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| Hayder-Kurdistani | Mar 24 14, 10:00 Post #1026 |
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The town of Kessab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mifkL9kVchA |
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| Deleted User | Mar 25 14, 4:59 Post #1027 |
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Great updates, Hayder! Thank you! |
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| ALAN | Mar 27 14, 12:51 Post #1028 |
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milky forces gear doing push ups in Falujah lol |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| Qandil | Mar 28 14, 2:34 Post #1029 |
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Turkey's intervention plan for Syria exposed in recording Turkish Government plans to invade Syria have emerged in a recording that has appeared on the internet. In the tape, revealed after Turkey shot down a Syrian plane on the border, are conversations from a meeting of the Turkish Foreign Minister, General Staff and Intelligence chiefs. At the meeting, attended by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, Foreign Ministry undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu, General Staff deputy president Yaşar Güler and MIT undersecretary Hakan Fidan, the MIT undersecretary says: "If a pretext is necessary for war with Syria, I'll send 4 men there, fire 8 missiles and then there'll be a reason," adding that they have sent nearly 2,000 truckloads of equipment to Syria. As far as can be understood from the tapes Turkish officials are considering using the Süleyman Shah Tomb (a small piece of Turkish territory within Syria) as a pretext for entering Syria. Additionally, the content of the recordings exposes the support which Turkey has provided to groups in Syria, its future plans and talks with America. At one point in the meeting Davutoğlu says: "Just between ourselves, the Prime Minister has said on the telephone that this (attack on the Süleyman Shah Tomb) should be evaluated at this conjuncture." Another subject revealed in the recording is that at a recent meeting between the General Staff and US officials the latter distributed plans to establish no-fly zones. At the meeting the possibility of using Al Qaeda as a pretext for invading Syria was discussed, while General Staff deputy president Yaşar Güler stressed the urgency of arming the opposition, mentioning arming 1,000 militants. As for Sinirlioğlu, he spoke in favour of entering both South Kurdistan and Syria with tanks. Source: http://en.firatajans.com/news/news/turkey-s-intervention-plan-for-syria-exposed-in-recording.htm Edited by Qandil, Mar 28 14, 2:34.
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| "Kurdino! Bibin yek; eger hûn nebin yek, hûn ê herin yek bi yek." - Cigerxwîn. | |
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| Qandil | Mar 28 14, 2:34 Post #1030 |
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LOL! YouTube now banned in Turkey after the video was released! This is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-1GooSDwJ8 Key points described above in the article, but here's more specific: Turkish FM: "If we go into Syria, we need to take everyone by surprise. I could get mortar fire coming in from Syria." And he also said that "groups we supported in Syria have now turned against us." Claiming that ISIS is now in alliance with the regime. "We need to support Hakan Fidan and increase arms and ammunition support to [Syrian] opposition." |
| "Kurdino! Bibin yek; eger hûn nebin yek, hûn ê herin yek bi yek." - Cigerxwîn. | |
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| ALAN | Mar 28 14, 1:38 Post #1031 |
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ISIS in control of several iraqi sunni cities |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Mar 28 14, 2:11 Post #1032 |
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so much for their braggings lol Iraqi Parliament: US Tricked Iraq into Buying Inadequate Choppers 27.03.2014 Taha Hussain The United States has tricked Iraq in an arms deal involving 70 military helicopters, which Iraqi authorities have now described as “inadequate”. On Wednesday, an Iraqi lawmaker accused the United States of selling his country 70 helicopters that lack the firepower needed to deal with armed militants on the ground. ’The US deceived Iraq by selling it 70 Bell 407 and 214ST helicopters that have proven incapable of dealing directly with the enemy in combat due to their inadequate technical capacity,’ Iskander Witwit, deputy head of parliament’s security and defense committee, told Anadolu Agency. ’The helicopters were supplied by the US as part of the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program; Iraq purchased them in phases from the end of 2006 until last year,’ said Witwit, a former army officer. ’These types of helicopters were not designed for combat or for supporting ground troops,’ he added. Several politicians have urged the government to cancel the FMS program, accusing the US of providing Iraq with inadequate equipment and weapons. Witwit warned that Iraqi troops were currently fighting militants in several parts of the country in the absence of air cover due to the lack of combat helicopters. http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/Iraqi-Parliament--US-Tricked-Iraq-into-Buying-Inadequate-Choppers/16176 |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| chivaz serko | Mar 29 14, 5:27 Post #1033 |
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terrorist fsa has not reached the sea yet. those pictures that we saw that they were on the shores were from the Turkish side. even if they reach the sea it wont make a game changer, assad's navy will destroy them anyways |
