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Syria Kurd Women Set up Battalion |
2013-02-24 |
[An Nahar] Around 150 Kurdish women in the war-wracked northern Syrian province of Aleppo have set up a fighting battalion, a monitoring group said on Saturday. "The Kurdish popular committees have set up the first women's battalion, comprising some 150 women fighters. The battalion is named the Martyr Rokan Battalion," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "While women are now fighting alongside the rebels, pro-regime forces and Kurdish militia, this is the first women's battalion as such," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman. The Observatory circulated an amateur photograph of the battalion, showing scores of members in military fatigues, standing in rows before their female leadership. "Women are now playing a major role in the fighting in Syria," Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse. The women's battalion was announced in Ifrin, the scene in late 2012 of violence pitting Kurdish fighters against Arab rebels fighting the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... Assad's troops pulled out from majority Kurdish areas in 2012, and while Kurds have been split over the anti-regime revolt in Syria, most have chosen to remain neutral in the conflict. An agreement in Ras al-Ain on the Turkish border last week brought an end to fighting between Kurds and Salafist tough guys, though some activists have described the agreement brokered by a prominent Christian dissident as fragile. The announcement of the Kurdish women's battalion comes a month after pro-regime forces set up the National Defense Forces, a paramilitary unit in which women of all ages have been asked to volunteer. Anti-regime activists have also distributed images of women fighters joining rebel ranks. "Women are fighting on all the fronts now, though it's possibly the Islamist rebel ranks that have the fewest women taking part in them," the Observatory's Abdel Rahman said. |
Posted by:Fred |
#9 About the 95 -- shouldn't that be an even number? I am becoming concerned... |
Posted by: trailing wife 2013-02-24 20:05 |
#8 We used to call it a Commando, and then 9 Troop disappeared. Wasn't there no more. Political, I guess. |
Posted by: Injun Stalin7884 2013-02-24 19:15 |
#7 Kinda like English Regiments (out of date but you get deh picture) |
Posted by: Shipman 2013-02-24 18:41 |
#6 A Special Forces Company or "B Team" is comprised of a small HQ element [Company Commander, XO, SGM, S-3, S-4, Supply Sergeant, a few other enlisted] and 4 to 5 "A Team's" of twelve men each. Less than 80 folks if my memory serves me correctly. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2013-02-24 15:50 |
#5 ..yes, a company. Roughly 40 per platoon, 3 platoons per company, plus company overhead [ones and twos for supply, maint, admin, trans, med, etc]. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-02-24 15:44 |
#4 Isn't 150 generally considered a company-sized unit? Maybe the "Martyr Rokan Company" doesn't quite have the same ring. |
Posted by: Zhang Fei 2013-02-24 14:17 |
#3 he done pizzed off the wimmenfolk. What the Muslim world needs is a female Martin Luther to nail 95 scrotums to the mosque door to kick off the Muslim Reformation. |
Posted by: SteveS 2013-02-24 13:53 |
#2 Now Assad's really in trouble, he done pizzed off the wimmenfolk.......Ain't seen no trouble like what's gonna rain down on his sorry ass now..... |
Posted by: USN,Ret. 2013-02-24 11:22 |
#1 "though it's possibly the Islamist rebel ranks that have the fewest women taking part in them" Gee, I wonder why? |
Posted by: Barbara 2013-02-24 00:24 |