UPDATE (US going back?): Al-Qaeda takes city in Iraq

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January 3

BEIRUT — A rejuvenated al-Qaeda-affiliated force asserted control over the western Iraqi city of Fallujah on Friday, raising its flag over government buildings and declaring an Islamic state in one of the most crucial areas that U.S. troops fought to pacify before withdrawing from Iraq two years ago.

The capture of Fallujah came amid an explosion of violence across the western desert province of Anbar in which local tribes, Iraqi security forces and al-Qaeda-affiliated militants have been fighting one another for days in a confusingly chaotic three-way war.

Elsewhere in the province, local tribal militias claimed they were gaining ground against the al-Qaeda militants who surged into urban areas from their desert strongholds this week after clashes erupted between local residents and the Iraqi security forces.

They now have a base of operations for more attacks on the West.

The US withdraw means "It Will Happen Again".

 

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RE: UPDATE (US going back?) Al-Qaeda takes city in Iraq

U.S. troops may return to Middle East to train Iraqis

Jan. 17, 2014

The Pentagon is considering sending U.S. troops back to the Middle East to help train Iraqi forces, defense officials said Friday.

It is unclear whether troops would be sent directly into Iraq or possibly conduct training in a nearby country such as Jordan. “We are in continuing discussions about how we can improve the Iraqi military,” Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said Friday.

The idea of sending U.S. military trainers back to Iraq for the first time since 2011 is one the Pentagon has emphatically rejected in recent years, but on Friday, Warren offered a carefully worded statement that did not rule out the possibility.

http://www.navytimes.com/article/20140117/NEWS/301170009?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

[Evil Teddy Bear of Doom]

They now have a base of operations for more attacks on the West.

The US withdraw means "It Will Happen Again".

I say we let it. They get pissed at us for interfering, and I can understand why. How would you like it if they came over here and started killing our government leaders to "help us"?

Personally, I'd be thankful because the bastards deserve it, but I don't imagine many folks share that opinion. But that's what we do to everybody else, then wonder why our meddling isn't embraced with open arms.