The more of each other they kill, the better off the world will be.
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 3:54 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected]> wrote: > Why Can't Muslim Terrorists be Stopped? > --- > because they're like warmongering zionists ... unable to live in peace > with their neighbors. > > let them kill each other. > > On Friday, August 8, 2014 11:34:22 AM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/08/07/235800/why-cant- >> islamic-state-be-stopped.html >> >> >> Why can’t Islamic State be stopped? Analysts say it’s better armed, >> better organized >> >> By Nancy A. Youssef >> >> McClatchy Washington BureauAugust 7 >> >> [image: Mideast Islamic State] >> >> Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 - a photo which has been verified and is >> consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked >> Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) marching in Raqqa, Syria. >> >> UNCREDITED — AP >> >> WASHINGTON — The Islamic State’s push toward the Kurdish city of Irbil >> on Thursday came as unwelcome news to those who’d believed that the Kurdish >> peshmerga militia would be the force most capable of halting the militant >> Islamists’ momentum. >> >> The United States had such confidence in the Kurds that, in June, it >> moved its Joint Operation Center and some embassy staff to Irbil, where >> roughly 40 U.S. military advisers are now stationed. >> >> Until this week, life in Irbil has been relatively normal despite the >> Islamic State offensive, which began with the fall of Mosul, Iraq’s second >> largest city, in early June. Everyone assumed that the Islamic State was >> shying away from confronting the peshmerga, with its substantial reputation >> as a fighting force. >> >> But then the Islamic State moved against cities last week that were >> defended by the peshmerga, and the peshmerga retreated. On Thursday, the >> Islamic State captured at least four towns on the highway to Irbil and >> defeated peshmerga forces attempting to break its siege of the Mosul Dam. A >> near panic took hold in the Kurdish capital as militia forces rushed to set >> up a defensive line at Kalak, 25 miles northwest of Irbil. >> >> It was another victory for the Islamic State, which before the peshmerga >> had defeated Syrian forces throughout much of eastern Syria, including >> recent seizures of major Syrian bases in Raqqa and Deir el Zour, and had >> sent Iraqi army forces fleeing almost to the gates of Baghdad. >> >> What has made the Islamic State forces seemingly unstoppable? >> >> Observers on the ground and analysts in Washington believe that the >> latest push was possible because the peshmerga forces are stretched trying >> to defend a frontier with the Islamic State that is nearly 900 miles long. >> The Islamic State is also better equipped, with U.S.-supplied weapons that >> its forces have looted from every Iraqi military based it has seized. It >> also has recently captured major Syrian arsenals. >> >> On Twitter, the Islamic State often posts photos of its bounty from >> military bases, which include rocket-propelled-grenade launchers, artillery >> and weapons that are far more sophisticated than those in the peshmerga >> arsenal. >> >> The Islamic State also has the advantage of momentum. According to the >> Long Wars Journal, citing a tweet by the Islamic State, its forces have >> taken control of 17 communities in the area around Mosul. Its push >> stretches all the way to Diyala province in northeast Iraq, which borders >> Iran. On Thursday, the Islamic State claimed to control the Mosul Dam, the >> largest water supply source in Iraq _ a claim U.S. and Iraqi sources >> confirmed. >> >> And perhaps most importantly, the Islamic State has very simply put >> together a smarter offensive plan. Its push toward Irbil is believed by >> many not to be a move to take that city but to force the peshmerga to >> defend its capital, allowing the Islamic State to harden its grip on places >> nearby it’s more interesting in holding. >> >> “No one is doing what ISIS is doing,” said Jessica Lewis, a research >> director at the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War, using an >> acronym for the Islamic State derived from its previous name, the Islamic >> State of Iraq and Syria. “ISIS thins out and strategically targets their >> adversaries. They are more thoughtful about their offense.” >> >> In Sunni-dominated Iraqi cities like Mosul and Fallujah, the Islamic >> State successfully co-opted or intimidated residents, allowing its forces >> to move in and take over. In Kurdish-defended areas, it’s forced the >> peshmerga to defend multiple locations along the lengthy frontier. >> >> *The Kurds have made no secret of their limitations. They have repeatedly >> asked the United States for help. * >> >> Many analysts believe that the Islamic State’s current push in northern >> Iraq, seizing cities such as Sinjar and Bartella that lie east of Mosul, is >> intended to create a buffer between the Kurdish region and the >> self-declared Islamic caliphate. For the Islamic State, cities like Sinjar >> potentially form the outer border of a contiguous state. >> >> “They are trying to carve out the territorial integrity of their Islamic >> State,” Lewis said. >> >> Against this backdrop, Kurdish Regional Government President Masoud >> Barzani reportedly issued a statement this week, condemning the Islamic >> State for attacking Christians, thousands of whom fled to the Kurdish >> region. >> >> Lewis said there was another reason to doubt that the Islamic State wants >> to seize Irbil. Unlike Mosul, where the Islamic State had operated for >> years and had built a support network, Irbil is a Kurdish city of 1.5 >> million people committed to keeping the Islamic State out. Moreover, Irbil >> does not border the proposed Islamic caliphate. >> >> Rather, Lewis believes the Islamic State wants to lock peshmerga forces >> into defending the capital, which would leave other places that it seeks to >> control vulnerable. It allows the Islamic State to decide the terms of >> battle _ something it has been able to do since early June. >> >> “ISIS is maintaining the initiative,” she said. >> >> >> Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/08/07/235800/why-cant- >> islamic-state-be-stopped.html#storylink=cpy >> >> >> >> >> __._,_.___ >> ------------------------------ >> Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected]> >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> Visit Your Group >> <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmN3AwMjA4BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0MDc1MTAyNjI-> >> >> >> [image: Yahoo! 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