IŞİD'le savaşmak için Suriye'de YPG'ye katılan İngilizler Jamie Read ve James Hughes, ailelerini ziyaret etmek amacıyla ülkelerine döndü.
RADİKAL – Yaşadıklarını SkyNews’a anlatan Read ve Hughes, terör örgütü Irak Şam İslam Devleti’yle çatışmalarını Birinci Dünya Savaşı’na benzetti. YPG’li ikili, ailelerinin evlerinde, İngiliz cihatçıların saldırılarına karşı panik butonu bulunduğunu açıkladı.
YPG’ye katılmaya İngiliz yardım görevlisi Alan Henning’in IŞİD tarafından infaz edilmesinin ardından karar verdiklerini söyleyen Read ve Hughes, “masum insanlar öldürülürken izleyemezdik” ifadelerini kullandı. 24 yaşındaki Read, “James’le kendimizi silahlanmak zorunda hissettik. İngiltere ’de oturup IŞİD’in yapmayı sevdiği şeyleri izlemek için bir nedenim yoktu” dedi.
YPG’ye katılmaya İngiliz yardım görevlisi Alan Henning’in IŞİD tarafından infaz edilmesinin ardından karar verdiklerini söyleyen Read ve Hughes, “masum insanlar öldürülürken izleyemezdik” ifadelerini kullandı. 24 yaşındaki Read, “James’le kendimizi silahlanmak zorunda hissettik. İngiltere ’de oturup IŞİD’in yapmayı sevdiği şeyleri izlemek için bir nedenim yoktu” dedi.
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Ellerindeki varlıkların bir kısmını İngiltere’deki borçlarını ödemek için sattıklarını söyleyen YPG’liler, dönüşlerinde Heathrow Havaalanı’nda altı saat boyunca sorgulandıklarını ve terörle mücadele polisinin gözetiminde serbest kaldıklarını belirtti.
IŞİD tarafından yakalanmaları olasılığında “kendi canlarını kendileri almak istediklerini” ifade eden Read ve Hughes, “Bir noktada gerçekten bize doğru gelirlerse ve yolun sonuna varırsak diye kendimiz için bir mermi saklıyorduk. Yakalanamazdık. Herkes kendisi için bir mermi taşıyor. Kimse IŞİD’e esir düşmek istemiyor. Kimse sonunun Youtube’da baş kesilme videosu olmasını istemez” dedi.
Ellerindeki varlıkların bir kısmını İngiltere’deki borçlarını ödemek için sattıklarını söyleyen YPG’liler, dönüşlerinde Heathrow Havaalanı’nda altı saat boyunca sorgulandıklarını ve terörle mücadele polisinin gözetiminde serbest kaldıklarını belirtti.
IŞİD tarafından yakalanmaları olasılığında “kendi canlarını kendileri almak istediklerini” ifade eden Read ve Hughes, “Bir noktada gerçekten bize doğru gelirlerse ve yolun sonuna varırsak diye kendimiz için bir mermi saklıyorduk. Yakalanamazdık. Herkes kendisi için bir mermi taşıyor. Kimse IŞİD’e esir düşmek istemiyor. Kimse sonunun Youtube’da baş kesilme videosu olmasını istemez” dedi.
Yes, well, as Clausewitz said, war is "War is a mere continuation of politics by other means," i.e. War is merely politics conducted through the use of force. So yes, all the problems with war are political problems. Right now, Turkey is the political problem as well as ISIS. The other half of Clausewitz dialectic is pertinent here: War is merely a duel on a larger scale. And you can't fight a duel without a weapon.
Turkey does not recognise minorities. The governments have always oppressed the Kurds. They were not allowed to have their culture, no schools in their language, and so on. The Kurds always wanted some autonomy but 
Britain's former ambassador to the US, Christopher Meyer, has criticised Labour's apparent insistence on UN security council backing for air strikes in Syria. Meyer accused Labour of subcontracting its policy to China 
But that's not so simple. They would probably need to fly them out of Incirlik in Turkey and of course the Turks are 'conflicted'. Also they'd need to have robust search and rescue capability right across the border 
But apparently the Kurdish women are aware that under the rule of groups like ISIS (and the less extremist but still very very extreme groups like the Taliban and Al Qaeda) they will have no choices about their own lives. She probably made a calculated decision to save those whom she commanded, friends whom she loved and cherished, by sacrificing her life to take out a dangerous ISIS unit that had been killing many.
Further complicating the issue, the U.S. said it has begun talking directly to the Kurdish fighters' political wing in Kobani — a diplomatic move that is likely to anger Turkey. The U.S. isn't sure why IS is fighting so hard for control of Kobani, a city with few resources and far removed from any capital. But like the U.S. with Kobani, a loss to a ragtag group of Kurdish fighters would be a propaganda loss for IS.
