[ARABNEWS] More than 20,000 Kurds protested against 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.... group in the western German city of Duesseldorf Saturday, according to the police.
Several Kurdish organizations called the demonstration to protest attacks by IS jihadist bandidosbully boyz on Kurdish towns in Syria, particularly the besiegement of the city of Kobani.
Clashes between Kurds and radical Moslems in the northern German cities of Hamburg and Celle left more than 20 people injured earlier this week.
Concern has grown in Berlin about a spillover of the tensions in Syria and Iraq to Germany, which is home to an estimated one million ethnic Kurds.
"We're watching this very closely," Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said in an interview to appear Sunday in German daily Focus.
Those who take part in fighting "should expect a very tough reaction," he warned.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time.... several thousand people also protested Saturday in Gay Paree and several hundred in the central French city of Lyon to call for international support for Kurds trapped in Kobani.
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20,000 Kurds protested
Easier to party with your friends and go home to sleep in a warm bed than make your way to the FEBA.
[ARABNEWS] A senior Kurdish myrmidon has threatened Turkey with a new Kurdish revolt if it sticks with its current policy of non-intervention in the battle for the Syrian town of Kobani.
Kurdish forces allied to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the People's Defense Units (YPG), are fighting 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.... bully boyz attacking Kobani close to the Turkish border. Turkey is reluctant to open its border to allow arms to reach the out-gunned Kurds.
Turkey passed a mandate for cross-border military operations in Syria and Iraq but has so far refused to join the military coalition against Islamic State or use force to protect Kobani and has resisted calls to allow the flow of weapons and volunteer fighters into the besieged town.
"We have warned Turkey. If they continue on this path, then the guerrillas will re-launch our defensive war to protect our people," Cemil Bayik, a founding member of the PKK who is also its most senior figure not in prison, told the German network ARD in Arbil in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region.
"The AK party is responsible for what is happening right now in Kobani and in Turkey," he added. The AK party rules Turkey.
The PKK, designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , waged a 30-year revolt for autonomy in Turkey's rugged southeast.
Last year Bayik accused Turkey of waging a proxy war against Kurds in Syria by backing Salafist tough guys fighting them in the north, threatening an end to the cease-fire that was called in March 2012 when the PKK's incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! leader Abdullah Ocalan ordered his rebel fighters to retreat from Turkey to Iraqi Kurdistan.
"Because Turkey has continued to pursue its policies without any changes, we have sent back all our fighters that were pulled out of Turkey," Bayik said.
Kurdish leaders in Syria have asked Ankara to establish a corridor through Turkey to allow aid and military supplies to reach Kobani where YPG is struggling against an Islamic State advance.
Bayik lambasted a Turkish mandate enabling the government to authorize cross-border military incursions into Iraq and Syria to battle Islamic State myrmidons, saying it is designed to attack the PKK.
"This authorization barely mentions IS myrmidons, but the PKK is very much mentioned. The authorization amounts to a declaration of war against the PKK. By approving this in parliament, Turkey has ended the grinding of the peace processor."
This past week more than 20 people died in riots in Turkey where Kurds rose up against the government for doing nothing to protect their kin in Syria.
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Erdogan may have just triggered a civil war with a large portion of the population, in mountainous territory.
Turks were not that interested in border security with radical Islamists running guns and men into Syria, but now that its life or death for the Kurds needing resupply and reinforcement, Erdogans turks locked it down. Typical cowardly Turks, too gutless to take real action.
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Turkey passed a mandate for cross-border military operations in Syria and Iraq but has so far refused to join the military coalition against Islamic State or use force to protect Kobani and has resisted calls to allow the flow of weapons and volunteer fighters into the besieged town.
[DAWN] Multan police have held the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) responsible for the death of at least seven people in a stampede following a PTI rally in the city on Saturday.
The otherwise impressive public meeting at Multan's Qasim Bagh stadium turned into a tragedy when a large number of people tried to cross one of the exit gates in one go after PTI Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... left the venue. In the process several people fell on the ground and were trampled by others, leaving seven people dead and 43 injured.
In an initial investigation report sent to the Prime Minister House here today, Multan police claim the PTI paid no attention to the situation even after a police officer present on the stage informed PTI big shot Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi about it.
The report also claims that the people responsible for the administration were told several times to make announcements for emergency help, but to no avail.
