Related info:
– ISIS Breaches US Military Advisers’ Iraqi Base (ZeroHedge, Feb 13, 2015):
Just as we warned hours ago, it appears the capture of a nearby town was not the endgame and, as The Wall Street Journal reports, A group of Islamic State militants penetrated an Iraqi air base where U.S. military advisers are training Iraqi forces, the first time attackers have gotten beyond the outer perimeter of an Iraqi base being used by American trainers.
As The Wall Street Journal reports,
U.S. officials said eight Islamic State militants struck a small building at the edge of the huge al-Asad Air Base before being repelled by Iraqi forces. All eight were killed.
Military officials said American and other coalition trainers were “several kilometers” away from the attack and under no direct threat. There are 400 U.S. Marines and other service members at the base.
An Iraqi security-force official said that at the time of the attack, Islamic State militants also were firing rockets and mortars at the base.
The attacks on the base came after Islamic State fighters moved against the nearby Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi earlier on Thursday. The militants, according to an Iraqi official, took control of a number of government buildings after the local police fled following a pair of suicide bombings. It isn’t clear how much of the town the militants control.
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Friday’s assault was the first in which Islamic State forces sent an armed team to attack the base. U.S. military officials said Iraqi forces repelled the attack, which occurred at 7:20 a.m. Iraqi time on Friday, killing all eight attackers. The U.S. provided overhead surveillance for the Iraqi force.
“Eight guys going after al-Asad—that is a suicide mission. They have no chance,” said a U.S. defense official. “But they have an interest in al-Asad and I would venture to say they will have an interest anywhere we have people.”
The defense official said Islamic State fighters have been targeting the base because of the propaganda value of the attacks. Even ineffective attacks in the vicinity of the base have generated widespread newspaper and television headlines.
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We leave it to Ron Paul to conlude on where this goes next…
Declaring war against ISIS is like declaring war against communism or fascism. The enemy cannot be identified or limited. Both are ideological and armies are incapable of stopping an idea, good or bad, that the people do not resist or that they support. Besides, the strength of ISIS has been enhanced by our efforts.
Our involvement in the Middle East is being used as a very successful recruitment tool to expand the number of radical jihadists willing to fight and die for what they believe in. And sadly our efforts have further backfired with the weapons that we send ending up in the hands of our enemies and used against our allies and Americans caught in the crossfire.
Good intentions are not enough. Wise policies and common sense would go a long way toward working for peace and prosperity instead of escalating violence and motivating the enemy.
Maybe the ISIS fighters just picked up some promised supplies as …
ISIS is an operation run by the CIA and the Mossad …
McCain and his buddy, ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi:
A welcome distraction: the Islamist dude with the $6.500 James Bond watch.
Related info:
– Pentagon Dispatches First Batch Of US Forces To Train Syrian ‘Rebels’ (Al-Nusra = Al-Qaeda & ISIS)
– Syria: 3000 ‘Moderate Rebels’ Defect To ISIS … US Plans To Train 5,000 More …
– They Have Butchered Children (Veterans Today)
– Israel Acts As ISIS’ Air Force … Repeatedly Bombs Syria
– Senior Aide To President Putin: Mossad Training ISIL Terrorists
– ISIS, Al-Qaeda Join The M&A Bubble, Agree To Fight ‘Common Foes’ Together In Syria
– George Galloway On ISIS (Video )
– Israel And Turkey Are Directly Supporting ISIS And Al-Qaeda Terrorists In Syria
– The Khorasans: As Fake As the Kardashians
– The Fake Beheadings of the Arch-Zionist Crime Syndicate
– ISIS EXPOSED 100% AS CIA OPERATION: ‘The Next Osama Bin Laden is Here’ (Video)
– ISIL Leader Al-Baghdadi Is Mossad Agent Simon Elliot
The U.S. has armed and trained ISIS:
– Veterans Today: CIA And US Military Fight Under Al Qaeda Command In Syria (Video)
– U.S. Special Forces Train Syrian Rebels In Jordan (Le Figaro)
– Americans Are Training Syria Rebels In Jordan: Spiegel (Reuters)
– CIA-Armed And Trained Syrian Rebels ‘On Way To Battlefield’
Flashback:… all of them coming directly from from our Al-CIAda unit …
– Why Was A Sunday Times Report On US Government Ties To Al-Qaeda Chief Spiked? & Gladio B
– ‘GLADIO, THE LIVING PROOF THERE IS NO AL-QAEDA, NO WAR ON TERROR’ – ‘GLADIO Is AL-QAEDA’ (Veterans Today)
Just one month after this article has been published in the Guardian Robin Cook DIED:
– Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist or How The US Created Al Qaeda (Documentary)
– BBC: Al-Qaeda Does Not Exist (Documentary)
Retired U.S. General Wesley Clark …
… at the Commonwealth Club of California:
… or here in this interview with Democracy Now:
– Interview With US General Wesley Clark (Ret.): US Government Planned To ‘Take Out 7 Countries In 5 Years’: ‘Starting With Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan And Finishing Off Iran’ (Video)
For once, I agree with Ron Paul. Unfortunately, he is working to get his insane son nominated as president, so everything he says has that as the objective.
The US created ISIS, and now use them as an excuse to bomb anyone, and everyone with half a mind knows this…………except the fools who drink from the Fountain of Oblivion, US corporate media news that isn’t.
ISIS was created by the CIA in order to give the US unilateral rights to hit anyone anywhere. Nobody will join with the US, or provide coalition. That is how far down we have fallen in world opinion. Instead of working to repair the wonderful standing we once enjoyed, this clown decides it is okay to hit anyone who might have and ISIS person there.
Hitting countries that have done nothing to you is wrong.
Attacking countries without a declaration of war is wrong.
We are now officially a rogue nation, and are seen as a threat to world peace and security.
The world will do something about it very soon. and it will be very unpleasant for all who are still living.
This is living proof why and how people cannot govern themselves. The US voter used to have power. What did he do with it? Nothing, too lazy to follow the issues or vote. The coup of 2000 and the following laws took care of that, now we are in a corporate stranglehold that is destroying us.
Our lives have been ruined, and most don’t even realize it.
It is beyond depressing.
So the training and money we are spending is working out! Another fine Washington investment with our money! YET I’m still driving on pothole filled roads ruining my car…… Things that make you go hmmm……