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legendary
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December 05, 2015, 08:35:28 AM
#27
They're busy fighting each other in Syria.. Its a messy place right now

They are not fighting each other. But some of the FSA groups such as the Al Nusra Front and the Ahrar Al Sham are having issues with the Kurdish groups. Other than that, they are united in their fight against the Syrian government. They have some-sort of an understanding with the ISIS, and many of the rebel fighters travel to Raqqa to receive training from the ISIS. The UK government can use them to fight against Assad (if they are not already doing that), but they are not going to fight the ISIS.
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December 05, 2015, 04:11:45 AM
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December 05, 2015, 04:08:52 AM
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December 05, 2015, 12:13:29 AM
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Ministry of Defence (MoD) bosses warned Prime Minister David Cameron against claiming there are 70,000 moderate Syrian rebels ready to fight Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), fearing the assertion would echo Tony Blair’s Iraq “dodgy dossier.”
The revelation comes after the House of Commons voted to extend airstrikes from Iraq into Syria, with the first bombs falling hours later.

According to the Times newspaper, military figures also feared Cameron’s claim of such a rebel force may lead MPs to wrongly believe there was a ready-made army on the ground in Syria, therefore influencing the vote.

RT.COM

They're busy fighting each other in Syria.. Its a messy place right now
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December 04, 2015, 07:13:58 AM
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Ministry of Defence (MoD) bosses warned Prime Minister David Cameron against claiming there are 70,000 moderate Syrian rebels ready to fight Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), fearing the assertion would echo Tony Blair’s Iraq “dodgy dossier.”
The revelation comes after the House of Commons voted to extend airstrikes from Iraq into Syria, with the first bombs falling hours later.

According to the Times newspaper, military figures also feared Cameron’s claim of such a rebel force may lead MPs to wrongly believe there was a ready-made army on the ground in Syria, therefore influencing the vote.

RT.COM
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December 03, 2015, 11:53:29 PM
#22
How are the ISIS allowed to sell oil for cash? Wouldn't a political intervention be better to slow down their cash flow? Simply make it illegal to buy oil from ISIS..

It's because a lot of influential people benefiting from illegal oil trade take as an example the Turkish president.

How about SIMPLY making it fucking illegal for psychopaths, that retards vote into office, to systematically destroy country after country thereby IN EFFECT creating more and more terrorism which they then can bomb to create even more of the same. How about making it illegal for retarded people to participate in elections? Would that help? I guess if you need to get rid of a tree you start chopping relatively close to the roots. Maybe some people start from the top picking off leaves and working their way down until the tree is gone, wouldn´t be surprised.  Grin
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December 03, 2015, 11:09:37 PM
#21
How are the ISIS allowed to sell oil for cash? Wouldn't a political intervention be better to slow down their cash flow? Simply make it illegal to buy oil from ISIS..

It's because a lot of influential people benefiting from illegal oil trade take as an example the Turkish president.
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December 03, 2015, 07:19:14 PM
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How are the ISIS allowed to sell oil for cash? Wouldn't a political intervention be better to slow down their cash flow? Simply make it illegal to buy oil from ISIS..
legendary
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December 03, 2015, 04:14:25 PM
#19
Wrong choice of target.

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December 03, 2015, 02:56:27 PM
#18
The UK strikes oil fields, before that Russia Bombs Oil tanker trucks, and the US eventually bombs some oil tanker trucks as well. The US has run more than 6,000 air
strikes against ISIS for the past year. Why are any of these targets still there? Everyone knows ISIS is selling oil for cash to the Turks to fund their operations. Why has Obama allowed ISIS to continue pumping oil out of the ground and deliver it to Turkey?
Electric power is needed to pomp oil. Generators make a nice heat "signature" for targeting. Why not hit all the generators and oil trucks and let ISIS grind to a halt for lack of fuel and money? The answer is Obama doesn't want to defeat ISIS. He wants to allow them to exist and do a small amount tp make it look like he cares.
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December 03, 2015, 02:25:02 PM
#17
I realize that criminals don´t give a hoot about laws but I´m still curious; exactly what gives this so called alliance the right to bomb Syrian territory? It is a matter of historical record that the same people that violate Syrian airspace say that Turkey had every right to shoot down that Russian plane. Yeah I know; those terrorists are in Syrian territory but the Syrian government didn´t invite them in. Aren´t you like obliged to ask a sovereign government for permission before bombing its land? What if Russia decided to bomb ISIS terrorists inside of Turkey? Would that mean world war 3 against criminals that don´t give a hoot about laws unless it fits their interests? I guess those fruitcakes and deviants there in London didn´t discuss such trivia there in the 11 hour hot air fest. Morals and ethics come up maybe once a decade in that congregation so that´s irrelevant in this context.

