tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post1092607360324608016..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Potential allied proposal to end the Syrian conflict as a basis to destroy ISISDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger162125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-75136289172029455192015-11-16T05:47:32.909-05:002015-11-16T05:47:32.909-05:00This shouldn’t be a shocker to anyone because Puti...This shouldn’t be a shocker to anyone because Putin probably wants Obama to stop going after him for supporting Assad, while Obama holds plenty of enmity towards Putin. These differences may end up hindering any cooperation between the countries until 2017, unless Obama decides to come off his high horse and be willing to compromise. But this is Obama we’re talking about and his version of “compromise” is getting everything he wants. It just seems highly unlikely an agreement will be reached outside of the occasional, “don’t walk over into my side of Syria,” pact America and Russia agreed to last month.<br /><br />What’s more curious is whether France will start working with Russia in Syria against ISIS. France is part of the coalition pushing for Assad’s ouster, but if the focus is going to be on ISIS itself, then maybe “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is the best way to go. This is something UK Prime Minister David Cameron seems interested in doing, according to Independent.<br /><br /> “We have our differences with the Russians, not least because they’ve done so much to degrade the non-Isil [Isis] opposition to Assad, people who could be part of the future of Syria.<br /><br /> “But the conversation I want to have with Vladimir Putin is to say, ‘Look, there is one thing we agree about which is we’d be safer in Russia, we’d be safer in Britain if we destroy Isil. That’s what we should be focusing on’.”<br /><br />He’s going to have a talk with Parliament on getting more involved in Syria. So the world is responding to ISIS and promising to wipe them out. That’s awesome; let them. The quadrillion dollar question is whether all the countries will be able to agree on a strategy. Europe and the Arab League (if they decide to get off their laurels and start fighting ISIS) may have to take a bitter pill and accept Assad until ISIS is destroyed. Russia may have to accept not bombing moderate rebels (if they exist) and actually focus on ISIS. There’s your strategy for destroying ISIS in Syria, if the countries are willing to work together. Which is always easier said than done because everyone has their own goals for the region. It’s nice to see France, Russia, and England vow to take out ISIS. Let them do it by themselves and here’s hoping they succeed.<br /><br />http://hotair.com/archives/2015/11/15/france-levels-isis-in-raqqa-after-paris-attack/Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-36035830504504346832015-11-16T05:45:31.666-05:002015-11-16T05:45:31.666-05:00France levels ISIS in Raqqa after Paris attack
pos...France levels ISIS in Raqqa after Paris attack<br />posted at 6:31 pm on November 15, 2015 by Taylor Millard<br /><br />France is staying true to its promise to wage war on ISIS by dropping bomb after bomb on the terrorist group’s capital of Raqqa. From CNN.<br /><br /> The targets included a command center, a recruitment center, an ammunition storage base and a training camp for the terror group, said Mickael Soria, press adviser for France’s defense minister.<br /> ISIS claims Raqqa as the capital of its so-called caliphate. The airstrikes come two days after a series of terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks, which France’s President described as “an act of war.”<br /><br /> Twelve aircraft, including 10 fighter jets, were involved in Sunday’s airstrikes, Soria said.<br /><br /> Twenty bombs were dropped, he said, and all of the targets were destroyed. <br /><br />This goes along with French President Francois Hollande vow to rigorously defend itself after Friday’s attack in Paris. Via CBC News:<br /><br /> Speaking to the country Saturday, Hollande said the attacks were “committed by a terrorist army, the Islamic State group, a jihadist army, against France, against the values that we defend everywhere in the world, against what we are: A free country that means something to the whole planet.”<br /><br /> Hollande said France “will be merciless toward the barbarians of the Islamic State group.” France “will act by all means anywhere, inside or outside the country.”<br /><br />Good on the French for doing this. It may come as a shock to people here, but I’ve got no problem with France, the Arab League, and Russia obliterating ISIS off the face of the planet. It will be interesting to see if the U.S. decides to team-up with Russia in the ISIS fight, although it doesn’t seem likely. The New York Times reported this afternoon President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin talked face to face for over half an hour on Syria and ISIS. How the talk went depends on the source.<br /><br /> “The conversation lasted approximately 35 minutes and centered around ongoing efforts to resolve the conflict in Syria, an imperative made all the more urgent by the horrifying terrorist attacks in Paris,” an American official said.