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coley said:
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-seige-of-kobani-obamas-syrian-fiasco-at-work/
Bit dated but worthy of comment?
Just it seems media interest has dried up recently?
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'news' is just whats new - whats happening now is the same as what was happening 3 weeks ago, so not newsworthy. the story is the same as it was before, all the analysis, all the comment has been done.

a good parallel is the story of the 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria - its got to have been nearly six months ago, the story today is the same as the story 3 days after they went missing. what makes it an even closer parallel is the fact that within a week the UK sent 3(?) RAF Tornado GR4 strike/reece aircraft to look for them - they are, iirc, still there, still flying, still burning aviation fuel and fatigue hours. when however was the last time you saw any media attention given to the story?
 
coley said:
Good way to launder and stash their cash
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One of the weaknesses of ISIS having a gold-based currency mentioned in the article is actually a strength. As he says, gold is internationally tradable. Which means it can be used to buy supplies and weaponry from abroad, and even pay mercenaries. This is much harder using an ISIS-issued paper currency.

In any case a paper-based currency will need the creation of a more complicated financial system - not really a priority for an organisation fighting a vicious war on a number of fronts.

For one thing, it will have to be printed using sophisticated technology to stop it being counterfeited. If it could be easily copied the west could flood ISIS controlled territory with forged notes and created all sorts of economic and social mayhem.

A gold-based medium of exchange is far better for ISIS given current circumstances.
 
Situation appears to be be continued slow but steady pushing out of beardies despite their continued re-inforcement (which suggests the YPG/YPJ operations in the areas behind them haven't been fully successful yet) - eastern front, where ISIS is strongest appears to be focus now. YPG claimed they took a number of key positions and loads of weapons over last few days in this area.
 
Is the formation of a united Kurdish army on the horizon?

“The cooperation between the PKK guerrillas and the peshmerga started in a very practical manner at the front line to fight effectively against ISIS. The next step was to create joint structures. This is a very positive step forward and has created the foundations of Kurdish unity on the ground, and we hope more cooperation will be forthcoming,” stated Sozdar Avesta – member of the KCK leadership council, the umbrella group that encompasses the PKK – in an interview with Al-Akhbar English in Qandil.
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ISIS counter attacks at Kirkuk and Mosul Dam repulsed, elsewhere standoff between peshmerga and Badr Shia milita as latter asked to leave recently liberated saidya.
 
rent-a-gob Abu Ramaysah surfaces in IS held territories

http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/nick/let-s-help-abu-rumaysah-live-out-his-dream-3933

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...get&utm_medium=Int_Ref&utm_campaign=TOI_AShow

Elsewhere a former bangledeshi kidnap victim raises fears that 49 of 50 Indian aid workers kidnapped in june travelling between Bagdad and Mosul were murdered by firing squad shortly afterwards, the 50th alledgedly feigned death and managed to escape. Indian Intelligence cast doubts on testimony and believe the men may still be alive.
 
butchersapron said:
Situation appears to be be continued slow but steady pushing out of beardies despite their continued re-inforcement (which suggests the YPG/YPJ operations in the areas behind them haven't been fully successful yet) - eastern front, where ISIS is strongest appears to be focus now. YPG claimed they took a number of key positions and loads of weapons over last few days in this area.
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Surviving the winter will presumably be the next challenge - how will the canton cope with 170,000 refugees (according to UNHCR) returning to a smashed city with no infrastructure, & no food or energy reserves?

Plenty of movement being reported round Afrin canton, with Afrin representatives meeting EU officials. Nusrah are claiming the YPG have been aiding the regime, perhaps as a pretext to an attack - the YPG deny it. Reports that the regime air dropped weapons to YPG by mistake probably haven't helped.
 
Afrin has been looking precarious since the collapse/defection of the rev socialist front to al nusra.left it more or less encircled by hostile entities, all hangs on the independence of the former rsf cadres holding the front, though they could be in the process of being rotatated out.
 