It isn´t a level playing field if criminals are allowed to behave at will but those who try to follow laws are punished.
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December 03, 2015, 01:58:59 PM
#16
I find it fascinating that everyone wants to bomb ISIS in Syria. Look at the maps that are presented by EVERY news outlet out there on the territory controlled by ISIS. The bulk of it is in Iraq, but no one seems to care about bombing ISIS in Iraq. No, everyone just wants to bomb ISIS in Syria. Oh I understand there may be more oil infrastructure they control in Syria, but that doesn't take international coalitions to bomb that infrastructure into a wreck. Actually it would be better for ground forces to intercept the oil transports once they leave ISIS controlled areas instead. That way you stop them from selling it and your coalition could sell it instead to pay for what they are doing.
Oh wait, that would mean exposing Turkey's role in buying that oil wouldn't it - sorry....never mind.
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December 03, 2015, 12:15:15 PM
#15
There may be some promising angles in this business model. ISIS could very well spread from Lybia to Tunis and become powerful enough there to necessitate bombing that country to make sure that terrorism thrives there even better. Unfortunately the Atlantic Ocean is later the limit of expansion but at that point this policy will have displaced so much people that European nutcases will be forced to bomb their own sorry asses.
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December 03, 2015, 11:20:16 AM
#14
bombing fucking does work, isis are experiencing defections and loss of revenue, the russians killed so many in one day the corpses had to be dumped in a sewage trench because there was no one to give muslim burial

admittedly lack of firepower is a problem, we spend 40 billion on defence and only able to muster 16 or so planes with everything else mothballed or not due to come into service until 2020, it is a bad situation

The Brits are going to bomb sand there in Syria until ISIS is strong enough in Lybia to start bombing there. It´s a great scam for weapons manufacturers and the politicians they fund, first they destroy countries and then they  come back later to bomb the disaster that they created to begin with. And so on. Iraq, Lybia, Syria. Nobody thinks of the obvious and totally necessary; taking those nutballs out of circulation in the interests of public safety. And so these scams could go on for decades for all I know.
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December 03, 2015, 11:14:59 AM
#13
bombing fucking does work, isis are experiencing defections and loss of revenue, the russians killed so many in one day the corpses had to be dumped in a sewage trench because there was no one to give muslim burial

admittedly lack of firepower is a problem, we spend 40 billion on defence and only able to muster 16 or so planes with everything else mothballed or not due to come into service until 2020, it is a bad situation

That's right. They should focus on finding and destroying all their sources of income. If ISIS is forced to rely on donations only they are done.
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December 03, 2015, 11:14:54 AM
#12
I am all for killing these terrorists, wherever they are. However, none of this bombing or overall engagement from the western countries will work and never has. In fact, likely to make it worse, just like the war in Iraq did. That war was based on lies and created the current chaos. The only way to deal with it is to expose the economic interests of those who benefit from these wars, boycott and isolate them. Expose and confiscate all their assets worldwide.
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December 03, 2015, 11:05:15 AM
#11
bombing fucking does work, isis are experiencing defections and loss of revenue, the russians killed so many in one day the corpses had to be dumped in a sewage trench because there was no one to give muslim burial

admittedly lack of firepower is a problem, we spend 40 billion on defence and only able to muster 16 or so planes with everything else mothballed or not due to come into service until 2020, it is a bad situation
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December 03, 2015, 10:42:03 AM
#10
Air strikes are not working, this is already proven. If they want the real cleaning they should send ground troops.
This is positive news anyway. Always we made these expenses, let the UK spend their military money, too. Smiley

They are working and the attack on that Russian plane proves it. Bombings destroy their facilities and it hits their pockets.
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December 03, 2015, 08:50:38 AM
#9
Dwarf deals real blows where giants have failed for over a year....

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The British contribution forms only a tiny part of U.S.-led "Operation Inherent Resolve", which has been bombing Islamic State targets in both Iraq and Syria for more than a year with hundreds of aircraft. Previously, the small British contingent participated in strikes on Iraq but not Syria.

The strikes have so far failed to dislodge the militants from a swathe of territory where they have proclaimed a Caliphate to rule over all Muslims, although Washington and its allies say they have helped halt the fighters' advance.

Although the British vote adds negligible new military capability to the coalition, it has taken on outsized political and diplomatic significance since gunmen and bombers killed 130 people last month in Paris. France had called for solidarity from Europe's other main military power in expanding military action.


Read more at Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/12/03/us-mideast-crisis-syria-britain-idUSKBN0TL00M20151203#oD4AKwrjVTmMzbk3.99
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December 03, 2015, 08:45:08 AM
#8
Air strikes are not working, this is already proven. If they want the real cleaning they should send ground troops.
This is positive news anyway. Always we made these expenses, let the UK spend their military money, too. Smiley
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