<br /><br /> But Russian officials described the meeting in less glowing terms, saying that Mr. Obama and Mr. Putin remained at odds over how to achieve those goals<br /><br /> “The strategic goals concerning the battle with ISIS, in principle they are very close to each other,” Yuri V. Ushakov, a foreign policy adviser to Mr. Putin, told reporters. “But on tactics, the two sides are currently diverging.” <br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-26805764861087213342015-11-16T05:34:57.716-05:002015-11-16T05:34:57.716-05:00He told us he got out of the cattle ranching busin...He told us he got out of the cattle ranching business which he was never in so he either sold the land or never had any to begin with......he lives in him mom's basement when not doing time. I think he's out on probation at this time. When she gives him some money he goes bowling.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-73202747349094805152015-11-16T05:30:14.047-05:002015-11-16T05:30:14.047-05:00They do a lot of crime. Crime rate has gone up eve...They do a lot of crime. Crime rate has gone up everywhere the shit been legalized. They smoke up the money then shoplift from Albertson's, and Costco. Auto accidents up too.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-33049709499771229452015-11-16T05:26:39.970-05:002015-11-16T05:26:39.970-05:00Jack rat must be back out on probation again.Jack rat must be back out on probation again.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-79803091183607952942015-11-16T05:23:42.599-05:002015-11-16T05:23:42.599-05:00Jihad Watch
Exposing the role that Islamic jihad t...Jihad Watch<br />Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts<br /><br />Main target in Paris jihad attack: Jewish-owned Bataclan Theater, frequent target of Muslims and BDS groups<br /><br />November 15, 2015 3:41 pm By Robert Spencer 6 Comments<br /><br />As Pamela Geller points out here, the jihadi mass murderers in Mumbai in 2008 also went out of their way to target Jews, making a Chabad House in the city a principal site for their jihad. The Qur’an designates Jews the worst enemies of the Muslims (5:82), and this manifests itself in a burning hatred that all too many Muslims have for Jews — a hatred that easily turns murderous.<br /><br />This also shows how the global jihad and the BDS movement are close bedfellows.<br /><br />“Paris’ Bataclan Theater was BDS and terrorist target for years,” by William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection, November 14, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):<br /><br /> An uncomfortable history for some.<br /><br /> Of all the attacks in Paris yesterday, the attack on the Bataclan Theater was the most devastating.<br /><br /> French authorities said more than 80 people died in the club where California-based band Eagles of Death Metal had been playing for about an hour. When the shooting started after four gunmen entered the front of the 1,500-seat theater, dozens struggled to flee out the back alleyway as shots were being fired.<br /><br /> Gunmen who had entered, dressed all in black and armed with AK-47 rifles, calmly opened fire randomly at patrons who dived for cover on the floor, according to radio reporter Julien Pearce, who was near the stage when the shooting started. “The terrorists were very calm, very determined, and they reloaded three or four times,” Pearce said. “I saw 20 to 25 bodies lying on the floor.”<br /><br /> But why the Bataclan, of all the theaters and gathering places in Paris?<br /><br /> The answer may lie in the fact that it is Jewish-owned, and has been a target for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions BDS movement and terrorist threats for years.<br /><br /> This history was first publicized yesterday by the French Le Point magazine (via Google Translate):...................<br /><br />http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/11/main-target-in-paris-jihad-attack-jewish-owned-bataclan-theater-frequent-target-of-muslims-and-bds-groupsCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-77966172292991825572015-11-16T00:32:04.372-05:002015-11-16T00:32:04.372-05:00Yep same old actor Jack...
Like a puppet on a str...Yep same old actor Jack...<br /><br />Like a puppet on a string...<br /><br />What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-4432971950651986212015-11-16T00:20:45.618-05:002015-11-16T00:20:45.618-05:00Coalition Strikes<a href="http://www.defense.gov/News-Article-View/Article/628972/us-coalition-continue-strikes-against-isil-in-syria-iraq" rel="nofollow">Coalition Strikes</a>galopn2https://www.blogger.com/profile/10149969176825932175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63676367837432906992015-11-16T00:18:56.376-05:002015-11-16T00:18:56.376-05:00SOUTHWEST ASIA, November 15, 2015 — U.S. and coali...SOUTHWEST ASIA, November 15, 2015 — U.S. and coalition military forces have continued to attack Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Syria and Iraq, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported today.<br /><br />Officials reported details of the latest strikes, noting that assessments of results are based on initial reports.<br /><br />Strikes in Syria<br /><br />Fighter and remotely piloted aircraft conducted six strikes in Syria:<br /><br />-- Near Hasakah, two strikes struck two separate ISIL tactical units and destroyed an ISIL vehicle.<br /><br />-- Near Raqqah, one strike produced inconclusive results.<br /><br />-- Near Mara, one strike destroyed an ISIL improvised explosive device cluster, an ISIL fighting position and two ISIL defensive berms.<br /><br />-- Near Hawl, one strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL checkpoint and wounded an ISIL fighter.<br /><br />-- Near Dayr Az Zawr, one strike struck an ISIL cash distribution site.