EPTIraq & Syrian Civil Wars - Page 279
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Please guys, stay on topic. This thread is about the situation in Iraq and Syria. | ||
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lastpuritan
United States540 Posts
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xDaunt
United States17988 Posts
On February 20 2015 14:16 hannahbelle wrote: Source The solution is so simple. Surprised no one thought of this before. This brilliance is the product of the same Administration that refuses to call ISIS an Islamic terrorist organization. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
Islamic Front official twitter account: Assad Militias have retreated from Bashkoy. | ||
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funbanter
Korea (North)2 Posts
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hannahbelle
United States0 Posts
On February 21 2015 02:02 funbanter wrote: A question about European governments, and the US, blocking their citizens from returning the their countries after moving to Syria and Iraq: does this not infringe on the 13th right of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, specifically clause 13, sub clause 2? No. That piece of trash called the UDHR doesn't prevent countries from protecting their borders from potential threats. I would think leaving the country to participate in an active conflict is recognizably just grounds in any rational thinking court to deny reentry. | ||
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URfavHO
United States514 Posts
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted. | ||
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URfavHO
United States514 Posts
Tomoya Kawakita (born in Calexico, California, on September 26, 1921, of Japanese-born parents) was arrested and charged with treason for torturing American POWs at the Oeyama POW camp in Kyoto, Japan, during World War II. Former POWs testified that he often taunted them, forced them to beat each other, and made them work even when they were sick. Kawakita argued that a person with dual nationality can only be guilty of treason to the country in which he resides, not another which claims him as a national. The prosecution pointed out that the U.S. Constitution places no territorial limitations on treason. And it pointed out that U.S. citizenship cannot be cast off or on so easily like one might do with a "raincoat," nor turned off and on "like a faucet." However, President Dwight D. Eisenhower viewed the punishment as excessive and on October 29, 1953 commuted Kawakita's sentence to life imprisonment. Ten years later, during the closing of Alcatraz prison where Kawakita was serving his time, President John F. Kennedy pardoned him on October 24, 1963 on the condition that he be deported to Japan and banned from American soil for life. | ||
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Simberto
Germany11829 Posts
On February 21 2015 03:44 hannahbelle wrote: No. That piece of trash called the UDHR doesn't prevent countries from protecting their borders from potential threats. I would think leaving the country to participate in an active conflict is recognizably just grounds in any rational thinking court to deny reentry. I must say that your statements become more and more silly. Now the Declaration of Human Rights is "a piece of trash" I think i will continue watching, it is quite interesting what you manage to come up with every day. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
JAN Announced the Complete Capture Of Al-Mallah and its surrounding farms and now edging towards Handarat. | ||
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hannahbelle
United States0 Posts
On February 21 2015 05:09 Simberto wrote: I must say that your statements become more and more silly. Now the Declaration of Human Rights is "a piece of trash" I think i will continue watching, it is quite interesting what you manage to come up with every day. Meh, it's just a tool created by an unelected, unaccountable and hopelessly corrupt socialistic bureaucracy to erode American sovereignty just a little bit more. You Euros may not care about your sovereignty anymore, but that doesn't mean some of us across the pond don't care about ours. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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GoTuNk!
Chile4591 Posts
ty in advace | ||
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Millitron
United States2611 Posts
On February 21 2015 10:14 GoTuNk! wrote: Could someone quickly explain the main factions? I feel like an idiot reading the updates and not understanding what is going on, though I'm heavily interested ty in advace There's the Syrian Army, under command of Assad. There's the Free Syrian Army, which is the rebellion. But the FSA is composed of dozens of different groups, some of whom are fighting each other. Then you have ISIS, who are sorta part of the FSA, but they also have grander goals outside Syria as well. You've got the YPG, which is a Kurdish militia in Iraq. Then you've got government troops from practically every country in the region all fighting ISIS, either with ground troops or just air support. Basically, its an absolute clusterfuck, and I doubt anyone really understands all of it. Plus, any more specific information you dig up is probably totally inaccurate within a couple days. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23932 Posts
On February 21 2015 14:18 Millitron wrote: There's the Syrian Army, under command of Assad. There's the Free Syrian Army, which is the rebellion. But the FSA is composed of dozens of different groups, some of whom are fighting each other. Then you have ISIS, who are sorta part of the FSA, but they also have grander goals outside Syria as well. You've got the YPG, which is a Kurdish militia in Iraq. Then you've got government troops from practically every country in the region all fighting ISIS, either with ground troops or just air support. Basically, its an absolute clusterfuck, and I doubt anyone really understands all of it. Plus, any more specific information you dig up is probably totally inaccurate within a couple days. Considering during Iraq and Afghanistan there were issues of Allied airstrikes hitting allied forces from a different country, I think it's safe to say it's only going to get worse. | ||
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Millitron
United States2611 Posts
On February 21 2015 14:39 GreenHorizons wrote: Considering during Iraq and Afghanistan there were issues of Allied airstrikes hitting allied forces from a different country, I think it's safe to say it's only going to get worse. In the first Gulf War, the British took the extra fuel tanks off their tanks, because from the air, a British tank with fuel tanks on was nearly identical to an Iraqi T72. I believe two or three got shot up by A10's who thought they were T72's. Good thing they weren't T72's, or the crews probably wouldn't have survived. | ||
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Roggay
Switzerland6320 Posts
On February 21 2015 08:29 hannahbelle wrote: Meh, it's just a tool created by an unelected, unaccountable and hopelessly corrupt socialistic bureaucracy to erode American sovereignty just a little bit more. You Euros may not care about your sovereignty anymore, but that doesn't mean some of us across the pond don't care about ours. What an incredibly dumb statement. | ||
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FusionSC2
Ireland29 Posts
On February 21 2015 14:18 Millitron wrote: There's the Syrian Army, under command of Assad. There's the Free Syrian Army, which is the rebellion. But the FSA is composed of dozens of different groups, some of whom are fighting each other. Then you have ISIS, who are sorta part of the FSA, but they also have grander goals outside Syria as well. You've got the YPG, which is a Kurdish militia in Iraq. Then you've got government troops from practically every country in the region all fighting ISIS, either with ground troops or just air support. Basically, its an absolute clusterfuck, and I doubt anyone really understands all of it. Plus, any more specific information you dig up is probably totally inaccurate within a couple days. There are also a ton of other fractions, all who have different agendas. This war will have lasting consequences for the region: in a few years, I wouldn't be surprised to see the Kurds proclaiming Kurdistan, but that's just my opinion. | ||
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lastpuritan
United States540 Posts
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/dyYo7fL.gif) Rebels destroy a regime tank in Khan Tuman, SW of Aleppo city. | ||
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hannahbelle
United States0 Posts
What a well thought out post. The analytic ability you displayed is a credit to your education... | ||
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