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The Grand Turk

Turkey's Erdogan Says 200 Iraqi Kurdish Fighters To Enter Kobani

2014-10-24

[Ynet] Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he had been informed that agreement was reached for 200 Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters to pass through Turkey to help defend the Syrian border town of Kobani against 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....
bad boys.

Erdogan was speaking at a news conference in the Latvian capital Riga after Iraqi Kurdish politicians on Wednesday approved a plan to send the fighters, marking the semi-autonomous region's first military foray into Syria's war.

Posted by:trailing wife

#7 Meanwhile, NOT to be outdone by "Turkey is a Superpower in the ME" Erdogan ... ...

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > FSA TO DEPLOY [1500 ea?] TROOPS INTO KOBANI TO FIGHT AGZ ISIS | DAILY SABAH.

* SAME > [50 ea.] CAMBODIAN YOUTHS OFFER TO FIGHT ISLAMIC STTAE IN EXHCNAGE FOR US HELP TO EXPEL VIETNAM FROM PHU QUOC [Vietnam-occupied, Cambodia-claimed island. | [Cambodia Daily] CNRP ACTIVIST IFFERS TO FIGHT AGZ ISLAMIC STATE.

Lest we fergit,

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Daily Beast] THERES ONLY ONE WAY TO BEAT THE ISIS: WORK WID ASSAD + IRAN.

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VERSUS

* OTOH BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Independent.UK] US = IRAN DRAW UP PLAN FOR GROUND FORCE ATTACK ON ISLAMIC MILITANTS.

Prolly safe to say Iraq wil provide the offensive Boots; US [UK-Coalition?] the Manned, Drone Airstrikes + SPECOPS Advisors.

Globalist Obama has a Plan, yes a Big Plan ...

KEEPING MY FINGERS CROSSED.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-10-24 21:56

#6 Big money to be made with a time-share, especially when the occupants can out-bid each other for prime time.

There was an opportunity to check or even oust Erdy during his crack-down and subsequent protests. Is invading the Hellespont an option?

Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-10-24 12:48

#5 according to An Nahar this morning, the timing is "sometime next week"

Meaning that they're still trying to find a time window when they're not sending IS fighters across?

Posted by: Pappy 2014-10-24 12:32

#4 "Oh, sorry we didn't respond to your 911 emergency with four intruders in your house. We'll make it up to you by not charging for your garbage pickup - which must still be seperated."

Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-10-24 11:23

#3 ISJV, hell they'll airstrike them themselves. This is PR damage control.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-10-24 11:21

#2 Pappy, according to An Nahar this morning, the timing is "sometime next week."

"The forces that will be sent are support forces and their number will not exceed 200 fighters," Halgord Hekmat, spokesman for the Kurdish ministry responsible for the peshmerga, told Agence France-Presse.

"We are not able to specify the day but it will definitely be during the next week," he added.

The peshmerga fighters will be armed with automatic weapons, mortars and rocket launchers, Hekmat said, declining to specify what route they would take.

They will likely pass through Turkey, which said this week it would allow peshmerga to do so to relieve the town's defenders.

Posted by: trailing wife 2014-10-24 11:12

#1 Probably already let the IS know the date and the time window as well.

Posted by: Pappy 2014-10-24 10:13

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