Posts Tagged ‘ISIS’
Palestinian Groups Accuse Israel of Orhestrating ISIS/ISIL
TEHRAN (FNA)- The military wings of the Palestinian resistance movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad in a joint statement deplored ISIL’s terrorist acts in the Gaza Strip as treacherous and serving Israel’s interests.The joint statement by the Palestinian resistance movements came after multiple car bomb explosions were carried out in the besieged Gaza Strip, targeting vehicles belonging to members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Ezzedin Qassam and Saraya al-Qods, the military wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, respectively reiterated that ISIL has carried out the attacks at the order of Israel.
The two Palestinian resistance groups vowed to give a crushing response to the Takfiri terrorists.
via Farsnews.
Boko Haram Releases First Beheading Video + PICS
Boko Haram has set a terrifying new precedent by releasing its first gruesome video of a beheading since it pledged allegiance to ISIS.The video adopts many of the same style-points as the hundreds of barbaric videos released by ISIS over the last year.
7 Egyptian Soldiers Killed in Fighting With ISIS in Sinai
Egypt’s military spokesman says the death toll from the Sinai Peninsula a day earlier has climbed to seven soldiers after a series of ISIS claimed attacks. The statement from Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir on Sunday said the military killed 59 militants during the day’s operations, which involved air cover.The spokesman initially said that a shell struck a single checkpoint Saturday, killing three soldiers and wounding four. Security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to journalists, said militants attacked two checkpoints.
via 7 Egyptian Soldiers Killed in Fighting With ISIS in Sinai.
Failing to Get American Approval for Syria Invasion, the U.S. Bombs It Anyway
As usual for the past 100 years of U.S. bombings, many innocent civilians are getting incinerated. From September of 2014, here’s a description of horror from a 20 year old Syrian who witnessed the U.S. bombing campaign firsthand:
In the city of Raqqa, which was rocked by airstrikes on Monday and Tuesday, residents were frightened.
“The people are very afraid,” resident Abu Ibrahim Raqqawi told the BBC, “they do not know what will happen tomorrow.”
On Tuesday, the Guardian newspaper spoke with a 20-year-old Syrian named Hiba, a student in the city of Raqqa which has faced the most serious bombing to date. Even though opposed to the ISIS fighters, Hiba described the U.S. attacks as nightmarish.
“There are no words to describe the bombing,” she said. “It was a scene I wouldn’t wish my worst enemy to face. I was on the balcony with my little sister and we could hear the sound of planes and I was joking with her and said: ‘Comb your hair and smile, you are being filmed.’”
“Later,” Hiba continued, “the bombing started and we all ran to the living room, everyone screaming and running in different directions. We didn’t know what to do. Our neighbour went to the hospital and asked if they needed blood and they said no because they haven’t got any injuries. Most people who left their homes live near Isis headquarters. We won’t leave our home. There is no point. We believe in destiny.”
And Abu Ibrahim, quoted above by the BBC, is interesting because he, along with other residents of Raqqa, have set up a website called Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently and though they are opposed to ISIS overall, and have chronicled the damage done to their city by the ongoing civil war, they remain deeply skeptical about the outcome of U.S. bombing.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/25/civilian-deaths-mount-us-bombing-syria-expands
The US-led coalition battling the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) has dramatically intensified its air war against the militant group with strikes pummeling the group’s de-facto capital of Raqqa, Syria.
Since Wednesday, the coalition has conducted aerial strikes against more than 70 ISIS targets. One airstrike was responsible for bombing 20 ISIS staging areas around Raqqa, according to Brett McGurk, the US deputy special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS.
