tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519488391496270073.post8321353663206584451..comments2024-03-28T08:21:30.796-04:00Comments on War News Updates: BBC Discovers A Secret Deal Was Made To Let Hundreds Of ISIS Fighters And Their Families Flee RaqqaWar News Updates Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12034101783150523332noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519488391496270073.post-29024276860992470182017-11-15T20:49:29.246-05:002017-11-15T20:49:29.246-05:00Yup, the idea that ISIS fighters, hunkered down in...Yup, the idea that ISIS fighters, hunkered down in fortified positions, with lot's of "human shields", are going to go through their membership and parse out the ones the "Coalition" don't "like", is just stupidity.<br /><br />It's all the "ISIS and Allies" that want to go, or none.Jay Farquharsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03335226520940843630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519488391496270073.post-39211521260909319692017-11-15T18:47:43.947-05:002017-11-15T18:47:43.947-05:00These kinds of deals are incredibly common. Every...These kinds of deals are incredibly common. Every single gain that the SAA has made in the past year including Aleppo has been capped off with an evacuation deal where the government themselves bus the jihadists and their families over to their stronghold in Idlib to avoid a mass slaughter. This is barely news if you follow the conflict at a daily and granular level.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519488391496270073.post-91132649422982279372017-11-15T17:37:56.149-05:002017-11-15T17:37:56.149-05:00That is not a flaw, but the plan.
Let ISIS and th...That is not a flaw, but the plan.<br /><br />Let ISIS and the SA bleed each other.<br />\<br />The BBC workers can go back to wondering, if they will be run over by jihadis, scratch that mentally ill, while Xmas shopping in London.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745261961793742823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519488391496270073.post-2098493687077858112017-11-14T22:52:20.651-05:002017-11-14T22:52:20.651-05:00The only "secret" is that Syrian and For...The only "secret" is that Syrian and Foreign ISIS Fighter's were also included in the evacuation,<br /><br />Where at the time, ( Oct 14) they were supposed to be excluded and "vetted" by US backed SAA fighters.Jay Farquharsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03335226520940843630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519488391496270073.post-45535395318473930052017-11-14T22:46:31.609-05:002017-11-14T22:46:31.609-05:00And Jay backs me up vis-à-vis the breathless BBC.
...And Jay backs me up vis-à-vis the breathless BBC.<br /><br />Lightening strikes twice.<br /><br />Ergo, the BBC is full of ____.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745261961793742823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519488391496270073.post-11138675870569843752017-11-14T21:00:26.068-05:002017-11-14T21:00:26.068-05:00Our Foreign Staff
14 OCTOBER 2017 • 7:42 PM
A con... Our Foreign Staff <br />14 OCTOBER 2017 • 7:42 PM<br />A convoy will leave Syria's Raqqa on Saturday under an evacuation deal agreed as a US-backed force battles to seize Isil's last positions in the city.<br /><br />The US-led coalition said the deal for the evacuation would exclude foreign Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) fighters, but left unclear whether Syrian jihadists would be able to quit their one-time stronghold.<br /><br />https://www.google.ca/amp/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/14/evacuation-deal-isil-fighters-syrias-raqqa-citys-capture-nears/amp/<br /><br />The deal was known about at the time.<br /><br />Jay Farquharsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03335226520940843630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519488391496270073.post-48247502608656103772017-11-14T20:56:05.269-05:002017-11-14T20:56:05.269-05:00Why is it a mistake?
They leave Raqqa for a small...Why is it a mistake?<br /><br />They leave Raqqa for a smaller less defensible city. Not every city has the same defensive bonus.<br /><br />If those hundreds of ISIS fighters are going to die, I would rather they die fighting Shia militias and take a hundred militia with them than taking a 100 Kurds. ISIS is only round 2 or 3. Round 1 was the Syrian government locking up masses of Sunnis before and during the mass protests of 2011 & 2012.<br /><br />Why should not the Syrian Sunni Arabs join in on the Arab spring that swept Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen and other places?<br /><br /><br />P.S. The BBC found out squat. A deal to let ISIS leave Raqqa was know a few weeks ago and was reported among other place, here.<br /><br />By saying secret and just found out now is a bid to raise 'newspaper' sales and a way to cast aspersions on the US.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745261961793742823noreply@blogger.com