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21 militants killed in Khyber, Waziristan strikes
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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We all knew it was just a matter of time before he was found out.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/13/2014 9:48 Comments || Top||

#2  LOL Shipman. Good laugh this a.m. in an otherwise dreary Monday of news.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/13/2014 10:09 Comments || Top||

#3  heh. Stolen!
Posted by: Frank G || 10/13/2014 10:44 Comments || Top||

#4  That picture of Ginger Rogers alone is reason enough to denounce him. Shocked, I tell you. I'm shocked!
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/13/2014 11:24 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Attackers Attack Balkh's Police Headquarters
[Tolo News] Two jacket wallahs attacked Balkh's police headquarters on Sunday afternoon injuring nine coppers, local officials said.

The attack took place in Mazar-e-Sharif when the bombers disguised as Afghan National Police (ANP) wanted to enter the building, but were stopped by security guards and opened fire on the guards.

Abdul Razaq Qaderi, a security official, said the "bombers were rubbed out by police after an hour of clashing."

Head of Mazar-e- Sharif hospital, Dr. Mirwais Rabi said that 16 injured coppers are being treated at the hospital.

The Taliban have grabbed credit for the attack.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


ANSF Regain Control of Sangin. Again.
[Tolo News] Reports indicate that the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) have regained the control of Sangin district of southern Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province.

After four months of on-going festivities with krazed killers, the ANSF was finally able to drive out the alleged Pak-backed Death Eaters out of the district. The forces are currently conducting operations to tackle the roots of insurgency in the district.

"Sangin faced a lot of hardships, but the fighting is over now," front man for the Ministry of Defense (MoD) Gen. Zahir Azimi told TOLOnews. "Our forces are conducting military operations to maintain long-lasting peace and security in the district."

Gen. Azimi deems the air support of foreign forces to the ANSF essential in driving out the Death Eaters out of district.

Former President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
's lack of support for air attacks is considered one of the main reasons for the prolongation of the festivities in Sangin. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
the support of foreign forces has reportedly increased since President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
and the new administration took office.

"After the political transition and the signing of the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA), the spirit of cooperation among the ANSF and international forces in all aspects, especially in air support, has increased," Azimi added.

The front man for the Ministry of Interior (MoI) Sediq Sediqqi expressed a similar outlook of optimism about further cooperation between the national and international forces.

"When we request the support of the international forces, they show flexibility and provide us with prompt support," he added.

Meanwhile,
...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address...
the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), in a statement, expressed appreciation for the performance of the ANSF in Sangin, emphasizing that if needed, ISAF will provide air support to the Afghan forces after 2015.

"As Regional Command Southwest ends its mission and ISAF transitions to Resolute Support in 2015, we will link ANSF in Helmand to an advisor team in Kabul that will continue to support institutional development and sustainment," the statement read. "This will include continued aviation support by ISAF, upon request of the ANSF, and the further development of the Afghan Air Force."
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Two Killed in Taliban Attack in Kunar
[Tolo News] Hundreds of Taliban murderous Moslems attacked a police outpost in eastern Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
early Sunday, killing two police and injuring two others, local officials said.

According to the Kunar Police Chief Abdul Habib Sayedkhili, the attack took place in Chapa Dara District of the province about 5 a.m. local time after nearly 200 Taliban murderous Moslems attacked the police outpost.

"The attack resulted in a three hour clash with the police in which 12 murderous Moslems were killed and six others were maimed," he added. "Additional police forces have been deployed to the area, forcing the murderous Moslems to escape."

Chapa Dara district is one of the most insecure districts of Kunar province with constant Lion of Islam attacks targeting the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) outposts.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Mog kaboom kills six
At least six people have been killed by a car bomb in the Somali capital Mogadishu, a police officer has said. Police officer Major Nuur Farah said that several wounded people were taken to hospital after Sunday’s blast near a popular hotel and cafe.

Sources told Al Jazeera that the car laden with explosives was left in front of the Aroma cafe before it exploded. The cafe is popular with youth.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/13/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Ansar Al-Sharia leader reported wounded in Benina clashes
[Libya Herald] Mohammed Al-Zahawi the leader of Ansar al-Sharia
...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet...
in Benghazi is reported to have been maimed or even killed in festivities yesterday evening near Benina Airport.
Pray for sepsis...
Reliable sources told the Libya Herald they had received unconfirmed reports that Zahawi had been taken to Sirte's Abin Sina Hospital to receive medical treatment.
"What are his symptoms?"
"He's stiff as a board, all the fluids in his body have settled, and he's pooped himself!"
"Looks like a case of rigor mortis!"

A senior figure in Operation Dignity based in Tobruk said he had heard rumours that Zahawi had been injured or killed but could not confirm or deny the information.

