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I might, yeah. If I do would one of you lot be able to host it on youyube? i dont feel like unwanted attention from jihadis.
 
Sure - but soldiers & commanders trained first in conventional warfare/logistics/communications & then in ten years of insurgency/resistance in Iraq will have some capabilities, especially against a now familiar enemy in a familiar environment - and the fact that they've survived demonstrates the possibility of useful skills & networks. Presumably it's a bit of both - some experienced soldiers & commanders, some untrained rabble - which could be ideal for mixing conventional asymmetric warfare with suicide attacks.

There's also all the training a multitude of beardies were getting in the anti Assad alliance countries, with western supervisors of course, before they left whatever Al Qaeda affiliate or FSA unit they were in and joined IS . And I'm pretty sure the Saudi military is western trained too . Then there was the US trained commander of Tajikistans special forces commandos who went over to them a few months ago too . I'd say he knows a thing or 2 . And it's a cert many of his men have gone with him . People the US specifically trained to counter Islamic groups .

Probably the best people to speak to as regards their capabilities are the ones who've been fighting them . Robert Fisk has been all over Syria , and according to the troops he's talked to, such as the ones who retreated fromPalmyra the situation is frightening . At one point when they breached ISILs front lines they found masses of first grade body armour , enough ammo to equip all the fighters with about 10,000 rounds , thermal missiles , American communication equipment . Basically a lot of their kit , and that of the other terrorist groups , is better than the Syrian armies . They employ waves of armoured suicide trucks over vast fronts, as well as suicide squads who fight to the last and only then blow themselves up . One Syrian officer told Fisk IS basically outgun and outnumber them , and once they get close to you it's game over . That they have to be killed before they can get close .
Any outfit getting state assistance , and it's a cert turkey and a couple of others are assisting them and have been for years , is a formidable force . Not unbeatable by any means but a force to be reckoned with .
 
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