The Islamic state

[coley]

I wonder what ISIS's position on makeup is?

Hope they demand a better standard than that! But then again, they seem to find the most obscure and ridiculous reasons to enslave and murder people, they are sooooooo amusing, ain't they.

 

[FNG]

Yes, kind of worthy of note that he took the opportunity to name the commander in chief of the preposed operation Colonel Abdul-Jabbar al-Aqidi anything known about him.

bad form to answer ones own question, but apparently he resigned from the Aleppo Revolutionary Military Council of the Free Syrian Army almost a year ago, since then been in talks with kurds in the Afrin canton,that would indicate that any push by his forces would be on another front rather than Kobane,backing up what BA said.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Mi...nder-announces-resignation.ashx#axzz2ivQ9OK68

http://country.eiu.com/article.aspx...ability&u=1&pid=812404665&oid=812404665&uid=1

 

[FNG]

Peshmerga claimed to have retaken Zumar for a second time raising hopes that they could relieve the siege of Sinjar.
http://www.todayszaman.com/world_iraqi-security-forces-kurds-gain-ground-against-isil_362628.html?

 

[likesfish]

Nus prove again to be an irrelevant bunch of cunts with the politcal sense of a gerbil

 

[butchersapron]

The figther in the vid above has been injured apparently:

 

[coley]

The figter in the vid above has been injured apparently:

He's alive anyway, not all bad.

 

[butchersapron]

Still got his tabs too.

 

[coley]

He's alive anyway, not all bad.

Bit pointless suggesting he goes on e- tabs for his health, at his age, I mean

 

[butchersapron]

Good read:

How a Turkish leftist gave his life to save Kurdish Kobane

In a concrete courtyard at the university last week, students gathered to remember Agirasli, and to collect donations for an aid convoy headed the next day to the border with Kobane. Olcay Celik, a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Bogazici who knew Agirnasli through activist groups, was spray-painting a large black banner. “I believe that every one of us now feels ashamed,” he said. “So we are ashamed of not being like him.”

His father, Hikmet Cur, is not ashamed. In a statement quoted in Turkish media, he said of his son, “He chose revolutionary solidarity while he had other, bright lives ahead. He kept his word. He did not disappoint me.”

 

[D'wards]

Good read:

How a Turkish leftist gave his life to save Kurdish Kobane

**Ill-judged Nirvana joke**

 

[likesfish]

A royal marine is in a bit of hot water attempting to go fight with the kurds there was a thread on arrse about who to comtact if you fancy having a caddy at isis possibly not the brightest ever post

 

[coley]

A royal marine is in a bit of hot water attempting to go fight with the kurds there was a thread on arrse about who to comtact if you fancy having a caddy at isis possibly not the brightest ever post

Surprised there aren't more people trying to get there for a caddy at them, bit mair use than protesting outside the HoP.

 

[likesfish]

I think the chance of some intense urban combat really only appeals to a very few and of those people who are single physically fit skilled enough to be useful are few and far between


Too old really and mrs fish would not be impressed

 

[DotCommunist]

I can understand his desire to go fight uncomplicated badness, but if you've taken the queens quid then you shouldn't really go freelancing on your spare time should you. It could cause all sorts of bollocks, imagine a royal marine getting beheaded on youtube, it'd drag the UK into YET ANOTHER fruitless jaunt in the middle east

 

[coley]

I think the chance of some intense urban combat really only appeals to a very few and of those people who are single physically fit skilled enough to be useful are few and far between


Too old really and mrs fish would not be impressed

I was thinking More of the ex pat Kurds who have been protesting across Europe.

 

[Patteran]

Good read:

How a Turkish leftist gave his life to save Kurdish Kobane

Uncle Nemir would be proud. Presumably this is going to rile Turkey further, if citizens from different movements & backgrounds are showing this level of solidarity with a revolutionary endeavour on its border. It's not going to tolerate PYD/PPK/DHKP-C etc mobbing up there, emboldened & inspired, is it?