Head of Saiqa Special Forces
...Libya's elite army unit, insofar as they have one, formed from a mixture of paratroopers and commandos. The group emerged from a militia with the same name in 2010. It now numbers a few thousand and reports to the Ministry of Defence. It deployed in Benghazi in an attempt to control the carnage. As a result, it has been attacked and several of its officers murdered. The force is popular in Benghazi for its stance against Ansar al-Sharia group...
Investigations Unit Fadel Al-Hassi, who was on the ground during festivities both yesterday evening and this morning at Benina, also said he had no verified information on the condition of the Ansar al-Sharia leader.

However Hassi explained some light skirmishes had taken place around the Airport yesterday evening with heavier fighting in the early hours of the morning.

He said three members of Saiqa had been killed in those festivities and four maimed. He added that the injured men had been taken to Marj hospital where their condition was stable.

Clashes in and around Benina have raged more or less constantly for the last ten days. Ansar al-Sharia and its allies in the Benghazi Revolutionaries' Shoura Council have been attacking Operation Dignity's last remaining positions near the city at Benina.

This is not the first time that Zahawi has been reported killed. In June, rumours circulated that he had died while receiving treatment at Benghazi's Jalaa Hospital. It later emerged he had been injured in the neck while fighting in Buatni.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Ansar al-Sharia


Bangladesh
'Terrorists were making IEDs'
[Dhaka Tribune] Indian National Investigation Agency has unveiled that terrorists at Bardhaman were not only making grenades, but also sophisticated time-controlled and remote-controlled IEDs (improvised explosive device) at their Khagragarh hideout.

It was also learnt that the explosion on October 2 took place after a trigger wire of a time bomb was accidentally clipped by the bomb makers.
"Mahmoud, careful you don't clip [KABOOM!]"
The information was unveiled after investigators grilled Abdul Hakim, who was arrested on Tuesday regarding the blast.

Apart from time bombs, the militants were also conducting a research on making remote-controlled IEDs.

Hakim also told investigators that Shakil Ahmed and Sovon Mondol, the two people who died in the blast, tried hard to defuse the bomb after the trigger wire activated the device.
"Mondol! It's counting down! Make it stop!"
The blast ripped off a portion of the roomâs door and the splinters injured Hakim, who was in the next room.
"Aaaiiieee! I am undone!"
Hakim is now receiving treatment at Kolkata's PG Hospital.
"I am? Y'mean this ain't the undertaker's? I'm not undone! I'm..."
"Careful! You're going to strain your..."
"Aaaaiiieee!"

Meanwhile, Indian CID officers have said the prime accused in the Bardhaman blast, Sk Kausar, may have escaped to Bangladesh via Hakimpur bordering Nadia and North 24-Parganas, Times of India reported yesterday.

The report also said investigators were now trying to reconstruct his 100km escape route that he used to sneak into Bangladesh.

According to CID, Kauser left the spot immediately after the blast but did not leave the place till the next day.
There's a difference between "a spot" and "a place," you understand.
They also had reasons to believe that the terrorist stayed in a lodge at Bhatar, just 23 kilometres from Burdwan town.
"No, I'm not a criminal mastermind, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night!"
He decamped after getting to know about the blast from Amina Bibi, now in custody, over the phone.
"Hello, Kausar? Dis is Aminia Bibi!"
The investigating officers, after speaking to the locals, confirmed that he left his motorcycle at Khetia village, some 10 kilometres from Bardhaman.
"Lissen! Y'gotta ditch the motorcycle at Khetia and walk into Bardhaman!"
"Dat's eight kilometers! Dis is a hot day!"

We have come to know that he took one person and rode off, but the locals failed to identify them as they were wearing helmets. At this stage, we cannot say with certainty whether the man who was riding with Kausar came back to the village or left for somewhere else, a CID officer told the TOI.
"That's because we don't know who he is."
The officers said from Khetia, Kausar travelled another 13 kilometres to reach Bhatar and stayed there in a lodge for the night.
"You got a reservation? Room for two?"
"Yeah. Izzat your wife?"
"Yeah."
"Nice mustache on her!"

The investigators have zeroed in on one hotelier from whom they came to know that Kausar stayed in a lodge for the night but they are not sure how he travelled from Khetia to Bhatar.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh

#1  Great inline; reminiscent of Days of RAB Past.....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/13/2014 14:28 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
No arms to civilians fighting ISIL - Turkish FM
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavushoglu warned that arming civilians to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) would be criminal, Anadolu Agency reported referring to France 24.
Best just to let all the civilians die, especially if they're Kurds...
Cavushoglu defended his government's position with respect to the battle at the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, just a few kilometers across the Turkish border.

