JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER
ISIS LEADER SLAUGHTERING ON STREETS OF IRAQ.OBAMA SET THIS LEADER FREE IN 2009.FUNDED THIS LEADER WITH WEAPONS IN SYRIA AND IS NOW USING THESE WEAPONS IN IRAQ TO SLAUGHTER AND DECLARE AN ISLAMIC SHARIA STATE IN IRAQ NOW.THIS IS ALL THANKS TO OBAMA RELEASING THIS MURDERER IN 2009.BLAME OBAMA FOR WHATS HAPPENING IN IRAQ.DON'T DARE LET HIM TRY TO TALK HIS WAY OUT OF THIS ONE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTosGni1BwA&list=UUbynpLgKGOAQDqWZceDs-aw
OTHER BERGDAHL IRAQ STORIES
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/06/american-drone-strike-in-pakistan-kills.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/06/islam-is-beheading-slaughtering-and.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/06/bowe-bergdahl-looney-bin-leftwinger.html
OTHER BERGDAHL STORIES (DESERTER TRUTHS)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/06/pakistan-karachi-airport-exploded-at.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/06/bergdahl-affair-disquised-as-christians.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/06/father-bob-and-bowe-bergdahl-are.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/06/its-time-for-israel-to-eliminate-all.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/06/obama-swaps-5-murders-for-cia-op-puppet.html
ISIS HEADS FOR KARBALA-SAMARRA-NAJAF THE 3 SHIA MUSLIM MURDERER HOLY SITES IN IRAQ
JUST BEFORE OBAMA LEFT FOR PALM SPRINGS CALIFORNIA FOR A HOLIDAY AS USUAL WHILE HE SET FREE IN 2009 THE LEADER OF ISIS THATS FRYING IRAQ RIGHT NOW.HE SAID THERE WILL BE NO TROOPS ON THE GROUND IN IRAQ.THEN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF HIS MOUTH IN THE NEXT SENTENCE HE SAID NOTHINGS OUTTA THE QUESTION.SO WHAT IS IT OBAMA NO TROOPS ON THE GROUND OR TROOPS AND BOMBS.HE WILL TELL US IN A FEW DAYS AFTER HE SHOOTS GOLF IN PALMSPRINGS.
JOHN MCCAIN WANTS THE UNITED STATES TO BE THE AIR FORCE FOR IRAQ.AND WANTS ALL AMERICAN DEFENCE OFFICIALS FIRED AT THE WHITEHOUSE AND WANTS PATRAEUS AS THE ARMY LEADER IN IRAQ AGAIN.STEVE PETCHENICK SEEMS TO LOVE PATRAEUS ALSO.IN THE SPRING THE WHITEHOUSE WAS WARNED THAT ISIS WAS GOING FOR BAGHDAD ALREADY.
Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq contains the tomb of:
First Shia Imam, Ali
Also buried within this mosque according to Shia Islam:
(Adam)
(Noah)
Ali was the cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad. He is considered by Shia tradition to be the first legitimate caliph and the first Imam due to the proclamation given by Muhammad. The site is visited annually by at least 8 million pilgrims on average, which is estimated to increase to 20 million in years to come.Many Shia believe that Ali did not want his grave to be desecrated by his enemies and consequently asked his friends and family to bury him secretly. This secret gravesite is supposed to have been revealed later during the Abbasid Caliphate by Ja'far al-Sadiq, the sixth Shia Imam.Most Shias accept that Ali is buried in the Imam Ali Mosque, in what is now the city of Najaf (which grew around the shrine).It has also been narrated from Ja'far al-Sadiq, the 6th Imam, that the Imam Ali Mosque is the third of five holy places: Mecca, Medina, Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, Imam Husayn Shrine in Karbala.God chose that land [Najaf] as the abode of the Prophets. I swear to God that no one more honourable than the Commander of the Believers [Ali] has ever lived there after (the time of) his purified fathers, Ādam and Nūh.
Imam Husayn Shrine in Karbala, Iraq contains the tombs of:
Hussein ibn Ali, grandson of Muhammad and third Shia Imam
Ali al-Akbar ibn Husayn, son of Husayn
Ali al-Asghar ibn Husayn, son of Husayn
Habib ibn Muzahir
All the martyrs of Karbalā
Ibrāhīm, son of Musa al-Kadhim - seventh - Twelver Shia Imām
The mosque stands on the site of the grave of Hussein ibn Ali, where he was martyred during the Battle of Karbala in 680.Up to a million pilgrims visit the city to observe the Day of Ashura, which marks the anniversary of Hussein ibn Ali's death.There are many Shia traditions which narrate the status of Karbala:Karbalā, where your grandson and his family will be killed, is the most blessed and the most sacred land on Earth and it is one of the valleys of Paradise.God chose the land of Karbalā as a safe and blessed sanctuary twenty-four thousand years before He created the land of the Ka‘bah and chose it as a sanctuary. Verily it [Karbalā] will shine among the gardens of Paradise, like a shining star shines among the stars for the people of Earth.Not one night passes in which Gabriel and Michael do not go to visit him [Husayn].-WIKIPEDIA
Takfiri terrorists of ISIS threaten to attack Karbala, Najaf-on June 12, 2014-SHIA POST
Takfiri terrorists of so-called Islamic State of Syria & Iraq (ISIS) have threatened to attack on the Shia holy cities of Karbala and Najaf, The Shia Post reported.With Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, firmly under its control, the militant group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is threatening the takeover of more cities, including the capital, Baghdad, Karbala and Najaf.“Continue your march as the battle is not yet raging,” ISIS spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani purportedly said in an audio recording posted early Thursday on the group’s media website.“It will rage in Baghdad, Karbala and Najaf. So be ready for it.”Dr Ahab Bdaiwi at St Andrews University has translated recent speech by official ISIS spokesmen Adnani. ISIS said, “Do not concede territory gained to the Shia unless they walk over your dead bodies to retrieve it. March towards Baghdad. The Shiʿa are a disgraced people. God forbid that they become victorious over you. How can they when they are polytheists. Don’t stop until you reach Baghdad and Kerbala. Be prepared! Iraq will transform into a living hell for the Shia and other heretic.”Talking to Prime Minister Maliki Adnani said, “Your people could have reigned supreme over Iraq but you made them lose that opportunity. Even the Shia will curse you now. We will settle our differences not in Samarra or Baghdad but in Kerbala, the filth-ridden city, and in Najaf, the city of polytheists.”“we shall fight them until they accept the truth”"Our aqeedah is saheeh, and Allaah gave us help and victory”“and he raised our imaan and we said hasbunAllaahu wa nim’al wakeel”” the armies and sons of the Islamic State have given their lives for the sake of Allaah and His Messenger”“And they’re not afraid of the cuts from the enemy, nor do their jails change them”
“and they’re not afraid of the fighting and they have been patient due to hunger and they were strong”
“and they were patient in the jails, in the homes under the ground(prisons)
in the desert, mountains valleys ” Years off patience untill Allah granted us this victory. Dawlah is victorious because it’s build on sincere body parts and sprinkled with the pure blood off the shuhada, like the former amir Abu Omar has stated.Allaah granted us victory because we are not based on Haram or a wrong manhaj. The previous leaders and creators from Dawlah were sincere and well known for their goodness. Allah granted victory to Dawlah because it’s well known for it’s unity in the ranks. Allah grants victory to Dawlah because they are winning from Kufr. Dawlah is victorious because they were unjust to her, the prisoners were begging them for help, the orphans were screaming towards them and because the kuffar gathered around them and all off them wanted to destroy Dawlah.Oh helpers from Dawlah, wherever you are, know that this victory is only from Allah and it doesn’t come from your Dawlah, nor your support. Always think about your weaknesses. You can’t change a situation without the power and might Off Allaah.And be humble to Allah and never haughty to his creation. Beware that you won’t praise yourself and show off, because this destroyed the former nations. Don’t be surprised and overwhelmed. by the ghaneemah and don’t think you’ve won the war already. Thank and think off Allah as much as you can and Thank Allah for All the victories.Oh soldiers off Dawlah, be kind to the Sunni Iraqi nation and be kind to the ansaar.Allowing 1000 kaafir escape through a mistake is dearer to us than killing 1 muslim” so be careful and gentle.Get ready oh mujahiddeen an hold on to your pride and fury untill we reach Baghdad and Karba to prepare for our huge battle against the polytheistic shi’a.Through this way I want to announce that Adnaan Ismail Abu Abderrahman al-Biljawie al-Anbarie became a shaheed in sha Allah.