"Soon after the public meeting, people started moving out of the venue and due to congestion two persons was struck down in his prime," says the report.
The report says there were only five exit gates which were not enough for such a large gathering of people.
A number of people also slipped and suffered injuries due to water on the ground, it claims.
The police say 200 coppers were posted at the venue and the arrangements were finalised by the PTI just a night before the event.
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[DAWN] Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) patron-in-chief Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari ...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet... on Saturday congratulated Malala Yousafzai ...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She started blogging at age 11-12. She was 15 when a Talib boarded her school bus and shot her in the head in 2012. She was evacuated to a hospital in Britain and the Pak Taliban vowed to kill her and her father. Among other awards, she received the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, which she deserved more than Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Yasser Arafat, or Rigoberta Menchu... over telephone on winning the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize and invited her to work with him for transformation of education system in Sindh.
In a telephonic conversation, he said his late mother Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... was alive in the shape of Malala, adding that every girl of Pakistain had the potential to become Benazir.
After winning the prestigious global award, the teen education rights campaigner had dedicated her Nobel peace prize to "voiceless" children around the world on Friday.
Malala moved to Britannia for medical treatment after being shot in the head by a Taliban fighter in October 2012, an attempt to silence her vocal advocacy of the right of girls to go to school.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A breakaway faction of Pakistain Taliban, whose gunnies had pumped bullets into her two years ago, has criticized the choice of Malala Yousafzai ...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She started blogging at age 11-12. She was 15 when a Talib boarded her school bus and shot her in the head in 2012. She was evacuated to a hospital in Britain and the Pak Taliban vowed to kill her and her father. Among other awards, she received the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, which she deserved more than Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Yasser Arafat, or Rigoberta Menchu... for the 2014 Nobel Peace prize, calling her "an agent of non-believers."
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, which had separated from Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) in August, posted on Twitter on Friday that Malala was being used by non-believers for propaganda, PTI reported.
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[IsraelTimes] The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... last month secured the release of 45 Fijian peacekeeping soldiers, kidnapped on the Syrian side of Golan Heights by the Nusra Front, through the payment of a $25 million ransom by Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , an Israeli TV report claimed.
The Fijian soldiers, members of UNDOF, were captured on August 28 by the Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda affiliate, along the DMZ separating Israel and Syria. Their September 11 release, Israel's Channel 2 said Friday, was obtained after Doha made the ransom payment.
The TV report (Hebrew) said the deal made a mockery of UN and Western leaders' rhetoric against doing deals with gunnies and paying ransoms for the release of hostages.
The TV station broadcast footage taken by one of its camera crews from the Israeli side of the border which it said documented the September 11 meet between Nusra Front members and United Nations officials, held as the funds were transferred to a Nusra Front bank account. Once it was confirmed that the funds had been received, the Fijian peacekeepers were released, the report said.
The footage purported to show UN officials crossing from Israel into Syria to meet with Al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... leaders to finalize the deal.
It then showed what it said was a Nusra Front convoy arriving to meet them.
And it showed what it said was an Al-Nusra official checking his laptop to see whether the payment had gone through. There was a delay of almost two hours before confirmation was received, the report said, and then the hostage peacekeepers were set free.
Shortly after the incident, an Iranian news outlet accused Qatar of providing financial assistance to the Nusra Front, a charge Doha rejected. Iran backs Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... , whose regime Al-Nusra and other rebels are battling to depose.
At the time of the soldiers' release last month, there was confusion as to whether the Nusra Front had received anything in exchange for freeing the Fijian troops. Fiji announced beforehand that the hostages would soon be released unconditionally, but then retracted the statement. A Rooters report said Qatar claimed Fiji had asked for its assistance in securing the release of the hostages.
The Fijian troops were past of the UN's 1,200-strong UNDOF force, monitoring the buffer zone between Syria and Israel.
Both US President Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... and UK Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... have stated in recent months that their governments refuse to negotiate with terrorist organizations, particularly 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.... and al-Qaeda.
Since the release of the Fijian peacekeepers last month, the UN has withdrawn many of its other peacekeepers from the area. Last month, the Philippines began pulling its peacekeeping troops out UNDOF.
The Nusra front controls much of the Syrian side of the Golan Heights border with Israel.
[IsraelTimes] The young Yazidi girl rocked apprehensively as she described the ordeal that took her from her family, snatched from her home by snuffies in Iraq, then sold as a slave in Syria before finally escaping to Turkey.
