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Kurd fighters seize enemy's arms, buildings in Kobani
[ARABNEWS] Kurdish fighters captured six buildings used by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 Death Eaters besieging the Syrian town of Kobani on Tuesday, and seized a large amount of the group's weapons and ammunition, a group monitoring the war said.
That'll come in handy.
Seize the tanks, APCs and anti-air guns, that'll come in even more handy...
Islamic State has been trying to take control of the town for more than two months in an assault that has driven tens of thousands of Kurdish civilians over the border into Turkey and drawn strikes by US-led forces.

Kurdish fighters seized six buildings used by Islamic State close to council offices in the north of the town and took a large quantity of rocket-propelled grenade launchers, guns and machine gun ammunition, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The buildings were in a strategic location close to Kobani's Security Square where the main municipal buildings are based, said Rami Abdulrahman who runs the Observatory, a group that tracks the conflict using sources on the ground.

The festivities killed around 13 Islamic State myrmidons, including two senior fighters who had been helping to lead the myrmidon group's assault on the town, he said.

Kurdish forces appear to have made other gains in recent days of fighting. Last week they blocked a road Islamic State was using to resupply their forces, the first major gain against the Death Eaters after weeks of violence. "During the last few days we have made big progress in the east and southeast," said Idris Nassan, an official in Kobani. He estimated IS controlled less than 20 percent of the town. Last month, officials said IS controlled around 40 percent as it pushed further into the town.
The proof of the righteousness of the jihadi cause is the steady stream of victories Allah gives them. No victories means Allah does not approve.
The defense of Kobani has drawn in Kurdish peshmerga fighters from Iraq as well as Syrian rebel fighters. The US military said on Monday it carried out nine strikes near Kobani since late last week, destroying seven Islamic State positions, four staging areas and one unit belonging to the group.
Since the Iraqi military can't seem to get its act together perhaps we could loan the Kurds a few T-37 Tweets? Or even a vintage Skyraider or two?

Posted by: Fred 2014-11-19
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