The forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have seized yet another city in northwestern Iraq today, this time overrunning the ethnic Turkomen city of Tal Afar, just west of Mosul.
City officials reported “many people were killed” on both sides and that the city’s Shi’ite families have fled the area. Despite a fierce defense, ISIS eventually overran the city, one of the last parts of Nineveh Province they didn’t control.
Turkey’s Deputy Foreign Minister Naci Koru said the loss of the city was taken very seriously by his government, because of the historic ties between the Turkish people and the Iraqi Turkomen.
ISIS has been grabbing cities left and right over the past week in Iraq, and while Tal Afar is far from the largest, it reflects the strategy of the group, formerly known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), in trying to consolidate broad swathes of territory for what they envision as an eventual Sunni caliphate in former territory of Iraq and Syria.
Why do they not openly claim what type of new map in the region they want to install? It seem s to be theater to cover the long targeted plans of a new map of Iraq and the region around. See http://www.voltairenet.org/article184301.html
It is a German version. However – the map and a machine translation may be OK.
That is the roadmap for the Grand Plan, alright. My question is why is the US "rushing" all of these offensives in their long term plan (Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine!?). Is Obama trying to get destabilize everything as soon as possible? Why the rush?
These guys must have a reincarnation of Erwin Rommel in their ranks.