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| Iraq |
| Kurds, outgunned by fanatical ISIS, hope looming Baghdad battle buys time for weapons upgrade |
| 2014-06-21 |
| [FoxNews] The terrorist army, which seeks to establish a caliphate, or nation under strict Muslim law, in northern Iraq and Syria, is flush with stolen cash and seized U.S. weaponry after its recent conquests. Peshmerga soldiers said their weapons include a handful of tanks and many AK-47s, although they are older models and in many cases unworkable. Given the tenuous relationship Kurds have with the central government in Baghdad -- as well as that city's own needs -- no weapons are forthcoming from the Iraqi government. And foreign nations are hesitant to provide weapons to the army of a semi-autonomous government in an unstable region. B. O. can send weapons to the Kurds. There has to be some M198 155mm howitzers laying about. The following is from Slemani Times. Slemani Times @SlemaniTimes - 4h Reports coming from #Mosul state that dozens of local girls have been forcibly married to #ISIS fighters. #TwitterKurds #Iraq #USA #Syria Slemani Times @SlemaniTimes - 4h 3 Sunni girls have committed suicide after being forced to marry #ISIS fighters in #Mosul. #TwitterKurds #Iraq #Syria #USA #KDP #PUK #Iran Slemani Times @SlemaniTimes - 5h If Kurdish peshmerga "don't receive real support & weapons, #ISIS will gain more territory, Kurds will be abandoned again." #TwitterKurds |
| Posted by:Squinty |
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| Posted by: Ulung Thravirt1475 2014-06-21 18:18 |
| #4 Israel has some shinny weapons...... |
| Posted by: bbrewer126 2014-06-21 14:55 |
| #3 Two weeks ago there were reports that the first shipment of Kurdistan oil had been loaded at Ceyhan port, Turkey. Ostensibly, the oil was bound for the USA. In midshipment the vessel was turned around, docked in Morocco and continued to Israel where it has been unloaded and will be refined there. It seems the USA is putting pressure on the intl community to reject Kurd oil because it wants nothing to interfere with a failed policy to maintain a unified Iraq. The USA military already knows that it is impossible to put the Iraq Humpty Dumpty together again. Meanwhile, Foggy Bottom employs a policy to screw the Kurds. This will soon change as Washington will realize it needs the Kurds support as badly as the Kurds need Washington's. |
| Posted by: Omolump Thud8081 2014-06-21 12:23 |
| #2 The Kurds will be bombed for regional peace. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-06-21 08:18 |
| #1 Kurds will be abandoned again. No need for a question mark. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-06-21 05:43 |