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Posted on 02/28/2015 1:40:58 PM PST by Hojczyk
ISIS has announced that Lebanon will be the next state to fall under the sway of its “caliphate.” According to Beirut's Daily Star newspaper, the only reason ISIS hasn't attacked yet in force is because they haven't decided on the mission's commander.
The Lebanese army is one of the least effective in the Middle East—and that's saying something in a region where the far more capable Syrian and Iraqi armies are utterly failing to safeguard what should be their own sovereign territory.
So France is going to send a three billion dollar package of weapons to Lebanon and the Saudis are going to pay for it. It won't solve the problem any more than a full-body cast will cure cancer, but it beats standing around and not even trying.
Despite the vast cultural differences between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, the Saudis want Beirut to remain exactly as it is—a freewheeling Arabic-speaking “Amsterdam” or “Hong Kong” on the Med. The Saudis vacation there in droves when they need a break from their fanatically conservative homeland. The country is like a pressure release valve. If they were to lose it, they'd have to holiday in France where they feel profoundly unwelcome.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldaffairsjournal.org ...
Obama plans more Meals, Ready to Eat!
Is this why the retake of Mosul is delayed ? ISIS can’t fight 2 fronts and Obama is giving them a break
The 40% of Lebanon that is Christisn had better watch out for the pig- brain savages.
If they want Lebanon they are going to have to take that up with Hezbollah. Put on the popcorn, baby.
Once again WWI is the issue. Should have left all the Arabs under Turkey’s control and just threatened to hang the Caliph any time crap broke out.
Valerie Jarrett must be REALLY busy.
I sometimes think we should end the realty of the President being Commander in Chief of the military. Obama is too worthless to be trusted. Neither Carter or Clinton or Obama ever served and frankly this is just too wrong.
Maybe Hezbollah and ISIS will end up trashing each other and we can chill out and enjoy some peace in the Middle East.
Report: ISIS is running out of money
http://theweek.com/speedreads/541495/report-isis-running-money
February 27, 2015
“Ever since the airstrikes hit their oil facilities and the Turkish border has been harder to cross, they have increased taxes and looked for ways to make money.” Things have gotten so tight, he added, that ISIS has started selling scrap metal from bombed factories and other industrial wreckage in eastern Syria.
ISIS has also reportedly run low on foreign hostages to offer for ransom. The group “gets a material amount of its funding from ransom payments,” outgoing U.S. Treasury sanctions czar David Cohen told The Wall Street Journal earlier this month.
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Isis in Syria: Aided by US air strikes, Kurds cut terrorists’ supply line linking Syria and Iraq
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-in-syria-aided-by-us-air-strikes-kurds-cut-terrorists-supply-line-linking-syria-and-iraq-10070691.html
25 February 2015
Syrian Kurdish fighters have cut an important Isis supply line from Syria to Iraq as they expand an offensive launched in north-east Syria at the weekend that is receiving heavy support from American air strikes. The seizure of at least 90 Christian hostages from Assyrian villages by Isis may be its response to the Kurdish attack.
An important aspect of the Kurdish offensive by the People’s Protection Units (YPG) is that it is receiving air cover with US Central |Command recording 21 airstrikes in two days against Isis ground positions and vehicles. This means that the US is now cooperating militarily with the YPG, whom it once viewed as part of a terrorist movement, as a major ally in the war against Islamic State in Syria. The US only started intense bombing in support of the YPG in mid-October when it appeared that the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani was about to fall to an Isis offensive.
Now for the first time there is evidence that this military cooperation between the Syrian Kurds and the US is continuing in offensive operations. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that Isis has lost 132 fighters killed in this area in Hasaka province since 21 February while only seven YPG fighters have been killed, including one foreigner. The disparity in casualties can only be explained by the extensive use of US airpower.
I know, how about starting a basketball league for ISIS youths? And we can get lighting and play at midnight! That’ll stop the violence..!
“So France is going to send a three billion dollar package of weapons to Lebanon and the Saudis are going to pay for it.”
HEY! Who needs friends when you’re enemies practically hand you weaponry!
HA!
Watch Iran and Russia closely.
Does that explain the M.E. better?
Of course, it’s worked so well here.
> The Lebanese army is one of the least effective in the Middle East...
So ineffective, in fact, that it has singlehandedly kept ISIS from overrunning Lebanon — although it can’t claim to control the entire country, since Iran’s proxy thugs the Hizzies occupy the south and dominate the “government”.
Some parachute regiments of the French Foreign Legion blended in with the Lebanese Army will take care of that problem
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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