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2015-02-09 Terror Networks

Syria Kurds Seize from IS Third of Villages around Kobane

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-02-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 Kurdish forces in aliance with a Raqa revolutionary brigade arrived on Monday at the edge of Raqa province, 40 miles East of Kobane to take the border crossing town of Tal Abiad where ISIS fighters cross over from Turkey.

It has been reported that after the Kurds took Kobane as many as 750 young Kurds volunteered to fight to Kurdistan in one day.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-02-09 18:08|| 2015-02-09 18:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Turkish police have seized a considerable amount of aid to Sinjar and Kobane meant to aid refugees in surviving the winter.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-02-09 18:16|| 2015-02-09 18:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Theoretically, Americans are fighting against Americans on the battle fields of the ME.

An American from Florida was wounded while fighting with the Kurds in Sinjar. An American from California died fighting for ISIS in Syria.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-02-09 18:33|| 2015-02-09 18:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Theoretically, Americans are fighting against Americans on the battle fields of the ME.

An American from Florida was wounded while fighting with the Kurds in Sinjar. An American from California died fighting for ISIS in Syria.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-02-09 18:33|| 2015-02-09 18:33|| Front Page Top

#5 By request, YPJ fighters who liberated Kobane are appearing at Kurdish sponsored conferences in Europe and are being interviewed by news organizations in those countries about their victory over Islamic State.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-02-09 18:47|| 2015-02-09 18:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Somehow the State of origin comes as no surprise for either of these...

Posted by Bov Flimbers 2015-02-09 21:54|| 2015-02-09 21:54|| Front Page Top

#7 They need artillery. If we can give Lebanon 26 million rounds and 70 towed tubes, it would not be that difficult to do the same for the Kurds, except Obama is on the other side with the Turks and Mozbros

Posted by OldSpook 2015-02-09 23:40|| 2015-02-09 23:40|| Front Page Top

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