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2014-11-13 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Kurds Cut Off Key Islamic State Supply Line To Kobani

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-11-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 Get these people more weapons.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-11-13 08:55|| 2014-11-13 08:55|| Front Page Top

#2 In regards to the little boy that saved the little girl while faking being shot by snipers in the video posted here yesterday, the little girl was the little boy's sister.

They made it out of the sniper's kill zone alive.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-13 12:45|| 2014-11-13 12:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Kurdish grand father who has been wounded 4 times in 60 days, keeps returning to the front lines of his town, Kobane, Syria.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-13 12:51|| 2014-11-13 12:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Cahit Storm, a Kurdish IT consultant who has a following of 5000 people on twitter has raised enough Euros to provide items for 2500 refugees, taken pictures of the fighting in Kobane from a hiding spot in a pepper field (his twitter picture is a guy dressed like a pepper) and is on his way to Paris to speak at a conference in Paris.

He is also a very funny guy.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-13 13:00|| 2014-11-13 13:00|| Front Page Top

#5 ISIS has to be going through a lot of ammo, weapons and basic supplies. Who is re-supplying them? Who is selling them weapons and spare parts? Are they still drawing down captured stores or is new inventory coming from the outside? It seems to me that this is the Achilles heel of this group. Perhaps those more knowledgable than I could opine on this topic.

Posted by Remoteman 2014-11-13 13:05|| 2014-11-13 13:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Turkey is the second largest army in NATO. They also provide routes for people who join ISIS. They have provided dozens of truck loads of weapons and ammunition to ISIS per the Kurds.

They continue to do so, except along the border of Kobane, Syria where kurdish volunteers on the Turkish side of the border are stopping reinforcements from crossing over to the town of Kobane, Syria.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-13 13:17|| 2014-11-13 13:17|| Front Page Top

#7 @4 - thanks for that twitter handle

Posted by mossomo 2014-11-13 14:53|| 2014-11-13 14:53|| Front Page Top

#8 They have provided dozens of truck loads of weapons and ammunition to ISIS per the Kurds.

I suspect that a lot of that was shipped out of Benghazi and Dern to Turkey. Egypt has traditionally had a strong influence in the former. The Muslim Brotherhood provided a lot of support for the Libyan rebels and likely were backing the Syrian Islamists before being overthrown. The Turks were/are no slouches in Benghazi either.

IS has a foothold in the latter city.

Other sources of weaponry are defectors from the other Syrian rebel groups. It also wouldn't be surprising if shipments are coming out of the Balkans to Turkey as well.

Posted by Pappy 2014-11-13 16:03|| 2014-11-13 16:03|| Front Page Top

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