god damn it iraq. god damn it

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baw: Nov 5, 2008; RESIDENT: LAISSEZ FAIR-SNEZHNEVSKY INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY

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Reuters - Gunmen occupied a university in Iraq's western province of Anbar on Saturday, taking hundreds of students and their professors hostage inside the campus, security sources said.

After fighting their way past the guards, the militants managed to break into Anbar University in the provincial capital Ramadi overnight and planted bombs behind them to prevent security forces from advancing.

Security forces surrounded the university and exchanged fire with militants patrolling the rooftops with sniper rifles. Sources in Ramadi hospital said they had received the bodies of two people, one of them a student and the other a policeman.

A professor trapped inside the physics department said some staff whose homes are outside Ramadi had been spending the night at the university because it was the exam period.

"We heard intense gunfire at about 4 am. We thought it was the security forces coming to protect us but were surprised to see they were gunmen," he told Reuters via telephone. "They forced us to go inside the rooms and now we cannot leave".

The identity of the assailants was not clear, but Ramadi is one of two cities in Anbar that were overrun at the start of the year by tribal and Sunni insurgents, including the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The government has since regained control of central Ramadi, where the city council and other offices are located, but the city's suburbs and outlying areas are still the scene of hit and run attacks by militants.

inshallah they won't all end up dead

# ? Jun 7, 2014 12:57

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# ? Jun 7, 2024 21:20

Robo Reagan: Feb 12, 2012; by Fluffdaddy

tldr

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:00

Chris Awful: Oct 2, 2005; Tell your friends they don't have to be scared or hungry anymore comrades.

How did the U.S. do so well in Japan with setting up a new government and yet so bad in Iraq? Does the U.S. need to drop some MOABs on a few highly populated cities to crush the will of the terrorist?

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:04

baw: Nov 5, 2008; RESIDENT: LAISSEZ FAIR-SNEZHNEVSKY INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY

good news! the gunmen are a buncha weirdos

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After seizing dozens of students, police and military officials say the gunmen later withdrew. They say the students boarded buses to leave and gunfire erupted between the gunmen and security forces.

so they show up and take a buncha people hostage then just leave.

anyway this can be the official thread to post about iraq's slow descent into anarchy and ethnic cleansing

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:12

Iseeyouseemeseeyou: Jan 3, 2011

Chris Awful posted:

How did the U.S. do so well in Japan with setting up a new government and yet so bad in Iraq? Does the U.S. need to drop some MOABs on a few highly populated cities to crush the will of the terrorist?

nukes

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:13

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Chris Awful posted:

How did the U.S. do so well in Japan with setting up a new government and yet so bad in Iraq?

There wasn't a pacific Saudi Arabia trying to gently caress with them all the time.

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:17

wid: Sep 7, 2005; Living in paradise (only bombed once)

Chris Awful posted:

How did the U.S. do so well in Japan with setting up a new government and yet so bad in Iraq? Does the U.S. need to drop some MOABs on a few highly populated cities to crush the will of the terrorist?

Japan was never a country teetering on civil war due to religious/tribal differences.

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:17

Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

japanese people are naturally submissive and welcomed the much larger and cooler american men

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:19

Slurin: Jul 17, 2008; I am a coward who makes grandiose claims and then runs away when asked for evidence. Please ignore everything I have to say.

Ramadi was one of the most hard fought for cities in Iraq. Anything in the Al Anbar provence (fallujah included) is totally hosed. If you read about first hand accounts of door to door clearing, there are literal torture houses set up all around filled with dismembered body parts and torture equipment. The radicalized muslims in the region are extremely effective in subduing the people through drugs and torture. Sucks to hear about them hitting a university now

Not likely to end up well.

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baw posted:

good news! the gunmen are a buncha weirdos

so they show up and take a buncha people hostage then just leave.

anyway this can be the official thread to post about iraq's slow descent into anarchy and ethnic cleansing

alright then

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:20

The Walking Dad: Dec 31, 2012

jBrereton posted:

There wasn't a pacific Saudi Arabia trying to gently caress with them all the time.

Pretty much this. The Sauds are the worst frenemies in history.

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:21

Tiberius Thyben: Feb 7, 2013; Gone Phishing

Chris Awful posted:

How did the U.S. do so well in Japan with setting up a new government and yet so bad in Iraq? Does the U.S. need to drop some MOABs on a few highly populated cities to crush the will of the terrorist?

The thing is the US never set up a new Japanese government. They just repurposed the old leadership to help fight the reds.

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:21

Inexplicable Humblebrag: Sep 20, 2003

Zzulu posted:

japanese people are naturally submissive and welcomed the much larger and cooler american men

fundementally it's all about cucking

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:21

Beef Turret: Jul 9, 2009; by Lowtax

macarthur should have killed emperor hirohito and all his heir so japan would have torn itself apart and become a smoldering crater

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:21

Greed is eternal: Jun 8, 2008

I hope the next president have enough balls to leave Iraq. Considering it might be Clinton, it is not looking that hopeful.

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:43

blugu64: Jul 17, 2006; Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

butplug accident posted:

macarthur should have killed emperor hirohito and all his heir so japan would have torn itself apart and become a smoldering crater

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:50

zegs: Aug 21, 2008; Too zegs to live
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Zzulu posted:

japanese people are naturally submissive and welcomed the much larger and cooler american men

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:50

Slurin: Jul 17, 2008; I am a coward who makes grandiose claims and then runs away when asked for evidence. Please ignore everything I have to say.

Greed is eternal posted:

I hope the next president have enough balls to leave Iraq. Considering it might be Clinton, it is not looking that hopeful.

lol if you vote for clinton. arecountry needs to solidify the ruling families already.

