Why did they have to steal them? The U.S. is already aiding Islamic jihadists in Syria. They probably could have just told Barack Obama that they were “moderates” and he would have sent them a whole fleet of Humvees.
“American-made military Humvees stolen by al Qaeda offshoot, headed for Syria,” by Douglas Ernst, The Washington Times, June 10, 2014:
Two American-made military Humvees were stolen by an al Qaeda offshoot as the northern Iraqi city of Mosul fell to Sunni militants on Tuesday.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is now transferring the vehicles to Syria for use in its civil war.
Jenan Moussa of Al Aan TV from Dubai tweeted images of the stolen military equipment, along with a picture of an ISIS military leader grinning after inspecting the U.S. vehicle.
“See [the] reaction of military leader of ISIS after inspecting a U.S. made Humvee that his group took from Iraqi forces,” she tweeted.
Roughly 150,00 people are now fleeing Mosul for Baghdad or Iraqi Kurdistan, Business Insider reported Tuesday. The unfolding events prompted Iraq’s Shiite prime minister to declare a nationwide state of emergency.
RichardL says
they also got almost half a billion dollars from the local banks. I bet they leave Syria now and concentrate on Iraq. In 2015 Obama will hear on the news that Baghdad has fallen and that somehow AQ is not on its knees. Then he will immediately make another speech in Cairo apologising for not having turned the US into a caliphate.
The world has gone mad and is lead by an idiot who will claim that is was Bush’s fault. Everything.
Uri says
It was Bush’s fault. We would all be better off with Saddam Capone
Wellington says
Where Bush erred was not in removing Saddam Hussein, who was a megalomaniac out of control and whom Bush had every reason to think still had WMDs (no major intelligence agency thought otherwise). SH (and his sons) simply had to go. Where Bush erred, I would contend, is in thinking that democracy could be installed in a nation like Iraq. Bush’s naivety about Islam was the chief cause of this delusion. What Bush should have done was remove SH and then install an authoritarian type like a Mubarak who was pro-American or at least neutral.
True democracy, which involves more than just majority rule, which must be guided by a proper moral order and respect for liberty and equality under the law, will never work in any Islamic nation. Bush should have known this. Unfortunately, he didn’t.
DarkMath says
I actually agree with you. Bush alcohol induced Wet Brain Syndrome and didn’t make a whole lot of good choices.
The thing is, the fall of Sunni Iraq will be Obama’s fault. In fact the massacre in Syria is Obama’s fault. He should be arranging peace negotiations to stop the slaughter on both sides. Instead he’s keeping the war going.
At least I could understand Bush’s reasoning wet brain or not. Obama’s reasoning is completely beyond me.
Wellington says
Just one very specific point, DarkMath. Bush’s decision making had nothing, of course, to do with his former alcoholism. He gave up alcohol completely long before he became President (his wife, an impressive person in her own right, gave him the ultimatum, her or alcohol——–he chose wisely).
No, personal slurs, especially when they’re inaccurate, are not a good way to argue. Rather, go with where the truth leads you. And the truth here is that Bush’s decision making was guided by an ignorance of Islam by his advisers as well as by himself. After all, completely sober people can make terrible decisions too.
Judi says
Bush wasn’t the only culprit. Tony Blair was just as complicit.
Jay Boo says
No offence to peaceful gays, but I gotta say this.
That Islamist style beard has some weird homosexual looking aura about it.
Saycheese says
I relly dislike you.
Jay Boo says
If you have a worthwhile point then make it.
How about ‘Repress homosexual’
Is that better?
Uri says
They’re penis-heads. Obscene
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)…
My, my, they’re forming their own nations now, throwing off the yoke set upon them by the post-colonial map makers. An axis stretching from Mosul to Aleppo makes sense, except for how the Kurds will intermingle with the Alawites? I think they’ll get along, and with a weak horse United States foreign stance there’s no reason for Bashar to not go ahead and swallow up the top third of Iraq. Vlad did it, so why not him? Prez Barack Hussein only has 30 more months to go, so get while the gettin’s good, they say.