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| chivaz serko | Mar 29 14, 6:27 Post #1034 |
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Ongoing clashes between anti-government fighters and soldiers in south east Fallujah in Iraq have killed at least 44 soldiers and four armed men. The unrest broke out on Thursday night in Anbar province, a mostly desert region in western Iraq along the Syrian border, where security forces have failed for months to evict rebels from key territory, the AFP news agency reported. Army forces began shelling the region of Zoba, which lies just south of Fallujah, local officials said, sparking clashes with fighters. At least four armed men were killed and 22 wounded in the shelling and firefights, according to Al Jazeera journalist Abdulazeem Omar. "There were clashes and shelling against Zoba from yesterday evening until today, and it is still going on," said Faisal Essawi, an official working in Amriyat al-Fallujah, the nearest town, AFP news agency reported. "We have been told that fighters control army positions, and there have also been many victims killed and wounded." Another local official, who did not want to be named, confirmed that fighters had captured army positions in Zoba after the military began shelling. Anti-government fighters seized Fallujah and parts of Anbar's provincial capital Ramadi in early January. Since then, security forces have managed to wrest back control of most of Ramadi, but a stalemate has persisted in Fallujah. The military has periodically shelled the city, as well as surrounding areas, in what it says are strikes against fighter strongholds, but local residents and medical professionals say civilians have been among the casualties. Almost 400,000 Anbar residents have been displaced from their homes as a result of the unrest, according to the United Nations. |
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| ALAN | Mar 29 14, 6:30 Post #1035 |
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please provide a title and a source More fighting between them means we in SK can work to get back all of our isolated Kurdish lands that were under iraqi occupation from 1921-2003
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| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Mar 29 14, 6:30 Post #1036 |
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Maliki reveals attempts to assassinate him 27.03.2014 Mewan Dolamari The Iraqi Prime Minister has revealed that many attempts have been made to assassinate him, and that he has enemies everywhere. He stressed that he is not afraid to die and, after eight years in office, he will not be intimidated into retirement. In an interview with a German newspaper, Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki said, “I don’t know exactly how many times my enemies have attempted to kill me since I came to power, but it is many.” He continued, “On one of my visits to Mosul our plane was targeted by a missile. Although the plane’s defenses could change the direction of the missile, we still felt a huge vibration. Also, in 1988, a number of Moroccan people tried to kill me in Berlin, Germany, but the German security forces foiled their attempt.” Al-Maliki also claimed that an attempt had been made to poison his food. He explained that he has enemies everywhere, particularly in the Ba’ath party (Saddam’s party), in Shiite and Sunni groups, and in al-Qaeda, whose members make frequent attempts on his life. Al-Maliki believes it is all because of his position as Prime Minister of the Iraqi Government. “I have never been afraid of death in all my life and I’m not now,” he said. “I was only 17 years old when I fought against the Ba’ath party and now I am 64 and fighting against al-Qaeda. I don’t think about retiring because Iraqi citizens will face war and disaster if I do.” Regarding his nomination for a third term in office, al-Maliki said, “I will lead the State of Law Coalition at least, but the result of the election and the majority in the parliament will decide whether I return to the PM office again or not.” http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/Maliki-reveals-attempts-to-assassinate-him/16185 |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Apr 2 14, 5:30 Post #1037 |
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Iraqi Deputy PM: Iraq is heading towards division and civil war![]() Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Roj Nouri Shawis spoke of the dangers of civil war and the disintegration of Iraq if the current problems are not resolved. According to Shawis it is crucial for Kurds to preserve their unity more than ever. “It is vital for us as Kurds to conserve our unity and have a united stance and I find it concerning that Kurdish political parties are concentrating on one ministry in the South Kurdistan without paying attention to what is going on in Iraq. They do not ask themselves how they expect to enter the formation process of Iraq’s future government if they cannot form their own one before the general elections on April 30th,” said Shawis. http://m.basnews.com/en/News/Details/Iraqi-Deputy-PM--Iraq-is-heading-towards-division-and-civil-war/16607 |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Apr 2 14, 10:24 Post #1038 |
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Hanan Fatwali: "a sunni must be killed for every shia that is killed" |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Apr 2 14, 10:25 Post #1039 |
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*grabs popcorn* and enjoys the show
