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Command General Nalin Afrin sends what she believes is her last message: Published on Oct 12, 2014 Breaking news: New video shows ISIS terrorist organisation Tanks inside Kobani, Kurdish female commander in Kobani sending flowing last msg to the world: Dear United nation as you see in this video , ISIS using heavy weapon specially Tank and attacking us inside Kobani , unfortunately we don’t have anti-Tank until we can defend civilian, We are still defending town, but our weapon is only very light weapon with limited bullet Please send us humanitarian aid and weapon especially Anti-tank now. Thousands of civilian still inside the town, as they can’t go anywhere, all around us blocked, only one side was open and that has been blocked by Turkey. Another msg to the NATO: Dear NATO general secretary This is very heart broking when NATO member- Turkey detained Kobani refugee in Turkey and blocked kobane town border shoulder to shoulder ISIS, And NATO just sitting, watching and waiting to see all civilian behead by ISIS As soon as possible. Another msg to all human right organisation around the world and to all women organisation around the world: the fight in here is a fight to save human, is a fight to against terrorist organisation, is a fight for all of us, its fight for freedom please help us now, if you don’t help us they will come to you one day. We will fight until last bullet to save civilian, but don’t forget it’s been 28 days we are fighting and all around us blocked, we need your help now, please act now, tomorrow will be so late 12/October 2014 Kobane, Kurdish town Kurdish control zone -Syria-Turkey border

This was as of approximately 9 hours ago.... the huge Twitter campaign #airdrop2kobane seems to be making an impression on the US administration MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — Kurdish fighters have been able to halt the advance of the Islamic State extremist group in the Syrian border town of Kobani, where the U.S.-led coalition has been carrying out airstrikes for more than two weeks, activists said Sunday. The coalition, which is targeting the militants in and around Kobani, conducted at least two airstrikes Sunday on the town, according to an Associated Press journalist. The U.S. Central Command said warplanes from the United States, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates conducted four airstrikes in Syria on Saturday and Sunday, including three in Kobani that destroyed an Islamic State fighting position and staging area. The Syrian Kurdish enclave has been the scene of heavy fighting since late last Month, with the heavily armed Islamic State fighters determined to capture the border post and deal a symbolic blow to the coalition air campaign. The extremist group has carved out a vast stretch of territory stretching hundreds of miles from northern Syria to the outskirts of Baghdad and imposed a harsh version of Islamic rule. The fighters have massacred hundreds of captured Iraqi and Syrian soldiers, terrorized religious minorities, and beheaded two American journalists and two British aid workers. The U.S. has been speaking with Turkish officials about stepped up efforts to equip and train Syrian rebels battling both the Islamic State group and forces loyal to President Bashar Assad. U.S. and European military officials will travel to Turkey this week to meet with officials there and discuss the different ways Turkey can contribute. this kind of political mumbo jumbo is reprehensible, outrageous and disgraceful... Contribute?!?! Are you serious?!?! We are going to trust the very people that are letting the only ground force fighting ISIS get slaughtered!?! Have you lost your frickin mind?!?!?!? On Sunday, a Turkish government official confirmed that Ankara has agreed with the U.S. to train 4,000 Syrian opposition fighters vetted by Turkish intelligence. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record. View photos  A Turkish Kurd, standing in Mursitpinar, in the outskirts of Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, watc … The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Islamic State militants have not been able to advance in Kobani since Friday but are sending in reinforcements. The Observatory's chief, Rami Abdurrahman, said the group appears to have a shortage of fighters and has brought in members of its religious police known as the Hisbah to take part in the battles. Since the offensive on Kobani began, some 550 people have been killed, including about 300 Islamic State fighters, 225 Kurdish gunmen and 20 civilians, said the Observatory, which relies on a network of activists across Syria. It said the number of jihadists killed could be much higher. Farhad Shami, a Kurdish activist in Kobani reached by phone from Beirut, said the town was "relatively quiet" on Sunday apart from sniper fire. He said Islamic State fighters launched an offensive south of the town on Saturday but were repelled and lost many fighters. "There are large numbers of dead fighters for Daesh who were either killed by the People's Protection Units or the (coalition) airstrikes," Shami said, referring to the main Kurdish force and using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group. He said Kurdish fighters also were able to regain the border village of Tel Shair west of Kobani. View photos  Thick smoke, debris and fire rise following an airstrike by the US-led coalition in Kobani, Syria as … Abdurrahman said 36 jihadi fighters were killed in Kobani on Saturday. The jihadists control more than a third of the town. Meanwhile in Beirut, hundreds of Kurds marched through the streets of the city to the U.N. headquarters. They chanted pro-Kurdish slogans and called on the world to help those fighting in Kobani, where more than 200,000 people have fled across the border into Turkey. In Cairo, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters on the sidelines of a Gaza reconstruction conference on Sunday that "thousands of lives are at stake" in the town. I once again call on all parties that can act to step up to prevent a massacre and protect civilians at Kobani," he said. ___ Turkey is allowing ISIS to replenish its arms and people as well as allowing ISIS past their borders for hospital care.... while at the same time refusing any humanitarian aid, and/or allowing the now thousands of Kurdish volunteers past its borders to assist Kobani. IF Kobani falls, ISIS will have a portal to transport arms and people through Turkey and will be strategically reprehensible in stopping ISIS. It would likewise bolster ISIS in then being able to boast it defeated the US military coalition.... I'm beyond gobsmacked that any strategic plan would allow this... or that the administration didn't see this as a strategic opportunity.... (I need to stop here... lest I say things I wouldn't want to) G-d Bless Kobani with His Mercy

