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The iraqi army probably is infiltrated by people who are pro ISIS/baath.
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Oct 17 14, 6:55
The iraqi army probably is infiltrated by people who are pro ISIS/baath.
maliki replaced sunni generals with shia generals in iraqi army, and so they didnt care to fight for sunni lands
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IS has jets and training rats on them

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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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Islamic State Militants Have Been Flying 3 Captured Warplanes Over Syrian Airport, Witnesses Say

BEIRUT, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Iraqi pilots who have joined Islamic State in Syria are training members of the group to fly in three captured fighter jets, a group monitoring the war said on Friday, citing witnesses.

The group has been flying the planes over a captured Syrian military airport in the northern Aleppo province, said Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

"They have trainers, Iraqi officers who were pilots before for (former Iraqi president) Saddam Hussein," he said. "People saw the flights, they went up many times from the airport." (Reporting by Sylvia Westall, editing by John Stonestreet)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/17/isis-warplanes-syria_n_6001866.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067
Edited by UKurd, Oct 17 14, 10:26.
We live together, we are oppressed together, we fight together, we succeed together, we are free together.
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Time for west to give us advanced AA guns ;-)
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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Turkey’s Kurdish Fears Encourage Inaction against Islamic State

October 17, 2014 - 12:57pm, by Dorian Jones

For weeks, idle Turkish tanks have been watching from the hills in southeastern Turkey as Islamic State forces pound the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane, just a few hundred meters across the border. That lassitude has prompted many Westerners to voice doubts about Turkey’s commitment to eradicating the Islamic State. But it is fears rooted in Turkey’s own history that are exerting the most influence over Ankara’s stance in the international war against this terrorist group.

“The Kurdish phobias have been revised again with the events in Kobane,” warned diplomatic columnist Semih Idiz of Turkey’s Taraf newspaper.

For three decades, the Turkish state waged a bitter war against the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Group (PKK) over rights for ethnic Kurds, the country’s largest minority. The fighting killed or displaced tens of thousands and left a deep divide in Turkish society over how to preserve stability while respecting minority rights.

A nearly two-year-long peace process between Ankara and the PKK has done nothing to answer these questions, or to allay officials’ mistrust of Kurds.

For this reason, Ankara has maintained a wary stance toward the three Kurdish-run autonomous provinces in Syria that border ethnic Kurdish areas of Turkey, and Turkish officials have steadfastly refused international calls for an arms corridor through Turkey to supply Kobane.

Turkey’s motivation is simple; if Kurdish fighters, with coalition ssistance, prevail in Kobane, “It will mean we finally gained a victory, we made a revolution and we defended against a counter-revolution,” elaborated parliamentary deputy Ertugrul Kürkçü, honorary chair of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democracy Party. “It will be a huge psychological advance; not only for Syrian Kurds, but also Turkey’s and Iran’s Kurds.”

That is one psychological booster that Ankara does not want to enable. Most Turks believe the government’s claim that Syria’s Kurdish provinces have ties to the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by both the United States and European Union.

Consequently, many Turks, mindful of past foreign partitions of Ottoman or Turkish-held territory, now equate outside efforts to push Ankara into coming to Kobane’s defense with an attempt to undermine stability in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast. “There is this public perception that all of this that is happening is being designed outside the country, probably in Washington, to create a greater Kurdistan,” said Idiz.

Meanwhile, Ankara is lobbying for the scope of international action in Syria to expand from operations against the Islamic State (IS) to include the Syrian regime itself. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has made no secret that an expansion is the price of Turkey’s joining the battle against the Islamic State. “We need a multi-layered, not a single-layer approach,” Davutoğlu told MPs on October 14.

As yet, no sign has emerged that other members of the anti-IS coalition want to expand Syria operations.

The risks to Turkey for doing nothing appear to be increasing. Earlier this month, over 30 people were killed in unrest in half of Turkey’s provinces as anger at Ankara’s refusal to help Kobane boiled over into the streets. It took the intervention of the imprisoned PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan – ironically, at the government’s request – to restore order.

“The government used the nuclear option,” dryly remarked Soli Özel, a professor of international relations and political science at Istanbul’s Kadir Has University. At the same time, it was not an option that prevented the Turkish army from bombing PKK bases in Turkey on October 13 in response to an alleged attack.

The air strikes, the first in an 18-month ceasefire, only raised additional questions in the West about Ankara’s priorities. “Ankara and the United States and its other allies, even other Sunni members of the coalition, are not on the same page as Turkey,” observed Kadri Gürsel, diplomatic columnist for the mainstream Milliyet daily.

