Cedric's Big Mix

Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Mad Maddie's one to talk

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

MAD MADDIE ALBRIGHT IS PROMOTING A NEW BOOK AND REMINDING PEOPLE NOT TO OVERLOOK FASCISM.

"ALSO," SHE STATES IN EVERY INTERVIEW, "STARVE LOTS OF CHILDREN! LOTS AND LOTS OF CHILDREN! I'M THE BUTCHER OF BAGHDAD!"

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

This morning, WORLD BULLETIN reports:

A total of 374 would-be candidates will be excluded from Iraq’s upcoming parliamentary polls due to previous associations with the now-defunct Baath Party, according to Iraq’s Justice and Accountability Commission.

In a Monday statement, the commission said it had finished vetting the names of 7,367 potential candidates, 374 of whom had been found to have links with the outlawed party, which ruled Iraq under deposed President Saddam Hussein.

The Justice and Accountability Commission was supposed to have been sent packing long ago. In fact, ending de-Ba'athification and moving to national reconciliation was one of the benchmarks the Iraqi government was supposed to meet in order to continue receiving US financial and military support. But that was when Bully Boy Bush was in the White House. These days, they don't even pretend. And, let's be clear, the benchmarks were a pretense. The only one who took them seriously in the US Congress was US House Rep Lloyd Doggett. He expected them to be met or support to be cut off. Others in Congress didn't even pretend to care.

May 12th is when Iraq is supposed to hold the latest round of elections.

Dropping back to last Friday's CSIS podcast, where Anthony Cordesman and pollster Dr. Munqith Dagher discussed Iraq's upcoming elections. Using the data pool of those who intend to vote (likely voters), Dagher predicts that Hayder al-Abadi's Al-Nasr will win 72 seats in the Parliament, al-Fath (the militias) will get 37 seats, Sa'eroon (Moqtada al-Sadr's new grouping) will get 27 seats, Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law will get 19 seats, al-Salam will get 18 seats (KDP and PUK parties for the Kurds), Ayad Allawi's Wataniya will get 15 seats. There are others but Dagher did not predict double digits for any of the other seats. The number are similar for the group of those who are extremely likely to vote (Hayder's seats would jump from 72 to 79 seats).

These are predictions and the election's over a month out (May 12th). Even if the predictions are accurate, many things could change by the time elections roll around. In 2010, many pollsters were predicting a big victory for Nouri al-Maliki. Not only did he not have a big victory at the polls, he did not even have a victory. Ayad Allawi's Iraqiya won in 2010.

If Dagher's current predictions should prove to be accurate, no single party will win enough seats to form a government and will have to enter arrangements with other parties.

Who will?

That's where it always gets confusing. There's the law and then there's the Iraqi courts. The party with the most seats in Parliament is supposed to get first crack at forming a government. After the 2010 March election, Nouri pulled out a court verdict that none of the other parties knew about and presented it as law.

If the laws and rules are followed this go round and if Dagher's predictions ended up accurate, Hayder al-Abadi would have first crack at forming a government. He would need to enter alliances with other groups. You need 163 seats in the Parliament to govern.

And for 2018, what's expected? Per Dagher, forming the government after the election will not come quickly, "It will take a long time. It will take quiet a long time." He did not reference 2010 but he did say he was basing this on the 2014 post-election process. 2010, of course, took eight months following the election for a government to be formed.

Corruption and jobs are the two biggest issues potential voters cite for how they will determine whom to vote for. That explains Hayder's low turnout. (Low? In 2010, Ayad Allawi's group won 91 seats.) Hayder has not reduced -- let alone ended -- corruption and job creation has not been present in Iraq. Of course, many who do have jobs in Iraq have a different problem: getting paid for their work.

Ferhad Dolemeri (RUDAW) reports, "Kurdish farmers filed a complaint at Iraq's administrative court in Baghdad against the trade minister as part of their continued demands for not providing full compensation for their last four years of crops sold to Baghdad."

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"Google and Facebook and more"
"THIS JUST IN! GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK!"

