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Iraq, Syrian, Turkey, Daash, ME news & update; Related articles, videos and photos
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ISOF

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Special_Operations_Forces
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Lol isof they are probably as coward as the rest of iraqi army....
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Bet my life they are, just like Assad maliki will need to bring in Iranian masters to fight for his loserish Govt.
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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Hakm Shekh Latif, ‪#‎Iraqi‬ MP for the Movement for Change (‪#‎Gorran‬) responded to the recent allegation of Hanan Fatlawi, Iraqi MP from ‪#‎Maliki‌‬'s State of Law, against the ‪#‎Peshmarga‬ force saying that she is a “liar” and “elusive” person who attempts to lead Iraq into a sectarian war.
Latif considers Fatlawi‌'s false allegations as a tribal campaign that tries to present her as a hero without having the least intention and will to serve the Iraqi people.
“Fatlawi never stops in her attempts to denounce and humiliate the Peshmarga” Latfi added. “the current situation of Iraq was because of people like her who encourage people to spill their poisonous tribal disputes.”
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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Faltawi needs to put some make up, she is ugly beyond explanation. She's so ugly Jews started looking good. She's so ugly there wouldn't be any difference between her and garbage. She's so ugly she killed all ISIS terrorists only by showing her ugly face. She's so ugly we could use her ugliness in Kurdish freedom fight to kill our enemies...
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PIPES: Turkey’s support for ISIS Islamist terrorists

Aiding jihadists could put Ankara at odds with Iran



The battle in Iraq consists of “Turkish-backed Sunni jihadis rebelling against an Iranian-backed Shiite-oriented central government,” I wrote in a recent article.

Some readers question that the republic of Turkey supports the “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria,” the main Sunni group fighting in Iraq. They point to ISIS attacks on Turkish interests within Turkey, along its border with Syria, and in Mosul, and a successful recent meeting of the Turkish and Iranian presidents. Good points, but each of these can be explained.

First, ISIS is willing to accept Turkish support even while seeing the Islamist prime minister and his countrymen as kafirs (infidels) who need to be shown true Islam.

Second, the presidential visit took place on one level while the fighting in Syria and Iraq took place on quite another; the two can occur simultaneously. Turkish-Iranian rivalry is on the rise and, as the distinguished Turkish journalist Burak Bekdil notes in the current issue of the Middle East Quarterly: “Recent years have often seen official language from the two countries about prospering bilateral trade and common anti-Israeli ideological solidarity. But mostly out of sight have been indications of rivalry, distrust and mutual sectarian suspicion between the two Muslim countries.”

Ankara may deny helping ISIS, but the evidence for this is overwhelming. “As we have the longest border with Syria,” writes Orhan Kemal Cengiz, a Turkish newspaper columnist, “Turkey’s support was vital for the jihadists in getting in and out of the country.” Indeed, the ISIS strongholds not coincidentally cluster close to Turkey’s frontiers.

Kurds, academic experts and the Syrian opposition agree that Syrians, Turks (estimated to number 3,000), and foreign fighters (especially Saudis, but also a fair number of Westerners) have crossed the Turkish-Syrian border at will, often to join ISIS. What Turkish journalist Kadri Gursel calls a “two-way jihadist highway,” has no bothersome border checks and sometimes involves the active assistance of Turkish intelligence services. CNN even broadcast a video on “the secret jihadi smuggling route through Turkey.”

Actually, the Turks offered far more than an easy border crossing: They provided the bulk of ISIS‘ funds, logistics, training and arms. Turkish residents near the Syrian border tell of Turkish ambulances going to Kurdish-ISIS battle zones and then evacuating ISIS casualties to Turkish hospitals. Indeed, a sensational photograph has surfaced showing ISIS commander Abu Muhammad in a hospital bed receiving treatment for battle wounds in Hatay State Hospital in April.

One Turkish opposition politician estimates that Turkey has paid $800 million to ISIS for oil shipments. Another politician released information about active-duty Turkish soldiers training ISIS members. Critics note that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has met three times with one Yasin al Qadi, who has close ties to ISIS and has funded it.

Why the Turkish support for wild-eyed extremists? Because Ankara wants to eliminate two Syrian polities, the Assad regime in Damascus and Rojava (the emerging Kurdish state) in the northeast.

Regarding the Assad regime: “Thinking that jihadists would ensure a quick fall for the Assad regime in Syria, Turkey, no matter how vehemently officials deny it, supported the jihadists,” writes Mr. Cengiz, “at first along with Western and some Arab countries, and later in spite of their warnings.”

