Show us an encore..!
Too bad u can't make it SLOWER...
Posted on 11/18/2015 2:54:11 PM PST by tcrlaf
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is reportedly moving foreign fighters and family members out of its self-declared capital, Raqqa, as an intensified air campaign by coalition forces begins to bite.
Militants in Isil’s so-called caliphate across Syria and Iraq have faced several setbacks over the past week with Kurdish forces splitting a key cross-border supply line, and a US-led military coalition targeting its oil smuggling network and killing dozens of militants.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, said on Wednesday that Isil had started moving the family members of foreign fighters across the border to Mosul, apparently claiming that Raqqa was no longer safe for them.
David Thomson, a French journalist who monitors French nationals fighting in Syria, said that French jihadists had begun leaving the city in the days before the group's deadly attacks in Paris, citing Isil sources.
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Putin LIKES his country.
He gets things DONE.
He did in 3 weeks what Obama could not in over 1 year.
Putin in sharp-eyed:
His eyes are so sharp he can see 500 trucks lined up at a huge facility at a key, known location.
Ah, but Obama cannot, and not even in one year.
......???
Hmmmmmmm.....
Lots of open ground in between though... hopefully, the frogs and ruskies can send them to hell before they get to Mosul.
Well, if the Rooskies happen to bomb Mosul, maybe our military won’t try to fight them due to the fear of civilian casualties.
Show us an encore..!
Too bad u can't make it SLOWER...
Putin is on kind of a roll right now, and even retreat to Mosul may not contain his ambitions to secure the arc from Iran through Iraq and Syria to the Mediterranean, for the unrestricted right to control oil and natural gas transportation from Iranian sources to Russian brokerage control.
ISIS represents the Sunni Muslim faction, whether this is to Saudi Arabia’s benefit or not, and insofar as they in any way threaten this construction of transfer pipelines, they will be contained from approach.
Putin does not operate with the US “rules of engagement”, so this makes it a lot easier for his freedom of action.
Iraq is pretty much a hollow mockery of a country now. It would not have been this way under Saddam Hussein.
Not that I would in any way be nostalgic for ol’ Uncle Saddam.
They kill hundreds, we kill dozens...
That’s not good.
I wasn’t aware that there is still a US led coalition.
That looks like the highway of death in 1991.
Yes, it is. And that's what I meant by an encore.
As a matter of fact, that IS the highway in death in 1991. A pissed off Lutheran general and his troops did that to Saddam’s Republican Guard, pity the rules of engagement today won’t allow the same to happen to ISIS today.
Call 1-800-TURBNEX..
I see at least 4 Chevy trucks in that picture.
But that was back then. Today would be Toyotas and U.S. supplied Humvees, MRAPS, Buffalos, Ford F-250s, etc.
Not to mention American light 155 mm. artillery pieces among other things.
Surely a mistake by someone, I suppose.
Odd times that we live in when we are cheering on an adversary.
Obama’s protection?What’s that?
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