Sunday, April 01, 2018

Google and Facebook and more

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

EMMANUEL MACRON, PRESIDENT OF FRANCE, SAYS FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE ARE BECOMING TOO BIG.

BOVINE BEAUTY DAVID HOGG IMMEDIATELY CALLED ON ALL ADVERTISERS TO BOYCOTT FRANCE WHILE FORMER ACTRESS ALYSSA MILANO TWEETED, "DAMN RUSSIANS!"

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

From Gary, let's go to another whore of Babylon, Jane Arraf (NPR at this moment):

In 2014, tens of thousands of members of the Yazidi religious minority, facing genocide from ISIS, escaped to the mountain from the town of Sinjar and surrounding villages in northern Iraq.
The United States said it entered the war against ISIS partly to protect Yazidis trapped on the mountain with no food and water.
Four years later, several thousand of them remain there. Destitute and living in tents, they are still too afraid to come down.

True Barack story, in late 2015 as the Yazidis were still refusing attempts to 'rescue' them by getting them off the mountain, then-President Barack Obama wondered "what the f**k do they want?" A very good question. But not one that should have surprised him or anyone else.

In real time, in 2014, with this situation, we were quite clear. We said don't send in US troops. We said do air drops of packages so that they didn't starve.

That's what should have been done.

The US forces and the Kurds both provided every opportunity for the Yazidis to get off Mount Sinjar. Not for one day, not for one week, not for one month, not even for one year. Over and over they provided that opportunity. The Yazdis wouldn't -- and still won't -- leave.

"I'm trapped! I'm trapped! Rescue me!"

Save yourself.

Seriously.

Are you a kitten caught in a tree?

I am not a pretty girl
That is not what I do
I ain't no damsel in distress
And I don't need to be rescued, so

So put me down, punk
Wouldn't you prefer a maiden fair?
Isn't there a kitten stuck up a tree somewhere?

[. . .]
And what if there are no damsels in distress?
What if I knew that, and I called your bluff?
Don't you think every kitten
Figures out how to get down
Whether or not you ever show up?

The Yazidis don't figure it out because they don't want anything but to start more wars. I don't know if that has to do with their worship or what.

But they have certainly been vocal about how the Kurds abandoned them! Left them on Mt. Sinjar! They are trapped!

No, you had you chances to come down but you refused to. That's on you. And everyone knows the Yazidis will use the same sentences to gripe about the US just as soon as they figure they've drained the US out of all the sympathy they can get.

The Yazidis are victims of their own making.

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"Mueller has proof!"
"THIS JUST IN! MUELLER HAS VIDEO PROOF!"

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Mueller has proof!

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

SOME SAY ROBERT MUELLER'S INVESTIGATION INTO RUSSIA HACKING THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IS "AT THE CROSSROADS."

THEY ARE WRONG. IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THESE REPORTERS -- MUST CREDIT BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- MUELLER HAS ADMITTED HE HAS DOCUMENTED PROOF OF RUSSIAN SPIES ENGAGING IN ACTIVITIES IN KANSAS.

"TWO RUSSIAN AGENTS, PHILIP AND ELIZABETH, CARRIED OUT A HONEY TRAP ASSIGNMENT IN KANSAS," MUELLER EXPLAINED. "YOU REMEMBER, THIS IS A STATE THAT THE BLESSED HILLARY CLINTON LOST DESPITE ALL HER GROOVINESS."

ASKED HOW HE KNEW THIS, MULLER INSISTED HE HAD VIDEO PROOF. WHEN PRESSED TO DEMONSTRATE THIS, HE SHOWED IT AND IT SEEMED HIGHLY CONVINCING . . . UNTIL THESE REPORTERS POINTED OUT THAT THIS WAS ACTUALLY AN EPISODE OF SEASON FIVE OF FX'S THE AMERICANS.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

May 12th, Iraq is set to hold parliamentary elections and no one's been bothered by the fact that Ramadan takes place from May 15th to June 14th. Past elections in Iraq have required many deyas -- in the case of the 2010 parliamentary elections, many months -- to settle.

