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Shaddup, creep...Comment
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Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
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Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
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Islamic State in Syria abducts at least 90 from Christian villages
(Reuters) - Islamic State militants have abducted at least 90 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria, a monitoring group that tracks violence in Syria said on Tuesday.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the militants carried out dawn raids on rural villages inhabited by the ancient Christian minority west of Hasaka, a city mainly held by the Kurds.
Syrian Kurdish militia launched two offensives against the militants in northeast Syria on Sunday, helped by U.S.-led air strikes and Iraqi peshmerga.
This part of Syria is strategically important in the fight against Islamic State because it borders territory controlled by the group in Iraq, where it last year committed atrocities against the minority religious Yazidi community.
Many Assyrian Christians have emigrated in the nearly four-year-long conflict in which more than 200,000 have people have been killed. Before the arrival of Kurds and Arab nomadic tribes at the end of the 19th century, Christians formed the majority in Syria's Jazeera area, which includes Hasaka.
Sunday's offensive by Kurdish YPG militia reached within 5 km (3 miles) of Tel Hamis, an Islamic State controlled town south east of Qamishli, the Observatory said.
At least 14 IS fighters died in the offensive, which involved Assyrian fighters, and eight civilians were also killed in heavy shelling by the Kurdish side which seized several Arab villages from Islamic State control, the monitoring group said.
Last year, Islamic State fighters abducted several Assyrians in retaliation for some of them fighting alongside the YPG. Most were released after long negotiations.
Military experts following Syria said Islamic State was trying to open a new front to relieve pressure on the group after the string of losses since being driven from the Syrian town of Kobani near the border with Turkey.
"Islamic State are losing in several areas so they want to wage an attack on a new area," said retired Jordanian general Fayez Dwiri.
Since driving IS from Kobani, Kurdish forces, backed by other Syrian armed groups, have pursued the group's fighters as far as their provincial stronghold of Raqqa.
A resident of Hasaka, which is jointly held by the Syrian government and the Kurds, said hundreds of families had arrived in the last few days from surrounding Christian villages and of Arab Bedouin refugees were arriving from areas along the border.
"Families are coming to Hasaka seeking safety," said Abdul Rahman al-Numai, a textile trader said via telephone.Comment
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They all must be crisis actor abuctees...Comment
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That's not the question. The questions is this: How long is the world willing to let this go on? And does "the West" have a moral obligation to try and stop it now? Or do "we" just let ISIL and all the affiliated nutbag wackos run wild all over the Middle East and Africa and Europe (well, the part of Europe that Putin doesn't want).
Now, forget all the CIA conspiracies, and all the whole "The US is funding these guys" bullshit. Look, if you have a big mouth and a big stick and hate people, you can get funding in the Mid East. The whole money angle is the easiest to cover. And weapons? You don't need CIA contacts to get weapons these days. The list of countries and arms dealers who have been dumping arms in this region for decades is so long to be laughable if real people weren't being killed with them.
So for just a few minutes, let's just pretend ISIL is actually a group of wackos who want to kill everybody that's different from them. Let's just pretend they really are a bunch of blood thirsty sickos who are hell bent on establishing the Caliphate and - shockingly - really don't have much trouble recruiting other fucksticks to run with them and rape, mutilate, murder, and steal their way across Dirtville. Does "the West" have a moral obligation to step in and stop them?
Or do we just say fuck it and let the people in the region worry about it? Let "them" deal with it. Their countries, their problem. I kinda lean toward the Stomp The Shit Out Of The Problem solution..but even that has its unintended consequences.
So what do "we" do? Something? Nothing? Keep trying to fund and arm the "good guys", in a region where people jump sides faster than a game of Red Rover?American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.
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Them Nigerians need to find oil fast before Boko Haram (not a procol harum cover band ) kill everyone and no one notices
fuck your fucking framingComment
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Seriously, what an epic backpedal. Is Alex Jones suddenly worried about ISIS or something?
BTW, Gayvis, did you fall for Alexis Jonestown's "BUY GOLD NOW!" routine? if you did, you're a fucking sap!Comment
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And you're worried about penile implants and people's wives and personal lives...
Fucking stalker...Comment
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