11-06-2014, 03:19 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:They are gobbling up Iraq. ::hungry:: I just heard on Al Jazeera that they took another major city JUST NORTH of Baghdad![URL="https://twitter.com/dravazed"]
[/URL]I think it was Tikrit. Saddam's old tribal stronghold and birth place. For all his faults, and they were many, and grievous, this would never have happened when he was in power. A rag tag army of various rebels in Syria can manage to hold these ISIS loons off but not the well equiped and highly trained US Iraqi forces? They just flee and leave their air-force behind with all their weapons.
I expect ISIS will reach a point of over reach soon enough. But....
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