Against every odd possible, those people are still holding out, killing ISIS terrorists, and without any help from the world leaders. Fortunately, the world's people have a voice. Apparently this tweet is now #1 in the US. There are reports that this has made a difference, and the USAF has started more aggressive air strikes. I've been able to confirm that. Biden said "We Will Follow ISIS to the Gates of Hell", lets help him figure out how to do that. Tweet and then pass it on: #Airdrop2Kobane

And it was the Kurds, who are facing certain massacre because the world's most powerful militaries can't seem to help them... who risked their lives when no one else would, and went in to save as many of the Yazidi people they could....G-d's Mercy and Blessing for this child and all those children put in harm's way because of a lack of political will to do anything about it......

Thanks for the update Butifldrm!! I know the CDC is hellbent on minimizing the panic coupled with telling everyone what a frickin good job they are doing... and no worries..... though I do wish they would intersperse that with a bit of education in telling people practical ways to minimize infection.... We have to live our lives, and there are practical things everyone can do.... for example put liquid band-aid or just plain band-aids on every single cut, even the tiny ones, I don't care if its a hang-nail.... or use the sides of your hands to push the grocery cart, keep your hands away from your eyes and nose, don't share food or drink, build your immune system, and on and on....,

I don't honestly know as to the credibility of this journal, however this particular article was written by a former senior security policy analyst in the office of the Secretary of Defense.... Source: Secret deal could doom 160,000 to ISIS WASHINGTON, D.C. – A secret decision apparently has been made by the United States, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and even Iran to let the strategic Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani on the Turkish-Syrian border fall to ISIS fighters, jeopardizing the lives of some 160,000 Syrian Kurds, WND has been told by a well-placed Middle East expert. In letting Kobani fall to ISIS, the source said, there was agreement “to deal with ISIS later.” The apparent decision aims to diminish the influence of the Kurds in Syria and weaken the prospect of creating a sovereign Kurdistan, which is sought by the Kurds not only in Syria, but in Turkey, Iran and Iraq.. “It is a real set up behind the backs of everyone,” the well-placed source told WND. Ankara has brought its tanks up to the Turkish-Syrian border in sight of Kobani but has not committed any troops to stop the ISIS siege of the Kurdish city. Meanwhile, the Syrian Kurds have been appealing for arms and ammunition in addition to aerial bombing by the U.S.-led coalition of Arab countries on ISIS positions. Sources on the ground, however, say the bombing has become virtually meaningless, since ISIS fighters have blended into the population, requiring more fighters on the ground. The Syrian Kurds have been fighting ISIS just as their counterparts in Iraq, the Kurdish peshmerga, have been doing to keep ISIS from taking over their territory, which comprises some of the largest oil reserves in Iraq and Syria. The Turks have resisted assisting the Kurds since Ankara for years has been battling the Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK, which seeks to carve out a portion of the border countries to create Kurdistan. For Turkey, the Syrian and Turkish Kurds occupy valuable oil resources sought by the energy-deficient Turks. In addition, the Kurds have an alliance with the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad, whom the Turks want to see overthrown in favor of a Sunni-run government. However, ISIS clearly is the only predominant Sunni group in a position to take over, since it already has grabbed much of northeastern Syria and western and central Iraq to form its caliphate, which it seeks to govern under strict Islamic law, or Shariah. For Turkey, an ISIS takeover of Kobani would help split up the Iraqi Kurds from the Syrian Kurds, further diminishing the chance for a united Kurdistan. At the same time, it would give ISIS a northern bridge between Iraq and Syria, which it hasn’t had until now. Consequently, not only will the Turks refuse to commit combat troops, so will the U.S. Because of the Kurds’ ties not only with Syrian President Assad but also with Iran, sources say the U.S. doesn’t want to leave the impression it is bolstering Assad and working with Iran by providing further assistance to the Syrian Kurds beyond aerial bombings. There are questions concerning the extent to which the Iranians went along with the secret deal to let Kobani fall to ISIS. As WND reported, there have been calls in recent days within Iran for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps to assist the Syrian Kurds, prompting demonstrations of support in a number of Iranian cities. As a signal of Iran’s concern, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham warned of a humanitarian catastrophe in Kobani. “Iran will soon send humanitarian aid for the residents and refugees in this area through the Syrian government,” Afkham said. Shiite Iran is a major supporter of the government of Assad, a Shiite-Alawite. Iran’s deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, has made it clear that Iran doesn’t want Turkish troops inside Syria. Iran now is in discussions with Turkey to return some 200,000 Kurds who have fled Syria for refuge in Turkey. At the same time, Amir-Abdollahian made clear Iran “will take any necessary action to help the Kurds in Kobani in line with its support for the Syrian government in its fight against terrorism.” The WND source said Iran’s interest in wanting to help the Kurds is “just a front,” since Iran, like Turkey, has opposed an independent Kurdistan carved out of western Iran, which, like the Kurdish portions of Turkey, Iraq and Syria, have rich oil deposits. Although Tehran wants to show support for the Kurds because of their backing of Assad, it nonetheless may be more concerned about the repeated historical efforts by the Kurds to establish their own Kurdish state. There are strong ethnic, linguistic and cultural ties between the Kurds and Iran. However, Tehran doesn’t want to see the Kurds taking over its western oil reserves.

