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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Isis fighters surround Syrian airbase - Assad rushes in reinforcements


al-Qaeda was too warm and fuzzy for these guys.

"Convert or Die."
  • Syrian reinforcements rush to defend Tabqa but there are fears that no regional military can slow group's momentum.
  • "The Islamic State is now the most capable military power in the Middle East outside Israel."
  • UPDATE - Syrian state TV from inside of the Tabqa Air Base:  IS managed to reach inside but retreated after heavy losses.  (liveleak)


(The Guardian)  -  Islamic State extremists rampaging through Iraq have now turned their sights back towards Syria, where only a besieged airbase stands between the terror group and a rush for the Mediterranean coast that could split the country in two.

The attack on the Tabqa airbase in eastern Syria comes as Isis continues to move back towards areas it controlled north of Aleppo until February. Using weapons the group looted from abandoned Iraqi military bases, Isis has returned with a vengeance to the area, stunning regional powers with its rapid advances.

Isis now controls a swath of land slightly larger than the United Kingdom, from Aleppo to central Iraq, and holds sway over a population of at least four million people. The group's rapid ability to organise and consolidate continues to splinter a fractured body politic in Iraq and Syria and is fast causing ramifications for the broader Middle East.

A World Turned Upside Down
Putin and the Russians are arming Syria, Iraq and Egypt to fight
against Islamic terrorism while the CIA and America's
allies are arming Islamic terrorists.

"The Islamic State is now the most capable military power in the Middle East outside Israel," a senior regional diplomat said on Friday. "They can determine outcomes in a few days that the Syrian rebels took two years to influence. Their capacity is in sharp contrast to the Syrian regime, which is only able to fight one battle at a time and has to fight hard for every success."

Isis has surrounded the Tabqa airbase in Raqqa province from all sides, trapping 800 to 1,000 Syrian troops and airmen who have used the base to attack mainstream opposition groups in the north of the country for the past two years.

Despite Isis gradually subsuming parts of the opposition in northern Syria, the Syrian regime had not attacked the terror group until it launched its offensive into Iraq on 10 June. Since then, Syrian jets have bombed 30 targets in Raqqa, which had been a command hub for Isis for the past 18 months.

"They did not bomb the [Isis] headquarters until June and even then only after it had been evacuated. We are all paying the price now," the Kurdish intelligence chief Masrour Barzani told the Guardian this month.

Syrian reinforcements have rushed to defend Tabqa, but doing so will be difficult. Every other regime facility in eastern Syria has fallen over the past year and there is little chance of holding Tabqa without external help.

If Tabqa falls, Isis will have a relatively clear run towards Syria's fourth city, Hama, around 300 miles to the west. Hama is within a contiguous strip linking Damascus to the coastal cities of Latakia and Tartous, which earlier in the Syrian civil war were designated a de facto rump state that could be defended by loyalists.

Read more at The Guardian.com


Anti-ISIS, Pro-Russian Syrian Troops
Let me understand, Comrade Obama and the insane John McCain wanted the U.S. to bomb the Syrian army that was fighting against ISIS. 
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These moronic actions only make sense when you understand that the Syrian Islamist groups were being armed and funded by the CIA, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
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See the story:
CIA Behind ISIS & other Terrorist Groups says New York Times

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