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| Kurds Continue To Thwart IS In Kobani | |
| 2014-10-13 | |
| [IsraelTimes] Attacking 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.... jihadists met firm Kurdish resistance Sunday in the Syrian battleground town of Kobani. In Kobani, a pall of black smoke hung over the strategic town as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported heavy jihadist losses. IS poured in reinforcements and later fired at least 11 rocket-propelled grenades into the town center, said the Britannia-based monitoring group. The Kurds managed to advance 50 meters towards their headquarters, two days after the jihadists captured it, but failed to deliver a knockout blow. "They (IS) are sending fighters without much combat experience," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said. "They are attacking on multiple fronts but they keep being repulsed, then countering and being pushed back again." IS has earned worldwide infamy for committing atrocities -- often videotaped and posted on the Internet -- since it seized swathes of Iraq and Syria in lightning offensives earlier this year. But it has also gained prestige among Islamist snuffies that has helped it recruit thousands of imported muscle, a reputation now on the line.
"It's a decisive battle for them," said Abdel Rahman. "If they don't pull it off, it will damage their image among jihadists around the world." The US military said it and its Saudi and Emirati allies conducted four air strikes in Syria Sunday, all but one in Kobani. Despite such raids, Pentagon officials have said there is a limit to what they can do without ground forces they can work with. But the top US officer said American military advisers were likely to take a more direct role once Iraqi forces are ready to fight to retake the country's second city djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , which IS overran in June. "My instinct at this point is that will require a different kind of advising and assisting because of the complexity of that fight," General Martin Dempsey said on ABC's "This Week". Despite deep concern about the plight of Kobani in Syria, Washington has vowed to stick to its overall strategy of prioritizing the Iraq campaign. Speaking in Cairo at a Gazoo donors' reconstruction conference, US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... called the IS offensive on Kobani a "tragedy", but it "does not define the strategy of the coalition with respect to Daesh", the Arabic acronym for IS. Kerry also said the Iraqis themselves will have to win back their country. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #16 FYI the News this AM is that the ISIS/ISIL has taken the Center = up to 1/2 of Kobane, including the Kurd HQ. * MANILA TIMES > JIHADISTS FIGHT WAY TO CENTER OF [embattled] SYRIA BORDER TOWN [Kobane/Kobani]. * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > BBC NEWS - IRAQI KURDS [again] CALL FOR BETTER WEAPONS AGZ "ISLAMIC STATE". * BHARAT RAKSHAK > [IBTimes] ISIS BEHEAD NINE KURDISH FIGHTERS INCLUDING [3 ea.] WOMEN NEAR KOBANI. Once again, OWG Globalist Obama doesn't appear to be in any hurry to provide the KURDS, ETAL. wid the proper support. I can respect wanting the Locals in the Country or Region to take the lead agz the ISIS/ISIL, but iff it fails one may of have to act UNILATERALLY IN A TIMELY, POTENT, + EFFECTIVE/DECISIVE MANNER. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-10-13 23:09 |
| #15 Turkey has been a conduit for Chechens and armas going to ISIS. Gee, I wonder where all that ISIL oil was going? |
| Posted by: Bill Glaiper1846 2014-10-13 16:27 |
| #14 Turkey has been a conduit for Chechens and armas going to ISIS. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-10-13 16:23 |
| #13 Contrast the above picture with the flowerpot Gwyneth Paltrow. (Apologies to all flowerpots out there). |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-10-13 15:13 |
| #12 More on the Female Commander MAYSSA ABDO nom-de-guerre (War Name) of Narin Afrinof the Kobanes Defending Kurdish Forces The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that a Kurdish woman is leading the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Kobane, Syria. "Mayssa Abdo, known by the nom-de-guerre of Narin Afrin, is commanding the YPG in Kobane along with Mahmud Barkhodan," said Rami Abdel Rahman, the rights group leader. Iraq has relied on the Kurdish army, the Peshmerga, since the Islamic State advanced its Caliphate into Iraq. One battalion of the Pershmega is exclusively female. The Kurdish fighters use pseudonyms, and Abdo’s pseudonym is “from the Afrin region where she was born that is located like Kobane in Aleppo province.” "Those who know her say she is cultivated, intelligent and phlegmatic," said activist Mustefa Ebdi. "She cares for the mental state of the fighters and takes interest in their problems.” All of the female Peshmerga