Posted on 02/05/2015 6:07:40 AM PST by Wiz-Nerd
Jordan said Thursday it had launched air strikes against the Islamic State group, after vowing a harsh response to the burning alive of one of its fighter pilots.
"The Jordanian air force launched raids against positions of the Islamic State group," said a government official, who did not want to be named.
Meanwhile the gruesome death of Moaz al-Kasasbeh drew a torrent of condemnation across the world.
Hashtags to express grief over Kasasbeh's death have taken over Twitter only hours after the news broke out on Tuesday, Al Arabiya News reported Wednesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at i24news.tv ...
Whoa, they said Islamic. What are they trying to do, get Obama mad? I heard a comment by him today on the radio where he referred to ISIS as the "organization". Yes, now they are an Organization I assume with a CEO and a board, and other suits. This freakin' asstard just will not call them terrorists because he SUPPORTS THEM! Hello Congress, remember the word: "Impeachment"?
Jordanian jets flyover pilot’s hometown after ISIS strike.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4623519,00.html
Classy!
Me too
Why was my photo comment at #28 deleted???
Probably a Getty.
This is the way it is supposed to work
The people IN THE REGION closest to ISIS (or who ever is the threat) should be attacking, not people living half a globe away.
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Utterly agree! Now if the leader from half a globe away can be kept from putting his hand in on the other side...
I bet we aren’t the only ones, either.
These are the Turkish tanks on the border, not involved in the fight, but keeping the Kurdish reinforcements from arriving or Kurds from fleeing:
Eventually, the international pressure became too great for the Turks, and they relented, allowing some Iraqi Kurds to reinforce Kobane. But they still refused to allow Turkish Kurds to reinforce Kobane.
Turkey has announced it is relenting – sort of – on military aid to the beleaguered Kurdish town of Kobane just over the border in Syria. The government refuses to allow in Turkish Kurds, who played a crucial role in the fight to repel the forces of the Islamic State from the Kurdish-Iraqi capital of Erbil in August. But, in an about-turn, Turkey said Monday it would allow passage for Iraqi-Kurds to travel through its territory and into Syria to join the fight.
According to a newspaper in Iraq, the Islamic State (IS) have already established a consulate in Turkey. This is what they write:
On Wednesday the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed that it had opened its first diplomatic consulate in Istanbul.
Abu-Omar al-Tunisi, the head of ISIS Foreign Relations announced that ISIS is determined to open its first diplomatic consulate in Istanbul, and in a friendly country like Turkey.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan firmly denied the ISIS presence in the country, however, an official source in the government anonymously stated that Turkey is developing formal relations with ISIS following al-Tunsi’s announcement that ISIS has opened a consulate in Istanbul.
According to Turkish daily Aydinlik, the consulate will provide consular services for all who wish to join the group, send money funds, and will pay the hospital fees of all wounded militants who traveled to Turkey to receive medical treatment.
ISIS Sees Turkey as Its Ally’: Former Islamic State Member Reveals Turkish Army Cooperation
By Barney Guiton 11/7/14 at 10:35 AM
A reluctant former communications technician working for Islamic State, now going by the pseudonym ‘Sherko Omer’, who managed to escape the group, told Newsweek that he travelled in a convoy of trucks as part of an ISIS unit from their stronghold in Raqqa, across Turkish border, through Turkey and then back across the border to attack Syrian Kurds in the city of Serekaniye in northern Syria in February.
“ISIS commanders told us to fear nothing at all because there was full cooperation with the Turks,” said Omer of crossing the border into Turkey, “and they reassured us that nothing will happen, especially when that is how they regularly travel from Raqqa and Aleppo to the Kurdish areas further northeast of Syria because it was impossible to travel through Syria as YPG [National Army of Syrian Kurdistan] controlled most parts of the Kurdish region.”
Turkey Is Major Transit Route For Islamic State Fighters
http://www.npr.org/2014/08/31/344732495/turkey-is-major-transit-route-for-islamic-state-fighters
ISIS Fighter Claims Turkey Funds the Jihadist Group
More on Turkish Support for ISIS
by Daniel Pipes
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/06/more-on-turkish-support-for-isis
“Turkey paved the way for us. Had Turkey not shown such understanding for us, the Islamic State would not be in its current place. It [Turkey] showed us affection. Large [numbers] of our mujahedeen received medical treatment in Turkey,” said an Isis man, who was not identified. “We do not have the support of Saudi Arabia, but many Saudi families who believe in jihad do assist us. But anyhow, we will no longer need it, soon,” he said.
http://www.civicegypt.org/?p=51138
Do you mean Al Sisi?
The process began with the US air attacks against IS. The United States asked Turkey not to release IS militants undergoing medical treatment in Turkey and warned Turkey not to free IS people apprehended in Turkey. IS, for its part, pressed the government to release the detained IS personnel and those undergoing treatment.
The AKP government, squeezed by the United States and IS, then developed an exchange formula to hand over IS militants in Turkey in return for hostages.
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2014/10/turkey-iraq-syria-isis-hostages.html##ixzz3QtEsejxC
“...He’s still a moslem. ...”
Precisely.
Look at it more like they do: “The enemy of my enemy is my (temporary) friend”...
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