The 15-year-old is now with what is left of her family -- two of her brothers and some more distant relatives -- living in a makeshift roadside shelter in this tiny village in northern Iraq, along with other families shattered by the onslaught from 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.... krazed killer group.
Her two sisters remain in the krazed killers' hands, and her father, other brothers and other male relatives have vanished, their fates unknown.
The girl was among hundreds of women and girls from the Yazidi religious minority captured by Islamic State fighters in early August when the snuffies overran her hometown of Sinjar in northwestern Iraq. Hundreds were killed in the attack, and tens of thousands fled for their lives, most to the Kurdish-held parts of northern Iraq.
Iraq's Human Rights Ministry said at the time that hundreds of women were kidnapped by the krazed killers, who consider the Yazidis a heretical sect.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named spoke to the girl and several other young women who escaped captivity by the Islamic State group. While specifics of their stories could not be independently confirmed, they reflected circumstances reported by the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... last month.
They each independently painted a similar picture of how the snuffies scattered them around the broad swath of territory controlled by the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq and sold the girls to the group's imported muscle or other supporters for "marriage."
For weeks after being snatched from Sinjar, the 15-year-old girl and two of her sisters were shifted from one place to another, she said. The AP does not identify victims of abuse, and the girl also did not want to be named for fear of reprisals against her relatives still being held by the krazed killers.
As she told her story, the girl rubbed her hands and avoided eye contact. But she spoke decisively and clearly, never hesitating when asked questions. She asked her relatives to leave the room, saying she was more comfortable speaking alone.
First, she said, she and other girls were taken to the nearby town of Tal Afar, where she was kept in the Badosh Prison. When US Arclight airstrikes began around the town, the snuffies took her and many other girls with them to the Islamic State group's biggest stronghold, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , in northern Iraq.
From the city of Mosul, she and her sisters were taken to the krazed killers' de facto capital, the Syrian city of Raqqa. There they were held in a house with other kidnapped girls.
"They took girls to Syria to sell them," she said, her body shyly hunched over as she spoke. "I was sold in Syria. I stayed about five days with my two sisters, then one of my sisters was sold and taken (back) to Mosul, and I remained in Syria."
In Raqqa, she said, she was first married off to a Paleostinian man. She claims she shot him, saying the Paleostinian's Iraqi housekeeper who was in a dispute with the man helped her by giving her a gun. She fled, but she had nowhere to run. So she went to the only place she knew, she said -- the house where she was first held with the other girls in Raqqa.
There, the snuffies did not recognize her and sold her off again -- for $1,000 to a Saudi fighter, she said. The Saudi krazed killer took her to a house where he lived with other fighters.
"He told me, 'I'm going to change your name to Abeer, so your mother doesn't recognize you,'" she said. "You'll become Moslem, then I will marry you. But I refused to become a Moslem and that's why I fled."
She said she saw the fighters at time taking a powdered drug. So she poured it into tea she served to the Saudi and the other men, causing them to fall asleep. Then she fled the house.
She found a man who would drive her to Turkey to meet her brother. Her brother then borrowed $2,000 from friends to pay a smuggler to get them both back to Iraq. They ended up in Maqluba, a tiny roadside hamlet just outside the Kurdish city of Dahuk, where several other Yazidi families are staying.
The other women who spoke to The AP described difficult conditions, where the krazed killer fighters would deprive them of enough food, water or even a place to sit. They all reported having seen dozens of other Yazidi women and kiddies as young as 5-years old in captivity, and they all said that they have relatives who are still missing.
Amsha Ali, a 19-year-old, said she was taken from Sinjar to Mosul. Ali was around six months pregnant at the time. The last she saw of her husband and other men in her family as she was being dragged off, was the scene of the snuffies forcing them to lie on the ground, apparently to shoot them. Ali agreed to be identified, saying she wanted the ordeals of the women to be known.
In Mosul, she said, she and other women were taken to a house full of Islamic State fighters to be married off. "Each of them took one of us for themselves," she said. She too was given to a fighter. She said she was never raped by the man -- likely because of her pregnancy, she said -- but she witnessed other girls being raped.
After several weeks, she was able to slip out of a bathroom window at night and escape. A Mosul resident who found her in the streets helped her get out of the city to nearby Kurdish territory on Aug. 28, she said. She said she tried to convince other women to flee with her, but they were too afraid. "Because they were so terrified, they are left there and now I know nothing about them," she said.
