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Hey Umbert, I tried to get a mnessage to you it was probably your java... The reason you were able to get on with a proxy is because the proxy you use disables the scripts..... I'm having to wait to update several of my computers with java (cause their Linix OS and I'm waiting for disc to do totoal installs) I'm on my tiny Windows notebook now .,,ugh.. Hopefully if there's anyopne else out there who's having trouble they will also figure out they need to perhaps update their Java to 7..... and like TD says, it may come in set on high and changing the setting to medium after installation will probably help...,,, I suspect anyone with an earlier versions of JAVA probably won';t be able to get in here whether or not they are members....It might be interesting to note who as a regular we are not seeing and reach out to them and tell them to update?... And btw, even though I was able to get on with this computer yesterday afternnon. I did get the same error message late last night around midnight... so hopefully things are stable and will continue working... if not, keep trying... lol.

OTTAWA, Oct 22 (Reuters) - At least one gunman entered Canada's parliament buildings on Wednesday and many shots were fired just outside the room where Prime Minister Stephen Harper was addressing a meeting of legislators. Harper was safely removed from the building but parliament was locked down. Eyewitnesses said at least 30 shots were fired in dramatic scenes in the heart of the Canadian capital. "PM (Harper) was addressing caucus, then a huge boom, followed by rat-a-tat shots. We all scattered. It was clearly right outside our caucus door," Treasury Board Minister Tony Clement said. A spokesman for Harper said: "While the prime minister stated that facts are still being gathered, he condemned this despicable attack." The suspected gunman was shot dead inside the parliament building, Ottawa police said. Minutes before the shooting there, a soldier had been shot and fatally wounded at the nearby National War Memorial in Ottawa. But the incidents, shocking in Canada's normally tranquil capital, were not over. Ottawa police were searching for more suspects near the war memorial in central Ottawa, and on nearby Parliament Hill, a police spokesman said. Residents were warned to stay away from downtown Ottawa. Dramatic video footage posted by the Globe and Mail newspaper showed police with guns drawn inside the main parliament building. At least a dozen loud bangs can be heard on the clip, echoing through the hallway. Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino, a former policeman, told the Toronto Sun that parliament's head of security, Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers, shot dead a suspected gunman. "All the details are not in, but the sergeant-at-arms, a former Mountie, is the one that engaged the gunman, or one of them at least, and stopped this," Fantino said. Canadian cabinet minister Jason Kenney said a guard in parliament buildings had also been wounded in the incident. 'DANGER HERE' There was no word yet on the identity of any suspect or suspects or of any motive for the shooting. It was also unclear whether there was any connection to an attack on Monday when an Islamic convert ran down two Canadian soldiers with his car, killing one, near Montreal, before being shot dead by police in the first fatal attack on Canadian soil tied to Islamic militants. Canada announced this month it was joining the battle against Islamic State fighters who have taken over parts of Iraq and Syria. The attacks took place as the Canadian government prepared to boost the powers of its spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Public Safety Minister Stephen Blaney said last Thursday the new legislation would let the agency track and investigate potential terrorists when they travel abroad and ultimately prosecute them. As the drama in Ottawa unfolded, police in dark bulletproof vests and carrying automatic rifles flooded the streets near parliament. Some took cover behind vehicles and shouted to people to clear the area, saying: "We do not have the suspect in custody. You are in danger here." Police quickly cleared several blocks of downtown Ottawa. By noon ET, the streets were empty. Several police cars were parked on the lawns outside the parliament buildings. Small groups of police could be seen sheltering behind at least two cars. Members of parliament were told to lock or barricade themselves in their offices, and stay away from the windows. At the time of the shooting the opposition New Democrats were holding their weekly caucus meeting in parliament's Centre Block, where the shooting took place. A tweeted picture sent from the room showed a pile of chairs jammed up against the main door to prevent anyone from entering. Police told people in downtown Ottawa to stay away from windows and off roofs. The soldier who died in the shooting was taken into an ambulance in which medical personnel could be seen giving him cardio-pulmonary resuscitation. CBC News reported that he was a reservist who had been serving in Hamilton, Ontario. 'DOUBLE-BARRELED SHOTGUN' In Washington, a White House official said U.S. President Barack Obama had been briefed on the situation. He said the United States had offered assistance to Canada. Mass shootings are relatively rare in Canada, which has stricter gun laws than the United States. Compared with Capitol Hill in Washington, security on Parliament Hill is also fairly low key. Anybody could walk right up to the front door of parliament's Centre Block with arms and explosives without being challenged before entering the front door, where a few guards check accreditation. A construction worker who was on the scene in Ottawa when the shooting began told Reuters he heard a gunshot, and then saw a man with a scarf over his face running towards parliament. "He was wearing blue pants and a black jacket and he had a double barreled shotgun and he ran up the side of this building here and hijacked a car at gunpoint," construction worker Scott Walsh told Reuters. The driver got out safely, then the man drove the car to the Centre Block on Parliament Hill, where construction work is underway, Walsh said. The suspected gunman rushed past a woman with a child in a stroller, who ran away screaming. He did not attack the woman or child, he said. Centre Block is the main building on Parliament Hill, a sprawling complex of buildings and open space in downtown Ottawa. It contains the House of Commons and Senate chambers as well as the offices of some members of parliament, senators, and senior administration for both legislative houses. One member of parliament, Mark Strahl, tweeted from inside parliament: "Very tense situation in Ottawa this morning. Multiple gun shots fired outside of our caucus room. I am safe and in lockdown. Unbelievable." The Canadian military closed its bases across the country following the events in Ottawa, CBC TV said. (Additional reporting by Allison Martell and Andrea Hopkins in Toronto; Jeff Mason and Steve Holland in Washington; Writing by Frances Kerry; Editing by Amran Abocar; and Peter Galloway) 9:52 a.m. Gunfire at the National War Memorial. Reporter there said he saw one man go down and another run. He heard four shots. 9:54 a.m. Gunfire in Parliament’s Centre Block. A body outside ground at library of parliament — Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) October 22, 2014 9:56 a.m. Reports of dozens of shots fired in Parliament. A reporter sees a motionless body on the ground outside the Library of Parliament. Meanwhile, at the War Memorial, reports emerge that it is a soldier that was shot. : Soldier killed at war memorial identified as Cpl. Nathan Cirillo http://t.co/vlj96XOoSm — The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) October 22, 2014 9:58 a.m. CPR being performed on the soldier by passersby. 