Posted on 02/14/2016 9:53:01 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Islamic State (ISIS) fighters are feeling the heat from intensified coalition airstrikes to such an extent that they have resorted to shaving their beards and seizing civilian homes in their Syrian stronghold of Raqqa for fear of being targeted by armed drones and other coalition aircraft.
The information came from residents who managed to flee Raqqa and fled to the Turkish city of Urfa, NBC News reported.
"If your family is in a house, they take your house and they put their family in there," said Abu Baraa, 19, who fled last month from Raqqa to Turkey. "They've started taking people's homes and living there. It's hard for civilians to separate themselves. It means that the airstrikes are harming ISIS, but they're harming us, too."
Baraa said ISIS militants simply barge into private homes and tell residents to get out or to allow them to live with them. Refusal means death, he said.
"Recently they have been changing their appearance — wearing civilian clothes, shaving their beards," he said. Instead of military vehicles, "they are using taxis more often" to move around. They also "cover their cars with mud so the aircraft can't see them," he said.
The teen said when he was still living with his family in Raqqa, he was forced to watch public executions, including one carried out by Mohammed Emwazi —the British militant known as "Jihadi John."
"The situation became very dark — you could see it in people's faces," he said. "There were bodies everywhere. Half of my friends have joined ISIS, half of my friends have been killed by ISIS."
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Russia kicks ass.
Glad they showed up.
....or they get on a boat and head to Europe where they are welcomed with open arms.
“They also “cover their cars with mud so the aircraft can’t see them,” he said.”
Yep. Mud, the new stealth ... cheap, easy to make, why those brilliant Arabs -— once again coming up with something revolutionary -— practical invisibility.
My eyes are bad today, I thought it said they covered their ears with mud so the aircraft can’t see them. Gawd...
“Russia kicks ass.”
Yep, Russia doesn’t exactly need approval from everyone to get the job done. Not like us, we go crawling to the United Nothing, the EU, the Arab states, and anyone else you can think of.
Islamic State (ISIS) fighters are feeling the heat from intensified coalition airstrikes to such an extent....[emphasis added]I took that to mean the U.S.-led coalition.
Ha. Bull.
The US was doing nothing until Russia showed up.
Obama and Hiklary backed ISIS and cleared the table for them to take over.
I merely am pointing-out what the article states. It does not appear to be about Russia. That’s all.
Jihadi John supposedly died in November. So they must have been taking peoples home since before then.
I’m guessing the Russians don’t care.
Time for 1 more leaflet dropping, telling “civilians” to leave in 2 hours. Then Raqqa is no more.
Anybody stupid enough to still be in any territory controlled by ISIS obviously is too stupid to live or are allied, there are no civilians, only terrorists and subhumans.
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