On Syria he came close to ruling out Labour backing for air strikes. The situation in Syria is somewhat different,” he said. Miliband pointed out that unlike Iraq, Syria is not asking for intervention. He said he would be calling for a UN resolution on air strikes in Syria. Air strikes alone will not defeat Isis,” Miliband said. We're doing some maintenance right now. You can still read comments, but please come back later to add your own.
I wonder if someone promised them they would go to some women's heaven where they would not have to be one of some Muslim man's forty virgins, if they did this? One man's Heaven is another woman's Hell. I believe that is a large 
The brief letter did not mention the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, which rested on erroneous claims of weapons of mass destruction and arguably contributed to its current instability, but stresses instead the country's right to self-defence in the face of this new threat. Just as in Washington, the president has ducked the trickier task of winning a resolution for war in favour of a more palatable vote to contain the Islamic State through indirect means.
America is not the World's Police. That is the thought and/or wish of the conservative mindset. Let NATO handle it. We cannot afford to fight their Wars. The huge War for Profit Machine that Bush built is still War Mongering. 
Since President Barack Obama is adamant that American troops will not join the fight on the ground, the U.S. has been working to help arm, equip and revamp training programs for national and Kurdish Peshmerga security forces in Iraq 
With each American bombings, we created more anti-American feelings in the entire Muslim world. The pro-war talking heads and the on-the-payroll generals are already supporting American ground troops, with the story that air attacks are insufficient to do the job. Of course they are promising us that it will only be a few thousands ground troops. I have seen this mission creep before.
In this effort, we do not act alone. Nor do we intend to send U.S. troops to occupy foreign lands. Instead, we will support Iraqis and Syrians fighting to reclaim their communities. We will use our military might in a campaign of air strikes to roll back 
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 
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, 
For the last 2 days the gangs have concentrated their attacks on the Mistenur hill to the south east of Kobanê town. The YPG said hand-to-hand fighting was continuing between YPG forces and ISIS gangs, adding that the gangs were placing heavy weapons closed to the town and shelling it. Matson is an Army vet who served for about 18 months, from May 2006 to November 2007, the story on WISN reads.
Kobanê recalled that the gangs had attempted several suicide attacks in recent days, saying these attempts were related to the setbacks they had suffered. Kobanê said it would not be possible for the gangs to succeed with these attacks, as the YPG fighters had taken precautions and prevented these attacks with bomb-laden vehicles. At the southwestern front, YPG forces also carried out a counter-attack, cleansing two separate areas of gangs and killing 7 members of theirs.
It is true that YPG forces are making progress in recent days. YPG fighters have retaken 5 neighborhoods in east Kobane under control. YPG forces are in the same way advancing in south Kobane. The danger before civilians and the town however remains. The ISIS which has suffered a heavy defeat wants to devastate this city of resistance and to murder civilians vengefully. They are being responded by the YPG, peshmerga forces, Free Syrian Army (FSA) attacks on the ground and effective aerial attacks of the coalition.
The nature of the fighting in and around Kobani has meant that it is not possible to get a very clear picture of the state of the battle for the town. Kurdish militias tend to report dramatic gains, while IS militants are either silent or also report dramatic gains. However, there have been indications that Kurdish militias have been making some advances in the battle for Kobani. The statement said U.S. forces have conducted more than 135 air strikes against IS forces in Kobani.
The Chechen IS militant also claimed that the Kurds had been assisted in their capture of the hill by American intelligence” and that the Kurdish forces had carried out their operation in the dead of night,” a sign that Kurdish militias are able to strategically outmaneuver IS to make gains. It said IS militants fired nearly 50 mortars at Kurdish areas, and two car bombs hit Kurdish positions on October 18.
Erdogan said the dominant Syrian Kurdish party, the Democratic Union Party, is a "terrorist organization," just like the Turkish Kurdish rebel group it has been linked to, the Kurdistan Workers Party. Meanwhile, the Iraqi military said October 19 it had recaptured several areas from the IS group in a northern enclave as part of a major counterattack against the jihadists. Even the United States and Turkey warned in October that the town was teetering on the brink.
Lastly, analysts have found a new way of recording the numbers of displaced persons in war-torn countries like Syria. Here are are the light levels at night recorded by satellites for the period when the conflict began, on the left, and February of 2014, on the right. The night time light levels have decreased 74% during that period overall, 60% in 12 out of 14 provinces, with some cities being almost completely extinguished.
Lawmakers there agreed Wednesday to send their peshmerga fighters after Turkey said it would allow 200 of them to travel through its territory to Kobane, where IS has an estimated 1,000 militants. On the ground, the jihadists 
A news article said that since WW1, the Jews have ruled Turkey secretly. So why would Turkey want to get involved The Satanic , Luceriferian Jews need this war in the Middle East to continue as long as possible because , they want Iran out of the way and only by continuing the war wil Iran eventually become involved in som way for Israel , or Israel to use the United States to take Iran out of their way for control of the whole Middle East.
