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2014-10-31 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Peshmerga at Turkish Border to Reinforce Besieged Kobane
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Posted by trailing wife 2014-10-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 Several vehicles associated with the Peshmerga heavy artillary were seen refueling today outside a warehouse in Turkey where they have been holed up.
Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-31 07:35||   2014-10-31 07:35|| Front Page Top

#2 YPG, YPJ teams have been exiting Kobane and driving ISIS out of small villages just outside of Kobane the past few days. If Turkey is not holding up the Pershmerga moving into Kobane, I suspect the Peshmerga heavy artillary, Kobane militias, and Centcom Air support are coordinating an assualt plan on ISIS that would bring a quick rout of ISIS in that area.
Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-31 07:42||   2014-10-31 07:42|| Front Page Top

#3 USAF is doing what it does best: Interdiction. The real grunt work will be by the Kurds, pushing back the ISIS units. Hopefully the USAF has been effective in cutting supplies and reinforcements so the front line units of ISIS are low on men and ammo.
Posted by OldSpook 2014-10-31 09:02||   2014-10-31 09:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Here's hoping their chuck wagons have been turned to ammo trucks.
Posted by swksvolFF 2014-10-31 11:14||   2014-10-31 11:14|| Front Page Top

#5 YPG Spokesman Polat Can has confirmed that Peshmerga forces 6km from the border are in a warehouse facility surrounded by Turkish Army and are not being allowed to enter Kobane.
Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-31 13:09||   2014-10-31 13:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Iraqi Peshmerga reinforcements 6km from Kobane held in warehouse in Turkey by Turkish Military.



Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-31 13:15||   2014-10-31 13:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Susan Rice is managing the war against ISIS. Not the Pentagon.

The Pentagon brass placed in charge of implementing Obama’s war against ISIS are getting fed up with the short leash the White House put them on.
Top military leaders in the Pentagon and in the field are growing increasingly frustrated by the tight constraints the White House has placed on the plans to fight ISIS and train a new Syrian rebel army.

As the American-led battle against ISIS stretches into its fourth month, the generals and Pentagon officials leading the air campaign and preparing to train Syrian rebels are working under strict White House orders to keep the war contained within policy limits. The National Security Council has given precise instructions on which rebels can be engaged, who can be trained, and what exactly those fighters will do when they return to Syria. Most of the rebels to be trained by the U.S. will never be sent to fight against ISIS.

Making matters worse, military officers and civilian Pentagon leaders tell The Daily Beast, is the ISIS war’s decision-making process, run by National Security Adviser Susan Rice. It’s been manic and obsessed with the tiniest of details. Officials talk of sudden and frequent meetings of the National Security Council and the so-called Principals Committee of top defense, intelligence, and foreign policy officials (an NSC and three PCs in one week this month); a barrage of questions from the NSC to the agencies that create mountains of paperwork for overworked staffers; and NSC insistence on deciding minor issues even at the operational level.


“We are getting a lot of micromanagement from the White House. Basic decisions that should take hours are taking days sometimes,” one senior defense official told The Daily Beast.
Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-31 13:19||   2014-10-31 13:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Link to #7 above.

Appears DoD is speaking out.
Posted by Besoeker 2014-10-31 13:25||   2014-10-31 13:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Why do I keep flashing on Vlad Dracula when I see about Kurd troops being held in warehouses by the Turks?

Is there a massacre in the cards? That certainly would be in keeping with Turkish history.
Posted by AlanC 2014-10-31 15:55||   2014-10-31 15:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Ah... Susan Rice - the traitor and liar of Benghazi.

And who do you think will get the blame when (not if) this blows up in our face? Not Ms. Rice.

Will she try to blame it on a video like before?
Posted by CrazyFool 2014-10-31 17:13||   2014-10-31 17:13|| Front Page Top

#11 First Peshmerga are entering Kobane.
Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-31 17:28||   2014-10-31 17:28|| Front Page Top

#12 It must be difficult for the military to have to answer to this bunch of dimwits in the WH. It has to be vexing.
Posted by JohnQC 2014-10-31 17:28||   2014-10-31 17:28|| Front Page Top

#13 Where in the Constitution does it say Susan Rice is Commander and Chief? Her involvement should be ignored by our armed forces.
Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-31 17:34||   2014-10-31 17:34|| Front Page Top

#14 Border guards shielding heavy Kurdish Artillary from View.

US pummeled border area just prior to crossing.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-31 17:38||   2014-10-31 17:38|| Front Page Top

#15 50 vehicles have crossed over. More coming across.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-31 17:41||   2014-10-31 17:41|| Front Page Top

#16 As per BHARAT RAKSHAK + TWITTER, looks like the Kurds are trying to restrict or limit the number of [pro-Turkey?] FSA fighters coming into Kobane.

Agz which alleged pro-ISIS, FSA TURKEY = ERDOGAN is repor angry.

* [Twitter] TURKEY HELPS [both] ISIS + FSA, TURKEY EMANDS MORE FSA IN KOBANE BUR KURDS REFUSE.

More ...

* SAME > [Twitter] TURKEY'S NEO-OTTOMANIST IMPERIAL POLICY TO REDESIGN ME, WANTED TO START FROM OCCUPATION OF SYRIA.

Assadian Syria aka OWG CO-SUPERPOWER RISING IRAN'S BFF ASSAD + SYRIA.

As said before, "Neo-Ottoman" Turkey's ambitions is at present effec or geographically constrained by Russia in the Crimea + North, + Shia Rising Iran to its south in Lebanon + Syria + now ISIS-threatened Kurdish regions of Iraq.

ISIS AKA ISIL JIHAD ON TURKEY [Russia? Iran? China?] BREAKS ALL BARGAINS.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-10-31 22:30||   2014-10-31 22:30|| Front Page Top

#17 OOOOPPPPSSSIES, my bad, forget to mention TOPIX > WHY CAN'T THE US DEFEAT AN [Islamist-Jihadist]ARMY THE SIZE OF A JUNIOR COLLEGE?

WELCOME TO OWG GLOBALISM - PERHAPS YOUSE 'HOID OF IT???

AKA HOW MUCH CAN THE "SOLE" SUPERPOWER USA [+ Other "Great Powers"] SAFELY GIVE UP, OR HOW FAR CAN THE US SAFELY FALL BACK OR RETREAT ACROSS THE WORLD WIDOUT BEING EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED OR DESTROYED BY EITHER FELLOW OWG CO-SUPERPOWERS ANDOR MILPOL/GEOPOL WANNABES, ALA THE NEVER-ENDING "GREAT GAME".

Iff the "Great Game" + "War", etc. is obsolete, APPARENTLY NO ONE TOLD THE HARD BOYZ + ALIGNED.

To paraph KRAUTHAMMER = "SAY IT WID ME, AMERIKA, + MAKE AL BUNDY FEEL IT - OOOOOOPPPPPPSSSS"!
Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-10-31 22:38||   2014-10-31 22:38|| Front Page Top

#18 I seem to remember the warehousing of civilians in Clinton's B/S 'conflict'. There they were dead. The warehouses were used to prevent overheads from counting the stacked bodies.
Posted by Skidmark 2014-10-31 23:09||   2014-10-31 23:09|| Front Page Top

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