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The Grand Turk
Iraqi Kurdish Fighters Head For Syrian Town Of Kobani
2014-10-29
[Ynet] Turkish premier Davutoglu says while only ground operation could save border town, Turkey would not commit troops.

Iraqi peshmerga fighters left Iraq for the besieged Syrian town of Kobani on Tuesday to help fellow Kurds in their battle 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....
 myrmidons, a senior Kurdish official said.

Hemin Hawrami, a bigwig in the Kurdistan Democratic Party, wrote on his Twitter feed that peshmerga fighters were flying from Arbil airport to Turkey, from where they would travel by land to Kobani.

US warplanes have been bombing Islamic State positions near Kobani for weeks, but Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said air strikes alone would not be enough to repel the Lion of Islams.

"Saving Kobani, retaking Kobani and some area around Kobani from ISIS, there's a need for a military operation," he said in an interview with the BBC broadcast on Tuesday.

But made clear neither Turkey nor Western allies would commit troops.

"If they (international coalition) don't want to send their ground troops, how can they expect Turkey to send Turkish ground troops with the same risks on our border," Davutoglu said.
Because, my dear Turkish Prime Minister, it is precisely on your border that the danger lies... and perhaps subsequently within your former border, unless you do something effective about it. I realize you think that because your army is Turkish, whereas the ISIS army is made up of Arabs, therefore yours is fated by genetics to win, but have the Turks ever in history so completely removed their cleverest and bravest fighting men from the fight?
Turkey has been reluctant to join the US-led coalition against Islamic State, an al-Qaeda offshoot. But after pressure from its Western allies, President Tayyip Erdogan said last Wednesday that some peshmerga fighters from Iraq would be allowed to transit through Turkey to Kobani.

The town has been encircled by Islamic State fighters for more than a month and the battle to save it has become a test of the US-led coalition's strategy for halting the radical Sunni Moslem group's advance.
Not to mention a test of the much-claimed invincible ISIS advance. It's rather like how Saddam Hussein's generals assumed they were mighty warriors, the match for anything America could throw at them, because they held Iran's child soldiers to a standstill. They were shown otherwise in the two Gulf wars, and now they are being shown again by a semi-pro armed force that's one third girlz and only partly Muslim.
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