FWIW ....
US in secret ISIS Deal - with Turkey and Iran ???
Tweets - 10/12/14...
#IslamicState to capture #Kobanê within days, Kurdish lawmaker predicts http://bloom.bg/1svIC6B /via @BloombergNews #Syria
#Kirkuk governor rejects formation of provincial guards, saying that Kirkuk is the most protected province despite threats.
Tweets - 10/11/14
#Iraq #Anbar City of #Haditha & its #Euphrates dam is now completely surrounded by #IslamicState
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34.127153&lon=42.386627&z=11&m=b …
Anti War....
“Our military commandershave all laid out scenarios where we need more troops,” McKeon insisted, adding that they have warned “if we don’t put boots on the ground, we can’t form the coalition.”
It’s not ISIS’ first attempt at taking Abu Ghraib, as they made a serious push back in April which forced Iraq to close the notorious prison there. Yet with a US air war now underway, the situation could be quite different.
US in secret ISIS Deal - with Turkey and Iran ???
Tweets - 10/12/14...
AP: #Turkey OKs use of Airbases against #ISIS including Incirlik. Significant for #Kobane http://www.stripes.com/us-says-turkey-oks-use-of-bases-against-militants-1.308035#.VDrS-W9aGU8.twitter …
Joel Wing retweeted
Luay لؤي الخطيب
#ISIS Boot Camp in #Mosul #Iraq, training foreign fighters smuggled via #Turkey's Corridor. #US F-16 cannot see them!
Yannis Koutsomitis 
Abdulkader Hariri retweeted
Tarek Fatah ਤਾਰਿਕ
Here is where the estimated 15,000 #ISIS militants in #Syria came from. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/foreign-fighters-flow-to-syria/2014/10/11/3d2549fa-5195-11e4-8c24-487e92bc997b_graphic.html …
Rudaw English
Michael Weiss retweeted
FRANCE 24
Iraq ground role likely for US military advisors: Dempsey http://f24.my/1ELsCkW
Al Arabiya English
ISIS ‘misleads’ Iraqi jets with smokescreens http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/10/12/ISIS-uses-smokescreens-to-mislead-Iraqi-warplanes-.html …
Kurdish source in #Kobane tells me: 'Many ISIS forces around Kobane now. FSA must use this &start fighting ISIS esp in Tal Abyad &Jarablus.
#Kobane update: 4 coalition airstrikes 2day inside the city against ISIS. 2 in industrial zone East part town. 2 in area of police station.
#Kobanê'nin doğu ve guneyinde çatışmalar sürüyor
In New Setback for Obama, Iraqi Cities Escape Into Syria. RT @nytimes A visual guide to the crisis in Iraq and Syria
Erbil Coordinates Airstrikes Against IS Militants in #Kobani - #BasNews - http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/Erbil-Coordinates--Airstrikes-Against-IS-Militants-in-Kobani-/37442 …
Iran warns of risk to Israel's security should US seek overthrow of Assad http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/11/iran-syria-israel-us-air-strikes-isis-assad?CMP=twt_gu …
.@NoahBonsey weighs in on why #ISIS is gaining ground – and so hard to beat http://nwsdp.ly/u8bp7 #Syria
#US military jets have dropped aid to #Iraqi army in #Baiji area where heavy clashes between the Iraqi army and... http://fb.me/2L7QVRkG3
#Breaking — Anbar Police chief Saddak al-Dulaimi killed following an explosion in #Ramadi — State TV reports. http://fb.me/29BFcqw22
Tweets - 10/11/14
#Kobane update: Fighting was yesterday mainly in East of town. Today ISIS offensive came from West. Trying to find gap in YPG defense lines.
#Kobane Update: Coalition planes now in the air bombing ISIS positions. At least 3 confirmed strikes in last hour - Eyewitness. @akhbar
Joyce Karam retweeted
FSA News
RT @arabthomness: dispatch of #FSA fighters from #Aleppo province managed to break through to #Kobanê, helped #YPG to push back #IS. #Syria
Big implications on ISIS fight in #Ramadi: capturing it would place a 500km stretch of the Euphrates valley under ISIS control. #Iraq #Syria
Joel Wing retweeted
Mustafa
The commander of ISIS offensive on Kobane is a Kurdish from Halabja (The city Saddam attacked with chemical weapons)
New ISIS video, "Blood of Jihad" outlines training given to c.250-300 new recruits in Ninawa, #Iraq.