Hayder al-Abadi staked his future on the premature claim that he vanquished ISIS in Iraq. That, of course, hasn't proven to be the case. He hasn't been very effective eliminating corruption either. MEM reports, "Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi yesterday ordered an immediate investigation into allegations that fake jobs in the public sector were being offered to citizens by political parties in order to win votes in the country’s upcoming general elections."

Christopher M. Blanchard (CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE) notes:

Prime Minister Abadi has announced his plan to lead a coalition of mostly Shia parties and independent Sunni figures under the framework of his Victory (Nasr) Alliance. In launching his own coalition, Abadi is competing with Vice President and former prime minister Nouri al Maliki, who, like Abadi, is a leading member of the Dawa Party. Maliki’s State of Law alliance has been critical of Abadi’s leadership, and some State of Law members are vocal opponents of Iraq’s security partnership with the United States. Several former leaders of the Popular Mobilization Force (PMF) militias organized to help fight the Islamic State are participating in the elections as candidates under the rubric of the Fatah Alliance (see textbox below).
Other prominent Iraqi figures have organized coalitions and lists to contest the election, including a largely Sunni list led by Vice President Osama al Nujayfi and the National Alliance jointly led by Vice President Iyad Allawi, COR Speaker Salim al Juburi, and former deputy Prime Minister Salih al Mutlaq. Among Shia leaders, Ammar al Hakim’s Wisdom (Hikma) movement has formally withdrawn from the Prime Minister’s coalition, but Hakim reportedly intends to coordinate with Abadi during government formation negotiations after the election. Shia cleric Muqtada al Sadr is directing his followers to support the multiparty, anti-corruption oriented Sa’irun coalition. Sadr has criticized the participation of PMF leaders in the election and is campaigning on a populist reform and anti-corruption platform.

Barack Obama ousted Nouri al-Maliki in the fall of 2014 to make Hayder prime minister. Former prime minister and forever thug Nouri wants to be prime minister again despite his flunkies repeatedly insisting that is not the case. ALSUMARIA reported yesterday that Nouri has insisted Iraq is passing through a serious, make-it-or-break-it period. Naturally, Nouri believes he's the one who can save the country -- despite nearly destroying it in 2014.. Today, ALSUMARIA notes that he's saying Iraq needs someone who can lead the country in construction and progress. Others who would like to become prime minister include Shi'ite cleric and movement leader Moqtada al-Sadr who has teamed up with five other groups -- including the Iraqi Communist Party -- for this election cycle. Two others who'd like to become prime minister, Ammar al-Hakim and Ayad Allawi, have done joint photo-ops. Ayad Allawi should have been prime minister per the 2010 elections. But Nouri refused to step down for eight months and brought the country to a stalemate. Barack Obama, then president, refused to back the winner of the election and instead brokered The Erbil Agreement which, in November of 2010, gave Nouri a second term as prime minister -- in effect, nullifying the election results and overturning the will of the Iraqi people.

March 7, 2010, Iraq concluded Parliamentary elections. The Guardian's editorial board noted in August 2010, "These elections were hailed prematurely by Mr Obama as a success, but everything that has happened since has surely doused that optimism in a cold shower of reality."

November 10, 2010, The Erbil Agreement is signed. November 11, 2010, the Iraqi Parliament has their first real session in over eight months and finally declares a president, a Speaker of Parliament and Nouri as prime minister-designate -- all the things that were supposed to happen in April of 2010 but didn't.

If the post-election process goes even 1/4 as poorly as it did in 2010, Ramadan will only compound that. Holding the election three days before Ramadan was very poor planning.

‏ @aliraqi9993

#Iraqi_Elections
All want to reform, but few are sinceres.
The reformation in Iraq must be started right now via a set of Procedures are:
Cancel privileges and pensions retailed; work on rehabilitating infrastructure and balanced external relations;

"The source of all gossip"
"THIS JUST IN! LOOK WHO'S GOSSIPING!"

Friday, March 16, 2018

The source of all gossip

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

ALL THE GOSSIP THAT'S FIT TO SPEW?

