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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iraq militants take Syria border post al-Qaim
2014-06-22
[NEWS.YAHOO] Sunni fighters have seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, security sources said, smashing a line drawn by colonial powers a century ago in a campaign to create an Islamic Caliphate from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran.

The bad boys, led by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), first moved into the nearby town of al-Qaim on Friday, pushing out security forces, the sources said on Saturday.

Once border guards heard that al-Qaim had fallen, they left their posts and hard boyz moved in, the sources said.

Sameer al-Shwiali, media adviser to the commander of Iraq's anti-terrorist squad, told Rooters the Iraqi army was still in control of al-Qaim.

Al-Qaim and its neighboring Syrian counterpart Albukamal are on a strategic supply route. A three-year-old civil war in Syria has left most of eastern Syria in the hands of Sunni bad boys, now including the Albukamal-Qaim crossing.

The Albukamal gate is run by al Qaeda's official Syria branch, the Nusra Front, which has clashed with ISIL but has sometimes agreed to localized truces when it suits both sides.

The head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, Rami Abdulrahman, said ISIL had pushed the Nusra Front out from many areas of eastern Syria in the past few days and their capture of al-Qaim will allow them to quickly move to the Syrian side.

ISIL already controls territory around the Albukamal gate, effectively pinching the Nusra Front between its forces in Syria and those in neighboring Iraq, said Abdulrahman, who tracks the violence.
Posted by:Fred

#2  The latest from the Net ...

* VOICE OF RUSSIA > [US SecState]JOHN KERRY MEETS WID JORDANIAN OFFICIALS AS ISLAMIST MILITANTS [ISIS, etal.] REACH JORDANIAN-IRAQI BORDER.

* RELATED TOPIX > [ABC News] US SECRETARY OF STATE CALLS FOR POLITICAL SOLUTION TO IRAQ CRISIS.

Jaawhn = replaying the Bammer's message???

Will the UK = France + not initiate Milaction widout any UN mandate???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-06-22 22:43  

#1  As per CNN this AM, the ISIS Boyz are repo getting closer to Syria + espec neutral JORDAN.

Pragmatically, since its only June 2014, wid the Globalist Bammer helping Globie-desired OWG CoSuperpowers deliberately unilaterally but SSSSSSHHHHHHHH PCorrectly-Deniably expand their spheres of influence vee US Allies + even agz US interests, THE SITUATIONAL FLUX IS SUCH THAT AMERS WILL LUCKY IFF THE US STILL HAS CONTROL OF HAWAII = EASTPAC BY THE TIME THE BAMMER LEAVES OFFICE COME JAN. 2017.

NOT THAT IT WILL HAPPEN, BUT AT THE RATE OBAMA IS GOING THE POTENTIAL IS THERE.

FYI the threat to America = Amerika, the OWG Mighty USSA = Weak USRoA, will NOT be reduced iff another covert or overt Anti-US US Globalist is elected to be POTUS - IFF THE US DOESN'T LOSE MOST OF THE PACIFIC + HAWAII BY THE END OF OBAMA'S PRSIDENCY, IT WILL THE NEXT ONE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-06-22 20:12  

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