Jay Boo says
It won’t be long now until John Kerry drops off bags of money to a designated (moderate freedom fighter) drop off point where they can be ‘stolen’
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Reminds me of when those pallets with $6 billion disappeared in Baghdad. Let the good times roll.
Jay Boo says
Beware of the Gung Ho – A Ho Rat Dog Fool
He will sell out his enemies and friends too.
Don’t let that sneaky smile fool you; he is afraid of his Muslim buddies.
Whenever Muslims kill off their enemies they spy on and rat on each other.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
I think a problem has emerged for the Moslems, they’re becoming a victims of their own success. The mujahidin stole the Humvees cuz it’s starting to look bad to the general Moslem population that they can just ask a supplicant America for free Humvees with the sticker still in the side window. Better to stage a theft or two so as to make it appear that global Jihad is still a tough undertaking.
The Holy Prophet (Mohammed, not the Holy Prophet APF) never had it so easy back in the day.
Salah says
“Two American-made military Humvees were stolen by an al Qaeda offshoot..”
ISIS is an offshoot of al Qaeda, al Qaeda is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Muslim Brotherhood is running the White House!
So, as Robert wrote, why did they have to steal the Humvees?
Probably because they enjoy stealing!!!
mariam rove says
you are right. They should have just called Obama and asked for a few. I am sure he would have obliged. M
Descendantofacrusader says
Amazing! Is that a Anglo convert slithering out of that humvee? So much for the leftist/Islamo hoax that those who are smart enough to detest this evil ‘religion’ are branded as “racists”. At least those who have been born and brought up in the lies of Islam have an excuse for their ignorance, but Anglo converts, of most likely Judeo/Christian origin who have know the Truth at some time in their lives, are surely the lowest of human life forms.
mariam rove says
I have said it before many times. Converts to Islam are often 10 times viler than the ones born and bred a muslim. m
umbra says
Those who intentionally chose evil are undoubtedly more evil and more vile than those ignorantly bred by evil.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
You’re right: their base instincts, the acts that before they only dared dream of doing, are set loose once inducted into the Ummah.
Ashley says
“Converts to Islam are often 10 times viler than the ones born and bred a muslim.”
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I agree, M.
Not sure if there has been any empirical studies on the matter, but I strongly believe Muslim converts are enticed by the Islamic tenet of jihad, making them especially dangerous. To some, radicalization is cool shit. Upon conversion, a newly-minted Muslim is given the go-ahead to raise havoc, blow away infidels, instill fear, and leave a path of destruction in his/her wake.
I can’t put my finger on it, but somehow I think I would be more comfortable in the presence of a tenth-generation Muslim. Something about a recent convert spooks me to the core.
Twostellas says
He is a Chechen jihadi general.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Put another way, he’s a Caucasian.
zulu says
Now Tikrit falls to the Islamist militants: Another Iraqi provincial capital is seized by warlord more ‘virulent and violent than Bin Laden’ as half a million flee Mosul
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2654861/Escape-Mosul-150-000-Iraqis-overnight-refugees-flee-terror-al-Qaeda-splinter-group-taken-countrys-second-biggest-city.html#ixzz34LpZbGPz
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zulu says
Mass beheadings reported in northern Iraq as al-Qaeda forces take Mosul and Tikrit, Saddam Hussein’s home town – follow latest developments
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10892299/Iraq-crisis-al-Qaeda-forces-seize-Mosul-and-Tikrit-live.html
pongidae rex says
So it goes with our first Affirmative Action president in history, after the two worst presidents in American history. The US is definitely on a sustained roll; problem is its a roll into the sewer.
bobm says
nice targets ; how long till the Russians get serious about defending ASSAD?… then what will Obama say?… will U.S. generals follow this idiot in every decision he makes?.. things look t0o be getting very interesting.
bobm says
The Arab muslim world is a loaf of bread full of worms;