Hey, remember Obama’s Arab Spring? How’s that been working out? Iraq is on the brink of total collapse and oil prices are likely to skyrocket as Muslim militants have gained control over the Northern Iraqi city of Tikrit. This comes one day after militants grabbed control of Mosul. Oil is about $104 per barrel now. With summer just a couple weeks away, don’t be surprised if it jumps to $125 per barell, and some states start paying $5 per gallon of gas again. Thanks again Obama, you built that!
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A day after taking over Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, militants nearly gained nearly complete control of the northern city of Tikrit, witnesses in the city and police officials in neighboring Samarra told CNN.
Heavy fighting erupted inside Tikrit — the hometown of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein — as the military tried to regain control, the sources and a police official in Baghdad said.
According to the witnesses in Tikrit and the Samarra police officials, two police stations in Tikrit were on fire and a military base was taken over by militants, believed to be from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, an al Qaeda splinter group also known as ISIS and ISIL.
The governor of Salaheddin province, of which Tikrit is the capital, was missing, according to the Tikrit and Samarra sources.