Sunday, May 14, 2017

Crises

Not since his first public promise of "as long as you both shall live" has Blue Balls Brett McGurk made a more ridiculous public proclamation.

Arriving in this evening as the sun rapidly sets on and its phony caliphate.


Falluja and Ramadi are in Anbar where the Islamic State is yet again very active.

You wouldn't know that from Brett's Tweet.

Careful now, you don't want to be caught by surprise like Brett's first wife.


Day 207 of The Mosul Slog.


CALIPHATE HAS ENDED. forces storm 4 districts in today & gains are incredible, only 2 districts left under ISIS control.
 




AP reports the Islamic State shot down an Iraqi helicopter "west of Mosul on Saturday."


And then there's the issue of the refugees.


: 500.000 civilians from are displaced as a result of the |i army offensive. 250.000 are trapped in Western .



Guess where they can't go?

Home?

Yeah, but besides there.

They can't go to Baghdad.

IRAQI SPRING MC reports that prime minister Hayder al-Abadi has ordered that they not be admitted into Baghdad.


And then there's the issue of the militias that Hayder's folded into the Iraqi forces.


In Iraq, there are more than 98 armed militias that are out of the control of the state of Iraq



This creates more problems.


PM al-Abadi’s government is in a struggle to control the . and Faleh A. Jabar discuss.




It's not a crisis in Iraq, it's crises.


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