ISIS Takes Key Iraq Base As Battle For Syria's Kobani İntensifies

In recent months, some media outlets have launched a smear campaign against Turkey by publishing and broadcasting news claiming that Turkey hosted and supported elements of Al Qaeda- linked terrorist groups in Syria. The slander went as far as accusing Turkey of training and allowing passage of those groups into Iraq and Syria through its territories. The hope of eventual victory nurtured by many of the Kurds observing the battle from the border isn't shared entirely by Ali, the father of the 18-year-old girl fighting in the town. His eyes betray his fear for his daughter and so does his voice. In a phone call to her father on Saturday, Evan told him: We killed almost 70 jihadists but they are a lot and they become more and more. They scream ‘Allahu Akbar' but why are they doing that? We are from the same religion.” She told him she and her comrades are in dire need of reinforcements and if they had equal numbers they could beat them. In an address before the UN general assembly, President Barack Obama called on the world to help defeat Isis and what he called its network of death” in Iraq and Syria. Obama said the only language the extremists understood was one of force and that the United States would fight until they were defeated. The family of British hostage Alan Henning has expressed concern that air strikes in Syria would complicate the effort to win his release. The battle is taking a heavy toll on ISIS fighters as well. A high profile American jihadist who defected from Al Qaeda earlier this year to join ISIS was reported by YPG sources to have been killed Sunday in fierce fighting in Kobani. Abu Mohammad al Amriki was first featured in an ISIS recruitment video kobani,kobane,ypg in February. Speaking in English with what seemed a heavy North African accent, he said he had lived in the US for ten years or so before traveling to Syria. He joined the Al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al Nusra first, but then shifted allegiance and became a poster boy for "Jihad Cool" foreign fighters. The mythologies that support these patterns are varied from society to society but they all sort of militate in the same direction, which is individual survival. Maybe that's one of the reasons why Islamic fundamentalists hate song kobani,kobane,ypg and dance so much - it provides a spirit of resistance and prevents the cultural norming that these extremists want to see take place. Hence the Biden "gaffe" that highlights how Erdogan et al secretly think ISIS is just swell. Cantlie worked as a freelance photojournalist in Syria before being kidnapped alongside journalist James Foley, who was behead by ISIS militants. Cantlie appeared in an ISIS video Sunday to say hostages were tortured only when they did something stupid.” His video was in response to a New York Times piece published the same day that reported ISIS prisoners were severely beaten and starved. And yet there is a pervasive unease in our world - a sense that the very forces that have brought us together have created new dangers, and made it difficult for any single nation to insulate itself from global forces. As we gather here, an outbreak of Ebola overwhelms public health systems in West Africa, and threatens to move rapidly across borders. Russian aggression in Europe recalls the days when large nations trampled small ones in pursuit of territorial ambition. The brutality of terrorists in Syria and Iraq forces us to look into the heart of darkness. The antecedent to this is the Mujeres Libres movement in Spain , where women fought side by side with men in 1936, and who pushed for inclusion and equality within the Spanish anarcho-socialist movement. I hope the CIA kobani,kobane,ypg or Seals or Delta or someone is helping the Kurds coordinate targeting information. I don't think that's yet working very well and that's why you hear such ridiculously disappointing reports such as 'hitting a truck'. They are being opposed by just 2,000 Kurdish fighters with the YPG, the armed wing of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), without access to any heavy weaponry and short on ammunition. To put this into perspective, kobani,kobane,ypg 800 ISIS fighters routed 2 divisions of the Iraqi Army, totaling 30,000 heavily armed soldiers, in June. We would view Turkey sending its troops without an international decision as an occupation," she said.