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| ISIS Retreats From Kobani |
| 2014-10-17 |
| [TIME] The Syrian city of Kobani, just across the border from Turkey, breathed easier Thursday as U.S. coalition ...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.... of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) from several neighborhoods. They've retreated some in the west but are advancing in the eastern part of the town, according to Ace last night. Speaking by phone from Kobani on Thursday, Anwar Moslem, the head of the local government, told TIME that the Peoples Protection Units (YPG), the Kurdish forces defending the enclave, were now in control of 65 to 70 percent of the besieged city. In neighborhoods in the south and east, he said, ISIS fighters were in partial retreat. In the west, they remained about three miles away. But he cautioned against premature optimism. ISIS had lost many men, he said, but they keep sending boom-mobiles, mortar shells, and yet more fighters into the area. He claimed there were more than a thousand civilians still trapped in the city center. With ISIS snipers and mortars targeting neighborhoods close to the border crossing with Turkey, it's too dangerous for the people to leave, he said. We are asking the U.S. and the U.N. to set up and operate a humanitarian corridor to Kobani. Turkish officials, however, insisted that only Kurdish and ISIS forces remained inside the city. "There are no civilians left in Kobani," Bulent Arinc, the country's deputy prime minister, told news hounds on Wednesday. "All of them are in Turkey." The Kurdish forces were bolstered by heavy air assaults from U.S. jets. In a statement posted on its website, the U.S. Central Command said that American fighter jets had conducted 14 |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #17 That's where air power can work: interdiction. Basically set up a zone 2k fwd of the FLOT, extend that out 30k, there's your kill box. If it moves in there, kill it. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-10-17 21:26 |
| #16 Per the US DOD, ISIS has now made taking Kobane its main effort. In Iraq, Iraqi forces move to retake Tikrit. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-17 17:06 |
| #15 Kurds are also sending in reinforcements to Kobane. These are YPJ, female Peshmerga moving towards Kobane today. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-17 16:54 |
| #14 Observers have discovered ISIS is moving even more reinforcements, as many as 10,000 reinforcements, towards Kobane. Airstrikes have killed an estimated 1,000 ISIS in an attack on one of the convoys headed toward Kobane. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-17 16:50 |
| #13 Give the Kurds ARTILLERY. Thats what they need. Lots of artillery and lots of ammunition for it. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-10-17 13:45 |
| #12 Actually, it doesn't matter if she was real. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-10-17 12:59 |
| #11 Is she real? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-10-17 12:58 |
| #10 Fok'n Champ should have dropped the Ready Brigade of the 82nd Airborne behind their arses and pushed them into the Turks. RIP Rihana. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-17 12:09 |
#9 Rihana who gained notoriety for killing over 100 ISIS was martyred in yesterday's Kobane battles. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-17 12:01 |
| #8 Send in the Lancers - Operation Don Garcia |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-10-17 11:35 |
| #7 The battle of Kobani would make a great movie: You have 'good' defenders facing almost overwhelming odds - everyone feels they are doomed. But somehow, they fight on. You have a truly evil invaders who are hell bent on raping and killing everyone. You have the good looking, female, Kurd leader of the defenders. You have the collation coming in to help - making the U.S. Military look good. And if they win you have a good ending and if they lose you have a 'last stand - at least they put up an excellent fight' ending. Unfortunately here's how Hollywood would write it: Replace ISIS with Christian fundamentalist - and of course depict them as being the majority of Christians. Replace the Kurds with the Gay and Abortion community. Replace the beautiful Kurd leader with Abortion Barbie - oh and make her a bisexual transgender. Replace the collation bombing with U.S. and EPA Attorneys dropping lawsuits and subpoenas on the Christian churches (See Houston Mayor). |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-10-17 11:27 |
| #6 Guess we'll have too hear one of Obumbles rambling ass speeches about how he saved the day. |
| Posted by: chris 2014-10-17 08:42 |
| #5 Silly Rabbits...the surge of reinforcements to Kobani will weaken defense of other targets. Be interesting to see what Turkey's ransom was. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-10-17 05:43 |
| #4 France to supply Kobane with advanced weaponry. Posted by Ebbomosh Which side ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-17 01:34 |
| #3 Nice - hope it lasts... |
| Posted by: Raj 2014-10-17 01:33 |
#2 As ISIS retreats, rainbow appears over Kobane. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-17 00:23 |
| #1 France to supply Kobane with advanced weaponry. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-17 00:15 |