Iraq and ISIS Discussion

Speaking of no boots on the ground....

Top U.S. general: More American troops headed to Iraq - CNNPolitics.com

Appearing at a briefing with Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Joseph Dunford said, "The secretary and I both believe that there will be an increase to the U.S. forces in Iraq in the coming weeks."

A U.S. defense official told CNN earlier this week that the U.S. currently has between 4,500 and 5,000 troops in Iraq on a regular basis, about 1,000 over the stated limit of 3,800. This includes 200 Special Operations Forces whose presence is not publicly acknowledged, the official said.
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Damn - if true as written, damn.

Russian soldier calls airstrikes on himself to wipe out ISIS fighters

A Russian soldier has died a 'hero' after wiping out a band of ISIS fighters by calling in airstrikes on himself.

The special forces officer was on a one-man mission to track down ISIS militants in the area around Palmyra, when he found himself surrounded by enemy fighters.

Caught in a hopeless situation, he directed Russian aircraft to bomb his location, killing himself and the ISIS fighters that surrounded him.
 
Ooh-Rah said:
Damn - if true as written, damn.

Russian soldier calls airstrikes on himself to wipe out ISIS fighters

A Russian soldier has died a 'hero' after wiping out a band of ISIS fighters by calling in airstrikes on himself.

The special forces officer was on a one-man mission to track down ISIS militants in the area around Palmyra, when he found himself surrounded by enemy fighters.

Caught in a hopeless situation, he directed Russian aircraft to bomb his location, killing himself and the ISIS fighters that surrounded him.
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A one man mission?
 
ISIS has their own immigration issues. This is a pretty interesting read. Here's a quick snippet-

In a scene that has become commonplace, a foreign Islamic State fighter angrily denounced an elderly Iraqi man for wearing his beard too short for a properly devout Muslim.

Instead of quietly enduring another routine indignity, the old man cursed his detractor, to the surprise of onlookers. But what followed was even more surprising: Six local Iraqi fighters for Islamic State intervened to take the old man’s side. The Iraqis beat their foreign comrade, handcuffed him and threw him into a car, then sped away.

Rift Grows in Islamic State Between Foreign, Local Fighters

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Ooh-Rah said:
ISIS has their own immigration issues. This is a pretty interesting read. Here's a quick snippet-

In a scene that has become commonplace, a foreign Islamic State fighter angrily denounced an elderly Iraqi man for wearing his beard too short for a properly devout Muslim.

Instead of quietly enduring another routine indignity, the old man cursed his detractor, to the surprise of onlookers. But what followed was even more surprising: Six local Iraqi fighters for Islamic State intervened to take the old man’s side. The Iraqis beat their foreign comrade, handcuffed him and threw him into a car, then sped away.

Rift Grows in Islamic State Between Foreign, Local Fighters

ETA -
You may not be able to open link if you do not have online subscription to WSJ. I've copy/pasted and attached the article into a PDF for easier reading.
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Here, if you don't want to read the article...just watch this 2 minute documentary. It pretty much sums everything up !

 
ISIS has gone too far!! :mad:

@Freefalling

ISIS’ Public Retaliations Officer and the organization’s Chief Torturer Abu-Hassan bin-harem announced that we may be facing a new tactic. “We have recently obtained a new type of weapon. Our “Long-Acoustic Range Device” (LARD) is capable of damage beyond anyone’s wildest imagination.” It has been confirmed that the head removing-militant group is referring to Nickelback’s first single from their last album titled Edge of a Revolution; a song so awful that it is crippling, and at times even lethal.
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