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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    It appears that the Syrian coalition has liberated the city which has been under siege for a few years now. The next target is a city to the south which will wrap up the population centres liberated by the Syrian coalition so far. Coming in from the south, Iraqi territory.

    A few pockets left to normalise, the border with Israel and a quick romp north to secure the "liberated" SDF lands.

    Well done the saviours of the middle east.

    Yes, and it only cost 400,000+ lives.


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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Yes, and it only cost 400,000+ lives.

    Figures of April 2016? And who is to be blamed? (Oh sorry, I forgot: the ones who opose the rebels fighting for democracy)...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Klondyke View Post
    Figures of April 2016? And who is to be blamed? (Oh sorry, I forgot: the ones who opose the rebels fighting for democracy)...
    The dictator who decided to launch a military assault on the majority of the population that did not want him in power, and who thanks to Vlad remains in charge.

    And yes, 2016 figures are the latest available, that's why I said 400,000+ you fucking dimwit.

    Try and keep up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    The dictator who decided to launch a military assault on the majority of the population that did not want him in power, and who thanks to Vlad remains in charge.

    And yes, 2016 figures are the latest available, that's why I said 400,000+ you fucking dimwit.

    Try and keep up.
    Not every "rogue state" country has been so lucky to be liberated from their "dictators" like Afgh., Iraq, Libya, not to mention some other more suffering nations as e.g. Vietnam...

    (with some more patience it can happen that any country will be so lucky once...)

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Yes, and it only cost 400,000+ lives.
    Apparently the crusader coalition has only killed 6 civilians in a year, 3 for ameristan and 3 for assorted vassals. Remarkable.

    That leaves 399,994 by the throat slitters and their wives and children.


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    U.S. Bombs ISIS in Somalia for the First Time

    WASHINGTON — The United States military bombed Islamic State fighters in Somalia for the first time on Friday, a sign that the air campaign against the group was expanding after recent battlefield successes against the militants in Iraq and Syria.


    Several militants were killed in a pair of strikes hours apart in the country’s northeast, according to a statement from United States Africa Command.
    “U.S. forces will continue to use all authorized and appropriate measures to protect Americans and to disable terrorist threats,” the statement said, adding that the strikes were carried out in coordination with the Somali government.


    The announcement of the new strikes came hours after President Trump said on Twitter that his administration had attacked the Islamic State “much harder” over the past two days. It was not immediately clear what he was referring to — the larger air campaign against the extremists in Iraq and Syria remained steady, according to the military — but the announcement of the bombings in Somalia helped clarify his statement.


    The Islamic State has suffered numerous defeats in the past several months, including the loss of their stronghold in the Iraqi city of Mosul and in their de facto capital, Raqqa, Syria.

    more. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/w...pgtype=article

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    U.S. Bombs ISIS in Somalia for the First Time


    WASHINGTON — The United States military bombed Islamic State fighters in Somalia for the first time on Friday, a sign that the air campaign against the group was expanding after recent battlefield successes against the militants in Iraq and Syria.


    Several militants were killed in a pair of strikes hours apart in the country’s northeast, according to a statement from United States Africa Command.
    “U.S. forces will continue to use all authorized and appropriate measures to protect Americans and to disable terrorist threats,” the statement said, adding that the strikes were carried out in coordination with the Somali government.


    The announcement of the new strikes came hours after President Trump said on Twitter that his administration had attacked the Islamic State “much harder” over the past two days. It was not immediately clear what he was referring to — the larger air campaign against the extremists in Iraq and Syria remained steady, according to the military — but the announcement of the bombings in Somalia helped clarify his statement.


    The Islamic State has suffered numerous defeats in the past several months, including the loss of their stronghold in the Iraqi city of Mosul and in their de facto capital, Raqqa, Syria.

    more. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/w...pgtype=article
    Hmm, Somalia, can't be the IS, they've been cudgelled, right? Perhaps the merkins are trying to win it from the air, won't be putting boots on ground with fond memories of the last time they brashed out in places they're not wanted.

    But if they say the IS are on the run, it must be true.

    And btw, just a reminder, those they are bombing are canon fodder that generates ten new fighters for each one killed or even injured. Care to do the math, anyone?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jabir View Post
    Hmm, Somalia, can't be the IS, they've been cudgelled, right? Perhaps the merkins are trying to win it from the air, won't be putting boots on ground with fond memories of the last time they brashed out in places they're not wanted.

    But if they say the IS are on the run, it must be true.

    And btw, just a reminder, those they are bombing are canon fodder that generates ten new fighters for each one killed or even injured. Care to do the math, anyone?
    Sure. Low end for number of IS fighters killed to date is 25,000. Injured, about 75,000. According to you that means IS should now have 1,000,000 fighters. Where are they? Hiding under your bed?
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    Quote Originally Posted by DrB0b View Post
    Sure. Low end for number of IS fighters killed to date is 25,000. Injured, about 75,000. According to you that means IS should now have 1,000,000 fighters. Where are they? Hiding under your bed?
    Wow, I do love your numbers. 25k killed, 75k injured = 100k. And they still have at least a handful of fighters under siege in each of dozens of towns and cities by...whom...? By Syrian gov forces, which leader the west sacrificed tens of thousands of wog lives to topple and are now supporting? Are you serious? Or is it the 'friendly rebels' that fought and are still fighting both the west AND the Syrians which are now on the same side with the west and Russia, and omg Iran? Or by Iranian sponsored troops since your 'experts' and leaders are desperate for 'friends' in return for - what, if not territory and resources and influence that will ultimately cost western lives? No need to go on, others will get the drift if your shutters are firmly shut.

