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Thanks BDrm!!!! Though its hard enough to follow what's going on reading it in plain English.... translated I'm never quite sure what's being said...
Here's another article and my friend said it basically says that the US helped Baghdadi escape out of Iraq, He is injured and was transported to hodpital in Jordan where he is being treated.... Who knows what is true.... The only reason I tend to think something is up is he has not made any public appearance (like last time) to prove he is alive and well....
Iraq Times:
Informed sources confirmed on Monday, the British leader of the terrorist organization Daash Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been moved to Jordan after he was injured in one of the air raids two days ago.
The source said, "The leader of al Daash Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi transfer after being injured to nearby Ein al-Assad Airport in Anbar by the offender Manaf Asim black wheels and wheel ambulance," indicating that "the strength of the terrorist organization received al-Baghdadi, and with them both, Saddam Marsoumy Saudi and Abu paper and Tunisian Abu Ahmed, and accompanied by doctors from the new camp to address al-Baghdadi. "
The source added that Jordanian cargo plane has landed in this airport and the transfer of al-Baghdadi, and those with him after he unloaded the cargo, which was in the form of aid for the displaced, and his campaign to Jordan and is currently lying in one of the military hospitals in order to receive treatment.
The agency Petra Jordan has confirmed that King Abdullah II, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Jordan has sent a military cargo plane loaded with large quantities of humanitarian aid, including food supplies and blankets to help the brotherly Iraqi people (according to her), noting that the Royal Air Force Jordanian plane had landed in Ein al-Assad Airport in western Baghdad, Anbar region.
The League of the Righteous militia affiliated to the Iranian Quds Brigade, has been accused, earlier in the day Monday, as US forces are facilitated the escape of al-Baghdadi to an unknown destination and then transferred him out of Iraq.
It is worth mentioning that Jordan Ahtznt Since beginning training elements of the terrorist organization in agreement with the British and US intelligence agencies camps, said former Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit has acknowledged the existence of more than two thousand fighters Jordanian fighting with members Daash inside Iraq, with a group of more than 5,000 Jordanian incubator Thousands of terrorist element inside Jordan.
Has anyone else noticed there is all this jibber jabber talking about the US paying different countries (say like Jordan and Turkey) to train moderate "rebels" to secure Iraq and fight against Daesh....and they are the very same countries is which Daesh is living large and training ISIS terrorists to fight moderate rebels???
Jordan is now laying beside Turkey in the "we spawn, support train and medically treat ISIS terrorists" to join the fight against the US supported interests!?!?!?... What the flip is going on????
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And a special shout out to my sisters in arms on this Veteran's Day
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Afghanistan Vets
one more set, 10 minutes wait... thanks guys!!
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Fellow vets of the Vietnam War.... thank you for a sacrifice so great in serving our country during such a difficult time. The Draft was still with us, and tore many young men from homes and lives they would have rather not left behind. Thank you vets of Vietnam for your service .... and for paving the way for the rest of us... such that no other veteran returning home since your time, has ever had to endure the pain of an unwelcoming country when returning to US soil. It is because of your sacrifice I and thousands of others never had to suffer all those difficult hurtful obstacles upon returning home from the already difficult challenges of combat in hell's kitchens. I salute you....
trying to post all videos together and having to wait for it to time out and then I post the next set.... plz hold off comments till I get them all.. thx! Probably be here all night..
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Seems a new war brands each new generation with an indelible mark that we will each carry in our own way as individuals. It is that same indelible mark that transcends all differences and forever banding us together .....we remain one band of brothers and sisters in arms.
To all those who served and are still serving, I salute you on this day of remembering
Still one of my favorites... dedicated to all my brothers and sisters in arms:
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Here is the correction from Iraqi News Just Out
Correction: A Twitter account affiliated with Al-I’tisaam Media wrote that it would publish details regarding the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his succession. IraqiNews.com reported that fact after it was republished by the Iranian government owned Al Alam news network. The information and photographs which later appeared on the Al-I’tisaam Media Twitter account contained images connected to the death of another ISIS militant, not Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. IraqiNews.com regrets that it did not wait for the Al-I’tisaam Media affiliated Twitter account to publish follow-up information in order to fully evaluate its veracity. We apologize to our readers for this error.
http://www.iraqinews.com/features/urgent-isil-confirms-baghdadi-s-death/
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The most recent credible seems to remain the article I posted last night...... Lots is being said, confused with older stories and confusing in reports that seem to quote each other...... Iraqi official sources are stating he is wounded, as of the morning of 10 Nov ..
Another News Source Nation News Dated Mon 10 Nov:
US airstrike hits Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Updated On: 10, Nov 2014 | 08:27 AM (IST)
Related ArticlesBaghdad: Iraqi officials said that an airstrike wounded the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Pentagon officials said they had no immediate information on such a strike or al-Baghdadi being wounded.Iraq’s Defense and Interior Ministries issued statements saying al-Baghdadi had been wounded, without elaborating.
An Interior Ministry intelligence official told The Associated Press that al-Baghdadi was hit during a meeting Saturday with militants in the town of Qaim in Iraq’s western Anbar province.
The official, citing informants within the militant group, said the strike wounded al-Baghdadi. A senior Iraqi military official also said he learned in operational meetings that al-Baghdadi had been wounded.
Both officials said the operation was carried out by Iraqi security forces. Neither knew the extent of al-Baghdadi’s apparent injuries.
Both spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential material. State television later also reported that al-Baghdadi had been wounded.