In addition to the strikes around Raqqa, the US-led coalition also destroyed ISIS fighting positions and tactical units in Tal Abyad, Kobani, Aleppo, and Al Bukamal in Syria, according to a press release from the coalition.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-led-airstrikes-isis-raqqa-capital-2015-7#ixzz3fcKPo1yA
In the wake of the horrifying murders of innocent tourists in Tunisia, we feel instinctively that something must be done. Attacks on holidaymakers are terrorism in its purest form, designed to frighten away others, to weaken the economy of Tunisia and so to damage the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of equally innocent Tunisians – and plunge them into the kind of misery and deprivation that makes it easier to recruit more young men to the harsh and bloody certainties of violent jihadism. So Michael Fallon, the defence secretary, suggests that we might try bombing Islamic State in Syria, as we are already doing as Iraq. The prime minister lets it be known that he favours the idea, and two Labour politicians signal that they might be prepared to back such an intervention. David Cameron was badly burned when Ed Miliband defeated his plan to join the US in attacks on the Assad regime in 2012 and he would not want to repeat the experience. So we’re not seeing a lemming-like rush to war. The trouble is that a coordinated attack by a horde of lemmings might frighten Isis more than Mr Fallon’s threats. Sometimes, even when it appears obvious that something must be done, there really isn’t anything obvious or easy that can be done.
The calculation might be different if a bombing campaign had a realistic chance either of defeating Isis on the ground or of discouraging terrorism in the areas that the group does not control. But the US, Canada, Jordan, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia are all already bombing Isis in Syria without significant effect, as we are in Iraq. There are very good and honourable reasons why these bombing campaigns kill few terrorists.
U.S.-led coalition forces conducted 16 airstrikes Saturday and early Sunday against key ISIS buildings and transit routes in the terror group’s stronghold of Raqqa, Syria, a U.S. Army official said.
At least 16 airstrikes were reported late Saturday and early Sunday, triggering successive explosions that shook the city and created panic among residents, activists said. The U.S.-led coalition often targets ISIS-held towns and cities in Syria, but the overnight strikes on Raqqa were rare in their intensity.
“The significant airstrikes tonight were executed to deny Daesh the ability to move military capabilities throughout Syria and into Iraq,” Lt. Col. Thomas Gilleran said in a statement, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.
And in case you forgot, the U.S. was already bombing in Syria last year (2014), using its favorite, manufactured enemy ISIS:
‘The Turk’ is dead: Al Qaeda-linked terror group says leader died in Syria airstrikes
updated 5:12 AM EDT, Wed September 24, 2014
(CNN) — The United States is doing what it must to “take the fight to terrorists,” leading a coalition of Arab nations in a series of airstrikes against the so-called Islamic State terror group in Syria, U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday.
At the same time, the United States took action — on its own — against another terrorist organization, the Khorasan Group. Obama described its members as “seasoned al Qaeda operatives in Syria.”
U.S. officials said the group was plotting attacks against the United States and other Western targets.
The plots against the United States were discovered by the intelligence community in the past week, an intelligence source with knowledge of the matter told CNN. The source did not say what the target may have been, but said the plot potentially involved a bomb made of a nonmetallic device like a toothpaste container or clothes dipped in explosive material.
A plot involving concealed bombs on airplanes “was just one option they were looking at,” a U.S. official said.
“Once again, it must be clear to anyone who would plot against America and try to do Americans harm that we will not tolerate safe havens for terrorists who threaten our people,” Obama said in televised remarks from the White House.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/23/world/meast/isis-airstrikes/index.html
Civilian Deaths Mount as US Bombing of Syria Expands
‘We will pay with our blood,’ says Abu Ibrahim, who fled his city of Raqqa ahead of US bombing. ‘In big wars, the civilian will pay.’
With a new wave of U.S.-led airstrikes overnight in Syria, reporting from the ground inside the country show that in addition to the damage being done to Islamic State (or ISIS) targets and other militant factions, the civilian death toll is rapidly increasing.
According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, bombings on oil refineries held by ISIS in the northeast of Syria killed fourteen militants associated with the group, but also five civilians. In total, since the bombing of Syria began on Monday, SOHR estimates that of the 183 total killed by U.S. bombs, 36 were non-combatants, many of them women and children.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/25/civilian-deaths-mount-us-bombing-syria-expands
Egyptian Forces Take On One Hundred ISIS Terrorists, And Slaughter All Of Them – Walid Shoebat
Egyptian forces just slaughtered 100 ISIS terrorists. 17 Egyptian soldiers did die (although Egypt’s military spokesman, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir, put the number of killed soldiers at 10), but the victory was solidly won. ISIS attacked military checkpoints in simultaneous incursions done by in the Sinai Peninsula, but were thoroughly slaughtered once the Egyptian soldiers made their defense.