IF doing an autopsy on the decision making of both administrations involved with Iraq did any good right now, that would be great.... but it won't. Like Jax says, times have changed and we move on.... And for the record BOTH administrations made some profound strategic errors for whatever reason.... we are human... we do that... hopefully we learn from them, make corrections and move on.. I admire Bush's management style of supporting the guy in the field doing the job. However, the entire fabric of Iraq would be different (how is another question of course), but would be different had he found a way to back off Bremer's decision. But instead, Bremer's decision which he announced one day and implemented the next, to fire 400,000 Iraqi army soldiers overnight and therein send 400,000 now unemployed and really angry mostly Sunni soldiers home with guns, totally obliterated the US plan to use that same Iraqi army to help stabilize Iraq when we left..... And frankly I think Bremer pulled a massively nasty stunt in terms of how he announced his essentially unilateral decision, and put Bush in a really tough spot, but we are talking leadership. Had Bush been able to back him off and instead follow the advice of his Command General's who were in and Commanded the troops in Iraq, those soldiers would have been available to stabilize Iraq as planned. Colin Powell minces no words in recalling we went to Rice and said wtf over.... we need these people and Rice said, Bremer is in charge there is no debating the decision. .... Further, had Bush included military Command officers in the decision to sign an agreement that we would leave in 2011, they would have advised him that building an Army almost exclusively from the not so angry Shites, and re building a military infra structure from scratch, with only 5-6 years experience by 2011,.... such a date would be premature and ill-advised.... And the truth is he signed and we were bound by it. It is also true that no one was willing to leave any US soldier in Iraq without demanding that legal jurisdiction would remain with the US military and no US soldier would come under Iraq courts or Iraq law for trial for any reason. That date was hard, and no one was going to agree to subject US military personnel to Iraqi laws. Panetta is quite clear he believes that Obama could have negotiated stronger in crafting a new SOFA. I'm not sure if it's clear that Panetta's belief we should have left troops in Iraq meant within the context of a new agreement.... He did not ever advocate US troops should have been left there without this agreement....(overt versus covert) and It appears as if people are neglecting this detail.. or maybe he didn't flesh it out clearly enough in his statements... I also don't know why he thinks Obama could have done more to negotiate this and next time I see him I am definitely going to ask him. However, he was there, and I have no reason to doubt his convictions that Obama could have done more.... much more ....to craft a new agreement to protect those troops we would leave in place...It didn't happen, it should have happened and because it didn't no responsible Command Officer would ever leave their troops in that country without that protection. .... And yes currently, I see way too much that's not okay and still happening....Anyone reading any of my recent posts regarding Kobane have probably figured out that I'm not even remotely okay with the current engagement activities to eliminate ISIS under the command of this administration... and apparently as of this weekend, there are hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of people filling the streets all over the world who see it the same way... YA wanna stop the jihad of ISIS? Figure out why no one bothered striking thousands of them crossing open fields in daylight with really big weapons you could have seen from the outer rims of space.... OR, for that matter, why we're still not arming the only people on the ground who are actually killing them.... I'm all for moving on... I'm just trying to figure out who exactly this administration thinks the enemy is, cause apparently grain silos have presented more of a threat than has ISIS?

Ya know, its going to be so much harder bullshatting the public, with political razzle dazzle when Youtube evidence says it all... This is ISIS crossing over into Turkey, and Kurd snipers taking them out nonetheless... its from last week... but whining that ISIS is not crossing freely into Turkey is big bad lie... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7JvOoFYX3M