are volunteers. The mothers make room to care for their children and train twice a week. The other females train every day. "They've been trained with SWAT teams and with the special forces," says Col. Rashid, explaining that some even have battle experience: "Some have already fought alongside their male colleagues on the front line and I'm sending others to Kirkuk soon. I was in Kirkuk myself recently." Kurdish fighter Dilar Gencxemis blew herself up to attack the Islamic State outside of Kobane, an attack which killed dozens of jihadists. These women are proud to fight against the Islamic State. “It’s an honor to be part of a modern Muslim country that allows women to defend the homeland,” said one unidentified mother. “We enjoy the same treatment as male fighters do as required by law.” The jihadists fear a woman on the battlefield. They believe if they die in jihad, they will be rewarded with 72 virgins in heaven. However, if a woman kills them, the men are denied their virgins. “These [ISIS] soldiers apparently believed that if they were killed in battle, they went to paradise as long as they were killed by a man,” said Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), who chairs the U.S. House International Relations Committee. “And these female soldiers were communicating their satisfaction with the fact that they had taken the fight to ISIL and had stopped the advance, turned back the advance - slayed a number of these fighters, who would then run away.” If Kobane falls, the Islamic State will control a large amount of area in northern Syria. It also represents everything the jihadists detest. They prefer to rule lands under strict Islamic laws. Kobane is “a thriving popular experiment in secular pluralism, gender equality, and democratic autonomy.” Furthermore, if the city falls, extremists may be able to more easily enter Syria through Turkey. Many alleged ties between Turkey and the Islamic State exist. Turkey declared support for groups against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and CNN featured Turkey’s secret jihadi route to Syria. Many Westerners have entered Syria through Turkey in an effort to join the Islamic State. One jihadist claimed that without Turkey’s support and money, the Islamic State would not have advanced to its current state. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-13 14:59 |
| #11 The IS who survive an assault on Kurdish defenses will get their combat experience the hard way. Think of it as accelerated or Special High Intensity Training. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-13 12:58 |
| #10 "They (IS) are sending fighters without much combat experience" A design, not a flaw. You burn off the expendables and save the more experienced for either the final push, or for other objectives in Syria. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-10-13 12:55 |
| #9 ISIS is telling its people Kobane is occupied by dragons. I believe that is an alternative definition of demons. 3 carbombs in Kobane today. One car bomb was attempting to make its way to destroy the Turkish border station that exploded pre-maturely, most likely was hit by Kurdish gun fire. Kurdish forces killed 80 ISIS in the past few hours. They seem to have set up very effective kill boxes in Kobane. US airstrikes are focusing on ISIS staging areas and supply route infrastructure around Kobane Sunday and Monday. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-13 12:52 |
| #8 The ravelin of the Kurds. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-10-13 10:45 |
| #7 So there are 7200 virgins with nothing to do because these guys got killed by a GIRL! |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2014-10-13 10:40 |
| #6 Ebbomosh Hupemp2664: You keep posting photos like this and you will have a rush of people to join up with the Kurds. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-10-13 10:07 |
| #5 Any one caught by ISIS in Kobane is beheaded immediately on the spot. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-13 09:50 |
| #4 Word out of Kobame is that this woman, Rehana, has killed over 100 ISIS terrorists in Kobane. The YPG are leaving hundreds of dead terrorist bodies in the streets for terrorists to have to walk over to reach the YPG, YPJ fighters. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-13 09:42 |
| #3 The Kurds are a gutsy and spunky bunch. Aside from Israel, they are our best ally in the ME. Not sure about how Israel feels about the ally relationship after Obumble has screwed them for 6-1/2 years. Maybe we will help the Kurds after the mid-term elections (if they are still around). |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-10-13 09:32 |
| #2 Just imagine what the Kurds could do with adequate supplies! |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2014-10-13 09:04 |
| #1 The Turks are not going to help you at all, but God may. |
| Posted by: newc 2014-10-13 01:23 |