Good day and welcome to the briefing…..
Let’s get right to it without the opening commentary….
Item 1–the warning that I and others have given to the world about Turkey and the PKK have come to light……..
Turkish warplanes attacked Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in southeast Turkey on Sunday in the first significant air operation against the militants since the launch of a peace process two years ago, Hurriyet news website said on Tuesday.
The air strikes caused “major damage” to the PKK, Hurriyet said. They were launched after three days of PKK attacks on a military outpost in Hakkari province near the Iraqi border, it added.
You were told what would happen after Turkey entered into the “coalition”……..,BAM! Hoot dare it id!
Item 2–ISIS has gained about 70% control over al-Anbar………..
Militants with the Islamic State group today captured a military training camp in western Iraq, inching closer to full control of the restive Anbar province, as a spate of deadly bombings shook Baghdad, hitting mostly Shiite neighborhoods and leaving at least 30 dead. The attacks, which came as Iraqi Shiites marked a major holiday for their sect with families crowding the streets in celebration, raised new concerns that the Sunni militant group is making gains despite US-led coalition airstrikes. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, on a visit to Iraq, warned that the airstrikes will not be enough to defeat the extremist group and stressed that the Iraqi security forces would have to do the “heavy work on the ground.”
Baghdad is in the cross hairs as we speak…….and that would be the line that may trigger more US troops……..
Item 3–Korbane is hanging on by their finger tips…..the UN has issued a warning……
The new U.N. envoy to Syria said Friday that at least 500 civilians remain trapped in the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobani besieged by the Islamic State group, warning that they were likely to be “massacred” if it falls to the extremists.
Staffan de Mistura raised the spectre of some of the worst genocides of the 20th century during a news conference in Geneva, where he held up a map of the town along the Syria-Turkish border and said a U.N. analysis shows only a small portion remains open for people to enter or flee Kobani.
Sadly the defenders of Korbane are living on borrowed time……
Item 4–A general gives a reinforcement of the Obama plan as it is today…..
Speaking to reporters today, US Army chief Gen. Ray Odierno says he is “somewhat confident” that the Iraqi military can successfully defend Baghdad from an ISIS attack
“I believe the capability is there to defend Baghdad,” Odierno insisted. Fear over the fate of the capital is growing with the latest ISIS push into Abu Ghraib.
Personally, I think the general is just issuing talking points that are NOT based in reality……
Item 5–There are cracks forming in the “inclusive” government BS……It has been sold that Sunni and shia will learn to fight as one to protect their country from ISIS……the problem is….that is not happening……..
A new report from Amnesty International details war crimes committed by the Iraqi government-backed Shi’ite militias in the central Sunni towns that they’ve retaken from ISIS.
The report warned that over 170 young Sunnis were kidnapped by militias in the area around Samarra since June, with dozens of them executed, and many of the rest held for ransom. Others have yet to be accounted for.
This will be downplayed to keep the ‘plan’ rolling….in reality there is NO cooperation between sects….at this time.
With that I conclude today’s briefing…..hopefully it was informative…….
Thanx for your time and attention.
Turn The Page!
President has lost Iraq- all Am vets and dead suffered for nothing. The partition of Iraq is now a done deal and ISIS has won. Rest of Arab world must now fight or die. ISIS is an army of many Hitler’s.
Partition is assured….I am also thinking decentralization also……It may take awhile but I believe that ISIS will collapse under its own weight. chuq