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2014-11-03 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

US, Allies Conduct Seven Strikes On Islamic State In Iraq, Syria

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-11-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 Hot dog, seven strikes?

Geez, I called in that many in one afternoon as a second looey.

I am just awe-struck at the overwhelming force we are applying to ISIS.

Posted by Mystic 2014-11-03 02:04|| 2014-11-03 02:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Seven strikes for seven days of creation?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-11-03 03:44|| 2014-11-03 03:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Champ's already got this one in the bag. He, and his media, are now focused on shaping the election.

Posted by Bobby 2014-11-03 07:58|| 2014-11-03 07:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Kobane anti-ISIS forces are working to retake four villages west of Kobane: Al Badour, Manaze, Arbosh, and Chigor.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-03 10:14|| 2014-11-03 10:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Obama's anti-Assad initiative has failed in Syria.

Syrian rebels he has supported logistically have gone over to Al Qaeda's Al Nusra Front.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-03 10:18|| 2014-11-03 10:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Al Qaeda is building up forces in Sarmada, Syria in the northern Idlib province, some 4 miles from Bab al-Hawa, an important Turkish border crossing and intend to take the border crossing.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-03 10:26|| 2014-11-03 10:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Kurdish YPG is using an picture of the 4 Americans and 1 Australian as the official image of the Kurdish YPG Army for today's reports in honor of those men.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-03 10:31|| 2014-11-03 10:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Peshmerga fighting in Kobane.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-03 11:25|| 2014-11-03 11:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Inside the city of Kobane, Kurds are making advances on all fronts. They have retaken 3 strategic points on the Eastern front in the city.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-03 11:29|| 2014-11-03 11:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Mobama said awhile back: “We I Will Degrade and Ultimately Destroy ISIL” in about 700 years.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-11-03 12:55|| 2014-11-03 12:55|| Front Page Top

#11 If general Jarrett thinks seven bombs is the perfect number, then seven bombs will have to do.

Posted by Grunter 2014-11-03 13:11|| 2014-11-03 13:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Another convoy of Peshmerga are now heading to Kobane.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-03 13:54|| 2014-11-03 13:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Yesterday I mentioned I had found several street battle videos but did not post them. This is a month old but at the 5:57 mark of this video you can hear YPJ female fighters ululating as they work with YPG fighters with RPGS who are destroying an ISIS tank. It is said that when ISIS fighters hear confident Kurdish YPJ female warriors ululate in the battle zones, ISIS fighters begin to tremble.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-03 14:10|| 2014-11-03 14:10|| Front Page Top

#14 To the right of the tank that is a destroyed ISIS pickup with a Dushka mounted on it. The tank came up to try to take on those who destroyed the ISIS Dushka.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-03 14:22|| 2014-11-03 14:22|| Front Page Top

#15 Grunter, Susan Rice is running this war.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-11-03 14:52|| 2014-11-03 14:52|| Front Page Top

#16 Nice vid Ebb. Looks like the tank got suckered into a complex attack. I was hoping the guy with the RPG would flank the T-72 and get good shot in. The cameraman [or person] had some real nads.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-03 15:47|| 2014-11-03 15:47|| Front Page Top

#17 Famous retitled movies:

Seven ~~Brides~~ Airstrikes for Seven Muslim Brothers.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-11-03 17:28|| 2014-11-03 17:28|| Front Page Top

#18 Thanks Besoeker

These rifles with the extremely long barrels in the picture below are homemade sniper rifles made by the Kurdish YPG known as "Zagros Rifles".

This is the damage Kurdish snipers are doing to ISIS via captured ISIS videos being taken out possibly by the Kurdish snipers, some believed to be using Zagros Rifles.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-03 17:31|| 2014-11-03 17:31|| Front Page Top

#19 Get those people some artillery. And a few TOW would be nice.

How about this? We had a ton of old Dragon ATGM in depot controlled storage, if we still have them, why not package all of them up and give them to the Kurds? I'm sure the Kurds will find a use for them, and we dont have to pay for storage and eventual HAZMAT disposal. Or get the Jordanians or Thai Army to ship theirs (If they still have them in current inventory) over in exchange for Javelins (US gets weapon sales, Jordanian army get new gear, Kurds get better weapons thanm what they have... Win-Win).

The Dragon's notoriously insufficient range (for tank fighting in open country) is not an issue in these urban fights, And they could double as a bunker buster.

Just a thought.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-11-03 17:44|| 2014-11-03 17:44|| Front Page Top

#20 Zagros rifle.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-03 17:53|| 2014-11-03 17:53|| Front Page Top

#21 Correction, Al Qaeda fighters being taken out by Zagros rifles.

Agreed. Arm the Kurds. They sent out a message yesterday to the world saying they will be glad to use their battles against ISIS and Al Qaeda (Kurdish Guinea Pigs) as testing grounds for new weapons of all types.

Posted by Jeagum Thud8277 2014-11-03 18:20|| 2014-11-03 18:20|| Front Page Top

#22 Thank you Besoeker @20 link.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-11-03 18:30|| 2014-11-03 18:30|| Front Page Top

#23 The Bammer's airstrikes this AM are once again being heavily criticized as being too few + mainly ineffective relative to the perceived threat or need.

* TOPIX > [Hot Air] BY THE WAY, OBAMA'S SYRIA STRATEGY HAS ALL BUT COLLAPSED.

* RELATED WORLD NEWS [HuffPo] OBAMA SYRIA STRATEGY IN TATTERS AS US-BACKED REBELS LOSE TO AL-QAEDA

More accurately, US-backed Rebs surrendered-to-then-joined the Qaeda Boyz.

* TOPIX. WORLD NEWS > OBAMA AIRSTIKES TOO FEW TO STOP MILITANTS/ISIS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-11-03 21:33|| 2014-11-03 21:33|| Front Page Top

#24 7?? Really? Whooptie f&*king do! Damn we hit the same target that many times just for sport!

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-11-03 22:04|| 2014-11-03 22:04|| Front Page Top

#25 Kurdish YPJ Fighter.

"I see weapon as honor and dignity."

Posted by Jeagum Thud8277 2014-11-03 22:39|| 2014-11-03 22:39|| Front Page Top

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