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Evacuation of Damascus militants delayed after rebel leader killed
Reuters ^ | 26 Dec 2015 | Suleiman Al-Khalidi

Posted on 12/26/2015 11:46:47 AM PST by amorphous

A U.N.-brokered deal to evacuate more than 2,000 Islamic State fighters and other militants from rebel-held suburbs of Damascus on Saturday has been delayed after the killing of an insurgent leader, an organization that monitors the Syrian war said.

The United Nations said it aimed to convene peace talks in Geneva on Jan. 25 to try to end nearly five years of civil war and it appealed to the warring parties not to allow events on the ground to derail the process.

The evacuation from Damascus had been expected to take place early on Saturday but was delayed as there was now no secure territory for the militants to pass through, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an independent British-based monitoring group that tracks violence across Syria.

Buses were due to transport the fighters to Raqqa, the de facto capital of Islamic State in northern Syria, Lebanese Hezbollah's Manar TV station said. But it fell through after the Jaysh al Islam rebel group's leader Zahran Alloush - through whose territory the convoy had been granted safe passage - was killed in an air strike on Friday, Manar said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: isis; islam; militants; obamaisis; obamasyria; un
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1 posted on 12/26/2015 11:46:47 AM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

Get them on the busses and let the Russians cluster bomb them into pink jelly.

L


2 posted on 12/26/2015 11:48:16 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: amorphous

Where was the UN when they were murdering civilians by the town full?


3 posted on 12/26/2015 11:49:36 AM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Lurker

Put the blue helmet on the buses also. Get a two for one. Thank you Putin


4 posted on 12/26/2015 11:51:47 AM PST by Kozy
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To: Lurker; All
Islamic State leader Baghdadi goads West in rare audio statement
"In what is believed to be his first public message in seven months, Isil chief warns Israel attacks are imminent"

Might be a good time to get out of Damascus, while the getting is good.


5 posted on 12/26/2015 11:56:35 AM PST by amorphous
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To: Kozy

Good plan.


6 posted on 12/26/2015 11:58:23 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Steely Tom
Where was the UN when they were murdering civilians by the town full?

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7 posted on 12/26/2015 11:58:43 AM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

I can see Assad and Vlad wanting to get them clear of Damascus before Vlad tests his ‘modern weapons’ on them. Lot of collateral damage even from a tactical nuke.


8 posted on 12/26/2015 11:59:21 AM PST by PAR35
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To: amorphous

They can’t walk? Let them hitch hike...


9 posted on 12/26/2015 11:59:52 AM PST by donozark (Herbicides improve visibility.)
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To: amorphous

I say exterminate the cockroaches.


10 posted on 12/26/2015 12:04:28 PM PST by boycott (--)
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To: amorphous

Yeah, that’s about the size of it.


11 posted on 12/26/2015 12:04:35 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Steely Tom

Big busses make excellent targets. The idiot UN people should get free passes to ride along.


12 posted on 12/26/2015 12:09:22 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: amorphous

Why the heck is the UN helping ISIS, they are not a state, break the Geneva Convention and do not wear uniforms.

According to the law, they only help they should get is a firing squad to help they meet Allah.


13 posted on 12/26/2015 12:12:35 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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Why the heck is the UN helping ISIS...

I'm guessing Obama is trying to salvage his investment in ISIL.

14 posted on 12/26/2015 12:19:35 PM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

But the pentagon says Russia isn’t targeting ISIS!


15 posted on 12/26/2015 12:22:16 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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Why the heck is the UN helping ISIS

and THAT my friend is the question of the year
16 posted on 12/26/2015 12:23:57 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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Why the heck is the UN helping ISIS

Because the UN has been Islamicised.

Mr. niteowl77

17 posted on 12/26/2015 12:36:06 PM PST by niteowl77
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To: silverleaf
But the pentagon says Russia isn’t targeting ISIS!

Is our pentagon saying that, or is it the North Africa Terrorist Organization (i.e. NATO)?

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18 posted on 12/26/2015 12:50:01 PM PST by amorphous
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To: niteowl77; American in Israel
Because the UN has been Islamicised.

So is Obama and reportedly our CIA director.

My question is, why isn't our FBI investigating and making arrests for this administration's Subversive Activity?!

19 posted on 12/26/2015 12:55:56 PM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous
Buses were due to transport the fighters to Raqqa, the de facto capital of Islamic State in northern Syria, Lebanese Hezbollah's Manar TV station said. But it fell through after the Jaysh al Islam rebel group's leader Zahran Alloush - through whose territory the convoy had been granted safe passage - was killed in an air strike on Friday, Manar said.

And all this time, the media has been saying there are good Islamist rebels, who are distinct from ISIS.

20 posted on 12/26/2015 1:16:08 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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