He was one off the first to declare war to UK/USA.He was a wel known ansari who stood by the mujahireen.He was the one who funded “tawhid wal jihad” this is the group, first generation off ISIS who started jihad under shaykh Zarqawi.He was in charge in the beginning off funding ISIS and he was the right hand off Zarqawi. His manhaj and aqeedah was inspired by Zarqawi. He was well known for his courage and when others doubted He was steadfast as a mountain. He was patient. He was a mujahid who fasted on a regular base and filled his nights with prayers. When we were seeking for a real man, we looked at abu Abderrahman his face.Later, it was Qadr Allah that he was arrested. He spent a few years in prison.“and he studied Islam and he became hafidh of 10 qirat, and an alim of all of the Islamic sciences”“and was a student of knowledge and he was soon chosen to become an amir in prison and he was kind”“and he resolved all of the problems between the brothers & was harsh to the kuffar and Allaah freed him at the perfect time for ISIS” 2 years ago.He was there where the shia were burning, he coordinated several from the latest operations in al-Anbar, Naynawa, Salahdine and the latest victories.“with ilm of sharia and what pleases Allaah, and he was good in the battles and he spread the fighting”“and he fought the raafidah and he was like Salahuddeen. Oh Mujahiddeen don’t give in from what we have taken from the shi’a and continue on the path off Abu Abdurrahman. May Allaah have mercy on you O Abu Abdurrahman”“and give you firdaws and place you near the prophets”“O armies of the State. fight upon the path of Abu Abdurrahman and do not go astray”“March to righteous Baghdad, Baghdad of the khilafa and be certain that Allaah will give you victory”.And you’re a fool al-Haaliki, what did u do to your people? And they r foolish that they’ve chosen you! What kind off politics is this? You brought Iraq in danger for them. The shi’a will curse you.Yes! in between you and me there will be justice settled, and it won’t be in Samara nor Baghdad. It will be held in the filthy Karbala ( shirk town) and Najef what you degraded from a capital city into a city off shirk!-Speech ends.
Iraq’s top Shiite cleric issues call to stop ISIL juggernaut
Raheem Salman and Isra Al-Rubei’i | Reuters-Published — Friday 13 June 2014
• ISIL advances into Diyala province near Iran border
• US won’t “rule anything out,” bar troops on the ground
• ISIL taking arms seized from Iraqi army into Syria
• Global oil price surges, insurgents surround biggest refinery
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s most senior Shiite cleric urged his followers to take up arms to defend themselves against a relentless advance by Sunni militants, in a sharp escalation of a conflict which is threatening civil war and the potential break-up of the country.In a rare intervention at Friday prayers in the holy city of Kerbala, a message from Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, who is the highest religious authority for the Shiites in Iraq, said people should unite to fight back against advancing militants from the radical Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).Fighters under the black flag of ISIL captured two more Iraqi towns overnight in a lightning sweep south toward the capital Baghdad in a campaign to recreate a medieval caliphate carved out of fragmenting Iraq and Syria.“People who are capable of carrying arms and fighting the terrorists in defense of their country ... should volunteer to join the security forces to achieve this sacred goal,” said Sheikh Abdulmehdi Al-Karbalai, delivering Sistani’s message to the faithful.Those killed fighting ISIL militants would be martyrs, he said as worshippers chanted in acknowledgement.US President Barack Obama threatened military strikes against ISIL on Thursday, highlighting the gravity of the group’s threat to redraw borders in an oil-rich region.In the spreading chaos, Iraqi Kurdish forces have seized control of Kirkuk, an oil hub just outside their autonomous enclave that they have long seen as their traditional capital.Thrusting further to the southeast after their seizure of the major Iraqi city of Mosul in the far north and the late dictator Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit, ISIL entered two towns in Diyala province bordering Iran.Saadiyah and Jalawla had fallen to the Sunni Muslim fighters after government troops fled their positions, along with several villages around the Himreen mountains that have long been a hideout for militants, security sources said.The Iraqi army fired artillery shells at Saadiyah and Jalawla from the nearby town of Muqdadiya, sending dozens of families fleeing toward Khaniqin near the Iranian border.Obama said on Thursday he was considering “all options” to support Iraq’s Shiite Muslim-dominated central government that took full control when the US occupation ended in 2011, eight years after the invasion that toppled Saddam.“I don’t rule out anything because we do have a stake in making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold in either Iraq or Syria,” Obama said at the White House, when asked whether he was contemplating air strikes.“In our consultations with the Iraqis, there will be some short-term immediate things that need to be done militarily,” he said. A US defense official said the United States had been flying surveillance drones over Iraq to help it fight ISIL.US officials later said that US ground forces would not return to Iraq.
INTERNATIONAL ALARM
But Obama said military action alone was no panacea against ISIL. He alluded to long-standing Western complaints that Shiite Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki has done little to heal sectarian rifts that have left many of Iraq’s minority Sunnis, cut out of power since Saddam’s demise, aggrieved and keen for revenge.“This should be also a wake-up call for the Iraqi government. There has to be a political component to this,” Obama said.US Vice President Joe Biden assured Maliki by telephone that Washington was prepared to intensify and accelerate its security support. The White House had signalled on Wednesday it was looking to strengthen Iraqi forces rather than meet what one US official said were past Iraqi requests for air strikes.But fears of jihadist violence spreading may increase pressure for robust international action. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said international powers “must deal with the situation.”In Mosul, ISIL staged a parade of American Humvee patrol vehicles seized from a collapsing Iraqi army in the two days since its fighters drove out of the desert and overran the city.Giving a hint of their vision of a caliphate, ISIL published Sharia rules for the territory they have carved out in northern Iraq, including a ban on drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and an edict on women to wear only all-covering, shapeless clothing.ISIL militants were reported to have executed soldiers and policemen after their seizure of some towns.On Friday, ISIL said it was giving soldiers and policemen a “chance to repent ... For those asking who we are, we are the soldiers of Islam and have shouldered the responsibility to restore the glory of the Islamic Caliphate.”Residents near the border with Syria, where ISIL has exploited civil war to seize wide tracts of the country’s northeast, saw its militants bull-dozing tracks through frontier sand berms — as a prelude to trying to revive a mediaeval entity straddling both modern states.ISIL has battled rival rebel factions in Syria for months and occasionally taken on President Bashar Assad’s forces.But its fighters appear to have held back in Syria this week, especially in their eastern stronghold near the Iraqi border, while their Iraqi wing was making rapid military gains.
WEAPONS INTO SYRIA
ISIL’s Syria branch is now bringing in weapons seized in Iraq from retreating government forces, according to Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group.Matthew Henman, Head of IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center said in a report that ISIL’s capture of Iraqi territory along the Syrian border will give the group greater freedom of movement of men and material across the two countries.“Light and heavy weaponry, military vehicles, and money seized by ISIL during the capture of Mosul will be moved into desert area of eastern Syria, which ISIL has been using as a staging ground for attacks,” he said.At Baiji, near Kirkuk, ISIL fighters ringed Iraq’s largest refinery, underlining the potential threat to the oil industry.Further south, the fighters extended their advance to towns only about an hour’s drive from Baghdad, where Shiite militia were mobilizing for a potential replay of the ethnic and sectarian bloodbath of 2006 and 2007.Trucks carrying Shiite volunteers in uniform rumbled toward the front lines to defend Baghdad.Security and police sources said Sunni militants now held parts of the town of Udhaim, 90 km (55 miles) north of Baghdad. “We are waiting for reinforcements and we are determined not to let them take control,” said a police officer in Udhaim.“We are afraid that terrorists are seeking to cut the main highway that links Baghdad to the north.”
TARGET BAGHDAD
ISIL and its allies took control of Falluja at the start of the year. It lies just 50 km (30 miles) west of Maliki’s office.ISIL has set up military councils to run the towns they captured, residents said. “’Our final destination will be Baghdad, the decisive battle will be there’ — that’s what their leader kept repeating,” said a regional tribal figure.The senior UN official in Iraq assured the Security Council that Baghdad was in “no immediate danger.” The council offered unanimous support to the government and condemned “terrorism.”As with the concurrent war in Syria, the conflict cuts across global alliances. The United States and Western and Gulf Arab allies back the mainly Sunni revolt against the Iranian-backed Syrian President Assad, but have had to watch as ISIL and other Islamists have come to dominate large parts of Syria.Now the Shiite Islamic Republic of Iran, which in the 1980s fought Saddam for eight years at a time when the Sunni Iraqi leader enjoyed quiet US support, may share an interest with the “Great Satan” Washington in bolstering mutual ally Maliki.The global oil benchmark price has jumped, as concerns mounted that the violence could disrupt supplies from a major OPEC exporter. Iraq’s main oil export facilities are in the largely Shiite areas in the south and were “very, very safe,” Oil Minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi said.The million-strong Iraqi army, trained by the United States at a cost of nearly $25 billion, is hobbled by low morale and corruption. Its effectiveness is hurt by the perception in Sunni areas that it pursues the hostile interests of Shiites.