PT: Note that ISIS appears to be using US Army tenting in the training camp shown in new video http://youtu.be/K-8USllXIRY
Joel Wing retweeted
Liz Sly
ISIS say they have shot down a US drone near Ramadi. Looks like it. Anyone know what it is?http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N-3vFHBXbww …
Wladimir retweeted
ISW
ISW Anbar update: "ISIS aims to surround Baghdad from its belts." If succeeds ISF isolated. http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2014/10/isis-advances-in-anbar-september-1.html?utm_source=ISIS+Advances+in+Anbar+%28September+1-October+7%2C+2014%29&utm_campaign=ISW+New+Iraq+update&utm_medium=email …
Wladimir
Kirkuk city under attack http://dlvr.it/79dpTM
Brown Moses retweeted
GEOrge 
Brown Moses retweeted
Derek Henry Flood 
Jenan Moussa
2day Kurds on their own. Only 1strike. I hear heavy streetfights west #Kobane. Fighter tells me: 'some hope town falls 2 ISIS. Not so fast!'
My view on #Kobane. Relatively quiet now. Can hear gunshots. Weather terrible. Sandstorm. Bad 4 planes. 1 strike 2day
Mark
#Iraq #Anbar provincial official says #ISIS now controls 80 percent of the province--#Iraq's largest
DAILY SABAH retweeted
Peace cannot come back to #Syria in the absence of a comprehensive roadmap |DS Editorial Board
http://ow.ly/CBlsl
#Turkey has 3 demands: no-fly zone, safe zone and training and assisting the Syrian opposition
http://ow.ly/CBbEa
In addition to 2FSA units in #pt, 2more FSA units fight w\ypg in vicinity #Kobane acc 2 FSA source. Names: Jund AlHaramayn &Liwa Thwar Raqqa
Source: 2units of Free Syrian Army (FSA) fight along kurdish YPG forces in #Kobane. FSA units: Shams AlShamal (sun of North) &AlAkrad Front.
Source in #Kobane tells me: General commander of all kurdish forces defending city against ISIS is female. Her name: Nalin Afrin. @akhbar
Acc to source, female General commander of kurds in #Kobane is v. committed. She believes there is still chance to push ISIS out of town.
'Coalition strikes v.helpful yesterday' #Kobane Chief tells me. ISIS was stopped at police station (security zone). 'Our pple are 100m away'
PBS NEWSHOUR VIDEO: Can Airpower Alone Stop Advance Of Islamic State Militants http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/10/pbs-newshour-video-can-airpower-alone.html …
A Kurdish Alamo: Five Reasons the Battle for #Kobane Matters http://carnegieendowment.org/syriaincrisis/?fa=56905 … by Katherine Wilkens #Syria #Turkey #Iraq #Kurdistan
#London mayor says UK monitoring thousands of terrorism suspects http://shar.es/1mvHn7
Kurdish Leader: IS Changed Attacks from Baghdad to Kurdistan on Orders From Tehran - #BasNews - http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/Kurdish-Leader--IS-Changed-Attacks-from-Baghdad-to--Kurdistan-on-Orders-From-Teh/37272 …
KRG: We have Supported #Kobani As Much As We Can - #BasNews - http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/KRG--We-have-Supported-Kobani-As-Much-As-We-Can/37264 …
KRG Opens Main Border with Turkey for #Kobani Refugees - #BasNews - http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/KRG-Opens-Main-Border-with-Turkey-for-Kobani-Refugees/37222 …
“If Ramadi falls, all of Anbar falls. Ramadi is the head. If you cut the head, the rest of the body will die"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/islamic-state-fighters-are-threatening-to-overrun-iraqs-anbar-province/2014/10/09/34b302f0-84e4-4d73-b220-2d91161363e5_story.html?hpid=z1 …
Wladimir retweeted
Provincial council of #Iraq's Anbar province submits official request asking for US ground troops to fight ISIS, al-Sharqiyah TV reporting
Wladimir retweeted
US military believes half of Iraqi army incompetent as key province poised to fall @scribblercat @haynesdeborah http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/article4233400.ece …
In battle against Kurds, is it AKP's policy to back IS? http://almon.co/28h9 via @AlMonitor
#IS reportedly controls 35-45% of Kobani, including the YPG HQ in the town center, using motorcycles to move around to avoid airstrikes.
