The all purpose terrorism thread featuring plenty of allah akbar

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

I meant that we're not involved on the ground.

We are

I can tell you that some 100 or so, special forces from the Danish frogman corps are in that area. Their main task is, what we have been told, to "enlighten" targets for the pilots so the smartbomb can hit the target
Second task is, if possible, kill high ranked Daesh soldiers

Some other special soldiers from Denmark are in Iraq to train YPG.

Markus

[Oberon]

The SAS are definitely there, the Beeb even got a leaked pic of them not that long ago:



The Syrian authorities also nicked a couple of SAS forces who they found crossing the border from Iraq a while back, but they released them back to us after some high level negotiations.
US Special Forces have also raided targets in Syria from time to time, Delta Force did a raid back in May 2015, I wouldn't be surprised if the KSK have been in there too after the attacks.

[Bilge_Rat]

if you follow reports, you will see U.S., U.K., French, Norwegian and Canadian special forces have all conducted ops in Syria.

On top of that, you have the private contractors, many ex-special forces who are "advising" Syrian Rebels.

Look at for example a group called the "New Syrian Army", ostensibly a syrian rebel group, but if you read what is available, you find out all the cadres are current or ex U.S., UK, Jordanian and Norwegian special forces. It uses the latest NATO equipment and has on call U.S. air/artillery support:

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena...syrian-desert/

The "Boots are on the ground" and in much larger numbers than the official numbers.

[mapuc]

And there are special forces or soldiers from those units that have joined Daesh

Read this in a Swedish news paper some years ago. where it said that soldiers from special unit in Italy and France had joined Daesh.

Markus

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

Look at for example a group called the "New Syrian Army", ostensibly a syrian rebel group, but if you read what is available, you find out all the cadres are current or ex U.S., UK, Jordanian and Norwegian special forces. It uses the latest NATO equipment and has on call U.S. air/artillery support:

The "Boots are on the ground" and in much larger numbers than the official numbers.

Reminds me of the Rhodesian war, quite a lot of our former special forces found employment training Rhodesian soldiers and volunteers.

[mapuc]

The real question or questions should rather be

1. How many boots from NATO/Europe are there in Syria and Iraq when it comes to fight Daesh ?

and

2. How much engage in the civil war are these, beside fighting Daesh ?
( I hope they are there solely to fight Daesh and nothing more. And of course to train others so they can fight Daesh)

Markus

[Oberon]

Classified and...erm...classified.

I'd imagine now that they're focusing purely on Daesh, because they know that the side that they were supporting has now pretty much collapsed so the key is to undercut Daesh and stop it spreading across the border into Iraq. If they can get intel on what Assad and Russia are up to in the meantime then that's also good but I doubt that they'll be actively hitting Assad deliberately. They will probably be training people who will go on to hit Assad, but that's just peeing into the wind really.

[Bilge_Rat]

its all pretty hush, hush. Look at Canada, no official data, but if you follow news story, you find out Canadian special forces were on the ground officially as air spotters to help direct air strikes against ISIS and also sometimes got into firefights with ISIS troops, so they were on the front lines and Canada is a very minor player in Syria.

Canadian special operations forces are continuing to advise and assist Kurdish forces as they battle ISIS in a major offensive in the northern part of Iraq, an operation that brings with it the strong likelihood Canadian commandos are in combat today.

The Department of National Defence refuses to discuss what Canada's military advisers are currently up to, citing operational security. But following a series of queries from CBC News, it confirmed Canada's special forces have had no change to the mandate that allows them to accompany Kurdish forces up to and across front lines and into battle.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/spec...mbat-1.3318451

The Islamist militants made an audacious land grab attempt outside Mosul, in northern Iraq, but came unstuck when they ran into a hailstorm of bullets and bombs from Western forces.

Around 200 crazed terrorists were mown down by elite Canadian troops who rushed to the frontline to help pinned down Kurdish peshmerga forces protect their lands from the twisted invaders.

