© AFPAmericans are allegedly fleeing Iraq as ISIS militants take power of key Iraqi regions.
A current U.S. official and a former senior Obama administration official say that means the American training mission at the air field in Balad has been grounded indefinitely.
Twelve U.S. personnel who were stationed at Balad were the first to be evacuated. Several hundred American contractors are still waiting to leave.
They have been training Iraqi forces to use fighter jets and surveillance drones.
Other U.S. contractors at a tank training ground in the city of Taji are still continuing for now.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they refused to be named in discussing the sensitive situation.
Source: AP
Comment: After more than a decade of 'war' against Al-Qaeda (CIA brainchild), now an uncontrollable Al-Qaeda offshoot is finally scaring the U.S. out of Iraq. How's that for karma? Unfortunately, Iraq is in chaos, bearing the brunt of the West's myopic insanity and hubris.