The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Megathread

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mongers

#3555
April 01, 2016, 07:06:36 PM
The good guys.



QuoteReuters / Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Female Kurdish Peshmerga attend their graduation ceremony at a police academy in Zakho district of the Dohuk Governorate of the Iraqi Kurdistan province, Iraq, March 30, 2016. REUTERS/Ari Jalal
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

11B4V

#3556
April 01, 2016, 09:03:19 PM
Ill good guy them. :perv:
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

mongers

#3557
April 01, 2016, 09:38:09 PM
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Razgovory

#3558
April 01, 2016, 10:33:20 PM
I kinda hope they don't kill Tyr.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

CountDeMoney

#3559
April 01, 2016, 10:38:06 PM
They always look like angry Jersey chicks over there, like a paramilitary bachelorette party going into the city.

dps

#3560
April 02, 2016, 12:17:08 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 01, 2016, 10:33:20 PM
I kinda hope they don't kill Tyr.

Only "kinda", though, huh?  :)

Solmyr

#3561
April 02, 2016, 06:00:03 AM
Kurds are Putin's pals now.

Norgy

#3562
April 02, 2016, 06:35:07 AM
We're all Putin's pals.  :cry: :cossack:

Razgovory

#3563
April 02, 2016, 04:05:45 PM
Quote from: dps on April 02, 2016, 12:17:08 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 01, 2016, 10:33:20 PM
I kinda hope they don't kill Tyr.

Only "kinda", though, huh?  :)

I'm flexible.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

jimmy olsen

#3564
April 05, 2016, 07:32:58 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 03, 2016, 10:59:47 PM
Christ this is awful :(

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/1-5-million-may-die-if-mosul-dam-fails-iraq-n530861

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1.5 Million May Die if Mosul Dam Fails: Iraq Expert
...

Sounda like the Italians won't really start working on until June. This is bad, really bad. :(

http://rudaw.net/mobile/english/interview/04042016
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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mongers

#3565
April 05, 2016, 08:17:49 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 05, 2016, 07:32:58 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 03, 2016, 10:59:47 PM
Christ this is awful :(

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/1-5-million-may-die-if-mosul-dam-fails-iraq-n530861

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1.5 Million May Die if Mosul Dam Fails: Iraq Expert
...

Sounda like the Italians won't really start working on until June. This is bad, really bad. :(

http://rudaw.net/mobile/english/interview/04042016

I can beat that:

More than Seven Billion people will die if the Sun turns off.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

CountDeMoney

#3566
April 13, 2016, 12:02:41 AM
Warthog's doing what Warthogs do.

QuoteThis footage, recently posted (just yesterday) to the official Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve YouTube page shows an A-10 destroying an armored vehicle, presumable laden with explosives. The vehicle, commandeered by Daesh guerrillas, was identified as a Soviet-era BMP-1 by Sofrep.com. Syria possesses thousands of these infantry fighting vehicles, bought from the Soviet Union in the mid-1970s.

https://youtu.be/wS6p8QOcVX8

In the video, an A-10 saturates the general area of the BMP-1 with 30mm PGU-14/B Armor Piercing Incendiary rounds, which detonate upon impact. Each PGU-14/B contains a depleted uranium tip, allowing the bullet to penetrate most forms of armor on tanks and personnel carriers, and subsequently detonate, virtually turning everything inside the doomed vehicle into a version of fiery hell. The resultant explosion, after the BMP-1 is hit, proves that it was carrying a hell of a lot of explosives inside. This video lacks sound, so you won't be able to hear the infamous BRRRTTT! of the GAU-8 as the cannon fires.

https://tacairnet.com/2016/04/10/watch-the-a-10-do-what-it-was-built-to-do/

Norgy

#3567
April 13, 2016, 03:00:45 AM
I read a piece on the Beeb about the Christian "Babylon" brigade in Iraq. It was strange.

QuoteKildani turns to me again: "We have to fight. We have to defend ourselves."
And then, to my surprise, he adds: "Jesus himself told us that if you don't have a sword you should go out and buy one."
I cast my mind back to my schooldays of Bible study but can't remember Jesus telling people to arm themselves.
"Did he really say that?"
"It's in the Bible," Kildani insists.
"Matthew," one man says. "Luke," says another. "Matthew and Luke," they both say. I looked doubtful.
Kildani glances over to one of his assistants who is playing a game on his phone.
"Find it!" he orders.
The young man with the phone walks over to me. He has the verse on his screen in Arabic.
It is Luke chapter 22, verse 36: "If you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one."
Turns out theologians have been arguing about the verse for centuries. Is that a real sword? Or a metaphorical one? Kildani is in no doubt. He says he and his men are out on patrol. And they're armed.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35998716

Eddie Teach

#3568
April 13, 2016, 03:20:42 AM
Well, Jesus didn't come to bring peace, but a sword. Funny how they never mention the Romans confiscating it.  :hmm:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Martinus

#3569
April 13, 2016, 03:26:27 AM
Actually, Luke 22:36 is a bad example, because it can be argued to have been taken out of context.

The guy who mentioned Matthew was actually right. Matthew 10:34 is a much better quote:

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword."
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