Al-Baghdadi, an ambitious Iraqi militant believed to be in his early 40s, has a USD 10 million US bounty on his head.
Since taking the reins of the group in 2010, he has transformed it from a local branch of al-Qaida into an independent transnational military force, positioning himself as perhaps the pre-eminent figure in the global jihadi community.
The reclusive leader is purported to have made only one public appearance, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul, as seen in a video posted online in June.
Al-Baghdadi’s purported appearance in Mosul came five days after his group declared the establishment of an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the territories it holds in Iraq and Syria. The group proclaimed al-Baghdadi its leader and demanded that all Muslims pledge allegiance to him.
Since then, part of the Islamic State group’s core strategy has been to establish administration over lands that it controls to project an image of itself as a ruler and not just a fighting force.
In parts of Syria under its control, the group now administers courts, fixes roads and even polices traffic. It recently imposed a curriculum in schools in its Syrian stronghold, Raqqa, scrapping subjects such as philosophy and chemistry, and fine-tuning the sciences to fit with its ideology.
A US-led coalition has been launching airstrikes on Islamic State militants and facilities in Iraq and Syria for months as part of an effort to give Iraqi forces the time and space to mount a more effective offensive. -
Thanks BDrm!!! Great piece... wish I understood half of it.... Maybe Trinity will do Greenspan for Dummies
Just like any other "science" economy has it own definitions for its own terms and I didn't have the glossary...In any event, did you read the not so chipper summary of Greenspan's discussion that day?
I think it's been a fascinating discussion. I take away three keys points, firstly, that the current state of the world is very unhealthy and unbalanced; secondly, that we're not going to be able to exit this without some form of turmoil or crisis, let's call it turmoil; and, thirdly, that Chairman Greenspan is trying to engage with these fundamental problems in a very refreshingly frank manner. And for that, I think we can all be very grateful, indeed. So thank you very much, indeed, for a fascinating debate.
Not sure how being frank as to how bad it really is, would be considered a key point in light of the two that preceed it...Though maybe if one spoke ban kan ese... it might be possible to take more away from this than the summary.... Do these talks ever come with Cliff notes
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He's alive, ..... NO he's dead.... Wait he's wounded...... No he's probably dead..... Wait, he Never dies, we just he does..... well its pretty sure he's wounded or dead..... or none of the above..... Something happended and may have involved him...
At least there is consensus saying Baghdadi's top guy is for sure dead.... So we maybe assume that guy is probably really dead....
No news source can confirm that the ISIS leader was killed but he may have suffered life threatening injuries in an attack led Friday. His ‘right hand man’ was killed. Many believe the two were always together and Baghdadi may have been a victim in the strike.
Some Arabic media outlets reported that Baghdadi had been critically wounded in the bombing.
Speculation is mounting ISIS’ Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in a US airstrike on Friday.
A close aide of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was confirmed killed in a United States-led coalition air strike.
‘He and Baghdadi were rarely separate. It’s for this reason that it could be possible that Baghdadi was with him at the time of the attack,’ a British newspaper said
“I can’t absolutely confirm that Baghdadi has been killed,” said General Nicholas Houghton, Chief of the Defence Staff of the British Armed Forces. “Probably it will take some days to have absolute confirmation.”
Another News Source Nation News Dated Mon 10 Nov:
US airstrike hits Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Updated On: 10, Nov 2014 | 08:27 AM (IST)
Related ArticlesBaghdad: Iraqi officials said that an airstrike wounded the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Pentagon officials said they had no immediate information on such a strike or al-Baghdadi being wounded.Iraq’s Defense and Interior Ministries issued statements saying al-Baghdadi had been wounded, without elaborating.
An Interior Ministry intelligence official told The Associated Press that al-Baghdadi was hit during a meeting Saturday with militants in the town of Qaim in Iraq’s western Anbar province.
The official, citing informants within the militant group, said the strike wounded al-Baghdadi. A senior Iraqi military official also said he learned in operational meetings that al-Baghdadi had been wounded.
Both officials said the operation was carried out by Iraqi security forces. Neither knew the extent of al-Baghdadi’s apparent injuries.
Both spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential material. State television later also reported that al-Baghdadi had been wounded.
Al-Baghdadi, an ambitious Iraqi militant believed to be in his early 40s, has a USD 10 million US bounty on his head.
Since taking the reins of the group in 2010, he has transformed it from a local branch of al-Qaida into an independent transnational military force, positioning himself as perhaps the pre-eminent figure in the global jihadi community.
The reclusive leader is purported to have made only one public appearance, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul, as seen in a video posted online in June.
Al-Baghdadi’s purported appearance in Mosul came five days after his group declared the establishment of an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the territories it holds in Iraq and Syria. The group proclaimed al-Baghdadi its leader and demanded that all Muslims pledge allegiance to him.
Since then, part of the Islamic State group’s core strategy has been to establish administration over lands that it controls to project an image of itself as a ruler and not just a fighting force.
In parts of Syria under its control, the group now administers courts, fixes roads and even polices traffic. It recently imposed a curriculum in schools in its Syrian stronghold, Raqqa, scrapping subjects such as philosophy and chemistry, and fine-tuning the sciences to fit with its ideology.
A US-led coalition has been launching airstrikes on Islamic State militants and facilities in Iraq and Syria for months as part of an effort to give Iraqi forces the time and space to mount a more effective offensive.-
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Fox News picked it up confirming Baghdadi has been wounded:
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State terrorist group, was wounded in an airstrike, Iraqi officials said Sunday, while Pentagon officials said they had no immediate information on such a strike or al-Baghdadi being wounded.