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:50

DarkCrawler: Apr 6, 2009; by vyelkin

Zzulu posted:

japanese people are naturally submissive

Well they weren't before 1945...

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:51

zegs: Aug 21, 2008; Too zegs to live
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the browns are a bit more feisty :jihad:

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:52

The Brown Menace: Dec 24, 2010; Now comes in all colors.

seeing as how this is anbar province there's a chance this is ISIS in which case yeah, rip

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:53

zegs: Aug 21, 2008; Too zegs to live
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Would you say the brown menace

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:57

Lafarg: Jul 23, 2012

It is a frontal assault on the high cost of education in Iraq.

# ? Jun 7, 2014 13:58

Iseeyouseemeseeyou: Jan 3, 2011

i like how the op is acting all distraught about this as if it will have any consequence on his/her day-to-day

# ? Jun 7, 2014 14:01

texaholic: Sep 16, 2007; Well it's floodin' down in Texas
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We need to elect a government who will do Iraq and the Middle East the right way. War on Terror fuckin LMAO, call it the "War for their Oil" and show those camel jockeys the full might of our Industrial Military Complex. loving presidents be pussy footing around. Really all I am asking is for America to keep it real, YOLO.

# ? Jun 7, 2014 14:10

Iseeyouseemeseeyou: Jan 3, 2011

texaholic posted:

We need to elect a government who will do Iraq and the Middle East the right way. War on Terror fuckin LMAO, call it the "War for their Oil" and show those camel jockeys the full might of our Industrial Military Complex. loving presidents be pussy footing around. Really all I am asking is for America to keep it real, YOLO.

Let [Hilary] Clinton finish what Bush [Sr.] started :911:

# ? Jun 7, 2014 14:12

Phlairdon: Apr 15, 2003; If you can't stand up you can't do war!

The Brown Menace posted:

seeing as how this is anbar province there's a chance this is ISIS in which case yeah, rip

God drat it, Archer!

# ? Jun 7, 2014 14:17

permabanned: Aug 12, 2008; 優しい野菜

Chris Awful posted:

How did the U.S. do so well in Japan with setting up a new government and yet so bad in Iraq? Does the U.S. need to drop some MOABs on a few highly populated cities to crush the will of the terrorist?

Japan was on average more literate and economically advanced. If most people are educated and rational, you can persuade them and they will see the benefits of regime change as well as they will see to rebuilding their country themselves, but if most people are entitled uneducated tribal slobs with AK-47 it's better to just kill everyone and move on.

# ? Jun 7, 2014 14:18

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permabanned posted:

if most people are entitled uneducated tribal slobs with AK-47 it's better to just kill everyone and move on.

# ? Jun 7, 2014 14:20

Beef Turret: Jul 9, 2009; by Lowtax

permabanned posted:

Japan was on average more literate and economically advanced. If most people are educated and rational, you can persuade them and they will see the benefits of regime change as well as they will see to rebuilding their country themselves, but if most people are entitled uneducated tribal slobs with AK-47 it's better to just kill everyone and move on.

that's what you have to tell yourselves to relieve the guilt of your gently caress ups

# ? Jun 7, 2014 14:22

The Brown Menace: Dec 24, 2010; Now comes in all colors.

permabanned posted:

Japan was on average more literate and economically advanced. If most people are educated and rational, you can persuade them and they will see the benefits of regime change as well as they will see to rebuilding their country themselves, but if most people are entitled uneducated tribal slobs with AK-47 it's better to just kill everyone and move on.

there's also the thing where they paraded the emperor aka the closest living thing to a god to japs at the time around and made him calm their asses down, this is slightly more difficult with this kind of elusive allah guy

# ? Jun 7, 2014 14:24

Troll Bridgington: Dec 22, 2011; Keeping up foreign relations.

They need gun control laws imo

# ? Jun 7, 2014 14:29

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

permabanned posted:

Japan was on average more literate and economically advanced.

Iraq has been about 80% literate since the eighties, and was obviously more economically advanced than any 1930s country you retard.

# ? Jun 7, 2014 14:38

permabanned: Aug 12, 2008; 優しい野菜

jBrereton posted:

Iraq has been about 80% literate since the eighties, and was obviously more economically advanced than any 1930s country you retard.

That's all bullshit.

# ? Jun 7, 2014 14:41

Beef Turret: Jul 9, 2009; by Lowtax

permabanned posted:

That's all bullshit.

here's hoping that you and an IED become better acquainted in the future

# ? Jun 7, 2014 14:44

Noyemi K: Dec 9, 2012; youll always be so sleepy when youre this tiny *plompf*

jBrereton posted:

Iraq has been about 80% literate since the eighties, and was obviously more economically advanced than any 1930s country you retard.

They're way more organized than we gave them credit for!

# ? Jun 7, 2014 14:45

permabanned: Aug 12, 2008; 優しい野菜

butplug accident posted:

here's hoping that you and an IED become better acquainted in the future

Did your camel go ATP on you?

# ? Jun 7, 2014 14:48

baw: Nov 5, 2008; RESIDENT: LAISSEZ FAIR-SNEZHNEVSKY INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY

Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:

i like how the op is acting all distraught about this as if it will have any consequence on his/her day-to-day

it kinda does

# ? Jun 7, 2014 14:48

Gin Soaked Ape: May 4, 2004

also the first thing we did in iraq after overthrowing the government was to totally dismantle and privatize any civil services rather than try to use them to restore the country to any kind of functioning order because the people in charge of rebuilding were free market ideologues

# ? Jun 7, 2014 14:54