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American contractors in Iraq held off an ISIS siege until they could be evacuated by the Iraqi Air Force.
The attacking ISIS forces approached the base in trucks Wednesday and called through loudspeakers for all private security forces and Iraqi special military to leave immediately or die.

The U.S. private contractors in touch with WND reported that after hearing the broadcast, the private security forces and the Iraqi military defending the base dropped their weapons and ran.

The American contractors collected the weapons left behind and were able to hold off further immediate advances.
The report suggests that there may still be a hundred Americans to be evacuated, but the report is 21 hours old at this writing. The contractors were there to help the Iraqi Air Force prepare to receive the F-16s we promised to the Iraqi government, which suggests they are mostly USAF veterans.

2 comments:

Ymar Sakar said...

HRC: "What difference does it make at this point what ISIL does?"

What difference would it make if Chelsea was the one left to die at the embassy?

Ymar Sakar said...

Hussein O: "We never leave an American soldier behind!"