Iraq's Defense and Interior Ministries issued statements saying al-Baghdadi had been wounded, without elaborating.
An Interior Ministry intelligence official told The Associated Press that al-Baghdadi was hit during a meeting Saturday with militants in the town of Qaim in Iraq's western Anbar province. The official, citing informants within the militant group, said the strike wounded al-Baghdadi. A senior Iraqi military official also said he learned in operational meetings that al-Baghdadi had been wounded.
Both officials said the operation was carried out by Iraqi security forces. Neither knew the extent of al-Baghdadi's apparent injuries.
Col. Pat Ryder, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, told Fox News on Sunday he was unable to confirm the reports.
"We have no information to corroborate press reports that ISIL leader al-Baghdadi has been injured," he said.
Iraqi officials spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. State television later also reported that al-Baghdadi had been wounded.
Al-Baghdadi, an ambitious Iraqi militant believed to be in his early 40s, has a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head. Since taking the reins of the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, in 2010, he has transformed it from a local branch of Al Qaeda into an independent transnational military force, positioning himself as perhaps the pre-eminent figure in the global jihadi community.
The reclusive leader is purported to have made only one public appearance, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq's second-largest city of Mosul, as seen in a video posted online in June. Al-Baghdadi's purported appearance in Mosul came five days after his group declared the establishment of an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the territories it holds in Iraq and Syria. The group proclaimed al-Baghdadi its leader and demanded that all Muslims pledge allegiance to him.
Since then, part of the Islamic State group's core strategy has been to establish administration over lands that it controls to project an image of itself as a ruler and not just a fighting force. In parts of Syria under its control, the group now administers courts, fixes roads and even polices traffic. It recently imposed a curriculum in schools in its Syrian stronghold, Raqqa, scrapping subjects such as philosophy and chemistry, and fine-tuning the sciences to fit with its ideology.
A U.S.-led coalition has been launching airstrikes on Islamic State militants and facilities in Iraq and Syria for months as part of an effort to give Iraqi forces the time and space to mount a more effective offensive. The Islamic State had gained ground across northern and western Iraq in a lightning advance in June and July, causing several of Iraq's army and police divisions to fall into disarray.
On Friday, a series of U.S.-led airstrikes targeted what was thought to be a gathering of ISIS leaders in Iraq, a defense official told Fox News. The airstrikes, which took place near the Iraqi town of Mosul near the Syrian border, destroyed a vehicle convoy of 10 armed trucks. It was not immediately clear whether Friday's U.S. strike was related to the Iraqi officials' claims on Sunday that al-Baghdadi was wounded.
Also on Friday, President Obama authorized the deployment of up to 1,500 more American troops to bolster Iraqi forces, including into Anbar province, where fighting with Islamic State militants has been fierce. The plan could boost the total number of American troops in Iraq to 3,100. There now are about 1,400 U.S. troops in Iraq, out of the 1,600 previously authorized.
Fox News' Jennifer Griffin and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
PS here is the link for the video version:http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/11/09/islamic-state-leader-al-baghdadi-airstrikes/?cmpid=cmty_twitter_fn
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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Research Paper: ISIS-Turkey Links
By David L. Phillips
Introduction
Is Turkey collaborating with the Islamic State (ISIS)? Allegations range from military cooperation and weapons transfers to logistical support, financial assistance, and the provision of medical services. It is also alleged that Turkey turned a blind eye to ISIS attacks against Kobani.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu strongly deny complicity with ISIS. Erdogan visited the Council on Foreign Relations on September 22, 2014. He criticized "smear campaigns [and] attempts to distort perception about us." Erdogan decried, "A systematic attack on Turkey's international reputation, "complaining that "Turkey has been subject to very unjust and ill-intentioned news items from media organizations." Erdogan posited: "My request from our friends in the United States is to make your assessment about Turkey by basing your information on objective sources."
Columbia University's Program on Peace-building and Rights assigned a team of researchers in the United States, Europe, and Turkey to examine Turkish and international media, assessing the credibility of allegations. This report draws on a variety of international sources -- The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, BBC, Sky News, as well as Turkish sources, CNN Turk, Hurriyet Daily News, Taraf, Cumhuriyet, and Radikal among others.
Allegations
Turkey Provides Military Equipment to ISIS
• An ISIS commander told The Washington Post on August 12, 2014: "Most of the fighters who joined us in the beginning of the war came via Turkey, and so did our equipment and supplies."
• Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, head of the Republican People's Party (CHP), produced a statement from the Adana Office of the Prosecutor on October 14, 2014 maintaining that Turkey supplied weapons to terror groups. He also produced interview transcripts from truck drivers who delivered weapons to the groups. According to Kiliçdaroglu, the Turkish government claims the trucks were for humanitarian aid to the Turkmen, but the Turkmen said no humanitarian aid was delivered.
http://www.samanyoluhaber.com/gundem/Kilicdaroglu-ISIDe-giden-silahlarin-belgesini-gosterdi/1064168/
• According to CHP Vice President Bulent Tezcan, three trucks were stopped in Adana for inspection on January 19, 2014. The trucks were loaded with weapons in Esenboga Airport in Ankara. The drivers drove the trucks to the border, where a MIT agent was supposed to take over and drive the trucks to Syria to deliver materials to ISIS and groups in Syria. This happened many times. When the trucks were stopped, MIT agents tried to keep the inspectors from looking inside the crates. The inspectors found rockets, arms, and ammunitions.