The victims, so far, have not been identified. Six military checkpoints were attacked, and two of them were completely destroyed. ISIS captured numerous soldiers and took several armored vehicles and weapons. The attackers used used mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles.
via Egyptian Forces Take On One Hundred ISIS Terrorists, And Slaughter All Of Them – Walid Shoebat.
Hundreds Of Christians Form A Huge Militia And Are Now About To Attack ISIS And They Will Continue To Attack ISIS Until They Retake Their Homes And Towns And Until They Retake The Whole City Of Mosul – Walid Shoebat
A large and valiant militia, consisting of hundreds of Christians, has been formed to fight against the Islamic persecution and invasion of Christian lands in Iraq. They number in the dozens, they adorn themselves with crosses hanging from their necks, they have denied the self, they are filled with contrition, they are ready to fight the enemies of God, their hearts are prepared to endure holy war, their minds are set on the precepts of Heaven, their very beings are taken by the Word of God, “piercing even to the division of soul and spirit” (Hebrews 4:12). They call themselves the “Ketaeb Babylon.”
Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Said U.S.-Backed Free Syrian Army is Fake
As should be known by now, the opposition groups, including the FSA, Al Nusra and ISIS, who invaded Syria and are trying to destroy that nation, are convenient creations of the West, particularly the U.S. Remember Scott Ritter, the UN Inspector who said the war in Iraq was based on the lie of weapons of mass destruction? In Dec. 2014 he chimed in about what’s going on in Syria:
A vocal critic of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, [Scott] Ritter has resumed his trenchant writing on U.S. policy in the Middle East: He has authored at least three online articles for Huffington Post since October, including one warning that the creation of a U.S.-backed “Free Syrian Army” represents a “figment of American creative thinking.”Ritter, 53, was an intelligence officer in the Marine Corps and then a weapons inspector for the U.N.
Western ISIS adventurism, Israel behind Hamas – new Assange revelations — RT News
Julian Assange has given an interview to an Argentinian paper from his Ecuadorian embassy asylum where he spent more than 1,000 days. He spoke about why US meddling in Ukraine led to civil war, how the West helped ISIS and Israel supported Hamas.
US has long wanted to bring Ukraine to West
The United States has spent “a lot of time trying to bring Ukraine to the West,” the WikiLeaks founder said in an interview to Pagina/12, Argentinian newspaper on Monday.
“If it cannot be with a NATO membership, at least it becomes independent from Moscow’s sphere of influence, to reduce Russian industrial-military complex and its naval bases in Crimea.”
via Western ISIS adventurism, Israel behind Hamas – new Assange revelations — RT News.
‘ISIS and Al Qaeda – working in tune with Western strategic designs’ — RT Op-Edge
The West, despite its claims to be in a “War on Terror,” has been in alliance with the most sectarian forces to weaken Syria, Iran and Libya – rather than cooperating with them against ISIS, said Dan Glazebrook, political writer and journalist.
At least 38 policemen were killed and 46 people were wounded Monday in the Iraqi city of Samarra during a suicide attack. Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL) fighters rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into an army warehouse. The dead and injured are mostly military personnel, including senior officials. Baghdad has launched its largest operation against Islamic State to date.
RT: Let’s start with the suspected suicide attack involving the tank in Samarra. It’s a big setback, isn’t it? A lot of people died there…
Dan Glazebrook: Yes, it’s a disaster and we’re seeing these kind of things happening daily now. It has to be borne in mind that the role of ISIS, and these kind of death squads, have been very much in tune with the West’s overall strategic policy since 2011 when it decided to back all kind of sectarian forces as a tool of destabilizing independent states such as Syria and Libya.
via ‘ISIS and Al Qaeda – working in tune with Western strategic designs’ — RT Op-Edge.
Shocker: US Indirectly Supplies ISIS with Weapons to Help in Iraq — RT News
Iraq has admitted that ISIS jihadists captured huge caches of US-made weapons, including thousands of Humvees seized from Iraqi forces retreating from Mosul last year. The spoils of war have since then been used by ISIS to gain ground in Iraq and Syria.
“In the collapse of Mosul, we lost a lot of weapons,” Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in an interview with Iraqiya state TV. “We lost 2,300 Humvees in Mosul alone.”
via ‘2,300 Humvees in Mosul alone’: Iraq reveals number of US arms falling into ISIS hands — RT News.
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