Consolidated Syria Conflict Thread

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JasonPratt

Not sure if this link will go through or not: http://webcenters.netscape.compuserve.com/news/story/0002/20170711/KBN19W1AW_3

QuoteThe Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Tuesday that it had "confirmed information" that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed.

Russia's Defence Ministry said in June that it might have killed Baghdadi when one of its air strikes hit a gathering of Islamic State commanders on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Raqqa, but Washington said it could not corroborate the death and Western and Iraqi officials have been skeptical.

Reuters could not independently verify Baghdadi's death.

"(We have) confirmed information from leaders, including one of the first rank, in the Islamic State in the eastern countryside of Deir al-Zor," the director of the British-based war monitoring group Rami Abdulrahman told Reuters.
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Sir Slash

I just called the 'Hell Hotline' and he's there and adjusting well. He and the other ISIS boys have started a soccer team while they're waiting on their 72 virgins each to show-up. The "Jihadi Hotties" haven't won a game yet but hey, it's hell. Nobody EVER wins there.  :DD
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

bayonetbrant

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airboy



airboy

Real interesting story about jury-rigged drones by ISIS, the various Air Forces in Syria (Syrian, US, Israel, Russia, Turkey) and how easy it would be for all of this to explode in a tragic accident.  Although the US military integration is the background of the article, the air situation discussion is scary.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/opinion/charlottesville-isis-us-syria.html?ref=opinion

bayonetbrant

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bayonetbrant

The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

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JasonPratt

From a morale perspective, what's even more damaging for them is that fellow Muslims largely did this. They can't boast about kicking the West into an apocalyptic war that they feel just sure that they'll win; they're getting progressively bushhogged with Western support, sure, but by Iraqi boots on the ground.

We pulled out too soon, but thank God (and everyone else involved) our support strategy eventually worked. After some initial disasters.
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mirth

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mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

bayonetbrant

The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Gusington

That makes things simpler for everyone.


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We can't live under the threat of a c*nt because he's threatening nuclear Armageddon.

-JudgeDredd

Sir Slash

And gives all us what we want: us-no jihadists, them- 42 Virgins in Heaven. Win-Win I say.  :bd:   Just out of curiosity, are there that many virgins in Heaven to give everybody 42? That seems an order hard to fill, but whatever.
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

bayonetbrant

The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers