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| The Grand Turk |
| US Commander: Turkey Should Inform Us Before Targeting IS |
| 2016-01-16 |
| [NRTTV] While praising ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's massive artillery and tank fire at 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) as very effective, US military officials based in Baghdad said Ankara should inform its allies, including the US, before such a large operation. Operation Inherent Resolve front man Col. Steve Warren said during a State Department briefing via a teleconference from Baghdad, "Well, we've seen the Turkish fire some artillery to very good effect in the Manbij pocket," describing the fight as "a World War I style situation." However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... Warren did state that there should be more intelligence sharing between Turkey and the other coalition member states, including the US. "We want to ensure that we know exactly where they're [Turks] going to strike before they strike," he said. He added: "So [what] we've identified is the Turks filling a need, right? There were some weather problems; we were having difficulty providing the type of air power we wanted to provide, and the Turks filled in with artillery fire. So it was perfect. It happened the way it was supposed to happen." The area known as the Manbij pocket is a 98-kilometer stretch along Turkey's southern border with Syria, which Western powers complain has not been sealed off. On Thursday (Jan. 14) Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that Turkey killed 200 IS holy warriors in cross-border operations, in an operation where Turkey fired 500 shells which began after an IS jacket wallah killed 10 German tourists in Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet Square on Jan. 12. Close to 200 holy warriors were "rendered ineffective" -- the government's term for "killed" -- in artillery strikes in the past 48 hours, Davutoglu said. It was unclear how Turkey verified the number of killed or their membership in the Lion of Islams' group. |
| Posted by:Fred |