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originally posted by: victor7
Groups like ISIS and Al-Nusra Front are very hard line Islamic fanatics who repeatedly resort to very barbaric crimes on the battlefields and on the captured POWs.
US should provide immediate air strikes cover for the Iraqi government forces. This will also raise the morale of the government troops who uptill now were more than happy to drop weapons and flee the battlefield theater.
Guess a lesson to be learned from recent events is US should not plan on leaving Afghanistan in complete capacity. It should maintain 1-5K troops level at all times. Also, it should declare that USAF cover for Afghan government troops will be available all the time in case they have to fight the AQ and Taliban. This will give a strong morale boost to Kabul government's forces to fight well against any fanatics still trying to try their luck at regaining power.
originally posted by: ANNED
one of the big things ISIS is trying to do is capture US built equipment from the Iraqi army.
this will be used in Syria to over throw the government there.
US tanks and artillery is some of the best and until now hard for the ISIS to get for there war in Syria.
www.news.com.au...
originally posted by: cosmonova
originally posted by: victor7
Groups like ISIS and Al-Nusra Front are very hard line Islamic fanatics who repeatedly resort to very barbaric crimes on the battlefields and on the captured POWs.
US should provide immediate air strikes cover for the Iraqi government forces. This will also raise the morale of the government troops who uptill now were more than happy to drop weapons and flee the battlefield theater.
Guess a lesson to be learned from recent events is US should not plan on leaving Afghanistan in complete capacity. It should maintain 1-5K troops level at all times. Also, it should declare that USAF cover for Afghan government troops will be available all the time in case they have to fight the AQ and Taliban. This will give a strong morale boost to Kabul government's forces to fight well against any fanatics still trying to try their luck at regaining power.
oh the irony. US arms these militants in Syria and now they are going to bomb them in Iraq.
originally posted by: Wrabbit2000
originally posted by: ANNED
one of the big things ISIS is trying to do is capture US built equipment from the Iraqi army.
this will be used in Syria to over throw the government there.
US tanks and artillery is some of the best and until now hard for the ISIS to get for there war in Syria.
www.news.com.au...
Oh jeeze... I hadn't even thought that far ahead. You're 100% right. If ISIS takes Baghdad and with it, the Iraqi infrastructure, they'll turn it back to their other ongoing fighting front in Syria and make that a proper fight on both sides. Russia likely won't have any of that, as they've made it as clear as they could without planting their own flag that between strategic resource issues and that very strategic Russian Naval base, they are real serious about Syria staying Syria and not whatever this new land would be called which ISIS envisions.
The Syria branch of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has put fighting on hold in Syria while it brings in weapons seized inside neighboring Iraq, a monitoring group that tracks the violence said on Friday.
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Rami Abdulrahman...said that ISIS, Sunni Islamists who have surged out of north Iraq to menace Baghdad and want to establish their own medieval-style state spanning Iraq and Syria, have moved weapons into eastern Syria.
“Our people saw weapons on the road in Syria,” he said.
Photos posted on social media by ISIS supporters also appear to show military equipment, including American Humvee patrol cars, being moved.
Reuters cannot confirm they were taken into Syria but the supporters say they were driven across the frontier.
Matthew Henman, Head of IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Centre, said in a report that ISIS’s capture of Iraqi territory along the Syrian border will give the group greater freedom of movement of men and materiel across the two countries.
“Light and heavy weaponry, military vehicles, and money seized by ISIL during the capture of (Iraq’s) Mosul will be moved into desert areas of eastern Syria, which ISIS has been using as a staging ground for attacks,” he said.
originally posted by: Vovin
What ever happened to Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army based in Fallujah?
originally posted by: tobiascore
originally posted by: Vovin
What ever happened to Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army based in Fallujah?
The Medhi Army was based out of Sadr City in East Baghdad, on down to south Iraq.
They were never involved anywhere near Fallujah.
They are still supported by Hizbollah and will fight any Sunni extremists trying to get involved in Shia' controlled areas.
originally posted by: ANNED
one of the big things ISIS is trying to do is capture US built equipment from the Iraqi army.
this will be used in Syria to over throw the government there.
US tanks and artillery is some of the best and until now hard for the ISIS to get for there war in Syria.
www.news.com.au...
originally posted by: mash3d
originally posted by: ANNED
one of the big things ISIS is trying to do is capture US built equipment from the Iraqi army.
this will be used in Syria to over throw the government there.
US tanks and artillery is some of the best and until now hard for the ISIS to get for there war in Syria.
www.news.com.au...
Just because they have captured a piece of equipment does not mean they know how to use it. Plus they would have to maintain it and keep it working. An M1 tank will break down just by looking at it wrong in the desert.
They might be able to use small arms and mortars but most things larger will require a supply chain.
originally posted by: Destinyone
a reply to: daaskapital
Tonight, I heard Lindsey Graham make a dire prediction. He stated if something wasn't done soon to change the situation there, we are looking at another 9/11 here, in the not distant future.
Graham also said, he doesn't see boots on the ground as an option, but airstrikes he would back.
Where is Obama? He has to get his face in front of a camera and say something, other than his advisers are looking at options.
That's his stand-bye statement for everything it seems.
Des
The dam, which sits on the Tigris River and is about 30 miles northwest of the city of Mosul, provides electricity to Mosul and controls the water supply for a large amount of territory. A report published in 2007 by the United States government, which had been involved with work on the dam, warned that should it fail, a 65-foot wave of water could be unleashed across areas of northern Iraq.