Posted on 03/19/2018 9:20:19 PM PDT by BBell
A British woman fighting with a Kurdish armed unit has died in Syria, her father has said.
Anna Campbell, 26, from Lewes, East Sussex, died on March 15 in Afrin while with the Kurdish Women's Protection Units, the YPJ.
It is feared she was killed by Turkish airstrikes.
Ms Campbell - who had dyed her fair hair black so she would not stand out - is the first British woman to have been killed in Syria with the Kurds and the first Briton to be killed in the battle for Afrin.
Seven other Britons have died in the country while fighting alongside the groups.
Ms Campbell's father, Dirk, told the BBC she "wanted to create a better world and she would do everything in her power to do that".
He added: "I told her of course that she was putting her life in danger, which she knew full well she was doing. I feel I should have done more to persuade her to come back, but she was completely adamant."
The YPJ is an all-female brigade of the Kurdish People's Protection Units YPG, which has around 50,000 Kurdish men and women fighting against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) in northern Syria.
The group has been defending the Kurdish-majority city of Afrin from Turkish forces backed by Syrian rebels after they launched an offensive in mid-January.
Ankara considers the YPG a terrorist group, an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which has led an insurgency in Turkey for decades.
Ms Campbell had been qualified plumber living in Bristol before she left to join the Kurdish militia in Syria.
Her friends and commanders are thought to have tried to dissuade her from going, saying it was too dangerous.
He said his daughter was an "incredibly principled, brave, determined, committed
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What I can say is: hard left ideology played a role in luring the British woman into Syria.
“” “” I just learned that.”” “”
Who do you think would go fight for PKK? Marxists, Abraham Lincoln brigade all of them.
It is not that I am judging since they are useful idiots for a better side right now.
Even this anti American spun screed admits that ISIS is run by the cery Sadam Baath members invited by Assad.
Assad is the one clearly insane inviting Iran, Hezbollah, Saddam Baath and now Russians to make war against the sovereign Kurds, Alawites and Suni of the region. All of them want to stop the blood shed, but now that Russia is there, the bloodshed continues all the more.
“” “” What is warmingering in urging Assad to make peace as the Alawites demand?”” “”
Most nations has a policy of non-negotiation with terrorists.
Assad is the terrorist who wielded ISIS against the Kurds.
What are you talking about? He is inviting foreign terrorists to boost up his puppet regime that has no support otherwise in the region itself.
I noticed that her being a member of ANTIFA in the UK has been reworded with euphemisms such as “social activist” “fighter for equality”.
So the ordinary Alawites want a end to the way but Assad doesn’t?
I figured she was fighting with them to kill ISIS, lesser of two evils an all. I figured wrong.
The things I learn. And I thought she was there just to kill ISIS and support the Kurdish people..
Thanks for posting but I must say its typical freeper stupidity on parade after that
18 years here
Some things never change
Resolute earnestness founded in abject ignorance
What’s more fun than commenting without reading articles. It’s a freeper tradition. Doesn’t necessarily apply to this thread...
Sad story. Very brave lady. Britain needed her sons.
Erdogan is a fascist dictator and Turkey only exists - UNFORTUNATELY at the sufferance of the western allies after WW1. It should have been dismembered and given to the Greeks, Armenians and Kurds.
The Kurds deserve their own country.
The Turks deserve a one way ride back to the wastes of central Asia which spawned them. Pigs.
“” ‘’ I figured she was fighting with them to kill ISIS, lesser of two evils an all. I figured wrong.”” “”
Well, as a rule better Red than Mohamed in the Middle East.
They are a minority of 12% in the region with their back to the wall who just lost at least 70.000 people.
They certainly do not want to be engaged as Iranian proxies in a war against Israel nor fighting the Kurds for Iran or Turkey. They might have concerns as a minority of losing power in Syria, however they are tired of fighting, there is no denying it. In fact some of them protested Assad and this is why Assad initially abandoned them to the Suni islamist majority.
My take is that as much as Kurds are vulnerable to Marxist Leninist never ending warmongering, as a people they do not want that. I think Kurds can be pacified as leftists much like hyppies were - before the like of Alinsky eliminated them in favor of psychopaths like Hillary or Obama dragging kids out of school for political action.
The proper course is short of converting a leftist to free market, it is to find at least a way to pacify them. The same goes for islam which could see us benefit more realistically from a reformation of an islam tolerating other religions as is seen in some Shia circles in Lebannon which have rejected Hezbollah in favor of alliances with Christians.
Ironically it is Lebanese Christian general Aoun who was instrumental in destroying this alliance by forging an alliance between his Maronite followers and Hezbollah. He also is fhe one who unilaterally declared war in the 80s on Syria and then fled as his officers were taken prisoner and tortured by Assad. It was a trap, notwithstanding his eliminating the Israeli no fly zone by declaring sympathies with the Palestians in another proxy front for Iran against Israel. That no fly zone lifted, Assad bombed Christian villages.
There is no question Iran is running the show in Syria and Alawites do not want to be exhausted in their war.
Assad is a puppet of Iran. He has no standing in a peaceful Syria. His only props is selling out his people as Iranian canon fodder while he gets support for Iran to keep him in power. He also prefers to forge an alliance of war with Hezbollah in Lebanon to control Lebanon while in exchange Hezbollah are his sort of contracted protection in Syria fighting for him there, or, even, if possible, Americans in Iraq or Israel itself.
Note that Saddam and Assad fought for control of Lebanon, with Saddam behind Palestianians and Assad behind Hezbollah fighting each other. A lot of people are being wasted by these dictators in their own quest for power.
She has a I know it all look about her.
“” “” The proper course is short of converting a leftist to free market””” “
The ONLY way to convert to free market is to allow this free market for the people to see benefits and thrive off it by hard work and enterprise.
All of your neocon schemes are empty talks of liberty and free market but ends up in slavery and ruins.
Freepmail is for pals
If you wish to fight lets do it in public
I see you have a gift for profanity
Thats an awkward beginning but Im game
Are you a girl?
Im reluctant to brawl with women....call me old fashioned
A major Moslem cleric in Turkey has called for a Million Moslem Army to invade and kill every Jew in Israel.
Whose side are you on? Hitler’s memory is still fresh in our family.
ISIS was created from Saddam’s underground post-war organization led by the Iraqi general with the red hair.
They planned to carry out a religious war against the Shiites long before Saddam fell.
By the way, my son was one of the first American soldiers to go into Iraq, March 20, 2003, 3:00 AM with Kuwaiti engineers.
I’m proud he helped liberate 25 million Iraqi moslems and Christians from a little Hitler. My Jewish son came back to liberate the land of our people’s birth and captivity (Babylon and Ur).
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