Insurgents in Iraq overrun Mosul provincial government place

[Anthea]

I think that Maliki and Bagdad have completely failed and that is the collapse of Iraq. Now government asked to all iraqi to take weapons and to fight : good idea, a big blood bath where everybody won't be able to discern ISIS and civilians…

KRG controls the North of Mosul and some parts of Sinjar. It would be good if they could seize completely Sinjar. ISIS speaker stated to Rudaw that they won't not attack KRG… Probably because they know that it would be a hard task to win.

I have friends out there

They tried to tell me what was happening but their English was very poor - I asked them to send me emails in Arabic or Kurdish and I have not heard anything from them recently

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Erbil, Kurdistan (KRG.org) – Following the developments in the city of Mosul due to the Iraqi Security Force’s inability to maintain security in the city, KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani has issued the following statement.

“Unfortunately, due to the failure of the Iraqi Security Forces to protect the people and the city of Mosul, the militant group referred to as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) controls the city of Mosul. This has caused widespread fear. The people of Mosul fear for their lives because of attacks and the lack of food and services, and they are leaving their city.

“Over the last two days we tried extremely hard to establish cooperation with the Iraqi Security Forces in order to protect the city of Mosul. Tragically, Baghdad adopted a position which has prevented the establishment of this cooperation.

“In order to assist and support the displaced people of the city of Mosul, including all of the city's different ethnic groups – Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen, Chaldeans and Assyrians – I ask the people of the Kurdistan Region to help the displaced people of Mosul in whatever way they can within the framework of legal and security guidelines. I also urge the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to provide relief and support for the displaced people fleeing the violence in Mosul.

“In the meantime, we reassure the people living in the areas of Kurdistan outside KRG administration that Kurdish Security Forces and Peshmerga are ready, as always, to handle the security situation in these areas.”

– Nechirvan Barzani

Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region

10 June 2014

Well done, Iraq.

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Peshmarg announced freeing Rabi'a from ISIS after heavy clashes and securing Kurdistan. If Rabi'a is free, Sinjar can breathe. So it seems that Peshmergas are ready to fight in the aim to control and protect Kurdish regions out of KRG.

Kirkuk asked to Peshmergas to deploy in the province. If Iraqi army flees from Kirkuk, as in 2003, not sure that Kurds will let it enter again, this time.

[KabirKuhi]

If anyone is really interested in the truth - the Kurdish population of Mosul is thought to be approximately 20% - 25%

I refuse to argue with uninformed idiots

http://books.google.se/books?id=58emAgA ... cs&f=false

this statistic is from NGO in 1995, I don't know if it's reliable or not, and it says 18% . It might and might not be. Even if it was 20-25%, mosul kurds will not be able to stay in an openly hostile province where they're not a considerable majority, it's better if they concentrate on one region of mosul province and cordon it off from the rest of Mosul. Kurds won't be able to live in peace with an arab majority in the city. Atleast not if the city is infiltrated by Sunni extremists. Anyway I doubt the nouri al maliki is deliberately holding back, because he's waiting for ISIS to ethnically cleanse kurds. The iraqi army is so incompetent, that it can't protect even baghdad from explosions and ISIS infiltration. I've been to both baghdad and arbil, and arbil security is way more strict and thorough, than baghdad security. In baghdad I heard two explosions go off. The army of iraq itself is so incompetent and corrupt, that they allowed an english buisness man to sell millions in worth of golf equipment which he lied about and said was bomb detecting devices. Literally the general responsible for security and intelligence, was in on the fraud. So I doubt it's about maliki holding back, he was actually stepping up operations a few weeks, which resulted in lots of them being killed. But the iraqi army has some serious structural and logistic issues. It's much better if peshmerga handles security, at least in Kurdish parts of Mosul.

By the way, the only idiot here is you, a low-life racist, pretending to be "humanitarian".

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Check-point in West Erbil.




ISIS State in Syria and Iraq.

