BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security officials say an army helicopter has been shot during clashes with Islamic militants west of Baghdad.
They said the helicopter’s two-man crew was killed when their aircraft was shot down Monday near the city of Fallujah in Anbar province. Fallujah has been under the control of Sunni militants since January.
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Let’s make sure and thank George W. “let’s disband the Iraqi army” Bush
Consensus, the Maliki government left the opposition abandoned for the better part now (with US help) of a decade.
Those provincial grievances were open to influence by outside forces, that ISIS is made up of trainers, operatives, they embolden local factious sympathizers to take up the insurgency.
Iran is sending their own troops to champion the fight as seen through the centuries old conflict between Black hat and White hat mullah guided factions.
Better living through bloggers: “The ongoing vicious fighting in Iraq is often characterized as a battle between the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and the Iraqi government. Many people think of that as simply being a proxy war between Iraq’s Sunni Muslim minority and Shia majority. But it’s much, much more complicated than that. There are Sunnis on both sides of the conflict, and some who are neutral. There are multiple insurgent groups that aren’t ISIS. And the Kurds— non-Arab Sunni Muslims who have a semi-autonomous state in northeast Iraq — have a totally unique role in the ongoing fighting, and may actually be benefiting from it.”
Isn’t Fallujah the same city the US Military spent years going door-to-door.kicking in all the doors and then killing everyone they didn’t like? And we wonder why they all hate Americans?
Will take at least four generations, but better plan on ten, of them never seeing another American to forget the evils America has done to Iraq.
We will never learn.
In other words its an f’ng mess and we need to stay the hell out of it. There is nothing we can do.
Thank you Cheney/Bush administration and the neocons of this GOP, I am sure the families of the two dead want to thank you also.
The forces of evil from your directions continue.