{"id":50502,"date":"2014-06-10T17:34:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T21:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=50502"},"modified":"2014-06-10T17:34:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T21:34:15","slug":"mosul-topples-to-al-qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=50502","title":{"rendered":"Mosul topples to al Qaeda"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to CNN<\/a>, the Iraqi Army left Mosul faster than they left Kuwait City in 1991. <\/p>\n

Militants on Tuesday seized the airport, TV stations and governor’s offices in Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, as police and soldiers ran from their posts — a stunning collapse of the security forces that has raised questions about Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s ability to hold the country together.<\/p>\n

In perhaps a sign of just how serious the threat is to Iraq’s stability, al-Maliki took to the airwaves to call on all men to volunteer to fight, promising to provide weapons and equipment.<\/p>\n

“We will not allow for the remainder of the … province and the city to fall,” he said in a live speech broadcast on Iraqi state TV.<\/p>\n

The militants are believed to belong to the extremist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, an al Qaeda splinter group also known by its acronym ISIS. These fighters are believed to include many from outside Iraq, senior police officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, Mosul is fairly close to Syria, so the battle there is merely an expansion of the Syrian Civil War. From Reuters<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The United States, which pulled out its troops two and a half years ago, pledged to help Iraqi leaders “push back against this aggression” as the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki asked parliament to declare a state of emergency that would give him extraordinary powers to tackle the crisis.<\/p>\n

But the battle, for the time being, seemed to be over. Some police were discarding uniforms and weapons and fleeing a city where the black flag of ISIL now flew over government buildings.<\/p>\n

“We have lost Mosul this morning,” said a colonel at a local military command center. “Army and police forces left their positions and ISIL terrorists are in full control.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a total collapse of the security forces.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, we promised to help South Vietnam to prevent an invasion from North Vietnam. That worked well, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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