No, Baghdad Did Not Collapse

June 17, 2014

Yossi Melman is "an Israeli writer and journalist. He was an intelligence and strategic affairs correspondent for the Haaretz newspaper, and in 2012 he joined the Israeli news portal Walla! in a similar, more analytical role."

Melman just tweeted:

#Baghdad collapses. Shells on US & Iran Embassies Premier Maliki left. Chief of Staff escaped yo Germany. Heavy casualties to Iran forces

What?!?

Pat Lang clearly believes that such an offense in Baghdad by the remnants of the Baathist Iraqi military with ISIS takfiris as its shock troops is possible. He urges immediate evacuation of U.S. personal. But I believe there is only a rather small chance that such could happen. Various Shia militia are deploying to secure Baghdad and other cities and Iranian advisers are on the ground. Iran sees the onslaught as a US/Israeli/Saudi/Qatari conspiracy and will act accordingly.

The U.S. has conditioned any involvement on the Iraqi government side on a change in its structure towards some "unity government" that would include representatives of the rebellious Sunni strains. Prime Minister Maliki, who received good results in the reecent elections, will see no reason to go for that.

I expect a repeat in Iraq of what has happened in Syria. The government forces retreat from the first onslaughts by ISIS, the Baathists and other forces but will then consolidate and slowly, slowly regain the upper hand and ground.

Mehlman's tweet sounds to me like the "Aleppo has fallen" panic a certain Syria "expert" created 20 month ago. Funny. by the way, how none of the journalists in Baghdad confirms any point of what Yossi Melman is asserting. Maybe some Mossad commander was daydreaming and told him about it?

Posted by b on June 17, 2014 at 10:24 UTC | Permalink

Comments

@ #96 OMFG,
Go outside and get some fresh air, brah. Life is too short as it is, to be so pissed off all the time. Most of us with half a brain can generally sort out the truth from the reams of bullshit. You’ve got good insight into things. Don’t let the anger destroy your mind and body. Peace!

Posted by: Jacobo Arbenz | Jun 18 2014 18:32 utc | 101

The American Elite did not want Saddam to invade Kuwait, which used to be a province of Iraq. After he did, they lied to SA that Saddam intended to invade SA as well,that he was massed at the border, prompting assistance against Iraq.
But if you’re the type who believes Glaspie didn’t misspeak, you’re the type who believes Nuland really wanted to be caught saying
“fuck the EU,” because the Elite are supercompetent.
Controlled chaos, got no problem with that, and it isn’t always a defensive strategy. But in the case of Amer-Zionist attempts to
maintain longterm hegemony in the Mideast, it is.

Posted by: truthbetold | Jun 18 2014 20:55 utc | 102

The American Elite did not want Saddam to invade Kuwait, which used to be a province of Iraq. After he did, they lied to SA that Saddam intended to invade SA as well,that he was massed at the border, prompting assistance against Iraq.
You have not provided so much as one scrap of evidence for anything you just said
A cynic might just conclude that you made it all up. 😉
After all, everyone knows that the yanks were pimping fake satelitte pics, but theirs no evidence a that the Saudis were the ones being fooled by this, as you are now trying to claim. Andnone of that has anything to do eith Saddams thoughts anyway. Its just your usual lame attempt at distraction, when caught lying.
And this “Glaspie mis-spoke” is just a lie you just invented.
Why do you do that? Why invent lies when you have clearly lost the argument? You lost because your argument was bullshit and easily proven so, not because you didn’t LIE enough.
Adding more lies at this stage is just pointless tbh

Posted by: OMFG | Jun 18 2014 23:04 utc | 103

@ chris m @ 2
I can kind of agree with that at least the tone of your comment. I would not put anything beyond the US/Israel faction in both govts.,but this crisis is really bringing out some weirdest “analysis” yet. Some of the 10th dimensional chess moves of the anti-punditry, with thier x-ray vision seeing through the most opaque and complicated schemes of the,normally incompetent, Obama regime. One piece I saw today is claiming this is a masterful and diabolical oblique attack on Iran.Ok sure.Im inclined to believe its exactly what it looks like..the inevitable results of completely failed and utterly bankrupt US policies

Posted by: Marc | Jun 19 2014 0:41 utc | 104

@somebody 6
Isn’t it funny how whenever a prominent shia figure makes a speech, there’s a false report in english about it’s bad bad bad content? It happens all the time with Hassan Nasrallah.

Posted by: Crest | Jun 19 2014 19:10 utc | 105

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