• Cumhuriyet reports that Fuat Avni, a preeminent Twitter user who reported on the December 17th corruption probe, that audio tapes confirm that Turkey provided financial and military aid to terrorist groups associated with Al Qaeda on October 12, 2014. On the tapes, Erdogan pressured the Turkish Armed Forces to go to war with Syria. Erdogan demanded that Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkey's National Intelligence Agency (MIT), come up with a justification for attacking Syria.
• Hakan Fidan told Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Yasar Guler, a senior defense official, and Feridun Sinirlioglu, a senior foreign affairs official: "If need be, I'll send 4 men into Syria. I'll formulate a reason to go to war by shooting 8 rockets into Turkey; I'll have them attack the Tomb of Suleiman Shah."
• Documents surfaced on September 19th, 2014 showing that the Saudi Emir Bender Bin Sultan financed the transportation of arms to ISIS through Turkey. A flight leaving Germany dropped off arms in the Etimesgut airport in Turkey, which was then split into three containers, two of which were given to ISIS and one to Gaza.
http://www.odatv.com/n.php?n=iside-turkiyeden-boyle-yardim-edildi-2709141200
Turkey Provided Transport and Logistical Assistance to ISIS Fighters
• According to Radikal on June 13, 2014, Interior Minister Muammar Guler signed a directive: "According to our regional gains, we will help al-Nusra militants against the branch of PKK terrorist organization, the PYD, within our borders...Hatay is a strategic location for the mujahideen crossing from within our borders to Syria. Logistical support for Islamist groups will be increased, and their training, hospital care, and safe passage will mostly take place in Hatay...MIT and the Religious Affairs Directorate will coordinate the placement of fighters in public accommodations."
http://www.radikal.com.tr/politika/mit_isidi_muammaer_gulerin_emriyle_agirladi-1196924
• The Daily Mail reported on August 25, 2014 that many foreign militants joined ISIS in Syria and Iraq after traveling through Turkey, but Turkey did not try to stop them. This article describes how foreign militants, especially from the UK, go to Syria and Iraq through the Turkish border. They call the border the "Gateway to Jihad." Turkish army soldiers either turn a blind eye and let them pass, or the jihadists pay the border guards as little as $10 to facilitate their crossing.
• Britain's Sky News obtained documents showing that the Turkish government has stamped passports of foreign militants seeking to cross the Turkey border into Syria to join ISIS.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/10/21/383033/new-report-shows-turkeyisil-links/
• The BBC interviewed villagers, who claim that buses travel at night, carrying jihadists to fight Kurdish forces in Syria and Iraq, not the Syrian Armed Forces.
• A senior Egyptian official indicated on October 9, 2014 that Turkish intelligence is passing satellite imagery and other data to ISIS.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/turkey-providing-direct-support-to-isis/
Turkey Provided Training to ISIS Fighters
• CNN Turk reported on July 29, 2014 that in the heart of Istanbul, places like Duzce and Adapazari, have become gathering spots for terrorists. There are religious orders where ISIS militants are trained. Some of these training videos are posted on the Turkish ISIS propaganda website takvahaber.net. According to CNN Turk, Turkish security forces could have stopped these developments if they had wanted to.
http://www.cnnturk.com/video/turkiye/istanbulda-piknik-yapip-cihat-cagrisinda-bulundular
• Turks who joined an affiliate of ISIS were recorded at a public gathering in Istanbul, which took place on July 28, 2014.
http://www.cnnturk.com/video/turkiye/istanbulda-piknik-yapip-cihat-cagrisinda-bulundular
• A video shows an ISIS affiliate holding a prayer/gathering in Omerli, a district of Istanbul. In response to the video, CHP Vice President, MP Tanrikulu submitted parliamentary questions to the Minister of the Interior, Efkan Ala, asking questions such as, "Is it true that a camp or camps have been allocated to an affiliate of ISIS in Istanbul? What is this affiliate? Who is it made up of? Is the rumor true that the same area allocated for the camp is also used for military exercises?"
http://www.radikal.com.tr/turkiye/tanrikulu_hukumet_iside_istanbulda_kamp_yeri_mi_verdi-1204375
http://www.taraf.com.tr/haber-istanbulda-isid-kampi-iddiasi-meclis-gundeminde-160456/
• Kemal Kiliçdaroglu warned the AKP government not to provide money and training to terror groups on October 14, 2014. He said, "It isn't right for armed groups to be trained on Turkish soil. You bring foreign fighters to Turkey, put money in their pockets, guns in their hands, and you ask them to kill Muslims in Syria. We told them to stop helping ISIS. Ahmet Davutoglu asked us to show proof. Everyone knows that they're helping ISIS."
http://www.samanyoluhaber.com/gundem/Kilicdaroglu-ISIDe-giden-silahlarin-belgesini-gosterdi/1064168/
• According to Jordanian intelligence, Turkey trained ISIS militants for special operations.
http://www.ibtimes.co.in/turkey-trained-isis-militants-provided-satellite-data-kobanes-kurdish-fighters-report-611458; http://wnd.com/2014/10/turkey-accused-of-training-isis-soldiers/#RwKhlwojsKO50o08.99
Turkey Offers Medical Care to ISIS Fighters
• An ISIS commander told the Washington Post on August 12, 2014, "We used to have some fighters -- even high-level members of the Islamic State -- getting treated in Turkish hospitals."
