Turkey detains 748 ISIS suspects

Ankara, Turkey -- In a major police operation against the Islamic State group over the weekend, 748 suspects have been detained by authorities.

Anti-terrorism police launched the operation targeting people with alleged links to IS early Sunday. They performed simultaneous raids in 29 provinces which included Istanbul, Ankara, Gaziantep and Sanliurfa. The Anadolu Agency, their state-run media outlet said 440 people, which included foreign nationals, were detained.

On Monday, the Interior Ministry released a statement saying that a total of 748 people were detained in the police sweep, but, taking a "Trump-like approach, it provided no details nor gave a breakdown of the foreigners they caught in the operation. They don't want to give too much away to the enemy.

According to Anadolu, police seized IS documents, six firearms and digital material in the raids. And citing official police sources, said that the Islamic State was actively engaged in propaganda as a way to recruit. 

The raids targeted suspects believed to be in contact with IS operatives in "conflict" zones.

Since suffering dozens of deadly attacks linked to IS or Kurdish militants, such as the shooting at a New Year's mass in an Istanbul nightclub that killed 39 people, Turkey has stepped up its anti-terrorism efforts.

The accused suspect in the nightclub attack is an Uzbek national who trained in Afghanistan. He was stopped in Istanbul about two weeks after the attack and officials believe his questioning will lead to valuable information about IS operations and sleeper cells inside Turkey.

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Al-Baghdadi playing 'Hide-and-Seek" in Mosul

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (aka "The Fightin' Scumcrumpets") is likely holed up in Mosul, the hub of the Islamic extremist movement. Iraqi and U.S. forces are closing in on him and his ilk and there's going to be a fight.

Hoshiyar Zebari a senior Kurdish official said he has "solid" intel that al-Baghdadi was somewhere in the city of over a million civilians and about 6,000 jihadists, and it is believed that he is hanging out with Fawzi Ali Nouimeh, the group's bomb maker.

Mosul fell to ISIS back in the summer of 2014 and a few weeks later, al-Baghdadi declared from the pulpit of a mosque, that the city is a caliphate. 

According to Zebari, ISIS was "disoriented" and don't know where to expect the attacks to come from. If Mosul can be liberated, that would be a huge loss for the religious group that now controls less than half the territory it once held.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi pledged that the battle for Mosul will lead to the liberation of all Iraqi territory from ISIS if the Iraqi forces don't run off and leave their weapons behind.

Iraqi Lt. Gen. Talib Shaghati (aka "Shag") called on Iraqis fighting for ISIS in Mosul to give it up. 

The fight is now into its third day.

The Fightin' Scumcrumpets have been putting up fierce resistance, knowing that if they punk out, al-Baghdadi will have them burned alive. The jihadists loaded trucks with explosives careening them to the front lines and firing mortars to slow the Iraqi advance.

One Iraqi officer told the AP that his men were only about a mile away from Hamdaniyah, a historically Christian town (aka Bakhdida) to the east of Mosul. 

Thus far, ISIS sent 12 car bombs that never reached their targets--they were blown up--but Iraqi troops have suffered a few casualties from mortar rounds. 

The Mosul operation is the largest launched by the Iraqi army since 2003 U.S.-led invasion. There are about 25,000 troops which include Sunni tribal fighters, Kurdish forces known as peshmerga, and state-sanctioned Shi'ite militias known as the Popular Mobilization Units, and they are all approaching Mosul from different directions.

One of the fears of rights groups is that the Shi'ite militias could increase sectarian tensions as there have been past abuses. To assuage these fears, Shi'ite militia leaders announced that they will only focus on capturing the majority Shi'ite town of Tal Afar, not far from Mosul. 

The Shi'ites will not enter the city itself because the Shi'ite Muslims don't get along with Sunni Muslims and neither the Sunni nor the Shi'ites get along with other types of Muslims such as: Sufis, Baha'is, Ahmadiyyas. As far as how they get along with Jews, Christians, Kurds, Hindus, atheists and gays, don't even ask. 

"The only troops who will enter Mosul are the army and police, not the Popular Mobilization Units or the peshmerga," said Hadi al-Amiri, the head of the Badr Brigade, one of the largest Shi'ite militias, and whose slogan is: "We're Badr than you."

