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| Dying IS ‘caliphate’ empties itself of last survivors, 500 turbans surrender, bride sez breeding jihadis | ||
| 2019-03-08 | ||
| [DAWN] BAGHOUZ: Veiled women carrying babies and maimed men on crutches hobbled out of the last bully boy village in eastern Syria on Wednesday after US-backed forces pummelled the besieged enclave. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) leading the assault expected more fighters to surrender with their families in tow before moving deeper in the so-called 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’s last redoubt. Bandaged and bedraggled, gaggles of suspected holy warriors in long brown robes limped away from the hellscape of Baghouz across fields of yellow flowers to reach an SDF screening centre. The tiny village on the banks of the River Euphrates where diehard IS fighters have made a bloody last stand has regurgitated unexplained numbers of people. Kurdish officers in the SDF and aid groups have voiced their surprise that the flow of evacuees never seemed to dry up after weeks of evacuations. On Tuesday alone, "3,500 people were evacuated from ISIS-held territory", said SDF front man Mustefa Bali, using an Arabic acronym for IS. Hundreds more filed out of Baghouz on Wednesday, AFP correspondents on the ground reported. The deluge of fire unleashed by SDF artillery and coalition air strikes at the weekend appears to have broken the determination of some families. Syrians, Iraqis and holy warriors who travelled to the "caliphate" from FraÂnce, Finland and other countries turÂned themselves in to Kurdish troops. "There are still lots of people inside," said Safia, a 24-year-old Belgian woman who was among those trucked out by the SDF on Tuesday, adding that her French husband was still inside. Those filing out of Baghouz are often weak, after living for weeks with scarce food and hiding from bombs in underground shelters. The authorities in Kurdish-run camp of al-Hol and the other camps where evacuees are dispatched are overwhelmed and entire families have had to sleep rough. "Families arriving in al-Hol camp have been without access to health and other essential services for a long period of time and ... in a fragile state, compounded by the fatigue of the journey to the camp," the UN office for human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. said. Dozens of children are unaccompanied and the toll of those who died shortly after arriving or en route from Baghouz has risen to 90 since December, according to the UN. The capture of Baghouz would mark the end of IS territorial control in the region and deal a death blow to the "caliphate", which at its peak more than four years ago was the size of the United Kingdom and ruled millions of people. Over 500 ISIS fighters surrender to SDF troops in past 24 hours [ALMASDARNEWS] A large number of 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.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) fighters surrendered themselves to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) over the last 24 hours, a new report from eastern Syria read. According to the report, over 500 Islamic State fighters turned surrendered to the Syrian Democratic Forces near the Baghouz Camp in eastern Deir Ezzor. In addition to the ISIS fighters that surrendered, at least 16 civilians were reportedly freed by the SDF on Thursday. Among the 16 civilians freed by the SDF on Thursday, two were Yazidi women and their four children. With nowhere to retreat, the remaining Islamic State fighters will either have to fight till the death, attempt to escape, or surrender to the SDF. Foreign ISIS bride: "We left so we can breed more jihadis" [TWITTER]
The SDF was not actively advancing Thursday, out of concern for remaining civilians, but its fighters entered the settlement two days earlier and control a chunk of it, an SDF source told AFP. Remaining families have been pushed towards the far end of the camp near the river, he said. More than 7,000 people have exited the enclave over the past three days, mostly women and children. Around a tenth of the nearly 58,000 people who have fled the last IS bastion since December were jihadists trying to slip back into civilian life, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor. IS fighters had previously managed to secure passage out of their former strongholds before U.S.-backed forces recaptured the territory. Remaining jihadists, however, are now surrounded on all sides, with Syrian government forces and their allies on the west bank of the Euphrates blocking any escape across the river and Iraqi government forces preventing any move downstream. A senior SDF officer said 400 jihadists were captured on Tuesday night as they attempted to slip out of Baghouz in an escape he said was organized by a network that had planned to smuggle them to remote hideouts. An AFP correspondent on Thursday saw more than 10 truckloads of people leaving an SDF screening point en route to the camps, a day after hundreds steamed out of Baghouz. Around 4,000 people arrived from Baghouz to the Al-Hol camp on Wednesday, pushing the camp's population to over 60,000, according to the International Rescue Committee. Many are wounded or in poor physical shape after living for weeks without much food and hiding from bombs in underground shelters.
But jihadists are now allowing men to leave as death and destruction take hold. Fatima Abdul Jasem said conditions inside the jihadist encampment were "catastrophic". But the Iraqi woman waited until jihadists released her 20-year-old son before escaping, with him and her two daughters. "Men under 40 who wanted to go out were imprisoned in a guarded tent," she said. "But only two days ago they let them go". | ||
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Let the Kurds/Yazidis have them. They'll know what to do. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2019-03-08 13:53 |
| #4 camps where evacuees are dispatched Guess that doesn't mean what I thought it meant. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-03-08 12:29 |
| #3 Kill everyone over the age of ten. Be ruthless and thorough, it is the only thing that works. |
| Posted by: Tyranysaurus Clavith3514 2019-03-08 07:07 |
| #2 Sterilize the breeders |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-03-08 06:34 |
| #1 take the children away and have them raised as buddhists |
| Posted by: Daniel 2019-03-08 03:11 |