    But you sound sincere, even if you privately know your flexi-numbers are prone to change according to convenience over reality, so I suggest you start preparing a bunch of new ones for later on.

    2 years ago total front-line IS fighters (under Obama) was estimated at around 35k, then 50k, then when the people were dumbed down enough the number crept more realistically into 6 figures, and then more. And even at that low end, 35-50k, the IS was holding territory the size of GB. Pause to consider how ridiculous this is. Either the 'experts' got it so wrong that even the dopiest of the doped should have started sniffing, or IS was undergoing phenomenal growth; you choose which, since the only thing we do know is that the actual numbers touted are unknowable but insanely wrong.

    How's that? - because our 'experts' (you do know what 'expert' means?) have been wrong on everything to date, including their friends and enemies, the formation and structure of the IS and its impressive expansion across a world with no religious/ideological borders. Check it out for yourself: ask an 'expert' to guess how many of the 'friendlies' have turn their weapons against the west, or exported them into Europe for the army that will eventually move against suitably doped up and snoozing civilians that would rather poke out their eyes than risk using them to see the wreck that's only beginning to unfold in Europe and to a lesser extent the USA.

    According to you that means IS should now have 1,000,000 fighters. Where are they? Hiding under your bed?
    Perhaps you should try answering that daft question, then kick yourself to sleep.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jabir View Post
    Wow, I do love your numbers.
    Quote Originally Posted by jabir View Post
    those they are bombing are canon fodder that generates ten new fighters for each one killed or even injured
    Quote Originally Posted by jabir View Post
    Care to do the math, anyone?
    Do you know what exponential means? Perhaps you can find a 6 year old to help you with your maths?


    Go on, then. You say that for every 1 that's killed or injured 10 spring up in some magical way. Start with 1 killed. How does that end up? Do the math, fool.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jabir View Post
    those they are bombing are canon fodder that generates ten new fighters for each one killed or even injured.
    ...newer munitions can take care of those as well...

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    Quote Originally Posted by tomcat View Post
    ...newer munitions can take care of those as well...
    Go on then, tell us which newer munitions you or other wannabe warriors will use to neutralise an unknown number of active and inactive IS sympathisers many of whom remain unidentified and living in western cities, and most of whom if you do manage to miraculously identify, have committed no crime?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jabir View Post
    tell us which newer munitions you or other wannabe warriors will use to neutralise an unknown number of active and inactive IS sympathisers many of whom remain unidentified and living in western cities
    ...neuralizers...
    Quote Originally Posted by jabir View Post
    most of whom if you do manage to miraculously identify, have committed no crime?
    ...a corps of trained precogs as part of precrime police units will separate good from evil...voila!...

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    Just get them to fill in a questionnaire. Upload it to Google or Facebook and let a bother of bots inform you at a convenient time. Sorted, innit.

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    ^^
    Come back ENT, all is forgiven!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jabir View Post
    There are many ways to find a distraction from the points raised
    However, the point you raised was

    Quote Originally Posted by jabir View Post
    And btw, just a reminder, those they are bombing are canon fodder that generates ten new fighters for each one killed or even injured. Care to do the math, anyone?
    do you understand yet that that point, like most points you make, was sheer idiocy?

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    gosh, you really are bright.

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    I have been away for awhile and thought I would check back into this thread. The amount of real estate ISIS has lost is encouraging, but as we all know, getting rid of ISIS is far from over. They will now take the battle to individual countries which was predicted long ago. My question still remains, What Will It Take To Get Rid of ISIS? Will it just morph into another named group, or will it keep its origonal name? There is a long way to go and no way to get there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jabir View Post
    gosh, you really are bright.
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    What will it take to get rid of ISIS?

    Russians.

    In both senses.

    If you're clever, you'll get that.


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    If the Islamic State is ever destroyed, that is, destroyed so it no longer exists rather than pushed from one place to everywhere else for political points, it won't be by the US/EU. Ethical warfare is for wimps, and there's no shortage of those in western halls of power.

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    Will the new SA leader give them all a million. No need to get out of bed to earn their 22 virgins, just buy themseves a harem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    Will the new SA leader give them all a million. No need to get out of bed to earn their 22 virgins, just buy themseves a harem.
    For anyone desperate to believe what dumb leaders and complicit media tell you about "mercenaries" being the backbone of the Islamic State, sure, go ahead, give them a wad apiece and see if they stampede for the beach or the gun store.

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    The Islamic State "state" doesn't really exist anymore, does it? They hardly control any land now. A few acres here and there. Hardly a "state".

    And the Caliphate isn't really working out, is it? They had a good go at it but they have failed. Just a few pockets of terrorists left, to be mostly killed. A few symathisers and a few survivors that will either be killed, arrested and possibly jailed, and a few to go back to their earlier lives. It's almost over. Just waiting for the fat lady to sing.
    Last edited by Neverna; 07-11-2017 at 06:59 PM.

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    This was my original post when I started this post back in February of 2015:

    "What Will It Take To Get Rid Of ISIS?

    ISIS has surely enraged enough countries in the world to warrent their demise.

    What will it take to get rid of these assholes?"

    It seems ISIS has pissed off enough people to cause their territorial dominance to be deminished to almost nothing. Will ISIS change their name before continuing their cause? If it was me, I would retreat and come back a little later under another name and a completely different strategy. The current ISIS movement has run its course.

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