Aside from Kurdish concerns, reluctance among Turkey’s ruling Sunni-Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party to take on a Sunni uprising in Syria further distances Ankara from its Western allies, he continued.

Ankara delivered what Turkish media dubbed an “Ottoman slap” to Washington when it refuted the claim that Turkey would allow anti-IS coalition members to use its Incirlik military base.

A senior Turkish government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, insisted to EurasiaNet.org that Turkey remains committed to the war against the Islamic State and that talks are continuing over use of the base. Nonetheless, international patience over Turkey’s hesitancy appears to be dwindling – with potentially alarming consequences for Ankara.

French President François Hollande has called for the arming of Syrian Kurds in Kobane, while in Germany the idea is being floated of even arming the PKK.

Volker Kauder, the leader of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union Party, told Der Spiegel Online on October 15 that German “support for the PKK,” among other anti-IS groups, could not be excluded.

“But this would have to be done with Turkey, not against it,” noted Kauder in comments that seemed not to take Turkey’s history with the PKK into account.

The prospect of its allies even talking about arming the PKK is likely to cause deep concern in Ankara. But, as the failure of Turkey’s October 16 bid to gain a non-voting seat on the United Nations Security Council suggests, foreign sympathy for Turkish interests these days does not necessarily run deep.

“In terms of public opinion, [the] outside world may turn against Turkey,” predicted analyst Özel.

http://www.eurasianet.org/node/70511
Edited by Zagros, Oct 18 14, 4:27.
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Situation in Iraq 16-10-2014

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Oct 12 14, 9:39
ISIS was 30 kms away from Hewlêr and the "some" of chauvinists iraqis worldwide and specially few on ssc were so happy, well now ISIS with 10,000 rats are 8 kms away from iraqi capital but i/we aint laughing...

http://wishe.net/dreja.aspx?=hewal&jmare=3029&Jor=2
Well Iam laughing haha

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtafRI5fwPo
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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Barzani Urges the World to Cut Off Islamic State’s Finances

18.10.2014

Nuwar Faqie
BasNews, Hewlêr

Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani has said that he has asked the international community to support Kobani, just as it did for Hewlêr. He reiterated the continued need for military aid for the YPG fighters defending Kobani.

In an interview with the German newspaper Bild, published on Saturday, Barzani said, “I have asked the international community to support Kobani just like I asked them to support Hewlêr against the IS militants.”

Barzani pointed out that more aid was required by the YPG if they are to be certain to keep the city from falling into Islamic State hands.

Commenting on the reaction of Turkey, Barzani noted the importance of the country, claiming that it could save Kobani with the cooperation of the US.

He continued to stress his belief that IS is not only a threat to Kurds, but a threat to the security of the region and the wider world.

“It is necessary to cooperate to cut off the financial sources of IS as well as preventing people from flying from Europe to Syria and Iraq to wage Jihad,” said Barzani.

He continued, “Kurds have proved and demonstrated that they want to live peacefully with Turkey as brothers and the sides have joint interests; we should stand together against the threats of IS militants.”

Asked about the use of ground forces against IS insurgents, Barzani said, “I believe Kurdistan doesn’t need further foreign ground forces. Our Peshmerga forces continue the fight against IS militants. The best strategy is to give the Peshmerga heavy weapons and training.”

At the end of the interview, Barzani thanked western countries, especially Germany, that have provided aid and support to the Peshmerga forces in the conflict against IS militants.

http://basnews.com/en/News/Details/Barzani-Urges-the-World-to-Cut-Off-Islamic-State-s-Finances/38379
Edited by Zagros, Oct 19 14, 2:20.
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US department of state says they will provide #Iraq with 800 hellfire missiles by November.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=688098367964736
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#Iraq — Suicide bomb attack has injured the commander of Salahaddin police, and killed an assistant of Hadi Amiri, head of Badr organisation in north Tikrit.
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How iraq was created?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE4mr-cTeJU
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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ISIS targets Mosul goldsmiths to fill its coffers

MOSUL, Iraq – Islamic State is putting the squeeze on gold merchants in Iraq’s second city, demanding extortionate “taxes” to help fund its four-month-old occupation.

ISIS has already opened two centres for tax collection on the eastern and western sides of the city. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, self-styled caliph of the Islamic State now appears to be eyeing the wealth of the souq.

