Posted on 10/09/2015 9:07:45 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Islamic State registered significant gains on Friday in the area of northwestern Syria that Russian warplanes have been bombing, taking six villages near Aleppo and threatening to cut off an important route north to the Turkish border. Late in the day, there were reports that rebels had reasserted control in one village.
The Kremlin has said its military had entered Syria to fight the Islamic State, but the Russian forces have concentrated much of their firepower on insurgent groups aligned against President Bashar al-Assad, including the Nusra Front, Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, and relatively secular groups like the Free Syrian Army. Rival insurgents say that the Islamic State, also called ISIS or Daesh, is taking advantage.
“Daesh has exploited the Russian airstrikes and the preoccupation of the Free Syrian Army in its battles in Hama, and advanced in Aleppo,” one rebel commander told Reuters.
Jalal Zein al-Din, the pen name of a Syrian journalist working in an ISIS-held area of Aleppo Province, said the advance was aided by the United States’ insistence on removing the Nusra Front from the area and leaving only groups the West was willing to deal with. He said the Free Syrian Army could not hold off the Islamic State by itself. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Hey, so when you’re not surfing anti-semitic websites for articles vindicating the Russians, do you post on Stormfront or Pravda?
Are you accusing me of being Jewish as some kind of a slur? Right Sector is dominated by Jews:
“Chief of communications Right Sector Boris Blaher AKA Borislav Bereza”
Nathan Chazin, Battalion Commander in Right Sector:
"Joint charity concert of Right Sector and Jewish Community in Odessa to help battalions"
Did you really just post a random photo from not even Right Sector so you can somehow pretend to be anti-Nazi after YOU were the one posting from an anti-Semitic website??
But mac likely has this photo of his little pooty poo already.
Might even have a signed one.
According to the ledger, between December 2014 and January 2015 IS brought in more than $8 million in revenue in Deir Ezzor, an oil-rich province in eastern Syria that's been under IS control since early 2014. But nearly 45 percent of those funds originated from what IS calls “confiscation,” dwarfing all other sources of income like trade, taxes, and oil sales.
“If you miss prayers three times consecutively, then you are going to get your shop confiscated,” Tamimi explained. “If you transport banned goods like cigarettes, they are going to take the money you are carrying.” The vast majority of these confiscations took place on the borders of the province, where IS fighters appeared to be stripping travelers of their valuables to pay for safe passage.
“This document really undercuts IS propaganda,” Tamimi said. “Seeing that they get the plurality of their income from taking things from people — that doesn't put the group in a very good light.”
https://news.vice.com/article/a-leaked-budget-may-finally-show-how-the-islamic-state-makes-its-money
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