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2014-11-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Air strikes fail to stem flow of foreign fighters to Syria

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Posted by Steve White 2014-11-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 drop ebola?

Posted by 3dc 2014-11-02 01:31|| 2014-11-02 01:31|| Front Page Top

#2 That's because the Airstrikes are not hitting the sea lanes and the Turkish side of the border.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-11-02 03:16|| 2014-11-02 03:16|| Front Page Top

#3 You mean dropping 8 bombs a day isn't working? Don't try and tell Nobama that!

Posted by chris 2014-11-02 04:41|| 2014-11-02 04:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Heck, you had air supremacy over Normandy for all those weeks after D-Day and the Germans still got reinforcements in.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-11-02 08:46|| 2014-11-02 08:46|| Front Page Top

#5 How many muslims support IS?

I think more than a minority!

Posted by Snavick Ulusoger9346 2014-11-02 08:57|| 2014-11-02 08:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Heck, you had air supremacy over Normandy for all those weeks after D-Day and the Germans still got reinforcements in.

How many years was the Ho Chi Minh trail bombed?

Posted by Pappy 2014-11-02 09:11|| 2014-11-02 09:11|| Front Page Top

#7 OS, chances of ISJV 'underground railroad' overwhelming Turkish intelligence, launching attacks with captured Kurd IDs/flags/equipment?

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-11-02 10:10|| 2014-11-02 10:10|| Front Page Top

#8 No need for ISIS to "overwhlem" Turkis intel, when its the Turkish Intel guys who are tacitly supporting them.

Think Pakistan->ISI->Taliban->Afghanistan.

Now transpose to Turkey->MIT->ISIS->Syria

Posted by OldSpook 2014-11-02 12:16|| 2014-11-02 12:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Plenty of ISIS "volunteers" crossing the border into Syria from Turkey. Unlike Kurds, the Turks look the other way when the ISIS guys cross.

MIT head Fidan is an Erdogan crony. The leak of his comments about casually being able to generate a false flag attack were news (ignored in the west) back in March. The leaks of voice recordings verifying this were one of the reasons Erdogan tried to censor the internet earlier this year.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-11-02 12:24|| 2014-11-02 12:24|| Front Page Top

#10 MIT head Fidan is an Erdogan crony.

Fidan also has ties to Iranian intelligence. (Sources here , and here.)

Posted by Pappy 2014-11-02 15:08|| 2014-11-02 15:08|| Front Page Top

#11 What good is an empty kill box?

Posted by one bandersnatch 2014-11-02 15:09|| 2014-11-02 15:09|| Front Page Top

#12 What good is an empty kill box?
Posted by: one bandersnatch

Potential blocking position ?

Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-02 15:12|| 2014-11-02 15:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Ha, ha, ha

Posted by Ho Chi Mingoru 2014-11-02 16:14|| 2014-11-02 16:14|| Front Page Top

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