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The caliphate is a hellscape of smoke and fire – Isis has nowhere left to go
The Guardian UK ^ | 03 Mar 2019 | Bethan McKernan and Mohammed Rasool in Baghuz, Syria

Posted on 03/03/2019 10:50:12 PM PST by blueplum

There is a flash of light in the dark town as an airstrike hits an Islamic State weapons depot. A few seconds later, a ball of flame engulfs the entire neighbourhood. The sonic boom sends shockwaves through Baghuz, shaking the ground miles away, and for a second everything and everyone is stunned into silence. Then the artillery fire starts up again...(snip)

Trapped from the east and the west by advancing Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and by the Syrian regime and Russia on the other side of the river, the caliphate is a hellscape of smoke and fire. There is nowhere left for the fighters to go.

The US-led coalition is making up for lost time in the fight to drive Isis out of its last stronghold. After a 10-day truce to evacuate women and children from the town, the offensive restarted this weekend at a tempo not seen even in the major battles for the cities of Mosul and Raqqa.

Isis snipers, suicide bombs and heat-seeking rockets are preventing the SDF from making gains on the ground during daylight. But when darkness falls...

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: baghuz; erdogan; isis; kurdistan; putinsbuttboys; receptayyiperdogan; russia; syria; turkey
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Fat Lady is about to sing
1 posted on 03/03/2019 10:50:12 PM PST by blueplum
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Let it never be forgotten that it was Obama and his America-hating minions that helped to unleash this hell onto Syria, Egypt and Libya.


2 posted on 03/03/2019 10:58:00 PM PST by Simon Foxx
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They (ISIS) has somewhere to go.. It’s called HELL!


3 posted on 03/03/2019 10:58:45 PM PST by tallyhoe
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4 posted on 03/03/2019 11:09:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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Israeli is warning that there are 150,000 all over the world- ready to act in places like Germany, the US, France, and other European countries.”

https://gellerreport.com/2019/02/israeli-isis-world.html/


5 posted on 03/03/2019 11:28:09 PM PST by Bob434
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To: blueplum

“Fat Lady is about to sing “

Amen.

They took a serious pounding for the last two nights, and then there was a bit of a pause to evacuate a few more non-combatants.

Nonetheless, welcome to the last week of the caliphate.

They had a tent city set up in the village for their folks which was under constant direct small arms fire - doubt there is much left alive in there.

I am a fan of a half dozen B-52s just going through and putting a 500 pound bomb every 100 feet or so, before advancing the Infantry.


6 posted on 03/03/2019 11:35:42 PM PST by BeauBo
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I am a fan of a half dozen B-52s just going through and putting a 500 pound bomb every 100 feet or so, before advancing the Infantry.

And if I were in the Infantry that's exactly how I'd like it done. Peace through superior firepower!

7 posted on 03/04/2019 12:10:29 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Bob434

Not sure of the number, but Israel is correct.

We have found hundreds of piles of shaved facial hair, and thousands of bodies of hostages, from known safehouse areas in Anbar Province in Iraq. This is significant, since the pattern has been traced through an East-West wadi toward the Jordanian border, after Jordan opened up the bulk of their camps in the east about two years ago.

The US itself believes this has long tracked see of these to the border, without finding them. As well, ISIS also is believed to have weapons caches in dozens of locations around the world.

Not specifically a statement about ISIS, but it would be foolish to believe wherever Sharia groups are present, we do not also find support and cover for islamic terror including ISIS.

It is also well known, tens of millions of islamists have been forceably brought into Europe and North America, and in our case against our will.

Much of the crime being committed in the West is being forceably kept from the knowledge of society. In general.

Even worse, the anti-American, anti-liberty, anti-christian, global socialist left leaders of past administrations, marshalled and weaponized islamists, just like they weaponized illegal immigration, and weaponized US Intel and DOJ, all working together to neutralize and even pick or have the final say as to who our future officials will be.

It is all totalitarian to the core. Out of control People with no moral boundaries, and chaos is essential to their ultate objective, to stop and eliminate Christianity and kill the US as a sovereign nation, and to eliminate individual liberty.


8 posted on 03/04/2019 12:42:33 AM PST by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: Bob434

Not sure of the number, but Israel is correct.

We have found hundreds of piles of shaved facial hair, and thousands of bodies of hostages, from known safehouse areas in Anbar Province in Iraq. This is significant, since the pattern has been traced through an East-West wadi toward the Jordanian border, after Jordan opened up the bulk of their camps in the east about two years ago.

The US itself believes this has long tracked see of these to the border, without finding them. As well, ISIS also is believed to have weapons caches in dozens of locations around the world.

Not specifically a statement about ISIS, but it would be foolish to believe wherever Sharia groups are present, we do not also find support and cover for islamic terror including ISIS.

It is also well known, tens of millions of islamists have been forceably brought into Europe and North America, and in our case against our will.

Much of the crime being committed in the West is being forceably kept from the knowledge of society. In general.

Even worse, the anti-American, anti-liberty, anti-christian, global socialist left leaders of past administrations, marshalled and weaponized islamists, just like they weaponized illegal immigration, and weaponized US Intel and DOJ, all working together to neutralize and even pick or have the final say as to who our future officials will be.

It is all totalitarian to the core. Out of control people with no moral boundaries, and chaos, is essential to their ultimate objective, to eliminate Christianity, and kill the US as a sovereign nation, and to eliminate individual liberty.


9 posted on 03/04/2019 12:46:07 AM PST by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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which is why the sleepercellmamas with their little human baby shields want to get into the different countries so bad - hubby follows and rejoins the club. Article today about mamma wanting to return to Sweden, reporter quoting her husband who wants to come with her.


10 posted on 03/04/2019 1:05:24 AM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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After a 10-day truce to evacuate women and children from the town, the town ran out of burkah bags.
11 posted on 03/04/2019 1:15:07 AM PST by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: Simon Foxx

So true, what an evil POS.


12 posted on 03/04/2019 1:20:25 AM PST by keat
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To: blueplum

Fat Lady is about to sing


For the die hard that remained behind ... earlier over 1,000 jihadis left for Iraq and other favorable places to start anew.


13 posted on 03/04/2019 1:42:39 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: blueplum

Where the hell did they get 50 tons of gold?


14 posted on 03/04/2019 3:36:38 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: tallyhoe

Bingo! and the sooner the better.


15 posted on 03/04/2019 3:41:21 AM PST by null and void (If socialism is so grand, why are Guatemalans coming here instead of going to Venezuela?)
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To: wastoute

I didn’t see that factoid in the article.


16 posted on 03/04/2019 3:48:42 AM PST by null and void (If socialism is so grand, why are Guatemalans coming here instead of going to Venezuela?)
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To: blueplum
ISIS was created with the aid and assistance of Obama, Hillary, and McCain.

ISIS was also one of the most demonic and brutal regimes in all of human history.

When will Obama and Hillary be held accountable?


17 posted on 03/04/2019 4:04:18 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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They will just go underground, like the snakes they are


18 posted on 03/04/2019 4:14:17 AM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday!!!)
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To: null and void

It was in the news the other day. Something about ISIS negotiating safe passage for a bunch of them in exchange for 50 tons of gold.


19 posted on 03/04/2019 4:45:49 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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“Isis snipers, suicide bombs and heat-seeking rockets are preventing the SDF from making gains on the ground during daylight.“

A few FAEs might take the fight out of them. Then ground pounders can move in and kill anything left twitching.

L


20 posted on 03/04/2019 4:52:22 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending it is.)
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