Obama Has Al Qaeda "On the Run"
Al Qaeda-inspired militants in Iraq vowed Thursday to march against Baghdad after seizing two key northern cities, sparking fear among residents in the capital who rushed to stores to buy up goods. In Baghdad, hundreds of young men surrounded an army recruiting center after authorities issued calls for help in the fight against the ISIS, The Guardian reports.
The group – under its former name of Al Qaeda in Iraq -- was classified as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department in 2004.
Meanwhile, in Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul – which the ISIS captured much of on Tuesday – militants paraded American Humvees seized from Iraqi forces who evacuated the area, according to Reuters. Witnesses told Reuters that helicopters captured by the ISIS also flew overhead, apparently the first time the group has obtained aircraft in years of fighting.
The militants have gained entry to the Turkish Consulate in Mosul and are holding captive 48 people, including diplomats, police, consulate employees and three children, according to an official in the office of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
On Wednesday, militants also took Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit. As in Mosul, the Sunni militants were able to move in after police and military forces melted away following relatively brief clashes, yielding ground once controlled by U.S. forces.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/0...vows-march-on-baghdad-after-seizing-northern/
Al Qaeda-inspired militants in Iraq vowed Thursday to march against Baghdad after seizing two key northern cities, sparking fear among residents in the capital who rushed to stores to buy up goods. In Baghdad, hundreds of young men surrounded an army recruiting center after authorities issued calls for help in the fight against the ISIS, The Guardian reports.
The group – under its former name of Al Qaeda in Iraq -- was classified as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department in 2004.
Meanwhile, in Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul – which the ISIS captured much of on Tuesday – militants paraded American Humvees seized from Iraqi forces who evacuated the area, according to Reuters. Witnesses told Reuters that helicopters captured by the ISIS also flew overhead, apparently the first time the group has obtained aircraft in years of fighting.
The militants have gained entry to the Turkish Consulate in Mosul and are holding captive 48 people, including diplomats, police, consulate employees and three children, according to an official in the office of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
On Wednesday, militants also took Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit. As in Mosul, the Sunni militants were able to move in after police and military forces melted away following relatively brief clashes, yielding ground once controlled by U.S. forces.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/0...vows-march-on-baghdad-after-seizing-northern/
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