Now Ali is with her father and a surviving sister living in an unfinished building in the town of Sharia, where some 5,000 Yazidi refugees live, also near Dahuk.
"The killing was not the hardest thing for me," she said of seeing fellow Yazidis slain in the assault on Sinjar. "Even though they forced my husband, brother-in-law and father-in-law on the ground to be murdered -- it was painful -- but marrying (the krazed killer) was the worst. It was hardest thing for me."
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See DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > ISLAMIC STATE OFFICIALLY ADMITS TO ENSLAVING YAZIDI WOMEN.
To which they see nothing wrong in their acts vee Sharia - to the contrary, the IS claims that strict Islamic protocols + regulations were followed in order to protect the Yazidi women.
[IsraelTimes] Operation Protective Edge in Gazoo, fought amid a civilian population, proved the need for guided munitions and curved trajectory shells -- and the shortcomings of both
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Correction: "Right 200, Drop 50, FIRE FOR EFFECT."
Adjusting rounds landed slightly to the left of the designated target, but well within the 360 degree fan of enemy concentrations for the State of Israel. GOOD SHOOTING !
[Breitbart] Remember the story of the four kids killed on the beach by Israeli ordnance in Gazoo?
Of course you do. It was the one that set the tone for the entire media coverage of the summer's Israel-Gazoo conflict. Here was the evidence - or so it seemed - that wanton Israeli aggression was leading to the needless deaths of innocent civilians, in this case four boys who had been playing football moments earlier and now lay in bloodied rags on the beach.
But did [the reporters] actually see what they think they saw? Not according to a US-based weapons expert who has conducted a forensic analysis of what happened on the day, pieced together using Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, propaganda footage, film from various international TV networks, and still photographs, and who has drawn a conclusion which could hardly be more different from the Hamas/mainstream media narrative.
His name is Thomas Wictor and if his theory is right then those four dead boys were not, after all the victims of Israeli missiles, but were murdered by Hamas in one of the most complex and ingenious "Pallywood" propaganda stunts ever staged.
[Ynet] Donors raise concern that unless the cycle is broken, the warring sides will be 'back here doing the same thing again in a year or two,' says US official.
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O isn't into personal responsibility. He will give money to his dysfunctional despot friends, because that is who he values as friends. Besides, it is not his money.
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his dysfunctional despot friends
If only "Palestinians" had a despot! You can deal with a despot.
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I know itr is not his lmoney but he is giving it to his Arab masters all while Blmacks are starving. Did you forget how he bowed in front of the Saudi bandit king?
[ARABNEWS] Thai authorities on Saturday tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! 53 Rohingya migrants and two suspected Thai traffickers en route to neighboring Malaysia, an official said.
The migrants were found on a rubber plantation in Takua Pa district in the southern coastal province of Phang Nga, district chief Manit Phianthong told AFP.
"We got a tip-off from an informant that a trafficking gang would be transporting Rohingya people to Malaysia," he said, adding that the migrants came from Myanmar's western Rakhine state and Bangladesh.
Thousands of Rohingya -- a Moslem minority group not recognized as citizens in Myanmar -- have fled deadly communal unrest in Rakhine since 2012, mostly heading for Malaysia.
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[Iran Press TV] Syria's UN Ambassador Bashar al-Jaafari has criticized Turkey and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... for being "directly involved" in providing "murderous Moslems organizations" in his country with chemical weapons.
Speaking before the First Committee on Disarmament and International Security at the UN General Assembly on Friday, al-Jaafari further censured the two regional countries for supplying weapons and funds to the foreign-backed holy warriors in his country, alleging that Turkey alone has been backing 106 bully boy groups operating within Syria.
Underlining the extent of Turkey's involvement in supporting the anti-Damascus militancy in his country, the Syrian envoy also stated that instead of lending "a helping hand to Syria to overcome the crisis...Turkish government...became one of the main support bases for these terrorist organizations," Syria's official news agency, SANA, reported
According to the report, al-Jaafari further suggested that the UN Arms Trade Treaty must be implemented to account for the illicit trafficking of small and light weaponry, pointing to the need to "utterly [prohibit] supplying weapons to non-state elements and armed terrorist organizations."