IT'S BEEN A VERITABLE SUPER BOWL PARTY CHICKEN WINGS STYLE DUMP THIS WEEK WHEN IT COMES TO GOSSIP RELATED TO PRESIDENT CHEETO.

EVERYTHING -- INCLUDING GOSSIP THAT HIS SON WOULD BE DIVORCING -- HAS HIT THE TOILET BOWL THAT IS THE U.S. MEDIA WITH A HEAVY FORCE LEAVING A NASTY STAIN AND REFUSING TO FLUSH DOWN.

FROM A SECLUDED PRIVATE BAR, A CACKLE EMERGES AND, YES, SHE BECKONS TO US.

THE ONE PULLING ALL THE MEDIA'S STRINGS, CRANKY CLINTON.

OVER SHOTS OF CROWN ROYAL AND MULTIPLE BEERS, THE DRUNK CRANKY SLURRED HER WORDS AND WOBBLED ON HER BAR STOOL AS SHE BRAGGED THAT SHE WAS TAKING THE CHEETO DOWN AND MAKING THE MEDIA DO HER BIDDING.

"PULL THE STRING!" CRANKY CACKLED. "PULL THE STRING!"

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

As Patrick Martin (WSWS) pointed out earlier this month, he is among many people the Democrats are running as "experienced" but they can't seem to talk about their experience:

Josh Butner, running in the 50th District of California against Republican Duncan Hunter, Jr., “served for 23 years in the United States Navy where he saw multiple combat deployments, most recently in Iraq and Afghanistan.” The career Navy SEAL says almost nothing about what he actually did in the top military assassination unit, but that is to be expected. His campaign website features the slogan “Service, Country, Leadership,” alongside a photograph of Butner in desert fatigues.

I cannot endorse him or not endorse him. I don't live in that district (Nancy Pelosi's my House Rep). But if you're running for election on your "service" and your "leadership," you damn well should explain what that is. If you can't explain, you shouldn't run on it. And be sure to check out all three installments of Patrick Martin's "The CIA Democrats:"

PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE

Iraq is gearing up for elections as well. They will hold elections May 12th.

Hayder al-Abadi? He wants a second term as prime minister. In the fall of 2014, Barack installed Hayder as prime minister prompting the world to ask: "Hayder who?"

The watery figure hasn't grown any clearer in the years since.

But the US installed him and still backs him which prompts Tweets like this:

‏ @BigAsso2

Replying to @kurdistanm1 @cngsgnc @brett_mcgurk

America will rig Iraqi elections for Abadi. Hopefully it won’t be a success.

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Hayder wants a second term and is running on defeating ISIS.

It's shaky ground for him to stand on.

Adnan Abu Zeed (AL-MONITOR) reports:

The Islamic State (IS) appears to be staging a comeback in parts of Iraq, which could endanger the country's oil deal with Iran.

Hamid Hosseini, the Iranian secretary-general of the Iran-Iraq Chamber of Commerce, warned in late February that the countries' plan can't be implemented fully because of security concerns. The countries signed a bilateral agreement in July 2017 to install a pipeline to transport Kirkuk’s crude oil to Iran to be refined. In the meantime, the oil is being transported by trucks, which are vulnerable to attacks.

The Kurdish military, or peshmerga forces, took control of Kirkuk in 2014 after Iraqi forces fled as IS swept through the area. But in October, Iraqi forces reclaimed the oil-rich territory from the Kurds.

IS has been blamed for numerous recent attacks in the area. On Feb. 19, IS fighters ambushed a convoy of the Baghdad government's Shiite Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) in the Hawija district, southwest of Kirkuk, killing 27. On Feb. 27, gunmen had targeted the Turkmen Front with a rocket shell. Since Hosseini's warning, security has deteriorated both in Kirkuk and Hawija. Local authorities have called for military enforcement.

Masrour Barzani, the head of Kurdistan security, stressed that the “IS offensive in Kirkuk province is not coming to an end anytime soon.”

Oops.