(Additional reporting by Oliver Holmes in Beirut, Ziad Al-Sinjary in Mosul Isabel Coles in Arbil, and Washington bureau; editing by Janet McBride)
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham's rapid advance southward to Baghdad after taking control of Mosul just three days ago appears to have been halted outside of the gates of Samarra, home to one of the holiest shrines in Shia Islam.Iraqi security forces in Samarra blunted the ISIS' assault from the north late yesterday, stopping an armed convoy from entering the city. The military is said to have deployed aircraft while battling the ISIS vanguard.The Iraqi military's stand in Samarra stands in contrast to its performance in Mosul, Tikrit, Bayji, and other cities and towns taken over by the ISIS. Iraqi forces often surrendered or melted away in these cities, leaving behind weapons, ammunition, and police and military vehicles. Thousands of prisoners have been freed during the ISIS onslaught.The attack on Samarra is the second in a week. On June 5, the ISIS assaulted Samarra from the west, and took control of five neighborhoods before being ejected by the military and police. [See LWJ report, ISIS takes control of areas in central Iraqi city.] Samarra is home to the al Askaria Mosque, one of the most holy shrines in Shia Islam. Al Qaeda in Iraq, the predecessor of the ISIS, bombed the Golden Dome of the al Askaria Mosque in February 2006, sparking massive sectarian fighting between Iraq's Shia and Sunnis.The ISIS has threatened to destroy the mosque if Iraqi forces refuse to withdraw from the city.The Shia-led Iraqi government will likely make a stand at Samarra, given the importance of the mosque. Additionally, there are reports that Shia militias are beginning to organize and deploy forces to protect religious sites.According to The New York Times, "at least four brigades, each with 2,500 to 3,000 fighters, had been hastily assembled and equipped in recent weeks by the Shiite political parties to protect Baghdad and the political process in Iraq. They identified the outfits as the Kataibe Brigade, the Assaib Brigade, the Imam al-Sadr Brigade and the armed wing of the Badr Organization."ISIS takes control of three towns; clashes reported in Taji.As Iraqi forces make their stand in Samarra, the ISIS was able to take control of the towns of Dhuluiyah, Saadiyah, and Jalula to the southwest. ISIS fighters are said to have overran an airbase in Dhuluiyah and captured hundreds of prisoners.Further south, reports from Iraq indicate that the ISIS is conducting raids on towns along the road between Samarra and Baghdad. According to Rudaw, a Kurdish-language news outlet, ISIS fighters have battled Iraqi forces in the town of Taji, which is just north of Bagdad. The outcome of the fighting has not been disclosed.The ISIS may be attempting to interdict the Iraqi military and the Shia militia's attempts to reinforce units holding out in Samarra and other cities and towns along the road north of Baghdad.The ISIS is adept at laying IEDs to decimate military convoys as well as using ambushes with small arms, machine guns, and RPGs to interdict supply columns. The ISIS's control of eastern Anbar province allows it to use the area as a staging ground to launch attacks on Highway 1. Karma, a city in Anbar that is under ISIS control, is just 15 miles due west of Taji.The recent ISIS advances in northern and central Iraq effectively put the terror group in control of nearly a third of the country. The ISIS already controls most of the large western province of Anbar, save the provincial capital of Ramadi and some small pockets.Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/06/isiss_southward_adva.php#ixzz34YaSKxQM
SO NOW BOWE BERGDAHL HAS A QUATER OR SO OF A HOSPITAL IN TEXAS FOR HIM AND HIS DOCTORS.TO CHECK OUT HIS TRUTHS OR LIES.I WONDER WHY BERGDAHL WOULD NEED A QUARTER OF A HOSPITAL TO BE PROTECTED BY.
ONLY A MOVIE STAR-A KING OR QUEEN WOULD HAVE A QUARTER OF A HOSPITAL TURNED OVER TO THEM.OR A SPY CIA AGENT FOR AMERICA TO INFILTRATE THE TALIBAN AND TEACH THEM BOMBING TRICKS SO THE TALIBAN CAN KILL OFF AMERICAN SOLDIERS WITH EXACT TIMING AND FALSE FLAGS STEAL CITIZENS RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS.
I ALSO HEARD THAT BOB BERGDAHL AND HIS WIFE JANE SENT A PICTURE OF THEMSELVES TO BOWE UNDER TALIBAN SO CALLED INTERIGATION WERE BOB WAS ALL DOLLED UP IN HIS MUSLIM BEARD AND JANI HAD A MUSLIM VIEL ON HER HEAD IN THE PICTURE.AND WHY THE PICTURE WAS SENT.TO TRY TO APPEASE THE TALIBAN SO BOWE WOULD BE SO CALLED SET FREE FROM THE TALIBAN.THEY WANTED TO SHOW THAT THEY RESPECT ISLAM AND THEIR MOON GOD-ALLAH.SEX FOR MUDER-72 VIRGIN CULT.
Bergdahl arrives in Texas: Pentagon
By By Jim Forsyth -JUNE 13,14-YahooNews
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who spent five years as a Taliban prisoner of war before being released on May 31, has arrived at an Army medical center in Texas where he will receive further treatment, the Pentagon said on Friday.Rear Admiral John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, said Bergdahl left Ramstein Air Base in Germany aboard a military plane on Thursday afternoon and arrived early on Friday in San Antonio, where he will be cared for at the Brooke Army Medical Center."While there, he will continue the next phase of his reintegration process. There is no timeline for this process. Our focus remains on his health and well-being," Kirby said.The Army command that runs the San Antonio Military Medical Facility on Fort Sam Houston plans to hold a news conference at 3 p.m. local time to discuss how it will treat the soldier.Bergdahl was handed over to U.S. forces in Afghanistan on May 31 in exchange for five Taliban leaders held at Guantanamo prison in Cuba. Bergdahl's initial release sparked a wave of support that was quickly overshadowed by political uproar over the freeing of the senior Taliban members.Lawmakers criticized the Obama administration for failing to give them 30 days' notice before transferring prisoners from Guantanamo as required by law. Some charged that in doing the exchange, the administration had effectively violated its policy against negotiating with terrorists.Some of Bergdahl's former comrades in Afghanistan also voiced anger, alleging that he had deserted when he walked away from his outpost in circumstances that are unclear and was later captured.Kirby said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had expressed confidence the Army will continue to ensure Bergdahl "receives the care, time and space he needs to complete his recovery and reintegration".The military hospital has teams of specialists and has been helping returning prisoners of war for decades.Bergdahl's parents, Bob and Jani Bergdahl, were expected to travel to Texas from their Idaho home, although it was not immediately clear when, or whether they had spoken with Bowe.In a statement released on behalf of the family, the Bergdahls said they do not intend to make their travel plans public."They ask for continued privacy as they concentrate on their son's reintegration," the statement said.(Additional reporting by David Alexander in Washington; Writing by Eric M. Johnson and Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Catherine Evans and Susan Heavey)
TO ME THIS IRAQ SITUATION IS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE BERGDAHL SWAP FOR 5 + 5 MUSLIM MURDERS.THE TALIBAN AND AL-QUIDA KNOW NOW THEY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITY.AND IF ANYBODY TRYS ANYTHING AGAINST THESE ISLAMIC MURDERERS.THEY WILL JUST CAPTURE SOLDIERS AND GET AT LEAST 10 FOR 1 MURDERERS FREED.OBAMA AND HAGEL CLAIMES NO SOLDIER WILL BE LEFT BEHIND.AND THESE ISLAMIC GROUPS GET FREE WEAPONS AND MONEY FROM THE WEST TO OVERTAKE OTHER MUSLIM COUNTRIES AND KILL OFF AMERICAN SOLDIERS.WHAT MORE COULD ARAB -MUSLIM MURDERERS WANT.OBAMA HANDS THEM ON A PLATE EVERYTHING THEY NEED TO OVER RUN ANY OTHER MUSLIM COUNTRY.AND KILL AMERICAN SOLDIERS AS WELL.OBAMA IS DEFINATELY HELPING ISLAM CONQUER THE WHOLE WORLD AND GIVE ISLAM WORLD DOMINATION.
US Quietly Releases More Military Prisoners in Afghanistan-Non-Afghan prisoners released with little fanfare in apparent bid to tone down 'the war on terror.' But why the secrecy? By Tova Dvorin-First Publish: 6/13/2014, 2:59 PM-IsraelNationalNewsThe Obama administration has quietly returned a dozen detainees from a small US military prison in Afghanistan, defense officials stated Thursday night, in another controversial prisoner release set to tone down the US's war on terror.US President Barack Obama, in a letter to Congress released on Thursday, informed U.S. lawmakers that about 38 non-Afghan prisoners remained at the Parwan detention center outside of Kabul, down from around 50 a few months ago.A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity told Reuters that a Frenchman, a Kuwaiti and ten Pakistani prisoners were sent back to their respective home countries at the end of May.According to the official, the remaining detainees include Yemeni, Tunisian and other Pakistani nationals.The news surfaces on the heels of the controversial return home of US soldier and longtime captive Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who was traded for five top Taliban terrorists last month. Critics have said that, in making the trade quiet trade for Bergdahl, the administration violated the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, which requires a 30-day warning before releasing terrorists from the compound - charges that US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel denied. Hagel also made a number of remarks indicating that the terrorists' release - which the Taliban called "a victory," sparking the desire to kidnap more soldiers - was necessary to save Bergdahl's life, indicating an "ends justify the means" approach.