Video from pro-#IS al-'Amaq news shows intense urban combat, house-to-house fighting in Kobani: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_vRjbRcJzUo …
The #UN has warned that #Kobane's fall could be another #Srebrencia, 1995 massacre where international efforts failed to stop #Bosnia's war.
Demonstration in The #Hague, Netherlands, #SaveKobane — Dieko Mirza.
#Kurds protest in downtown San Francisco, urging US President #Obama to stop #ISIS militants and save #Kobane.
Michael Weiss retweeted
ISF source: Saddam army officers+Snr Ba'this. received #Iraq Gov monthly payments via 'reconciliation' prog are the 'Backbone' of ISIS Ops
#Syria Doesn’t matter to the US. The anti-#ISIS coalition has one goal: save #Iraq http://mme.cm/PD8U00 via @NOW_eng
#Turkey's top General not attending Pentagon's anti- #ISIS coalition meeting headed by Dempsey in DC. http://mobile.todayszaman.com/mobile_detailHeadline.action?newsId=361270 …
Joyce Karam retweeted
ISIS does not control border crossing with #Kobane. ISIS trying to capture it but Kurdish YPG still holding out there. Source @akhbar
New on MoA: War On Syria Spills Into Neighbor Countries - Lebanon Now In Serious Danger - http://www.moonofalabama.org/2014/10/war-on-syria-spills-into-neighbor-countries-lebanon-now-in-serious-danger.html …
Anti War....
Rep. McKeon: Generals Want Ground Troops for Iraq War
Insists Ground Troops Are Necessary for Conflict
by Jason Ditz, October 10, 2014
According to House Armed Services Committee chairman Rep. Buck McKeon (R – CA), the generals in charge of the new US war in Iraq have been pushing hard for President Obama to agree to an outright ground invasion of the nation.
“Our military commandershave all laid out scenarios where we need more troops,” McKeon insisted, adding that they have warned “if we don’t put boots on the ground, we can’t form the coalition.”
Obama has been clashing semi-publicly with the Pentagon for about a month on the question of ground troops, as the president tries to insist an unpopular ground war is not even being considered, and generals continuing to treat it as all but inevitable.
Rep. McKeon is an outspoken hawk on the matter, but the fact that he is being used as a sounding board for the Pentagon’s desires for escalation of the ISIS war is a sign that, despite the administration laying out the war as a many year campaign, the generals are getting itchy trigger fingers on adding the ground component.
In Abu Ghraib, ISIS Fighters Eight Miles From Baghdad Airport
Shoulder-Fired MANPAD Missiles Could Threaten Planes
by Jason Ditz, October 10, 2014
Though it is still nominally controlled by the Iraqi military, the key Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib continues to have a significant ISIS presence, meaning the fighters are just eight miles away from the runways of Baghdad Airport.
It’s not ISIS’ first attempt at taking Abu Ghraib, as they made a serious push back in April which forced Iraq to close the notorious prison there. Yet with a US air war now underway, the situation could be quite different.
ISIS now not only has the anti-aircraft weapons the Saudis provided to various Syrian rebel factions, but also everything they looted in the takeover of Mosul. That means, just a stone’s throw from the airport, they have shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles capable of downing the airliners.
That could be a game-changer for the US war in Iraq, as many of the ground troops deployed to Baghdad are nominally there to ensure control of the airport and the corridor between it and the US Embassy. That may not mean much if ISIS starts shooting down the planes.
US airstrikes in the area have focused on the outskirts of Ramadi and Fallujah, the major Anbar cities, but ISIS continues to advance down the highway, once again underscoring how little the war is accomplishing.
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