9:59 a.m. Confirmed that “active shooter” still in the halls of Parliament. Only photo I will tweet. CPR being performed on the soldier now. I heard four shots. — Peter Henderson (@Henderburn) October 22, 2014 10:00 a.m. Ottawa police tactical unit arrives at Parliament Hill. A Ottawa police officer and service dog run up Metcalfe Street following shootings in downtown Ottawa October 22, 2014. REUTERS/Blair Gable 10:04 a.m. Witnesses at War Memorial say they saw the assailant run towards Parliament Hill carrying a large rifle. Andre Barr/National Post 10:05 a.m. A police officer at the War Memorial confirms to colleague in walkie talkie: “DND member down.” Officers shout “there is a shooter on the loose” and clears the area. 10:07 a.m. Reporters moved into the lobby of the House for safety, MPs remain in caucus chambers. 10:12 a.m. Parliament Hill is officially in lockdown. Wayne Cuddington/Postmedia News RCMP tactical officers attempt to enter the Langevin Block as police respond to an apparent terrorist attack in Ottawa. 10: 13 a.m. Witnesses at War Memorial say the alleged assailant was a man with dark hair and a scarf on his head, carrying a “huge rifle.” Last seen running toward Parliament Hill. Police urge everyone to stay away, saying “you are in danger here.” 10:18 a.m. Suspect’s car is identified, parked on Wellington Street in front of the Hill. The grey Toyota Corolla has neither front nor back license plates. Some witnesses said they saw two shooters emerge from the vehicles. Inside the House of Commons, police search every room that wasn’t locked at time of the shooting. 10:19 a.m. Witnesses say that the suspect seen at War Memorial looked about 5 foot 9 or 1, overweight with a black jacket and a long rifle. He had a scarf covering his face and headed toward the House of Commons lawn. Others say he was wearing a hoodie and a bandana covering his face and had long hair. Reports that the shooter had a “dark complexion.” Ashley Fraser/Postmedia News – A person is escorted out of a building on Sparks Street near a Post Office in Ottawa. 10:24 a.m. A Parliament cafeteria worker reports seeing a man drive up to the Hill in a black Chrysler and enter Parliament armed with a hunting rifle. 10:25 a.m. RCMP issues statement advising people keep away from Parliament Hill due to an “ongoing police incident.” At this point, it is believed the shooter or shooters are still on the loose. Outside near the National War Memorial, construction worker and witness Barry Willis said a man pointed a gun at him. He said he heard five or six shots and the shooter’s headscarf was blue and white. Meanwhile in Parliament, witnesses report hearing 10 to 15 shots. 10:30 a.m. Unconfirmed reports emerge that the gunman at Parliament’s Centre Block has been shot and killed. Total pandemonium near rideau centre. Police screaming for everyone to leave we are. — Vassy Kapelos (@VassyKapelos) October 22, 2014 10:33 a.m. Witnesses say they saw shooter stop a black sedan at the East Block, order the driver out, and drove that vehicle to the Centre Block. 10:37 a.m. Confirmed that Prime Minister Stephen Harper got out safely and that MPs were gathered in a caucus meeting when they heard shots fired. Evacuations begin. People standing along Elgin Street just south of the memorial are frisked by police. All the streets surrounding Parliament Hill and the memorial also on lockdown. This includes all buildings and businesses. 10:41 a.m. It’s confirmed that Liberal leader Justin Trudeau is in a “safe and secure location” his spokesperson says. Also confirmed that NDP Leader of the Opposition, Tom Mulcair is also safe and in a secure location. 10:42 a.m. Shooter is still on the loose. “There’s an active shooter, we haven’t got it contained yet,” an officer tells the Ottawa Citizen’s Glen McGregor. 10:47 a.m. “There’s a guy running around with a gun,” an officer tells the National Post’s John Ivison. “There are multiple assailants. I know it’s not a secure scene.” 10:49 a.m. Prime Minister’s staff receive email ordering them to stay put. “There are currently active shooters in the Parliament Hill vicinity,” the email reads. 10:53 a.m. RCMP advises citizens to “stay off rooftops and away from windows in the downtown core” and to avoid the area entirely. Shot from inside caucus room after shooting — Graham Richardson (@grahamctv) October 22, 2014 11:02 a.m. People in buildings surrounding Parliament Hill and the National War Memorial told to stay away from windows. 11:07 a.m. Ottawa police orders public and media off the sidewalks at Queen and Metcalfe Streets, yelling “Everybody inside! There’s possibly somebody down the street!” according to Postmedia reporter Jason Feteke. 11:10 a.m. Kevin Vickers, the sergeant-at-arms for the House of Commons has shot an assailant, the Canadian Press reports. 11:13 a.m. Police have guns drawn again near the Hill’s East Block, between the Chateau Laurier and Parliament Hill. The University of Ottawa and Rideau Centre shopping mall both locked down. 11:20 a.m. It is confirmed that one shooter is dead in the Centre Block, another suspect still on the loose. 11:22 a.m. Reports of more gunshots fired by the Chateau Laurier hotel. It is also reported that the gates at CFB Halifax have been chained and locked. All Ottawa schools are locked down. 11:30 a.m. Press gallery tells reporters “If your door does not lock, find a way to barricade the door, if possible. Do not open a door under any circumstances.” 11:34 a.m. The Globe and Mail reports a second shooter has been shot by police. 11:36 a.m. All military bases across the country closed. 11:41 a.m. Shootings have occurred at three different sites downtown, police say — The National War Memorial, Parliament’s Centre Block and near downtown Ottawa’s mall, The Rideau Centre. Police say the events happened very close together. 11:49 a.m. United States president Barack Obama has been briefed on the shooting at Canada’s Parliament. The United States embassy is also in lockdown mode. 12:04 p.m. Police rush to Rideau Centre entrance, guns drawn. Armed RCMP officers guard the front of Langevin Block on Parliament Hill following a shooting incident in Ottawa October 22, 2014. REUTERS/Chris Wattie 12:08 p.m. Meanwhile, MPs and reporters still on lockdown in Parliament. 12:12 p.m. Ottawa Civic hospital confirmed to CBC that two victims were en route to hospital, one of them shot. Both were in non-life threatening condition. Police officers take cover near Parliament Hill following a shooting incident in Ottawa October 22, 2014. REUTERS/Chris Wattie 12:30 p.m. Prime Minister issues a statement saying he is safe and not on Parliament Hill. He promises to make a statement later in the day. Planned ceremony to honour Nobel peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai today in Toronto has been cancelled. 1:03 p.m. Soldier shot at National War Memorial reported dead. 1:53 p.m. The NDP issues a statement in response to the shootings. “This morning’s horrifying attack has shocked all Canadians and shattered the peace of our nation’s capital. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the soldier killed and the people who were injured, and we are deeply grateful for the soldiers and law enforcement officials who quickly and courageously protected the public today.” 4:40 p.m. Canada police investigating Michael Zehaf-Bibeau as possible suspect in Ottawa shooting – source familiar with matter – Reuters 4:45 p.m. A source confirms to CP24 that the deceased solider in Ottawa is Cpl. Nathan Cirillo. Cirillo was a member of the Hamilton Argylls

Just to be clear on the USAF drop.... (as there is information that could be conflicting, but its not)... It was 28 Parachutes 1 landed outside YPG territory destroyed by USAF other 27 landed in KIBANI 4 landed SouthWest 12 North 11 inside city... The stuff ISIS is showing is the US arms they captured long before this...

Former CIA Director David Petraeus said in a new interview that the rise of the Islamic State was “well known” among people monitoring the situation within the U.S. government, and that it was able to flourish amid the chaos of the civil war in Syria. Former CIA Director David Petraeus speaks at an event for the Institute for National Security Studies at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Jan. 28, 2014, in Tel Aviv. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images) “ISIS in a sense is the evolution of an organization that we did defeat, Al Qaeda in Iraq,” Petraeus told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in an interview published Monday. “Some of the very hard work we did to help re-establish the fabric of Iraqi society — to bring the Sunni Arabs back into Iraqi society and give them an incentive to support the new Iraq rather than to oppose it — was undone. It created fertile ground once again for the planting of the seeds of extremism and alienated the Sunni Arab component of Iraqi society. “What really revived Al Qaida in Iraq and turned them into the Islamic State was the civil war in Syria,” Petraeus continued. “They grew, gained experience and could identify competent leaders and then begin to capture arms, funding and generate significant resources to enable their expansion. People saw ISIS coming. Even out of the intelligence world, it was well known what ISIS was doing in Syria.” The U.S. has been leading a coalition in bombing Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria, months after President Barack Obama initially dismissed the militant group as “JV.” Petraeus served as CIA director from 2011 to 2012 before resigning following revelations of an extramarital affair. Read the full interview at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

BTW while talking dirt about the Turkish president Erdogan, .... its pronounced phonetically.... Air do wan

Anything that starts to look like algebra... meaning mixing numbers with letters... totally loses me.... I'm not even sure I understand your sentence... but I know you guys talk alot about the M something or other... and it means something... (I just have to trust ya'll on that )... So let me ask this... if one is looking for the relative value of a currency... would it make sense to look at formulas that show the relative value juxtaposed against the SDR?.... or was that just a handy way to refer to value when they were doing all the contracts?...OR did I just ask an apple vs. orange question....

Who is Bush???

TankDude!!! From the documents taken from bodies, many are arriving in Turkey and going directly into battle.... And yeah as far as documents... its unimaginable huh??? There are reports and some video showing ISIS took control of one of the USAF drops.... and they are happy little clams... Apparently they didn't get the memo on GPS Here's the most recent video out of fighting in Kobane on 21 Oct https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4XKkLpKSpY .

Turkish military badges & ID Cards found on Dead ISIS fighters Oct. 21: Military Airstrikes Continue Against ISIL in Syria and Iraq U.S. Central Command News Release Share October 21, 2014 Release #20141025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 21, 2014 - U.S. military forces continued to attack ISIL terrorists in Syria Monday and today using fighter and bomber aircraft to conduct four airstrikes. Separately, U.S. and partner nation forces conducted three airstrikes using fighter and attack aircraft against ISIL terrorists in Iraq. All aircraft departed the strike areas safely. In Syria, four airstrikes near Kobani destroyed ISIL fighting positions, an ISIL building, and a large ISIL unit. In Iraq, an airstrike destroyed an ISIL fighting position south of the Bayji oil refinery. Another airstrike southeast of Mosul Dam destroyed one ISIL fighting position and an airstrike north of Fallujah suppressed an ISIL attack. All aircraft exited the strike areas safely. Airstrike assessments are based on initial reports. The U.S. strikes were conducted as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, the operation to eliminate the terrorist group ISIL and the threat they pose to Iraq, the region and the wider international community. The destruction of ISIL targets in Syria and Iraq further limits the terrorist group's ability to project power and conduct operations.

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ISIS becomes the ideology of many young, angry, lost, insecure, guys from the West.... Australian teen Abdullah Elmir is new public face of Islamic State A TEENAGE boy from western Sydney has been used as a new public face of Islamic State, starring in a propaganda video “especially” targeted at Australia and claiming that Tony Abbott should know the terror group will never surrender. Abdullah Elmir, a 17-year-old who told his family that he was going on a fishing trip with a friend before leaving Australia to join the conflict in Syria and Iraq, is fighting with Islamic State and is now front and centre in the fourth episode of the series entitled Message of the Mujahid. The video, released by Islamic State just hours ago, sees Elmir — identified as “Abu Khaled from Australia” — clutching an assault rifle while delivering a 90-second diatribe with between 70 and 100 heavily armed fighters stand behind him. “This message, I deliver to you, the people of America,” he says in the video. “I deliver this message to you, the people of Britain. And I deliver this message to you — especially — the people of Australia. “And I say this about your coalition. You threaten us with this coalition of countries. Bring every nation that you wish to us. Bring every nation that you want to come and fight us. It means nothing to us.” He claims the group will eventually take control of the US and UK, and directs a threat to Tony Abbott that Islamic State will also take its fight to Australian shores. “To the leaders — to Obama, to Tony Abbott — I say this: These weapons that we have, these soldiers, we will not stop fighting. We will not put down our weapons until we reach your lands, until we take the head of every tyrant, and until the black flag is flying high in every single land,” he says. “Until we put the black flag on top of Buckingham Palace. Until we’ve put the black flag on top of the White House, we will not stop and we will keep on fighting. We will fight you and we will defeat you.” Elmir is believed to have been with Islamic State for the past four months. In June, his family went public after Elmir and another Sydney teen flew out of the country, with their lawyer claiming that the federal government could be sued for allowing him to leave. The boy had reportedly been “brainwashed”, and his family were keen to find out who paid for his airfares. The boys had flown from Sydney to Perth, and then onto Malaysia, Thailand and Turkey — where they reportedly made contact with their respective families. The other teen, known as Feiz and reportedly age 16, has since been taken to Lebanon by his father. .

In addition to weapons which are all US weapons including things like thermal sights, anti armors ... They also got food and water. Its also reported that the air drops will continue as long as ISIS continues to target this city... On the ground contacts are reporting an ISIS body count between 1000 and 1235... (and they are documenting/filming in confirming real numbers).. Here is a pretty cool synopsis video from a buddy, capturing a lot of the images in my gallery along with images of some of the stuff we've been discussing in here.... Also thought it might be helpful to hear how Kobane is pronounced... lol...Its Ko bonnie.... versus Ko bane... Have to still check emails and messages... if anything significant, I'll come back later.....

Breitling certainly couldn't be accused of understanding the conflict with ISIS... Wonder if it would blow out his little world to find out that they kill Sunni, Shia and Christian without any prejudice against one over the other? Tlar has promised the RV like a million times.... hasn't he also promised to go away a million times..... ITs one thing to be wrong about the RV... but its kind of sad to be wrong about when you are actually going to really leave as well... okay fine, I do find him entertaining..... and a great cheer leader even if he does pretend to know stuff he doesn't.... .

