ISIS in Iraq and Syria
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Obama reportedly planning to supply 500m dollars to arm the opposition in Syria. Is this serious? Have America learnt nothing? Those weapons will end up in the hands of extremists, regardless of any background checks they are claiming to undertake before giving any weapons.
They should fund the YPG instead, they're fighting both the terrorists and Assad.
The US know exactly what they're doing.
Or they can just keep their beaks out for once?
Yeah that won't happen though will it.
Changed thread title because they don't seem to be doing anything major at the moment.
The US don't want to fight the terrorists.
"spread freedom and democracy"What do they want then Danny ?
The Iraqi army is moving closer to Tikrit...
No wonder Obama is rushing to get $500million worth of aid to the Rebel terrorists in Syria. Can't have a stabilised Iraq-Levant can we now.
They will fail.
Its certainly not very stable now is it.
Expect Maliki to get the boot fairly soon. Sistani has more or less pulled his support.
So....half a billion dollars to support Syrian rebels (terrorists) who are trying to overthrow Assad who is supporting the Iraqi Government fighting Isis terrorists...
Well done US. Proxy war vs Syria at full force.
News channels reporting: ISIS changed its name to IS: Islamic State and appoints Albaghdadi as its first caliphate.
I thought Iran was the one supporting him?
Sistani doesn't endorse or oppose any politicians. He never supported Maliki in the first place to pull his support now, and he didn't "pull" anything now either.
Maliki might very well end up handing his position to somebody else in his party though.
It just underscores how broad opposition is to him. He's alienated a large chunk of the Shi'a base that previously supported him, and as such, is likely to not be PM for much longer.
This is politics. Of course political foes will clash with each other to get the maximum political gains (especially in a parliamentary system), and will take any chance to put forward their own representatives. There is nothing strange about that, and it just proves that Maliki didn't rule in a sectarian way.
Maliki still has (by far) the biggest bloc in the parliament (with 95 seats, 60+ seats more than the nearest bloc), and in the end his party will still get the PM position, most probably.
That means feck all when the country is going tits up.
The country is "going tits up" because some countries have decided that filling Syria with terrorists is the best way to stabilise the region and spread freedom and democracy.
There are political differences in every country in the world, but that is no excuse or justification for terrorism, otherwise, we can find an excuse for every single terrorist attack in the world.
That's true, but it won't save Maliki. He's past the point of no return within Iraqi politics.
He's right though on this account.
They've declared the caliphate.
It's cool to be able to declare your own caliphate in 2014.
What's impressive about this lot is the color coordination - matching black trousers, sweaters, and head gear to match their flags and RPGs. They certainly do dress the part for a modern caliphate.
Nutters....
Speaking to a few of my folks back home, they say the army has the ISIS running. Tikrit is more or less back in the government's hands, Mosul's people are starting to turn on the ISIS with the army launching coordinated attacks by air. I suspect it won't be long till they're pushed back to the Syrian border or to their passport nations of Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
I suppose we have Putin to thank for his Su-25s
I suppose we have Putin to thank for his Su-25s
This caliphate thing is going to collapse quicker than Liverpool.
These Al Qaeda-affiliated extremists have their own boom-bust cycle. They start ruffling things up in a middle eastern nation, start promisingly by taking a few towns, and then ultimately succumb to said country's government troops. They then vow that the next crusade will be their caliphate. Rinse and repeat. Furthermore, they have this victim mentality while basking in the glory of their past empire. They've even got cannibals and racists amongst their ranks too.
WOOOO! Yeah let's do it!!!! WOOOO!
Everybody panic ISIS are coming - what a load off bull. I posted few weeks ago that ISIS will replace Al-Qaeda in world politics.. Got boared of them I guess they need a new toy now.
I've got loads of black weapons and a level IV protective vest, can I join in? We can use old t-shirts for masks.
They can't even defeat a few hundred Syrian men in Raqqa and they want to take over the world?
I love how they've included Crimea, but not the rest of Ukraine in their Caliphate plans. A certain short dictator I know of won't be impressed.