Cavushoglu said: "Sending civilians to the war is a crime. We cannot risk the lives of these people. We don't want another tragedy in our region."
Their lives are already being risked. The ISIL wants them dead. Apparently, so do the Turks...
Referring to the refugees who have fled to Turkey from Kobani, he said: "I also don’t think those civilians prefer to go back."

On Friday, UN envoy Staffan de Mistura had called on Turkey to allow Kurds to cross back into Syria to defend Kobani.

"We would like to appeal to the Turkish authorities in order to allow the flow of volunteers at least, and their equipment to be able to enter the city to contribute to a self-defense operation," de Mistura told reporters in Geneva.

Almost 200,000 people have fled the fighting in Kobani into Turkey since the conflict began last September. They have been driven out by the relentless advance of the ISIL militant group, which currently controls large areas in Syria and Iraq, and which now reportedly controls three districts of the border town.

He stated that airstrikes were a "failure and insufficient" to stop ISIL. A US-led airstrike campaign was launched against ISIL targets in Iraq on August 9, with the support of France, the U.K. and Belgium, along with that of Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E.
Now, now, both our missions succeeded in blowing up a truck. It's the very measure of success...
Asked if Turkey should intervene with a ground operation, Cavusoglu said: "It is not fair asking Turkey to lead a ground operation on its own. It is not realistic. Without the establishment of a safe zone and a no-fly zone, it is also not very realistic."
Turkey has an air force. The ISIL doesn't. What's the problem with Turkey establishing a no-fly zone?
Turkey has made its alliance with the U.S.-led coalition conditional on the establishment of a no-fly zone and for the creation of safe zone at the Syrian border. The Turkish parliament voted last week to approve a conditional Turkish military action in Syria and Iraq.

Cavushoglu underlined the importance of having a joint and comprehensive strategy with the coalition. "If there is a joint strategy, Turkey will seriously consider the execution of this strategy with allies and with friendly countries."

He also spoke of the "solution process," the Turkish government's efforts to end a decades-old conflict with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey as well as by the U.S. and the EU.

"We can never give up this process. We want to achieve more. We are sincerely making a great efforts but the others will do what they feel they must do.

"The PKK is still a terrorist group for us. Not only for us, they are in the terror list of the European Union and the United Nations. They still have not laid their weapons down. They are still active. They continue their terrorist activities."
Posted by: Steve White || 10/13/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Turkey has made its alliance with the U.S.-led coalition conditional ... Are they or are they not in NATO and a official ally of the USA? What's this conditional bullshit?
Posted by: 3dc || 10/13/2014 1:50 Comments || Top||

#2  I believe (and please correct me if I am wrong) that the US remains at only the Incirlik base in southwestern Turkey. It was home to a drone base that reportedly was being moved to the airstrip at Irbil (which is now crawling with spooks). It is time to pull the plug on Turkey. It has not been a reliable ally in years, and its prime minister is presently working hard to see to it that an Assad government is one day replaced by a government run by Muslim Brothers.
Posted by: Beldar Sloque3832 || 10/13/2014 9:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Aha! See NYTimes article below which reports:
"The basing and training agreement follows two days of talks in Ankara, the Turkish capital, between the authorities there and John R. Allen, the retired American general who is coordinating the coalition’s response to the Islamic State. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who has been traveling in South America, has said the United States has sought access to Turkish air bases, including one at Incirlik in southern Turkey."
Seeking access to Incirlik means that recently the US pulled out of a base where the US presence was seen for decades. It also indicated that the US drone operation that was active there until most recently has been moved to Irbil.
This begs the question, why should we return to a sometime ally? Turky PM Erdogan puts one in mind of our old "ally" Sihanouk of Cambodia.
Posted by: Beldar Sloque3832 || 10/13/2014 10:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Sounds like we need to start flying drones over Ankara.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/13/2014 12:34 Comments || Top||

#5  "Arming civilians is a crime" , what about all the jihadist using turkey as a hub too go too syria.
Maybe they shoulx be put on the terrorist state list
Posted by: chris || 10/13/2014 12:47 Comments || Top||

#6  If ISIS fails to take Kobane expect even more hatred between the Kurds and the Turks for refusing to assist the Kurdish people against ISIS. Could be a major Turkish strategic failure in the region in regards to peace between Turkey and the Kurds.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 10/13/2014 12:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Turkey will always be a turkey. Sour feelings for Turkey still linger for not letting US troops in during Iraq 2003. Erdogan is an enemy of the western civilization.
Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Jinemble5612 || 10/13/2014 13:43 Comments || Top||

#8  No arms to civilians fighting ISIL - Turkish FM

The Bloomberg strategy?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/13/2014 16:08 Comments || Top||

#9  No arms to civilians fighting ISIL - Turkish FM

OK, We'll just arm the Kurds in Turkey, and let them shoot their way past the Turks.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/13/2014 16:21 Comments || Top||

#10  I was wondering if or could the Kurds do that.

