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2014-06-13 Iraq

Iraqi security forces withdraw from Syrian border

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Posted by Fred 2014-06-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iraq

#1 By 2006, our family's Marine and his buddies had cleared out (take that how you will...) most of the miscreants in the whole Anbar and Nineveh provinces.

Spoke to him yesterday about this and he said "What we did only delayed the inevitable. The whole area was the 'Wild West' with outlaws and smugglers. Without a good police and military presence in the area, it would 'go south' real quick. Saddam Hussein wasn't stupid and had a big security presence there. That's why it was so hard for us to take it over because we were fighting all those guys, too. They just switched who their bosses were."

Posted by Mullah Richard 2014-06-13 08:57|| 2014-06-13 08:57|| Front Page Top

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