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The fall of Raqqa: hunting the last jihadists in Isis's capital of cruelty
The Guardian ^ | 6 October 2017 07.46 EDT | Martin Chulov

Posted on 10/06/2017 11:23:18 PM PDT by Texas Fossil

The terror group used the Syrian city to showcase its savagery. Now a sense of vengeance is galvanising the final fightback.

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I don’t even hate them,” he said. “They are ignorant people. They have been brainwashed. If we treat them like they treat us, we become like them.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cruelty; fall; isis; raqqa; syria
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War is evil.

ISIS is a Great Evil that deserves total extinction.

Their End is near in Raqqa.

After the evil in Las Vegas on Sunday, this penetrates me more than ever.

1 posted on 10/06/2017 11:23:18 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: BeauBo; Candor7; ColdOne; Navy Patriot; caww; huldah1776; dp0622; Gene Eric; Freemeorkillme; ...
Syria Ping
2 posted on 10/06/2017 11:24:21 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Hope they show these subanimals no mercy.


3 posted on 10/06/2017 11:59:46 PM PDT by ZULU (DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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To: Texas Fossil
" Using a pejorative for the Turkish leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, he [Akif] added: “The sultan’s time is ticking.” "
4 posted on 10/07/2017 12:02:02 AM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: Texas Fossil

Most left weeks ago from the slow motion attack on Raqqa. No ring of steel to catch the SOBs for war crimes prosecutions and hangings etc.
Most of then are probably back in the EU now.


5 posted on 10/07/2017 12:31:15 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: Texas Fossil
But...but...for 4 yrs the JV team grew stronger under the reign of hussein soetoro but 9 mos into the term of Pres Trump they stink like Texas roadkill.

Pres Trump doesn't care about environmental damage or barry's feelings./sarc

6 posted on 10/07/2017 12:50:24 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: ZULU

The YPG and YPJ (leads SDF) have never killed captives. I read yesterday a blurb that indicated there was a battle going on within some of ISIS again. It happened in Tabqa. Some of the locals that were conscripted into ISIS wanted to surrender, the foreign jihadi’s did not, they shot each other. Close to the end some surrendered. The foreign jihadi’s did not.

This is written from viewpoint of a news person from outside the region. It is very recent when that has happened. It is written to convey emotion, not necessarily the reality on the ground.

I thought it was worth reading, but can tell the difference of this article from what those I’ve known a long time convey.

The foreign jihadi’s will not surrender. They know they are facing death. Some of them think this is what they are destined to do. Remember, these people strap a bomb around their waist and blow themselves up. They drive a rigged vehicle with tons of explosives and blow themselves up. The are totally brainwashed and insane.

In some cases they conscript children and brainwash them. Even the Ezidi’s. There is some reluctance to kill them when it is apparent they are forced to fight. They even try to get them to blow themselves up.

ISIS is pure evil. Should forever be relegated to Hell.


7 posted on 10/07/2017 4:25:57 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Of course.................

Iffen you exterminate the cockroach—you then BECOME THE COCKROACH!!

Makes perfect sense—don’t it?


8 posted on 10/07/2017 4:33:42 AM PDT by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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To: DesertRhino

No my friend, I don’t think so. They have few real escape paths. To Deir Ezzor is not to escape, they will die there at the hands of Assad on one side of the Euphrates or by the SDF on the other side.

But, Turkey is colluding with Iran now. I have news clips of a long list of meetings the Turkish government and military have held with the Iranian government and military. Both see the Kurds as the obstacle keeping them from taking over.

Iran is Shia, Turkey is Erdogan (sort of Sunni). Certainly not allies by nature. But both hate the Kurds. And both hate US. Yes, NATO member Turkey is run by a man who “hates” the US. He openly calls the US, “Crusaders”. Headshake.


9 posted on 10/07/2017 4:35:53 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Flintlock

He did not say don’t kill the evil. He said don’t act like the evil. If you act like the evil you become what they are.

I can assure you, ISIS will end in Raqqa and in Deir Ezzor. There will be few if any who escape. Survivors will be few and captive until tried.


10 posted on 10/07/2017 4:42:53 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil
Remember the summer these scumbags rode down the highway packed in a convoy of Toyota pick-up truck with little opposition? ObaMao made that all possible in his hurry to bug out of Iraq so he could keep a promise to his left-wing base.

They own this tragedy!

11 posted on 10/07/2017 6:01:28 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Texas Fossil

When I lSt spoke to Bannon 2 months ago he said “This is all Mattis.”


12 posted on 10/07/2017 6:13:15 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Vigilanteman

Absolutely, the US Left and Obozo OWN this. Indeed.


13 posted on 10/07/2017 6:33:25 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: LS
“This is all Mattis and Trump.”
14 posted on 10/07/2017 6:37:30 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: LS

Oh, I forgot.

This is all Mattis, Trump and the Syrian Kurds.

It would not have happened without all 3. It is a FACT.


15 posted on 10/07/2017 6:38:38 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

What country will we invade next without a declaration of war or any kind of support from Congress?

All this for a pipeline.

Americans need to take control of our government. We need to read our Constitution once in a while.


16 posted on 10/07/2017 6:44:21 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: Vermont Lt

It would’ve been interesting how the Dem and Rinos Congressmen would’ve behaved if Trump had asked for a War Declaration against ISIS. He should’ve asked just for that reason (and good Constitutionally too). Might’ve sealed 2020 right there.


17 posted on 10/07/2017 7:04:49 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Vermont Lt

Well, Obama created the chaos in Syria and made it worse in Iraq.

ISIS evolved on his watch.

Trump said he would end ISIS. With the leadership of Mattis and the help of Syrian Kurds, in 9 months from taking office, ISIS is about ended.

So, who are you blaming?


18 posted on 10/07/2017 7:34:03 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

I am not blaming anyone.

I am asking why the American people think it’s a good idea to send our special forces all over the world to kill on our behalf—when there is no national interest at stake.

And they seem to be doing it Willy-hilly. The Islamic factions in Africa cannot hurt us. They don’t care about us. They want to make themselves rich. We used to just buy them off. Better yet, let’s keep our nose out of Africa.


19 posted on 10/07/2017 9:21:04 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Also, to suggest that ISIS evolved is hilarious. Do you care to guess where the guns in Benghazi were headed. They sure as shit were not coming back to the US.

We may not have hired them, but we certainly enabled them. Out government does not have our best interests in mind.


20 posted on 10/07/2017 9:23:36 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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