There goes Iraq

Well folks, this looks GRUSOME for the people of Iraq, not to mention the "supposed RI/RV".....

      

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-12/iraq-seeks-to-check-advance-of-islamists-near-saddam-s-hometown.html

Iraq Battles Islamists in Saddam’s Hometown, 80 Miles From Baghdad

By Glen Carey and Mahmoud Habboush   2014-06-12T14:21:25Z  
 





June 12 (Bloomberg) -- Georgetown University Professor Paul Sullivan discusses the militant uprising in Iraq on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Source: Bloomberg)  
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Iraqi forces sought to check the rapid advance of Islamist militants who had seized major cities, as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki responded to the greatest threat to his government since taking power.

The military attacked fighters of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in Saddam Hussein’s former hometown of Tikrit, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, state-sponsored Iraqiya television reported. In Mosul, the air force struck ISIL positions after they seized the largest city in Iraq’s north earlier this week, Iraqiya said. Al-Sumaria television reported heavy clashes as the army fought for Tikrit backed by air support.

The surge in violence across northern and central Iraq, three years after U.S. troops withdrew, has raised the prospect of a return to sectarian civil war in OPEC’s second-biggest oil producer. Al-Maliki’s Shiite-led government is struggling to retain control of Sunni-majority regions, and his army units in northern Iraq collapsed in the face of the Islamist advance.

“This can’t be looked at as anything other than a comprehensive failure by the Iraqi army,” Crispin Hawes, managing director of the research firm Teneo Intelligence in London, said in a phone interview. “If the army can’t protect Mosul, how are they going to protect other cities?” he said. “Moving southward would be the logical thing to do for ISIL.”

and to think that most of the guruffballs are actually saying that the turmoil and militants taking over major cities is a "good thing" for the revaluation???  Where do these idiots come up with this stuff?  Wait, never mind.  They are "spinning" the best they can to keep sales up.  Forgive me, I forgot for a second.

Yeah... the news is getting worse and worse:

" 'Roads lined with decapitated police and soldiers'... "


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2655977/ISIS-militants-march-Baghdad-trademark-bullet-head-gets-way-control-north.html

I heard reports on the radio that it's not just police and soldiers. Anyone the rebels determine is not cooperative enough or sharia compliant enough are also being summarily executed.

Not Good. I do not ever see this ending untill Someone comes down to sort it out.

WARNING!!!! GRAPHIC VIDEO... but it shows you what kind of animals that we are dealing with here folks...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=699_1400360595

Yet even more evidence that Iraq is going down...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101762384

Exxon carries out major evacuation from Iraq: Oil official
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ExxonMobil has carried out a "major evacuation,'' and BP had evacuated 20 percent of its staff, the head of Iraq's state-run South Oil Company said Wednesday.
Dhiya Jaffar also said ENI, Schlumberger, Weatherford and Baker Hughes had no plans to evacuate staff from Iraq following the lightning advance of Sunni militants through the country. The companies, which are based in southern Iraq where the government is still in firm control, were not immediately available for comment.

"This message is not satisfactory for us. We are not convinced the work should not be done remotely. They should be here on the ground,'' Jaffar told Reuters.
"I assure the companies that the current developments in the country have not affected and will not affect in anyway the operations in the south,'' he said, adding that the export level for June will be 2.7 million barrels per day.
CNBC could not immediately confirm the evacuations.
--By Reuters with CNBC.com