• Taraf reported on October 12, 2014 that Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat, a founder of the AKP, said that Turkey supported terrorist groups and still supports them and treats them in hospitals. "In order to weaken the developments in Rojova (Syrian Kurdistan), the government gave concessions and arms to extreme religious groups...the government was helping the wounded. The Minister of Health said something such as, it's a human obligation to care for the ISIS wounded."
• According to Taraf, Ahmet El H, one of the top commanders at ISIS and Al Baghdadi's right hand man, was treated at a hospital in Sanliurfa, Turkey, along with other ISIS militants. The Turkish state paid for their treatment. According to Taraf's sources, ISIS militants are being treated in hospitals all across southeastern Turkey. More and more militants have been coming in to be treated since the start of airstrikes in August. To be more specific, eight ISIS militants were transported through the Sanliurfa border crossing; these are their names: "Mustafa A., Yusuf El R., Mustafa H., Halil El M., Muhammet El H., Ahmet El S., Hasan H., [and] Salim El D."
http://www.taraf.com.tr/haber-isid-militanlari-devlet-kesesinden-tedavi-oldu-163522/
Turkey Supports ISIS Financially Through Purchase of Oil
• On September 13, 2014, The New York Times reported on the Obama administration's efforts to pressure Turkey to crack down on ISIS extensive sales network for oil. James Phillips, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, argues that Turkey has not fully cracked down on ISIS's sales network because it benefits from a lower price for oil, and that there might even be Turks and government officials who benefit from the trade.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/world/middleeast/struggling-to-starve-isis-of-oil-revenue-us- seeks-assistance-from-turkey.html
• Fehim Tasken wrote in Radikal on September 13, 2014 about illegal pipelines transporting oil from Syria to nearby border towns in Turkey. The oil is sold for as little as 1.25 liras per liter. Taksen indicated that many of these illegal pipelines were dismantled after operating for 3 years, once his article was published.
http://www.radikal.com.tr/yazarlar/fehim_tastekin/sinirsiz_sinir-1212462
• According to Diken and OdaTV, David Cohen, a Justice Department official, says that there are Turkish individuals acting as middlemen to help sell ISIS's oil through Turkey.
http://www.diken.com.tr/abd-hazine-bakanligi-isid-petrol-satisina-turkler-de-aracilik-ediyor/
http://www.odatv.com/n.php?n=isid-turkiyeye-petrol-satiyor--2410141200
• On October 14, 2014, a German Parliamentarian from the Green Party accused Turkey of allowing the transportation of arms to ISIS over its territory, as well as the sale of oil.
http://www.diken.com.tr/almanya-meclis-baskani-roth-turkiye-iside-destek-vermeyi-sonlandirmali/
Turkey Assists ISIS Recruitment
• Kerim Kiliçdaroğlu claimed on October 14, 2014 that ISIS offices in Istanbul and Gaziantep are used to recruit fighters. On October 10, 2014, the mufti of Konya said that 100 people from Konya joined ISIS 4 days ago.
http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/video/video/130347/Kilicdaroglu___Davutoglu_belge_ist iyordun__al_sana_belge_.html
http://www.samanyoluhaber.com/gundem/Kilicdaroglu-ISIDe-giden-silahlarin-belgesini-gosterdi/1064168/
• OdaTV reports that Takva Haber serves as a propaganda outlet for ISIS to recruit Turkish-speaking individuals in Turkey and Germany. The address where this propaganda website is registered corresponds to the address of a school called Irfan Koleji, which was established by Ilim Yayma Vakfi, a foundation that was created by Erdogan and Davutoglu, among others. It is thus claimed that the propaganda site is operated from the school of the foundation started by AKP members.
http://odatv.com/n.php?n=isidin-adresi-erdogan-ve-davutoglunun-cikti-2710141200
• Minister of Sports, Suat Kilic, an AKP member, visited Salafi jihadists who are ISIS supporters in Germany. The group is known for reaching out to supporters via free Quran distributions and raising funds to sponsor suicide attacks in Syria and Iraq by raising money.
http://sozcu.com.tr/2014/gundem/akp-isid-kebapcida-631314/
• OdaTV released a video allegedly showing ISIS militants riding a bus in Istanbul.
http://www.odatv.com/vid_video.php?id=8D3C0
Turkish Forces Are Fighting Alongside ISIS
• On October 7, 2014, IBDA-C, a militant Islamic organization in Turkey, pledged support to ISIS. A Turkish friend who is a commander in ISIS suggests that Turkey is "involved in all of this" and that "10,000 ISIS members will come to Turkey." A Huda-Par member at the meeting claims that officials criticize ISIS but in fact sympathize with the group (Huda-Par, the "Free Cause Party", is a Kurdish Sunni fundamentalist political party). BBP member claims that National Action Party (MHP) officials are close to embracing ISIS. In the meeting, it is asserted that ISIS militants come to Turkey frequently to rest, as though they are taking a break from military service. They claim that Turkey will experience an Islamic revolution, and Turks should be ready for jihad.
http://ilerihaber.org/istanbulda-isidcilerden-ic-savas-toplantisi/3807/
http://www.adimlardergisi.com/bayramlasma-ve-gundeme-dair-sohbet-1-bolum/
http://www.adimlardergisi.com/bayranlasma-ve-gundeme-dair-sohbet-2-bolum/
http://www.adimlardergisi.com/bayramlasma-ve-gundeme-dair-sohbet-3-bolum/
• Seymour Hirsch maintains in the London Review of Books that ISIS conducted sarin attacks in Syria, and that Turkey was informed. "For months there had been acute concern among senior military leaders and the intelligence community about the role in the war of Syria's neighbors, especially Turkey. Prime Minister Recep Erdogan was known to be supporting the al-Nusra Front, a jihadist faction among the rebel opposition, as well as other Islamist rebel groups. 'We knew there were some in the Turkish government,' a former senior US intelligence official, who has access to current intelligence, told me, 'who believed they could get Assad's nuts in a vice by dabbling with a sarin attack inside Syria - and forcing Obama to make good on his red line threat."