Al-Jaafari's remarks came following recent statements by US Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... , who also criticized closely allied states of Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for their active support for radical elements inside Syria.
Biden said in a forum at Harvard University on October 2 that the three major US allies in the region were "so determined to take down Assad" that "they poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against [Syrian President Bashar] Assad ‐ except that the people who were being supplied were al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... and al-Qaeda and the krazed killer elements...coming from other parts of the world."
Under pressure, Biden quickly apologized to all three states for his comments.
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According to the report, al-Jaafari further suggested that the UN Arms Trade Treaty must be implemented to account for the illicit trafficking of small and light weaponry, pointing to the need to "utterly [prohibit] supplying weapons to non-state elements and armed terrorist organizations."
Does that mean the Iranians are going to shut down their arms shipments through Sudan and West Africa?
Within the U.S. Air Force, there’s mounting frustration that the air campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq is moving far more slowly than expected. Instead of a fast-moving operation with hundreds of sorties flown in a single day—the kind favored by many in the air service—American warplanes are hitting small numbers of targets after a painstaking and cumbersome process.
The single biggest problem, current and former Air Force officers say, is the so-called kill-chain of properly identifying and making sure the right target is being attacked. At the moment, that process is very complicated and painfully slow. A major reason why: the lack of U.S. ground forces to direct American air power against ISIS positions. Air power, when it is applied in an area where the enemy is blended in with the civilian population, works best when there are troops on the ground who are able to call in strikes.
From the sky, it can be hard to tell friend from foe. And by themselves, the GPS coordinates used to guide bombs aren’t nearly precise enough; landscape and weather can throw the coordinates off by as much as 500 feet. The planes need additional information from the guys on the ground. The only other option is to use laser-guided bombs, but even then the target has to be correctly indentified beforehand.
But putting the specialized troops the Pentagon calls “Joint Terminal Air Controllers,” or JTACs, into combat comes with a cost. “The problem with putting JTACs on the ground is that once you get American boots on the ground—and one of those guys gets captured and beheaded on national TV or media,” the A-10 pilot said. The Pentagon has compensated for this, in part, by easing back in Syria on the restrictive rules used in Afghanistan to minimize civilian casualties.
But in many other aspects, current and former Air Force personnel say, U.S. Central Command is fighting the war against ISIS in largely the same way it operates against the Taliban in Afghanistan. “The strategic problem posed by [ISIS] is different than that in Afghanistan,” one former senior Air Force official said. “So the similarity of the minimal application of airpower, along with excessive micromanagement by the CENTCOM bureaucracy, is a symptom of not recognizing that this is a different strategic problem.” So instead of worrying about individual air strikes, this former official said, the CENTCOM needs to run a wider more free-ranging air war where more targets are hit much more quickly.
But that is a view shared mainly by those within the Air Force—which has, for decades, argued that it has the ability to win wars though strategic bombing. Even in the case of the campaign against ISIS, there are many officers from the Army, Navy and even the Air Force who told The Daily Beast that they agree with the restraint shown by CENTCOM leadership—noting it is pointless to bomb the wrong target and antagonize the local population.
Further, the challenge for CENTCOM is further compounded by the lack of workable intelligence in Syria. It’s hard to untangle the convoluted alliances and entanglements between friend or foe. Often, so-called moderate rebel forces cooperate with the hardcore Islamic fighters in their fight against the Syrian government or even ISIS. Additionally, there is little to no cooperation or coordination with moderate rebel forces and the U.S. military.
There’s another reason the campaign against ISIS is proceeding slowly: the unwieldy coalition of foreign countries put together by the U.S. to fight in this new war. There are differing ways of doing things and different countries have different objectives, which makes for a long process, the A-10 pilot said.
There have also been instances during this air war when combat aircraft are not available in time to strike a target that pops up. For example, the A-10 pilot said, if a Predator drone finds a target, it can take warplanes like a B-1 bomber or an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter—up to two hours sometimes—to arrive at the target.
Right now, there are no Warthogs deployed to the fight against ISIS, however the Indiana Air National Guard will send a dozen of the jets to the area this month. The Army, however, has deployed some AH-64 Apache gunships into Iraq to strike at ISIS from close in.
“We’re using AH-64s because they’re the best platform to get in and visually identify the targets and either take them out or designate for someone else to take them out,” said one former Army aviator with extensive Apache experience. “ISIS does have armor, so Hellfires [anti-tank missiles] will be very effective against them, and we all know how devastating a weapon the 30mm [cannon] is against troops.”
