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The good news is that the defenders of Kobane are holding their own against the onslaught of ISIS….,it appears that the airstrikes are at least giving the defenders a fighting chance for now.

On to the briefing…….

Item 1–Everybody is screaming that we need to support the Syrian rebels much mire and the we should be coordinating with them for a more effective airstrikes……but will the coalition do so?

Speaking to reporters today at the State Department, Gen. John Allen, who has been advising President Obama on his new war against ISIS, today revealed that the administration has no plans to ever coordinate with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) or any other of the existing rebel factions.

That’s a surprise, because officials have been harping on for years about how great these factions are, and have been lavishing them with US arms and funding.

Now the question is….why?

Item 2–ISIS may not be having much success with Kobane but it is another story in Iraq……

The latest Anbar Province town likely to come under siege from ISIS is the Fallujah suburb of Amariyat al-Fallujah, with reports tonight of ISIS fighters and tanks surrounding the town from several directions.

Yet with more and more of Anbar falling, ISIS seems willing to commit more resources to the siege this time, and having routed the Iraqi military out of virtually all of its bases in the area, it’s hard to see much help coming from the outside.

Anbar has become the focus of ISIS on the road to Baghdad…..

Item 3–There has been stories flowing around the web about ISIS having CWs………..

Islamic State militants do not appear to have seized any chemical weapons as they have rolled across Iraq and Syria, the Pentagon said Wednesday, as reports of U.S. troops’ exposure to chemical weapons during Washington’s last conflict in Iraq raised questions about the extremist group’s access to similar deadly agents.

“We have no indications right now that they have possession of those kinds of munitions,” Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, told reporters.

Of course that is NO conciliation if you truly want to believe that they have these weapons…….

Item 4–Seems ISIS may have found a way to avoid being the casuality of an airstrike….for now……

Shafaq News / The Ministry of Peshmarga in Kurdistan Regional Government announced on Wednesday, that the terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria “ISIS” organization

have recently began using a new “tactic” in their fight in the areas of Kirkuk.

He said that the militants are wearing Peshmarga forces uniforms and Iraqi police to attack Peshmarga troops and avoid shelling of the coalition’s aircrafts

Item 5–Iraq while trying desperately to hold off ISIS is having a problem that could aid ISIS in its push to Baghdad…….

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi of Iraq, only a month in office, has been battling foes even closer to home: critics within his own party and the Shiite bloc it leads.

Among those nettling Mr. Abadi, several politicians said, is his predecessor, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, who reluctantly agreed to cede the top post under pressure from the United States, Iran and the top Shiite clerics.

The political feuding threatens to undermine the Iraqi government at the moment it is trying to marshal resistance against the Islamic State, not to mention deal with a long list of other domestic crises, including a moribund economy, rampant government corruption and threats of Kurdish secession, Iraqi and international officials said.

Politics could be an ally for ISIS…….

Side Note:  Beheadings by ISIS was the beginning of the American approval of a return to Iraq and now Syria….but did you know that there are those that have committed the despicable act more than ISIS?

Since January of this year, 59 people have been beheaded in Saudi Arabia under the country’s antiquated legal system based primarily around sharia law.

Last month saw Saudi Arabia behead at least 8 people — twice the number of Western hostages who have so far featured in IS’s barbaric execution videos. In August those executed by Riyadh were sentenced to death for crimes such as apostasy, adultery and “sorcery.” In one case, four members of the same family were executed for “receiving large quantities of hashish,” a sentence imposed, according to Amnesty International, on the basis of “forced confessions extracted through torture.”

And yet they are our ally……..just a guess but I think it may have something to do with oil….huh?

I realize that the country is sweating heavily over the arrival of Ebola on our shores but there are somethings that need attention more….like the possibility of a return to Iraq and the Middle East.

That concludes today’s briefing…#18 is in the can!

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