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Islamic State's 'caliphate' on brink of defeat
Reuters ^
| FEBRUARY 15, 2019
| Rodi Said
Posted on 02/16/2019 10:46:41 AM PST by gandalftb
U.S.-backed fighters are poised to capture Islamic States last, tiny enclave on the Euphrates.
The remaining militants in a neighborhood of Baghouz village near the Iraqi border, under fire from all sides.
Civilians fled the few square miles of hamlets and farmland that remain within Islamic States caliphate, along with defeated jihadists trying to escape unnoticed.
Most of the fighters left in Baghouz are foreigners, in an encircled pocket some 700 meters square.
Army General Joseph Votel said the end of the territorial caliphate would lead to a more dispersed, harder-to-detect network of fighters waging guerrilla warfare.
That should require continued help from Washington, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: baghouz; djibouti; erdogan; eritrea; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; iran; iraq; isis; kurdistan; lebanon; putinsbuttboys; receptayyiperdogan; sudan; turkey; yemen
Some updates this morning, they are boxed into about a 600 meter square in one small village.
This is unconfirmed: An undeclared deal led to the surrender of 440 ISIS members in two groups, the first included 240 and the second 200.
That report may fit with reports from 2 hours ago and 47 minutes ago that the fight was over, that ISIS is defeated.
We have withdrawn from our base at Heemo, west of Qamishli. We had a radar station there and a supply depot.
We currently have 8 bases in Iraq with about 8,000 troops that we are withdrawing to and a large base in Jordan that we are expanding.
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posted on
02/16/2019 10:46:41 AM PST
by
gandalftb
To: gandalftb
Reports to the contrary, the spirit of the Islamic Caliphate still lives.
Only now it lies with the government of Turkey and Tayyip Recep Erdogan, and is posited as a revival of the Ottoman Empire.
But first he must wipe out the Kurds and Armenians altogether, as they pose a great internal threat to the sanctity and security of the rebooted version.
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posted on
02/16/2019 10:52:10 AM PST
by
alloysteel
(History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill)
To: gandalftb
Where have I heard this before? I truly believe that as long as there is one muslim alive somewhere, that there is a risk of jihad violence. The problem isn't ISIS. The problem is muslims. Period.
To: alloysteel
We are fools. Islam is alive and well and progressing as planned.
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posted on
02/16/2019 11:10:22 AM PST
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: shanover
We are more than fools. We fight ISLAM and allow muzzies to live among us.
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posted on
02/16/2019 11:13:40 AM PST
by
353FMG
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Where have I heard this before? I truly believe that as long as there is one muslim alive somewhere, that there is a risk of jihad violence. The problem isn't ISIS. The problem is muslims. Period. That's how I feel.
As long as a person believes there is one god and Muhammad is his messenger and they read the Koran and hadiths they are a threat to us non Muslims.
They can avoid Jihad and follow the basics of Islam but there is no guarantee they will go to heaven. However if they lose their lives furthering the interests of Islam by killing us infidels they go immediately to paradise and don't have to wait until judgement day. - tom
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posted on
02/16/2019 11:33:26 AM PST
by
Capt. Tom
To: gandalftb
It’s an ideology, not a thing, so there will be more savages joining islamic state even if it is wiped out.
Moronic bearded ones read their holy book and think they have to do what it says. Some of them will devote their lives to murdering humans, and that is islamic state all over again.
The ideology is what has to be wiped out. It won’t be.
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posted on
02/16/2019 12:01:58 PM PST
by
I want the USA back
(Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
To: gandalftb
if... AND ITS A BIG IF...Islamic State gets defeated, SUPER JOB KUDOS to all who helped achieve this victory
but that is just one of dozens of dangerous Muslim armed gangs .. all of which must be defeated (as with their enablers like the Saudi Arabian and Iranian dictatorships!!!)
