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| IS militants admit defeat in Kobane |
| 2015-02-03 |
| [SAUDIGAZETTE.SA] The self-proclaimed 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 has acknowledged for the first time that its fighters have been defeated in the Syrian town of Kobane and vowed to attack the town again. In a video released by the pro-IS Aamaq News Agency late Friday, two fighters said the On Monday, activists and Kurdish officials said the town was almost cleared of IS fighters, who once held nearly half of Kobane. An News Agency that Dare Not be Named video from inside the town showed widespread destruction, streets littered with debris and abandoned neighborhoods. The video also showed a new cemetery with fresh graves. The town's famous Freedom Square, with a statue of an eagle spreading its wings, stood intact in the middle of the destruction. The square is near the so-called Kurdish security quarter -- an eastern district where Kurdish murderous Moslems maintained security buildings and offices, and which was occupied by IS fighters for about two months until they were forced out earlier in January. In the newly released IS video, the myrmidon fighters acknowledged that they have been driven from the town. "A while ago we retreated a bit from Ayn Al-Islam because of the bombardment and the killing of some brothers," said one masked fighter, using the group's preferred name for Kobane. He spoke Arabic with a north African accent. The failure to capture and hold Kobane was a major blow to the hard boys. Their hopes for an easy victory dissolved into a costly siege under withering The United States and several Arab allies have been striking IS positions in Syria since Sept. 23. The campaign aims to push back the myrmidon organization after it took over about a third of Iraq and Syria. Now Kurdish officials are hailing the retaking of Kobane as an important step toward rolling back the Islamic State group's territorial gains. "Kobane Canton is a representative of the resistance against terrorism in the world," said senior Syrian Kurdish official in Kobane, Anwar Moslem. "We hope that the world will support us to come through our struggle against IS." Meanwhile the IS fighters vowed that their defeat in Kobane will not weaken them. The fighters both laid blame for their defeat on the coalition air campaign, seemingly downplaying the role played by Kurdish murderous Moslems -- whom they refer to as "rats." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Mighty mighty pleasing, Pappy's corn-squeezing, Urp, Frank! I can see it! Hallelujah! http://youtu.be/WmMf7Ogy-kw |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-02-03 16:39 |
| #4 I STILL want an ARCLIGHT strike on al Raqqah. I'm sure that will have a much longer lasting effect, especially if the IS leaders are home at the time. It'll never happen as long as Obumble is president, but I still want it. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2015-02-03 15:59 |
| #3 I'd settle for just "dead". |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-02-03 12:37 |
| #2 Suicide? I thought it was 'fallen while leading the troops at the front succumbing to egregious injuries'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-02-03 07:59 |
| #1 Will ISIS do the Soviet thing and ask the leaders of the failed offensive to commit suicide? Or has that been taken care of for them? |
| Posted by: mystic 2015-02-03 00:33 |