He is also a very funny guy.
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| Kurds Cut Off Key Islamic State Supply Line To Kobani |
| 2014-11-13 |
| [IsraelTimes] Kurdish forces fighting the 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.... group in the flashpoint Syrian town of Kobani on Wednesday cut off a key supply route used by the jihadists, a monitoring group said. "The (Syrian Kurdish) People's Protection Units (YPG) targeted IS positions behind the (strategic) Mashta al-Nur hill and cut off the Halanj-Ain al-Arab road south of the town," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, using the Arabic name Ain al-Arab for Kobani. It said 16 IS members were killed in the advance. The YPG has been fighting the IS since mid-September in Kobani. The Syrian Kurds are backed by Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters and Syrian rebels. Kobani has become a major symbol of resistance against the IS, which in recent months has seized large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria. A US-led coalition on September 23 launched air strikes against IS positions in Syria, including around Kobani. On Wednesday, the Observatory said at least 865 people, 746 of them IS fighters, have been killed in the strikes. Another 50 were civilians, including eight children, while 68 of those killed were members of Syria's al-Qaeda affiliate. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #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 |
| #7 @4 - thanks for that twitter handle |
| Posted by: mossomo 2014-11-13 14:53 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
#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 |
| #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 |
| #1 Get these people more weapons. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-11-13 08:55 |