PLO/Abbas/Hezballah/”PA”/MuslimBrotherhood/Fatah/ISIS/AlQuaida/and all the other IslamoNazi murder gangs in Africa and Europe and now in the Americas too!
defeating one of them... good!!! ... but only a first step to what needs doing, if we are ever to be safe again.. its a big job ahead!
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posted on
02/16/2019 12:17:23 PM PST
by
faithhopecharity
(“Politicians arent born, they’re excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: faithhopecharity
To: lakecumberlandvet
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posted on
02/16/2019 12:22:04 PM PST
by
faithhopecharity
(“Politicians arent born, they’re excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Any religious screed commanding followers to kill non believers is a scourge and needs complete eradication.
To: gandalftb
600 meter square 600 meters is 1968.5 feet. So 600 square meters is 3,874,992.25 sq feet. To put that in some perspective:
A standard football field is 120 yards long. ... The field has a uniform width of 53 1/3 yards (160 feet). If you calculate the entire area of a football field, including the end zones, it works out to 57,600 square feet (360 x 160). One acre equals 43,560 square feet, so a football field is about 1.32 (57,600 / 43,560) acres in size.
That works out to about 67.27 football fields squared.(3,874,992.25 / 57600) or 88.8 acres (1.32 * 67.27) If my math is correct. Math is not really my strong suit, but I try. 8>)
To: gandalftb
Pull our troops out and send them to Minneapolis.
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posted on
02/16/2019 12:50:49 PM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: gandalftb
SDF Commander: We will give the good news soon - UPDATED
SDF Commander Çiya Fırat reported that ISIS mercenaries have been encircled in Upper Baghouz region.
- ANF
- DEIR EZ-ZOR
- Saturday, 16 Feb 2019, 11:25
SDF Commander Çiya Fırat is holding a press conference in Heqîl Omer region of Deir ez-Zor regarding the final operations carried out against ISIS in the Defeat Terrorism battle as part of the Operation Cizire Storm.
Fırat reported that ISIS mercenaries have been encircled in Upper Baghouz region, adding; ISIS gangs are cornered in an 600-700 square meter area. Our forces are making a slow progress considering the safety of civilians whom the gangs are using as human shields.
Remarking that ISIS mercenaries are holding several people captive, Fırat said 10 prisoners have been freed by the SDF.
SDF Commander stated that thousands of civilians have been rescued from the clutches of ISIS through security corridors, and all those rescued have been provided with the necessary aid.
Noting that ISIS will be eliminated completely in the following days, Fırat said they will give the good news of ending ISIS occupation to the regions people and the world soon.
The SDF Commander added that their efforts to eliminate the cell structures of ISIS mercenaries will continue.
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posted on
02/16/2019 2:07:32 PM PST
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: gandalftb
The simple fact is that this police action against ISIS in Syria could have been performed at any time in the last three years, but the Western world didn’t want to take back the ISIS fighters from their own countries that were operating in Syria and didn’t have the stomach to kill them all in a wave of missile strikes.
Even now they’re negotiating surrender with these savages, rather than simply killing them all off.
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posted on
02/16/2019 3:26:40 PM PST
by
mac_truck
(aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
To: Robert DeLong
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posted on
02/16/2019 7:17:23 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: gandalftb
Army General Joseph Votel said the end of the territorial caliphate would lead to a more dispersed, harder-to-detect network of fighters waging guerrilla warfare.
MOAB them till nothing is left twitching. Then do it again.
L
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posted on
02/16/2019 7:20:47 PM PST
by
Lurker
(Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending it is.)
To: alloysteel
Another crazy Islamic Group always emerges to take the place of the previous one.
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posted on
02/16/2019 7:22:05 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: SunkenCiv
To: lakecumberlandvet
islam will ONLY be defeated when Mecca is nuked and totally destroyed.
“To kill a snake, cut off its’ head”
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posted on
02/17/2019 7:12:38 AM PST
by
newfreep
("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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