ISIS Becomes The 'World's Richest Terrorist Group'-Islamist terror group grabs $425 million in cash from Mosul bank, making it rich as several small nations. Iraqi soldier: 'we can't win.'-By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 6/13/2014, 2:58 PM-IsraelNationalNews
The Al Qaeda offshoot the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) has conquered great sections of Iraq since capturing Mosul on Tuesday, going on to expand its control southward over several other cities, with its sights set on Baghdad.In the process of seizing the oil hub of Mosul, the Islamists made off with not only various American military equipment, but also an enormous amount of cash from the city's central bank.Atheel al-Nujaifi, governer of the Nineveh province where Mosul is located, reported that ISIS pocketed 500 billion Iraqi dinars ($425 million) from the bank, according to International Business Times, which labeled ISIS the "world's richest terror force."Al-Nujaifi added that a "large quantity of gold bullion" was also seized, in addition to large quantities of cash from banks all across the second-largest city in Iraq.The amount seized by ISIS puts its holdings on par with those of small nations such as Tonga, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and the Falkland Islands.Indeed, according to the website Money Jihad, which uses journalistic and academic sources to estimate the wealth of various terrorist organizations, ISIS is now the wealthiest such group in the world.The Washington Post referenced the site, noting that the Taliban reportedly had between $70-400 million at one-point, with Hezbollah boasting between $200-500 million. Al Qaeda, which ISIS broke off from, had a mere $30 million budget at the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to the US Council on Foreign Relations.
"We can't beat them"
US-trained Iraqi army forces have proven unable and unwilling to confront ISIS, turning tail and leaving their equipment for spoils according to reports. In its desperation, Iraq has called for civilians to volunteer to fight ISIS, offering to arm them.One Iraqi army officer told The Independent "we can't beat them. They're trained in street fighting and we're not. We need a whole army to drive them out of Mosul. They're like ghosts; they appear to hit and disappear within seconds."Israeli experts suggest that the extended reach of ISIS, which also threatens Jordan with its aims of a massive regional state under Islamic law, could also pose a serious threat to the Jewish state.
Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric issues call to fight rebels
By Raheem Salman and Isra al-Rubei'i-june 13,14-YAHOOnEWS
Baghdad, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's most senior Shi'ite cleric urged his followers to take up arms to defend themselves against a relentless advance by Sunni militants, in a sharp escalation of a conflict which is threatening civil war and the potential break-up of the country.In a rare intervention at Friday prayers in the holy city of Kerbala, a message from Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who is the highest religious authority for the Shi'ites in Iraq, said people should unite to fight back against advancing militants from the radical Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.Fighters under the black flag of ISIL captured two more Iraqi towns overnight in a lightning sweep south towards the capital Baghdad in a campaign to recreate a mediaeval caliphate carved out of fragmenting Iraq and Syria."People who are capable of carrying arms and fighting the terrorists in defense of their country ... should volunteer to join the security forces to achieve this sacred goal," said Sheikh Abdulmehdi al-Karbalai, delivering Sistani's message to the faithful.Those killed fighting ISIL militants would be martyrs, he said as worshippers chanted in acknowledgement.U.S. President Barack Obama threatened military strikes against ISIL on Thursday, highlighting the gravity of the group's threat to redraw borders in an oil-rich region.In the spreading chaos, Iraqi Kurdish forces have seized control of Kirkuk, an oil hub just outside their autonomous enclave that they have long seen as their traditional capital.Thrusting further to the southeast after their seizure of the major Iraqi city of Mosul in the far north and the late dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, ISIL entered two towns in Diyala province bordering Iran.Saadiyah and Jalawla had fallen to the Sunni Muslim insurgents after government troops fled their positions, along with several villages around the Himreen mountains that have long been a hideout for militants, security sources said.The Iraqi army fired artillery shells at Saadiyah and Jalawla from the nearby town of Muqdadiya, sending dozens of families fleeing towards Khaniqin near the Iranian border.Obama said on Thursday he was considering "all options" to support Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim-dominated central government that took full control when the U.S. occupation ended in 2011, eight years after the invasion that toppled Saddam."I don’t rule out anything because we do have a stake in making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold in either Iraq or Syria," Obama said at the White House, when asked whether he was contemplating air strikes."In our consultations with the Iraqis, there will be some short-term immediate things that need to be done militarily," he said. A U.S. defense official said the United States had been flying surveillance drones over Iraq to help it fight ISIL.U.S. officials later said that U.S. ground forces would not return to Iraq.
INTERNATIONAL ALARM
But Obama said military action alone was no panacea against ISIL. He alluded to long-standing Western complaints that Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has done little to heal sectarian rifts that have left many of Iraq's minority Sunnis, cut out of power since Saddam's demise, aggrieved and keen for revenge."This should be also a wake-up call for the Iraqi government. There has to be a political component to this," Obama said.U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assured Maliki by telephone that Washington was prepared to intensify and accelerate its security support. The White House had signaled on Wednesday it was looking to strengthen Iraqi forces rather than meet what one U.S. official said were past Iraqi requests for air strikes.But fears of jihadist violence spreading may increase pressure for robust international action. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said international powers "must deal with the situation".In Mosul, ISIL staged a parade of American Humvee patrol vehicles seized from a collapsing Iraqi army in the two days since its fighters drove out of the desert and overran the city.Giving a hint of their vision of a caliphate, ISIL published Sharia rules for the territory they have carved out in northern Iraq, including a ban on drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and an edict on women to wear only all-covering, shapeless clothing.ISIL militants were reported to have executed soldiers and policemen after their seizure of some towns.On Friday, ISIL said it was giving soldiers and policemen a "chance to repent ... For those asking who we are, we are the soldiers of Islam and have shouldered the responsibility to restore the glory of the Islamic Caliphate”.Residents near the border with Syria, where ISIL has exploited civil war to seize wide tracts of the country's northeast, saw its militants bull-dozing tracks through frontier sand berms - as a prelude to trying to revive a mediaeval entity straddling both modern states.ISIL has battled rival rebel factions in Syria for months and occasionally taken on President Bashar al-Assad's forces.But its fighters appear to have held back in Syria this week, especially in their eastern stronghold near the Iraqi border, while their Iraqi wing was making rapid military gains.
WEAPONS INTO SYRIA
ISIL's Syria branch is now bringing in weapons seized in Iraq from retreating government forces, according to Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group.
Matthew Henman, Head of IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Centre said in a report that ISIL's capture of Iraqi territory along the Syrian border will give the group greater freedom of movement of men and material across the two countries."Light and heavy weaponry, military vehicles, and money seized by ISIL during the capture of Mosul will be moved into desert area of eastern Syria, which ISIL has been using as a staging ground for attacks," he said.At Baiji, near Kirkuk, ISIL fighters ringed Iraq's largest refinery, underlining the potential threat to the oil industry.Further south, the fighters extended their advance to towns only about an hour's drive from Baghdad, where Shi'ite militia were mobilizing for a potential replay of the ethnic and sectarian bloodbath of 2006 and 2007.Trucks carrying Shi'ite volunteers in uniform rumbled towards the front lines to defend Baghdad.Security and police sources said Sunni militants now held parts of the town of Udhaim, 90 km (55 miles) north of Baghdad. "We are waiting for reinforcements and we are determined not to let them take control," said a police officer in Udhaim."We are afraid that terrorists are seeking to cut the main highway that links Baghdad to the north."
TARGET BAGHDAD
ISIL and its allies took control of Falluja at the start of the year. It lies just 50 km (30 miles) west of Maliki's office.ISIL has set up military councils to run the towns they captured, residents said. “'Our final destination will be Baghdad, the decisive battle will be there' - that’s what their leader kept repeating," said a regional tribal figure.The senior U.N. official in Iraq assured the Security Council that Baghdad was in "no immediate danger". The council offered unanimous support to the government and condemned "terrorism".As with the concurrent war in Syria, the conflict cuts across global alliances. The United States and Western and Gulf Arab allies back the mainly Sunni revolt against the Iranian-backed Syrian President Assad, but have had to watch as ISIL and other Islamists have come to dominate large parts of Syria.Now the Shi'ite Islamic Republic of Iran, which in the 1980s fought Saddam for eight years at a time when the Sunni Iraqi leader enjoyed quiet U.S. support, may share an interest with the "Great Satan" Washington in bolstering mutual ally Maliki.
