The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Megathread

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grumbler

#1995
October 16, 2014, 06:48:41 PM
Quote from: Jacob on October 16, 2014, 06:38:53 PM
Well obviously there'd be some sort of plot reason you couldn't. Maybe you're physically handcuffed to one another; maybe each of you has some sort of goal you can only achieve by taking this road trip, a goal worthy enough to (maybe) put up with the other guy.

Ah!  *Serpentine Shelly. Serpentine!*

Our writers are not nearly that good.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

CountDeMoney

#1996
October 16, 2014, 08:45:25 PM
Quote from: grumbler on October 16, 2014, 06:48:41 PM
Ah!  *Serpentine Shelly. Serpentine!*

They may be too young for that reference.

grumbler

#1997
October 17, 2014, 05:05:29 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 16, 2014, 08:45:25 PM
Quote from: grumbler on October 16, 2014, 06:48:41 PM
Ah!  *Serpentine Shelly. Serpentine!*

They may be too young for that reference.
Anyone who hasn't seen The in-Laws is culturally bankrupt.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

mongers

#1998
October 19, 2014, 10:32:23 PM
Good move:



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Kobane: US airdrops for Kurds battling IS

US military aircraft have dropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State (IS) militants in the key Syrian town of Kobane.

US Central Command said C-130 transport aircraft had made "multiple" drops.

Earlier US air strikes have helped push back IS militants intent on taking control of the town, which lies near the border with Turkey.

Correspondents say the move is likely to anger key US ally Turkey.

Turkey has faced a decades-long insurgency by the Kurdish militant group the PKK, itself regarded as a terrorist group by the US.

IS militants control territory straddling Syria and Iraq. Kobane is one of their strategic objectives, and fierce fighting has raged in the town for weeks, forcing the evacuation of most of its civilian inhabitants.
'Continued resistance'

US forces have conducted more than 135 air strikes against IS in Kobani

The air drops of supplies provided by Kurdish authorities in Iraq were "intended to enable continued resistance against Isil's attempts to overtake Kobane," CentCom said in a statement. IS is also referred to as Isil and Isis.

All the aircraft involved had returned safely, it added.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-29684761
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CountDeMoney

#1999
October 19, 2014, 11:19:17 PM
Good, now they can defend themselves with US supplies against US supplied Turkey.

Berkut

#2000
October 19, 2014, 11:23:15 PM
Three way battle between Kurds, Turkey, and ISIS, all of which will be using US weapons.

Win-win-win clearly.
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Valmy

#2001
October 19, 2014, 11:37:10 PM
Quote from: Berkut on October 19, 2014, 11:23:15 PM
Three way battle between Kurds, Turkey, and ISIS, all of which will be using US weapons.

Win-win-win clearly.

Another glorious moment for US policy in the Middle East!
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Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

DGuller

#2002
October 19, 2014, 11:51:42 PM
They key thing is to not get mixed up about which side gets the rifles and which one gets the bombs.

Viking

#2003
October 20, 2014, 12:03:33 AM
Quote from: DGuller on October 19, 2014, 11:51:42 PM
They key thing is to not get mixed up about which side gets the rifles and which one gets the bombs.

GPS locators in the rifles?
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

mongers

#2004
October 20, 2014, 12:54:39 PM
Turkey have changed their stance somewhat over the last 24 hours, presumably under pressure from The administration. They'll now allow Kurdish fighters, sometime reported as Iraqi Kurds, to transit through Turkish territory to get to the fighting in central North Syria, presumably that also means Kobane?

Apparently the Syrian Kurds's lines of communication are very tenuous, at one point just a railwayline and thin strip of rough road right up against the Turkish border fence, so they'll now be allowed to use a nearby road just inside Turkey. 
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Baron von Schtinkenbutt

#2005
October 20, 2014, 02:47:32 PM
Quote from: Viking on October 20, 2014, 12:03:33 AM
GPS locators in the rifles?

Rifles booby-trapped by filling the magazines with C4 instead of ammunition and wiring a detonator to the trigger.

Admiral Yi

#2006
October 21, 2014, 06:53:34 PM
Three teenaged Somali-American girls from the Denver area got arrested in Frankfurt while on their to Syria to join ISIS.

Most of our Muslims are pretty cool; Somalis seem to be the one exception.

Viking

#2007
October 22, 2014, 02:51:07 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 21, 2014, 06:53:34 PM
Three teenaged Somali-American girls from the Denver area got arrested in Frankfurt while on their to Syria to join ISIS.

Most of our Muslims are pretty cool; Somalis seem to be the one exception.

Those of us who have regular somalis usually think your somalis are the reasonable ones.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Syt

#2008
October 22, 2014, 03:06:55 AM
We have few Somalis here. Our stereotypically crazy Muslims are Chechens and occasionally Bosnians.

Usually, if there's a shooting incident, there's a good chance Chchens are involved (like last week, when a Chechen shot dead a Croatian in Lower Austria, and a shoot out in Vienna between Chechen families, leaving 4 seriously injured - triggered by one family circulating a non-racy photo of a woman from the other family).
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Tamas

#2009
October 22, 2014, 03:32:22 AM
Quote from: mongers on October 20, 2014, 12:54:39 PM
Turkey have changed their stance somewhat over the last 24 hours, presumably under pressure from The administration. They'll now allow Kurdish fighters, sometime reported as Iraqi Kurds, to transit through Turkish territory to get to the fighting in central North Syria, presumably that also means Kobane?

Apparently the Syrian Kurds's lines of communication are very tenuous, at one point just a railwayline and thin strip of rough road right up against the Turkish border fence, so they'll now be allowed to use a nearby road just inside Turkey.

This is like a dream come true for Turkey. They need both ISIS and the Kurds weakened, and they are wearing each other down.
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