Regarding Rojava: Rojava’s leadership being aligned with the PKK, the (formerly) terrorist Kurdish group based in Turkey, the authoritative Turkish journalist Amberin Zaman has little doubt “that until recently, Turkey was allowing jihadist fighters to move unhindered across its borders” to fight the Kurds.

More broadly, as the Turkish analyst Mustafa Akyol notes, Ankara thought “anybody who fought al-Assad was a good guy and also harbored an ideological uneasiness with accepting that Islamists can do terrible things.” This has led, he acknowledges, to “some blindness” toward violent jihadists. Indeed, ISIS is so popular in Turkey that others publicly copy its logo.

In the face of this support, the online newspaper Al-Monitor calls on Turkey to close its border to ISIS while Rojava threatened Ankara with “dire consequences” unless Turkish aid ceases.

In conclusion, Turkish leaders are finding Syria a double quagmire, with Mr. Assad still in power and the Kurdish entity growing stronger. In reaction, they have cooperated with even the most extreme, retrograde and vicious elements, such as ISIS. However, this support opened a second front in Iraq which, in turn, brings the clash of the Middle East’s two titans, Turkey and Iran, closer to realization.

Daniel Pipes (DanielPipes.org) is president of the Middle East Forum.



http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/17/pipes-turkeys-support-for-isis/#.U6IGrN3wSLB.twitter
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Whatever.
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You mean nevermind?
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You mean nevermind?
I think we need to add some .... to this
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Xoybun
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You mean nevermind?
I think we need to add some .... to this
You do realize it's olive oil and not beer...right? Or maybe not, you don't even know how to spell Delaho
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Turkey is protecting ISIS in Sunni areas.


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Turkey gives cold shoulder to US strikes in Iraq

Turkey objected to possible US air strikes on militant targets in Iraq on Thursday,


http://www.todayszaman.com/news-350758-turkey-opposes-possible-us-strikes-on-militants-in-iraq.html
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150 Saudi Intelligence Commanders Come to Mosul

19.06.2014
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According to security sources, 150 Saudi intelligence commanders have entered Mosul secretly.

The sources explained that the commanders, led by Fahd Misbah, passed secretly through by way of the Hasakka Province border in Syria, and now they are settled in the area.

Based on information obtained by BasNews, a Saudi journalist working for the newspaper al-Watan accompanied the Saudi intelligence commanders in order to continue reporting the current happenings.

Allegations have been made by various newspapers that commanders from Saudi Arabia planned for the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) terrorist group to bombard and take over the city of Mosul, strategically widening Sunni influence through Iraq.

This follows after ISIS fighters seized control of Mosul last week, forcing the Iraqi Army to leave the city.

http://basnews.com/en/News/Details/150-Saudi-Intelligence-Commanders-Come-to-Mosul/23924
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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Iranian Quds Force Opens Private Center to send Soldiers to Iraq

20.06.2014
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Iranian Special Forces, known as the “Quds Force,” has opened a private center in Iran to register those soldiers who have been sent to Iraq to help combat the ISIS incursion.

Iran has reportedly started sending troops in to Iraq earlier this week after extremist group Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (ISIS) took over much of the area of KRG, including the Nineveh and Salahaddin Provinces. These provinces are centers of Iraqi Sunni resistant against Iraqi Shiite-led government.

The Iranian force was deployed to fight as ISIS militants crept ever closer to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

The head of the registration center, Muhammad Reza Zumurdy, revealed that the center is called ‘People’s Organization for Shiites Protection’; he says that the fight against ISIS militants in Iraq can be named the ‘fight against expansion’ operation, based on the desire to prevent ISIS forces from taking control of even more Sunni areas in Iraq.

According to local Iranian media, the Commander of the Iranian Quds Force, Qassem Suleimani, visited Iraq recently along with 76 other military officials. He also met with Zumurdy, who supervises the Iraqi army.

http://basnews.com/en/News/Details/Iranian-Quds-Force-Opens-Private-Center-to-send-Soldiers-to-Iraq-/23969
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 its Saudis vs Iranians haha
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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MUST watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQPlREDW-Ro#t=95
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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Jun 21 14, 2:50
Hehe "and these lovely bunch of people..." British people are funny as hell.

