Possible US Airstrikes on ISIS in Iraq

Cohete Rojo · May 22, 2015

Oh no you didn't.

Suicide bomber kills 21 at Saudi Shi'ite mosque, Islamic State claims attack

A suicide bomber killed 21 worshippers on Friday in a packed Shi'ite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia, residents and the health minister said, the first attack in the kingdom to be claimed by Islamic State militants.

It was one of the deadliest assaults in recent years in the largest Gulf Arab country, where sectarian tensions have been frayed by nearly two months of Saudi-led air strikes on Shi'ite Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen.

More than 150 people were praying when the huge explosion ripped through the Imam Ali mosque in the village of al-Qadeeh, witnesses said.

A video posted online showed a hall filled with smoke and dust, with bloodied people moaning with pain as they lay on the floor littered with concrete and glass. More than 90 people were wounded, the Saudi health minister told state television.

"We were doing the first part of the prayers when we heard the blast," worshipper Kamal Jaafar Hassan told Reuters by phone from the scene.

Islamic State said in a statement that one of its suicide bombers, identified as Abu 'Ammar al-Najdi, carried out the attack using an explosives-laden belt that killed or wounded 250 people, U.S.-based monitoring group SITE said on its Twitter account. It said it would not rest until Shi'ites, which the group views as heretics, were driven from the Arabian peninsula.

Saudi officials have said the group is trying hard to attack the kingdom, which as the world's top oil exporter, birthplace of Islam and champion of conservative Sunni doctrine, represents an important ally for Western countries battling Islamic State and a symbolic target for the militant group itself.

In November the Sunni group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called for attacks against the Sunni rulers of Saudi Arabia, which has declared Islamic State a terrorist organization, joined international air strikes against it, and mobilized top clergy to denounce it.
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Commodore · May 23, 2015

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bigtexxx · May 23, 2015

Commodore said: ↑

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What an out of touch dunce

TheresTheDagger · May 23, 2015

Don't go back to Iraq.

I'm a conservative voice saying this. I say this because as it turns out, the jihadi's are right. The United States as a country and people don't have the stomach for it. And as long as that is the case, we will never be able to do what needs to be done to REALLY finish this war. We certainly COULD do it if we were committed to it....but we aren't and probably never will be.

So don't go back. I mean, if the people that live there don't have the stomach and will to fight for their own homeland, we sure as hell shouldn't do it for them.

CometsWin · May 23, 2015

TheresTheDagger said: ↑

Don't go back to Iraq.

I'm a conservative voice saying this. I say this because as it turns out, the jihadi's are right. The United States as a country and people don't have the stomach for it. And as long as that is the case, we will never be able to do what needs to be done to REALLY finish this war. We certainly COULD do it if we were committed to it....but we aren't and probably never will be.

So don't go back. I mean, if the people that live there don't have the stomach and will to fight for their own homeland, we sure as hell shouldn't do it for them.
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What does finishing the war look like exactly? Just curious.

I find the status quo just fine. The Iranians, Iraqis, and Saudis are all fighting against ISIS and no American troops are getting killed. Sounds good to me. This whole thing that we need to get involved is just dumb. Let them figure it out. It's their land and ultimately their problem.

TheresTheDagger · May 23, 2015

CometsWin said: ↑

What does finishing the war look like exactly? Just curious.

I find the status quo just fine. The Iranians, Iraqis, and Saudis are all fighting against ISIS and no American troops are getting killed. Sounds good to me. This whole thing that we need to get involved is just dumb. Let them figure it out. It's their land and ultimately their problem.
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Finishing it would be Total War...akin to what happened in WWII. And then keeping a presence there for decades afterwords...also like we did in WWII.

Keep in mind, I'm not advocating this. Just saying what it would take to "finish" this once and for all.

GladiatoRowdy · May 24, 2015

bigtexxx said: ↑

What an out of touch dunce
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Yes, you and Commodore certainly seem to be both out of touch and worthy of wearing the conical cap.

Commodore · Jun 6, 2015

http://news.investors.com/ibd-edito...ll-fears-is-a-nuclear-armed-islamic-state.htm

In the latest edition of its propaganda rag, the Islamic State says it has enough cash to buy a nuclear weapon from Pakistan and smuggle it into the U.S. through Mexico. This is the sum of all fears, and it’s not overblown. . . .

A Rand Corp. study says IS has more than $2 billion in assets from seized oil fields and refineries, kidnap ransoms and taxation. The think tank figures the terror group now controls fields with a production capacity of more than 150,000 barrels a day. It smuggles this oil out in tanker trucks and sells it at steeply discounted rates to buyers in Syria, Turkey, Kurdistan and elsewhere.

Despite falling world oil prices that have slowed IS’ energy revenues to about $2 million a week, the terror group is still raking in more than $1 million a day in extortion and taxes alone. IS has also stolen some $500 million from state-owned banks in Iraq.

This is far more cash than al-Qaida had access to before 9/11. And IS is more ambitious — and fanatical enough to actually detonate a nuke inside a U.S. city. . . . Indeed, IS’ magazine boasts that IS is “looking to do something big, something that would make any past operation look like a squirrel shoot.”
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robbie380 · Jun 6, 2015

Commodore said: ↑

http://news.investors.com/ibd-edito...ll-fears-is-a-nuclear-armed-islamic-state.htm
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I love fictional fear mongering stories.

Cohete Rojo · Jun 6, 2015

I'm more worried about the cartel wars spilling over into the US.

Northside Storm · Jun 6, 2015

Cohete Rojo said: ↑

I'm more worried about the cartel wars spilling over into the US.
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you forgot that the cartels were allying with ISIS to bring drugs and destruction

bigtexxx · Jun 6, 2015

Why isn't the US taking out ISIS' oil production and pipelines? Cut off their funding

mr. 13 in 33 · Jun 6, 2015

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">ISIS seizes another town in Libya <a href="http://t.co/TP2shymuCf">http://t.co/TP2shymuCf</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng">@AlArabiya_Eng</a></p>— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/607378873332985856">June 7, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Kerry: ISIS "is no more a state than I am a helicopter" <a href="http://t.co/QrIkkZYz2y">http://t.co/QrIkkZYz2y</a> <a href="http://t.co/vLXOrxu5jy">pic.twitter.com/vLXOrxu5jy</a></p>— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/607369411708583936">June 7, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Yep, there was no ISIS started & growing in Iraq under Bush-Cheney....Oh, wait: <a href="http://t.co/iOjszxVjFD">http://t.co/iOjszxVjFD</a></p>— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/606507379337904128">June 4, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Commodore · Jun 8, 2015

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Obama?src=hash">#Obama</a> keeps back turned to Iraqi PM trying to get a word in with him - CBS <a href="http://t.co/sVD4KiPREu">pic.twitter.com/sVD4KiPREu</a></p>— Zaid Benjamin (@zaidbenjamin) <a href="https://twitter.com/zaidbenjamin/status/608000382233640960">June 8, 2015</a></blockquote>
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