The global oil benchmark price has jumped, as concerns mounted that the violence could disrupt supplies from a major OPEC exporter. Iraq's main oil export facilities are in the largely Shi'ite areas in the south and were "very, very safe", Oil Minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi said.The million-strong Iraqi army, trained by the United States at a cost of nearly $25 billion, is hobbled by low morale and corruption. Its effectiveness is hurt by the perception in Sunni areas that it pursues the hostile interests of Shi'ites.(Additional reporting by Oliver Holmes in Beirut, Ziad al-Sinjary in Mosul Isabel Coles in Arbil, and Washington bureau; editing by Janet McBride; Writing by Mark Heinrich, editing by Peter Millership)
ISIS LEADER SLAUGHTERING ON STREETS OF IRAQ.OBAMA SET THIS LEADER FREE IN 2009.FUNDED THIS LEADER WITH WEAPONS IN SYRIA AND IS NOW USING THESE WEAPONS IN IRAQ TO SLAUGHTER AND DECLARE AN ISLAMIC SHARIA STATE IN IRAQ NOW.THIS IS ALL THANKS TO OBAMA RELEASING THIS MURDERER IN 2009.BLAME OBAMA FOR WHATS HAPPENING IN IRAQ.DON'T DARE LET HIM TRY TO TALK HIS WAY OUT OF THIS ONE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTosGni1BwA&list=UUbynpLgKGOAQDqWZceDs-aw
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http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/06/its-time-for-israel-to-eliminate-all.html
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ISIS HEADS FOR KARBALA-SAMARRA-NAJAF THE 3 SHIA MUSLIM MURDERER HOLY SITES IN IRAQ
JUST BEFORE OBAMA LEFT FOR PALM SPRINGS CALIFORNIA FOR A HOLIDAY AS USUAL WHILE HE SET FREE IN 2009 THE LEADER OF ISIS THATS FRYING IRAQ RIGHT NOW.HE SAID THERE WILL BE NO TROOPS ON THE GROUND IN IRAQ.THEN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF HIS MOUTH IN THE NEXT SENTENCE HE SAID NOTHINGS OUTTA THE QUESTION.SO WHAT IS IT OBAMA NO TROOPS ON THE GROUND OR TROOPS AND BOMBS.HE WILL TELL US IN A FEW DAYS AFTER HE SHOOTS GOLF IN PALMSPRINGS.
JOHN MCCAIN WANTS THE UNITED STATES TO BE THE AIR FORCE FOR IRAQ.AND WANTS ALL AMERICAN DEFENCE OFFICIALS FIRED AT THE WHITEHOUSE AND WANTS PATRAEUS AS THE ARMY LEADER IN IRAQ AGAIN.STEVE PETCHENICK SEEMS TO LOVE PATRAEUS ALSO.IN THE SPRING THE WHITEHOUSE WAS WARNED THAT ISIS WAS GOING FOR BAGHDAD ALREADY.
Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq contains the tomb of:
First Shia Imam, Ali
Also buried within this mosque according to Shia Islam:
(Adam)
(Noah)
Ali was the cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad. He is considered by Shia tradition to be the first legitimate caliph and the first Imam due to the proclamation given by Muhammad. The site is visited annually by at least 8 million pilgrims on average, which is estimated to increase to 20 million in years to come.Many Shia believe that Ali did not want his grave to be desecrated by his enemies and consequently asked his friends and family to bury him secretly. This secret gravesite is supposed to have been revealed later during the Abbasid Caliphate by Ja'far al-Sadiq, the sixth Shia Imam.Most Shias accept that Ali is buried in the Imam Ali Mosque, in what is now the city of Najaf (which grew around the shrine).It has also been narrated from Ja'far al-Sadiq, the 6th Imam, that the Imam Ali Mosque is the third of five holy places: Mecca, Medina, Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, Imam Husayn Shrine in Karbala.God chose that land [Najaf] as the abode of the Prophets. I swear to God that no one more honourable than the Commander of the Believers [Ali] has ever lived there after (the time of) his purified fathers, Ādam and Nūh.
Imam Husayn Shrine in Karbala, Iraq contains the tombs of:
Hussein ibn Ali, grandson of Muhammad and third Shia Imam
Ali al-Akbar ibn Husayn, son of Husayn
Ali al-Asghar ibn Husayn, son of Husayn
Habib ibn Muzahir
All the martyrs of Karbalā
Ibrāhīm, son of Musa al-Kadhim - seventh - Twelver Shia Imām
The mosque stands on the site of the grave of Hussein ibn Ali, where he was martyred during the Battle of Karbala in 680.Up to a million pilgrims visit the city to observe the Day of Ashura, which marks the anniversary of Hussein ibn Ali's death.There are many Shia traditions which narrate the status of Karbala:Karbalā, where your grandson and his family will be killed, is the most blessed and the most sacred land on Earth and it is one of the valleys of Paradise.God chose the land of Karbalā as a safe and blessed sanctuary twenty-four thousand years before He created the land of the Ka‘bah and chose it as a sanctuary. Verily it [Karbalā] will shine among the gardens of Paradise, like a shining star shines among the stars for the people of Earth.Not one night passes in which Gabriel and Michael do not go to visit him [Husayn].-WIKIPEDIA
Takfiri terrorists of ISIS threaten to attack Karbala, Najaf-on June 12, 2014-SHIA POST
Takfiri terrorists of so-called Islamic State of Syria & Iraq (ISIS) have threatened to attack on the Shia holy cities of Karbala and Najaf, The Shia Post reported.With Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, firmly under its control, the militant group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is threatening the takeover of more cities, including the capital, Baghdad, Karbala and Najaf.“Continue your march as the battle is not yet raging,” ISIS spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani purportedly said in an audio recording posted early Thursday on the group’s media website.“It will rage in Baghdad, Karbala and Najaf. So be ready for it.”Dr Ahab Bdaiwi at St Andrews University has translated recent speech by official ISIS spokesmen Adnani. ISIS said, “Do not concede territory gained to the Shia unless they walk over your dead bodies to retrieve it. March towards Baghdad. The Shiʿa are a disgraced people. God forbid that they become victorious over you. How can they when they are polytheists. Don’t stop until you reach Baghdad and Kerbala. Be prepared! Iraq will transform into a living hell for the Shia and other heretic.”Talking to Prime Minister Maliki Adnani said, “Your people could have reigned supreme over Iraq but you made them lose that opportunity. Even the Shia will curse you now. We will settle our differences not in Samarra or Baghdad but in Kerbala, the filth-ridden city, and in Najaf, the city of polytheists.”“we shall fight them until they accept the truth”"Our aqeedah is saheeh, and Allaah gave us help and victory”“and he raised our imaan and we said hasbunAllaahu wa nim’al wakeel”” the armies and sons of the Islamic State have given their lives for the sake of Allaah and His Messenger”“And they’re not afraid of the cuts from the enemy, nor do their jails change them”
“and they’re not afraid of the fighting and they have been patient due to hunger and they were strong”
“and they were patient in the jails, in the homes under the ground(prisons)
in the desert, mountains valleys ” Years off patience untill Allah granted us this victory. Dawlah is victorious because it’s build on sincere body parts and sprinkled with the pure blood off the shuhada, like the former amir Abu Omar has stated.Allaah granted us victory because we are not based on Haram or a wrong manhaj. The previous leaders and creators from Dawlah were sincere and well known for their goodness. Allah granted victory to Dawlah because it’s well known for it’s unity in the ranks. Allah grants victory to Dawlah because they are winning from Kufr. Dawlah is victorious because they were unjust to her, the prisoners were begging them for help, the orphans were screaming towards them and because the kuffar gathered around them and all off them wanted to destroy Dawlah.Oh helpers from Dawlah, wherever you are, know that this victory is only from Allah and it doesn’t come from your Dawlah, nor your support. Always think about your weaknesses. You can’t change a situation without the power and might Off Allaah.And be humble to Allah and never haughty to his creation. Beware that you won’t praise yourself and show off, because this destroyed the former nations. Don’t be surprised and overwhelmed. by the ghaneemah and don’t think you’ve won the war already. Thank and think off Allah as much as you can and Thank Allah for All the victories.Oh soldiers off Dawlah, be kind to the Sunni Iraqi nation and be kind to the ansaar.Allowing 1000 kaafir escape through a mistake is dearer to us than killing 1 muslim” so be careful and gentle.Get ready oh mujahiddeen an hold on to your pride and fury untill we reach Baghdad and Karba to prepare for our huge battle against the polytheistic shi’a.Through this way I want to announce that Adnaan Ismail Abu Abderrahman al-Biljawie al-Anbarie became a shaheed in sha Allah.