Although he forgets to mention how Maliki also attacks Kurds, and even sistani wants him out.
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Iraq crisis: Fierce battles for Baiji and Tal Afar

3 videos inside in the link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-27936652
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Fighting Back Against ISIS: The Battle for Iraq (Dispatch 1)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RojiK_l45hY
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Faisal qasim (Itijah al muakis show): Israel receives first ever oil shipment from South Kurdistan

So far 1,284 comments have been posted. 90% of the commentators are against Kurds and Kurdistan. Why do they hate us so much even though we didn't kill, massacre, destroy, steal from them.

A few comments by arab users:

"It is better to sell oil than selling your honor or your country (intended towards iraqi soldiers)"

"The Gulf states have been selling oil for 40 years to Israel, why blame the Kurds"

"All arabs have contracted with Israel, and some of them are protecting Israel's borders"

"It is better to sell it to Israel than sending it as a gift to Iran"

"Why don't you mention the gas that is shipped for free from egypt, qatar, and syria to Israel"

"Even our prophet had done business with the Jews back in the days."

"The Kurds liberated Jeruslem and the arabs sold their lands to the jews"

"Everything is Halal on the arabs and Haram on the Kurds"

"Israel is the only country which has given the Kurds all the freedom. They can speak their language and express their tradition. The muslim countries have massacred the Kurds".

"Why are only the Kurds have become the reason for the failure of the state they are in. arabs have agreed to disagree"

"Israel and America are more honorable than arabs"

https://www.facebook.com/falkasim
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@$$h0le$ still trying to repair a failed ex-state called Iraq. doh :shrug: *Dislike
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Sunni state of iraq
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“Iraq is not going to be a perfect place”

ON THE day that fighters for the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) occupied part of a city close to Baghdad, Barack Obama announced a bold plan. It had nothing to do with the Middle East: the president plans to create the world’s largest marine reserve in the Pacific. The administration also announced a comprehensive framework to eliminate seafood fraud.

At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, Republicans in Congress were absorbed by the race for the position of majority whip in the House (see article), and enraged by the disappearance of e-mails from officials at the Internal Revenue Service responsible for singling out conservative groups for special scrutiny (see article). There were few reminders that six and a half years ago America had 180,000 troops stationed in Iraq to prevent the country from slipping into civil war, as now seems to be happening (see article).

The 4,500 American soldiers who died in that cause, and the hundreds of billions of dollars the country spent are, in the blunt assessment of Barry Posen of MIT, a sunk cost. Mr Posen reckons that a de facto partition is an acceptable outcome in Iraq, and that no vital interests of the sort that America should be willing to spill blood for are at stake there. This view has become mainstream (see chart). More than half of Americans think their country is less powerful than it was ten years ago, the highest share since the Pew Research Centre started asking the question in 1974. Accordingly, Americans feel less inclined to act as global policeman: the share who think America should “mind its own business internationally” is ten percentage points higher than at the end of the Vietnam war.

Since before he was president, Barack Obama has said that America cannot fix Iraq. As he put it in 2008: “Iraq is not going to be a perfect place, and we don’t have unlimited resources to try to make it one.” Last month he set out some principles to govern the use of military power that fitted the national mood. America should use force, unilaterally if necessary, only when its core interests are threatened, he argued. He sketched out those interests with a thick enough pencil to make it unclear what they look like. Gains made by ISIS fighters in Iraq since then have added some definition. The capture of several big cities by people who have invented a new online genre, the war crime self-portrait, does not yet cross the threshold.

What Mr Obama has done is tell Congress that he is sending 275 soldiers to Iraq to provide security at the embassy in Baghdad. He has also sent an aircraft-carrier, along with two smaller ships carrying cruise missiles, to the Persian Gulf. John Kerry, the secretary of state, has discussed the possibility of air strikes against ISIS fighters. Mr Obama has been more cautious, saying only that any military support being for Iraq’s government would be conditional on it doing a better job of including Sunnis and Kurds. Some in the administration drop broad hints that Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq’s prime minister, should go. Meanwhile, a White House official waves away questions about American air support as mere “speculation”.

The practical objections to the use of air power are surmountable. David Deptula, a retired lieutenant-general involved in planning the air campaign during Operation Desert Storm in 1991, says that the vehicles carrying ISIS fighters from one city to the next would be “tailor-made” targets if they headed for Baghdad. Nor is it necessary to have boots on the ground to direct the planes or missiles: the air force coped without them for the first 40 days of Desert Storm and drones can now hover over targets for ten hours at a time, beaming pictures back to their operators.

