Levant crisis - III

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 18 Oct 2016 05:03

Breaking news : #Iraqi war jet F- 16 attacked and destroyed 30 #ISIS pickup leaving #Mosul to #Syria. @AlMayadeenNews

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 18 Oct 2016 05:08

Day1 gains map

Note the city itself is 16km diameter

Lot of outposts need to be rolled over

Y. Kanan · Post by **Y. Kanan** » 18 Oct 2016 05:32

We all knew the Pakis blew off the Saudi request to send troops into the Yemen conflict on the GCC side, but did we know they had gone so far as to actually intervene on the Russian/Iranian side?

Throws a whole new light on the Russian/Pak military exercises that occurred recently, and the Pakistani bravura about a Sino-Russian-Pakistani axis, doesn't it?

It's just Paki Shia volunteers; the Pakis being Sunnis, they're probably happy to ship off Shia young men to Syria and get rid of them.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 18 Oct 2016 06:13

The scum use slave labor.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 18 Oct 2016 06:15

TSJ: Does Eyerak have F16s? I thought they have only Spitfires and Sopwith Camels and MiGs?

TSJones · Post by **TSJones** » 18 Oct 2016 06:21

^^^^I think they got 8 of 'em out of a promised 36.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 18 Oct 2016 07:34

They are using frogfoots hinds and havocs also

habal · Post by **habal** » 18 Oct 2016 08:17

TSJones wrote:I'm not sure why you are so impressed with the Russian s-400. as soon as they fire on US or Israeli planes those SAM sites are going to be history. do you think the US isn't testing and practicing for this?
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and then ..

those platforms/weapons that are used to attack an S400 go safely back home to mamma ?

what happens when the bear takes out the bases from where these attacks are launched. You have to escalate to next step to prove masculinity in front of admirers.

US population will start crying if they go without facebook for an hour, let alone survive attacks from an angry bear. Russians are used to frugal living and hardship, they have already prepared with nuclear drills. they have nothing to lose, their cities are bare while on the other hand there are fruit laden trees of london, paris, new york with all those shiny global banks, wonder who will escalate first ...

Hitesh · Post by **Hitesh** » 18 Oct 2016 08:26

Habal,

You are really getting the hang of jingoism, aren't ya?

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 18 Oct 2016 08:34

seems to be the iraqi khan certified and trained 'golden brigade' going by their black camo .. some of them also wear ice hockey goalie style masks for the scare factor.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 18 Oct 2016 08:35

Wonder what happens if a sub stationed 3miles off Bandar Abbas or Fau island (accidentally of course) fires an old-fashined IRBM with multiple 200 KT warheads towards, say, Haifa and Tel Aviv. The Iron Dome will probably stop most, but how carefully will the trajectory be analyzed b4 the retaliatory strike lifts off, and then what?

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 18 Oct 2016 08:37

^^ iron dome is for katyusha and kassem rockets I believe. the arrow-2 interceptors + green pine radar are for IRBMs.
iran has no such sub launched missiles, not even any claims to one...but those who might want false flag ops certainly do

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 18 Oct 2016 08:41

that mount Bashika in NE corner is allegedly where turkoman militas + 500 turkish SOF have established a base in iraq.

the areas north of mosul are marked peshmerga but seem to overlap with the operating areas of the NPF - nineveh protection forces - a coalition of arab, assyrian and yezidi militias...the nineveh plain is north of mosul upto the turkish border.

