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ISIS butchers leave ‘roads lined with decapitated police and soldiers’: Battle for Baghdad looms as thousands answer Iraqi government’s call to arms and jihadists bear down on capital
By SAM GREENHILL and JILL REILLY and KIERAN CORCORAN
- U.S. today changed tone on intervention; President Obama said: ‘I don’t rule out anything… Iraq will need more help’
- Crucial vote to grant emergency powers was delayed because MPs did not turn up, leaving Iraqi government paralysed
- Disruption in Iraq could add 2p to the price of a liter of petrol within a fortnight as ISIS insurgents take key oil fields
- Kurdish forces are in full control of Iraq’s oil city of Kirkuk after the federal army abandoned their posts
- Iran has sent special forces and a unit of elite troops to Iraq to assist the Iraqi government halt the advance
- Iraqi air force is bombing insurgent positions in and around Mosul – 1.3million citizens still remain in the city
- Middle East experts raised the prospect of Iraq being carved into three – Kurdish, Sunni and Shiite – by the conflict
Obama: ‘al Qaeda’s on the path to defeat’
The full horror of the jihadists’ savage victories in Iraq emerged yesterday as witnesses told of streets lined with decapitated soldiers and policemen.
Blood-soaked bodies and blazing vehicles were left in the wake of the Al Qaeda-inspired ISIS fanatics as they pushed the frontline towards Baghdad.
They boasted about their triumphs in a propaganda video depicting appalling scenes including a businessman being dragged from his car and executed at the roadside with a pistol to the back of his head. The extent of the carnage came as:
- Images from captured cities such as Mosul and Tikrit showed deserted streets, burnt out vehicles and discarded uniforms left by government troops fleeing the brutal fanatics;
- ISIS leaders urged their bloodthirsty followers to continue their march and warned that battle would rage in Baghdad and in the holy city of Karbala;
- Thousands of residents in the capital answered a call to arms to repel the invaders amid fears the government’s own troops were not up to the job;
- Aid groups warned of a new refugee crisis after half a million terrified Iraqis left their homes to escape the jihadists.
Drudge Report Headlines 06-13-2014:
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UN: 800k refugees...
CHRISTIANS ON THE RUN...
Terrorists 'full-blown army'...
Medieval Sharia Law Imposed...
'Roads lined with decapitated police and soldiers'...
Iraqi government 'paralyzed'...
Army Collapses...
VIDEO: Thousands of soldiers captured by ISIS...
Iran Deploys Forces...
Americans evacuated...
USA Secretly Flying Drones...
ISIS terror leader released from U.S. custody in 2009...
Pentagon: Rebels may have captured military equipment...
PAPER: 'Worst case scenario'...
FLASHBACK: Biden: Iraq One of Obama's 'Great Achievements'...
Vets in Congress: 'What was point of all that?'...
Oil Soars...
OBAMA HINTS AT ACTION...
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