The fight in Kobane continues.... it has become the symbolic battle many of us knew it would... for both ISIS and US.. ISIS is pouring in constant resources of men and weapons... through Turkey of course... Peshmerga has not yet headed out for Kobane... Perhaps they are re-figuring priorities??.... Mt Sinjar is surrounded by ISIS, several thousand Yazidi Christian men women and children remain there and face massacre... once again..... Not sure if the US will negotiate with PKK to go back in there and fight to get them out... These monsters of ISIS need to be eliminated.... off the face of the earth such that there is not a one who is left to carry this sick ideology.... Here is a synopsis of Kobane and the area in general: KOBANE UPDATE 7: US AIRDROP ARMS AND AMMO TO KOBANE & TURKEY AGREES TO ALLOW PESHMERGA TO ENTER CITY:TIMELINE – 20th OCTOBER 2014 13.26 GMT – UPDATED 20.42 GMT: On Sunday, yesterday, at dawn 3 x US C-130 Coalition aircraft dropped 27 packages of weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to the besieged Kurds in Kobane. The aircraft met no resistance from Islamic State (IS) forces on the ground and sources from within Kobane have confirmed that the multiple airdrops arrived safely. “We are hoping for more”, said a Kobane spokesman, adding that they would “help greatly” with their fight against IS. US C-130 Cargo Planes Airdrop Over Kobane The weapons and ammunition were supplied by the Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq whose President, Massoud Barzani, has been talking to the Americans and the Turks for weeks. US Central Command reported on Monday afternoon, that six airstrikes near Kobani on Sunday and Monday destroyed IS fighting and mortar positions, an IS vehicle, and one stray resupply bundle from a the U.S. airdrop of Kurdish supplies. The stray supply bundle was destroyed to prevent it from falling into enemy hands. All other resupply bundles were successfully delivered. Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was informed in advance of the airdrops on Saturday night in a telephone call from President Obama. Erdogan’s response is not known, but on Sunday he is reported once again as saying that the PYD (the YPG Kurdish fighters political branch) is the same as the PKK (armed Kurdish group in Turkey) and “they are all terrorists”. However, there has been an announcement by the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, this morning, Monday, that his Government has agreed to allow a force of Kurdish Peshmerga from Iraq to cross Turkish territory to reinforce the fighters in Kobane. No further details were given, but Cavusoglu also showed no anger at the US airdrop, saying only that,”We have been in full cooperation with the Coalition” and adding “We have no wish at all to see Kobani fall”. BBC Syria news explains why the Turks will allow in Iraq’s Kurdish Peshmerga but not Syrian Kurds to support Kobane. Fighting over the weekend was fierce on Saturday but quieter on Sunday. The Islamic State is reported to have dropped around 44 mortar bombs on Kobane on Saturday, some of them landing on Turkish territory across the border, plus driving 2 suicide vehicle bombs towards YPG positions. The bombs were intercepted before reaching their target, but there were some YPG injuries. There is video of one such explosion, HERE: The Kurds say that the centre of Kobane was attacked from 3 different sides including the municipality building and the market place, but attacks have been resisted and no ground lost. The Coalition, in conjunction with Kurdish YPG fighters on the ground directed 11 airstrikes against IS positions on Saturday, another 5 on Sunday and 2 early this morning Monday. 3 of the airstrikes on Sunday targeted areas southeast of the city and behind the Cultural Center and 2 others targeted areas near the hospital south of the city. Coalition Attack on IS in Kobane 18.10.14 Opposition activist sources claim that at least 70 Islamic State fighters have been killed in the last 48 hours and there is an unconfirmed claim originating from Kobane saying that since the fighting there started 133 YPG fighters have been killed, 9 Free Syrian Army (FSA), and 1,294 from the Islamic State. There is no way of verifying these numbers and they do differ from estimates put out by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), but are not inconceivable considering the number of airstrikes, more than 135 laser guided bombs dropped on Kobane since September 16th. Interesting report from a wounded fighter FSA fighter on the battles against IS and how they lured them into bomb-rigged buildings and targeted their gatherings with airstrikes, HERE: Disturbingly, there is an additional a report from SOHR saying that the FSA aligned Raqqah Revolutionary Brigade (RRB), fighting alongside the YPG, had captured 2 Islamic State fighters and subsequently executed them. One of them was reported as just 15 years old and video had appeared earlier on the Internet of the FSA fighters interrogating him. If true, an action to be condemned and RRB held responsible. While the YPG and the FSA have often fought against each other in the past, there appears to be increasing cooperation between the 2 groups to fight against IS, not just inside Kobane but elsewhere too. On Sunday, the YPG put out a statement saying, “We can also confirm that there is coordination between us and the important factions of the FSA in the northern countryside of Aleppo: Afrin, Kobane, and Al-Jazira. Currently, there are factions and several battalions of the FSA fighting on our side against the ISIS terrorists.” Let’s hope they can extend that cooperation to jointly drive out Assad. Video of the gallant YPG and YPG HERE: and another of the YPG and FSA on a joint patrol in the liberated industrial section of Kobane, HERE: Situation map for Kobane, courtesy of @macroarch, for Saturday 18th October, and little has changed since, here: Kobane Situation Map 18.10.14 IRAQ NEWS: MOUNT SINJAR, SURROUNDED BY ISLAMIC STATE, IN DANGER OF BECOMING ANOTHER MASSACRE – 1000’S TRAPPED AGAIN:In Iraq, having closed all the exit roads to Mount Sinjar (Shingal) last week, the Islamic State are now honing in on the remaining Yezidi fighters and the civilians living on top of the plateau and any villages on the slopes, by all accounts having them completely surrounded. Estimates say that there are still between 5,000 – 7,000 people in the area that either refused to leave the top of the mountain or their villages in the region, despite Kurdish officials advising them to do so. The Islamic State regard followers of the Yezidi religion as “devil worshippers” and will almost certainly execute them if they refuse to convert to Islam. Qasim Shesho, a Yezidi commander on Sinjar mountain for a Yezidi brigade known as the HPS, said that IS began a new attack early this morning, Monday, and that it has continued throughout the day. Mount Sinjar Shingal Showing Location of Sherfedin Shrine “A large number of ISIS militants are using nearly 20 Humvee vehicles to fight the Yezidi fighters,” he said. Following the massacres last August when the Islamic State killed or imprisoned hundreds of Yezidi, trapping them on the Mount Sinjar, many Yezidi men trained with the Kurdish Peshmerga and the Syrian YPG, and formed brigades to defend the area. The Yezidi fighters say the attack has come from 3 sides after a string of villages were overrun when the exit roads were closed. So far 16 IS fighters are reported killed and 11 Yezidi but the remaining Yezidi are surrounded on the north side of Mount Sinjar around their holy place, the shrine at Sherfedin. Units of Peshmerga, YPG and PKK are all thought to be on the mountain but usual supplies brought in by Iraqi Army helicopters have not arrived for the last 20 days. Latest reports on Monday afternoon say that the Iraqi Air Force made 2 attacks on IS positions by helicopter but that these “failed”. Further details awaited. Many Yezidi having retreated to the mountain during the August IS invasion arrived with very little and now with winter approaching have even less to protect themselves. Yezidi regard Mount Sinjar/Shingal as sacred and many refuse to leave, preferring to graze their flocks of goats and sheep on the slopes as they have done for generations. To the Islamic State, the whole Sinjar region, 120 kilometres west of IS-held Mosul, is crucial to their plans to link Mosul to Syria and Raqqah. Unless the Coalition and other forces come to the rescue, Mount Sinjar is in danger of becoming once again the site of another Islamic State massacre. Elsewhere in Iraq, the Coalition carried out 6 airstrikes on Sunday and Monday using pilotless drones and jet aircraft from France and the UK. US Central Command (Centcom) reports today, Monday, on successful strikes against the Islamic State (IS) over the last 2 days, hitting a large IS unit and 3 x IS vehicles south-east of Fallujah and destroying a small IS unit, an IS building and 3 x IS vehicles, plus damaging another IS building south of the Baiji Oil Refinery, west of Mosul. In addition, Centcom says that Coalition aircraft destroyed 4 x IS boats south of Baiji on the Tigris River and damaged at least 4 more. Unconfirmed reports say that 94 Islamic State fighters have been killed in Coalition airstrikes over the last few days, including air attacks earlier in the weekend near Tikrit. Car Bomb Site in Talibiyah, Baghdad Car bombing however has also continued with another explosion in Baghdad killing 11 and injuring 26 as they left noon prayers at the Shiite mosque in the Sinak area of central Baghdad today, and 18 killed and 28 injured at a funeral at another mosque in the eastern part of the capital on Sunday. Another explosion by a suicide bomber targeted a funeral ceremony at a Shiite mosque in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, leaving 19 people dead and 28 injured. 3 car-bombs also exploded on Monday in the Shiite shrine city of Karbala, some 100 kilometres south-west of Baghdad, which until now has been relatively unscathed. According to reports from the north of Iraq 2 Islamic State fighters attempted to set up a vehicle IED to kill Peshmerga forces in Malla Abdulla but accidentally blew themselves up in the process. A study of Iraq’s suicide bombers, whose “martyrdom” appears on Jihadist websites, over a recent period has revealed that 45% of them are Saudi Arabian nationals. There are also reports that 33 Iraqi soldiers have been killed by an IS cell at Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad. Much to the relief of everyone, in and outside of Iraq, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, completed his Cabinet at the weekend, getting Mohammed Salem al-Ghabban, a Shia, voted in as Interior Minister and Khaled al-Obeidi, a Sunni, as Defence Minister. SYRIA NEWS: OPPOSITION CAPTURE LAST MAJOR CHECKPOINT INFRONT OF ASSAD BORDER CROSSING TO JORDAN IN DARAA PROVINCE:Back in Syria, Assad’s Air Force taking advantage of international media attention on Kobane and Iraq, launched no less than 46 air strikes this morning, Monday, on Opposition centres across Syria. As well as towns in Idlib and Hama provinces other targets were towns and villages in Daraa province and suburbs in Aleppo and Damascus. In Aleppo the Civil Defence Team once again yesterday rescued 2 little boys from the rubble of another of Assad’s attacks on civilians, HERE: In Damascus this was the moment when a regime indiscriminate, so-called “elephant” bomb, hit the already largely destroyed suburb of Zamalka, here:

Yeah huh??? When I first read this last night, I decided not to post as it was hard to believe given their history.... Its kind of weird that the article calls them Iraqi Kurds versus Peshmerga.... which is the Iraqi / Kurdistan army.... of Iraqi Kurds... I know Obama called Erdogen and it was right after they got off the telly, like a few hours, and the announcement came... Would have love to heard that conversation.... Like hey Erdogan... you might want to turn on your internet even if you've banned it for everyone else, cause the entire world is watching ya'll's police arm ISIS on your borders in droves before they head off to Kobane...and we have to drop stuff to even the playing field so someone looked sane in this... Ya'll lost the UN Security Council seat...world peeps are demanding ya'll be dropped from NATO...and the Iraqi PM had to tell you not to shoot Kurds in Iraq.... oh... and the ISIS Embassy you allowed to open in Turkey... are you frickin nuts??? Not sure why there's not much about this on the news in the US....but its all over the place around the world... The 400 reinforcements to ISIS yesterday came directly through Turkey... and Turkey turned away from the border, German, French and other EU countries who were taking medicine etc humanitarian into Kobane... Erdogan has done everything but personally shoot at the Kurds on camera...his spin in addressing these many video accusations was the worst I have ever seen ... almost schizophrenigenic and Obama must have said that we were not able to cover his alternate agenda anymore.... Hard to tell... but whatever happened... it was in direct contrast to everything Erdogan had publically stated up to that point.... And as another thought... if PYG is absorbed into Peshmerga...that would tie them more directly to Kurdistan to Iraq and therein the US control... (to the extent either one has any control over Kurdistan) I think YPG has always been very clear... send us guns to match the US weapons ISIS captured.. and we will win.... It will be interesting to see how the Peshmerga will be received...