In fact, I was wondering if the Turks would take VIP Kurds on a little walk, politely pointing out that the Turk artillary is pointing towards Kobani, and the tanks are pointed towards Turkey.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/13/2014 16:30 Comments || Top||

#11  ARISE, ISLAMIC MAHDI/HIDDEN IMAM + "NEO-OTTOMAN" UCLEAR TURKEY, ARISE!

SSSHHHH ... ... CCCCCC 2030-2050.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/13/2014 23:12 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
21 militants killed in Khyber, Waziristan strikes
RAWALPINDI: Security forces on Sunday killed at least 21 suspected terrorists in airstrikes in North Waziristan and Khyber agencies of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), 11 terrorists were killed in the NWA airstrikes and two hideouts were also destroyed. In separate airstrikes in the Khyber Agency’s Kukikhel area, at least 10 suspected terrorists were killed, an ISPR statement said. Three hideouts were also destroyed, the statement added.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/13/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Three suspected militants killed in Swat encounter
[DAWN] At least three suspected bully boyz were killed in a clash with security forces on Sunday in Charbagh area of Swat
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
district.

Official sources said that armed bully boyz had attacked the house of Village Defence Committee member Ayub Khan and shot him dead late Saturday.

Security forces launched a search operation soon after the incident and traced the attackers, following which a gunbattle took place in Mangal Tan area of Charbagh, leaving three of the attackers dead, sources said.

The army declared Swat, once known as the "Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
of Pakistain", back under control in July 2009, after defeating radical holy man Fazlullah and his Taliban fighters who waged a two-year campaign of terror in the region.

The operation was arguably Pakistain's most successful offensive to date against the homegrown murderous Moslems who have bombed and killed thousands across the country for the last seven years.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


21 killed in N Waziristan, Khyber Agency airstrikes
[DAWN] At least 11 suspected forces of Evil were killed in military Arclight airstrikes on Sunday in the restive North Wazoo tribal region, a statement said.

According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), two hard boy hideouts were also destroyed. These claims, however, could not be independently verified as journalists have limited access to the tribal agency.

Earlier on August 30, at least 32 suspected forces of Evil had been killed and three hard boy hideouts were destroyed by army aviation's gunship helicopters in a remote area of Bangidar in North Waziristan.

In separate Arclight airstrikes in the Khyber Agency's Kuki Khel area, at least 10 suspected forces of Evil were killed, an ISPR statement said.

Three hard boy hideouts were also destroyed, the statement added.

Military operation Zarb-e-Azb
..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)...
was launched by the Pakistain Army on June 15 following a brazen hard boy attack on Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
's international airport and failure of peace talks between the government and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) negotiators.

The Taliban and their ethnic Uzbek allies both grabbed credit for the attack on Karachi airport, which was seen as a strategic turning point in how Pakistain tackles the insurgency.

Nearly a million people have fled the offensive in North Waziristan, which is aimed at wiping out longstanding hard boy strongholds in the area, which borders Afghanistan.

North Waziristan has been isolated by deploying troops along its border with neighboring agencies and Federally Administrative Tribal Areas (Fata) regions to block any move of bandidos Lions of Islam in and out of the Agency
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1 
Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 || 10/13/2014 5:18 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Bomb kills Iraqi provincial police chief
Baghdad -- A bomb explosion on Sunday killed the police chief of Iraq's restive Anbar province, Iraqi officials said, in a major blow to the government’s efforts in fighting the lethal insurgency.

The convoy of Brig. Gen. Ahmed Al Dulaimi had been traveling through an area to the north of Ramadi when the bomb went off nearby, said councilman Faleh Al Issawi. He added that Iraqi security forces had recaptured the area from the militants a day earlier. It was not immediately clear if others were killed.

Iraq’s Interior Ministry, in a statement, confirmed the killing and called Al Dulaimi a "hero who set a good example for self-sacrifice." It praised his role in reorganising the provincial police force and leading major fighting that caused heavy casualties among the militants.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/13/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Dempsey: U.S. called in Apache helicopters to protect Baghdad airport
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey has revealed that the United States had to call in Apache helicopters to protect Baghdad's airport against the Islamic State, The Washington Post reported.

"They were within 20 or 25 kilometers [of Baghdad airport] and had they overrun the Iraqi unit, it was a straight shot to the airport. So we're not going to allow that to happen; we need that airport," he said during an interview on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.
Are the Apache guys allowed to shoot? Allowed to shoot back?
Dempsey said that "the risk of operating in a hostile environment is there, constantly," and the Apache was the "tool that was immediately available." He described the fight against the Islamic State as a "very challenging task" until the Iraqi government is able to reach out to 20 million Sunnis in Iraq and Syria.

