Damn, that's unfortunate news, inevitable but still unfortunate.


The French intel services knew something was up, presumably chatter had either died down or gone up, but it's very hard to pinpoint where and when such a thing is going to happen unless the co-ordination is done in a manner in which the intel services can pick it up and decode it.
It's a bit like the days before Pearl Harbor, the US knew that the Japanese were preparing something but didn't know where exactly it would come from.
The situation in the UK is similar, we've been on a high state of alert for nearly a year now, and plots have been foiled, well...so we're told anyway, but sooner or later, something is going to slip through the net.

I'm sure her worshipers are very happy not to be accidentally associated with such gutter trash. :yep:

http://iranpoliticsclub.net/authors/...20Isis%202.jpg

Indeed:

http://i.imgur.com/uQ2JrbC.jpg?1

I'm honestly a lot more affraid of Hydra than Daesh.

Looks like they are adapting to the bombing campaign! Lots of tunnels and shelters found in Sinjar.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/elaborat...jar-1447895191

Are you saying that some of our air strikes might have been doing nothing to them? Just what we need now. Another nutty, but good, idea by ISIS.
:shucks:

Said by the Danish Politician Naser Khader(born in Syria)right now on Danish TV

It is a myth that we have stopped daesh-They control an area the size of Great Britain the are very near Damascus.

I'm not in doubt he know a lot more than I do, so what are we bombing ?

And furthermore are our politician talking with two tongues ?

Tongues 1. We fight daesh hard with massive bombings

Tongues 2. We have to be careful-in case daesh should win and they have the control of all the oil in the middle east=must have a "nice relationship" with daesh

Guess I'm just "talking in the sleep"

Markus

I think it would be better for humanity if we didn't go with the latter :D

I can't be the only one who, after have watch lots and lots of news throughout the years and read lots and lots of news paper throughout the years and heard lots and lots of Politicians and expert saying this and that throughout the years and of course read many of your brilliant posting, been thinking

Are we really fighting daesh or not ?

Markus

What about napalm or thermobaric bombs at tunnel entrances.
To suck oxygen out of the systems ??

We aren't, our missiles are :D
In the end, ISIS will definitely lose. That's foreseeable. With France, the US, and now Russia fighting, I have no doubt that we'll win. Question is: how big will the losses be?

That'd be way to brutal. Well, then again....

There's also sending packages filled with a millon bullet ants. They'll flood the tunnels to escape the heat.

Got to collect the buggers first.
Napalm and Thermobaric bombs might work, but you'd need to get all the entrances at the same time or it'll just draw air through the tunnel rather than sucking it all out.
Another option would be to use bunker busters or earthquake bombs to collapse the tunnels. Bury them alive... :yep:

EDIT: The GBU-57A/B would do the job, but they cost around three million dollars each and only the B2 and B52 can take it since it weighs about 14 metric tons.

Or, you can just, ya'know, storm in there and shoot them all. Considering they haven't ran away to escape the bullet ants and thermonaric bombs. :D

It's still a human finger to press the button to send this "missiles" away

As mentioned before or as this Naser Khader said

It is a myth we have stopped them, they control an area big as Great Britain he also said they are marching on

Said by an Middle east expert on Swedish TV some years ago

Despite our daily bombing daesh have gained control over more areas

All this have made me think-Are we fighting daesh or not or are we not doing it good enough ?

Markus

That's true. If ISIS controls an area as big as Great Britain, we will have a pretty hard time stopping them. But, in the end, I think NATO will come out on top. Or in Russia's case (not part of NATO) just Russia.

Those who are really fighting daesh is the Kurds and some other groups(forgot the name of these)

Of course are we hitting things belonging to daesh, but it is the soldiers we have to get.

Markus

The best idea would be a ground attack and when they hide inside the tunnels just light up bonfires at entrances. Oxygen runs out and nothing else since they'd have to make a sortie trough fire.
Poetic justice, my ancestors lit bonfires to alert the population that the Turks are raiding :)

Actually Daesh are on the retreat at the moment, the Syrian army Kuweires offensive has recaptured the airfield there which has been in Daesh hands for three years. Aleppo is still in the balance, but Daesh are not having the walkover they were hoping there, they haven't been able to close the pocket on the Syrian army yet. Taking the opportunity of having Daesh focused on Aleppo, the Syrian army launched an offensive to the south of Aleppo focusing on cutting the M5 motorway supply route into the city. The Iranians have done well with this, and so far they've cut pretty deeply into Daesh territory.

Meanwhile in Iraq, Kurdish forces have taken Sinjar from Daesh who captured it in August last year. Peshmerga forces have also repelled an infiltration attempt near the al-Kask region on Monday, and yesterday a Daesh offensive near Ramadi was repelled by the Anbar Operations Command.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeli...#November_2015

Daesh aren't having it all their own way, but because we're not having these massive breakthroughs and blitzkriegs that we in the western world are used to seeing, and also because we're not heavily involved on the ground (officially) it doesn't make the headlines so much.

Too bad victories don't sell as much as fear.
Not a word on this in media.