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| Islamic State attacks Kobane 5 months after ouster |
| 2015-06-26 |
| [WASHINGTONPOST] 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... gunnies stormed into the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane on Thursday, launching suicide kabooms and gunning down civilians five months after the Assailants in five cars penetrated Kurdish defenses shortly before dawn, carried out a suicide kaboom and then fanned out in an apparent attempt to blast their way into the town on the Syrian-Turkish border, said Redur Xelil, a front man for the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, which reclaimed Kobane in January. The attackers -- numbering about 30 -- wore YPG uniforms and flew the flags of the opposition Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... on their vehicles, Xelil said. They moved through the streets randomly shooting at civilians, killing and wounding scores, then detonating boom jackets as Kurdish forces closed in, according to Xelil and witnesses. Authorities in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... said 63 civilians from Kobane were admitted to Turkish hospitals. By nightfall, most of the gunnies had been captured, killed or surrounded, and Kurdish forces were reported to be restoring order. But the attack was a reminder of the Islamic State's continued ability to upset the battlefield even when it appears to be on the defensive. In recent weeks, the group has suffered defeats in nearby Raqqa province. The capture last week of the border town of Tal Abyad, the myrmidons' most important conduit for trade and the flow of imported muscle, was followed by a Kurdish-Syrian rebel force's advances farther south toward the city of Raqqa, the Islamic State's self-proclaimed capital. |
| Posted by:Fred |