraq, courtesy of a crippled army, officially belongs to Al Qaeda. America’s job is done here.

One can’t wait until Al Qaeda is also in charge of all the other countries recently liberated by the US and/or CIA.

USAID in action, supporting ISIS

US-supplied humvees captured by Islamic insurgents in the battle for Mosul

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Zarathustra

Paving the way for Greater Israel has it’s costs.

BamBam
BamBam

Did they really blank out the face in the bottom pic? REALLY? Are they honestly concerned with Al-Qaeda’s privacy?

Balzytch
Balzytch

This is what happens when pro-muslim, pro-Al Qaeda president fucknuts Obama supplies Al Qaeda with money, weapons, and training. Not to mention letting murderous Taliban leaders go free for a traitor/deserter. We pissed away over $1 trillion in Iraq, and Obama is funding the rise of Al Qaeda back to prominence. Obama needs to be tried for treason and put in prison where he belongs.

PrisonerofZelda
PrisonerofZelda

Falujha-check. Mosul- check. Next up Bagdad. Shades of the collapse of Republic of South Vietnam, cue the hellicopters to the roof of the US embasy. Instead of discarding the surplus helicopters into the South China sea, this time we will just leave them for the enemy.

card802
card802

Communism, socialism, terrorism, racism are all bad.
Patriotism is one of the worst ism’s. It blinds the people to believe whatever story they are told, we ask to be taxed, we ask for loss of freedoms, we ask to fight and die, just let us wave the flag in the name of patriotism.

Stucky

Goddammit, we’re going to have to save them for Democracy ….. again, aren’t we?

overthecliff

Well….that worked out just fine. That is what happens when you have a war and leave any of the enemy still alive. If you have a war, kill them all otherwise don`t have a war.

Forward_Idiocracy
Forward_Idiocracy

Al Qaeda taking over Iraq? That means the USA via the CIA controls it again. I think.

IndenturedServant

Being the cynical bastard I am, I’m going to go out on a limb here and bet that every bit of this is going exactly according to the (hastily put together backup) plan.

We’s be goin’ to war with Syria ya’ll, whether you like it or not!

Zarathustra

IS, I tend to agree with you. This situation is too fucked up not to be deliberate.

FWIW, my neighbor is the office manager for an oil exploration company. She currently has 6 field engineers in Kurdistan at a camp somewhere near Kirkuk. Yesterday she was flipping out.

spinolator
spinolator

Hey but we need to stimulate manufacturing! Someone needs to make the weapons they need to fight with us!! Then we can go in there and bring freedom to them again. Georgie and Dicky’s shares are doing nicely. And so is anyone else who holds shares of all those freedom supporting companies, which are sometimes sooo unfairly called the military-industrial complex. Goooo freedom!!!

AWD

It’s utterly amazing. Obama undid 12 years and trillions in dollars of effort to stabilize Iraq, which is now slipping into anarchy. Not to mention all the lives lost fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq, all it takes is Obama funding and supporting Al Qaeda, and poof, they’re resurgent and back in action, with the full support of the government of the USSA. And the Taliban is back baby, thanks to Obama.

Last time I checked, Al Qaeda was still the enemy of the USSA. Obama doesn’t just leave them alone, he gives them money, weapons, and training, and so surprise, they’re murdering and beheading people again, thousands of people, destabilizing Iraq. Obama is allied with Al Qaeda, a murderous terror organization, our enemy, and he needs to be tried for treason. The damage is done in Mosul, too fucking late for those people, and how many more will die and lose their heads in Iraq thanks to Obama’s support and backing? And after Iraq, Obama’s buddies will destabilize the rest of the Middle East. He’s opened Pandora’s box, and nobody is doing anything about it. The criminals in Washington, all of them, are complicit. Some day they’ll be setting their sights back on the USSA, with the blessing of our president.

mabuk
mabuk

This is what happens when those necessary acts of old-school, boots-on-the-ground, asshole-clinching intelligence performed by patriotic con artists and/or knuckle-draggers is replaced by professional management in the form of simian-like bureaucrats and privateer technocrats — I use ‘privateer’ here since ‘mercenary’ implies a Y chromosome that was bred out of this society long ago, so perhaps better to imagine them as swashbuckling, earring wearing guys who enjoy the company of other guys for long stretches at sea, yet still have the deepest depths of avarice required to slice their compatriots’ necks for a dollar — it is these two species that form the tip of that virtual spear, bravely scanning Facebook and Twitter and your Mom’s email for red flags, all from air-conditioned offices within walking distance of Starbucks.

Please don’t feel any anger towards these surfing soulless wretches, instead have pity on them — in ten years, 95% of those surveillance jobs will be lost to budget cuts under a collapsing dollar, replaced by machines that cost pennies to operate and are programmed to exhibit even more mindless loyalty than even they can produce. I imagine Craigslist will be filled with personal services offerings, each bidding to perform more disgusting, demeaning and disturbing acts of sexual prostration in exchange for food. But for the grace of God and good conscience went you.

Frenchie
Frenchie

the US dismantled the mostly sunni Iraqi army in 2003, instead of using it for keeping the country safe from uprising. we see the result today
what is brewing now is a fuckup of unknown magnitude
If they can’t be stopped, they will put the Saudi royal family down, trigger a war with Iran, trigger a proxy war in Lebanon…the only limit is the sky. half of the world’s oil at risk, and i don’t think china and russia will duck this time…

what is obvious in my eyes now, is that the so called “elites” really want their world war, so they can wash, rince, repeat…
motherfuckers

Zarathustra

Frenchie, I just put up a post about this. Iran is at full mobilization along the Iraqi border and Iranian troops are already fighting alongside the Iraqi government troops. Iran has the means to dispose of ISIS should they decide to do it. Then Iraq becomes an Iranian protectorate. Isn’t that cool?

Zarathustra

Iran’s president says the Islamic Republic will not tolerate violence and terror as foreign-backed Takfiri militants wreak havoc in northern Iraq.

“As the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, we will not tolerate the [acts of] violence and terror and we fight violence and terrorism in the region and in the world,” President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday.

The Iranian president said Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) will hold an immediate meeting to review the developments in Iraq as the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) pushes ahead with its offensive in Iraq’s northern cities.

“Why is an extremist and terrorist group treating people this way?” President Rouhani asked.

“I hope that nobody would see the films [taken] of the savage acts committed by them (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria. Unfortunately, these people claim to be combatants and Muslim,” Rouhani stated.

The Takfiri attack on Iraq’s Nineveh Province has forced “over 500,000 people in and around” its capital, Mosul, to flee, according to Geneva-based International Organization for Migration.

Reports also indicate that on June 11 the militants seized the city of Tikrit. However, shortly afterwards, Iraqi forces managed to recapture the central city, located roughly half way between Baghdad and Mosul.

Clashes continue between Iraqi soldiers and the Takfiri militants, who have vowed to march toward the capital.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the acts carried out by the militants, calling on the international community to support the Iraqi government’s fight against Takfiris.

According to reports, Takfiri groups are reportedly entering Iraq from neighboring Syria and Saudi Arabia to undermine security in the country.

KA/HSN/SL

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/06/12/366645/iran-wont-tolerate-violence-in-iraq/

PrisonerofZelda
PrisonerofZelda

I am surprised at the lack of sophistication demonstrated by the readers of TBP . Let me explain the situation:

Al Qaeda in Syria – AKA good Al Qaeda = Sell arms , encourage overthrow of Assad
Al Qaeda in Iraq- AKA bad Al Qaeda = Bomb shit out of

Difference between two groups less than a tank of gas

See how simple

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