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ISIS an hour away from Baghdad

Iraqi army unable to make successful counter-attack

Agencies
US air strikes are failing to drive back ISIS in Iraq where its forces are still within an hour's drive of Baghdad.
Three and a half months since the Iraqi army was spectacularly routed in northern Iraq by a far inferior force of ISIS fighters, it is still seeing bases overrun because it fails to supply them with ammunition, food and water.
The selection of a new Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, to replace Nouri al-Maliki last month was supposed to introduce a more condliatory government that would appeal to Iraq's Sunni minority from which ISIS draws its support.
Abadi promised to end the random bombardment of Sunni civilians, but Fallujah has been shelled for six out of seven days, with 28 killed and 117 injured. Despite the military crisis, the government has still not been able to gets its choice for the two top security jobs, theDefence Minister and Interior Minister, through parliament.
Meanwhile, ISIS released a new propaganda video Monday featuring British hostage John Cantlie, a photographer who worked for the Sunday Times newspaper before he was abducted in 2012, reports NBC news.
The video is the third video ISIS has released of Cantlie and the second 'episode' of a series called "Lend Me Your
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Ears," in which Cantlie appears to be forced to make anti-West remarks.
The fighting around Baghdad is particularly bitter because it is often in mixed Sunni-Shia areas where both sides fear massacre. ISIS has been making inroads in the Sunni villages and towns such as in north Hilla province where repeated government sweeps have failed to re-establish its authority.
Abadi is dismissing senior officers appointed by Maliki, but this has yet to make a noticeable difference in the effectiveness of the armed forces, which are notoriously corrupt, reports The Independent.
During the battle for Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, in June, Iraqi government forces nominally numbered 60,000 in the army, federal police and local police but only one third were actually on duty.
A common source of additional income for officers is for soldiers to kickback half their salaries to their officers in return for staying at home or doing another job.
The same system is universal in civilian ministries, which have far more people on their payroll than are actually employed.
A World Bank report just published reveals that out of 8,206 guards employed by one ministry only 603 were actually working.