I'm not here to defend or refute anything other than accuracy..... yes there are videos actually of "Christians" who slaughtered a passer-by "Muslim" and thereafter ate his flesh. I am not going to post the video in here but will give the link here, as well as links of other videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2kCH1u7FoU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wfvQbu8M6Y http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRKNdN0_K_k I would be among the first to say that is NOT Christian, just as there are Muslims saying that the murderous violence of ISIS is not Islam. I'm not a scholar of Islam, it's taken me decades to even approach considering myself a scholar of the Talmud or Old Testament.... Not sure what an Islamic world is... if its meant as primarily a Muslim population, than this can not be said for the Syrian Kurdish villages as well as villages in Iraq. Christians, Jews and Muslims all live and worship in their respective places of worship... they live together in harmony without the felt need to convert one to a different faith, at least not a forced conversion.... It was the primarily Muslim People's Protection Unit that saved the Kobane Christians and Jews...... Yet, there was at least one large all British unit of ISIS, most of whom had just arrived as evidenced by the airline tickets on their bodies...who wouldn't know the Quran if it slapped them in the face and were no more Muslim than my cat.... It was the primarily Muslim Kurds who went in to save the Yazidi Christians.... they risked and lost their lives saving as many Christians as they could safely get out of the area... Somewhere I have video of the primarily Muslim People's Protection Unit (YPG) risking their lives, while being fired upon, rescuing an entire school full of Christian kids, little kids... in one of the Syrian villages....In all cases these brave Muslim people saved Christian people they knew were Christian... If you doubt it, look at the pictures in my gallery.... Its very clear and you can easily tell the Christian people from the Muslim people...and it is Muslim people helping them... (Jewish not so much, probably more like the Christian).... The Christians in the ME are giving visible thanks to the Muslim people who are saving them from slaughter, and certain horrific death at the hands of the psychopaths calling themselves ISIS.... Is Islam a peaceful religion.... I don't know, I'm not a scholar of the Quran.... but once I get past the words everyone repeats, I notice the actions, in the walk and that thousands upon thousands of Christians are alive right now because Muslims specifically risked and lost their lives to save them....and for that I am grateful, with thanks to G-d. As far as ISIS goes, I do not have within me the ability to turn the other cheek at this time.. and believe it to be my responsibility to do that within my power to strike down those who would bring others harm... . .

That should have been USAF Drops Aid to Kobane

and a really big gun

USAF drops aid to Kobane

Here ya go TG Home> Politics US Airdrops Arms to Kurds in Syrian Town of Kobani WASHINGTON — Oct 19, 2014, 10:53 PM ET By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer Smoke from a fire rises following a strike in Kobani, Syria, during fighting between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014. Kobani,... View Full Caption The Associated Press The U.S. military said Sunday it had airdropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish forces defending the Syrian city of Kobani against Islamic State militants. The airdrops Sunday were the first of their kind and followed weeks of U.S. and coalition airstrikes in and near Kobani, near the Turkish border. The U.S. said earlier Sunday that it had launched 11 airstrikes overnight in the Kobani area. In a statement Sunday night, U.S. Central Command said U.S. C-130 cargo planes made multiple drops of arms and supplies provided by Kurdish authorities in Iraq. It said they were intended to enable continued resistance to Islamic State efforts to take full control of Kobani. The airdrops are almost certain to anger the Turkish government, which has said it would oppose any U.S. arms transfers to the Kurdish rebels in Syria. Turkey views the main Kurdish group in Syria as an extension of the Turkish Kurd group known as the PKK, which has waged a 30-year insurgency in Turkey and is designated a terror group by the U.S. and by NATO. In a written statement, Central Command said its forces have conducted more than 135 airstrikes against Islamic State forces in Kobani. Using an acronym for the Islamic State group, Central Command said, "Combined with continued resistance to ISIL on the ground, indications are that these strikes have slowed ISIL advances into the city, killed hundreds of their fighters and destroyed or damaged scores of pieces of ISIL combat equipment and fighting positions." In a conference call with reporters after Central Command announced the airdrops, senior administration officials said three C-130 planes dropped 27 bundles of small arms, ammunition and medical supplies. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House. One official said that while the results of the mission are still being assessed, it appeared that "the vast majority" of the supplies reached the intended Kurdish fighters. The official also said the C-130s encountered no resistance from the ground in Syria during their flights in and out of Syrian airspace.

YES !!!! USAF Multiple air drops to Kobane!!!

The Horror of ISIS... video is NOT graphic. It provides eye witness accounts of what the murderous thugs are up to... In other news, Pentagon is reviewing plans to arm directly the Syrian Kurds fighting in Kobane.... Given their ISIS head count is the highest yet in any battle... it seems the US peeps running the thing might be well advised to finally get on board....Its reported in the Wall Street Journal... and I didn't re up my subscription so can't post whole article.... Also if you are interested in this news channel.... its RT.com... Because I'm in such a dense intell area, we get it here on cable... and everyone watches it... You might also have it on your cable depending on the area... .

From Voice of America 19 Oct Volunteer aid reportedly blocked Also on Sunday, Turkish authorities have stopped civic activists from France, Germany and some other EU countries from taking much needed medicines and food supplies to Kobani, volunteers told VOA. An activist from France, Ari Harki, told VOA’s Kurdish Service from the border near Kobani that Turkish authorities are not only stopping the medical and food supplies but also preventing Kurdish fighters from reentering Syria to fight the militants. "Turkey is not only preventing us (activists) to cross the border but also Kobani’s residents who brought their kids and elders to the border area to return to the city to fight against the Islamic State," said Harki. Harki is among ten volunteers from different EU countries who are in Turkey trying to head across the border into Syria with relief goods. He told VOA that people inside Kobani are in severe need of medicines and medical supplies as most of the city’s hospitals and pharmacies have been destroyed by shelling from Islamist State militants. Strategic point Turkish and U.S. officials said last week that Islamic State fighters were on the verge of taking Kobani from its heavily outgunned Kurdish defenders, after seizing strategic points deep inside the town. The four-week Islamic State assault has been seen as a test of U.S. President Barack Obama's airstrike strategy, and Kurdish leaders said the town cannot survive without arms and ammunition reaching the defenders, something neighboring Turkey has so far refused to allow. The Islamic State group has been keen to take the town to consolidate its position in northern Syria after seizing large amounts of territory in the country and in Iraq. A defeat of Islamic State militants in Kobani would be a major setback for the Islamists and a boost for the U.S.-led, anti-Islamic State coalition. The coalition has been bombing Islamic State targets in Iraq since August and extended the campaign to Syria in September. Iraq strikes; memorials Meanwhile, Iraqi state television reports that Iraqi airstrikes have killed 60 Islamic State fighters in Anbar province. Also Saturday, the family of British aid worker David Haines, who was beheaded by the Islamic State group last month, held a memorial service in Scotland. Mourners also honored another aid worker kidnapped and murdered by the militants, Alan Henning. Islamic State militants had also beheaded two U.S. journalists - James Foley and Steven Sotloff. The militants said they killed the four Westerners to avenge U.S.-led airstrikes. But many leading Muslim officials condemned militants, calling the murders un-Islamic. VOA's Scott Bobb contributed to this report from Suruc, Turkey. Kokab Farshori from VOA's Kurdish Service also contributed. Some material for this report came from Reuters.