As to the next stage of the battle, Dempsey said he believed the international coalition fighting the Islamic State could do more in Syria. He denied that there were any immediate plans to set up a no-fly zone in Syria but said there could be "circumstances in the future where that would be part of the campaign."

On the question of putting U.S. troops on the ground, Dempsey again said there were no immediate plans but it is likely "there will be circumstances" where troops would make it easier to hit Islamic State targets.

"Mosul will likely be the decisive battle in the ground campaign at some point in the future," he said. "My instinct at this point is that will require a different kind of advising and assisting because of the complexity of that fight."
Posted by: Steve White || 10/13/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'Hope the current/previous road kill are making room under the bus for the good General. I'd say he will be joining threm in 5...., 4 ...., 3 ...., ....
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 10/13/2014 3:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Why don't they just broadcast a speech from Obola telling the non muslim IS fighters to lay down their weapons. That is a strategy worthy of The Great Obola!!!
Posted by: Steven || 10/13/2014 3:31 Comments || Top||

#3  the Islamic State as a "very challenging task" He [Demsey] described the fight against the Islamic State as a "very challenging task" until the Iraqi government is able to reach out to 20 million Sunnis in Iraq and Syria. "My instinct at this point is that will require a different kind of advising and assisting because of the complexity of that fight."

It strikes me Dempsey is very proficient at Washington double-speak.--Talking a lot and not saying much.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/13/2014 9:27 Comments || Top||

#4  On the question of putting U.S. troops on the ground, Dempsey again said there were no immediate plans but it is likely "there will be circumstances" where troops would make it easier to hit Islamic State targets.

Two key issues the regime does absolutely not wish to deal with:

a. ISIS prisoners of war.
b. US military personnel suffering battlefield execution by beheading.

Champ feels shat upon. He feels Bush left this crisis for him. Therefore, he's planning on leaving it for the next administration. Classic Obama logic stream.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/13/2014 12:32 Comments || Top||

#5  "Oh, S**t. They're coming down the road!"
"Hey, get some video for Utube."

the Apache was the "tool that was immediately available."
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/13/2014 15:32 Comments || Top||

#6  He's trying to get through November without making any news at all. Champ made it perfectly clear he isn't interested in this conflict when he used his moment addressing the UN on the heels of a massive block of released executions to stump the democratic platform and call St. Louis policemen a cadre of racists; that is other than what trends on social media. Yzidis being butched and slaved? Quick, get me some assets and a camera. It is part, IMHO, why he wants to many handles to choose to pull, like his drone strike list.

My concern with Kobani is a Kurd win will make ISJV desperate, a loss will make ISJV confident. I think Turkey is not being coy but straight showing their hand that they are not interested unless they can attack Assad forces. That means Turkey kind of needs Kobani to fall so ISJV can better east-west transit and get out of the way after the inevitable videos and subsequent call to do...something, anything. These guys are playing old school war, where rules are only for potty training. Turkey gets it corridor to Demascus, ISJV hits east on its declared target Baghdad and Kurd strongpoints, maybe even Saud, Iran gets to push west and hit the Kurds when they declare Kurdistan.

Trust me, I would love to be wrong, wake up one morning and find out we did like the French did in CAR and kick the beseigers of Kobani right in the asshole. Nothing less than anything in this area not USA gets an air stike, there to kick ass.

But that isn't going to happen. In a way, I don't want it to happen because it will not be able to do what they will need to do. Our political cards actually side closest with Turkey in this.

But hey. Expecting to see a score card any day now.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/13/2014 16:25 Comments || Top||

#7  "...we need that airport"

Why's that, general? Are Blackhawks too heavy to land on roofs?
Posted by: tu3031 || 10/13/2014 22:38 Comments || Top||


Triple bombing in Diyala kills 58
Iraqi officials in eastern Diyala province say the death toll in a triple suicide bombing has jumped to 58 people killed, including members of the Kurdish security forces and civilians, FOX News reported.

Bashir al-Dalawi, a member of the Qara Tappah municipal council, where the attacks took place, said that the bombs detonated near a government building, leading to the higher death toll. He says at least 107 people were wounded in the attack. Hospital officials confirmed the death toll.

The Islamic State group claimed the attack, saying it was carried out by three foreign jihadists.
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Anbar province calls for U.S. "Boots" to stop ISIS
ISIS fighters stood Saturday on the verge of taking not just a key Syrian town along the Turkish border, but also an entire province on Baghdad's doorstep -- spurring leaders of that province to urgently plead for U.S. ground troops to halt the Islamist extremist group's rapid, relentless assault.

