The Islamic state

[butchersapron]

Few bits of feet and stuff lying around around 3 minute mark - nothing too bad.

 

[J Ed]

They seem very cheery for men who have been through what they have been through.

If Kobane somehow manages to come out of this victorious I wonder whether Turkey will suddenly decide that that is the best time to intervene.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I hope ISIS left some ammo behind on their way out, they must be running pretty low in Kobane by now.

 

[Humberto]

Good overview here

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mideast-v...ombs-kurdish-militants-100826127.html#7T081lX

 

[J Ed]

An interesting curiosity, Dutch bikers join the Kurdish fight against ISIS

 

[krink]

Very concentrated airstrikes + YPG/YPJ advance today in west kobane forced isis to retreat 3 miles.

Before:

After:

what is carved into that hill? it looks like it says new rct or new rgt. what's that about?

 

[butchersapron]

what is carved into that hill? it looks like it says new rct or new rgt. what's that about?

Just to go back to those pics - they are not as i thought the hill in the west in the village the YPG/YPJ took - but i.e Mishtenur in the east, where ISIS is still in control, so the 2nd pic is fake, but the third is actually from the village and hill in the west (Tall Shair ).

Don't know what the letters are.

 

[butchersapron]

This one shows the probable lines after today:

 

[coley]

Hmm, why do you think hold the record of the most 'ignored' poster on here?
Pain? Don't make me larf, in the pain stakes your more of a lightweight than a feather duster.

And none of the ones in Istanbul directly attributed to the PKK.

I wasn't aware that he was a believer.....but that explains a lot and is verging on some very dark politics.

He is a god botherer, just assumed is/was one of the western lot, mebbes one of the other lot?

 

[coley]

They seem very cheery for men who have been through what they have been through.

If Kobane somehow manages to come out of this victorious I wonder whether Turkey will suddenly decide that that is the best time to intervene.

If only to wipe out the remaining kurdish fighters, Turkey has shown it true colours in recent weeks and should be stripped of its NATO membership, Christ knows what would have happened if we had needed to rely on them if the Cold War had ever warmed up.

 

[coley]

This one shows the probable lines after today:

Christ, when you listen to tweets etc,they only need a few decent AT, artillery pieces and they would tear IS a new arsehole, hate to say it but mebbes this is the case for a clinical insertion of specialised weaponry and SF?
At least on a small scale? they would have local support?

 

[phildwyer]

I wasn't aware that he was a believer.....but that explains a lot and is verging on some very dark politics.

Could you either explain that last bit or withdraw it please?

 

[phildwyer]

so unless phildwyer's got some as yet unseen evidence i call bullshit on his claim to hate the pkk because of attacks in istanbul

What possesses you to continually spout off on things about which you know absolutely nothing?

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tw...-2008.aspx?pageID=238&nID=57198&NewsCatID=341

 

[phildwyer]

Christ, when you listen to tweets etc,they only need a few decent AT, artillery pieces and they would tear IS a new arsehole, hate to say it but mebbes this is the case for a clinical insertion of specialised weaponry and SF?
At least on a small scale? they would have local support?

No, no and no.

 

[phildwyer]

Turkey has shown it true colours in recent weeks and should be stripped of its NATO membership

And now you show your true imperialist colors, calling for the punishment of nations that fail to do the West's bidding.

And even more pathetic than that: still believing that "stripping" Turkey of NATO membership would constitute a punishment.

 

[yield]

And now you show your true imperialist colors, calling for the punishment of nations that fail to do the West's bidding.

And even more pathetic than that: still believing that "stripping" Turkey of NATO membership would constitute a punishment.

No Nato membership no USA military aid?

Anyway phil who do you think were responsible for the Reyhanli bombings in 2013?

 

[miss direct]

Today marks the end of a deadline imposed by Abdullah Ocalan. Things may kick off. I've been warned to stay away from crowded places (pretty impossible in Istanbul).

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0I30ZI20141015?irpc=932

 

[likesfish]

No, no and no.

Well it's what the sas were created for fighting covert wars and it's not like Herefords full of economic conscripts. The pay may be good but nobody passes selection for the cash.

 

[mack]

Today marks the end of a deadline imposed by Abdullah Ocalan. Things may kick off. I've been warned to stay away from crowded places (pretty impossible in Istanbul).

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0I30ZI20141015?irpc=932

Stay frosty miss direct

 

[frogwoman]

what is carved into that hill? it looks like it says new rct or new rgt. what's that about?

newroz - Kurdish new year surely?

 

[coley]

A video tour through some retaken areas.

Buggerinhell, they seem awfully casual about it?

 

[coley]

No, no and no.

Yes yes, and bliddy yes.

 

[coley]

Today marks the end of a deadline imposed by Abdullah Ocalan. Things may kick off. I've been warned to stay away from crowded places (pretty impossible in Istanbul).

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0I30ZI20141015?irpc=932

Certainly won't be booking any Hols in Turkey, and I think,many others will be thinking the same, wonder what the foreign offices current alert is for Turkey?

 

[krink]

newroz - Kurdish new year surely?

wow, well done, miss marples!
phew, that was going to bug me forever

 

[miss direct]

There aren't alerts for anywhere other than border areas and warnings to avoid protests and certain areas of Istanbul and a few other cities. Not the whole cities. My Dad is coming soon (Bodrum, Izmir and Istanbul) and I am not concerned although I won't be going to Taksim with him. Do you mean you wouldn't book due to safety concerns, or because you disagree with the politics?

 

[krink]

Certainly won't be booking any Hols in Turkey, and I think,many others will be thinking the same, wonder what the foreign offices current alert is for Turkey?

 

[coley]

There aren't alerts for anywhere other than border areas and warnings to avoid protests and certain areas of Istanbul and a few other cities. Not the whole cities. My Dad is coming soon (Bodrum, Izmir and Istanbul) and I am not concerned although I won't be going to Taksim with him. Do you mean you wouldn't book due to safety concerns, or because you disagree with the politics?

Mainly the latter but I would certainly be giving the former serious consideration.

 

[Pickman's model]

What possesses you to continually spout off on things about which you know absolutely nothing?

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tw...-2008.aspx?pageID=238&nID=57198&NewsCatID=341

you're something of a hypocrite, unless you've forgotten the rational proof of god fiasco

 

[CNT36]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-and-many-are-now-in-isiss-hands-9795485.html

President George W Bush led the US into war in Iraq on the back of assertions that Saddam Hussein had recently-built weapons of mass destruction, supplies that had only increased in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks.

Yet all the chemical weapons found by soldiers were manufactured before 1991, the Times reported. They consisted largely of 155-millimeter artillery shells or 122-millimeter rockets – not designed for mass destruction, and produced in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war.

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the chemical weapons discovery is that many were reportedly kept near where they were built in compounds around the Muthanna State Establishment.

The region is now held by Isis – and this summer the Iraqi government said it had witnessed intruders looting the corroded equipment before their surveillance cameras were shut off.

Worrying if true.

 

[phildwyer]

you're something of a hypocrite, unless you've forgotten the rational proof of god fiasco

Well I've just rationally proved you wrong, that's for sure.