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Syria Kurds Weather IS Assault as They Await Iraq Help
2014-10-22
[AnNahar] Kurdish fighters in the battleground Syrian town of Kobane weathered an onslaught by 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....
group hard boyz on Tuesday as they awaited promised reinforcements.

The Kurdish militia faced a fierce attack by IS fighters, including jacket wallahs, late on Monday, that appeared aimed at cutting off the border with Turkey before any reinforcements could arrive, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Fighting continued on Tuesday with exchanges between IS forces in the east of the town and Kurds in the west and there were reports of an kaboom, probably a boom-mobile, the Britannia-based monitoring group said.

Kobane has become a crucial symbolic battleground in the war against IS, which is fighting to extend areas under its control in Iraq and Syria where it has declared an Islamic "caliphate".

Ankara announced on Monday that it would help Kurdish forces from Iraq to relieve Kobane's beleaguered defenders, in a major shift of policy that was swiftly welcomed by Washington.

Iraqi Kurdish officials have said they will provide the training, although any forces sent will be Syrian Kurds.

Coalition aircraft carried out further strikes during the night, said the Observatory, which has a wide network of sources inside Syria.

IS lost at least five of its hard boyz to air strikes on Monday and a further 12 in ground fighting, including two suicide bombers, the monitoring group said.

Five Kurdish fighters were also killed.

A senior U.S. administration official said Monday's airdrop was in recognition of the "impressive" resistance put up by the Kurds and the losses they were inflicting on IS.
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  ALL: Suggestion. Contact your local FBI office about this possible lead. Back ground appears to be Al Anbar, Iraq. That would place Jihadi John at that location. The American hostage scheduled for beheading could be at that location as well. If you have active military contacts, let them know of this important lead. It could save a life.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664   2014-10-22 14:00  

#6  Is this man in the "missed air drop ISIS video"...



This man who is the executioner and author of the ISIS beheading videos?

Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664   2014-10-22 13:31  

#5  Jenan Moussa @jenanmoussa · 5h 5 hours ago
Last nite there were claims of ISIS chemical weapon attack in #Kobane. As far as I know these R still claims; not backed up by evidence yet.

Jenan Moussa @jenanmoussa · 18h 18 hours ago
What we know so far: Sources in #Kobane telling me they suspect ISIS carried out chemical attack in city. No pics yet. Too early to confirm.
Posted by: mossomo   2014-10-22 12:12  

#4  In the past 24 hours a minimum of 67 ISIS terrorists have been killed carrying out ISIS assaults in Kobane, Syria that have been repelled and in counter operations by the Kurds. 11 Kurdish fighters have been martyred.

In the entire conflict to date 20 YPJ (female Kurdish fighters) have been martyred.

Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664   2014-10-22 09:00  

#3  ...but, but we were assured by the MSM that stuff never existed! /sarc off

The Media Lies, People Die
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-10-22 06:03  

#2  Reason enough for Shim to get whacked, especially if the alleged chemical weapons actually came from Saddam's old stockpiles.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-10-22 01:29  

#1  Evidence of Chemical Attack on the people of Kobane today is surfacing. Many people attribute the source of chemical weapons to be from captured Iraqi stockpiles.

However, a story by PressTV Journalist Serena Shim who died in a mysterious car accident in Turkey two days ago accuses Turkey of sending chemical weapons to anti-Assad forces.

Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664   2014-10-22 00:47