OrbitalDawn
Ulysses Everett McGill
^Glad to see some rational Muslims on that panel. Two orcs too, unfortunately.
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ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
There are some incredibly rational muslims, and its nice to see the Muslim women standing up and having a public opinion..
Pity about the two orcs though.
OrbitalDawn
Ulysses Everett McGill
Yeah, and the women would probably be killed outright in this Caliphate. I like how they take on that one knob, though. You could see it annoyed him, too.
ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
Yeah, and the women would probably be killed outright in this Caliphate. I like how they take on that one knob, though. You could see it annoyed him, too.
Yeah.. best part of the debate for me
The 2 gentlemen dressed in western attire impressed me to a degree actually.
Grant
Honorary Master
Yeah.. best part of the debate for me
The 2 gentlemen dressed in western attire impressed me to a degree actually.
as well as the shia lady, the pair of sunni men in dresses are stuck in the stone age unfortunately
ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
Yup, and yes I know its a massive generalisation and somewhat unfair but the minute they showed the group of youngsters I did kind of assume they'd be the ones with the stone age mentality.
Grant
Honorary Master
it would appear to be a little unfair, but leopards & their spots . . .
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
IRAQI KURDS, US AIR STRIKES HIT IS POSITIONS
Kurdish fighters, backed by Iraqi forces and a new wave of US air strikes, have pressed their offensive against jihadist rebels as President Barack Obama urged a joint counterterrorism effort.
Obama on Monday hailed the Kurds' recapture of a major dam outside Mosul but warned Baghdad that "the wolf is at the door" and said it must move quickly to build an inclusive government.
Securing the dam was the biggest prize yet clawed back from the so-called "Islamic State" since it launched a major offensive in northern Iraq in June, sweeping aside Iraqi security forces.
"Iraqi and Kurdish forces took the lead on the ground and performed with courage and determination," Obama said, warning that the dam would have devastated cities downstream had it been breached.
"So this operation demonstrates that Iraqi and Kurdish forces are capable of working together and taking the fight to ISIL.
"If they continue to do so, they will have the strong support of the United States of America," he promised, in his clearest signal yet that the 10-day-old US air campaign against IS is far from over.
Obama said that Iraq's new premier Haidar al-Abadi should rush to build an inclusive government to undercut support for extremists and underpin international action against the Islamic State.
"We will continue to pursue a long-term strategy to turn the tide against ISIL by supporting the new Iraqi government and working with key partners in the region," he said.
US military aircraft have carried out 35 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq over the past three days, destroying more than 90 targets, the Pentagon said.
The strikes marked the most intensive US bombardments of IS positions since they began on August 8.
The jihadists, who have declared a "caliphate" in a region straddling the Iraq-Syria border, also came under attack in their Syrian stronghold of Raqa by Syria's air force for a second straight day.
In Iraq, "the planes are striking and the peshmerga are advancing", a Kurdish fighter told AFP near the shore of the lake formed by the vast Mosul dam.
Jets flew overhead, as smoke rose from the site of a strike that a peshmerga member said targeted an entrance to the dam.
"In the beginning, they surprised us with their offensive. But now, we know their tactics, and they can't take another yard from us," Major General Sardar Kamal said at the frontline.
Fighting also broke out in an area to the south as engineering teams worked to clear booby traps and bombs left by jihadists, said Kawa Khatari, an official from Iraq's main Kurdish party.
A senior peshmerga officer told AFP there was sporadic fighting in the town of Tal Kayf southeast of the dam, and that only a "small number" of jihadists remain in the dam area.
Iraqi security spokesman Lieutenant General Qassem Atta said the dam was entirely liberated in a joint operation by Iraqi "anti-terrorism forces and peshmerga forces with aerial support".
While Washington and London hailed the breakthrough and promised more support, Pope Francis sounded a note of caution, calling for collective action through the United Nations.
In London, Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain remained open to "supplying equipment" for the fight against Islamic State.
However he told a meeting of his government's emergency committee Cobra that "this is not about getting dragged into a war in Iraq, we will not be putting combat forces on the ground", a Downing Street spokesperson said.
"We and other countries in Europe are determined to help the government of Iraq combat this new and very extreme form of terrorism," he was quoted as saying.
Two months of violence have brought Iraq to the brink of breakup, and world powers are relieved by the departure of divisive premier Nuri al-Maliki, who stepped down last week, hoping his successor will be a unifying figure.
In the north, members of minority groups including Christians, Yazidis, Shabak and Turkmen, remain under threat of kidnap or death at the hands of the jihadists, rights groups say.
Amnesty International, which has been documenting mass abductions in the Sinjar area, says IS fighters have kidnapped thousands of Yazidis in this month's offensive.
Source : Sapa-AFP /dm
Date : 19 Aug 2014 05:07
Kurdish fighters, backed by Iraqi forces and a new wave of US air strikes, have pressed their offensive against jihadist rebels as President Barack Obama urged a joint counterterrorism effort.
Obama on Monday hailed the Kurds' recapture of a major dam outside Mosul but warned Baghdad that "the wolf is at the door" and said it must move quickly to build an inclusive government.
Securing the dam was the biggest prize yet clawed back from the so-called "Islamic State" since it launched a major offensive in northern Iraq in June, sweeping aside Iraqi security forces.