“We have to pay one third of what we have in money and gold in our shops,” said Haitham [not his real name], a goldsmith in Mosul, barely hiding his anger. “ISIS informed us to visit the tax center, which is based in the building that used to be the Iraq Museum, to declare the value and pay one third as alms.”

His son calmed him as his voice rose; ISIS militants might be within earshot.

“The religion of Islam says that the tax on gold is 2.5 percent, so where did they get this ruling from?” asked the goldsmith. “But I will give them one third of my gold and money to avoid their Sharia Courts, which usually ends in either a whipping or death. I will sell my shop after this, before I lose everything I have,” he lamented.

ISIS does not only target gold shops. Simple street vendors and gas stations have also been ordered to pay “alms”.

Yousef, a street vendor in his twenties, was arranging his goods and getting back to work after he paid what he was told he owed to ISIS. “The street vendors have to pay no less than $2,000 in rent, which all goes to the finance ministry of the Islamic Caliphate,” he said.

“I paid $2100 and got a receipt that just has the stamp of ISIS on it. The receipt does not mention the amount I paid or even carry a signature,” he says “I had to pay it, otherwise I would become unemployed like so many others who are left in Mosul without a job.”

ISIS recently announced gas stations in Mosul must renew their contracts according to new rules, which are aimed at increasing the income into the militants’ coffers.

The new rules tap private money as well as that held in government banks. Saba, a resident of Mosul, said that she had to wait for three months for the banks to reopen. “It was not easy to withdraw all my money from the bank as there are certain rules that ISIS has imposed. A person cannot withdraw an amount exceeding 20 million Iraqi Dinars [$17,200],” said Saba.

Saba showed a paper with the ISIS seal on it, “Before going to the bank, you have to first go to the ISIS court and request to withdraw money from the bank and state the reason why,” she said. “Those who have put their money in the bank to earn interest via saving accounts will lose all their right to claim their money back, because they consider savings accounts as usury,” said Saba.

“The whole process of money withdrawal will take more than one week, and after standing in lines at ISIS courts and banks for days, they will deduct 10 percent from the amount you withdrew as a tax for ISIS,” she said.

To avoid becoming a victim of ISIS by losing your capital in order to finance wars in Iraq and Syria, the merchants are now avoiding banks.

Finances from Mosul have been flowing to ISIS for several years. According to a senior officer in the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, ISIS records show it raised $5 million a month in recent years.

“ISIS collected money from street vendors, merchants, pharmacies, clinics, and employees in recent years. The Iraqi state could not prevent ISIS extortion from the people of Mosul because they were not cooperating with us due to the threats and terror they were exposed to,” said the senior officer.

“Without that large amount of finances, ISIS could not have occupied Mosul, Salahaddin, Anbar or opened another big front in Syria.”

http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/201020141
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Prince Alwaleed: Saudi Arabia may participate in the future ground force to fight the Islamic State.

https://twitter.com/Rekka_K/status/524580086490865664

haha On which side will they fight?
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Prince Alwaleed: Saudi Arabia may participate in the future ground force to fight the Islamic State.

https://twitter.com/Rekka_K/status/524580086490865664

haha On which side will they fight?
Saudi occupied Arabia haha
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#BREAKING — #American embassy in #Baghdad's Green Zone is being shelled, six rockets fired so far, unknown perpetuators.
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#ISIS claiming they will attack #Karbala before #Baghdad , the distance is 90 KM From #AlAmriya to Karbala.

Confirmed: #ISIS fully controlling #Hit district west of #Baghdad & seized a large amount of weapons after #Iraq-i Army retreat.

#BREAKING: Fatalities after two car bombs in #Baghdad as #ISIS more advance to the capital of #Iraq .

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Iraq Situation Report: October 21-22, 2014

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Lebanon ISIS has reached their doors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWzAr2_6oks
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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Do you have the other ones Zagros?
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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Oct 27 14, 10:57
Lebanon ISIS has reached their doors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWzAr2_6oks
kill those mind ill rats lebanon, isis only needs the support then they can, which is also possible in turkey, but then whole nato will help turkey.
Edited by kurdishpatriot, Oct 28 14, 4:27.
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"A society can never be free without women's liberation" - Abdullah Ocalan
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Do you have the other ones Zagros?
I have a new map.

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Oct 17 14, 10:20
No please justq no. ... that can't be f**king real *shock
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I am confused by God's wisdom:
In this world of States
Why have the Kurds remained Stateless, dispossessed,
What for have they all become fugitives, condemned?


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