Posted on 10/19/2014 8:56:42 PM PDT by GonzoII
The U.S. military said late Sunday that it had dropped weapons, ammunition, and medical supplies to Kurdish forces battling to hold the Syrian border town of Kobani against Islamic State militants.
The airdrops were the first of their kind and followed weeks of U.S. and coalition airstrikes in and near Kobani. Earlier Sunday, U.S. Central Command said that it had launched 11 airstrikes overnight in the area.
CentCom said U.S. C-130 cargo planes made multiple drops of arms and supplies provided by Kurdish authorities in Iraq. It said they were intended to enable continued resistance to Islamic State efforts to take full control of Kobani.
In a conference call with reporters after CentCom announced the airdrops, senior administration officials said three C-130 planes dropped 27 bundles of small arms, ammunition and medical supplies. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House.
One official said that while the results of the mission are still being assessed, it appeared that "the vast majority" of the supplies reached the intended Kurdish fighters.
The official also said the C-130s encountered no resistance from the ground in Syria during their flights in and out of Syrian airspace.
The airdrops are almost certain to anger the Turkish government, which has said it would oppose any U.S. arms transfers to the Kurdish rebels in Syria. Turkey views the main Kurdish group in Syria as an extension of the Turkish Kurd group known as the PKK, which has waged a 30-year insurgency in Turkey and is designated a terror group by the U.S. and by NATO.
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Somebody in the Military has Bammy on the run.............
Let me see if I can come up with a number that might quantify how little I care about what the Turkish government thinks. Calculating...calculating...nope.
Screw the Ottomans.. take back Constantinople while youre at it..
Has ISIS taken the weapons from the Kurds yet? I can’t Imagine that it will take much time.
Not much, they got no anti-armor weapons. He’s trying to walk the Kurd/Turk line.
Meanwhile, ....http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/19/u-s-humanitarian-aid-going-to-isis.html
Why stop there? Give the Pontus and Smyrna back to the Greeks as well.
The Turks can pay for their Neo-Ottoman ambitions by losing the land they took from the Aremenians, Kurds, and Greeks.
Why stop there? Give the Pontus and Smyrna back to the Greeks as well.
The Turks can pay for their Neo-Ottoman ambitions by losing the land they took from the Aremenians, Kurds, and Greeks.
It’s about freaking time! They needed to be supplied several weeks ago before the jihadis got to Kobane.
Didn’t you read this?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/19/u-s-humanitarian-aid-going-to-isis.html
Obama is helping ISIS at the same time.
Thank you, I did see that. 0bama is a stinking muslim jihadi.
It will be interesting to see if there will be reports next week about how these arms ended up in ISIS hands “by mistake.”
Well, let's hope bammy and crew did universal background checks on all of the Kurds first. I'm sure none of those weapons had those terrible "high capacity" magazines, foregrips, flash suppressors, bayonet lugs, or any of those other evil features they're so concerned about. I mean you know how bammy and crew feel - we civilian types can't be trusted with such technology.
The Turks will squawk about this, big time.
They ask for help, artillery and heavy arms , and the first flight batch is MRE's
Now we're sending small arms ammo and first aid/ medical supplies, but no heavy arms or artillery.
The Turks just watched as the Kurds were getting pummeled, and held up three wounded Kurds until they died , and then allowed them entry.
Now you fight against a howitzer (long range)with a pistol (short range) and then you tell me how safe you feel.
The female Kurd fighters should use a "Battle Flag" of a brazzier, sincethe ISIS fighters believe that if they are killed by woman will prevent them from getting into heaven.
The lack of help 0bola is giving them makes me sick. As Col. Ralph Peters said about the air support, to paraphrase; we should have bombed ISIS when they were heading to Kobane, out in the open, instead of waiting until they were in the city shoulder to shoulder with the residents.
Someone in FedGov recognizes that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is necessary to the maintenance of a free society. It’s a shame they don’t want us to maintain freedom in our own country too.
The Turkish public reply is only that it was “inappropriate”.
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