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2017-09-04 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

US Coalition bombs ISIL convoy heading to Deir Ezzor from Lebanon, claims 85 dead

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Posted by trailing wife 2017-09-04 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 Desperately needs haha graphic.

Posted by gorb 2017-09-04 00:20|| 2017-09-04 00:20|| Front Page Top

#2 85*72 = 6120 virgins

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-09-04 07:45|| 2017-09-04 07:45|| Front Page Top

#3 I love heart warming stories.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-09-04 10:16|| 2017-09-04 10:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Smells like bullshit to me
Hezbollah are on opposite sides to ISIS

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-09-04 10:38|| 2017-09-04 10:38|| Front Page Top

#5 It gets IS and its minions out of Lebanon and away from the power-players in that miserable country.

It gets them out of Assad's territory and western Syria in general.

It coincides with Russia and Iran's intent to keep Assad in power.

It keeps the Syrian power balance, and the Mid-East power balance in general, intact and in favor of Russian, Iranian, Heb'allah (and to a lesser extent, Turkish) interests.

It becomes a 'Western' and Arab problem in eastern Syria and western Iraq.

Posted by Pappy 2017-09-04 11:52|| 2017-09-04 11:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Hezbollah are on opposite sides to ISIS

ISIS is a convenient symbolic "rent an enemy." They're kinda like the Obama supporter who suddenly became an alt-right "white supremacist" in Charlottsville recently. It has helped Hezbollah pretend they're Fighting Isis every time they go out to shoot someone, just like Antifadah likes to pretend they're fighting naziism whenever they beat up whoever they're beating up this week.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-09-04 12:52|| 2017-09-04 12:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Arabic saying: "Me and my brothers against my cousins, me and my cousins against the stranger"
Why dig them out of a IED-festooned fortified village if you can talk them into going east and die fighting someone else? A Win-Win-Win if they kill someone(e.g. Kurds) in the process that are competing for power in the region.

Posted by magpie 2017-09-04 15:54|| 2017-09-04 15:54|| Front Page Top

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