Poppy3 should read this --This Photo Is The Clearest Sign Of An Imminent Iraqi Civil War

Poppy3 -- Do you still think that there isn't a civil war in Iraq about to explode? 



This Photo Is The Clearest Sign Of An Imminent Iraqi Civil War




Iraqi Shiite tribal fighters deploy with their weapons while chanting slogans against the al-Qaida inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), to help the military, which defends the capital in Baghdad's Sadr City, Iraq, Friday, June 13, 2014.




Paul Szoldra and Michael B Kelley
Jun. 13, 2014, 9:36 PM

Things look like they are about to get much worse in Iraq.

Sunni militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) — now flush with looted cash and armed with American weapons and tanks — are pushing closer to Baghdad, and civilians there are signing up in droves with the Shi'ite militias that gained notoriety during the bloodiest days of the Iraq War.

"This is the start of the Iraqi civil war that was so obviously going to break out after we washed our hands of it," The Brookings Institution's Kenneth Pollack told The Washington Post, while predicting Iraqi security forces would end up fighting alongside Shi'ite militiamen and the Iranians.


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There has already been widespread sectarian conflict in the country for quite some time, as much of the country's Sunni minority look on Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki with suspicion and disdain.

But the situation has gotten more tense in recent days, as militants have seized key cities of Fallujah, Tikrit, and Mosul. With Mosul in the north ISIS scored its biggest victory, taking control of the country's second-largest city, home to roughly 2 million people.

If ISIS does attempt to strike Baghdad, "they won't be likely to seize [it]," a former senior U.S. defense official told Business Insider, while adding that the city has seen widespread purges and executions of Sunnis under Maliki. Instead of attack the city, however, they may resort to a terror campaign of car bombings and improvised explosive devices.
"I don't think [ISIS] can go into a principally Shia city and not get a bleeding ulcer where they just get tied down," a retired senior U.S. military officer said, on condition of anonymity.

Nevertheless, Shi'ites in Baghdad are mobilizing. Thousands of men have responded to a call to arms by Ayatollah Sistani, 83, who is the highest religious authority for Shi'ites in Iraq. During Friday prayer, one of his representatives read a statement pronouncing “the legal and national responsibility of whoever can hold a weapon to hold it to defend the country, the citizens and the holy sites.”

The standard answer to photos, is that they are just recycled pictures from another time....and perhaps even another place.  The news media is controlled by the evil PTB, can't trust anything in newspapers and on TV. 

But not to fear.  Tony is having a call later and then we'll know what is 'Really' going on.

By the way, the call today is delayed.  Tony will send out a tweet announcing the time.