The Middle East Problem

[safeorigin]

well, this is the problem with so-called moderate rebels



you can't distinguish FSA from Al Nusra and Ahrar ash-Sham.

their forces are too homogeneous.

on a different note, the alliance between ISIS and Al Nusra has been lifted and they're now scrambling for left over territory.

speculation regarding the break up is because there's no benefit to it anymore since they can no longer freely transport oil to Turkey unlike before where they have business deals with Erdogan's sons.

[safeorigin]

First Person perspective of what it's like to fight in Syria

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2c9_1461213949

[b_9904]

Interesting to watch.

You gotta check the facts though before believing this to be true.

[MR_BIG18]

Interesting to watch.

You gotta check the facts though before believing this to be true.

Well ive watch that from glenn beck a few years back..mas detailed yung explaination nya.

[safeorigin]

well, there's that. and there's also this one:

[safeorigin]

just when we thought we've has waay too many salafist/wahhabist extremists, zionist extremism is gaining fervor with what happened with elor azaria.

[Monseratto]

The zionist and the house of Saud won't be pleased...

U.S. Approves Export Of Boeing And Airbus Planes To Iran : The Two-Way : NPR

[safeorigin]

Damascus has proof US talked to ISIS militants ahead of airstrike on Syrian forces – lawmaker — RT News

"war on isis". like I've said before. It's all about prolonging the war. peace and stability are not in their agenda.

[Wh1stl3r2]

Damascus has proof US talked to ISIS militants ahead of airstrike on Syrian forces – lawmaker — RT News

"war on isis". like I've said before. It's all about prolonging the war. peace and stability are not in their agenda.

But that is RT, it is as fair and balanced to Russia as Fox News is to the GOP. I remember by their one sided coverage on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Can't trust anyone. All of them are d1cks.

[safeorigin]

Russian invasion of Ukraine??? HAHAHAHA

Black Sea Fleet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I take it you've never heard of Sevastopol

and you do realize the current Ukranian government is run by Svoboda and its pet dog

[safeorigin]

progressives are catching up

[Monseratto]

Daesh war booty... including suposedly 2 intact Leopard 2 MBTs.

[Monseratto]

WATCH: New ISIS Video Burns 2 Caged Turkish Soldiers to Death in Aleppo | Heavy.com

[Monseratto]

The Berlin suspect in dead...

Milan police shoot dead the Berlin massacre suspect after he pulls out gun and shouts: 'Allahu Akbar' | Daily Mail Online

[monty_GTV]

READ: Saudi, Bahrain, Egypt and UAE cut ties with Qatar

Saudi, Bahrain, Egypt and UAE cut ties with Qatar | Inquirer News

[jick.cejoco]

Let the hot heads kill each other. The problem is there is too much collateral damage, the old, the sick, the women and the defenseless children. They don't fight like they used to. The ISIS use human shields, heck they even use masks. They are the faceless monsters. They don't know what the Geneva conventions is all about. They don't even aim the firearms they probably just like the sound of gun burst whatever they hit they hit. They are destroying their own people and country for religion. They don't know what freedom is. Maybe by then when they are the oppressed when they would seek and enjoy freedom


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[Monseratto]

Same age old problem...Sunnis fighting Shias... ISIS is Sunnis being financed by America's pal, House of Saud. While unfriendly countries get sanctioned left and right by the Western world with the mere mention of "terrorist financier"...

Why the Iraq Mess Is So Awkward for Saudi Arabia

By Joshua Keating

The governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar are very loudly blaming the “sectarian and exclusionary policies” of Nouri al-Maliki for the violence in Iraq. They’re not wrong, but this also deflects from an issue they’d rather not discuss—the role of wealthy funders in the Gulf in helping ISIS rise to prominence.

Qatar has officially stopped giving aid to more radical groups under U.S. pressure, and Saudi Arabia has also backed off its support of the rebels, a process the culminated in the removal of spy chief and Syria point man Prince Bandar bin Sultan earlier this year, but private donations from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states—notably Kuwait—have likely continued.

For the last few months, the Saudi government in particular has been attempting, somewhat awkwardly, to both continue to fund non-extremist groups fighting Assad while combating the growth of al-Qaida and its affiliates and offshoots. The kingdom has good reason to fear the revival of an al-Qaida-like group with wide territorial ambitions. The government claims to have broken up a terrorist cell in May that had links to both ISIS and al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. ISIS has also reportedly launched a recruitment drive in Riyadh.

Maliki has accused both Saudi Arabia and Qatar of directly supporting the group. The Gulf monarchies would certainly prefer to see his Shiite-dominated government replaced, but in addition to the risk of blowback against their regimes from ISIS terrorism, the geopolitical situation in Iraq seems unlikely to work itself out in their favor.

Saudi Arabia, in particular, has watched with growing alarm in recent months, and relations between the U.S. and Iran have begun to improve. Now, thanks to the Iraq crisis, we’re seeing the nearly unprecedented possibility of U.S.-Iranian security cooperation to help resolve the situation.

[uls]

Same age old problem...Sunnis fighting Shias... ISIS is Sunnis being financed by America's pal, House of Saud. While unfriendly countries get sanctioned left and right by the Western world with the mere mention of "terrorist financier"...

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ISIS/ISIL are Sunni Arabs and they're killing Shia Arabs

Sunni backer ang Saudi Arabia, Shia backer ang Iran

current Iraq govt is Shia so Iran is helping Iraq fight ISIS/ISIL

Iraq claims Saudi Arabia and Qatar are funding ISIS/ISIL but there's no evidence

magulo ang Middle East

[uls]

there's a long-running feud between leaders of the Kurdistan region of Iraq and the Shi'ite govt of Iraq over land and oil

the Kurds want independence from Iraq. If Kurdistan becomes an independent state Iraq loses valuable land and oil

recently, the Kurds lost territory to Islamic State militants

guess what...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Iraqi government provided a planeload of ammunition to Peshmerga fighters from Iraq's semi autonomous Kurdish region on Friday, a U.S. official said, in an unprecedented act of military cooperation between Kurdish and Iraqi forces brought on by an urgent militant threat.

The official said Iraqi security forces flew a C-130 cargo plane loaded with mostly small-arms ammunition to Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, in a bid to strengthen the region's Peshmerga fighters as they struggle to keep militants from the Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot, at bay.

the enemy of my enemy is my friend

[dr. d]

the enemy of my enemy, is a potential, temporary ally. today. only.
what happens tomorrow is something else..

lessons from world war 2 (aka world war 1, part 2).