Backed by local Sunni tribesmen, the jihadists exploited widespread anger among Sunni Arabs, who accuse Iraq's Shia Prime Minister Nouri Maliki of discriminating against them and monopolising power.

Six months later, they launched an assault on Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, to the north. Thirty-thousand soldiers dropped their weapons and fled when confronted by an estimated 800 militants. Emboldened, the jihadists advanced southwards, towards the capital.

http://m.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27815618



Many have pledged to help - Iran, US, Turkey etc. but the die is cast. This period on history will leave rotten egg over George Bush and negative consequences of American fear.

The end of the American empire and the world order it represents. There's now much space for the rise of new powers- I see a multi-polar world; India, China, probably Russia, and a resurgent Africa? The game is open.

Yeah.
Egypt of old is in Africa, is it not?
So is Carthage, which almost knocked out the mighty Roman empire.
There is also Abyssinia, an early empire of note which is mentioned in European historical works, which also successfully resisted colonization in the 1800's

Don't forget the return of the Islamic Caliphate!

Deadly results of British hubris many decades ago ...

Still, Iraqis are pawns, slaughtering (they are all muslims aren't they?) each other in an oil and geopolitical chess game between the US, UK, Iran, Syria, Saudis, Turkey, Qatar and other middle east powers.

I hope they wake up before millions are dead.