<br /><br />Strikes in Iraq<br /><br />Attack, bomber, fighter and remotely piloted aircraft conducted 12 strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of the Iraqi government:<br /><br />-- Near Kisik, three strikes struck two separate ISIL tactical units and destroyed an ISIL vehicle and an ISIL mortar system, suppressed an ISIL light machine gun, and wounded an ISIL fighter.<br /><br />-- Near Mosul, one strike suppressed an ISIL heavy machine gun.<br /><br />-- Near Qayyarah, one strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL fighting position.<br /><br />-- Near Ramadi, three strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed 10 ISIL fighting positions, an ISIL cache, two ISIL buildings, an ISIL vehicle-borne bomb and an ISIL command and control node and denied ISIL access to terrain.<br /><br />-- Near Sinjar, four strikes struck three separate ISIL tactical units, destroyed three ISIL vehicles and an ISIL fighting position, and wounded an ISIL fighter.galopn2https://www.blogger.com/profile/10149969176825932175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-66163974601247799992015-11-15T23:10:24.205-05:002015-11-15T23:10:24.205-05:00Maybe you'll be lucky and Syria will come to y...Maybe you'll be lucky and Syria will come to you.<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/o7xak3pDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16646611381961151652015-11-15T22:36:10.396-05:002015-11-15T22:36:10.396-05:00If it suits my purposes, certainlyIf it suits my purposes, certainlyJack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45381510359070601472015-11-15T22:06:20.811-05:002015-11-15T22:06:20.811-05:00Come Jack, tell us the tales of the FAKE Jews of I...Come Jack, tell us the tales of the FAKE Jews of Israel, the False flag operation where 3 Jews (2 israelis and one american) were murdered by BIBI... You know all your harebrained conspiracy theories<br /><br />GO ahead. <br /><br />cut and paste..<br /><br />Are you going to use 10-12 sign ons again?<br /><br />What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43474240787094062262015-11-15T21:52:41.656-05:002015-11-15T21:52:41.656-05:00And Jack, how is that slice of occupied bottom lan...And Jack, how is that slice of occupied bottom lands you squat on?<br /><br />Still holding theft of another's lands?What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-87455129544829529942015-11-15T21:43:46.699-05:002015-11-15T21:43:46.699-05:00...and we had that guy strutting around in fancy b......and we had that guy strutting around in fancy boots fancying himself to be a real cool Viceroy.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-77904770822771145462015-11-15T21:41:13.094-05:002015-11-15T21:41:13.094-05:00I've still never heard a bit about how the dec...I've still never heard a bit about how the decision to disband the Iraqi Army got made.<br /><br />Bush was President, of that I am certain.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-67177446793484182912015-11-15T21:41:11.107-05:002015-11-15T21:41:11.107-05:00But your sources are incomplete and distorted and ...But your sources are incomplete and distorted and out of context!<br /><br />You are not believable!<br /><br />You claims of lies and slander are world renowned!<br />What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-44608328325061989892015-11-15T21:38:34.894-05:002015-11-15T21:38:34.894-05:00They do the Heavy Stuff.They do the Heavy Stuff.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51346282386509049212015-11-15T21:30:54.829-05:002015-11-15T21:30:54.829-05:00.
Or it could be that they work sloooowwwer and y....<br /><br />Or it could be that they work sloooowwwer and you need to hire more of them to get the work done.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-13285285559538801822015-11-15T21:27:56.099-05:002015-11-15T21:27:56.099-05:00How could we be so ignorant as to not understand t...How could we be so ignorant as to not understand this?Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-68703526262358300222015-11-15T20:35:33.673-05:002015-11-15T20:35:33.673-05:00Seattle - 3.6%<a href="https://ycharts.com/indicators/seattle_wa_unemployment_rate" rel="nofollow">Seattle - 3.6%</a>galopn2https://www.blogger.com/profile/10149969176825932175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-33134059578122612152015-11-15T20:31:38.434-05:002015-11-15T20:31:38.434-05:00I guess those potheads work pretty good. :)
Mont...I guess those potheads work pretty good. :)<br /><br />Monthly Economic Indicators<br /><br />The unemployment rate throughout the Metro Denver area improved significantly through September, decreasing 0.5 percentage points to <b>3.1 percent</b> compared with August. The Metro Denver unemployment rate was also 0.9 percentage points below the September 2014 level of 4 percent. All seven Metro Denver counties reported unemployment rates below 4 percent in September.<br /><br />Residential building permits for the Metro Denver area increased in September compared with the prior year. Metro Denver reported a 19 percent increase in total permits issued between September 2014 and 2015, with 292 additional permits issued.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.metrodenver.org/research-reports/monthly-economic-indicators/" rel="nofollow">Unemployment - Denver</a>galopn2https://www.blogger.com/profile/10149969176825932175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9368104776552288662015-11-15T20:11:14.375-05:002015-11-15T20:11:14.375-05:00And those actions, and the words that are used in ...And those actions, and the words that are used in the attempts to justify such Zionist perfidy, open sourced and verifiable.