[Centraal] Irak en IS #126 Turkije betrapt op false flag

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Op vrijdag 13 maart 2015 22:31 schreef Intellectueel het volgende:

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Jaloezie, verspilde energie.

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Op vrijdag 13 maart 2015 23:10 schreef ChanceThePepper het volgende:

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Bespeur ik hier nou een Opgezwolle quote, of is dit toeval.

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Op zaterdag 14 maart 2015 01:02 schreef Triggershot het volgende:
ISIS krijgt flinke klappen.

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Wearing a camouflage uniform with militia patches and a green headband, Nawar Mohammed is the image of an Iraqi Shiite fighter except for one detail: he is Sunni.

Mohammed is one of some 250 Sunni residents of Al-Alam who joined Asaib Ahl al-Haq, an Iranian-backed Shiite militia with a fearsome reputation for kidnappings and killings targeting their community, to battle the Islamic State group after it seized their town.

It would once have been all but unthinkable for a member of Iraq's Sunni Arab minority to join a Shiite militia, but opposition to IS, which overran large areas north and west of Baghdad last June, is transcending deep-seated sectarian divisions.

"The whole world is surprised by this -- it's the first time in the history of Asaib that they formed a Sunni unit," said Mohammed, standing with a Kalashnikov assault rifle hanging at his side.

"Asaib trained us, and we became part of Asaib," he said.

"Asaib, Sunni or Shiite, there is no difference -- these circumstances united Iraq," Mohammed said. "God willing, there will not be any more sectarianism."

The formation of the unit, which some call "Asaib al-Alam," is a positive sign and its fighters seem genuine when praising Asaib Ahl al-Haq.

Having Sunnis fighting for Shiite militias brings direct practical benefits to both sides: the Sunnis receive training and support they need to retake their homes, while the militias take a step toward shedding their reputation for sectarian killings.

Despite having only limited training, Asaib al-Alam took part alongside more experienced militiamen and security forces in the fight for Al-Alam, part of a major drive aimed at retaking the nearby city of Tikrit from IS.

"The purpose of forming the local Asaib in Sunni areas is to strike sectarianism," said Shiite militiaman Hussein Abdulabbas.

He also noted that having fighters who come from an area where a battle takes place brings useful local knowledge.

Defence Minister Khaled al-Obeidi praised the participation of local residents in the fight to retake Tikrit as "a very positive message to the Iraqi people."

Jassem al-Jbara, the head of the Salaheddin provincial council's security committee, said he had encouraged the formation of similar local forces in other areas.

In "Al-Alam, its sons are holding it," Jbara said.

"There are no other security forces," and "there is no ransacking, no destruction, no vandalism," he said.

Though it was still damaged, Al-Alam is one of the most intact towns retaken from IS, especially compared to nearby Albu Ajil, which some believe cooperated with IS.

Many houses and buildings have been burnt in that town, though it is unclear who set the fires.

Al-Alam residents say members of the Jubur tribe fought against IS before the jihadists took control of the town, resistance that marked out Juburi men as targets.

"I didn't go out -- I stayed in the house. The distance to my uncle's house is 100 metres (yards). I would only go out and come back," said Mohammed, who stayed in the town for some five months after the takeover.

"The people were not safe -- not in the street, not safe eating, not safe sleeping -- there wasn't life," Mohammed said.

He said he was eventually discovered and fired on as he ran away. He then hid in a house occupied solely by women before making his escape, and later joined the unit that became Asaib al-Alam.

Sheikh Khaled al-Jbara looks the part of a Shiite militia commander with a black headscarf and Asaib Ahl al-Haq patches on the sleeves of his uniform, but he is a leader in the Jubur tribe and the head of Asaib al-Alam.

"They consider us to be like our brothers the Shiites," Sheikh Khaled said of IS jihadists.

While members of Asaib al-Alam take that as a compliment, he noted that for IS, it means they are people "outside of the (Islamic) religion" who must be killed.

"Today, over 600 young men from this area made contact with the (Shiite) sons of the south," he said, referring to those who joined Shiite groups including Asaib and the Badr Organisation.

"I consider this process to be treatment for Iraq."

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Op zaterdag 14 maart 2015 08:26 schreef PizzaMizza het volgende:
Boko Haram's leider:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=532_1419333016

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Op zaterdag 14 maart 2015 10:41 schreef Slayage het volgende:

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is dit echt?

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Op zaterdag 14 maart 2015 10:53 schreef PizzaMizza het volgende:

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Ja

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Op zaterdag 14 maart 2015 10:54 schreef Beathoven het volgende:

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Boko is nog dommer dan Daesh.. Hij is tegen salafisme ook. Het is dat Daesh ze als laatste strohalm nodig heeft voor de angst marketing, maar als daesh meer succes had gehad dan was dit uiteindelijk een tegenstander geworden.