Kobane's defenders ally with Syria's mainstream oppositionBy Jonathon Burch 6 hours ago The YPG has been the main protection force in Rojava. Photo: AFP-Getty Images. ISTANBUL, Turkey – Syria's main Kurdish rebel group, the People's Protection Units (YPG), confirmed Sunday it was fighting alongside other rebel forces against Islamic State (ISIS) in the besieged town of Kobane and other Kurdish areas. It said it wanted to strengthen this alliance which was essential to defeating the jihadists. The announcement appeared to be the strongest rapprochement yet between the YPG and the Western- and Arab-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA), who have largely been at odds throughout Syria's civil war and at times have even clashed with each other. The union could mark a significant milestone in the fight against ISIS which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq. “The resistance shown by us, the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), and certain factions of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) is a guarantee for defeating ISIS's terrorism in the region. The success of the revolution is subject to the progression of this relationship between all factions and forces of good in this country,” the YPG said in a written statement. “We can also confirm that there is coordination between us and the important factions of the FSA in the northern countryside of Aleppo: Afrin, Kobane, and al-Jazira. Currently, there are factions and several battalions of the FSA fighting on our side against the ISIS terrorists,” it said. There have already been reports of battlefield alliances. While it follows a similar joint statement by the YPG and FSA last month, Sunday's declaration appeared to go beyond the need to combat ISIS, indicating the YPG was committed to helping the whole country, not just Kurdish areas. “We as the YPG reaffirm that we will meet all of our responsibilities towards Rojava and Syria in general,” it said, referring to the Kurdish name for the Kurdish region in northern Syria. “We will work to consolidate the concept of true partnership for the administration of this country and commensurate with the aspirations of the Syrian people with all its ethnic, religious and social classes,” it said. The YPG and the FSA, a loose group of non-Islamist rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, have had an ambiguous relationship since the start of the war three-and-a-half years ago. The FSA has accused the YPG of being allied to Assad and fears its intentions are to carve out a separate Kurdish state. For its part, the YPG has been wary to support the mostly Arab FSA over concerns the Kurds will be ignored in any post-Assad government formed by political factions allied to the FSA. The mistrust has led to both sides fighting each other, most recently in 2013. The move will likely allay the United States, which revealed last week it had held direct talks with the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the political arm of the YPG. The Kurdish fighters said they were helping the U.S.-led coalition identify ISIS targets for air strikes in the largely Kurdish town of Kobane where the YPG has been battling the jihadists for more than a month. The U.S. military said on Sunday it had carried out 11 strikes with Saudi Arabia and the UAE near Kobane over the weekend, destroying 20 ISIS fighting positions, five vehicles and two buildings held by the militants. The air strikes have helped YPG fighters hold off a siege of the town, which sits hard on Turkey's border. However, Sunday saw some of the fiercest fighting inside Kobane, which is still surrounded by ISIS, the group also known as ISIL. The Islamist militants want to seize the town in order to consolidate their grip on a large swath of the Turkish border. The YPG announcement will also go some way to appease Turkey, which is at odds with the YPG and the PYD and has long called for them to join the main Syrian opposition. Ankara is opposed to the PYD because of its close links to a Kurdish militant group in Turkey, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has been fighting the state for 30 years. Ankara has refused to intervene in Kobane, angering Kurds on both sides of the border. Despite this the PYD's co-leader, Salih Muslim, has held talks with Turkish officials in Turkey as recently as this month. Apart from joining the main Syrian opposition, Turkey wants the PYD to distance itself from the PKK and to relinquish any ties it says the group has with the Assad government, which Ankara sees as the main instigator of unrest in Syria and which it wants to see overthrown. While the PYD does not want Turkey's military to get involved in Kobane, it wants it to allow the free passage of weapons and fighters across its soil into the beleaguered town, a request Ankara has refused. On Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan repeated that position. “There has been talk of arming the PYD to establish a front here against the Islamic State. For us, the PYD is the same as the PKK, it’s a terrorist organisation,” Erdogan was quoted as saying by local media. “It would be very, very wrong to expect us to openly say ‘yes’ to our NATO ally America giving this kind of support. To expect something like this from us is impossible." Turkey's refusal to help has sparked deadly riots across Turkey's predominantly Kurdish southeast and is threatening a fragile two-year peace process between Ankara and the PKK. It has also frustrated Washington, which wants Turkey to take a more active role in the coalition fighting ISIS. But despite the tension, the United States has attempted to dismiss any rift between the two NATO allies and on Sunday the White House said President Barack Obama had phoned Erdogan to discuss the situation in Kobane and “pledged to continue to work closely together to strengthen cooperation against ISIL”.