"This has been agreed upon," al-Amiri said at a press conference in the Shi'ite holy city (aka "Holy Shi'ite).

Amnesty International reported on Tuesday that Iraqi government and paramilitary forces detained, tortured or killed hundreds of Sunni Arab civilians trying to flee ISIS-held areas during the retake of Fallujah, earlier this year.

Of course, the Iraqi government denied these violations and claimed that those few individuals who may have committed abuse have been held accountable.

Anyway, if al-Baghdadi can be captured or killed, this will be a great defeat for ISIS and a great victory for us.


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Kid kills 51, injures 69 at a weddihg

Another suicide bombing at a Turkish wedding killed at least 51 people and wounded dozens more. The jihadist, in this case, was a boy between 12 and 14 years of age. ISIS has taken credit for the child's terrorist act.

The media claims that the terror attack had nothing to do with Islam, or says that it's a perversion of the religion of peace.

The media is as wrong as a Clinton voter.

Killing anyone considered to be an infidel is simply another part of Islam that practitioners choose to follow. And an infidel, the way ISIS sees it, is anyone who doesn't practice Islam as they do. is an infidel a therefore deserves to die if they refuse to convert.

Back to Turkey. 

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, spoke on a live TV address at Istanbul City Hall. He explained that there is "absolutely no difference" between ISIS, Kurdish rebels and the U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen's movement, calling them terrorists. Of the 69 wounded, Erdogan said that at least 17 were in critical condition.

The remains of the suicide vest was recovered at the site along with human smithereens of the boy.

"We stand with the people of Turkey as they defend their democracy in the face of all forms of terrorism [especially the one form that causes the most death and destruction: Islam]. We are in close touch with Turkish authorities," National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said. He called the attack "barbaric," doing his best "Captain Obvious" imitation.

Earlier in the week, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was blamed for a string of bombings that killed at least 12 people. The conflict between the PKK and the government has been going on for about 30 years but there was a brief 2 1/2 year peace process that collapsed last year.

"This was a barbaric attack. It appears to be a suicide attack [the vest may have given it away]. All terror groups, the PKK, Daesh, the ) Gulen movement) are targeting Turkey. But Allah willing, we will overcome," Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek told NTV television.

The word "barbaric" comes from the [Muslim] pirates of the Barbary Coast. 

Police sealed off the site of the suicide attack and hundreds of local residents gathered near the site chanting: "Allah is great" which translates to "Allahu Akbar" in case you couldn't guess that.

It always seems to be about Islam.


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Iran tricks families of executed prisoners

This is the country we've made a nuclear deal with and President Obama believes is living up to the deal, as bad as it was in the first place--Iran, a place where chants of "Death to America," "Death to Israel" are a daily ritual.

And it's death that Iranians seem to excel in over all other things except for praying five times a day to their god they call Allah, the Pagan moon god.

The families of at least 20 Iranian prisoners scheduled for death by hanging were called by the Islamic government of Iran. They were told that this would be their last opportunity to say goodbye to their loved ones.

When they got to the prison, they were told to pick up the body of their loved one instead--they had already been hanged with some of them hastily buried. And the family members of those still above-ground were told to pick up the bodies at the prison morgue.

Coincidentally, all the dead were Sunnis while the large majority of Iranians are Sh'ite Muslims.

The government accused them of sundry crimes ranging from murder, bombings, robberies and undermining national security. (Thankfully, Hillary Clinton was never in Iranian government.)

Some of the prisoners were accused of participating in attacks by a Takfiri Salafist group known as "Monotheism and Jihad." Iranian intelligence authorities claim were responsible for two dozen attacks which killed 21 Shi'ites over a 2 year period.

The families of the prisoners and rights groups say the prisoners never received fair trials and they were tortured into making their confessions while liberals here opposed pouring water on the heads of terrorists in order to gain information that might save American lives.

One young Kurdish man, Shahram Ahmadi, 28, was tortured for 43 months while kept in solitary confinement. His charge was "emnity against God."

Kurdish lives matter.

Iran has a fine reputation of killing their prisoners and then notifying the family Shahin Gobadi said. Gobadi is a member of the National Council of Resistance in Iran Foreign Affairs Committee. "One explanation for this is that the regime is afraid of public backlash and protests outside the prison by families to halt the executions."

