ISIS militants raise black flag over Baiji oil refinery as Obama says he's prepared to take 'targeted military action' and send in 300 'military advisers' (but not troops)

                                              Pictures emerged today showing rebel forces had raised black jihadist banners and manned checkpoints around the key strategic oil facility in Baiji despite government forces insisting they were in 'complete control' of the plant (seen, inset, in a NASA satellite image). Workers who had been inside the complex, which spreads for miles close to the Tigris river, said Sunni militants seemed to hold most of the compound early this morning and that security forces were concentrated around the refinery's control room. But Iraqi troops later claimed they had driven the insurgents out. Meanwhile, embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has resisted a growing clamour from the U.S. to step down over claims he provoked the uprising by causing Iraq to splinter after discriminating against the minority Sunni community.