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2014-11-09 Iraq
Fate of 'critically wounded' ISIS chief unclear
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Posted by Fred 2014-11-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top
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#1 Karbuli said chaos ensued the air raid with ISIS members scrambling to transport their maimed to al-Qaim hospital which was overwhelmed with the number of patients.

Er huh, and al-Qaim hospital wasn't a follow-up target, or objective ?
Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-09 00:42||   2014-11-09 00:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Besoeker, deliberately attacking a hospital is a violation of the Geneva Conventions, no matter who is being treated there.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-11-09 00:58||   2014-11-09 00:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Very true Ram. When ISIS captures and beheads it's first American GI we should remind them of their obligation as non-signatories of the meaningless convention. I'm afraid Marquess of Queensberry desperately needs to be set aside.
Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-09 01:18||   2014-11-09 01:18|| Front Page Top

#4 ISIS isn't (and can't be) a signatory to the Geneva protocols.
Posted by Steve White 2014-11-09 01:36||   2014-11-09 01:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Wrong Rambler. Geneva Convention, unlike the "Laws of War" invented by Tranzis in recent decades requires mutuality.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-11-09 02:05||   2014-11-09 02:05|| Front Page Top

#6 p.s. In Islam hospitals and command centers are usually co-located.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-11-09 02:09||   2014-11-09 02:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Is Al-Baghdadi a cat? This is what , the fourth time he has been critically wounded in an airstrike.
Posted by chris 2014-11-09 06:34||   2014-11-09 06:34|| Front Page Top

#8 I'd have an "accident" at the hospital too.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-11-09 09:24||   2014-11-09 09:24|| Front Page Top

#9 I'd have an "accident" at the hospital too

Those 'Medical Gases' can be nasty sometimes.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2014-11-09 11:06||   2014-11-09 11:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Around Kobane, Syria, Kurdish fighters are entering villages to find them abandoned by ISIS.

Kurdish front lines in Kobane are moving forward with very little resistance. They are making gruesome discoveries, finding only the bones and the black clothing of ISIS fighters in the streets and rubble as dogs and cats in the city who were abandoned have consumed the bodies of ISIS fighters.
Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-09 11:55||   2014-11-09 11:55|| Front Page Top

#11 My original point was that the US, despite what the MSM and other detractors say, generally tries to follow the Geneva Convention, even if the other side is not a signatory and does not follow them.

Besides, the kinetic action against ISIS is being run by Susan Rice. Every target has to be reviewed and approved. I can't see her approving a strike on a hospital (or mosque), even if it was the al-Baghdadi Hospital, Command Center and Ammunition Storage building.The optics would be bad.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-11-09 12:15||   2014-11-09 12:15|| Front Page Top

#12 I agree with you there Rambler. We do hold ourselves to a higher code, and yes, the MSM would ensure that the optics were bad.
Posted by Steve White 2014-11-09 12:27||   2014-11-09 12:27|| Front Page Top

#13 Two months ago ISIS was on a rampage committing horrendous and terrifying atrocities. But in Kobane, Syria the YPG and YPJ showed the rest of the region and the world the task of stopping ISIS is merely a Kurdish woman's job.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-09 12:27||   2014-11-09 12:27|| Front Page Top

#14 Rite of ascension infighting?
Posted by Nero Uneack3742 2014-11-09 12:52||   2014-11-09 12:52|| Front Page Top

#15 After the strikes, the fighters evacuated a nearby hospital and used loudspeakers to ask for blood donors, Sky News reported.

Can't believe they ASKED for blood. Usually they just take it.
Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-09 12:53||   2014-11-09 12:53|| Front Page Top

#16 Those 'Medical Gases' can be nasty sometimes.

I prefer radioactive isotopes.
Posted by Frozen Al 2014-11-09 13:00||   2014-11-09 13:00|| Front Page Top

#17 I prefer radioactive isotopes

I was thinking 'Earth Shattering Kaboom', but those would work too.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2014-11-09 20:43||   2014-11-09 20:43|| Front Page Top

#18 Both the US + ISIS are repor denying Bagdadi's death.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-11-09 21:34||   2014-11-09 21:34|| Front Page Top

#19 @#10: Source(s) please.
Posted by Sluting Whairt4294 2014-11-09 21:48||   2014-11-09 21:48|| Front Page Top

#20  #19 Source is a YouTube video loaded today by Kurds defending Kobane. 1) Inappropriate for this forum to embed a video showing animals feeding on carcases. 2) Will be removed at any moment when Youtube moderators see that on their forum.
Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-09 23:14||   2014-11-09 23:14|| Front Page Top

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