It should tell you pretty much all you need to know as to what kind of people the Iranian government is comprised of, and just how much we can trust them with the nuclear deal.

They even hate dogs.

The notion that human rights exists at all in Iran is as crazy as someone thinking the $400 million dollars we paid to them wasn't ransom money.



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ISIS captive wants to be killed so he can make it to afternoon prayers

It's a religion, seriously, because a religion is a the belief and worship of a supernatural controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. It's a specific system of faith and worship. 

ISIS qualifies--get over it.

An ISIS jihadist captured last week in Iraq is begging his Kurdish captors to kindly kill him ASAP so he can make it for the 4 pm religious prayers in heaven.  This guy thinks religion is like a cartoon, except not one about Muhammad.

The jihadist was captured by Kurdish Peshmerga forces after he and 49 other lunatics were assigned to blow themselves up in the Christian town of Tel Askuf, coinciding with the Islamic holy day.

In order to make it to prayers, the jihadists had to destroy themselves before 4 pm, otherwise they'd have to wait an entire year in heaven for the next fun prayer service. "They were supposed to commit suicide using their suicide belts because today is the anniversary of the Isra and Mi'raj celebration," Peshmerga Lt. Col. Salim ak-Surji told the Turkish News Agency Rudaw.

The officer said that "He told me 'all of us must be in heaven by 4 pm, kill me.'"

Just for spite, the Kurds told the bombers, "No. We will kill you instead on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement."

Just kidding.

The day does, in fact, mark the prophet of Islam, Muhammad's, ascent into heaven on a horse. See, in Islam, horses can fly. Anything is possible with taqiyya. 

Surji told Rudaw that as he was recording the ISIS dead on video, he saw one fighter move his ankle. "I put my hand on his chest and found that he was breathing. He was also conscious and talking. His explosive belt had not detonated and he was hurt in his ankle due to the explosion of one of his comrades. He was able to walk. He told me 'you are infidels, kill me.'"

Then came the sadistic reply from another Kurd, "Live, you bastard, live! We will never kill you!"


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BREAKING: Ground forces approaching Ramadi

The Iraq military on the ground is closing in on the ISIS compound in Ramadi, a city merely 60 miles from Baghdad and considered to be extremely strategic for the coalition forces. The compound had been a government structure but has been taken over by the hardcore Muslims and the only area still under Islamic State control.

There are about 100 Koran-clutching terrorists as the Iraqi forces move within a mile of their position and the going is slow in spite of the larger size coalition forces. The land is filled with landmines and IED, and the dwellings they've come across are often booby-trapped.

"Our preparations to attack the government compound are still on and we are approaching step-by-step," Brig. Gen. Ahmed al-Bilawi said. He is the commander of the Anbar province emergency police division and has not received public opposition from any Iraqi "Black Lives Matter" protesters.

The U.S. is leading the airstrike campaign as the Iraqis began a new push at the beginning of the week.

On another happy note, U.S.-backed rebels in Syria comprised of a coalition of Syrian Kurdish, as well as Arabs and Christians, captured a major dam on the Euphrates River north of Islamic State's position.

The coalition is called the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), but I doubt that any American Democrat is among the fighters. The group seized the Tishrin Dam today which will cut off supply lines between ISIS strongholds in northern Syria.

Unlike the orders given by the Obama administration, the SDF did not forewarn the scumcrumpets of ISIS that they were coming to take the dam from them, like Obama warned the ISIS oil truck drivers before we blew up their vehicles as they were on their way to juice up Assad.

The dam supplies most of northern Syria with electricity which ISIS doesn't really need as they are still living in the Seventh Century.

The SDF is dominated by Kurdish militia (aka People's Protection Units, aka YPG), in its fight against ISIS but we have yet to supply them directly with arms.


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Kobani Taken Back

Kurdish fighters, assisted with US-led airstrikes, kicked the Islamic State's butt and pushed them out of Kobani, a key Syrian town. The orthodox Muslims of the Islamic State thought it would be a cake-walk, or in their case a hummus-walk, but they underestimated the Kurds and paid heavily for their mistake. 