 

[phildwyer]

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Uncle Nemir would be proud. Presumably this is going to rile Turkey further, if citizens from different movements & backgrounds are showing this level of solidarity with a revolutionary endeavour on its border. It's not going to tolerate PYD/PPK/DHKP-C etc mobbing up there, emboldened & inspired, is it?

If Turkey does intervene it will be by proxy, as before, by setting the Iraqi Kurds against the PKK. They can't lose that in confrontation, any more than they could lose in IS v PKK.

 

[coley]

If Turkey does intervene it will be by proxy, as before, by setting the Iraqi Kurds against the PKK. They can't lose that in confrontation, any more than they could lose in IS v PKK.

I think Turkey might find it harder to put Kurd against Kurd in the future, they seem to,be coming to,the conclusion that they share a common enemy,

 

[butchersapron]

More details on the duhok agreement - there have been rumblings about PKK and plans for kurdification for years now (or maybe counter-kurdification would be a better term given the areas it concerns where syrianised/arabised as state policy first) - note the answer to the 2nd question:

- It will be something like a consultative assembly?

This government will be something like a consultative assembly. This official body is only for the Kurds. As you know within the autonomous administration there are Arabs, Assyrians, Chaldeans. This only applies to the Kurds.

 

[Pickman's model]

I think the chance of some intense urban combat really only appeals to a very few and of those people who are single physically fit skilled enough to be useful are few and far between


Too old really and mrs fish would not be impressed

you could drop the shells into a mortar - make yourself useful man

 

[Patteran]

Also - Syria river news feed reporting PKK killed in a firefight inside Turkey as the ceasefire wobbles again.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Mi...ack-on-turkish-power-plant.ashx#axzz3H3z1JM6q

Three soldiers killed in gunfire in southeastern Turkey

Three all - is that how they operate?

 

[Patteran]

More details on the duhok agreement - there have been rumblings about PKK and plans for kurdification for years now (or maybe counter-kurdification would be a better term given the areas it concerns where syrianised/arabised as state policy first) - note the answer to the 2nd question:

- It will be something like a consultative assembly?

This government will be something like a consultative assembly. This official body is only for the Kurds. As you know within the autonomous administration there are Arabs, Assyrians, Chaldeans. This only applies to the Kurds.

I'm confused by the acronyms - is the PYD a component of Tev Dem, or another name for it? Is Tev Dem an umbrella, a united front?

 

[butchersapron]

I'm confused by the acronyms - is the PYD a component of Tev Dem, or another name for it? Is Tev Dem an umbrella, a united front?

The proliferation of acronyms and groups with substantial membershop crossover can get pretty head-spinning at times. This often seem to happen when the main organised political force (on 'our' side anyway) has operated in conditions of illegality or has been militarised. The worker-communist parties of Iran and Iraq alos ended up with an almost endless parade of civil fronts that they constructed and operated and made up the bulk of membership of due to a) attempting to avoid crackdowns and b)project a power broader and deeper than they actually possessed. Tev-dem seems to be a bit like this, with the PKK allowing it to proceed on a larger inclusive civil society type basis - so effectively and umbrella group with the PYD and PKK within it but pretty clearly the dominant group.

That reminds me of something i meant to post, no about Rojava as such but wider Syria and the way people organised:

The life and work of anarchist Omar Aziz, and his impact on self-organization in the Syrian revolution

Aziz believed that for the continuity and victory of the revolution, revolutionary activity needed to permeate all aspects of people’s lives. He advocated for radical changes to social organization and relationships in order to challenge the foundations of a system based on domination and oppression.

Aziz saw positive examples all around him. He was encouraged by the multiple initiatives springing up throughout the country including voluntary provision of emergency medical and legal support, turning houses into field hospitals and arranging food baskets for distribution. He saw in such acts “the spirit of the Syrian people’s resistance to the brutality of the system, the systematic killing and destruction of community”.[4] Omar’s vision was to spread these practices and he believed the way to achieve this was through the establishment of local councils. In the eighth month of the Syrian revolution, when wide-spread protests against the regime were still largely peaceful, Omar Aziz produced a discussion paper on Local Councils in Syria where he set out his vision.

