Cenk Uygur
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Militants Capture Huge Swaths Of Iraq, Including Weapons YOU Paid For
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June 13, 2014
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16:07Now Playing"Islamic militants who seized cities and towns vowed Thursday to march on Baghdad to settle old scores, joined by Saddam Hussein-era loyalists and other disaffected Sunnis capitalizing on the government's political paralysis over the biggest threat to Iraq's stability since the U.S. withdrawal.
Trumpeting their victory, the militants also declared they would impose Shariah law in Mosul and other areas they have captured.
In northern Iraq, Kurdish security forces moved to fill the power vacuum — taking over an air base and other posts abandoned by the military in the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here from Sameer N Yacoub & Adam Schreck / AP / The Telegraph:
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