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| Kobane: Civilians flee IS street-to-street fighting |
| 2014-10-07 |
| [BBC] 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) bully boyz have entered the key Syria-Turkey border town of Kobane and are engaged in street-to-street fighting with Syrian Kurd defenders. IS fighters entered eastern districts, raising their black flag on buildings and high ground. Hundreds of civilians are reported to be fleeing to the Turkish border. Taking Kobane, besieged for three weeks, would give IS control of a long stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border. More than 160,000 Syrians, mainly Kurds, have fled the town. Earlier a local official in Kobane, Idriss Nassan, told the BBC that the town would "certainly fall soon". He confirmed IS was now in control of Mistenur, the strategic hill above the town and that there was heavy shelling. Kobane is now besieged on three sides. 'Limited weapons' Asya Abdullah, a senior Kurdish politician and co-leader of the Democratic Union Party, is in Kobane and told the BBC's Newshour programme that festivities were taking place in three neighbourhoods. She said: "There is fighting on Kobane's streets now. There are still thousands of civilians in the city and IS is using heavy weapons. If they are not stopped now, there will be a big massacre. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Both CNN + FREEREPUBLIC have Artics claming that despite heavy Kurdish resistance Kobane or Kobani is about to fall to the ISIS, + wid PM Erdogan = Turkish Army still watching from across the border. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-10-07 21:29 |