In Aziz’s view the Local Council was the forum by which people drawn from diverse cultures and different social strata could work together to achieve three primary goals; to manage their lives independently of the institutions and organs of the state; to provide the space to enable the collective collaboration of individuals; and activate the social revolution at the local, regional and national level.

 

[Patteran]

The proliferation of acronyms and groups with substantial membershop crossover can get pretty head-spinning at times. This often seem to happen when the main organised political force (on 'our' side anyway) has operated in conditions of illegality or has been militarised. The worker-communist parties of Iran and Iraq alos ended up with an almost endless parade of civil fronts that they constructed and operated and made up the bulk of membership of due to a) attempting to avoid crackdowns and b)project a power broader and deeper than they actually possessed. Tev-dem seems to be a bit like this, with the PKK allowing it to proceed on a larger inclusive civil society type basis - so effectively and umbrella group with the PYD and PKK within it but pretty clearly the dominant group.

That reminds me of something i meant to post, no about Rojava as such but wider Syria and the way people organised:

The life and work of anarchist Omar Aziz, and his impact on self-organization in the Syrian revolution

“We are no less than the Paris Commune workers: they resisted for 70 days and we are still going on for a year and a half.”

We're presented with images of crowds & corpses, mourned or justified with impenetrable arabic slogans, & explained with 'these people aren't like us' headshakes - while in Syria, in the absence of the state, real people are organising participatory local councils, & drawing comparisons with the Paris Commune. Maybe I'm naive, but I still find it astonishing just how much reports like these differ from the general western media narrative of 'The Arab Spring'/'The Syrian Civil War'. It's also interesting that the Rojava cantons are happening not in Kurdish isolation, but alongside wider Syrian efforts at revolutionary organisation. Fascinating - thanks for that, butchersapron

 

[teqniq]

@erinmcunningham: Islamic State releases a video featuring British hostage John Cantlie allegedly speaking from the frontline in Kobane

 

[Anudder Oik]

Nus prove again to be an irrelevant bunch of cunts with the politcal sense of a gerbil

The SWP must be patting themselves on the back after having got rid of this lot, arf...

 

[Anudder Oik]

I can fully understand the anguish of the ginger man, alienated and vilified by western society despite perhaps going to uni. All those cruel jokes, all that mocking, then one day after he's had enough he realizes that the answer is to join up with barbaric and callous murderers. For him it's the answer to everything. My only consolation is knowing that there are people in the UK who even at this early stage are concerned about bringing him back into the fold, paving the way for his return...oh woops, too late, the fucker has been topped...Lol.


I love red hair, it just has to be on a lovely person, that's all...

 

[likesfish]

you could drop the shells into a mortar - make yourself useful man

Not a deviant homosexual so not allowed near mortars its a tradition

 

[FNG]

following on from that video of turkish military vehicles apparently based in close proximity to an ISIS flag another clip of somewhat cordial relations between Turkish Military and ISIL looters raiding an abandoned refugee column have surfaced.

In the video two ISIS fighters are seen approaching the border where they loot the stranded cars left by civilians who fled the besieged town. They then break into a car and load it with the equipment that they have stolen from several cars and drive off.

Later in the video, the two ISIS members approach the border fence where they wait for an armoured vehicle carrying seven soldiers, of which one seems to be a high ranked officer. It is reported that the meeting goes on for approximately thirty minutes and then the sides are seen waving goodbye to each other.

http://kurdishquestion.com/kurdistan/west-kurdistan/breaking-video-isis-turkish-army-meeting.html
The clip raises more questions than it answers, the officer in question is so blase about the security risk of ambush that he puts his flak jacket on almost as an afterthought.

 

[gabi]

The Ginger Aussie kid is fucking hilarious. He basically is Chris Lilley. Even got a comedy 'Muslim' accent.

http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/new-isis-video-ginger-jihadi-emerges-6117969