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| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Apr 2 14, 10:35 Post #1040 |
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Da'ash aka ISIS performs military march in baghdad ![]() https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvaRTXqV1aI where is milky tanks and choppers!? |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Apr 2 14, 10:37 Post #1041 |
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Gotta say the guys voice recording the vid is so freaking annoying sounds like a women Lol |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Apr 2 14, 10:46 Post #1042 |
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In Nassrya sunni city status of milky is hanged ![]() https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g0XPb9pyIE civil is nearing in on them that is god's punishment for Anfal and Halabja. |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Apr 3 14, 9:08 Post #1043 |
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a damaged milky's M1A1SA in Anbar
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| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Apr 3 14, 9:09 Post #1044 |
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milky has lost Anbar, salahadin and soon diyala to ISIS. This is when Peshmerga comes in and protects heart, Quds and brain of SK - Kerkûk. I think SK will also absorb Mosul it was never part of iraq might as well take it when time is right. better give the iraqi a taste of their own and how it feels to steal other peoples lands without their consent. |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| Zagros | Apr 10 14, 8:01 Post #1045 |
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Eleven Years On, Saddam’s Legacy Still Alive ERBIL, Kurdistan – Most Iraqis do not know how to read a simple map. That is because, under the former regime, maps were secret. But how many of the habits and morals in present day Iraq are rooted in the 30-year rule of Saddam Hussein? What did the feared regime leave behind, eleven years after its fall on April 9, 2003? Talking about Saddam’s legacy, Susan Berzinge, a politician of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), mentions the fear that his regime installed as a lasting legacy. “I see Saddam in my dreams. I dream that I get arrested and put in jail.” “Everybody carries this fear inside, installed by the violence and the way people were punished. In Kurdistan people are afraid of Iraq’s future and another dictator.” The negative attitude of Saddam towards the Kurds is mirrored in the present Iraqi government, she feels. “Saddam is still alive in the Arab minds.” For former English teacher Abdullah Sabir, from the Iraqi town of Kifri, the fear started in 1963 when the Baath party took power. “At many check points I still have to be careful not to provoke the guards. We have armed people in my region. People get killed.” In the former regime, sons of officials had power and many misbehaved. “The sons and relatives of officials still can do what they want,” Sabir feels. “From the way they drive to their ownership of properties, politicians violate laws they themselves issued, for instance by marrying second wives.” Saddam’s regime demanded a Baath party membership for most jobs. Sabir points out that an affiliation to the ruling parties still is the basis for employment in the military, police and administration. Hanan Qia, a teacher from the Christian town of Al-Qosh in the Iraqi Nineveh province, blames Saddam for the present administrative corruption in Iraq. “A citizen can face big problems if he has to deal with any governmental office. Often, he has to pay bribes if he does not have powerful contacts.” He makes an exception for the South Kurdistan, “which maintains a higher level of democracy than the rest of Iraq, with more respect for citizen’s rights.” According to Florin Gorgis, who works for the Kurdistan Government in Erbil, Saddam’s regime was able to divide society. “He affected the life of each citizen and family, of whatever religious or ethnic background. He segregated people, and doing so decreased the number of Assyrian Christians tremendously.” After the fall of the regime Christians became the target of radical groups, causing even more to flee. Today, the number left in Iraq is about half that of 2003. “We still see Saddam in everything bad,” says Diar Ahmed, a former CEO of telephone provider Asiacell, now studying for his MBA in Hong Kong. “He ruined the souls of the people. A system that makes you live in fear for over 40 years changes people and cannot be changed easily.” People learnt from Saddam how to create fear, he says. “Al-Qaeda used it, and all others, even Kurds. Fear kills freedom, creativity, freedom of expression and will.” What he calls “the sons of Saddam” daily remind him of the former regime. “Those in power are using what they learned from him, in cells, prisons and special torture chambers. Look at Iraqi President Nuri al-Maliki. The difference is only in the magnitude of power; he is weaker than Saddam.” Salam Abdulmunem, who became famous in 2003 for his blogs as Salam Pax, points out that “Iraqis still have a “one leader mentality.” As with Saddam, people only act when their highest boss tells them to.” Under the former regime, the breakdown of civil law started in favor of tribal and religious law, he states. To stay in power, Saddam favored the tribes and put on a religious face. As a result, after 2003, some religious and tribal laws have become more important than the state’s law books. He mentions the ration system, put in place during the international embargoes and still partly