Iraq urges U.S. to send ground troops as ISIS jihadists close in on Baghdad
Iraqi officials issued a desperate plea Saturday night for America to provide ground troops, as heavily armed ISIS jihadists came within striking distance of Baghdad.
Amid reports that Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham forces have advanced as far as Abu Ghraib, a town that is effectively a suburb of Baghdad, a senior local governor claimed that up to 10,000 fighters from the movement were now poised to assault the capital.
The warning came from Sabah Al-Karhout, the president of the provisional council of Anbar Province, the vast desert region to the west of Baghdad that has now largely fallen under ISIS control.
The province’s two main cities, Fallujah and Ramadi, were once known as “the graveyard of the Americans,” and the idea of returning there will not be welcomed by the Pentagon. But were the province to fall completely into militant hands, it would give ISIS a perfect springboard from which to mount an all-out assault on Baghdad, where a team of about 1,500 U.S. troops is already acting as mentors to the beleaguered Iraqi army.
Iraqi government officials claim that while international attention has been focused in recent weeks on the Syrian town of Kobane on the Turkish border – where Kurdish fighters are still battling to keep advancing ISIS gunmen at bay – Anbar province has been on the verge of collapse.
“I think it’s fragile there now,” said one senior US defence official, speaking to AFP.
“They are being resupplied and they’re holding their own, but it’s tough and challenging.”
Most of the Euphrates valley – which runs south east from Turkey through Syria, into Iraq and towards the capital – is now under ISIS control. Were Ramadi to fall, jihadi commanders would control a vital supply chain running from Baghdad directly back to their Syrian headquarters in Raqqa. They would also control the Haditha dam, the second largest in Iraq.
“It’s not a good situation,” admitted one U.S. official.
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Well, let me put it this way, THERE IS A LOT MORE AT STAKE, IF IRAQ DOES FALL, THAN MAY INITIALLY APPEAR OBVIOUS!
If I can give you a hint, there is a lot more going on, than the obvious tussle, supposedly between a "small terrorist (supposedly religious) organization" and a coalition of the largest Global Economic powers!
Let me give you A BIG HINT -
IT'S ALL ABOUT POWER AND THE POWER THAT COMES FROM ENERGY, OIL THAT IS, BLACK GOLD!
What happens, to Iraq's Oil Production, IF Iraq falls to ISIL & for that matter, what happens to the Oil Production from those who back ISL?
According the the following article -http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/08/08/374537/americas-biggest-allies-funding-...The United States’ biggest 'allies' are funding ISIL
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including -
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Turkey
Qatar
So, IF Iraq does fall, does the US & it's Allies, in Europe, Australia & elsewhere, invoke a ban on Iraqi Oil?
AND, because of their backing of ISIL, does the US & it's Allies, in Europe, Australia & elsewhere, invoke a ban on Oil from each country associated with backing ISIL?
If Iraqi Oil is banned or ISIL removed its Oil from sale, then there would be substantial, with Oil Prices spiking, Global Economic Growth taking a substantial hit, at a very inopportune moment, with Europe & the US both already teetering on the edge of GFC Mark2!
IF Oil Supply were to be banned, from Iraq AND all of the ISIL backers, then the safest bet would simply be to say, ALL BETS ARE OFF, AS THE GLOBAL ECONOMY WOULD VIRTUALLY SHUT DOWN!
So, like it or not, what is going on in the Middle East, isn't just important, it's absolutely vital!!!
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