14 year old soldier joining in the fight against ISIS

And yet it remains.... isn't the whole point ..no matter where they go, ...would it not be better to send them from the ME and NOT our borders??? IF... and that's becoming a really HUGE IF..... IF we are there to stop ISIS... why are we not supporting actual people on the ground who are not only moderate, but are actually fighting on the side of those actually chosen by the US to arm......and are they are actually stopping them?.... How can it possibly escape the attention of anyone that the entire world is out protesting calling for support of these fighters in Kobane, who are actually killing ISIS and not grain silos.... and yet the one force actually accomplishing something is left to die for doing so? The significance of this battle can NOT be overstated on so many levels... Why are major news channels actually jibber jabbing about the threat of ISIS to US borders and not demanding we arm the one group that seems to be effectively stopping them... They are killing ISIS.... Not bombing grain silos and post offices... Did you know that Turkey is allowing wounded ISIS fighters past their borders and load them into ambulances to be taken to Turkish hospitals?? An American over there witnessed it over and over again, while being detained by the Turks at the border? Or that Turkey is stopping any and all assistance going into Kobane,? Massive numbers of Kurds wanting to go to their assistance are turned away, and now people are dying at the border in squirmishes trying to get over there.... Or that ISIS is replenishing their arms through Turkish borders? It goes on and on... At the very least, and apart from worrying about where they go after they die.... There are a whole bunch of incredibly brave people fighting to kill them and are willing to sacrifice their lives to do so... And despite protests literally across the world.... not one country is coming to their aid in any kind of committed support for them in stopping ISIS..... If you're really worried about ISIS, then do something ... cause you can do something... sign the White House petition, email your senators, focus on the target... cause it sure as heck seems that none of our world leaders are all that concerned about really stopping them.... BTW CentCom Public Affairs can be reached at (813) 529-0214... Or, maybe if enough of us send them the youtube links they can get a better fix on what's needed... . This is the daily update report from the YPG: KOBANE CANTON_ It is 26 days Since 15th September, terrorists linked to ISIS have been trying to occupy Kobane, hurt the Kurdish people's will, but YPG/YPJ fighters are creating heroic epics every hour ; repulsing their attacks with a great will and steadfast. We the people's Defense Units( YPG) continue to fight mercenaries back and not let them to achieve their goals ,since they fired on civilian areas near the border with heavy weapons. On the eastern front; severe clashes have erupted between our fighters and ISIS terrorists lasted till morning , in turn our forces have launched a special operation in order to halt ISIS advancing, as a result 29 terrorists have been killed. Elsewhere on southern front ; terrorists tried yesterday , using all kind of heavy weapons including tanks, rockets and artillery, to attack our trenches but they failed and our fighter repelled them leaving 17 terrorists killed. On western front; our units carried out, yesterday, another special operation targeted enemy's positions which left two vehicles destroyed and 22 terrorists killed. Every moment in this historic resistance, our fighters are sacrificing their souls without hesitating, for that we know that victory is ours. Five of our comrades martyred defending this land. We in turn pledge again to be the thorn in enemy's throat , those are humanity's enemy , for everybody to know that we never surrender, Kobane shall be a graveyard and hell for such terrorists. About the US-led coalition alliance air strikes against ISIS positions; despite the air strikes were very effective two days ago, it was less sufficient recently. We call upon the US -led coalition to increase air strikes in order to weaken ISIS artillery force and heavy weaponry. YPG Media Centre 11.10.2014

The General Commander of the entire YPG force defending the city of Kobani is a woman.... Nalin Afrin, The YPG signed a pact with FSA, who in turn the US supports and arms. Not sure why the Press Secretary / Rear Admiral, didn't get the memo in terms of having reliable partners on the ground...

This is 1 hour ago..... Video shows the shooting action, picture below confirms he is one of the ISIS commanders... . WARNING: Following Picture is of the dead ISIS commander

Kurds still holding them off... the Kurd HQ was NOT their major post... Still holding the city center

My buddy says Turkey is about to blow up over this... far beyond that of days past..... As Kurdish fighters continue to battle ISIL in the Syrian town of Kobani, close to the border with Turkey, both Kurdish leaders and the UN have warned of an imminent bloodbath at the hands of extremists. Despite US-led airstrikes, ISIL forces appear on the verge of overrunning the town.Turkey has troops and tanks lined up along the border within a few hundred yards of the fighting, but has so far refused to intervene, despite pleas from the UN. The Turkish government is demanding a buffer zone and no-fly zone be set up in Syria before they get involved. The US has refused, and critics say the buffer zone would be used as an excuse for Turkey to crush the Kurds in the region. There is also anger among Turkish Kurds who are being blocked from crossing into Syria to fight ISIL. One local man said: “If Turkey stays silent, it will be much worse, we know this. In every corner around Turkey, there will be war, people will die, shops will be burned down, cars will be set on fire, people will die. You can already see people’s reactions. People will start attacking soldiers, attacking police. A big massacre could happen.” The fate of Kobani has led to violent street protests across the country which have left at least 37 dead. The Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has dismissed the demonstrations saying they will never force him to change his foreign policy. “Both those layabouts, and the leaders who hold their strings in hand, should be aware that Turkey is not a country to be intimidated by street protests and change direction,” Erdogan told a rally. In Dusseldorf, Germany, thousands of people gathered on Saturday to demand more support for the Kurds in Syria and Iraq and that more pressure be put on Turkey to help.

