THe Fucking Fog of Fucking War. Baghdad Edition

I've been trying to find out what's going on in Baghdad, but it's nigh on impossible. There are reports (or rumors) of:

Baghdad Airport being under attack

The Green Zone being under attack

Internet connection being cut off at the U.S. Embassy

Mass executions of 1,300 or 1,700 Iraqi soldiers

Of Iraqi commanders fleeing- before the regular soldiers flee

That ISIS controls virtually all the water in Iraq and much of the wheat harvest

Only one thing is clear to me: That the civil war I've asserted is ongoing (for years) in posts here at DU, is raging out of control and that the Iraqi government holds a big part of the responsibility for it. Will Baghdad fall to ISIS? I think it's more likely than not, given that the Iraqi armed forces are in such disarray.

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Throughout the years, Baghdad has failed to produce a professional army or provide efficient training programs, hence the clear hostility between the population in Sunni areas in general and the army, whose members mostly hail from Shiite areas in central and southern Iraq.

This failure is definitely linked to the inability to represent all demographics within the military, something the Sunnis have complained about for years.

Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/06/iraq-mosul-fall-army-breakdown.html##ixzz34nUpJies

The above links to an excellent and detailed article.