This video from yesterday shows the Iraqi Army being marched by ISIS out of Tikrit.
What fate awaits these Iraqi Troops?
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One Picture in Iraq Today. Sums Up the void that is President Obama pic.twitter.com/aDKPBk8QOh
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) June 12, 2014
#IRAQ this is what happens to Maliki’s soldiers in Iraq when they they bump into the wrong people! LONG LIVE ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAQ AND SHAAM (ISIS)!
• The decapitated heads of policeman and soldiers are lining the streets of Iraq’s second biggest city, a displaced Iraqi woman has revealed today. (LINK)
• Earlier a UK report showed: A 150-man unit of the Quds Force, the elite section of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, has deployed to Iraq, supported by a team of Saberin, Tehran’s equivalent of the SAS. (link)
Now, after President Obama failed to act, Iran sends more…. (Via WSJ) Iran has deployed Revolutionary Guard forces to fight al Qaeda-inspired militants that have overrun a string of Iraqi cities, and it has helped Iraqi troops win back control of most of Tikrit, Iranian security sources said.
Two battalions of the Quds Forces, the elite overseas branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps that have long operated in Iraq, have come to the aid of the besieged, Shiite-dominated government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, they said.
Combined Iraqi-Iranian forces had retaken control across 85% of Tikrit, the birthplace of former dictator Saddam Hussein, according to Iraqi and Iranian security sources.
They were helping guard the capital Baghdad and the two cities of Najaf and Karbala, which have been targeted by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, an al Qaeda offshoot whose lightning offensive has thrown Iraq into its worse turmoil since the sectarian fighting that followed the 2003 U.S. invasion of the country.
Tehran has also positioned troops along its border with Iraq and promised to bomb rebel forces if they close within 100 kilometers, or 62 miles, from Iran’s border, according to an Iranian army general. (read more)
