U.S. Now Using Apache Helicopters to Attack ISIS in Iraq

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65. Because the media is being excluded, perhaps? Excellent point about physical safety of camera crews.

As far as print media goes we see what happens to journalists in the area. And print media has just about been wiped out in America, and most of the West. Even when the big named papers go online, they are part of the same corporate methodology as television, they want video in their articles.

If Iraqis aren't allowing transmission from the city of Baghdad and surburbs, it may be because they don't want ISIL to pick up on it and use it against them. ISIL uses a 'no quarter' battle plan and is advancing at great speed with lighter and faster forces and technology that many commentors don't expect them to have use of us, like fugitives in our own country employ.

ISIL has men ready to go and tare ready to wage a generational war through women, whether willing or not, as the means of reproduction for more fighters in coming years.

This will be going on for decades, but then, it was been going on before the Iraq War, just not directly covered in our media and under different names. It was long suppressed by strong nation states in the Middle East which are collapsing under the pressure of population and the need to get more land for living room.

That's just my fatalistic view of the situation.