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
• On September 20, 2014, Demir Celik, a Member of Parliament with the people's democratic party (HDP) claimed that Turkish Special Forces fight with ISIS.
http://kurdishquestion.com/kurdistan/west-kurdistan/two-thousand-turkish-special-forces-in-isis.html
Turkey Helped ISIS in Battle for Kobani
• Anwar Moslem, Mayor of Kobani, said on September 19, 2014: "Based on the intelligence we got two days before the breakout of the current war, trains full of forces and ammunition, which were passing by north of Kobane, had an-hour-and-ten-to-twenty-minute-long stops in these villages: Salib Qaran, Gire Sor, Moshrefat Ezzo. There are evidences, witnesses, and videos about this. Why is ISIS strong only in Kobane's east? Why is it not strong either in its south or west? Since these trains stopped in villages located in the east of Kobane, we guess they had brought ammunition and additional force for the ISIS." In the second article on September 30, 2014, a CHP delegation visited Kobani, where locals claimed that everything from the clothes ISIS militants wear to their guns comes from Turkey.
http://www.odatv.com/n.php?n=isid-saflarinda-savasan-turkiyeli-resmi-gorevliler-var-- 3009141200
• Released by Nuhaber, a video shows Turkish military convoys carrying tanks and ammunition moving freely under ISIS flags in the Cerablus region and Karkamis border crossing (September 25, 2014). There are writings in Turkish on the trucks.
http://www.nuhaber.com/haber/208/iste-turkiye-isid-cetelerine-tank-ve-muhimmat-verirken- kameralara-yakalandilar-iste-o-goruntuler
• Salih Muslim, PYD head, claims that 120 militants crossed into Syria from Turkey between October 20th and 24th, 2014.
• According to an op-ed written by a YPG commander in The New York Times on October 29, 2014, Turkey allows ISIS militants and their equipment to pass freely over the border.
http://www.odatv.com/n.php?n=turkiyenin-isidi-desteklediginin-kanitlari-var-2910141200
• Diken reported, "ISIS fighters crossed the border from Turkey into Syria, over the Turkish train tracks that delineate the border, in full view of Turkish soldiers. They were met there by PYD fighters and stopped."
http://www.diken.com.tr/isid-militanlari-sifir-noktasinda-goruntulendi/
• A Kurdish commander in Kobani claims that ISIS militants have Turkish entry stamps on their passports.
http://www.odatv.com/n.php?n=isid-teroristlerinin-pasaportunda-t.c.-damgasi-var--2110141200
• Kurds trying to join the battle in Kobani are turned away by Turkish police at the Turkey-Syrian border.
• OdaTV released a photograph of a Turkish soldier befriending ISIS militants.
http://www.odatv.com/n.php?n=turk-askeri-isidle-hatira-fotografi-mi-cektirdi--1110141200
Turkey and ISIS Share a Worldview
• RT reports on Vice President Joe Biden's remarks detailing Turkish support to ISIS.
http://rt.com/news/192880-biden-isis-us-allies/
• According to the Hurriyet Daily News on September 26, 2014, "The feelings of the AKP's heavyweights are not limited to Ankara. I was shocked to hear words of admiration for ISIL from some high-level civil servants even in Şanliurfa. 'They are like us, fighting against seven great powers in the War of Independence,' one said." "Rather than the [Kurdistan Workers' Party] PKK on the other side, I would rather have ISIL as a neighbor," said another."
• Cengiz Candar, a well- respected Turkish journalist, maintained that MIT helped "midwife" the Islamic state in Iraq and Syria, as well as other Jihadi groups.
http://www.realclearworld.com/2014/07/17/will_turkey_midwife_independent_kurdistan_160143.html
• An AKP council member posted on his Facebook page: "Thankfully ISIS exists...May you never run out of ammunition..."
http://www.odatv.com/n.php?n=isid-iyi-ki-varsin-allah-kursununu-azaltmasin-0410141200
• A Turkish Social Security Institution supervisor uses the ISIS logo in internal correspondences.
http://www.odatv.com/n.php?n=devlet-yazismalarini-isid-logosuyla-yapiyoruz-0210141200
• Bilal Erdogan and Turkish officials meet alleged ISIS fighters.
Mr. Phillips is Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He served as a Senior Adviser and Foreign Affairs Expert for the U.S. Department of State.
(Author's Note: Information presented in this paper is offered without bias or endorsement).
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I agree Kostaske.... There was a lost put out today by the Iraqi Interior MP and it apparently has his name on it as wounded. However I can't read Arabic.... so it could be a menu for all I know... it's being looked at right now for translation...And I posted it herein, but its not showing up in preview (even though I can see it here in my editing, so I'll post more when I can figure out how to paste it in here)...(says I'm not allowed to use that image in here... wot?!) lol
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9 Nov Most recent YPG footage of dead Daesh in most recent battle...BTW I use the term Daesh for ISIS because they hate the term in reference to them...