He was one off the first to declare war to UK/USA.He was a wel known ansari who stood by the mujahireen.He was the one who funded “tawhid wal jihad” this is the group, first generation off ISIS who started jihad under shaykh Zarqawi.He was in charge in the beginning off funding ISIS and he was the right hand off Zarqawi. His manhaj and aqeedah was inspired by Zarqawi. He was well known for his courage and when others doubted He was steadfast as a mountain. He was patient. He was a mujahid who fasted on a regular base and filled his nights with prayers. When we were seeking for a real man, we looked at abu Abderrahman his face.Later, it was Qadr Allah that he was arrested. He spent a few years in prison.“and he studied Islam and he became hafidh of 10 qirat, and an alim of all of the Islamic sciences”“and was a student of knowledge and he was soon chosen to become an amir in prison and he was kind”“and he resolved all of the problems between the brothers & was harsh to the kuffar and Allaah freed him at the perfect time for ISIS” 2 years ago.He was there where the shia were burning, he coordinated several from the latest operations in al-Anbar, Naynawa, Salahdine and the latest victories.“with ilm of sharia and what pleases Allaah, and he was good in the battles and he spread the fighting”“and he fought the raafidah and he was like Salahuddeen. Oh Mujahiddeen don’t give in from what we have taken from the shi’a and continue on the path off Abu Abdurrahman. May Allaah have mercy on you O Abu Abdurrahman”“and give you firdaws and place you near the prophets”“O armies of the State. fight upon the path of Abu Abdurrahman and do not go astray”“March to righteous Baghdad, Baghdad of the khilafa and be certain that Allaah will give you victory”.And you’re a fool al-Haaliki, what did u do to your people? And they r foolish that they’ve chosen you! What kind off politics is this? You brought Iraq in danger for them. The shi’a will curse you.Yes! in between you and me there will be justice settled, and it won’t be in Samara nor Baghdad. It will be held in the filthy Karbala ( shirk town) and Najef what you degraded from a capital city into a city off shirk!-Speech ends.
Iraq’s top Shiite cleric issues call to stop ISIL juggernaut
Raheem Salman and Isra Al-Rubei’i | Reuters-Published — Friday 13 June 2014
• ISIL advances into Diyala province near Iran border
• US won’t “rule anything out,” bar troops on the ground
• ISIL taking arms seized from Iraqi army into Syria
• Global oil price surges, insurgents surround biggest refinery
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s most senior Shiite cleric urged his followers to take up arms to defend themselves against a relentless advance by Sunni militants, in a sharp escalation of a conflict which is threatening civil war and the potential break-up of the country.In a rare intervention at Friday prayers in the holy city of Kerbala, a message from Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, who is the highest religious authority for the Shiites in Iraq, said people should unite to fight back against advancing militants from the radical Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).Fighters under the black flag of ISIL captured two more Iraqi towns overnight in a lightning sweep south toward the capital Baghdad in a campaign to recreate a medieval caliphate carved out of fragmenting Iraq and Syria.“People who are capable of carrying arms and fighting the terrorists in defense of their country ... should volunteer to join the security forces to achieve this sacred goal,” said Sheikh Abdulmehdi Al-Karbalai, delivering Sistani’s message to the faithful.Those killed fighting ISIL militants would be martyrs, he said as worshippers chanted in acknowledgement.US President Barack Obama threatened military strikes against ISIL on Thursday, highlighting the gravity of the group’s threat to redraw borders in an oil-rich region.In the spreading chaos, Iraqi Kurdish forces have seized control of Kirkuk, an oil hub just outside their autonomous enclave that they have long seen as their traditional capital.Thrusting further to the southeast after their seizure of the major Iraqi city of Mosul in the far north and the late dictator Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit, ISIL entered two towns in Diyala province bordering Iran.Saadiyah and Jalawla had fallen to the Sunni Muslim fighters after government troops fled their positions, along with several villages around the Himreen mountains that have long been a hideout for militants, security sources said.The Iraqi army fired artillery shells at Saadiyah and Jalawla from the nearby town of Muqdadiya, sending dozens of families fleeing toward Khaniqin near the Iranian border.Obama said on Thursday he was considering “all options” to support Iraq’s Shiite Muslim-dominated central government that took full control when the US occupation ended in 2011, eight years after the invasion that toppled Saddam.“I don’t rule out anything because we do have a stake in making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold in either Iraq or Syria,” Obama said at the White House, when asked whether he was contemplating air strikes.“In our consultations with the Iraqis, there will be some short-term immediate things that need to be done militarily,” he said. A US defense official said the United States had been flying surveillance drones over Iraq to help it fight ISIL.US officials later said that US ground forces would not return to Iraq.
INTERNATIONAL ALARM
But Obama said military action alone was no panacea against ISIL. He alluded to long-standing Western complaints that Shiite Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki has done little to heal sectarian rifts that have left many of Iraq’s minority Sunnis, cut out of power since Saddam’s demise, aggrieved and keen for revenge.“This should be also a wake-up call for the Iraqi government. There has to be a political component to this,” Obama said.US Vice President Joe Biden assured Maliki by telephone that Washington was prepared to intensify and accelerate its security support. The White House had signalled on Wednesday it was looking to strengthen Iraqi forces rather than meet what one US official said were past Iraqi requests for air strikes.But fears of jihadist violence spreading may increase pressure for robust international action. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said international powers “must deal with the situation.”In Mosul, ISIL staged a parade of American Humvee patrol vehicles seized from a collapsing Iraqi army in the two days since its fighters drove out of the desert and overran the city.Giving a hint of their vision of a caliphate, ISIL published Sharia rules for the territory they have carved out in northern Iraq, including a ban on drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and an edict on women to wear only all-covering, shapeless clothing.ISIL militants were reported to have executed soldiers and policemen after their seizure of some towns.On Friday, ISIL said it was giving soldiers and policemen a “chance to repent ... For those asking who we are, we are the soldiers of Islam and have shouldered the responsibility to restore the glory of the Islamic Caliphate.”Residents near the border with Syria, where ISIL has exploited civil war to seize wide tracts of the country’s northeast, saw its militants bull-dozing tracks through frontier sand berms — as a prelude to trying to revive a mediaeval entity straddling both modern states.ISIL has battled rival rebel factions in Syria for months and occasionally taken on President Bashar Assad’s forces.But its fighters appear to have held back in Syria this week, especially in their eastern stronghold near the Iraqi border, while their Iraqi wing was making rapid military gains.
WEAPONS INTO SYRIA
ISIL’s Syria branch is now bringing in weapons seized in Iraq from retreating government forces, according to Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group.Matthew Henman, Head of IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center said in a report that ISIL’s capture of Iraqi territory along the Syrian border will give the group greater freedom of movement of men and material across the two countries.“Light and heavy weaponry, military vehicles, and money seized by ISIL during the capture of Mosul will be moved into desert area of eastern Syria, which ISIL has been using as a staging ground for attacks,” he said.At Baiji, near Kirkuk, ISIL fighters ringed Iraq’s largest refinery, underlining the potential threat to the oil industry.Further south, the fighters extended their advance to towns only about an hour’s drive from Baghdad, where Shiite militia were mobilizing for a potential replay of the ethnic and sectarian bloodbath of 2006 and 2007.Trucks carrying Shiite volunteers in uniform rumbled toward the front lines to defend Baghdad.Security and police sources said Sunni militants now held parts of the town of Udhaim, 90 km (55 miles) north of Baghdad. “We are waiting for reinforcements and we are determined not to let them take control,” said a police officer in Udhaim.“We are afraid that terrorists are seeking to cut the main highway that links Baghdad to the north.”
TARGET BAGHDAD
ISIL and its allies took control of Falluja at the start of the year. It lies just 50 km (30 miles) west of Maliki’s office.ISIL has set up military councils to run the towns they captured, residents said. “’Our final destination will be Baghdad, the decisive battle will be there’ — that’s what their leader kept repeating,” said a regional tribal figure.The senior UN official in Iraq assured the Security Council that Baghdad was in “no immediate danger.” The council offered unanimous support to the government and condemned “terrorism.”As with the concurrent war in Syria, the conflict cuts across global alliances. The United States and Western and Gulf Arab allies back the mainly Sunni revolt against the Iranian-backed Syrian President Assad, but have had to watch as ISIL and other Islamists have come to dominate large parts of Syria.Now the Shiite Islamic Republic of Iran, which in the 1980s fought Saddam for eight years at a time when the Sunni Iraqi leader enjoyed quiet US support, may share an interest with the “Great Satan” Washington in bolstering mutual ally Maliki.The global oil benchmark price has jumped, as concerns mounted that the violence could disrupt supplies from a major OPEC exporter. Iraq’s main oil export facilities are in the largely Shiite areas in the south and were “very, very safe,” Oil Minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi said.The million-strong Iraqi army, trained by the United States at a cost of nearly $25 billion, is hobbled by low morale and corruption. Its effectiveness is hurt by the perception in Sunni areas that it pursues the hostile interests of Shiites.