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7839256774440325512015-11-15T20:09:56.649-05:002015-11-15T20:09:56.649-05:00hese boys came of age under the disastrous America...hese boys came of age under the disastrous American occupation after 2003, in the chaotic and violent Arab part of Iraq, ruled by the viciously sectarian Shia government of Nouri al-Maliki. Growing up Sunni Arab was no fun. A later interviewee described his life growing up under American occupation: He couldn’t go out, he didn’t have a life, and he specifically mentioned that he didn’t have girlfriends. An Islamic State fighter’s biggest resentment was the lack of an adolescence. Another of the interviewees was displaced at the critical age of 13, when his family fled to Kirkuk from Diyala province at the height of Iraq’s sectarian civil war. They are children of the occupation, many with missing fathers at crucial periods (through jail, death from execution, or fighting in the insurgency), filled with rage against America and their own government. They are not fueled by the idea of an Islamic caliphate without borders; rather, ISIS is the first group since the crushed Al Qaeda to offer these humiliated and enraged young men a way to defend their dignity, family, and tribe. This is not radicalization to the ISIS way of life, but the promise of a way out of their insecure and undignified lives; the promise of living in pride as Iraqi Sunni Arabs, which is not just a religious identity but cultural, tribal, and land-based, too.<br /><br />An illustration of the less-than-total commitment to the cause of the Islamic State by Iraqis came from the Kurdish peshmerga Gen. Aziz Waysi, commander of the elite Zerevani (“Golden”) forces. He relates an overheard conversation between an ISIS fighter on the battleground and his leader, via a walkie-talkie previously confiscated from an ISIS corpse. “My brother is with me, but he is dead, and we are surrounded, we need help at least to take away my brother’s body,” General Waysi heard, and then the reply: “What else could you want? Your brother is in heaven and you are about to be.” This answer wasn’t what the poor surrounded young man was hoping for. “Please come and rescue me,” he said, “That heaven, I don’t want it.” But they didn’t, leaving him to whatever paradise awaited. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/what-i-discovered-from-interviewing-isis-prisoners/" rel="nofollow">What I Discovered Interviewing ISIS Prisoners - The Nation</a>galopn2https://www.blogger.com/profile/10149969176825932175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-78716145975369150572015-11-15T20:07:12.228-05:002015-11-15T20:07:12.228-05:00More pertinent than Islamic theology is that there...More pertinent than Islamic theology is that there are other, much more convincing, explanations as to why they’ve fought for the side they did. At the end of the interview with the first prisoner we ask, “Do you have any questions for us?” For the first time since he came into the room he smiles—in surprise—and finally tells us what really motivated him, without any prompting. He knows there is an American in the room, and can perhaps guess, from his demeanor and his questions, that this American is ex-military, and directs his “question,” in the form of an enraged statement, straight at him. “The Americans came,” he said. “They took away Saddam, but they also took away our security. I didn’t like Saddam, we were starving then, but at least we didn’t have war. When you came here, the civil war started.”<br /><br />ISIS is the first group since Al Qaeda to offer these young men a way to defend their dignity, family, and tribe. <br />This whole experience has been very familiar indeed to Doug Stone, the American general on the receiving end of this diatribe. “He fits the absolutely typical profile,” Stone said afterward. “The average age of all the prisoners in Iraq when I was here was 27; they were married; they had two children; had got to sixth to eighth grade. He has exactly the same profile as 80 percent of the prisoners then…and his number-one complaint about the security and against all American forces was the exact same complaint from every single detainee.”galopn2https://www.blogger.com/profile/10149969176825932175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2682515747800539922015-11-15T20:06:01.867-05:002015-11-15T20:06:01.867-05:00In fact, Erin Saltman, senior counter-extremism re...In fact, Erin Saltman, senior counter-extremism researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, says that there is now less emphasis on knowledge of Islam in the recruitment phase. “We are seeing a movement away from strict religious ideological training as a requirement for recruitment,” she told me. “If we were looking at foreign fighter recruits to Afghanistan 10 or 20 years ago, there was intensive religious and theological training attached to recruitment. Nowadays, we see that recruitment strategy has branched out to a much broader audience with many different pull factors.”<br /><br />There is no question that these prisoners I am interviewing are committed to Islam; it is just their own brand of Islam, only distantly related to that of the Islamic State. Similarly, Western fighters traveling to the Islamic State are also deeply committed, but it’s to their own idea of jihad rather than one based on sound theological arguments or even evidence from the Qur’an. As Saltman said, “Recruitment [of ISIS] plays upon desires of adventure, activism, romance, power, belonging, along with spiritual fulfillment.” That is, Islam plays a part, but not necessarily in the rigid, Salafi form demanded by the leadership of the Islamic State.galopn2https://www.blogger.com/profile/10149969176825932175noreply@blogger.com