Battle Of al-Asad: Eight Suicide Bombers Killed After Penetrating Airbase

by JASmius



The next Middle East domino slowly falls:

Eight suicide bombers managed Friday to get onto a sprawling Iraqi military base where hundreds of U.S. Marines are training their Iraqi counterparts, but were killed by an ISF counter attack almost immediately.

Sean Ryan, chief of foreign affairs for the U.S.-led military coalition in Iraq, confirmed to CBS News that the attackers made it onto the secluded Ain al-Asad airbase west of Baghdad, but said the attackers made it “nowhere near” the American forces on the base before they were killed.

A U.S. defense official, speaking to CBS News on background, said the militants were believed to have been members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), who hold positions just a few miles northeast of the base, in the al-Baghdadi area.

There is no better soldier on Earth than a United States Marine.  Three hundred United States Marines are a blazing sun of awesomeness.  But for how long can even they hold out against thousands of well-trained, shrewdly-led, heavily armed ISIS fighters that have already cut them off from any means of ground escape?

Reinforcements are laughably out of the question.  Perhaps the Obama Regime has another detailed, intricately planned pell-mell retreat in the works, even if al-Asad isn't our embassy.  I hope our jarheads don't destroy all their weapons before their civilian flight is scheduled for departure.