(Additional reporting by Oliver Holmes in Beirut, Ziad Al-Sinjary in Mosul Isabel Coles in Arbil, and Washington bureau; editing by Janet McBride)
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham's rapid advance southward to Baghdad after taking control of Mosul just three days ago appears to have been halted outside of the gates of Samarra, home to one of the holiest shrines in Shia Islam.Iraqi security forces in Samarra blunted the ISIS' assault from the north late yesterday, stopping an armed convoy from entering the city. The military is said to have deployed aircraft while battling the ISIS vanguard.The Iraqi military's stand in Samarra stands in contrast to its performance in Mosul, Tikrit, Bayji, and other cities and towns taken over by the ISIS. Iraqi forces often surrendered or melted away in these cities, leaving behind weapons, ammunition, and police and military vehicles. Thousands of prisoners have been freed during the ISIS onslaught.The attack on Samarra is the second in a week. On June 5, the ISIS assaulted Samarra from the west, and took control of five neighborhoods before being ejected by the military and police. [See LWJ report, ISIS takes control of areas in central Iraqi city.] Samarra is home to the al Askaria Mosque, one of the most holy shrines in Shia Islam. Al Qaeda in Iraq, the predecessor of the ISIS, bombed the Golden Dome of the al Askaria Mosque in February 2006, sparking massive sectarian fighting between Iraq's Shia and Sunnis.The ISIS has threatened to destroy the mosque if Iraqi forces refuse to withdraw from the city.The Shia-led Iraqi government will likely make a stand at Samarra, given the importance of the mosque. Additionally, there are reports that Shia militias are beginning to organize and deploy forces to protect religious sites.According to The New York Times, "at least four brigades, each with 2,500 to 3,000 fighters, had been hastily assembled and equipped in recent weeks by the Shiite political parties to protect Baghdad and the political process in Iraq. They identified the outfits as the Kataibe Brigade, the Assaib Brigade, the Imam al-Sadr Brigade and the armed wing of the Badr Organization."ISIS takes control of three towns; clashes reported in Taji.As Iraqi forces make their stand in Samarra, the ISIS was able to take control of the towns of Dhuluiyah, Saadiyah, and Jalula to the southwest. ISIS fighters are said to have overran an airbase in Dhuluiyah and captured hundreds of prisoners.Further south, reports from Iraq indicate that the ISIS is conducting raids on towns along the road between Samarra and Baghdad. According to Rudaw, a Kurdish-language news outlet, ISIS fighters have battled Iraqi forces in the town of Taji, which is just north of Bagdad. The outcome of the fighting has not been disclosed.The ISIS may be attempting to interdict the Iraqi military and the Shia militia's attempts to reinforce units holding out in Samarra and other cities and towns along the road north of Baghdad.The ISIS is adept at laying IEDs to decimate military convoys as well as using ambushes with small arms, machine guns, and RPGs to interdict supply columns. The ISIS's control of eastern Anbar province allows it to use the area as a staging ground to launch attacks on Highway 1. Karma, a city in Anbar that is under ISIS control, is just 15 miles due west of Taji.The recent ISIS advances in northern and central Iraq effectively put the terror group in control of nearly a third of the country. The ISIS already controls most of the large western province of Anbar, save the provincial capital of Ramadi and some small pockets.Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/06/isiss_southward_adva.php#ixzz34YaSKxQM
SO NOW BOWE BERGDAHL HAS A QUATER OR SO OF A HOSPITAL IN TEXAS FOR HIM AND HIS DOCTORS.TO CHECK OUT HIS TRUTHS OR LIES.I WONDER WHY BERGDAHL WOULD NEED A QUARTER OF A HOSPITAL TO BE PROTECTED BY.
ONLY A MOVIE STAR-A KING OR QUEEN WOULD HAVE A QUARTER OF A HOSPITAL TURNED OVER TO THEM.OR A SPY CIA AGENT FOR AMERICA TO INFILTRATE THE TALIBAN AND TEACH THEM BOMBING TRICKS SO THE TALIBAN CAN KILL OFF AMERICAN SOLDIERS WITH EXACT TIMING AND FALSE FLAGS STEAL CITIZENS RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS.
I ALSO HEARD THAT BOB BERGDAHL AND HIS WIFE JANE SENT A PICTURE OF THEMSELVES TO BOWE UNDER TALIBAN SO CALLED INTERIGATION WERE BOB WAS ALL DOLLED UP IN HIS MUSLIM BEARD AND JANI HAD A MUSLIM VIEL ON HER HEAD IN THE PICTURE.AND WHY THE PICTURE WAS SENT.TO TRY TO APPEASE THE TALIBAN SO BOWE WOULD BE SO CALLED SET FREE FROM THE TALIBAN.THEY WANTED TO SHOW THAT THEY RESPECT ISLAM AND THEIR MOON GOD-ALLAH.SEX FOR MUDER-72 VIRGIN CULT.
Bergdahl arrives in Texas: Pentagon
By By Jim Forsyth -JUNE 13,14-YahooNews
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who spent five years as a Taliban prisoner of war before being released on May 31, has arrived at an Army medical center in Texas where he will receive further treatment, the Pentagon said on Friday.Rear Admiral John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, said Bergdahl left Ramstein Air Base in Germany aboard a military plane on Thursday afternoon and arrived early on Friday in San Antonio, where he will be cared for at the Brooke Army Medical Center."While there, he will continue the next phase of his reintegration process. There is no timeline for this process. Our focus remains on his health and well-being," Kirby said.The Army command that runs the San Antonio Military Medical Facility on Fort Sam Houston plans to hold a news conference at 3 p.m. local time to discuss how it will treat the soldier.Bergdahl was handed over to U.S. forces in Afghanistan on May 31 in exchange for five Taliban leaders held at Guantanamo prison in Cuba. Bergdahl's initial release sparked a wave of support that was quickly overshadowed by political uproar over the freeing of the senior Taliban members.Lawmakers criticized the Obama administration for failing to give them 30 days' notice before transferring prisoners from Guantanamo as required by law. Some charged that in doing the exchange, the administration had effectively violated its policy against negotiating with terrorists.Some of Bergdahl's former comrades in Afghanistan also voiced anger, alleging that he had deserted when he walked away from his outpost in circumstances that are unclear and was later captured.Kirby said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had expressed confidence the Army will continue to ensure Bergdahl "receives the care, time and space he needs to complete his recovery and reintegration".The military hospital has teams of specialists and has been helping returning prisoners of war for decades.Bergdahl's parents, Bob and Jani Bergdahl, were expected to travel to Texas from their Idaho home, although it was not immediately clear when, or whether they had spoken with Bowe.In a statement released on behalf of the family, the Bergdahls said they do not intend to make their travel plans public."They ask for continued privacy as they concentrate on their son's reintegration," the statement said.(Additional reporting by David Alexander in Washington; Writing by Eric M. Johnson and Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Catherine Evans and Susan Heavey)
TO ME THIS IRAQ SITUATION IS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE BERGDAHL SWAP FOR 5 + 5 MUSLIM MURDERS.THE TALIBAN AND AL-QUIDA KNOW NOW THEY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITY.AND IF ANYBODY TRYS ANYTHING AGAINST THESE ISLAMIC MURDERERS.THEY WILL JUST CAPTURE SOLDIERS AND GET AT LEAST 10 FOR 1 MURDERERS FREED.OBAMA AND HAGEL CLAIMES NO SOLDIER WILL BE LEFT BEHIND.AND THESE ISLAMIC GROUPS GET FREE WEAPONS AND MONEY FROM THE WEST TO OVERTAKE OTHER MUSLIM COUNTRIES AND KILL OFF AMERICAN SOLDIERS.WHAT MORE COULD ARAB -MUSLIM MURDERERS WANT.OBAMA HANDS THEM ON A PLATE EVERYTHING THEY NEED TO OVER RUN ANY OTHER MUSLIM COUNTRY.AND KILL AMERICAN SOLDIERS AS WELL.OBAMA IS DEFINATELY HELPING ISLAM CONQUER THE WHOLE WORLD AND GIVE ISLAM WORLD DOMINATION.
US Quietly Releases More Military Prisoners in Afghanistan-Non-Afghan prisoners released with little fanfare in apparent bid to tone down 'the war on terror.' But why the secrecy? By Tova Dvorin-First Publish: 6/13/2014, 2:59 PM-IsraelNationalNewsThe Obama administration has quietly returned a dozen detainees from a small US military prison in Afghanistan, defense officials stated Thursday night, in another controversial prisoner release set to tone down the US's war on terror.US President Barack Obama, in a letter to Congress released on Thursday, informed U.S. lawmakers that about 38 non-Afghan prisoners remained at the Parwan detention center outside of Kabul, down from around 50 a few months ago.A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity told Reuters that a Frenchman, a Kuwaiti and ten Pakistani prisoners were sent back to their respective home countries at the end of May.According to the official, the remaining detainees include Yemeni, Tunisian and other Pakistani nationals.The news surfaces on the heels of the controversial return home of US soldier and longtime captive Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who was traded for five top Taliban terrorists last month. Critics have said that, in making the trade quiet trade for Bergdahl, the administration violated the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, which requires a 30-day warning before releasing terrorists from the compound - charges that US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel denied. Hagel also made a number of remarks indicating that the terrorists' release - which the Taliban called "a victory," sparking the desire to kidnap more soldiers - was necessary to save Bergdahl's life, indicating an "ends justify the means" approach.