Should all of Anbar fall, the Sunni extremists would rule from the perimeter of Iraq's capital to Raqqa in Syria (at least), according to the provincial council's deputy head, Falleh al-Issawi. To stave off Anbar's collapse, provincial leaders have asked Iraq's central government to intervene immediately and for U.S. ground forces to be deployed there, said al-Issawi.

The Iraqi government said it has not received any official request from Anbar province for U.S. military intervention and ground forces to help in the fight against ISIS, Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi's media office said Saturday. The Iraqi government has been adamant that it does not want U.S. forces on the ground, and President Barack Obama has not shown any intent to deploy any.

A U.S. defense official said Saturday that Iraq's government hasn't asked for any more American troops beyond those already in Iraq.And if they did, the official added, "The U.S. will not deploy combat ground forces to Iraq. And we remain focused on enabling the (Iraqi military) in the fight against ISIL through our advise/assist efforts and the air campaign."

In Iraq, ISIS appears to be targeting cities along the Euphrates River. Al-Karhout said his provincial council has intelligence that ISIS has dispatched as many as 10,000 fighters to Anbar from Syria and Mosul in northern Iraq. The Iraqis' ultimate goal is to take back some of the vast areas, in both Iraq and Syria, that ISIS controls.

But right now, Iraqi forces appear to be mostly trying to survive, taking defensive positions and using Apache helicopters again, even after two were shot down in the area this week, according to the U.S. official. Iraqi army forces and Anbar tribesmen fighting alongside them have threatened to abandon their weapons if the U.S. military does not intervene to help them. Some 1,800 tribesmen in the province have been killed or injured in the struggle.
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Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 || 10/13/2014 5:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Nothing like having to deal with a $hit sandwich. Obama was keen on high-tailing it out of Iraq--the Kumbaya, choom-gang, fund-raiser-in-chief, golf addict Pres. He can't even vote "present." Maliki didn't want our troops there either. Obama didn't lean on Maliki hard enough for a SOFA agreement. Now when Iraq's Anbar Province is in danger of falling, they want us to save their bacon (just a U.S. figure of speech). We spilled a lot of blood and spent a lot of treasure in Iraq. What did we get out of the deal--nada, zip? Forgive us, if we don't show a great deal of enthusiasm for your current plight.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/13/2014 9:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Maliki needed US troops out of the way so he could loot the country, and screw everyone who isn't a Shia. He didn't have room while we were there.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/13/2014 12:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Rice came out yesterday with another statement about "how long" the conflict with ISIS will take to resolve. Her's was yet another in a string of regime talking points which indicated Champ is leaving this exudating boil for the next administration.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/13/2014 12:13 Comments || Top||

#5  I seem to remember from my high school history class and other sources that when the US joined a large skirmish in 1941 the Germans, Italians, Japanese and assorted hangers on were defeated in little more than 3 1/2 years.

WTF is the problem now?
Posted by: AlanC || 10/13/2014 12:45 Comments || Top||

#6  WTF is the problem now?

No more USA?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/13/2014 12:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Ok, Ok, but I just couldn't resist.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/13/2014 12:48 Comments || Top||

#8  That was played as a war, and the kids could build more than facebook pages.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/13/2014 15:35 Comments || Top||

#9  What? #HASHTAGs aren't enough?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/13/2014 16:45 Comments || Top||

#10  The U.S. has great war fighters still. They are as good or better than ever. However, they are in it to win the conflict. They don't want to be shackled with chicken$hit PC and ROEs. The troops spirit to overcome and win should not be p!ssed away.

The quality of our troops is not the problem, the problem is that we have no leadership or will in Washington. Leadership seldom emerges from the gray mass of Communists and bureaucratic fawning sycophants found in government today.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/13/2014 17:21 Comments || Top||

#11  The Iraqi Army retreats again ...

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IRAQI CITY FALLS TO ISIL AS ARMY WITHDRAWS - AL JAZEERA.

* SAME, TOPIX > [Various] ISIS TAKES OVER MAJOR IRAQI MILITARY TRAINING CAMP, at Hit.

* IIRC SAME, TOPIX > BBC NEWS - UP TO 180,000 [180.0 - 188.0K] IRAQIS FLEE ISIS ADVANCE IN ANBAR.

VERSUS

* TOPIX > [Fox News] ODIERNO: ISIS, RUSSIAN THREATS MAY SCUTTLE PLANS TO SHRINK ARMY.

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER SAYS US, BRITAIN CREATED ISLAMIC STATE TERRORIST GROUP.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/13/2014 23:43 Comments || Top||


Britain sends army trainers to Iraq to help Kurdish peshmerga
[ARABNEWS] Britannia said it had deployed a team of army trainers to Iraq to help Kurdish peshmerga fighters maintain and use heavy machine guns 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....
(IS) bully boys.

