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| UN: Kobani massacre looms | |
| 2014-10-11 | |
| [ARABNEWS] Thousands of people "will most likely be massacred" if Kobani falls to 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.... fighters, a UN envoy said on Friday, as faceless myrmidons fought deeper into the besieged Syrian Kurdish town in full view of Turkish tanks that have done nothing to intervene. UN envoy Staffan de Mistura said Kobani could suffer the same fate as the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, where 8,000 Moslems were murdered by Serbs in 1995, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two, while UN peacekeepers failed to protect them. "If this falls, the 700, plus perhaps the 12,000 people, apart from the fighters, will be most likely massacred," de Mistura said. The UN believes 700 mainly elderly civilians are trapped in the town itself and 12,000 have left the center but not made it across the border into Turkey. "Do you remember Srebrenica? We do. We never forgot and probably we never forgave ourselves," said de Mistura, the UN peace envoy for Syria. "When there is an imminent threat to civilians, we cannot, we should not, be silent."
But even as Washington has increased its bombing of Islamic State targets in the area, it has acknowledged that its air support is unlikely to be enough to save the city from falling. "Our focus in Syria is in degrading the capacity of (Islamic State) at its core to project power, to command itself, to sustain itself, to resource itself," US Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken said. "The tragic reality is that in the course of doing that there are going to be places like Kobani where we may or may not be able to be effective." Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea, one that didn't involve kerosene... terrorism experts have warned that faceless myrmidons from the Islamic State could turn themselves into Ebola "jacket wallahs" against the Western world. IS or other terrorist groups could simply dispatch individuals to Ebola-infected areas in West Africa where they would intentionally infect themselves and then spread the virus through the world's air transportation network. Capt. Al Shimkus, a professor of national security affairs at the US Naval War College, said the scenario was plausible. "The individual exposed to the Ebola virus would be the carrier," Shimkus told Forbes. Prof. Anthony Glees, director at Buckingham University's Center for Security and Intelligence Studies, also warned that Lions of Islam may consider such a plan. "In some ways it's a plausible theory ‐ IS fighters believe in suicide and this is a potential job for a suicide mission. They are sufficiently murderous and well-informed to consider it, and they know that we've been remiss in the UK," Glees told Forbes. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Thousands of people "will most likely be massacred" And Obola cares not one damn bit. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-10-11 11:21 |
| #2 This one will be on the Champ. Kobani sits on perfect geography for a vertical insertion and push to the Turkish border. Of course if you don't wish to face the embarrassment of ISIS vaporizing across the Turkish boarder under the protection of Turkish M60 tanks........why bother, right ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-11 04:08 |
| #1 "Can you pass the caviar, please?" |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-10-11 03:48 |