Long, but pretty much addresses the emergent questions as to what's really going on over there and if nothing else ...is a fairly concise framework with which to make sense out of why we are not doing what we said we were... Another humanitarian catastrophe may be just hours away at Kobani. The latter is the Syrian Kurdish town on the border with Turkey that is now surrounded by ISIS tanks and is being pounded day after day by ISIS heavy artillery. Already this lethal phalanx, which fuses 21st century American technology and equipment with 12th century religious fanaticism, has rolled through dozens of Kurdish villages and towns in the region around Kobani, sending 180,000 refugees fleeing for their lives across the border. Self-evidently the lightly armed Kurdish militias desperately holding out in Kobani are fighting the right enemy—-that is, the Islamic State. So why has Obama’s grand coalition not been able to relieve the siege? Why haven’t American bombers and cruise missiles, for instance, been able to destroy the American tanks and artillery which a terrifying band of butchers has brought to bear on several hundred thousand innocent Syrian Kurds who have made this enclave their home for more than a century? Why has not NATO ally Turkey, with a 600,000 man military, 3,500 tanks and 1,000 modern aircraft and helicopters, done anything meaningful to help the imperiled Kurds? why doesn’t Turkey put some infantry and spotters on the ground—-highly trained “boots” that are literally positioned a few kilometers away on its side of the border? Well, Turkish President Erdogan just explained his government’s reluctance quite succinctly, as reported by Bloomberg on Saturday: For us, ISIL and the (Kurdish) PKK are the same,” Erdogan said in televised remarks today in IstanbulAnd that’s literally true because from Turkey’s vantage point the Kobani showdown is a case of terrorist-on-terrorist. The Kurdish fighters in Kobani are linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party or PKK. The latter has waged a separatist campaign of armed insurrection and terror inside and around Turkey for 30-years and has long been considered Turkey’s top security threat. In fact, Turkey has received untold amounts of US aid, equipment and intelligence over the years to help suppress this uprising. That’s the reason that PKK is officially classified as a “terrorist” group by the U.S. and the government in Ankara. And, no, the Syrian and Turkish Kurds so classified as terrorists are not some black sheep cousins of the “good guy” Kurds in Erbil and northeastern Iraq that CNN parades every night as America’s heroic ally on the ground. They are all part of the greater Kurdish nation of some 30 million who inhabit southeastern Turkey, northeastern Syria and Iraq and western Iran. Taken together, these Kurdish enclaves comprise the single largest ethnic population in the Middle East that does not have its own state, and which has been a source of irredentist conflict and instability for decades. As a matter of fact, Erdogan has been pursuing a rapprochement with the Turkish Kurds for the better part of the last decade and had actually made progress in quelling the violence and initiating a political solution. Yet Washington’s two latest campaigns of “regime change” could not have been more inimical to a peaceful resolution of the region’s long-festering Kurdish problem. And, of course, the historic roots of that problem were served up by the West 100 years ago when its strip pants diplomats carved out borders that gave practically every major ethnic group their own nation, except the Kurds. In that context, the Bush/neocon destruction of Saddam’s dictatorship in Iraq paved the way for fragmentation of the Sykes-Picot borders and the de facto partition of Iraq, including a rump Kurdish state in the northeast. Then Washington’s foolish delusion that it was spending $25 billion to train and equip an “Iraqi army” added fuel to the fire. The so-called Iraqi army was never a national military arm of the Iraqi state because the latter had already failed owing to the onslaught of the US “liberation” and occupation. Instead, it was a glorified Shiite militia whose members had no interest in dying to protect or hold Sunni lands in the west and north. So the “Iraqi army’s” American arms, abandoned wholesale and then captured by ISIS, literally created the necessity for the Syrian Kurds to mobilize and arm themselves in self defense. Presently, another rump Kurdish state rose along much of Turkey’s 560-mile Syrian border. The original trigger for that development had actually been Anderson Cooper’s War to liberate the Syrian people from the brutish but secular regime that ruled them in Damascus. It too set off forces of fragmentation and partition that have now come home to roost in Kobani. Thus, after the Arab spring uprising in 2011, the US ambassador to Syria pulled the equivalent of what we now call a “Yats” or an organized campaign to overthrow the government to which he was accredited; and in short order the R2P ladies aid society in the White House (Susan Rice and Samantha Powers) made the State Department’s maneuvering to undermine Syria’s constitutionally elected government official policy, proclaiming that Bashar Assad “has to go”. In no time, the Kurdish enclaves in Syria essentially declared their independence, and reached a modus vivendi with Damascus. Namely, they would keep Assad’s main enemy—the majority Sunni Arabs—-out of the Kurdish enclaves on the central and eastern Syrian border with Turkey in return for being left alone and exempt from visitations by the Syrian air force. Needless to say, that looked to the Turks like collaboration with Assad—whose removal from power ranks far higher on Ankara’s priority scale than making war on ISIS. On