Tal afar is a den of ISIS and very strongly held...this is where they ran tail between legs after the Sinjar defeat.

there are also ancient cities like Nimrud in the desert with the famous human faced winged lion things...daesh has been blasting and pillaging them as a co-curricular activity in spare time.

would not be surprised if a armour column in spearing through the desert directly from qayarah to Tal afar for a 'surgical strike'

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 18 Oct 2016 09:48

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/origina ... mosul.html

I was trying to solve the mystery how the turkish base is smack in middle of the peshmerga lands.

it seems there is a alliance between peshmerga and a outfit called hashd-al-watani founded by one Nujaifi former gov of nineveh who was dismissed for corruption and collusion with IS. he has prevailed upon the peshmerga and turkey that he should be in charge of the victory march into mosul.

read the above article in full. no wonder the PKK, YPG and PMU are deeply suspicious of who the barzani led peshmerga are really sleeping with.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 18 Oct 2016 10:19

SOF vehicle with lot of radio antennas
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvAsWbGXgAAlpz8.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cu-T10FWYAAkbEz.jpg

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 18 Oct 2016 10:21

spy drone being launched
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvAoFaKWAAQrx3E.jpg

kuzzy and a kirov passed near norway yesterday
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cu_2iaOXYAACBu4.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cu_2jDmWIAESOTl.jpg

amirkhan sof unit on a fwd OP
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cu9xL33XgAA-mLx.jpg

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 18 Oct 2016 10:27

russi altus-M ER uav spotted in airbase in kazan

http://defence-blog.com/news/new-russia ... kazan.html

The 5-ton Altius-M aircraft system uses a modular approach with a variety of payloads to perform strike, reconnaissance and electronic warfare (EW) missions using the Khibiny or Borisoglebsk-2 jamming systems.

The aircraft system features a long wing design with two under-wing turboprop engines and a V-shaped tail. By its size and weight, it is similar to the United States Air Force (USAF) MQ-9 Reaper.

The Altius-M first flight was completed during 2014 with testing to be carried out during 2015. Enter into service is planned for 2017 or later.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 18 Oct 2016 10:30

note the khan suburban style wheeled green dustbin and piles of bottled water behind the OP. it must be a rear area C3I base and not a hastily setup one on frontline.

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 18 Oct 2016 13:31

A small Q to gaarus here: Why do Peshmegra fighters have sun on their flag? Or does it represent some thing else? (Peshmegra=one who confronts death)

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 18 Oct 2016 13:52

Nizar Nayouf
@nizarnayouf
UK-based Syrian award-winning historian,Investigative Journalist &Researcher at“THE EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR NEAR EASTERN RESEARCHES & STUDIES” (ECNERS)
London

his screws may not be fully tight as he also alleges in another tweet that the hezbollah commander kia in 1070 yesterday was killed by a bomb planted by assads mafia men... so take this chart fwiw

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 18 Oct 2016 13:54

Nizar Nayouf ‏@nizarnayouf 18h18 hours ago
100s of #ISIS terrorists & their families have been leaving #Mosul in queues to #Syria since the morning under the #US warplanes’ eyes!

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 18 Oct 2016 14:03

^^ being a london based SOHR type activist , probably trying to spread FUD and is anti-assadist

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 18 Oct 2016 14:08

Singha wrote:Nizar Nayouf ‏@nizarnayouf 18h18 hours ago
100s of #ISIS terrorists & their families have been leaving #Mosul in queues to #Syria since the morning under the #US warplanes’ eyes!

So these barbarians have families as well? Wives & kids. Huh !

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 18 Oct 2016 15:03

Jihad brides, enslaved women, share of khalifas harem ... who knows what the devils are up to...

habal · Post by **habal** » 18 Oct 2016 15:56

The battle for Souran (rhymes eerily with sauron) and Taybat al Imam has started, Tiger forces advancing from Ma'ardas check point toward both towns, it seems Souran will be approached first.
Yesterday's attempt by the coalition of terrorists in storm Ma'ardas failed miserably with high casualties on their side, Tiger was expecting them, conflicting numbers of dead terrorists ranging from 30-70 KIA not counting WIA. So far northern Hama has been a graveyard for terrorists, losing much more terrorists than what they can recruit, and that on top of the recent inter-rat civil war, and more civil war is about to come in Idlib. We will most likely hear good news from Souran today.