Concerted beardie effort to take Mursitpinar and the border crossing - attacked from over the Turkish border as well. Poss desperation measure due to normal re-reinforcement channels being blocked. Just speculation from me though.
 
I was wondering what variant of the PZ 3 they had, there are three variants, would have though the bunker buster would be handy for street fighting while keeping the Milan purely for the armour?
 
butchersapron said:
Concerted beardie effort to take Mursitpinar and the border crossing - attacked from over the Turkish border as well. Poss desperation measure due to normal re-reinforcement channels being blocked. Just speculation from me though.
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Usual twitter sources reporting car-bombs coming from the Turkish side. Fuckin hell. YPG sources are claiming the attack failed & the border post is under their control. There's some footage here of the YPG/YPJ repulsing this morning's attack - Daesh are in the grain silos, on the Turkish side of the line.
 
Patteran said:
Usual twitter sources reporting car-bombs coming from the Turkish side. Fuckin hell. YPG sources are claiming the attack failed & the border post is under their control. There's some footage here of the YPG/YPJ repulsing this morning's attack - Daesh are in the grain silos, on the Turkish side of the line.
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Suggestions of organised power cuts in suruc and close by areas as attack started as well. Ned to get all this right though.
 
Patteran said:
Usual twitter sources reporting car-bombs coming from the Turkish side. Fuckin hell. YPG sources are claiming the attack failed & the border post is under their control. There's some footage here of the YPG/YPJ repulsing this morning's attack - Daesh are in the grain silos, on the Turkish side of the line.
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That's serious not fucking around footage.
 
The bangla bad boys or whatever those idiots called themselves were picced doing same:

They stand at the Hamburg train station and call themselves the Dawa Movement, and they wear T-shirts with the inscription: "Life is No Game." They tell passersby why celebrating Halloween is a sin, because they should celebrate no one but Allah, and certainly not ghosts. They don't come across as angry. Instead, they are committed and loud. Their message is the Dawa, or the call to Islam, and they are spreading it nationwide. In Wuppertal, they go into gambling dens as the Sharia police, to save young people from spending the last of their money. They defend their version of Islam, even if it means engaging in street battles with Kurds in Hamburg or Celle.
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makes you wonder what secret talks have been going on between ISIS and the turks - the cynic in me imagines they let the peshmerga into kobani with the intention of killing two birds with one ISIS
 
Flavour said:
makes you wonder what secret talks have been going on between ISIS and the turks - the cynic in me imagines they let the peshmerga into kobani with the intention of killing two birds with one ISIS
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Can you expand on that? You're not suggesting the peshmerga are there to help ISIS? To police the possibility of social revolution -sure (see also FSA) but to help ISIS?
 
No - what I mean is that the Turkish government definitely want the Kurds to be as weak as possible - I am definitely not suggesting that the Peshmerga are helping ISIS, although with their presence it's a win-win situation whatever happens:

Kobani survives, ISIS beaten, but Peshmerga moderate the YPG/YPJ
Kobani falls: ISIS destroy both the Peshmerga and the YPG/YPJ inside, meaning significantly weaker Kurds in Iraq, Turkey and Syria...

When Turkey let the Peshmerga enter Kobani I think there were elements of the Turkish military/state who thought "great, now we can let ISIS destroy both of them"
 
The turkish military have up to now had reasonable relations with the peshmerga, the forces that comprise the KRG army were allies against the PKK in the 90s. Think it was more likely they saw allowing KRG forces into Kobani as a longtime way of getting a friendly regional proxy a foothold. This also explains why the YPG placed strict quotas on numbers they allowed in.
Subsequently and i think directly linked to the numbers of PKK supporters that openly cheered the peshmerga on its passage through parts of turkey, (flying the PKK colours is a proscribed activity afaiw) there has been a bit of a backtracking. Almost immediately the Turkish prime minister insisted that there would be no more Peshmerga convoys allowed through turkey,adding the caveat that none had been sort.
 
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