My latest article "Deaths In Iraq Return To Civil War Levels In June 2014". All the major organizations that track Iraqi deaths had June return to figures not seen since 2007 when the civil war was still raging.
My latest article "Deaths In Iraq Return To Civil War Levels In June 2014". All the major organizations that track Iraqi deaths had June return to figures not seen since 2007 when the civil war was still raging.
Iranian SU-25s being flown by possible Quds pilots.
http://www.iraqinews.com/baghdad-pol...oi-su-25-jets/
Looks like the ethnic regional separation into three regions is already in the minds of the Kurds.
Saw somewhere today a new map redrawn to show the separation of the Kurds/Shia/Sunni/Alewites together with the Christian regions---basically it has redrawn Sykes-Picot as many wanted it years ago.
The most important development, however, was obviously what KRG President Masoud Barzani told the BBC on July 1. Fresh from his rather de-Gaulle-in-Paris tour of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, which the Kurds consider their “Jerusalem” – and which peshmerga militia wasted no time in seizing and securing following ISIS’s incursion into Mosul last month – Barzani said that Iraq was “effectively partitioned” and that his semiautonomous government planned to hold a referendum on independence within months. “Everything that’s happened recently shows that it’s the right of Kurdistan to achieve independence. From now on, we won’t hide that that’s our goal.”
Read more: https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/reportsf...#ixzz36LR7NMaD
This was also today sent by the Kurds to al Sistani that indicates to me that if al Sistani does not make the right moves over the next few days the Kurds are headed to an independent country thus fulfilling really what the IS wants as a main political goal for the entire ME--the elimination of Sykes-Picot. If Sykes-Picot is removed then AQ is dead and will never recover as it will be viewed as a IS success in "defeating" this "western creation".
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The President of Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani sent on Wednesday a message to the Supreme Religious Authority Ayatollah, Ali al-Sistani, over the updates of the Iraqi situation.
Member of Kurdistani Democratic Party, Mahdi Haji, said to IraqiNews.com “The message talked about the threats that target Iraq due to the wrong policies of the Premier, Nouri al-Maliki, who spent 8 year in office without presenting services according to the Kurds’ views.”
“Barzani wanted al-Sistani to be aware that Iraq is facing the danger due to the lack of adherence to the constitutional timings and the accords among the political blocs,” he added.
“At the end of the message, Barzani said that Iraq should be divided into three Sunni, Shiite, Kurdish regions along with a Central Government that adheres to the constitution,” he concluded
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-02-2014 at 10:44 PM.
JWing---it appears that the IS and the Sunni Coalition has apparently moved around the outside of Baghdad in enough of a force to "motivate" the White House to send more "non boots on the ground".
So really what are the current IS and Sunni Coalition numbers on the ground?
"We have seen them reinforce themselves around Baghdad enough to convince us more troops was the prudent thing to do."
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