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Sunday Incoming from Sky News. Baghdadi Status is Still Unclear. Seems some news picked up old info from September, however, it is also current news that he may (again) be injured. (and I just noticed Spell Check is no longer on.... oh dear I do not spell apologies now and forever more)
Coalition airstrikes have targeted a gathering of Islamic State leaders at a house in northern Iraq, a US defence official has said.
Senior IS officers were meeting in al Qaim, a town near Mosul which is under the Islamist group's control. After the strikes began, militants evacuated a nearby hospital and used loudspeakers to ask for blood donors.
The bodies of 50 militants have since been transported to a morgue in Mosul, according to Reuters.
Unconfirmed reports from the news agency suggest that the leader of IS, along with his deputy, were killed in the attack.
It is unclear whether top commander Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was among the militants targeted, a US official said.
Video: More Airstrikes Hit IS In KobaniHailed as the world's most wanted man, al Baghdadi has declared himself the caliph, or supreme leader, of the vast areas of territory in Iraq and Syria under IS control.
Washington has offered a $10m (£6m) reward for his capture.
US national security analyst Arash Aramesh told Sky News: "If he is in fact dead, yes it will deal a major blow to the organisation but let's not forget there are other commanders both in the military and political wings that can replace al Baghdadi.
Video: Airstrikes 'Missing IS Targets'
"This organisation with one dead leader is not going to be finished. This is going to be a continued, long-term campaign not just to rid the region of IS but from the ideology that creates organisations like IS, al Qaeda, Boko Haram and the Taliban."
The airstrikes also destroyed a convoy of 10 armed IS trucks, US Central Command said.
In a statement, its spokesperson added: "This strike demonstrates the pressure we continue to place on the IS terrorist network and the group's increasingly limited freedom to manoeuvre, communicate and command."
Meanwhile, a series of explosions have killed dozens of people across Iraq.
Four bombings killed least 43 people in and around Baghdad on Saturday. The deadliest blast hit the city's Shi'ite district of Sadr City, where a car bomb tore through a commercial area killing 11 people.
On Friday, a suicide truck bomber struck the convoy of a top Iraqi police officer killing eight people, including the ranking official. Iraqi authorities said the attack bore the hallmarks of IS.
Video: Sept: First RAF Airstrikes On IS
US President Barack Obama has authorised the deployment of up to 1,500 more US troops to bolster Iraqi forces, including into Anbar province, where battles with IS militants have been fierce.
A statement from Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al Abadi's office said: "This step is a little late, but we welcome it."
Isn't this the same al Abadi that said he did not want US troops in Iraq... and now we are "late"?!?!?!
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Excellent footage chronicals Kobane Sep-Oct 2014
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Most recent footage from Kobane. I've also a bud who literally just got there and will try to film and upload if possible....We'll see
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Israel News just picked it up as well
Iraqi sources: Islamic State leader seriously wounded in coalition airstrike
Roi Kais
Published: 11.08.14, 19:09
Tribal sources in Iraq told Al Arabiya on Saturday that the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was critically wounded, and a number of other Islamic State members were killed, as a result of an airstrike by the international coalition in the city of Al-Qaim, located on the border between Iraq and Syria.
As Well as the UK
US air strikes destroy Isis convoy but reports leader targeted are unconfirmed
- US says unclear if Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi present at time of strike
- Iraq hit by suicide bombings on Friday and Saturday
A bombing in the city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad. Photograph: Reuters
Agencies
Saturday 8 November 2014 15.41 ESTUS air strikes destroyed a moving, 10-vehicle Islamic State (Isis) convoy near the Iraqi city of Mosul on Saturday, officials said, but it was unclear whether the group’s top commander, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was present at the time.
Earlier, the al-Hadath station, which is part of Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television, reported that US-led strikes had targeted a gathering of Isis leaders in Iraq, possibly including al-Baghdadi.
Two witnesses told Reuters an air strike had targeted a house where senior Isis officers were meeting, near the western Iraqi border town of al-Qaim, and said Isis fighters had cleared a hospital so that their wounded could be treated, using loudspeakers to urge residents to donate blood.
Residents said there were unconfirmed reports that Isis’s local leader in the western Iraqi province of Anbar and his deputy were killed.
An Isis supporter contacted by Reuters said the strike hit a local market, killing at least eight people.
Confirming the strike on the convoy, Colonel Patrick Ryder, a spokesman at Central Command, said the US military had reason to believe the convoy hit by strikes was the product of a gathering of Isis leaders. The convoy consisted of 10 Isis armed trucks.
Earlier, a US official said air strikes were carried out against the convoy near the northern city of Mosul, about 170 miles from al-Qaim, and against small Isis units elsewhere, but added that US-led strikes had not targeted an Isis gathering.
Al-Hadath said dozens of people were killed and wounded in the strike in al-Qaim, and that Baghdadi’s fate was unclear. Al-Qaim and the neighbouring Syrian town of Albukamal are on a strategic supply route linking territory held by Isis in Iraq and Syria.
AdvertisementIn Iraq on Friday, a suicide truck bomber targeting a senior police officer’s convoy killed eight people, including the ranking official, authorities said.
The attack happened late on Friday, when the attacker drove his bomb-laden truck into the convoy of police lieutenant general Faisal Malik, who was inspecting troops in the town of Beiji, police said. The blast killed Faisal and seven police officers, while wounding 15 people, hospital officials and police officers said.
No one immediately claimed the attack.
Beiji is home to Iraq’s largest oil refinery, and lies 155 miles north of Baghdad.
A US-led coalition has been launching air strikes on Isis militants and facilities in Iraq and Syria for months, as part of an effort to give Iraqi forces the time and space to mount a more effective offensive.