RAF bombers also joined in on the action, bombing the jihadis from the skies as their attempted invasion ended in panic and a full-on retreat.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/...ets-Iraq-Mosul

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Oberon

They will probably be training people who will go on to hit Assad, but that's just peeing into the wind really.

While writing question number two I was thinking

I know Special forces from Denmark are in Iraq to train YPG, so they can fight Daesh in Syria-YPG is a Kurdish military group and is Denmark sure of that they don't use this "learned skills" in their fight against Turkey ?

Markus

[mapuc]

Word war between the US and Russia continue
The US has suspended talks with Russia about the ceasefire. Accused Russians for not doing enough to relief can reach those in need in Aleppo
The Russians on the other hand accuse the United States for failing to separating the rebels and for sending weapons to some of them in Aleppo

Markus

[Mr Quatro]

Lets think about this ...

The war started about 6 years ago in 2010
The USA backed the rebels in 2011

On September 22, 2014, the United States, Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates began to strike targets of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) inside Syria,

Just our side not including Russia and Iran on Syria's side have been fighting for two years and some odd days and IS is still fighting back.

No Navy, no air force, no ground to air missiles, just a volunteer army of sorts and abandon weapons from the war in Iraq when they took over there.

Where do they get their supplies? How do they rearm?

Something doesn't add up to modern warfare with so much against IS that they still exsist is a wonder.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Lets think about this ...

The war started about 6 years ago in 2010
The USA backed the rebels in 2011

On September 22, 2014, the United States, Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates began to strike targets of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) inside Syria,

Just our side not including Russia and Iran on Syria's side have been fighting for two years and some odd days and IS is still fighting back.

No Navy, no air force, no ground to air missiles, just a volunteer army of sorts and abandon weapons from the war in Iraq when they took over there.

Where do they get their supplies? How do they rearm?

Something doesn't add up to modern warfare with so much against IS that they still exsist is a wonder.

This document should answer the above:

http://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/...ation-ISIL.pdf

There are a great many more sources, some more authorative than others, here are a few:

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/06/wo.../isis-funding/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...and-Syria.html

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opi...055403374.html

[Skybird]

Two policeman stabbed with knife in neck and stomach in Brussels in what police says they have reason to take as a terror attack. A third officer got his nose broken. Attacker was shot in the leg and arrested. Health status of the two stabbed officers unknown at this time.

[Oberon]

Lucky for them it was a small scale event, assuming that it is extremist based incident. At least police these days usually have stab vests and are well trained what to do with knife wounds since they are the favoured weapons of most street gangs.

[eddie]

Who the hell does Erdogan think he is?

"The Turkish parliament at the weekend extended by one year a government mandate allowing its troops to deploy on Iraqi soil -- as well as Syrian territory -- a decision the Iraqi parliament then rejected, calling for the withdrawal of the Turkish troops."

Iraq parliament told them to get out, but Turkish troops are stationed at that camp just north of Mosul. They claim they are training Iraqi fighters for the assault on Mosul. Probably there to help Daesh leaders to escape when the assault begins.


"Erdogan suggested at the weekend any liberation of Mosul had to be conducted by those with ethnic and religious ties to the city, objecting to the use of Shiite militiamen or anti-Ankara Kurdish forces.
Turkey is an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim country with increasingly close ties to Sunni Muslim kingpin Saudi Arabia.
As he did with regard to Syria, Erdogan indicated he was particularly troubled by any use of fighters linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged a 32-year insurgency inside Turkey and whose paramilitary headquarters are in northern Iraq.
"The game played by Shiite militias and members of the terrorist organisation linked to the PKK -- in complete contradiction of the region's sectarian and ethnic structure, its cultural sensitivities -- must be disrupted," he said."


I hope an IED takes out Erdogan, that pig!


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/...ion/ar-BBx1ldp