Tanks and armoured vehicles were deployed to impose curfews in the predominantly Kurdish cities of Diyarbakir, Batman, Bingol, and Van, as well as other areas. Mr Erdogan's calculation that the Kurds cannot afford to open a second front against Turkey 
Previous Blogs here and here" If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." George Orwell. The faithful adherent of a religion will try first of all to convince those that believe in another religion and usually he goes on to hatred if he is not successful. This book is based on the statements of the world's leading Shariah authorities and Shariah academic scholars.
The German magazine, De Spiegel, reported that one hundred textile factories and workshops in the Syrian city of Aleppo were moved to the eastern canton of Rojava, Efrîn, recently. The attitude of the regional government of Efrîn, actively seeking to attract private companies to the region, highlights the inherent contradiction of attempting to build a new model based on social justice, while working within the framework of capitalism. 
Both Turkish and Kurdish leaders have struck a note of optimism in recent days, predicting that a peace settlement to end the insurgency, which has claimed 40,000 lives, could be only months away. If the beheadings and dismemberments were not horrible enough, another disturbing new revelation from Kobane are reports that the most brutal member of the jihadis appear to be Europeans.
Intense rioting broke out this month within Turkey's 15 million strong Kurdish community over the government's failure to help Kobane, and since then Ankara has vowed to take concrete steps in the two-year-long 
The fight against Isis does not seem to be going too well in Iraq either. AP has this report on growing pubic disgruntlement at the Iraqi government's military campaign against Isis. The west is pinning much on the new prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, to wage a more effective campaign against the jihadists. Erdogan said more than 200,000 people have fled the fighting in and around Kobani in recent weeks. Their flight is among the largest single exoduses of the three-year Syrian conflict.
The latest air strikes came as heavily armed peshmerga forces were poised to cross the Turkish border into Kobane to help the local Kurdish militia that has held out against a relentless assault by ISIL militants for weeks. Under heavy pressure from the United States, Turkey announced last week it would allow fighters from Iraq's autonomous Kurdish province to cross its territory to join the fight for Kobane.
Washington has forged an alliance of Western and Arab nations to combat IS and the coalition has carried out a barrage of air strikes on the jihadists in recent weeks. The group arose in the chaos of Syria's civil war, an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's regime that has killed more than 180,000 people and forced millions from their homes in the last three-and-a-half years.
That's why IS has even taken the really scary step of bringing the Chechen to Kobane. You know why you bring in the Chechen? Because balrogs don't actually exist. Chechens are the next best thing, and the Chechen in question, Abu Omar al-Shishani ( Omar the Chechen ”), was transferred this week from the Sinjar front, where he was in charge of slaughtering Yazidi refugees. Omar has been brought to Kobane as a fixer, with the job of closing down the border before reinforcements can reach the YPG.
For the last several months, news reports about the onward march of the fascists of Islamic state” have echoed that same sense of inevitability. Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, fell in June. Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's home town, fell the next 
ISIS released a video of Foley's beheading last month. This month, the group released videos showing the slayings of two other Western hostages, American journalist Steven Sotloff and British aid worker David Haines. As a U.S. soldier, Jordan Matson never saw combat, yet now he's in Syria, fighting for the Kurdish militia. "All my life, I've wanted to be a soldier," he tells CNN's Ivan Watson. It's been extremely hot, they were living on meagre rations and had to be sparing with water.
The centre of the town was still in Kurdish hands, Abdurrahman said. The two Isis flags were still flying in the east of the city on Tuesday, with a Kurdish flag flying in the centre. After initially setting up positions to the east, south and west of the town, Isis shelled Kobani for days to try to loosen up its defences. Just across the frontier in Turkey artillery, gunfire and smoke testified to the intensity of the fight all day on Monday.
A US military airdrop of weapons meant for Kurdish fighters fell into the hands of the Islamic State group near the Syrian battleground town of Kobane. The US Air Force parachuted crates of weapons, ammunition and medical 
Earlier this month, U.S. military officers were speaking of ISIS's momentum,” and how its string of military successes over the past year meant that quickly halting its advance would likely prove difficult if not impossible. Yet, as far as Kobani is concerned, that seems to be what is taking place. In a move likely to anger key ally Turkey, a C-130 cargo aircraft conducted "multiple" airdrops of supplies provided by the Kurdish authorities in Iraq.
The PKK (the Turkish Kurdistan Workers Party, linked with Syria's Kurdish Democratic Union Party) fights against ISIS but it is on the terror list and ISIS isn't,” said Zilan Deniz, a protester standing outside parliament on Thursday. Kobanê provides further evidence that military action by the coalition is necessary to contain ISIL. But at the same time, we need to recognize that military action alone is not sufficient to defeat ISIL.