What American forces cannot do from on high, says Mr Deptula, is push ISIS out of the cities it holds already. That could only be accomplished by the Iraqi Security Forces, perhaps with support from Iran. Iran’s involvement makes America’s calculation more complicated. Though the advance of ISIS fighters has put America and Iran in the strange position of rooting for the same side, the two countries are supporting different groups in Syria’s civil war. And preventing Iran from building a nuclear weapon is higher on America’s list of priorities than a stable Iraq. The White House has ruled out military co-operation with Iran to fight ISIS, though the two countries will talk about Iraq on the sidelines of negotiations about Iran’s nuclear capability in Vienna.

Faced with a choice between siding with Iran and watching Iraq slide into civil war, most Republicans have decided that it is easier to blame Mr Obama for being weak. John Boehner, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, accused the president of “taking a nap” while ISIS marched towards Baghdad. Karl Rove, a former close adviser to George W. Bush, told Fox news that Mr Obama had squandered the influence that America had in Iraq back in 2008. Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republican minority in the Senate, has called for Mr Obama to present a plan. The president has made it clear that he wishes to consult with Congress. Thus far the debate resembles the build-up to the decision not to intervene in Syria after Bashar Assad’s troops used chemical weapons, though this time Mr Obama has not drawn any red lines.

More constructive critics, such as Senator Bob Corker, a Republican, have called for air assistance to the Iraqi security forces but only after Iraq’s government takes steps to win back support from Sunnis. It is possible that the president will order air strikes to halt ISIS’s advance, but America will do no more than that. Mr Obama has been consistent on Iraq. The invasion, he argued while running for office, had left America less safe and less able to shape events in the world. Iraq’s government, he added, was suffering from the armed version of welfare dependency: “we’ve learned that when we tell Iraq’s leaders that we’ll stay as long as it takes, they take as long as they want.” For its own good, he reasons, Iraq’s government must be left to fight ISIS.

Even with some American air support for the government forces, the likeliest outcome in Iraq, argues Ken Pollack of Brookings, a think-tank, is now a drawn-out struggle between militias loyal to different sects. If Mr Pollack is right, Mr Obama’s claim to have ended the war in Iraq—one of the proudest achievements of his presidency—will have to be modified. America’s involvement may be largely over, but the war America started continues.

From the print edition: United States

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21604595-barack-obamas-reluctance-use-force-mirrors-american-public-opinion-iraq-not-going
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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Diyala Province Falls to ISIS

20.06.2014
Nuwar Faqie

According to BasNews correspondent information, the Iraqi Army and security forces have collapsed and have withdrawn from the Diyala Province. The province is now under the control of Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) militants.

Security sources in the province have told BasNews that the Iraqi Army has withdrawn from Diyala Province. However, after the pullout of the army; Iraqi Military planes began bombing ISIS strongholds in the nearby areas, namely the Baiji Oil Refinery. The air defense resulted in a number of Iraqi civilians killed and injured.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) continues to press its offensive to seize the 'belts' regions around Baghdad. Even though the ISIS southward advance has halted in Samarra, just north of Baghdad, it is continuing to bleed into the northeastern region of Diyala Province.

BasNews has learned that the Iraqi army has withdrawn from at least six villages located on the outskirts of Diyala Province, which has caused a security vacuum in the area.

Furthermore, reports have emerged that jihadists have taken a chemical weapons facility built by Saddam Hussein which contains a stockpile of old weapons.

State Department officials told the Wall Street Journal: ’U.S. officials don’t believe the Sunni militants will be able to create a functional chemical weapon from the material. The weapons stockpiled at the Al Muthanna complex are old, contaminated and difficult to move.’

’Nonetheless, the capture of the chemical weapon stockpile by the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, known as ISIS or ISIL, has grabbed the attention of the U.S.’

’We remain concerned about the seizure of any military site by the ISIL,’ Jen Psaki, a State Department spokeswoman, said in a written statement.

’We do not believe that the complex contains CW materials of military value and it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to safely move the materials.’

On Thursday night dramatic satellite images emerged showing the oil facility in Baiji with black smoke billowing from the site’s buildings. ISIS rebels had also raised black jihadist banners around the key strategic facility in Baiji despite government forces insisting they were in ’complete control’ of the plant.

The photos also show U.S.-made Humvees captured by the heavily armed militants as they manned a checkpoint near the sprawling facility.

http://basnews.com/en/News/Details/Diyala-Province-Falls-to-ISIS/23972
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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kurdish snipers:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-27953312
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