US military aircraft drop supplies to Kurdish forces in Kobani. Another example of US resolve to deny ISIL key terrain.
In some cases, the protests have turned violent, leaving at least 24 people dead and more than 100 injured, the country's semiofficial news agency, Anadolu, said Thursday. Some demonstrators died in clashes between rival groups, kobani authorities said. Others were killed during clashes with police. Hundreds have been arrested. Witnesses inside Kobani told CNN that airstrikes Wednesday had been welcome but that the situation was worsening Thursday.
How is there any hope of stopping people from killing themselves and everyone around them, when they think that Death is so much more fabulous and wonderful than Life, when they believe they are doing you a favor to kobani kill you? What do you do when insanity becomes contagious? It's really fine if ISIL want to kill themselves. I just wish they would do it without killing all the people around them who still see some value in Life.
intelligence in the Black Sea region during the Cold War. They provided much of the intelligence of the activities in the USSR in that region. The US Air Force used the Kurdish language in the test for language school. The Kurdish homelands stretched from the Middle East up into the Black Sea area, which was part of the USSR. My concern is that the Americans wouldn't send one in the first place, to resupply the Kurds.
It was not clear who had mounted the air raid. A US-led alliance launched air strikes on Islamic State in Syria on Tuesday. A spokesman for the U.S. military said those strikes were only the beginning”. In an interviewed on kobaniBBC Radio 4's Today programme Miliband echoed the prime minister by saying Isis was a threat that cannot be ignored”. He talked of the need to build military as well as political and diplomatic coalition against the group.
Administration officials said Tuesday they have been watching the Khorasan Group, an al-Qaida cell in Syria, for years. But Obama had resisted taking military action in Syria to avoid inadvertently helping President Bashar Assad, a leader the US would like to see gone. That changed, officials said, because intelligence showed that the Khorasan Group was in the final stages of plotting attacks against the US and Europe, most likely an attempt to blow up an airplane in flight.
And the US did not "allow" fascists to win in Spain. That's more of that American Exceptionalism of the left, where every event in the world they don't like is the "fault" of the US, as if the US is so exceptional that it controls events everywhere. The US was not in a position to "allow" someone to win in Spain. Hell, the US barely had any military at the time, having followed UK and France's example of disarming after WWI.
Lard, not so much. It will tick them off, but not dissuade them. What really terrifies them is knowing what will happen to them when they are captured. YPG and the Iraqi peshmerga don't usually take prisoners. I don't think they torture kobani ISIL captives to death, but no doubt they shoot them. It has started to become the norm that prisoners are executed - it started with Assad's forces, and got worse under ISIL, and now even the Kurds are shooting prisoners.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken with Turkey Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu twice since Monday to discuss the situation in Kobani and Turkey's broader role in the coalition. Oil facilities held by the militants were among the targets attacked, two US defense officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
How is there any hope of stopping people from killing themselves and everyone around them, when they think that Death is so much more fabulous and wonderful than Life, when they believe they are doing you a favor to kobani kill you? What do you do when insanity becomes contagious? It's really fine if ISIL want to kill themselves. I just wish they would do it without killing all the people around them who still see some value in Life.
intelligence in the Black Sea region during the Cold War. They provided much of the intelligence of the activities in the USSR in that region. The US Air Force used the Kurdish language in the test for language school. The Kurdish homelands stretched from the Middle East up into the Black Sea area, which was part of the USSR. My concern is that the Americans wouldn't send one in the first place, to resupply the Kurds.
It was not clear who had mounted the air raid. A US-led alliance launched air strikes on Islamic State in Syria on Tuesday. A spokesman for the U.S. military said those strikes were only the beginning”. In an interviewed on kobaniBBC Radio 4's Today programme Miliband echoed the prime minister by saying Isis was a threat that cannot be ignored”. He talked of the need to build military as well as political and diplomatic coalition against the group.
Administration officials said Tuesday they have been watching the Khorasan Group, an al-Qaida cell in Syria, for years. But Obama had resisted taking military action in Syria to avoid inadvertently helping President Bashar Assad, a leader the US would like to see gone. That changed, officials said, because intelligence showed that the Khorasan Group was in the final stages of plotting attacks against the US and Europe, most likely an attempt to blow up an airplane in flight.
And the US did not "allow" fascists to win in Spain. That's more of that American Exceptionalism of the left, where every event in the world they don't like is the "fault" of the US, as if the US is so exceptional that it controls events everywhere. The US was not in a position to "allow" someone to win in Spain. Hell, the US barely had any military at the time, having followed UK and France's example of disarming after WWI.
Lard, not so much. It will tick them off, but not dissuade them. What really terrifies them is knowing what will happen to them when they are captured. YPG and the Iraqi peshmerga don't usually take prisoners. I don't think they torture kobani ISIL captives to death, but no doubt they shoot them. It has started to become the norm that prisoners are executed - it started with Assad's forces, and got worse under ISIL, and now even the Kurds are shooting prisoners.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken with Turkey Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu twice since Monday to discuss the situation in Kobani and Turkey's broader role in the coalition. Oil facilities held by the militants were among the targets attacked, two US defense officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