Britannia announced the move as Kurdish fighters battling IS murderous Moslems in the besieged Syrian town of Kobani called on Turkey to open up corridors to allow volunteer fighters and weapons to enter to reinforce their out-gunned forces.

Britannia's Ministry of Defense said the team, which local media reports said was 12-strong, had deployed to Erbil for around a week to help Kurdish fighters operate the guns which Britannia gifted to them last month.

"We are continuing to scope assistance to the Iraqi security forces, further training teams addressing soldiering skills, medical and counter-bomb knowledge will follow," the ministry said in a statement.

A spokeswoman stressed the army trainers were fulfilling a non-combat role.

Although Britannia's parliament has sanctioned the Royal Air Force taking part in air strikes on IS murderous Moslems inside Iraq, 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 ...
has repeatedly said there was no question for now of deploying ground forces.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Thanks UK, sounds like a substantial contract effort, especially at time when the MOD is downsizing. Wish there was something we could do for you in return.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/13/2014 1:38 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Kurds Continue To Thwart IS In Kobani
[IsraelTimes] Attacking 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....
jihadists met firm Kurdish resistance Sunday in the Syrian battleground town of Kobani.

In Kobani, a pall of black smoke hung over the strategic town as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported heavy jihadist losses.

IS poured in reinforcements and later fired at least 11 rocket-propelled grenades into the town center, said the Britannia-based monitoring group.

The Kurds managed to advance 50 meters towards their headquarters, two days after the jihadists captured it, but failed to deliver a knockout blow.

"They (IS) are sending fighters without much combat experience," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said. "They are attacking on multiple fronts but they keep being repulsed, then countering and being pushed back again."

IS has earned worldwide infamy for committing atrocities -- often videotaped and posted on the Internet -- since it seized swathes of Iraq and Syria in lightning offensives earlier this year.

But it has also gained prestige among Islamist snuffies that has helped it recruit thousands of imported muscle, a reputation now on the line.

"It's a decisive battle for IS," said Abdel Rahman. "If they don't pull it off, it will damage their image among jihadists around the world."
'A decisive battle'
"It's a decisive battle for them," said Abdel Rahman. "If they don't pull it off, it will damage their image among jihadists around the world."

The US military said it and its Saudi and Emirati allies conducted four air strikes in Syria Sunday, all but one in Kobani.

Despite such raids, Pentagon officials have said there is a limit to what they can do without ground forces they can work with.

But the top US officer said American military advisers were likely to take a more direct role once Iraqi forces are ready to fight to retake the country's second city djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, which IS overran in June.

"My instinct at this point is that will require a different kind of advising and assisting because of the complexity of that fight," General Martin Dempsey said on ABC's "This Week".

Despite deep concern about the plight of Kobani in Syria, Washington has vowed to stick to its overall strategy of prioritizing the Iraq campaign.

Speaking in Cairo at a Gazoo donors' reconstruction conference, US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
called the IS offensive on Kobani a "tragedy", but it "does not define the strategy of the coalition with respect to Daesh", the Arabic acronym for IS.

Kerry also said the Iraqis themselves will have to win back their country.
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#1  The Turks are not going to help you at all, but God may.
Posted by: newc || 10/13/2014 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Just imagine what the Kurds could do with adequate supplies!
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/13/2014 9:04 Comments || Top||

#3  The Kurds are a gutsy and spunky bunch. Aside from Israel, they are our best ally in the ME. Not sure about how Israel feels about the ally relationship after Obumble has screwed them for 6-1/2 years.

Maybe we will help the Kurds after the mid-term elections (if they are still around).
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/13/2014 9:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Word out of Kobame is that this woman, Rehana, has killed over 100 ISIS terrorists in Kobane. The YPG are leaving hundreds of dead terrorist bodies in the streets for terrorists to have to walk over to reach the YPG, YPJ fighters.

Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 10/13/2014 9:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Any one caught by ISIS in Kobane is beheaded immediately on the spot.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 10/13/2014 9:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Ebbomosh Hupemp2664: You keep posting photos like this and you will have a rush of people to join up with the Kurds.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/13/2014 10:07 Comments || Top||

#7  So there are 7200 virgins with nothing to do because these guys got killed by a GIRL!
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/13/2014 10:40 Comments || Top||

#8  The ravelin of the Kurds.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/13/2014 10:45 Comments || Top||

#9  ISIS is telling its people Kobane is occupied by dragons. I believe that is an alternative definition of demons.
3 carbombs in Kobane today. One car bomb was attempting to make its way to destroy the Turkish border station that exploded pre-maturely, most likely was hit by Kurdish gun fire.
Kurdish forces killed 80 ISIS in the past few hours. They seem to have set up very effective kill boxes in Kobane.
US airstrikes are focusing on ISIS staging areas and supply route infrastructure around Kobane Sunday and Monday.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 10/13/2014 12:52 Comments || Top||