On Friday, President Barack Obama authorised the deployment of up to 1,500 more American troops to bolster Iraqi forces. The plan could boost the total number of American troops in Iraq to 3,100. There now are about 1,400 US troops in Iraq, out of the 1,600 previously authorised.
Also on Saturday, a series of bombings in and around the capital killed at least 19 people. The deadliest attack took place on a commercial street in Baghdad’s southwestern Amil neighborhood, where two car bombs killed eight people and wounded 16, police officials said.
In the southeastern neighborhood of al-Amin, at least nine people were killed and another 18 wounded when a car bomb tore through a commercial street lined with restaurants. In Yousifiya, a town just south of the capital, two people were killed and four wounded in a bombing near a fruit and vegetable market.
Hospital officials confirmed the casualties. All police and hospital officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to journalists.
And now the BBC US air strikes target IS gathering in Mosul, Iraq
The US air force has taken the lead in air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
Coalition air strikes have targeted a gathering of Islamic State leaders near Mosul in northern Iraq, the US says.
Friday's strikes destroyed a convoy of vehicles, a US defence official said, but could not confirm whether IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was present.
Baghdadi made a rare public appearance at a mosque in Mosul in July.
IS militants control large areas of Iraq and Syria but have been targeted by hundreds of air strikes by the US-led coalition since August.
The statement said that 10 armed IS trucks were destroyed in the air strikes, which "demonstrates the pressure we continue to place on the IS terrorist network".
The British Royal Air Force has also carried out air strikes against IS locations and vehicles in Iraq
The US, Iraq and other Western and Arab countries have formed a coalition against the militant group.
The Pentagon announced on Saturday that 1,500 additional US troops will join the 1,600 military advisers that are already in Iraq to assist the country's army.
Wave of violence
Meanwhile, a wave of car bombs killed dozens of people across Iraq on Saturday.
At least 33 people died in a series of bombings in the capital, Baghdad, with the deadliest attack killing more than 10 in the Shia neighbourhood of Sadr City.
Car bombs occur on a near-daily basis in Baghdad, and a recent surge of attacks that appear to be targeting Shia Muslims has increased sectarian tension with Sunni communities.
We should have contest to see which US news source gets around to reporting this first...
The News from Erbil.... (don't see it reported on MSM in US yet)
The Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-BaghdadiIslamic State Leader al-Baghdadi “Not Dead”07.09.2014Erbil
The Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has not been killed as has been previously claimed. He is wounded and being treated in the border area of Iraq and Syria.
A few days ago, it was reported that al-Baghdadi had been killed by a U.S. airstrike near Mosul in Northern Iraq, an attack that left three other senior members of the militant group dead.
However, a source told Iraqi media that the IS leader and self-proclaimed Caliph has not been killed, but is badly injured as a result of the recent US airstrikes near the Tel Afer and Sinjar areas.
“This is the second time al-Baghdadi has been injured in the last two months and right now he is being treated in a Syrian location close to the Iraqi border,” the source told Iraqi newspaper al-Sabah.
When it was reported that al-Baghdadi had been killed, the Pentagon did not confirm the death, but thousands of social media users shared an unverified photo claiming to be the ISIS leader’s body.
However, Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren did later say that any IS leaders “inside troop formations are likely to be killed.”-
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ISIS chief ‘critically wounded’ in air raid: reports
Anbar province MP Mohammad al-Karbuli says U.S.-led coalition aircraft targeted a gathering of ISIS leaders in al-Qaim. (File Photo: AFP)By Staff writer | Al Arabiya NewsSaturday, 8 November 2014
The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was “critically wounded” on Saturday when a U.S.-led air strike targeted the western Iraqi border town of al-Qaim, tribal sources told Al Arabiya News Channel.
The tribal sources also said that a number of ISIS’ senior members were killed in the air raid.
Anbar province MP Mohammad al-Karbuli told Al Arabiya News Channel that U.S.-led coalition aircraft had targeted a gathering of ISIS leaders in al-Qaim that led to the killing of tens of people and wounded.
Karbuli said chaos ensued the air raid with ISIS members scrambling to transport their wounded to al-Qaim hospital which was overwhelmed with the number of patients.
Reuters news agency quoted two witnesses as saying an air strike targeted a house where senior ISIS officers were meeting, near the western Iraqi border town of al-Qaim.
The witnesses said ISIS fighters had cleared a hospital so that their wounded could be treated. ISIS fighters used loudspeakers to urge residents to donate blood, the witnesses said.
The agency also quoted residents as saying there were unconfirmed reports that ISIS’ local leader in the western Iraqi province of Anbar and his deputy were killed.
U.S. officials would not confirm or deny whether Baghdadi, the group's overall leader, had been targeted, the agency said.
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Daesh Leader Baghdadi Reported Critically Wounded
in Iraq & Dinar Related News
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It would probably take a female intelligence analyst to take one look at that picture and say "yeah right" those eyebrows are sooooo drawn in on that picture....Course the part that doesn't make sense about the Mossad connection is 1) Daesh hates Israel and has a strong commitment to destroy as much of it as possible.... 2) Daesh hates everything about Isreal 3) Israel is supporting the Kurds who are fighting Daesh..... If that guy is Mossad, they need to recall him as he would be one really mixed up dude...
And while there is some departure from details seen differently in terms of genesis... there are nonetheless rather interesting details in the article itself...Not to mention its interesting to see an article with Iran's take on the whole thing... .