http://wikimapia.org/#lang=pt&lat=35.27 ... 5&z=12&m=b

Gyan · Post by **Gyan** » 18 Oct 2016 15:59

If Iraqi allow ISIS to escape, then they will come back to haunt Iraqi like Taliban is doing in Afghanistan after airlift to safety of 2001.

habal · Post by **habal** » 18 Oct 2016 16:02

West Blames Russia for Aleppo While Killing Civilians in Mosul -

Double standards dominate the West as it blames Russia for each and everything going wrong in this world. The best example is the West’s accusations of Russia allegedly committing “war crimes” in Aleppo.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2 ... mosul.html

habal · Post by **habal** » 18 Oct 2016 16:03

Rebels to surrender another important suburb in rural Damascus

"The Islamist rebels are preparing to surrender another important suburb of Damascus on Wednesday after completing another round of successful negotiations with the Syrian government."

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/re ... -damascus/

habal · Post by **habal** » 18 Oct 2016 16:04

poooiii

poor man, he died without honor. Fighting on behalf of the dark side.
all that training to what use.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A commander of the US Army Special Forces deployed in Northern Raqqa was killed by unknown assailants, local sources disclosed on Monday.
"The commander of the US Special Forces in Tal Abyadh was shot in the head and killed by unknown assailants," the Arabic-language Sham Times said.

http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950726001096

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 18 Oct 2016 16:07

[quote="Singha"]^^ iron dome is for katyusha and kassem rockets I believe. the arrow-2 interceptors + green pine radar are for IRBMs.
iran has no such sub launched missiles, not even any claims to one...but those who might want false flag ops certainly do

[\quote]
Precisely. How closely can you tell the origin of a mobile IRBM in the 30 seconds following a nuclear strike? Let's say the launch was accompanied/ immediately preceded by a large explosion and fire at a point inland, caused by either an IED or another missile. Some ppl with satellites right above might know, but they may not want to tell.

If ppl are willing to do false flag chemical attacks, and that too on quasi-Believers, they are willing to do other WMD on non-believers. Imagine the spike in oil prices, and the potential gains if u shorted all ur other stocks and bought oil stocks big-time 2 din pehle. Buy at $25 a barrel, sell at $150.

habal · Post by **habal** » 18 Oct 2016 16:18

ISIL Defenses in Mosul Collapse, New Recruits Escape Battle
https://t.co/h8eW3yu8h6

" #ISIS Baghdadi saw in his dream the prophet Mohamad asking him to pull out of #Dabiq". Hopefully from #Raqqah and his rat whole as well.

Just like fallujah some locals will stay and fight but the real IS controlled by the US is already hiked out of there and remain in the desert under their protection. So the 30,000 Iraqi soldiers, 15,000 kurds, 20,000 shite militias.. overall around 100,000 iraqi forces are attacking a large city held by a couple of hundred amateurs. A gang bangers last stance. I wonder if they are also going to shoot side ways, yo homy.. mama would be proud. The US would just say 50,000 IS members were vaporized by their smarter than smart bombs like the 25000 IS members they supposedly killed. But we never saw more than a few dozen IS members ever facing any major assault. In fact there are more IS suicide bombers in any battle than troops facing the assault like when attacking DZ like waves of drunken lizzards.

The underlying US rationale for embarking on this high-wire operation is President Barack Obama’s aspiration to achieve Mosul’s liberation before his departure from the White House in January, in the hope that this landmark success will provide a major distraction from his administration’s failed policies in Syria.

The Islamic State might have been expected to take advantage of the prior warning of the offensive for a stand in defence of the Iraqi capital of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi’s caliphate and so exploit the conflicting interests of the invading force. But ISIS leaders decided against waiting for the combined offensive. Indeed, according to DEBKAfile’s sources, thousands of jihadis made tracks out of the city two or three months ago, relocating the bulk of their combat strength and institutions in two new locations: in the western Iraqi desert province of Anbar at a site between the Jordanian and Saudi borders and eastern Syria.

habal · Post by **habal** » 18 Oct 2016 16:19

Syria // #Aleppo // Rebel source claims their are many 'rats' in their ranks giving co ordinates to Russia for money. Airstrikes ongoing.