#10  "They (IS) are sending fighters without much combat experience"

A design, not a flaw. You burn off the expendables and save the more experienced for either the final push, or for other objectives in Syria.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/13/2014 12:55 Comments || Top||

#11  The IS who survive an assault on Kurdish defenses will get their combat experience the hard way. Think of it as accelerated or Special High Intensity Training.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/13/2014 12:58 Comments || Top||

#12  More on the Female Commander MAYSSA ABDO nom-de-guerre (War Name) of Narin Afrinof the Kobanes Defending Kurdish Forces
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that a Kurdish woman is leading the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Kobane, Syria.
"Mayssa Abdo, known by the nom-de-guerre of Narin Afrin, is commanding the YPG in Kobane along with Mahmud Barkhodan," said Rami Abdel Rahman, the rights group leader.
Iraq has relied on the Kurdish army, the Peshmerga, since the Islamic State advanced its Caliphate into Iraq. One battalion of the Pershmega is exclusively female. The Kurdish fighters use pseudonyms, and Abdo’s pseudonym is “from the Afrin region where she was born that is located like Kobane in Aleppo province.”
"Those who know her say she is cultivated, intelligent and phlegmatic," said activist Mustefa Ebdi. "She cares for the mental state of the fighters and takes interest in their problems.”
All of the female Peshmerga are volunteers. The mothers make room to care for their children and train twice a week. The other females train every day.
"They've been trained with SWAT teams and with the special forces," says Col. Rashid, explaining that some even have battle experience: "Some have already fought alongside their male colleagues on the front line and I'm sending others to Kirkuk soon. I was in Kirkuk myself recently."
Kurdish fighter Dilar Gencxemis blew herself up to attack the Islamic State outside of Kobane, an attack which killed dozens of jihadists. These women are proud to fight against the Islamic State.
“It’s an honor to be part of a modern Muslim country that allows women to defend the homeland,” said one unidentified mother. “We enjoy the same treatment as male fighters do as required by law.”
The jihadists fear a woman on the battlefield. They believe if they die in jihad, they will be rewarded with 72 virgins in heaven. However, if a woman kills them, the men are denied their virgins.
“These [ISIS] soldiers apparently believed that if they were killed in battle, they went to paradise as long as they were killed by a man,” said Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), who chairs the U.S. House International Relations Committee. “And these female soldiers were communicating their satisfaction with the fact that they had taken the fight to ISIL and had stopped the advance, turned back the advance - slayed a number of these fighters, who would then run away.”
If Kobane falls, the Islamic State will control a large amount of area in northern Syria. It also represents everything the jihadists detest. They prefer to rule lands under strict Islamic laws. Kobane is “a thriving popular experiment in secular pluralism, gender equality, and democratic autonomy.”
Furthermore, if the city falls, extremists may be able to more easily enter Syria through Turkey. Many alleged ties between Turkey and the Islamic State exist. Turkey declared support for groups against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and CNN featured Turkey’s secret jihadi route to Syria. Many Westerners have entered Syria through Turkey in an effort to join the Islamic State. One jihadist claimed that without Turkey’s support and money, the Islamic State would not have advanced to its current state.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 10/13/2014 14:59 Comments || Top||

#13  Contrast the above picture with the flowerpot Gwyneth Paltrow.

(Apologies to all flowerpots out there).
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/13/2014 15:13 Comments || Top||

#14  Turkey has been a conduit for Chechens and armas going to ISIS.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/13/2014 16:23 Comments || Top||

#15  Turkey has been a conduit for Chechens and armas going to ISIS.

Gee, I wonder where all that ISIL oil was going?
Posted by: Bill Glaiper1846 || 10/13/2014 16:27 Comments || Top||

#16  FYI the News this AM is that the ISIS/ISIL has taken the Center = up to 1/2 of Kobane, including the Kurd HQ.

* MANILA TIMES > JIHADISTS FIGHT WAY TO CENTER OF [embattled] SYRIA BORDER TOWN [Kobane/Kobani].

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > BBC NEWS - IRAQI KURDS [again] CALL FOR BETTER WEAPONS AGZ "ISLAMIC STATE".

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [IBTimes] ISIS BEHEAD NINE KURDISH FIGHTERS INCLUDING [3 ea.] WOMEN NEAR KOBANI.

Once again, OWG Globalist Obama doesn't appear to be in any hurry to provide the KURDS, ETAL. wid the proper support.

I can respect wanting the Locals in the Country or Region to take the lead agz the ISIS/ISIL, but iff it fails one may of have to act UNILATERALLY IN A TIMELY, POTENT, + EFFECTIVE/DECISIVE MANNER.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/13/2014 23:09 Comments || Top||



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