CHANGING OF THE GUARD IN IRAQ

"Little noticed... is a changing of the guard evident at the Baghdad International Airport... U.S. contractors, U.S. Embassy personnel and most of the U.S. service members from the embassy... have abandoned the threatened capital... virtually all U.S. contractor personnel have left Iraq... The exodus has coincided with Russian contractors and support personnel pouring into (the airport) to help launch the 25 Russian SU-25 warplanes that Moscow is rushing to Iraq in its hour of need..."
http://news.yahoo.com/how-the-u-s--is-letting-russia-beat-them-to-the-punch-on-military-aid-to-iraq-203343350.html