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 18 Oct 2016 16:22

UK media regulator are furious, have accused RT of being biased and showing one side of the story only. They have advised UK people not to fall to propaganda of Ru. But will allow RT office in UK for now.
So finally RT is getting under the skin of establishments it seems.

habal · Post by **habal** » 18 Oct 2016 16:23

ya allah ..

#Yemen's Houthi rebels 'receiving Egyptian mil hardware' - Anonymous Source but correlates w #Egypt w/d #Saudi coalition

Egypt, Russia, Syria, Iran.

habal · Post by **habal** » 18 Oct 2016 16:24

"Long life to the Syrian Arab Army / Libyan Army, from the Egyptian Air Force."

For cool and reliable info from Egypt, recommend you to follow Sa'ka (below), he is very well connected to the military.

https://twitter.com/BTelawy/status/788099512615243777

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 18 Oct 2016 16:26

We know the new syrian army of albu kamal fame is worse than greenhorn recruits

So now suppose the managers of this game decide to reconfig these 5000 to 7000 jobless cadre from mosul in camps in iraqi desert and jordan as the new syrian army v2, shave their long beards and assault eastern syria ?

Food for thought. Will they be released into wild in syria as daesh v1 or nsa v2 ? Nsa v2 means usa air and sof support political blank cheque

Russian spies and sats must be scouring the western desert to see whats being cooked up there.

habal · Post by **habal** » 18 Oct 2016 16:26

Russia-Egypt-Libya-Syria relationship in the past two days, another major event just happened, Egypt is no longer part of the "coalition of the idiots" formed to kill Yemeni civilians, it has announced it left this murderous gang.

This has happened in sequence of Russian forces arrival in Egypt for a large desert military drill (5,000 total soldiers involved from Egypt-majority-and Russians), one day after the Syrian Military Intelligence leader had his 3rd meeting with his Egyptian counter-part.

To really mess things up in TME&NA, the only major event missing is for Iran and Egypt to get along, that is still very challenging, but once it does, then it is game over for the GCC, the terrorists, Israhell and the western blood suckers.

As mentioned before, things in the TME&NA will not be the same anymore.

https://twitter.com/BaFana3/status/788123209338159105

As a side note, there are several on going training happening in Egypt for the Libyan National Army (Tobruk Government), I would not be surprised to hear real soon Russian support to it allied to Egypt & Syria and consequently a heads on against the UN/Western Tripoli Government.

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 18 Oct 2016 16:26

How strange.The head of the anti-UKR forces in Donetsk Arseny Pavlov aka "Motorola" was just killed-assassinated, a couple of days ago by unknown gunmen.Assassinations of anti-UKR commanders /leaders has been going on for some time.Payback time I guess in Syria!

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 18 Oct 2016 16:27

Russian air defense raises stakes of U.S. confrontation in Syria https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... story.html

Russia’s completion this month of an integrated air defense system in Syria has made an Obama administration decision to strike Syrian government installations from the air even less likely than it has been for years, and has created a substantial obstacle to the Syrian safe zones both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have advocated.

Deployment of mobile and interchangeable S-400 and S-300 missile batteries, along with other short-range systems, now gives Russia the ability to shoot down planes and cruise missiles over at least 250 miles in all directions from western Syria, covering virtually all of that country as well as significant portions of Turkey, Israel, Jordan and the eastern Mediterranean.

habal · Post by **habal** » 18 Oct 2016 16:29

Iranians have some chutzpah

A little news from an insider from Iran, Iran has deployed 3 drones reverse engineered from US models that had been captured by the IRGC. These drones are attack units and carry 4 missiles each.
A test run was conducted yesterday in the Idlib area where a AlQaeda leader was killed by a missile fired from the drone.