the other hand, Turkey’s proposal to staunch the flood of Kurdish and other Syrian refugees across its border by occupying a 20 mile “buffer zone” inside Syria is seen by the Kurds as a plot against them. As Bloomberg explains, Kurds say the plan is aimed at crushing their nascent autonomous administration, carved out during Syria’s three-year civil war as Assad’s government lost control of their part of the country. Turkey says the Syrian Kurds are collaborating with Assad and should have been fighting him.Meanwhile, the modern-day George Washington of the Kurdish peoples, Abdullah Ocalan, who has languished in a Turkish prison on an island outside Istanbul since 1999, warns that if Turkey does not come to the aid of Kobani his negotiations with Erdogan might end and the three decade civil war which had resulted in 40,000 Turkish deaths might resume. Yet as one expert in the region further explained to Bloomberg, coming to the aid of the Kurdish militia affiliated with the PKK would go beyond the pale for Ankara: It’s “unthinkable” for Turkey to go beyond that and assist PKK-linked groups such as the Syrian Kurds, according to Nihat Ali Ozcan, an analyst at the Economic Policy Research Foundation in Ankara. “No Turkish politician can explain to the public why the government is aiding the PKK and its affiliated groups after fighting against it for 30 years,” he said by phone. In short, the region’s logical bulwark against ISIS—-the huge, modern, lethal Turkish military—is stymied by a tide of Kurdish irredentism that Washington’s “regime change” policy has elicited all around it and within Turkey’s own borders. In fact, it now has two rump Kurdistan’s on its borders and its huge internal Kurdish population bestirred and mobilized in a pan-Kurdish drama. Rather than progressing toward internal political settlement, the Kurdish political leadership in Ankara—-which has supported Erdogan in return for lavish economic development funds in Kurdish areas—is now openly critical: “The people of Kobani feel deserted and furious,” Faysal Sariyildiz, another pro-Kurdish legislator, said yesterday. The current activities of the Turkish military on the border check-by-jowl with the ISIS militants laying siege to Kobani say it all. On the one hand, they are managing the flow of Syrian Kurdish refugees desperately fleeing across the border. At the same time, they are systematically attempting to stop the inflow of native Turkish Kurd fighters streaming toward Kobani to join the defense of their kinsmen. Ankara clearly does not want Turkish Kurds to become battle-trained in urban warfare. So far, however, they have apparently not fired even a single round of artillery at the ISIS-manned American tanks that are within a kilometer of an epic slaughter in Kobani. Vice-President Biden was right for once. Washington has no real allies in the region because they all have another agenda. Turkey is focused on its near enemy in the Kurdish regions and its far enemy in Damascus, not the ISIS butchers who have laid claim to the Sunni lands of Euphrates valley in parts of what used to be Iraq and Syria. The Qataris want Assad gone and a new government—even one controlled by ISIS—which will grant them a pipeline concession through Syria in order to tap the giant European market for their immense natural gas reserves. Likewise, the Saudi’s want to destroy the Assad regime because it is allied with their Shiite enemy across the Persian Gulf in Iran and because they fear their own abused Shiite populations which are concentrated in their oilfield regions. Consequently, they see the fight against ISIS as essentially a pretext for escalating their war against Damascus, and are not even interested in bombing the non-ISIS jihadi like the Nusra Front that they see as allies in the campaign against Assad. At the end of the day, Obama’s air campaign amounts to nothing more than a glorified international air force training exercise. Pilots and air crews from the UK, Denmark, Belgium, France, Australia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan etc. will get to run a few live fire sorties at politically correct targets. So the Brits will bomb in Iraq but not Syria; the Saudi’s will bomb ISIS targets close to Assad-held territories, but NOT Nusra Front positions; and the Qataris will go along for the ride pretending to help, even as they preserve deniability that they ever dropped an actual bomb for that day down the road when they seek to make a pipeline deal with the Islamic State. Never in recorded history has the US conducted a more feckless, pointless, and strategically irrational war. Indeed, the real lesson is that by inserting itself into tribal and sectarian conflicts in these pockets of anarchy Washington only succeeds in generating more of the same. That is exactly what the siege of Kobani is all about. So maybe Joe Biden could explain this to the big thinkers in the White House. If the Turks are unwilling to stop an easily preventable mass slaughter by ISIS on their own doorstep what kind of fractured and riven coalition has Washington actually assembled? And how will this coalition of the disingenuous, the hypocritical and the politically opportunistic ever succeed in bringing peace and stability to the historic cauldron of tribal and religious conflict in Mesopotamia and the Levant that two decades of Washington’s wars and regime change interventions have only drastically intensified? By all accounts and as so dramatically portrayed by the siege of Kobani, eliminating the threat of ISIS is not now, nor was it ever the target of Washington's coalition. The American people have been led into a disingenuous war leaving the world to wonder what if anything, will happen to engage accountability in redirecting the focus on the ISIS target they were sold.

