Iraq & Syrian Civil Wars - Page 200

On August 05 2014 23:06 Livelovedie wrote:

Why wouldn't we care? It's not like our oil is nationalized, we are selling everything on the global market. If Iraqi oil is taken out of the supply chain, then we pay more for oil.

On August 06 2014 00:26 xDaunt wrote:

To an extent, yes, but the impact upon domestic prices is far less than what will be felt in other countries for a variety of reasons. There's a big difference between being dependent upon Middle East oil and having your oil prices merely influenced by Middle East oil. For us, the impact would have to be pretty damned high to justify getting significantly involved over there as opposed to merely fostering a stalemate.

Lastly, there are lots of domestic interests that want to see oil prices go up. The oil industry is one. Environmentalists are the other. You can bet that Obama won't shed a tear if the price of gas goes up $2.00 per gallon.

On August 06 2014 00:47 Redox wrote:

For consumers there should be no difference if you live in Europe or the US for example. You will feel price increases on the world market just the same. Only that the US will get more money for the oil on its soil.

This talk about "our oil" or "Chinese oil" when it is merely being produced by an American or Chinese company in Saudiarabia or w/e is a little silly anyway. It is still Saudi oil and the producing company profits from it, you dont.

On August 06 2014 01:11 xDaunt wrote:

The price sensitivity of oil and gas is different in the US than in Europe because of American production.

On August 05 2014 20:11 Vindicare605 wrote:


Except for their level of success.

“The ISIS teachings are not a religious issue,” he said. “The government and the state reject and ban ISIS teachings from growing in Indonesia."

“Every effort taken to expand the ISIS’ teachings must be prevented. Indonesia must not be a place to spread such teachings,” Suyanto said.

He added that the government would take steps such as preventing parties from establishing ISIS representatives and calling on the Ministry of Religious Affairs and religious leaders to raise public awareness about the perils of the group’s teachings.
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The BNPT chief, Ansyaad Mbai, told ucanews.com there were about 30 Indonesians fighting in Iraq.

“Most are former terrorism prisoners,” he said.

Two young men have been arrested in Ramanthapuram district of Tamil Nadu after a photograph of a group of people posing in T-shirts with the emblem of the Sunni militant group ISIS went viral on social media.

The two men, Abdul Rahman and Rilvan, have been charged with abetting insurgent activity and criminal conspiracy for ordering and distributing the T-shirts.

Panicked by the advance of ISIS, Riyadh has taken the drastic step of calling in military assistance from its close allies to shore up the long 500-mile border, Gulf security sources said last week.

Saudi Arabia spent an estimated 35 billion pounds on defence in 2013, beating Britain as the world’s fourth largest military spender.

This massive military precaution highlights Riyadh’s paranoia at the threat of being drawn into a war with the Al Qaeda splinter group.

Insurgents confirmed on Monday that they have broken the long-standing siege of Mleiha, a key town east of Damascus.

The decisive attack by a coalition of insurgent groups included heavy armored vehicles and a vehicle-carried suicide bomb by the Islamist faction Jabhat al-Nusra.

Syrian forces had encircled Mleiha for months and tried periodically to take over the town, a “gateway” to insurgent-held areas in East Ghouta.

Clashes have resumed between the Lebanese army and fighters from the Islamic State group in a town near the Syrian border, after ceasefire collapsed, a security source said.

According to the Reuters news agency the ceasefire agreed in Arsal earlier on Tuesday collapsed when an army position came under fire.

The two sides have been fighting since Saturday in Arsal.

TARTUS, Syria — There are no official statistics regarding the number of Alawites who have lost their lives since the peaceful protests in Syria turned into an armed sectarian conflict in many areas of the country. Human rights organizations are not counting the victims in Syria on a sectarian basis.

However, in statistics published July 12, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced that 65,803 people from the ranks of the Syrian regime forces and armed groups loyal to it have died. It is likely that the vast majority of the dead are Alawites, especially among the militias fighting alongside regime forces.

A visit to the cities and rural areas inhabited by an Alawite majority suggests that the number of deaths may exceed this figure. There are thousands of photos posted on walls and hung at intersections of young men who have lost their lives in the war, and all of them include slogans in support of President Bashar al-Assad. In these areas, Alawite support for the Assad regime remains strong, as evidenced by the large number of portraits of Assad spread throughout the coastal region. But words of anguish are being quietly muttered in these corners of Syria, as the death toll among Alawites continues to rise.

At least 60 militants were killed in one airstrike targeting a juvenile prison in Mosul, the provincial capital of Nineveh province, on Wednesday.

The prison was being used by the terrorists as a court to regularly issue beheading verdicts for those who dissent them.

Meanwhile, Iraq’s al-Sumaria TV station quoted Iraqi officials as saying that 180 ISIL terrorists were killed in the north of the city where the central government is carrying out airstrikes to support Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, who are also engaged in clashes with the terrorists there.

The figure would put ISIL’s fatalities of the day at 240. One senior ISIL commander and four of his deputies were reportedly among the dead.

The Nusra Front issued a number of laws, including economic and social with regard to the lives of civilians in the areas it controls in Edlib, northern Syria.

The Front has specified that a bag of bread will cost 60 Syrian Pounds for bakeries and traders, and threatened anyone who violates the set sale price. The Front also prohibited any military faction or civilian from approaching the service departments, under the threat of penalty or punishment.

Social laws related to the details of people's lives include the prohibition of loud voices, music and songs, in addition to prohibiting young people from driving motorcycles too fast or "on one wheel". Young men are prohibited from gathering in places allocated for women, according to a statement.

In addition, the Front notified the residents of the city of Salqin in Edlib countryside about security developments, after recent clashes between the armed factions and due to the exploitation of some infiltrators who wear the Front member's clothing to implement their personal goals and create problems among civilians.

On August 08 2014 02:53 TheFish7 wrote:
NYTimes is reporting that President Obama is weighing options of humanitarian supply drops to help religious minorities on Mount Sinjar, who are trapped without food or water by ISIS militants. The Times is also reporting that airstrikes are not off the table.



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IRBIL, IRAQ — Jet aircraft attacked Islamic State positions outside the town of Kalak, 25 miles northwest of Irbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, a resident of Kalak told McClatchy early Friday.

The resident, reached by phone from Irbil, said she had seen the aircraft and had heard the explosions coming from behind Islamic State lines, which are slightly more than a mile away. The resident said because it was dark she could not see any markings on the aircraft.

Kurdish television reported that the bombers were American. There was no confirmation from U.S. officials in Washington, however, and the Pentagon spokesman, Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby, called reports that the U.S. had conducted airstrikes in Iraq “completely false.”

On August 07 2014 23:47 JudicatorHammurabi wrote:
Did the Iraqi army disband again or something? They've become quite a laughable and undisciplined force since they became "US-trained" (which says enough). They go from defeating Islamic history's greatest jihad and the scariest crisis to face the Arabs and Israelis, to being overrun by some primates. lol

At least there was some good news from yesterday:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/08/06/374310/240-isil-militants-killed-in-iraq/

Also, for the record since people are pretty new to things having to do with the Mideast, peshmerga are not exactly good guys. They're traditionally anti-Iraqi insurgents/terrorists. They're only fighting ISIS because ISIS is encroaching on them personally, not because they care about what's happening to Iraq. Anytime there's crisis they'll try to assert independence or w/e, fanatics attempting to represent otherwise normal Kurdish folks. Fortunately this time around, their hands are pretty tied down with these Islamic terrorists. But funny enough, desperate times make for unlikely allies, but I'm sure anyone who knows anything about history knows that.