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YPG ready to joint Peshmergas ? will they accept that Syrian Peshmergas also enter in Rojava at last ? I don't believe. But according to Rudaw correspondent Peshmergas from KRG and YPG held a meeting in Rabia border crossing to better coordinate in countering ISIS. So they can secure Iraqi borders.

In Kirkuk, ISIS controls Abasi and Zab sub-districts in province as clashes continue in outskirts of Rashad. We could expect a serious deployment of Peshmergas in the province.

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I hate to bring the past , but Atheel Alnajafi's promised Mosul citizens that he will not allow a Kurd to enter the city without VISA if he is elected and he also promised to kick all the peshmergas out of the city which he did also . The peshmergas were replaced by the brave iraqi army who does not give a crap about the citizens and the terrorists started roaming free in the city under the watchful( Less ) of the army .

I spend a couple of weeks with family in Mosul last summer and I can tell you that there were more iSIS EMIRS in the city than the entire history of emirs in the region combined . 90% of them are the old Baathist scums with beards as the new fashion .They are well funded financially and logistically and Mosul has been under their control for a while now , just not openly .

As far as I know kurds have no claim on mosul city itself and there are very few kurds left in mosul .If you are traveling from Dohuk to Mosul you will notice that Peshmerga's Check points and Kurdistan's flags Stops 10 KM outside Telkeef and that i believe will be the boarder of Kurdistan

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Just got a call from Mosul , Daash forces have entered Hay Al Arabi , Rashidiya , Quba and shirixan which are the last outskirt suburbs of the city if you are going north . Mosul officially is totally under their control .

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Kurdish security forces arrest 8 members of ISIS in Duhok who were among refugees wanting to enter Kurdistan Region. That is the main danger : infiltration.



A Special award from these 2 Iraqi commanders in Mosul : one ran away, the other hides somewhere.

Bad news from Kirkuk : ISIS controlled Hawija. In Kirkuk they have begun to transfer dangerous prisoners from Kirkuk to Silêmanî.

Concerning Qaraqosh, 25 000 Christians are surrendered by EIIL, they have to feel like sheep the day of Eid el Kebîr.

[Anthea]

Large amount of the military equipment that ISIS gained in and around Musel, arrived to Syria to support their front-lines.

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Tragic , people are leaving by thousands towards Kurdistan

[KabirKuhi]

Kurdish security forces arrest 8 members of ISIS in Duhok who were among refugees wanting to enter Kurdistan Region. That is the main danger : infiltration.



A Special award from these 2 Iraqi commanders in Mosul : one ran away, the other hides somewhere.

Bad news from Kirkuk : ISIS controlled Hawija. In Kirkuk they have begun to transfer dangerous prisoners from Kirkuk to Silêmanî.

Concerning Qaraqosh, 25 000 Christians are surrendered by EIIL, they have to feel like sheep the day of Eid el Kebîr.

Wtf is wrong with these cowards? ISIS can't be more than a brigade strength of 10 000, there are nearly half a million iraqi soldiers. They can't fight this tiny rag-tag bunch of terrorists? How much are they willing to give up, before they realize there is nowhere to run?

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That's the same commanders who swore they could reach Erbil and crush KRG in 24 h

US praises KRG assistance to IDPs from Mosul. It would be good if they remember that, the next time that Bagdad will threaten Erbil.

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No clear news from Sinjar. Some people say they are surrounded, others that peshmergas are there.

[Anthea]

BBC News Middle East

Iraq crisis: Islamists force 150,000 to flee Mosul

More than 150,000 people have been forced to flee Iraq's second city of Mosul after Islamist militants effectively took control of it.

Troops were among those fleeing as hundreds of jihadists from the ISIS group overran it and much of the surrounding province of Nineveh.

Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki responded by asking parliament to declare a state of emergency to grant him greater powers.

The US said the development showed ISIS is a threat to the entire region.

US State department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the situation in Mosul was "extremely serious" and that the US supported "a strong, co-ordinated response to push back against this aggression".

A spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was "gravely concerned" at the situation.

He encouraged the Iraqi government and the Kurdish regional government to cooperate in restoring security to region.

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