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2014-08-12 Iraq

Charles Lister: ISIS Battle for Baghdad Has Begun

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Posted by Thineng Angailet7166 2014-08-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Maliki's special forces

That sounds so much more dignified than "thugs and stooges".

Posted by SteveS 2014-08-12 01:41|| 2014-08-12 01:41|| Front Page Top

#2 From the south?

Posted by Zorba Fleresh4606 2014-08-12 01:58|| 2014-08-12 01:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic as the iceberg slowly approaches...

Posted by borgboy 2014-08-12 03:30|| 2014-08-12 03:30|| Front Page Top

#4 the ISIS attack on Baghdad has begun, but not with massed troops or advancing columns or trench warfare or anything like that.

The IS forces have carried out suicide bomb attacks in and around Baghdad and plan lots more along with as many ambushes as they can do.

Posted by lord garth 2014-08-12 09:13|| 2014-08-12 09:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Maliki's special forces

..cause "Saddam's Elite Republican Guard" was already copyrighted?

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-08-12 10:07|| 2014-08-12 10:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Yup, from the south. Bottle up up.

How many Americans are in the embassy? In Baghdad?

Posted by KBK 2014-08-12 10:22|| 2014-08-12 10:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Yep, ISIS loosely controls a pincer on both sides of the rivers south of Baghdad.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-08-12 12:02|| 2014-08-12 12:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Please post the video when they pull down the statue of Obama at Firdos Square.

Posted by airandee 2014-08-12 15:39|| 2014-08-12 15:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Please don't post any pictures of a pyramid of human heads, mass crucifixions, etc. in downtown Baghdad. I have a vivid imagination as it is.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-08-12 15:52|| 2014-08-12 15:52|| Front Page Top

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