Posted on 01/26/2015 1:17:05 PM PST by SeekAndFind
BEIRUT (AP) -- Jubilant Kurdish fighters ousted Islamic State militants from the key Syrian border town of Kobani on Monday after a four-month battle - a significant victory for both the Kurds and the U.S.-led coalition.
The Kurds raised their flag on a hill that once flew the Islamic State group's black banner. On Kobani's war-ravaged streets, gunmen fired in the air in celebration, male and female fighters embraced, and troops danced in their baggy uniforms.
The failure to capture Kobani was a major blow to the extremists whose hopes for an easy victory dissolved into a costly siege under withering airstrikes by coalition forces and an assault by the Kurdish militia.
For the U.S. and its partners, Kobani became a strategic prize, especially after they increased the number of airstrikes against IS fighters there in October.
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This is the female fighter I was speaking of. Hope she made it.
http://rt.com/news/200263-kurdish-female-fighter-isis/
You got it.
The AQ Sunnis are much more dangerous to the Saudis as they have an appeal to the majority of the Saudi population, which lives fairly nearby near the Red Sea Coast - Jiddah, Mecca, Medina, etc., and lots of friends in high places, as we know.
The Shiites/Houthis in this case have friends only of rather different brands of Shiites (the differences between Shiites are good for several headaches) who are a monster desert away along the Persian Gulf (or the Arabian Gulf for Arabs).
So The Houthis are unlikely to serve as a sanctuary for AQ terrorists and guerrillas.
Seriously! Our military operates on it’s own basically, because our illustrious leader is on the golf course, and on vacation...or events like India and meeting the New Prince.
So now the Muslims in Kobani will NOT have the chance to learn REAL ISLAM. Instead they will have the Westernized Kurds CORRUPTING them...allowing women to drive, go out in public without a space suit, and to work outside the home. They might as well live in SAN FRANCISCO with their new masters. What an EMBARRASSMENT to Islam.
(how the liberals see it)
My all hail emporer Obama post was sarcastic....
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