{"id":51113,"date":"2014-06-15T07:36:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T11:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=51113"},"modified":"2014-06-15T07:36:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T11:36:22","slug":"uss-ghw-bush-to-persian-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51113","title":{"rendered":"USS GHW Bush to Persian Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush is steaming to the Persian Gulf from the Arabian Sea to support any of the options that the President might decide to use in Iraq. Well, once he finishes his little golf match<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Accompany[ing] the carrier will be the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea and the guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun. The ships are expected to complete their move into the Gulf later Saturday.<\/p>\n

The ships carry Tomahawk missiles, which could reach Iraq. The Bush is carrying fighter jets that could also easily get to Iraq, where a fast-moving Islamic insurgency is gaining territory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The new insurgency in Iraq has captured 80 members of the diplomatic staff at the Turkish Embassy in Mosul, according to Reuters<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Diplomats and soldiers trapped inside Turkey’s consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul had no option but to surrender this week after hundreds of heavily armed Islamist militants surrounded the building, the foreign ministry said on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The seizure by insurgents from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Wednesday of 49 Turks, including special forces soldiers, diplomats and children, has prompted criticism of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s government for failing to foresee the danger and evacuate the consulate sooner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reuters<\/a> reports that the ISIS’ drive towards Baghdad has slowed;<\/p>\n

An offensive by insurgents that threatens to dismember Iraq seemed to slow on Saturday after days of lightning advances as government forces regained some territory in counter-attacks, easing pressure on the Shi’ite-led government in Baghdad.<\/p>\n

As Iraqi officials spoke of wresting back the initiative against Sunni militants, neighboring Shi’ite Iran held out the prospect of working with its longtime U.S. arch-enemy to help restore security in Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

al-Jazeera<\/a> reports some gains against ISIS;<\/p>\n

Reuters news agency, citing security sources, said Iraqi troops on Saturday attacked an ISIL formation in the town of al-Mutasim, 22km southeast of Samarra, driving rebel fighters out into the surrounding desert.<\/p>\n

The army also reasserted control over the small town of Ishaqi, southeast of Samarra, to secure a road that links the city to Baghdad and the cities of Tikrit and Mosul further north.<\/p>\n

However, Al Jazeera’s Omar Al Saleh, reporting from Baghdad, said that even though the army made those claims, “we haven’t seen any pictures showing the government forces taking control of these areas”.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, troops backed by the Shia Asaib Ahl al-Haq armed group helped retake the town of Muqdadiya northeast of Baghdad, and ISIL was dislodged from Dhuluiya after three hours of fighting, a tribal leader said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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