ISIS Becomes The 'World's Richest Terrorist Group'-Islamist terror group grabs $425 million in cash from Mosul bank, making it rich as several small nations. Iraqi soldier: 'we can't win.'-By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 6/13/2014, 2:58 PM-IsraelNationalNews
The Al Qaeda offshoot the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) has conquered great sections of Iraq since capturing Mosul on Tuesday, going on to expand its control southward over several other cities, with its sights set on Baghdad.In the process of seizing the oil hub of Mosul, the Islamists made off with not only various American military equipment, but also an enormous amount of cash from the city's central bank.Atheel al-Nujaifi, governer of the Nineveh province where Mosul is located, reported that ISIS pocketed 500 billion Iraqi dinars ($425 million) from the bank, according to International Business Times, which labeled ISIS the "world's richest terror force."Al-Nujaifi added that a "large quantity of gold bullion" was also seized, in addition to large quantities of cash from banks all across the second-largest city in Iraq.The amount seized by ISIS puts its holdings on par with those of small nations such as Tonga, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and the Falkland Islands.Indeed, according to the website Money Jihad, which uses journalistic and academic sources to estimate the wealth of various terrorist organizations, ISIS is now the wealthiest such group in the world.The Washington Post referenced the site, noting that the Taliban reportedly had between $70-400 million at one-point, with Hezbollah boasting between $200-500 million. Al Qaeda, which ISIS broke off from, had a mere $30 million budget at the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to the US Council on Foreign Relations.
"We can't beat them"
US-trained Iraqi army forces have proven unable and unwilling to confront ISIS, turning tail and leaving their equipment for spoils according to reports. In its desperation, Iraq has called for civilians to volunteer to fight ISIS, offering to arm them.One Iraqi army officer told The Independent "we can't beat them. They're trained in street fighting and we're not. We need a whole army to drive them out of Mosul. They're like ghosts; they appear to hit and disappear within seconds."Israeli experts suggest that the extended reach of ISIS, which also threatens Jordan with its aims of a massive regional state under Islamic law, could also pose a serious threat to the Jewish state.
Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric issues call to fight rebels
By Raheem Salman and Isra al-Rubei'i-june 13,14-YAHOOnEWS
Baghdad, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's most senior Shi'ite cleric urged his followers to take up arms to defend themselves against a relentless advance by Sunni militants, in a sharp escalation of a conflict which is threatening civil war and the potential break-up of the country.In a rare intervention at Friday prayers in the holy city of Kerbala, a message from Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who is the highest religious authority for the Shi'ites in Iraq, said people should unite to fight back against advancing militants from the radical Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.Fighters under the black flag of ISIL captured two more Iraqi towns overnight in a lightning sweep south towards the capital Baghdad in a campaign to recreate a mediaeval caliphate carved out of fragmenting Iraq and Syria."People who are capable of carrying arms and fighting the terrorists in defense of their country ... should volunteer to join the security forces to achieve this sacred goal," said Sheikh Abdulmehdi al-Karbalai, delivering Sistani's message to the faithful.Those killed fighting ISIL militants would be martyrs, he said as worshippers chanted in acknowledgement.U.S. President Barack Obama threatened military strikes against ISIL on Thursday, highlighting the gravity of the group's threat to redraw borders in an oil-rich region.In the spreading chaos, Iraqi Kurdish forces have seized control of Kirkuk, an oil hub just outside their autonomous enclave that they have long seen as their traditional capital.Thrusting further to the southeast after their seizure of the major Iraqi city of Mosul in the far north and the late dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, ISIL entered two towns in Diyala province bordering Iran.Saadiyah and Jalawla had fallen to the Sunni Muslim insurgents after government troops fled their positions, along with several villages around the Himreen mountains that have long been a hideout for militants, security sources said.The Iraqi army fired artillery shells at Saadiyah and Jalawla from the nearby town of Muqdadiya, sending dozens of families fleeing towards Khaniqin near the Iranian border.Obama said on Thursday he was considering "all options" to support Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim-dominated central government that took full control when the U.S. occupation ended in 2011, eight years after the invasion that toppled Saddam."I don’t rule out anything because we do have a stake in making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold in either Iraq or Syria," Obama said at the White House, when asked whether he was contemplating air strikes."In our consultations with the Iraqis, there will be some short-term immediate things that need to be done militarily," he said. A U.S. defense official said the United States had been flying surveillance drones over Iraq to help it fight ISIL.U.S. officials later said that U.S. ground forces would not return to Iraq.
INTERNATIONAL ALARM
But Obama said military action alone was no panacea against ISIL. He alluded to long-standing Western complaints that Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has done little to heal sectarian rifts that have left many of Iraq's minority Sunnis, cut out of power since Saddam's demise, aggrieved and keen for revenge."This should be also a wake-up call for the Iraqi government. There has to be a political component to this," Obama said.U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assured Maliki by telephone that Washington was prepared to intensify and accelerate its security support. The White House had signaled on Wednesday it was looking to strengthen Iraqi forces rather than meet what one U.S. official said were past Iraqi requests for air strikes.But fears of jihadist violence spreading may increase pressure for robust international action. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said international powers "must deal with the situation".In Mosul, ISIL staged a parade of American Humvee patrol vehicles seized from a collapsing Iraqi army in the two days since its fighters drove out of the desert and overran the city.Giving a hint of their vision of a caliphate, ISIL published Sharia rules for the territory they have carved out in northern Iraq, including a ban on drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and an edict on women to wear only all-covering, shapeless clothing.ISIL militants were reported to have executed soldiers and policemen after their seizure of some towns.On Friday, ISIL said it was giving soldiers and policemen a "chance to repent ... For those asking who we are, we are the soldiers of Islam and have shouldered the responsibility to restore the glory of the Islamic Caliphate”.Residents near the border with Syria, where ISIL has exploited civil war to seize wide tracts of the country's northeast, saw its militants bull-dozing tracks through frontier sand berms - as a prelude to trying to revive a mediaeval entity straddling both modern states.ISIL has battled rival rebel factions in Syria for months and occasionally taken on President Bashar al-Assad's forces.But its fighters appear to have held back in Syria this week, especially in their eastern stronghold near the Iraqi border, while their Iraqi wing was making rapid military gains.
WEAPONS INTO SYRIA
ISIL's Syria branch is now bringing in weapons seized in Iraq from retreating government forces, according to Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group.
Matthew Henman, Head of IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Centre said in a report that ISIL's capture of Iraqi territory along the Syrian border will give the group greater freedom of movement of men and material across the two countries."Light and heavy weaponry, military vehicles, and money seized by ISIL during the capture of Mosul will be moved into desert area of eastern Syria, which ISIL has been using as a staging ground for attacks," he said.At Baiji, near Kirkuk, ISIL fighters ringed Iraq's largest refinery, underlining the potential threat to the oil industry.Further south, the fighters extended their advance to towns only about an hour's drive from Baghdad, where Shi'ite militia were mobilizing for a potential replay of the ethnic and sectarian bloodbath of 2006 and 2007.Trucks carrying Shi'ite volunteers in uniform rumbled towards the front lines to defend Baghdad.Security and police sources said Sunni militants now held parts of the town of Udhaim, 90 km (55 miles) north of Baghdad. "We are waiting for reinforcements and we are determined not to let them take control," said a police officer in Udhaim."We are afraid that terrorists are seeking to cut the main highway that links Baghdad to the north."
TARGET BAGHDAD
ISIL and its allies took control of Falluja at the start of the year. It lies just 50 km (30 miles) west of Maliki's office.ISIL has set up military councils to run the towns they captured, residents said. “'Our final destination will be Baghdad, the decisive battle will be there' - that’s what their leader kept repeating," said a regional tribal figure.The senior U.N. official in Iraq assured the Security Council that Baghdad was in "no immediate danger". The council offered unanimous support to the government and condemned "terrorism".As with the concurrent war in Syria, the conflict cuts across global alliances. The United States and Western and Gulf Arab allies back the mainly Sunni revolt against the Iranian-backed Syrian President Assad, but have had to watch as ISIL and other Islamists have come to dominate large parts of Syria.Now the Shi'ite Islamic Republic of Iran, which in the 1980s fought Saddam for eight years at a time when the Sunni Iraqi leader enjoyed quiet U.S. support, may share an interest with the "Great Satan" Washington in bolstering mutual ally Maliki.
The global oil benchmark price has jumped, as concerns mounted that the violence could disrupt supplies from a major OPEC exporter. Iraq's main oil export facilities are in the largely Shi'ite areas in the south and were "very, very safe", Oil Minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi said.The million-strong Iraqi army, trained by the United States at a cost of nearly $25 billion, is hobbled by low morale and corruption. Its effectiveness is hurt by the perception in Sunni areas that it pursues the hostile interests of Shi'ites.(Additional reporting by Oliver Holmes in Beirut, Ziad al-Sinjary in Mosul Isabel Coles in Arbil, and Washington bureau; editing by Janet McBride; Writing by Mark Heinrich, editing by Peter Millership)