"Iraqi and Kurdish forces took the lead on the ground and performed with courage and determination," Obama said, warning that the dam would have devastated cities downstream had it been breached.
"So this operation demonstrates that Iraqi and Kurdish forces are capable of working together and taking the fight to ISIL.
"If they continue to do so, they will have the strong support of the United States of America," he promised, in his clearest signal yet that the 10-day-old US air campaign against IS is far from over.
Obama said that Iraq's new premier Haidar al-Abadi should rush to build an inclusive government to undercut support for extremists and underpin international action against the Islamic State.
"We will continue to pursue a long-term strategy to turn the tide against ISIL by supporting the new Iraqi government and working with key partners in the region," he said.
US military aircraft have carried out 35 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq over the past three days, destroying more than 90 targets, the Pentagon said.
The strikes marked the most intensive US bombardments of IS positions since they began on August 8.
The jihadists, who have declared a "caliphate" in a region straddling the Iraq-Syria border, also came under attack in their Syrian stronghold of Raqa by Syria's air force for a second straight day.
In Iraq, "the planes are striking and the peshmerga are advancing", a Kurdish fighter told AFP near the shore of the lake formed by the vast Mosul dam.
Jets flew overhead, as smoke rose from the site of a strike that a peshmerga member said targeted an entrance to the dam.
"In the beginning, they surprised us with their offensive. But now, we know their tactics, and they can't take another yard from us," Major General Sardar Kamal said at the frontline.
Fighting also broke out in an area to the south as engineering teams worked to clear booby traps and bombs left by jihadists, said Kawa Khatari, an official from Iraq's main Kurdish party.
A senior peshmerga officer told AFP there was sporadic fighting in the town of Tal Kayf southeast of the dam, and that only a "small number" of jihadists remain in the dam area.
Iraqi security spokesman Lieutenant General Qassem Atta said the dam was entirely liberated in a joint operation by Iraqi "anti-terrorism forces and peshmerga forces with aerial support".
While Washington and London hailed the breakthrough and promised more support, Pope Francis sounded a note of caution, calling for collective action through the United Nations.
In London, Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain remained open to "supplying equipment" for the fight against Islamic State.
However he told a meeting of his government's emergency committee Cobra that "this is not about getting dragged into a war in Iraq, we will not be putting combat forces on the ground", a Downing Street spokesperson said.
"We and other countries in Europe are determined to help the government of Iraq combat this new and very extreme form of terrorism," he was quoted as saying.
Two months of violence have brought Iraq to the brink of breakup, and world powers are relieved by the departure of divisive premier Nuri al-Maliki, who stepped down last week, hoping his successor will be a unifying figure.
In the north, members of minority groups including Christians, Yazidis, Shabak and Turkmen, remain under threat of kidnap or death at the hands of the jihadists, rights groups say.
Amnesty International, which has been documenting mass abductions in the Sinjar area, says IS fighters have kidnapped thousands of Yazidis in this month's offensive.
Source : Sapa-AFP /dm
Date : 19 Aug 2014 05:07
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
IRAQI FORCES BEGIN OFFENSIVE AGAINST MILITANTS IN TIKRIT
Iraqi forces backed by military helicopters launched an offensive Tuesday to free Tikrit from the jihadist Islamic State (IS) group, security officials told dpa.
The plan is to attack the militants from three different points in western and southern Tikrit, a city on the Tigris river 140 kilometres northwest of Baghdad.
Saddam Hussein's hometown Tikrit was conquered by the IS in June. In July, IS fighters defeated Iraqi government troops who had been trying to recapture the city.
IS, which split last year from the terrorist network al-Qaeda, seized large swaths of northern Iraq in a lightning onslaught in June.
The latest government offensive comes just a few days after Kurdish Peshmerga forces took control of Iraq's strategic Mosul Dam, as well as a few other villages around it.
Source : Sapa-dpa /kd
Date : 19 Aug 2014 15:30
Iraqi forces backed by military helicopters launched an offensive Tuesday to free Tikrit from the jihadist Islamic State (IS) group, security officials told dpa.
The plan is to attack the militants from three different points in western and southern Tikrit, a city on the Tigris river 140 kilometres northwest of Baghdad.
Saddam Hussein's hometown Tikrit was conquered by the IS in June. In July, IS fighters defeated Iraqi government troops who had been trying to recapture the city.
IS, which split last year from the terrorist network al-Qaeda, seized large swaths of northern Iraq in a lightning onslaught in June.
The latest government offensive comes just a few days after Kurdish Peshmerga forces took control of Iraq's strategic Mosul Dam, as well as a few other villages around it.
Source : Sapa-dpa /kd
Date : 19 Aug 2014 15:30
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#RESPECT!!!!
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This bit put a smile on my face. Islamic State might just end up doing the one thing they did not want to do - empowering the women.
Grant
Honorary Master
and to think people find stories of the tokolosh, river mermaids & woman who turn into snails & terrorize villages funny
ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
Go forth and kill many of these jihadists ladies.. may your weapons fire straight and true.
+1. Put a nice big grin on my face as well.
Wouldn't it be something if these wonderful ladies kill more ISIS members than the United States of America
OrbitalDawn
Ulysses Everett McGill