Ohhhh I'm awake, and that's about all I can say about that.... Evil happens when ready and willing good men are under a Command to do nothing....

Air Force perspective on air strikes against ISIS... frustration and anger beyond the pale... Within the U.S. Air Force, there’s mounting frustration that the air campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq is moving far more slowly than expected. Instead of a fast-moving operation with hundreds of sorties flown in a single day—the kind favored by many in the air service—American warplanes are hitting small numbers of targets after a painstaking and cumbersome process. The single biggest problem, current and former Air Force officers say, is the so-called kill-chain of properly identifying and making sure the right target is being attacked. At the moment, that process is very complicated and painfully slow. “The kill-chain is very convoluted,” one combat-experienced Air Force A-10 Warthog pilot told The Daily Beast. “Nobody really has the control in the tactical environment.” A major reason why: the lack of U.S. ground forces to direct American air power against ISIS positions. Air power, when it is applied in an area where the enemy is blended in with the civilian population, works best when there are troops on the ground who are able to call in strikes. From the sky, it can be hard to tell friend from foe. And by themselves, the GPS coordinates used to guide bombs aren’t nearly precise enough; landscape and weather can throw the coordinates off by as much as 500 feet. The planes need additional information from the guys on the ground. The only other option is to use laser-guided bombs, but even then the target has to be correctly indentified beforehand. But putting the specialized troops the Pentagon calls “Joint Terminal Air Controllers,” or JTACs, into combat comes with a cost. “The problem with putting JTACs on the ground is that once you get American boots on the ground—and one of those guys gets captured and beheaded on national TV or media,” the A-10 pilot said. The Pentagon has compensated for this, in part, by easing back in Syria on the restrictive rules used in Afghanistan to minimize civilian casualties. But in many other aspects, current and former Air Force personnel say, U.S. Central Command is fighting the war against ISIS in largely the same way it operates against the Taliban in Afghanistan. “The strategic problem posed by [iSIS] is different than that in Afghanistan,” one former senior Air Force official said. “So the similarity of the minimal application of airpower, along with excessive micromanagement by the CENTCOM bureaucracy, is a symptom of not recognizing that this is a different strategic problem.” After all, ISIS isn’t simply a collection of terrorists. The group holds territory, and manages an inventory of heavy military and civilian equipment. There’s a reason they call themselves the Islamic State. So instead of worrying about individual air strikes, this former official said, the CENTCOM needs to run a wider more free-ranging air war where more targets are hit much more quickly. “Very few in the military today have experience in planning and executing a comprehensive air campaign—their experience is only in the control of individual strikes against individual targets,” the official added. “There needs to be constant 24/7 overwatch, and immediate attack of any [iSIS] artillery, people, vehicles, or facilities that they are occupying.” But that is a view shared mainly by those within the Air Force—which has, for decades, argued that it has the ability to win wars though strategic bombing. Even in the case of the campaign against ISIS, there are many officers from the Army, Navy and even the Air Force who told The Daily Beast that they agree with the restraint shown by CENTCOM leadership—noting it is pointless to bomb the wrong target and antagonize the local population. Further, the challenge for CENTCOM is further compounded by the lack of workable intelligence in Syria. It’s hard to untangle the convoluted alliances and entanglements between friend or foe. Often, so-called moderate rebel forces cooperate with the hardcore Islamic fighters in their fight against the Syrian government or even ISIS. (That’s why, late last month, a moderate camp was almost hit by an allied airstrike; the bombs were meant for the al Qaeda outpost next door.) Additionally, there is little to no cooperation or coordination with moderate rebel forces and the U.S. military. “The kill-chain is very convoluted. Nobody really has the control in the tactical environment.”Because of those factors, there are often too few suitable targets to attack, sources told The Daily Beast. A partial solution to that—even though it is not quite as effective as having troops on the ground—is to use an airborne controller. That usually means a low, slow flying warplane like the Air Force’s A-10 Warthog, which can stay in a target area for a long time and tell other aircraft where to drop their weapons. “It doesn’t have to be an A-10, it can be an Apache [attack helicopter], but they are slow and vulnerable—so that’s one drawback for a helicopter vice fixed-wing,” the A-10 pilot said. He conceded that the Air Force does have some F-15E Strike Eagle supersonic fighter-bomber crews who are trained to do that mission too. The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps also use the supersonic F/A-18 Hornet strike fighter to guide other jets to their targets. Right now, there are no Warthogs deployed to the fight against ISIS, however the Indiana Air National Guard will send a dozen of the jets to the area this month. The Army, however, has deployed some AH-64 Apache gunships into Iraq to strike at ISIS from close in. “We’re using AH-64s because they’re the best platform to get in and visually identify the targets and either take them out or designate for someone else to take them out,” said one former Army aviator with extensive Apache experience. “ISIS does have armor, so Hellfires [anti-tank missiles] will be very effective against them, and we all know how devastating a weapon the 30mm [cannon] is against troops.” But the Apaches are short range and need maintenance troops to deploy with them into a location within Iraq itself. “The only disadvantage is contrary to President Obama, we definitely have ‘boots on the ground,’” the former Army officer said. “They’re unsupportable otherwise.” There’s another reason the campaign against ISIS is proceeding slowly: the unwieldy coalition of foreign countries put together by the U.S. to fight in this new war. There are differing ways of doing things and different countries have different objectives, which makes for a long process, the A-10 pilot said. There have also been instances during this air war when combat aircraft are not available in time to strike a target that pops up. For example, the A-10 pilot said, if a Predator drone finds a target, it can take warplanes like a B-1 bomber or an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter—up to two hours sometimes—to arrive at the target area. Often times, the target is simply gone by then. “You bring in assets like the A-10 or Apaches, and you bring them in close, that’s a whole lot easier to handle,” the A-10 pilot said. “That’s one way to speed it up.” Kinda makes ya wonder what the whole buzz about Air Strikes really means when it comes to eliminating ISIS