there. It affected the mentality of Iraqis. “It made people think that it is okay to live on handouts from the government.” Like others, he still feels the fallout of the wars that Saddam fought, and that cost millions of lives. Many Iraqis lost family members. The propaganda was huge, remembers Abdulmunem: “My brain cells at random moments still fire off a million war songs from the Iran-Iraq war.” Former Kurdish minister for Anfal and Martyrs, Chnar Abdullah, points to the scars Saddam’s anti-Kurdish operations left behind. “People still feel the pain of the attack on Halabja. Victims of chemical attacks still need treatment. Many still suffer psychologically. People who were evacuated in the Anfal operation lost their homes, and many destroyed villages have not been rebuilt. These victims still suffer from Saddam’s heritage.” - See more at: http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/09042014#sthash.N6VZkmpb.dpuf |
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| Zagros | Apr 13 14, 12:02 Post #1046 |
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Behind the lines: Assad’s boasts By JONATHAN SPYER LAST UPDATED: 04/12/2014 09:58 The Syrian president claims he will end hostilities in the country before the year is over, but the reality is that Syria is moving ever closer to sectarian partition. Syrian President Bashar Assad this week said he expects that major military operations in Syria will conclude by the end of 2014. Following this, all that will remain will be the need to deal with the ongoing problem of “terrorists.” The bullish confidence of the Syrian leader followed recent remarks by Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, who said in a speech that the danger that the Syrian regime could fall has now been averted. What do such statements reflect? Is the Syrian regime now within realistic sight of a strategic victory in the brutal three-year civil war against the rebellion that rose to challenge it? Or has Assad effectively resigned himself to being the ruler of the around 40 percent of Syrian territory that he currently presides over? First of all, it is worth noting that the two statements, while each expressing optimism, appear to reflect different analytical positions. Assad is talking about continued progress toward a general defeat of the rebels. Nasrallah is doing what Nasrallah does best – namely, taking the existing difficult reality and painting it in the colors of victory. Nasrallah’s position is thus more reflective of the actual situation. Assad’s reflects hubris and over-confidence. The Iran-led regional bloc has indeed scored an impressive achievement in Syria over the last year. This achievement was crowned with the recent fall of the town of Yabrud, which completed the regime’s re-conquest of the Qalamun mountains area, and effectively sealed the border of Lebanon from the rebels. The achievement is largely the result of the major mobilization of Iranian and pro-Iranian regional assets that took place from early 2013, in response to the serious rebel advances of late 2012. The Iranians understood that Assad’s problem was a shortage of loyal combat soldiers. Under the direction of Qods Force commander Qassem Suleimani, a new, loyal, sectarian based force – the National Defense Force (NDF) – was created to fill this gap. This, together with the greater number of Hezbollah fighters deployed and the presence of Iraqi Shiite volunteers helped to slow and halt rebel advances. The regime has now completed a limited counter-attack. This undoubted achievement does not, however, portend the imminent re-conquest of the entirety of Syria by the regime. Rather, it serves to solidify and unite the main regime-controlled areas of the country – namely, the capital city of Damascus and its environs, and the western coastal area. The latter is the ancestral heartland of the Assad family itself and of the Alawi sect from which it springs. The regime has now established firm control along the highway linking Damascus and the coast. The rebels, subsequent to the fall of Yabrud, launched a counter-attack against the northern border of the regime held enclave, in Latakia province. This attack has made minor progress without in any way endangering the government-controlled area. But while the regime has demonstrably avoided collapse, the same problems that prevented it since mid-2012 from reimposing effective control over the entirety of Syria still remain. First of all, it is worth noting that the rebellion too has not collapsed and shows no signs of doing so. Despite its internecine struggles, and the absence of the kind of centralized, coordinated external aid that the regime enjoys, various rebel and jihadi elements remain firmly in control of the greater part of northern and eastern Syria, and also holds a section of Deraa province in the south. The Rojava Kurds, meanwhile, are maintaining their control over a large enclave in northeastern Syria, and two smaller areas farther west. These areas are held by the formidable People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia, which has shown itself willing and able to resist both government and rebel/jihadi forces when required. The Kurds are currently engaged in a ferocious warwithin- the-war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria group. The latter, the most brutal of the jihadi militias in Syria, is trying to force its way into the Kurdish held Kobani (Ayn al-Arab) area in northern- central Syria. So far, the YPG has repulsed the ISIS attacks. Secondly, despite the establishment of the NDF and the presence of Hezbollah and other militias, the regime still does not have the manpower to effectively control these