ISIS infiltrators, wearing police uniforms and driving a police vehicle, infiltrated the Iraqi city of Tikrit overnight, carrying out attacks against a security checkpoint and the home of a police colonel, killing at least 31 people and wounding 42 others, according to hospital officials.
The attackers killed the police colonel and four members of his family in their attack on his home, and overall officials say 14 police were among the slain. Two of the five attackers were surrounded by police at one point and detonated suicide vests in the crowd. The other gunmen were killed in separate clashes.
Though officials have suggested that was likely all of the attackers, they also placed the city under curfew, and locals reported sporadic gunfire well into the morning. ISIS has yet to issue a statement claiming responsibility, though they have attacked Tikrit before.
Such attacks are likely to become more common as ISIS, which once held most of western Iraq, returns to a mostly landless insurgency using more traditional terrorist tactics. The capture of Tikrit by Iraqi forces was one of the first major operations against ISIS in the recent recovery of territory from them.
How convenient for a continued Iraqi presence for the Empire.
Absolutely. If ISIS didn’t exist they’d have to invent it.
…. oh wait.
Yup, help create the problem so we have to solve it – or better yet drive it across the border into a neighboring country where it will turn into a new conflict that demands action!
That Hegelian dialectic guy must be spinning in his grave.
Eventually they’ll creep back in, re-take Tikrit when Iraqi troop numbers are scaled back, then there’ll be another big offensive to drive them out all over again, and so the cycle will keep repeating like it has in Afghanistan for the past 15 years!
Trump’s change in the ‘rules of engagement’ and his way of ‘making America great again’ by military means.
There was only a short delay on getting the Syria situation going but it’s well on it’s way now to showing the desired results. The illusion of Obama’s red line being crossed again has been sold well, both earlier in 2013 and now. Hardly any American is going to believe that Obama and Putin succeeded on convincing Assad.
And of course, this paves the way for Trump to do Iran, as he’s pretty well promised even before he was elected.
How will Raimondo spin this in favour of Trump? He’s left with pretty well nothing but saying that the establishment has forced Trump, blah, blah, blah.
Show us the way Justin! LOL