 A Kobani airstrike by US-led coalition

The only question now is whether Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will execute those ISIS soldiers left alive from the battle who retreated. He did it before, he might do it again because that's just the way the dude rolls. What a leader.

Imagine how angry Abu must've felt seeing the Kurdish enemy removing the black ISIS flag and replacing it with theirs on the hill that overlooks the town. He probably beat one of his wives just to get out his anger.

The American coordinator of the US-led coalition predicted the Islamic State would get the crap kicked out of them in Kobani, and he was right, stating that ISIS would "ìmpale itself" on Kobani. This is a major success for the Kurds and the coalition.

Last September, Islamic State Muslim fighters began the capture of around 300 Kurdish villages near Kobani and entered the town itself, occupying about half of it. This caused thousands of refugees to flee into Turkey, just across the border.

By the following month, ISIS controlled so much of the town that they made a propaganda video of John Cantlie, a British photojournalist, to show just how badass they were. No goats were harmed in the making of that video.

Because Kobani was a strategic border crossing with Turkey, it was essential that the coalition hold it. Even the immoral John Kerry said that it would be `morally very difficult" not to help Kobani. That's ironic, isn't it? Good thing Kobani isn't Israel.

Airstrikes are great at softening targets. Serious carpet bombing softens them even more. But unless we're talking nukes, and we aren't, there must eventually be ground troops to clean up the trash.

Military analysts say the arrival of "gunned-to-the-teeth" Kurdish peshmerga  fighters from Iraq are the reason for success.

 I agree and would add that having women fighters scares the crap out of these religious Muslims. They believe that being killed by a woman, a "thing" that should be used merely for cooking and sex to bear more jihadis, would take away their chances of getting into Paradise where they could have all the sex they want with lots of virgins.

And they call it a religion, a religion of peace, no less. What a joke they've tried to play on us, but all they fooled were our leaders and our liberals.


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Turkey Tough on its Kurds, Weak on ISIS--Obama No Better

Turkey shot rubber bullets and tear gas at Kurdish protesters who demanded more be done to stop the onslaught of ISIS. Heavy trucks rolled into Turkey's major cities  where people took to the streets to denounce the fall of Kobani, a Syrian city bordering Turkey.

About 19 people, almost as many people as our airstrikes have thus far taken out, have been killed in clashes with the police.. Turkey is too chicken to aid the brave Kurds trapped in Kobani who are fighting the world's most brutal and richest Islamic terrorist organizations, which has now grown into an army.

Slowly They Creep, Step by Step

The Islamic jihadists of ISIS are creeping ever closer to the Turkish border in Syria and the Kurds are saying that U.S. airstrikes are not effective in stopping them. There is no question in the minds of the military and anyone not praying to Allah that Obama's strategy is as effective against ISIS as aspirin is against cancer.

The brave Kurds are using small arms against an army of sick, blood-thirsty bastards with American weaponry and nobody is actually helping them on the ground.

ISIS on the Move as Thousands Flee for their Lives

ISIS forces are gaining ground and have mounted a large offensive with heavy armor pushing through the Kurdish region of northern Syria, located close to the Turkish border in a concerted effort to capture Ayn al-Arab, a strategic border town. More than 60 villages and towns have already fallen over the last several days to these orthodox Muslims. Blood is being shed and people are fleeing for their lives.

In this mini-apocalypse, waves of frightened refugees have streamed into Turkey. There have been over 60 thousand women, children and elderly folks that passed through the border from Friday to Saturday and Turkish resources are being

stretched beyond belief. 

To deal with this problem, president Obama will send 3000 military personnel into Africa to battle the Ebola virus.

In the meantime, some Kurdish forces are falling back from the battle with ISIS but some Kurds are working their way to the front to join their comrades.

It almost seems as if ISIS, by pressuring the Kurds, is testing Obama in what his policy and strategies will be in Syria. As it stands now, I don't believe they'll have to worry very much since Obama doesn't seem to have a policy or strategy for Syria. As much as the Kurds beg for help, it doesn't seem to be coming any time soon, not from us nor the international community.

One thing seems certain: this is going to be a real test of Obama's ability as Commander in Chief. He claims the title often enough but so far he hasn't really earned it.

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