But the Apaches are short range and need maintenance troops to deploy with them into a location within Iraq itself. “The only disadvantage is contrary to President Obama, we definitely have ‘boots on the ground,’” the former Army officer said. “They’re unsupportable otherwise.”
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There is a solution. It's quite simple. Curtis LeMay figured out the type tactics needed for this.
If it exists, bomb it. If it moves, bomb it and and set it on fire. If you can still see it the next day, bomb it and clean up with fire. If nothing moves and you can't see anything, bomb it and napalm it cause somethings likely hiding there. Did I mention bomb it? Then set it on fire? Yes? Good. Now go do it. Repeat until charred bits of corpses beg for mercy.
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Like I said the other day, US air strikes are far too few an far too ineffective because ISIS has figured out how to get inside the US IDA loop. This article poetry much confirms it.
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American warplanes are hitting small numbers of targets after a painstaking and cumbersome process.
Got to clear things with the Washington lawyers first?
“The kill-chain is very convoluted,” one combat-experienced Air Force A-10 Warthog pilot told The Daily Beast. “Nobody really has the control in the tactical environment.”
It's O.K. rest assured, we have the ONE in the WH. He brings plenty of experience to the job (sarc).
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When the enemy knows you will not accept collateral damage he will be sure to surround himself with 'human shields.' No matter how skillful your targetting and bombing are, you cannot avoid collateral damage.
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Before ISIS beheaded American hostages, White House Weenies were talking about sending bombing requests to the White House lawyers with secret instructions to not approve anything.
Now circumstances have changed, but I wonder if the lawyers have gotten the message.
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SilentBrick has read his U Wun Sun Tu, on the Art of Was
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Puttus is bombing as a political effort to silence those demanding that we do something against ISIS. He does not want results, only that he did something to silence his perceived opposition.
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[IsraelTimes] The US threatened to cut off all aid to Leb should Beirut accept an Iranian offer of military aid, a Lebanese newspaper reported Friday.
Citing an anonymous official, Al Akhbar reported that Washington warned Leb against accepting a small arms shipment from Tehran, which the US said would breach sanctions against the Islamic Theocratic Republic. Iran says the arms are meant to help Beirut combat Sunni bully boys.
According to Al Akhbar, Iran offered to send the Lebanese army TOW (anti-tank) missiles and launchers, night goggles, 120mm and 60mm mortar shells, ammunition for T55 and T62 tanks, and Doshka machine-guns and ammunition.
In the past several months, the US has provided the Lebanese Armed Forces with $19 million in military aid to help it combat 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.... forces along the Syrian border, and an additional $103.8 million to help cope with refugees from Syria. Lebanese Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk recently told The Wall Street Journal that Washington would give Beirut almost $150 million in military and security gear.
In 2013, the US provided Leb with roughly $80 million in military aid, including much of the arms Iran recently offered. According to the White House, the US provides approximately 75% of Leb's international security assistance.
Part of the US's reluctance to allow Iran to provide the Lebanese Army with arms may stem from Washington's concern that the weapons could pass into the hands of Hezbollah. Until recently Iran has provided the Shiite militia in Leb with arms through Syria, but the three year civil war has largely prevented Tehran from transferring military equipment through that route.
Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy operating in Leb, praised the Islamic Theocratic Republic's offer to provide Leb with aid to combat the Islamic State, which both the Lebanese army and the Shiite militia are fighting.
"If we want to speak realistically and sincerely, the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran's gift to the Lebanese army in this sensitive stage of fight against the murderous Moslems is timely," Iran's Fars news agency quoted the head of Hezbollah's Executive Council Seyed Hashem Safiaddin saying last week.
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US Threatens To End Aid To Lebanon If Iran Sends Arms
There.
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POTUS Obama + Globalists desires each Continet-based OWG Global Fed Union to be headed by one or more "US-style" "Co-Superpowers", of which Shia Iran is one.
At minima, this means Iran needs ...
> Nuclear Arms - both Tactical + Strategic.
> Potent expanding National Economy.
> Ability to project Pol, Mil, + Econ power OTH anywhere around the world, or at least simualtaneously to two or more "near-abroad" outside regions.
Ability to unilaterally deny strategic access as well as unilaterally force open strategic access ["A2/Area-Denial"].
