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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Islamic State Advances Deeper Into Syrian Town Of Kobani
2014-10-11
[Ynet] 'They have taken at least 40 percent (of the town),' NGO says as US-led coalition ramps up strikes on Syrian town of Kobani before Lions of Islam attack border crossing with Turkey, tightening noose around Kurdish defenders.

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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 fighters advanced deeper into the Syrian town of Kobani on the Turkish border on Friday, and have taken control of a command center belonging to the Kurdish forces defending the Syrian city of Kobani from invasion, Arab-language Sky News reported. Al Jazeera claimed the forces have also taken the city's jail, located in the center of the city.
Posted by:trailing wife

#18  Don't worry they are moderate Moslems. DO YOU HEAR?MODERATE!!! /
Posted by: regular joe   2014-10-11 20:20  

#17  Perhaps the Turks are playing for time. NATO is dead and the U.S. has the bad enui. Perhaps they are building their own umbrella. It would make sense, not a lot but a little.


Sincerely yours
Al Chappeau
Posted by: Shipman   2014-10-11 18:43  

#16  The Turks are O's bros,so he's their bff. Who cares about the rest of the people? This is what happens when a Manchurian Candidate is elected as POTUS.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2014-10-11 18:33  

#15  Aris was right.

What makes me pull my hair out is that the Turks were poised to be the big winners and they pissed it away for reasons unknown to me. Early on Turkish armor of any quantity or quality would have ended the game with a Sunni victory. But they finger sniffed, I don't get it? Hell if i can see it an Irish setter can see it.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-10-11 18:29  

#14  True - the Turks did commit Genocide - why do we treat them any differently than we would any other racist genocidal group?
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-10-11 18:09  

#13  The Turks are no stranger to genocide.
Posted by: Mr. Frank   2014-10-11 17:46  

#12   Nalin Afrin. "Breaking news: #YPG Kurdish forces killed #ISIS Top commander Ebu Waleed Al Tunsi just few min ago in #kobane" in the comment thread.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-10-11 17:30  

#11  Some are saying this is Khe Sahn, others Ðiên Biên Phú. Me, I agree with the posts above: This is Warsaw.
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-10-11 16:26  

#10  You all did know the Turks are not allowing us to use ANY of our gear in Turkey, and not allowing us overflight, right?

the US is largely talking to Turkey about other things it could do besides inserting ground forces into the fight: allowing US and coalition aircraft to fly over Turkish territory; allowing its air base in Incirlik, some 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the Syrian border, to be used by US or coalition planes or for logistics and training
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-10-11 16:20  

#9  All the more reason to heavily arm the Kurds (artillery, tanks, plenty of ammo and small arms) in Iraq and train them well, with the tacit acceptance that much of the small arms will flow to groups in Turkey eventually. I want to make it possible for them to carry on a protracted guerilla war against the Turks in the Kurdish regions of Turkey.

We will have Turkey as an enemy sooner or later with Erdogan and the Islamists in charge. The only thing that kept the Turks oriented toward the West were the Kemalists and the military. Sadly, both are gone in terms of being able to affect policy in Turkey.

We should start planning for and acting on Turkey being an enemy. And we should do so now. Starting with ceasing any joint operated forces inside the region other than Anti-ISIS, getting all our bases out of Turkey, preparing to boot Turkey out of NATO, siding with the Greeks more (as a matter of convenience), and arming the crap out of the Kurds in preparation for them liberating SE Turkey eventually.
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-10-11 16:16  

#8  Remember the Warsaw uprising, and how the Russians stopped and let the Germans slaughter all those Poles, since the Russians knew they would just be a problem later? Turks see this as a Kurdish cleansing that reduces their risk of an emergent Kurdistan and the loss of eastern parts of Turkey to Kurdish statehood. Hard not to understand their logic, but harder still to not reconsider our relationship in NATO with an emergent Islamist government with great sympathy for ISIS and the idea of the Caliphate, once IS is established, then the Turks may manufacture a reason to invade, taking the IS state back of a part of the resurgent "Ottoman Empire". They have been a poor ally for a long time, and one wonders how well they are playing a long game?
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2014-10-11 14:57  

#7  Its not in Turkey's interest to save the Kurds, perhaps even in the interest for ISJV to win this fight. Seems to be what they are doing at any rate. Could also be factoring in, "what if we charge in, and lose?"

I think somebody mentioned hammer and anvil. Turkey gets to round up Kurd hotheads and fighters, confiscate supplies.

Kurds may throw up their hands and declare an independent Kurdistan, but a new Kurdistan is going to need some protection and assurances to get started - who is going to do that, Obama? Russia? China? Otherwise I'd fear Turkey and Iran would start sending troops into their territories which the Kurdes claim, ISJV in Iraq.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-10-11 14:37  

#6  Don't want to bomb ISIS too hard, they might be caught by a Predator cam slipping through the Turkish army lines for protection.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-10-11 13:24  

#5  The worst of it is the Turks. Sitting on the border, only minutes away from the combat. Full armored units. Doing nothing but watching -- and preventing resupply of the Kurds.

Fuck the Turks. Its beginning to look like we need airstrikes on the Turks to open logistic lines for the Kurds.
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-10-11 13:21  

#4  Another victim of Obola's "War on Woment".

The MoBro don't like them Kurds so Obola will not help.
Posted by: AlanC   2014-10-11 10:57  

#3  Commander of the Kurdish forces in Kobane.

Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664   2014-10-11 10:11  

#2  The commander so the Defense of Kobane is a Kurdish woman by the name of Nalin Afrin.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664   2014-10-11 10:06  

#1  We should be dropping pallets of small arms into the still free areas of Kobani. Make taking the city as hard as possible, especially when every man, woman and child has loaded gun and some anti-personal grenades.
Posted by: Mikey Hunt   2014-10-11 02:22  

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