America Airstrikes on Iraq

Obama On Sunni Militants

President Obama said today that the airstrikes in opposition to Sunni militants which began the day before could persist for months, laying the ground job for an extensive airstrike crusade in opposition to Iraq.

“I don’t believe we’re going to crack this crisis in weeks,” Obama told reporters prior to departure for two-week vacation trip at Martha’s vine-yard, Massachusetts. “This is going to be a time-consuming mission.”

Hours prior to Obama’s speech, Sunni militants in northern Iraq commanded engineers to go back to work on the Mosul Dam, the nation’s biggest Dam, suggesting that the extremists who captured the Dam last week after ferocious battles with Kurdish armed forces will exercise it, at least at present, to supply water and electricity to the areas they manage, and not as a weapon.

Its power over the Dam, however, also gives the group the capability to generate a civilian catastrophe: A split in the frail Dam could unleash a tidal wave in the city of Mosul and reason the countless deaths down the Tigris River south to Baghdad and further, experts have said.

The Islamic state order came as people in Mosul reported that almost two dozen bodies of Islamic state fighters, said to be killed in American airstrikes, arrived at the city’s morgue, while at least 30 wounded fighters were being treated as a hospital.

Today, Obama said inclusive Iraqi government would give all Iraqi’s a cause to believe that they were represented and help give Iraqi armed forces a reason to fight back in opposition to the militants.

The US continued today its attempt to deal with the crisis in Iraq, as three American martial cargo planes escorted by navy F-18 fighter jets, dropped more food and water on Mount Sinjar to aid refugees who fled there under threat from the Sunni militants.

Hollywood on Israel's 'genocide'

Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz Critcise Israel 

The Oscar endearing actors Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz have fuelled fuming divisions inside Hollywood over the Gaza quarrel by accusing Israel of committing “genocide” in the country.

Pledges to shun the Spanish actors think to have been made secretly by a handful of crown industry executives came after Bardem and Cruz, who are married, signed an open letter disapproving “the genocide perpetrated by the Israeli professional army”.

The letter accused Israel of stoking the clash by “advancing on Palestinian regions instead of retreating to the 1967 borders”. It added: “Gaza is living through terror…..while international society does nothing.”

The backlash was hasty with the actor Jon Voight calling for Cruz, 40 and Bardem, 45 to “hang your heads in shame”. He suspected they had stoked “the fire of anti – Semitism.

 Ryan Kavanaugh, the head administrator of Relativity Media, whose current films comprise The Family, starring Robert De Niro, told The Hollywood Reporter: as the grandson of holocaust survivors, I now that anyone calling what’s going on in Israel ‘genocide’ instead of self defense is either ignorant and shouldn’t be commenting or is truly anti - Semitic.

Frequently, however, Hollywood has been quiet about Gaza. Jewish luminaries such as Steven Spielberg and Barbara Streisand have not commented – but even their stillness has been interrupted as deep with importance. “Intense to shore up Israel in times of silence they prefer to keep low profile when things heat up” said the Jewish Journal. 

Iraqi Militants Seize Morul Dam

Iraqi Millitants

Sunni muslim militants from the Islamic state group of Iraq in our day detained Iraq’s largest dam, placing them in power of enormous power and water reserve and access to the river that runs through the heart of Baghdad.

After a week of attempts, the armed gunmen effectively stormed the Mosul dam and forced Kurdish armed forces to depart from the area residents living near the dam told The Associated Press. They spoke namelessly for security concerns.

The Islamic state group today a statement online, confirming that they  have power over of the dam and vowed to continue “the march in all directions” adding that it not give up the grand caliphate project.”

The statement could not be established but it was posted on a site recurrently used by the group.

Officials from the sovereign Kurdish region that has the only forces conflicting the extremists in the north did not retort the calls.

The Al Qaida breakaway group since its plan of an Islamic state in province it pedals in Iraq and Syria, imposing its own ruthless elucidation of Islamic law.

Iraqi National military, Kurds and associated Sunni tribal militiamen have been under pressure to dislocate the Islamic state militants with little obvious hit.

The Mosul dam or Saddam dam as it was formerly known is located north of Iraq’s second largest city Mosul, which felt to the militants on 10^th June. Fighting intensified in the region today after the nearby towns of Zumar and Sinjar fell to the militants.

Seizing of the dams and reservoirs gives the militants power over water and electricity that they could use to help built support in the terrain they now rule by providing the sparse resources to residents. Or they could sell the resources as a profitable source of revenue.