And XINHAU reports:

Iraqi security forces on Wednesday killed at least seven Islamic State (IS) militants in clashes at a village near the city of Shirqat in Iraq's central province of Salahudin, a provincial security source said.

The clashes erupted at dawn when about 10 IS militants attacked a military base at the village of Mseihli in southern Shirqat, some 280 km north of Iraq's capital Baghdad, Col. Mohammed al-Jubouri from the media office of the provincial police command told Xinhua.

Again, oops.

It was always a mistake for Hayder to run for re-election with nothing to show for it. Even worse was to run claiming ISIS was defeated. That might have worked for two weeks but for a campaign that's going to last months, it was a big mistake.

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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Loverboy John McEntee has an addiction

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

LOVERBOY JOHN MCENTEE WAS FIRED THIS WEEK BY THE WHITE HOUSE DUE TO AN ONLINE ADDICTION.

THEY'RE SAYING "GAMBLING" BUT OUR SOURCES TELL US THAT IT WAS ACTUALLY PORN.

SPEAKING ON DEEP BACKGROUND, HILLARY CLINTON TOLD THESE REPORTERS THAT JOHN MCENTEE WAS "A PORN ADDICT -- GAY PORN. GAY PORN AND FARM ANIMALS. LOTS OF FARM ANIMALS. WITH TOUPEES! THEY LOOKED LIKE DONALD TRUMP! PORN ADDICTION. DO I NEED TO SPELL IT? P-O-R-N. A-D-D-I-C-T-I-O-N. WE'RE TALKING CRAZY PORN. DISGUSTING PORN."

ASKED ABOUT THE MOOD AT THE WHITE HOUSE, HILLARY CLINTON ASKED US NOT TO USE HER NAME BUT "IT'S TOXIC. TOXIC. IT STINKS. LIKE TRUMP'S ASSHOLES."

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Will Moqtada al-Sadr support a second term for Hayder al-Abadi? ALSUMARIA reports the question was put to the Shi'ite cleric and movement leader who stated he would not be endorsing anyone at this time and noted that he was waiting -- still waiting -- for Hayder to address corruption.

AL MADA reports that Ammar al-Hakim met with Vice President Ayad Allawi and the two spoke of the need for the elections to be carried out in a calm manner. But KITABAT explains that voting buying has already started.

In an effort to look like they do something, the Parliament rushed through a 2018 budget earlier this month. To term it 'problematic' is to put it mildly.

ALL IRAQ NEWS reports that Iraq's president, Fuad Masoum, declared yesterday that he was sending the 2018 budget back to Parliament to rework it and that he would not sign off on it as is. ALSUMARIA notes that Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition is screeching that Masoum has violated the Constitution. No, he hasn't. He's used his veto power over laws -- it's the same power that the vice presidents also have. In the fall of 2009, this right/power was clarified when Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi used his veto on the election law. He didn't feel it properly represented and accounted for refugees. He used his power to veto the law. It was sent back to Parliament and reworked. (This is why the 2009 elections ended up taking place in March of 2010.) ALUMARIA also notes that the leader of GORAN (Change) in the Parliament, Amin Bakr, stated that the Parliament refused to use the legal committee when drafting the budget which accounts for so many of the problems with the budget -- including features that were unconstitutional. Meanwhile NINA reports that the United Kingdom has declared the budget Fuad sent back to contain a large budget deficit and stated that it does little to create jobs. Here's their official statement:

British Embassy Iraq

March 12 at 10:24am

UK welcomes the passage of the Iraqi budget last week, which will allow Ministries to plan their spending and projects. But the budget deficit remains high, and we were disappointed that there were no new measures to improve public finance management, including procurement processes. Doing more to show commitment to the IMF support package will help Iraq build its credibility as an economic partner and help tackle corruption and waste of public money. Of course some decisions are more difficult in election year, but the UK will continue to work with the Iraqi authorities and the international community throughout the coming year to improve the environment for local and international business and investment. With a million young Iraqis coming onto the jobs market every year, a better environment for business is the only way to create enough productive jobs. This will be a big issue in the upcoming elections, and we are asking all the senior politicians what they plan to do about it.

