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Iraq crisis: 500,000 flee Mosul as al-Qaeda pushes into new town


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As many as half a million people have been forced to flee the Iraqi city of Mosul amid reports that al-Qaeda militants move into oil refinery town of Baiji

 

 

By Agencies

10:25AM BST 11 Jun 2014

 

 

Half a million people have fled Mosul, including troops, after Sunni Islamist insurgents seized Iraq's second biggest city, with reports that a neighbouring town with an oil refinery had also been claimed.

 

Security sources said on Wednesday that the courthouse and police station on fire in Baiji.

 

The refinery is protected by around 250 guards, and security sources said the militants had sent a delegation of local tribal sheikhs to convince them to withdraw.

 

The sources said the guards agreed to pull out on condition they were transferred safely to another town.

 

The governor of a Ninevah province has said authorities are determined to recapture the northern city of Mosul after large parts of it were seized by Islamist insurgents.

 

 

The governor, Atheel al-Nujaifi, said that authorities have a plan to restore security and defeat al-Qaida-inspired militants who seized most of Mosul in a stunning assault, raiding government buildings, pushing out security forces and capturing military vehicles as thousands of residents fled.

 

Al-Nujaifi also accused senior commanders of the security forces of providing Baghdad with false information about the situation in Mosul and demanding that they should stand trial.

 

He also says smaller armed groups joined the al-Qaida-breakaway group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) during the fight for control the city.

 

The United States on Tuesday condemned the seizure of Mosul, calling the situation "extremely serious" and urging fractious political groups to fight Iraq's enemies together.

 

 

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the takeover of Iraq's second biggest city in the last 48 hours by forces from ISIS showed the deterioration of security in the country.

 

Washington has supplied large amounts of weaponry to Iraq since pulling its forces out in 2011, but Baghdad has failed to heal festering sectarian and political divisions and to curb instability spilling over from the Syrian civil war.

 

"There's no question that unity – and all sides and officials in Iraq working together – is the only way that they can be successful here," Psaki told reporters.

 

 

ISIL originated as an Iraq-based affiliate of al-Qaeda. Recently the group, fighting to set up an Islamic state in parts of Iraq and Syria, has been denounced by al Qaeda's central leadership for apostasy and excessive violence.

 

Psaki said US officials were tracking events closely in co-ordination with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government and other officials, including Kurds in their semi-autonomous northern region.

 

"The situation remains extremely serious," she said in a statement.

 

Over the last year the Syrian conflict rekindled insurgent violence and Washington accelerated efforts to smooth over differences between Iraq's Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds and provided arms requested by Maliki.

 

 

Jessica Lewis, an analyst at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, said Washington had underestimated the threat posed by ISIL.

 

"This is a conventional military enemy that is pursuing a state vision that involves the destruction of Iraq and Syria as we know them. It's not just a terrorist threat," she said.

 

Republican Senator John McCain said the takeover of Mosul reflected President Barack Obama's failure to leave a US force in Iraq to help assure stability.

 

"There's no doubt that we could have left troops behind, as we have in Korea and Germany and Bosnia, and didn't, and so it is now chaos, and so you will see greater and greater attacks and ... chaos in Iraq," McCain told reporters.

 

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10891354/Iraq-crisis-500000-flee-Mosul-as-al-Qaeda-pushes-into-new-town.html

 

 

 

 

 


White House calls on Iraq government to 'step up to the plate' over Mosul

 

US pressed Maliki to do more to address political concerns across Iraq after the fall of second-largest city to Isis extremists

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/10/us-iraq-maliki-government-action-mosul-isis

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Republican Senator John McCain said the takeover of Mosul reflected President Barack Obama's failure to leave a US force in Iraq to help assure stability.

 

"There's no doubt that we could have left troops behind, as we have in Korea and Germany and Bosnia, and didn't, and so it is now chaos, and so you will see greater and greater attacks and ... chaos in Iraq," McCain told reporters.

 

 

To Senator John McCain:

 

"Thought that was the idea McCain...

 

US supports terrorist against the dictator in Syria...US supports the dictator against terrorist in Iraq. 

 

Chaos??? What the he$$ do you expect?

 

You suit up and get on over there you war monger... You keep our kids out of it!!!"

 

 

 

This Is All To Keep "The Industrial War Machine" Well Oiled. ENOUGH!!!

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Governor says Iraq is determined to retake Mosul

By SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press

 
 

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities are determined to recapture the northern city of Mosul after most of it was overrun by al-Qaida-inspired militants, the provincial governor said Wednesday after he fled the city along with half a million other residents.  The stunning assault by the al-Qaida-inspired group saw black banner-waving insurgents raid government buildings, push out security forces and capture military vehicles as residents fled for their lives from what is Iraq's second-largest city.  "Mosul is capable of getting back on its feet and getting rid of all the outsiders ... and we have a plan to restore security," said Atheel al-Nujaifi, the Ninevah provincial governor. "We have taken practical steps in order to restore order ... by mobilizing people into public committees that would retake the city."

 

 

http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Article_2014-06-11-ML--Iraq/id-12bb838f8c0a4d65bee1a6e3d01ffa80

 

Dammit we are so close to end of this dinar ride and that damn Al-Qaida has to go around disturbing things.

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Thinking (now this can be a stretch for an old Army officer with only one cup of Joe down)...that those idiots who have been predicting a RV for today, tomorrow, and "it really did happen yesterday," will  now be hard pressed to throw out a new date with King Nuri al-Maliki  about to use the Mosul FUBAR as excuse to initiate  an onslaught against those elected officials who have had trouble stomaching his slightly bent perception of a true democracy.

 

R.O. out 


 

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BAGHDAD / NINA / The International Organization for Migration declared that more than half a million displaced from Mosul after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIS controlled the city.

The organization said in a press statement: "The circle of violence in the city of Mosul led to the displacement of more than 500 thousand people inside and outside the city."

It pointed out: "The fierce fighting, which took place recently between the Iraqi security forces and armed groups in Mosul led to a large number of victims."

It is mentioned that armed groups from ISIS seized control fully yesterday on the city of Mosul in both its coasts (right and left), which followed by movement of displacement inside and outside the city, towards safer areas, and especially towards the Kurdistan region. / End

 

http://www.ninanews.com/english/News_Details.asp?ar95_VQ=HELLJH

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