areas, and it knows it. It’s for this reason that Assad has avoided making any major incursion into the rebel heartland since his strategic retreat from the north in the summer of 2012. When Qusayr fell to Hezbollah fighters last June, pro-regime mouthpieces began to crow that rebel- controlled eastern Aleppo would be next, and that the regime would then roll up the rebel-held zones in Idlib, Aleppo and Raqqa provinces. But no such move was even attempted. The regime preferred to exercise effective control of a smaller area of territory while continuing to proclaim itself the legitimate ruler of all of Syria. Meanwhile, Bashar Assad’s domination of the skies over Syria has been effectively utilized to prevent the emergence of any properly-governed area in the rebel- controlled zones. This has been achieved through the brutal tactic of mass bombings of civilian areas to cause maximum civilian death and destruction. So in short, the recent regime achievements, though notable, do not represent the kind of game-changing development that could presage an end to the long stalemate in the Syrian civil war and the beginning of a general rout of the rebels and a final decision in the war in favor of the Assads. Rather, they represent the consolidation by the regime of its area of control and the ending of any immediate danger to it. These achievements should be placed against the recent rebel offensives into northern Latakia and the presence of US-made BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missiles on the southern Idlib battlefield, suggesting the US may be in the process of increasing its provision of weaponry to the rebels in terms of both quality and quantity. Assad is inclined to boasting, and the regime-controlled parts of Syria are due this year to witness the farce of a “presidential election,” which will no doubt see the dictator returned to power by his grateful people with a huge majority. The dictator has, nevertheless, managed to stave off the prospect of imminent defeat. The result is not an imminent victory, but rather the de facto partition of Syria into ethnic and sectarian enclaves. http://www.jpost.com/Features/Front-Lines/Behind-the-lines-Assads-boasts-348227 |
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| ALAN | Apr 16 14, 2:29 Post #1047 |
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Iraqi MP: $65 billion of Iraq’s budget stolen and sent abroad 15.04.2014 Shwan Barzinji A Kurdish MP in the Iraqi Parliament revealed that since 2003 $65 billion have been redirected and sent abroad. MP Osama Jamil noted that despite Iraq’s budget there are approximately two million people living below poverty line. “Iraq has almost $150 billion in budget yet there are two million beggars on the streets,” said Jamil. He also explained that in the past decade more than 170,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the security problem and two million citizens have left the country, among them 7,000 academics and 300 artists. “From 2003 $65 billion of Iraq’s budget has been stolen and sent abroad. From 2004 until 2014, the total budget of Iraq was estimated at $700 billion yet Baghdad is the dirtiest and most undeveloped capital in the world,” added Jamil. http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/Iraqi-MP---65-billion-of-Iraq-s-budget-stolen-and-sent-abroad-/17756 |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Apr 16 14, 2:58 Post #1048 |
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IHEC fines five entities, Al-jubouri excluded![]() Safa’a al-Musawi Independent High Electoral Commission spokesman, photo: IHEC web site Posted: April 10, 2014 at 8:00 am Because of the campaign regulation violations Mish’an al-Jubouri has been excluded from the election for the Iraqi Council of Representatives. The official spokesman of the board of the commissioners, Safa’a Ibrahim al-Moussawi said the commission decided to fine five entities and to exclude the Arab coalition candidate Mish’an Al-Jubouri because of their disregard of the campaigning rules. The IHEC approved the decision of the exclusion. Mr. Moussawi stressed the commission’s strict monitoring of the election campaigns of the political entities and candidates participating in the elections. He did not reveal any information about the five entities fined. He added that the reason behind the exclusion of Mish’an al-Jubouri from participating in the election for the Iraqi Council of Representatives was due to a statement released from the candidate that excited nationalistic discrimination in the media. Read more: http://kirkuknow.com/english/index.php/2014/04/ihec-fines-five-entities-al-jubouri-excluded/#ixzz2z1CAdPMX |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Apr 16 14, 3:01 Post #1049 |
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Mash'an Al Jabouri is a exiled sunni chauvinist iraqi called back by milky boy to become an iraqi MP, he said a week ago that he will stop occupation of kurds in iraq, then Khalid Shwani PUK MP recorded a complain on him in IHEC he was then withdrawn from participation but now once again by millky's "federal" court, which is anything but a federal court lol he has been thrown back in to participate....
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| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Apr 16 14, 10:07 Post #1050 |
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FSA gets advanced anti tank, while KRG watches
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| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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so much for their braggings lol 
please provide a title and a source




7:21 PM Jul 11