#UKiniraq

Fuad's actions really don't matter though. Regardless of him, the budget has to be redone. That's what happens when you sell your soul to the IMF. For years, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani warned the government of Iraq not to fall into the trap the IMF repeatedly attempted to lay out for them. For a long time, Iraq's government listened. Under Hayder al-Abadi, it stopped listening.

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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Trump can't quit him

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

''YOU ARE FIRED!" PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP TOLD JOHN MCENTEE MONDAY NIGHT FORCING MCENTEE TO LEAVE IMMEDIATELY WITHOUT EVEN COLLECTING HIS PERSONAL BELONGINGS.

MCENTEE WAS THEN ORDERED TO "BACK THAT SEXY STUFF OVER TO THE CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS 'CAUSE I CAN'T QUIT YOU, SEXY STUFF."

REACHED FOR COMMENT, JOHN MCENTEE SAID, "I SERVE AT PLEASURE OF THE PRESIDENT."

"THAT'S A LOT OF PLEASURE," INSISTED ROBERT WINK-WINK MUELLER.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Turning to forever thug and former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki. Over the weekend, ALSUMARIA reported that State of Law is trying to kill rumors that Nouri al-Maliki is rejecting Hayder al-Abadi as prime minister. Nouri is the former prime minister and forever thug. Hayder replaced him as prime minister in late 2014. Nouri has, to this day, refused to move out of the prime minister's home. Nouri has been plotting to return as prime minister. Last month, some outlets insisted that Nouri was not interested in another term as prime minister. If he were to become prime minister, it would be his third term. The ALSUMARIA report quotes a State of Law official stating that Nouri believes the people -- only the Iraqi people -- have the right to determine the prime minister. That's laughable when you consider that Nouri lost in 2010 and that Barack had US officials negotiate The Erbil Agreement which gave Nouri his second term. Nouri wants back in to the post and his minions are wasting everyone's time pretending otherwise.

Nouri's State of Law is also in a tizzy over the candidates. In previous elections, Nouri's been able to use the Accountability and Justice Committee to weed out candidates he didn't want to run but ALL IRAQ NEWS reported State of Law is objecting to the list of candidates.

Nouri objects to a great deal -- mainly, he objects to the truth.

As noted in Friday's snapshot, Laura Rozen filed a ridiculous story -- that ignored far too many public details. If she thought Nouri al-Maliki was going to be pleased with her reticence, she was wrong. Even ignoring everything, she's still angered him. ALL IRAQ NEWS notes that Nouri has called her report "false" and stated she did not know her facts. NINA includes Nouri's remarks that the deal was cancelled by the government in 2012. Both NINA and ALL IRAQ NEWS note that it was the corruption perception -- the Parliament's perception that the deal was corrupt -- that killed the deal.

Please note that ALL IRAQ NEWS and NINA do a better job reporting on the corruption in their reports today than Laura did on Friday -- and Laura used a lot more words and sentences. Please note that the most deadly country for journalists in 2017 was Iraq. These were not foreign journalists being killed. And yet even living under that threat, Iraqis are turning out better journalism than American Laura Rozen who is not in Iraq.

Hayder al-Abadi replaced Nouri as prime minister when Barack Obama installed Hayder in the fall of 2014. Hayder wants to be prime minister for a second term.

He was supposed to be fighting corruption . . . but he wasn't.

So what does he have to show for it?

Not much.

He claims to have defeated the Islamic State.

#BREAKING
Clashes erupted between #Iraqi forces and #ISIS militants southetn #Mosul.

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#ISIS militants attacking #Iraqi forces security points in #Adhaim #لعظيم southern #TuzKhurmatu. Casualties feared.

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It seems #ISIS is not finished in #Iraq Mr. @HaiderAlAbadi. It was too early to announce the ‘victory’. But fears from ‘losing’ votes in the up coming elections turned the table up-down.

2:04 PM - 11 Mar 2018