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Barshan89 twitterde op zondag 15-02-2015 om 14:51:35 Do UN need more evidences to count this crimes as genocideMore than 10 #Yazidi mass graves have been found until now http://t.co/MK9vOtywnb reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 14 maart 2015 10:55 schreef Slayage het volgende:

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eerst dacht owkay wat een theater en toen ie begon te kwekken, dacht ik echt dat het fake was

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Op zaterdag 14 maart 2015 10:56 schreef Slayage het volgende:

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viel me op dat de angst marketing er bij deze organisatie ook diep zit, "we nemen jullie als slaven!" gast, get a life

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ISIS Has Lost 25 Percent of Territory It Once Held in Iraq, US Says

Iraqi and Kurdish forces have reclaimed more than 25 percent of ISIS-held territory inside Iraq, according to a U.S. assessment that also determined that Kurdish fighters are responsible for the majority of the territory retaken from ISIS in northern Iraq.

“We assess ISIL’s front lines have been pushed back in northern and central Iraq,” Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren said at a Pentagon briefing today, referring to the militant group also known as ISIS. “ISIL no longer has complete freedom of movement in roughly 25 percent of populated areas of Iraqi territory where they once operated freely.”

The recaptured areas represent an area between 4,100 and 5,200 square miles or 11,000 and 13,500 square kilometers, Warren said. At its peak, ISIS was in control of 55,000 square kilometers in northern and western Iraq, Pentagon officials said.

“ISIL lost large areas where it was once dominant in the governance of Babil, Diyala, Nineveh, Salahadin and Kirkuk,” Warren said.

Warren said the term "freedom of movement" equates to losing territory “if they don’t have freedom of movement they don’t control it.” I

The assessment that 25 percent has been recaptured is a significant increase from previous assessments released in January that Iraqi and Kurdish security forces had retaken 700 square kilometers.

“Their caliphate is in the process of shrinking,” Warren told reporters, noting that areas represented in the assessment were of populated areas that had been taken from ISIS control.

But he cautioned that the assessment was “not an exact science,” pointing to what he described as the “fluid battleground” inside Iraq.

Just last week, Iraq launched a major offensive to retake the northern city of Tikrit with a combined force 25,000 Iranian backed Shiite militia members and Iraqi security forces. The U.S has still not provided any airstrike support for the Iranian-directed operation, Warren said.

Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress earlier this week that Iranian-backed Shiite militias made up 80 percent of the force pressing towards Tikrit. Warren said there have still been no U.S. airstrikes in support of the Iraqi offensive.

CIA Director John Brennan described the battle for Tikrit as “a good example” of the effort to dislodge ISIS from areas they controlled. He said he expects an “intense battle” in the city given that “Tikrit is an urban area.”

“They’re not invincible, they can be stopped and that’s been proven,” Brennan said during an appearance today at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. But Brennan also urged patience in the fight against ISIS, noting “this is going to take time. It’s going to be a long tough fight."

The CIA director said his agency was not working with the Iranians inside Iraq, though both countries have an interest in defeating ISIS.

Brennan said he thought there was “an alignment of some interest between ourselves and Iran, clearly in terms of what ISIL has done there.”

“So we work closely with the Iraqi government, the Iranians work closely with the Iraqi government as well,” he added. "So some of these efforts I think through the Iraqi interlocutors are ones that again are trying to advance our common objectives against ISIL.”

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Peshmerga artillery forces shelled ISIS militants in a fierce battle with the Shiite militia known as Hashd al-Shabi in the village of Bashir, Kirkuk province.

Hunar Ahmed, A Rudaw correspondent on the scene, reported on Saturday the Shiite fighters, part of the People’s Mobilization Forces, had been struggling for four days to take control of Bashir, located 25 km south of Kirkuk city.

“The Shiite militants deployed an estimated 4,000 gunmen and asked the Peshmerga to help them,” said Ahmed.

In what was described as intense fighting, Peshmerga bombing helped thwart ISIS militants in a counter-attack on Bashir.

Last week, Kurdish forces backed by coalition airstrikes launched a large-scale campaign that managed to clear ISIS from large tracts of territory south of Kirkuk and its oilfields.

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Iran has started the mass production of a domestically-manufactured anti-warship cruise missile dubbed Qadir.

The mass production of the long-range missile was launched by the Defense Ministry's Aerospace Industries Organization in a ceremony on Saturday attended by Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan.

Several Qadir missiles were handed over to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)'s naval forces after it was unveiled on August 24, 2014 in a ceremony with President Hassan Rouhani and the defense chief in attendance.

Dehqan told reporters that the missile has already gone through research and prototyping processes as well as successful aviation tests.

“Today, we are simultaneously witnessing the launch of the mass production line and the delivery of this strategic and effective missile in the domain of defense and marine battle,” he said.

Qadir is a new generation of Iranian cruise missiles with a range of 300 kilometers, featuring quick reaction capability, the ability to fly at low altitude, great precision and high destructive power, he added.

He noted that the missile is equipped with advanced radars and is capable of being launched from different vessels and helicopters.

The minister emphasized such great features of the marine missile have provided the Iranian armed forces with higher operational capabilities in the air and sea as well as on the ground.

The mass production of the Qadir missile came after Iran unveiled a new home-made long-range land-to-land cruise missile, named Soumar, on March 8.

In recent years, Iran has made great achievements in its defense sector and reached self-sufficiency in producing essential military equipment and systems.

Iran has repeatedly assured other countries that its military might poses no threat to other states, insisting that the country’s defense doctrine is entirely based on deterrence.

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Op zaterdag 14 maart 2015 11:56 schreef reza1 het volgende:
Iran mass produces long-range anti-ship Qadir cruise missile
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