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US General: Islamic State Fighters On The Defensive
2014-12-09
[Ynet] The commander of US forces fighting the 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....
 in Iraq and Syria said Monday the turban group has been thrown on the defensive, unable to generate the kind of quick strikes that captured large chunks of Iraq last summer.

Army Lt. Gen. James Terry told news hounds in Kuwait that US and coalition Arclight airstrikes are taking a toll on IS. He said the fighters are less mobile and are limited in their ability to communicate because of the Arclight airstrikes and other pressure.

Terry said his first priority is to build a bigger coalition of countries to counter IS. He said a conference of coalition partners last week produced plans for non-US members to contribute as many as 1,500 military personnel to help rebuild Iraq's army.
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  Not like cutting off heads of live captives or lining a bunch up in front of a ditch and just gunning them down.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-12-09 15:18  

#6  Speaking of barbarity, tremendous amount of discussion today throughout Middle East social media regarding the newly released CIA report of the CIA's newly disclosed brutal methods of torture.

Not good.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664   2014-12-09 13:27  

#5   Is this a real general?

Not sure what you mean by real general. I don't "know Army," but I looked over his background information/curriculum vitae here.

You decide.
Posted by: Pappy   2014-12-09 12:37  

#4  Not counting the ones already within your own borders, right?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-12-09 09:48  

#3  ISIS terrorists buried alive by air strike dug out by Peshmerga.

Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664   2014-12-09 00:41  

#2  A column of 5,000 Kurdish Peshmerga troops march into Shingale.


Post by P E S H M E R G E.

Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664   2014-12-09 00:29  

#1  Is this a real general? or one of those political appointee butt kissers that youknowwho shoved up through the ranks to get HIS guys in control?
Posted by: Mystic   2014-12-09 00:26  

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