> National Military-industrial Complex that can reliably or routinely support the above.
Personally, I'm interpeting this Artic as Globalist POTUS Obama indirectly supporting the Globie agenda as per IRAN.
[ARABNEWS] Kurdish forces defending Kobani urged a US-led coalition to escalate Arclight airstrikes on 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.... bandidos krazed killers who tightened their grip on the Syrian town at the border with Turkey on Saturday.
A group that monitors the Syrian civil war said the Kurdish forces faced inevitable defeat in Kobani if Turkey did not open its border to let through arms -- something Ankara has so far appeared reluctant to do.
A Kurdish military official said Islamic State had brought extra tanks and artillery to the front lines, while street-to-street fighting was making it harder for the warplanes to target Islamic State positions.
While Islamic State has been able to reinforce its fighters, the Kurds have not. Islamic State has besieged the town to the east, south and west, meaning the Kurds' only possible supply route is the Turkish border to the north.
The B.O. regime is boxed in by its promise to limit US military engagement against the terror group, making it tough to agree to Turkey's condition for joining the fight.
Turkey and other US allies want the US to create a no-fly zone inside Syrian territory. Doing so would mean embracing one of two options US President Barack Obama Because I won... has long resisted: Cooperating with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... 's government or taking out its air defenses, action tantamount to war.
Airstrikes alone might not prevent Lions of Islam from carrying out a massacre at a Kurdish border town now under attack, but for now the US isn't steering a new course in its expanded, one-month counterterrorism effort in Iraq and Syria.
Demands are rising for the creation of a secure buffer on the Syrian side of its frontier with Turkey.
Any decision by Gulf states to send in troops would depend on whether Turkey decides to use its own ground forces, according to Mathieu Guidere, professor of Middle East Studies at Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... University.
"A ground intervention from Arab countries depends on the Turkish decision to engage or not ground troops. We are likely to see Arab boots on the ground if Turkish forces engage in the Syrian territory," he said.
Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, political science professor at the University of the Emirates, said: "America is far from frank about its true intentions."
He added: There is the constant fear that every time the US touches the Middle East, it makes things worse and instead of solving regional problems, it invariably creates bigger ones."
Abdulla said "Iran has a proven record of taking advantage of America's mistakes. It could be once again the net beneficiary of this campaign" against the radical fighters.
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The B.O. regime is boxed in by its promise to limit US military engagement against the terror group, making it tough to agree to Turkey's condition for joining the fight.
The coalition is actually winning. It's a very nuanced kind of thing that only the Harvard-educated can appreciate (sarc).
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Headded: There is the constant fear that every time the US touches the Middle East, it makes things worse and instead of solving regional problems, it invariably creates bigger ones."
The result of wanting to be loved rather than respected (and fear is a form of respect as in 'you really don't want my attention').
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We have a Prez who more rhetoric than substance. He drew too many lines in the sand and didn't follow up with action. A kind of version of "cried wolf" too many times.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > KURDISH LEADER THREATENS TURKEY PEACE DEAL COLLAPSE, as due to Turkey's continuing non-intervention in defence of ISIS-embattled Kurds at Kobani.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Telegraph.UK] IRAQ [formally] ASKS FOR US GROUND TROOPS AS ISIL THREATENS BAGHDAD.
* RELATED SAME > LEADERS OF IRAQ'S ANBAR PROVINCE: SEND US TROOPS TO STOP ISIS - CNN.COM.
A "Gen. MacArthur Moment" for the Bammer, i.e. shade of the General reminding POTUS Franklin Roosevelt prior to the invasion of Leyte that Japan is claiming that Americans = White Americans ["Whitey"] will NOT fight or shed an ounce of their blood for Brown andor Yellow Asians, THUS FOR THE US NOT TO INVADE THE PHILIPPINES WOULD BE A US NATIONAL DISGRACE, AN INSULT TO ASIA, + A SERIOUS OR SEVERE FOREIGN POLICY DISASTER FOR THE US FOR YEARS OR DECADES AFTER THE WAR IS FINALLY OVER???
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Within the U.S. Air Force, there’s mounting frustration that the air campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq is moving far more slowly than expected. Instead of a fast-moving operation with hundreds of sorties flown in a single day—the kind favored by many in the air service—American warplanes are hitting small numbers of targets after a painstaking and cumbersome process.
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