This just hit the wire from the Kurds in Kobane...I'm posting in here in case anyone is interested in following up with a strategic means of eliminating as many of the ISIS threat as possible while they are still in the ME.... Again this was sent out by the Kobani Kurds (which explains the English / grammer) ... MUST WATCH very very important thing about the situation and the conflict between isis and kurds and the rest of the world (current event) Please the peaceful and the real humans and the real supporters of humanity sign this and tell the other supporters and friends to also do so. . You can save lives you can save your future you can help you brothers and systers by sign Officially arm the People's Protection Unit (YPG) of Syria to defend ISIS from destroying the Kobane community. it will take max 3 minutes for you to sign this help you kurdish brothers to fight back these Isis subhumans and killers who want to destory this world https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/officially-arm-peoples-protection-unit-ypg-syria-defend-isis-destroying-kobane-community/MqkGM32Y Enter this site and sign please Thank you ! YPG With American weapons = many dead Muslim men in hell... .YPG/YPJ are holding back isis right now in kobani with old russian weapons and they have to kill isis to get ammo its 1700 ypg fighters vs 10000 subhumans bloodsuckers . half of these kurdish fighters are girls and they are still fighting back isis if you want to do something good sign this please !. You dont want these isis back in europe or the US so help to destroy them !!

Looks like someone woke up and saw an opportunity....Oh gee... lots of ISIS in one place.... The US apparently started more aggressive bombing...... waiting for them to get into the city... but bombing nonetheless.... If for no other reason it might be interesting to check out this video as it gives very good perspective as to just how very close Kobani is to Turkish border... Those people you see in the fields and the three you see in lower left hand corner by that tree? They are on Turkish soil watching and cheering what's going on in Kobani... They are that close... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1_ErOOkFVY

Anonymous weighs in regarding Kobane / Kobani, Turkey and ISIS .....announcing the engagement of campaigns against those who support ISIS... . Its not clear why the US has not bombed the very visible 9000 ISIS troops traversing open land in broad highly visible daylight, or the slowly lumbering ISIS tanks strolling up and down large open fields in the bright light of high noon... Nor has there been a stated as to why Turkey, the second largest military in NATO, has likewise not engaged the 9000 ISIS openly walking only meters away from their border.... or why Turkish tanks are lined up neatly with guns turned AWAY from ISIS rebels while they sit and watch ISIS parade past them so close, they could probably hit them with rocks... What's up that Anonymous is the only group that seems to be telling the truth about the intent to stop ISIS? And why is MSM, arguing about ISIS in the US a.....nd not flipping out that the US is not eliminating at least 9000 of them in plain view thousands of miles and oceans away from our borders?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzB9tDBhtzM

When I first got this, it had zero views.... it went up to over a thousand in 10 minutes.... Anonymous weighs in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzB9tDBhtzM

Not that much bothers me. Indeed that threshold is probably way too high... Years of training I guess.... This whole day'um ME thing it so convoluted it gives new meaning to the expression the enemy of my enemy is my friend..... I don't care if these people are Muslim, or Christian or Jewish.... I know they are fighting to protect innocent people who are Muslim and Christian and Jewish from the horrors, the torture, and the massacre of an ISIS victory.... The very ISIS we are there to eliminate.... WTF Mr. President??? WTF???... I am sickened and disgusted, and angry with your lies and the complicit participation of a Congress allowing this, ...funding this charade... . I have no idea anymore what the truth is.... but its NOT about stopping ISIS.... and the entire world is watching as witness to this lie.... I salute all the men and women who will unnecessarily die today fighting the evil called ISIS. Here are the faces of people who believed in the US, who took your word Mr. President, that we were there to eliminate this evil.... Here are the faces of people who counted on us to be there... because we said we would.... and they are now dead or will die because airmen sit on the ground under a Command where good men will do nothing... The following videos show these women alive and fighting in combat weeks or days before they died. The back story, ISIS was over running these Kobani soldiers.... Arin, knowing defeat was inevitable, waited for them to overtake her and pulled the pin on a grenade taking out 7 ISIS men, .... allowing her fellow soldiers to escape certain death. This soldier, like every single female soldier facing ISIS, saved the last bullet for herself... Thanks so much guys for indulging my rant.... this one is especially hard for ready and willing good men to do nothing.....and I hope you don't mind if I post a few videos now and then as my way of at least honoring people who will die taking stand against the evil of ISIS..... .