MassivelyBuckNegro posted:

How did you notice a difference from the rest of the places where Islam seems to take root?

Reverand maynard posted:

Was this anywhere near Marjah? We did a patrol past this village and everyone had something wrong with them either mentally or physically.

Obama Africanus posted:

Lazy Reservist posted:

The unit I was with in Iraq rolled up a midget one time. He actually looked kind of like Herve Villechaiz, but bald.

chemosh6969 posted:

Midgets and dwarfs prefer to be called little people these days. It's a step up for one group but not for the other.

Booblord Zagats posted:

I'm sorry but this is plain wrong. They prefer Filipino

Obama Africanus posted:

Muslim women, at least the kind that stand by their man, are willing to shove objects inside themselves to hide those objects from being found when good right thinking American men come to protect freedom.

Vaginal secretions do not ruin bedazzled $15 hello kitty feature phones.

But if left on vibrate it will shake off cooter juice like a wet dog so make sure to put it in a ziplock bag for the love of loving Christ.

And whatever you do, and I'm serious here.. Don't smell that goddamn phone, or let it bake in a HiLux for 3 days in the afghan heat with the windows rolled up.

That's a flash back and a recurring nightmare you just don't want, boy.

white privilege posted:

this story is as legendary as the blown up screenshot of the dude loving the donkey that was hanging in the det. now i'm trying to think of all the other good old task force stories. remember connie?

Lazy Reservist posted:

The unit I was with in Iraq rolled up a midget one time. He actually looked kind of like Herve Villechaiz, but bald.

Dingleberry posted:

Did you capture him and make him reveal the location of his gold?

Anansi The Spider posted:

Mercy killx1500

Anansi The Spider posted:

Google does not have the answer Melthir.

Anansi The Spider posted:

Google does not have the answer Melthir.

Yahoo News posted:

FIGHTING FOR TOWNS

On Sunday, Islamic State members were also involved in fighting in a border town far away in Lebanon, a sign of the group's ambitions across the frontiers of the Middle East.

It controls cities in Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates valleys north and west of Baghdad, and a section of Syria stretching from the Iraqi border in the east to Aleppo in the northwest.

Iraq's Kurds, who rule themselves in a northern enclave guarded by the peshmerga units, had expanded areas under their control in recent weeks while avoiding direct confrontation with the Islamic State, even as Iraqi central government troops fled.

But the towns lost on Sunday were in territory the Kurds had held for many years, undermining suggestions that the Islamic State's advance has helped the Kurdish cause.

Witnesses said Islamic State fighters were also trying to take control of the town of Rabia near the Syrian border and were engaged in clashes with Syrian Kurds who had crossed the frontier after Iraqi Kurds withdrew.

The latest gains have placed Islamic State fighters near Dohuk Province, one of three in the autonomous Kurdish region, which has been spared any serious threat to its security while war raged throughout the rest of Iraq.

Since thousands of U.S.-trained Iraqi soldiers fled the Islamic State offensive, the Kurdish fighters were seen alongside Shi'ite militia to the south as the main lines of defense against the militants, who vow to march on Baghdad.

By calling into question the effectiveness of the Kurdish fighters, Sunday's advances may increase pressure on bickering Iraqi leaders to form a power-sharing government capable of countering the Islamic State.

LITTLE RESISTANCE

Two people who live near Mosul Dam told Reuters Kurdish troops had loaded their vehicles with belongings including air conditioners and fled.

Islamic State fighters attacked Zumar from three directions in pick-up trucks mounted with weapons, defeating Kurdish forces that had poured reinforcements into the town, witnesses said.

The Islamic State later also seized the town of Sinjar, where witnesses said residents had fled after Kurdish fighters put up little resistance. It was not immediately clear why the Kurds, usually known as formidable fighters, pulled back without a fight.

On its Twitter site, the Islamic State posted a picture of one of its masked fighters holding up a pistol and sitting at the abandoned desk of the mayor of Sinjar. Behind him was the image of a famous Kurdish guerrilla leader.

In a statement on its website, the Islamic State said it had killed scores of peshmerga, the Kurdish fighters whose name means "those who confront death". Those deaths could not be independently verified.

"Hundreds fled leaving vehicles and a huge number of weapons and munitions and the brothers control many areas," the Islamic State statement said. "The fighters arrived in the border triangle between Iraq, Syria and Turkey."

The Islamic State has systematically blown up Shi'ite mosques and shrines in territory it has seized, fuelling levels of sectarian violence unseen since the very worst weeks of Iraq's 2006-2007 civil war.

The group, which shortened its name after June's offensive from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has stalled in its drive to reach Baghdad, halting just before the town of Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of the capital.

ISLAMIC STATE ADVANCES

The Islamic State has been trying to consolidate its gains, setting its sights on strategic towns near oil fields, as well as border crossings with Syria, so that it can move easily back and forth and transport supplies.

So far, the Islamic State is not near the major oil fields of the northern city of Kirkuk, which were seized by the Kurds in the chaos that followed the militant group's advance. It controls part of a pipeline from Kirkuk to Turkey which has been idle for months because of its attacks in the area.

The Islamic State has capitalized on Sunni disenchantment with Maliki, winning support or at least tolerance from some more moderate Sunni communities in Iraq that had fought against al Qaeda during the U.S. "surge" offensive of 2006-2007.

Maliki's opponents say the prime minister, a Shi'ite Islamist who is negotiating to try to stay in power for a third term after an inconclusive parliamentary election in April, is to blame for galvanizing the insurgency by excluding Sunnis from power. Kurdish leaders have also called for Maliki to step down to create a more inclusive government in Baghdad.

The Kurds have long dreamed of their own independent state, an aspiration that has angered Maliki, who has frequently clashed with the non-Arabs over budgets, land and oil.

In July, the Kurdish political bloc ended participation in Iraq's national government in protest against Maliki's accusation that Kurds were allowing "terrorists" to stay in Arbil, capital of their semi-autonomous region.

SEEKING WEAPONS

In another move certain to infuriate the Baghdad government, the Kurdish region is pressing Washington for sophisticated weapons it says Kurdish fighters need to push back the Islamist militants, Kurdish and U.S. officials said.

Sunday's withdrawal may help them press their case.

"This justifies all the reasons why Pentagon should help beef up the peshmerga forces by providing such sophisticated arms to counterbalance (Islamic State) arms," Zebari, the Kurdish official in Washington, told Reuters.

Maliki needs the Kurds, who gained experience fighting Saddam Hussein's forces, to help defend his country from the Islamic State, whose leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head.

The Islamic State's ambitions have alarmed other Arab states who fear the group's success could embolden militants region-wide.

Islamic State fighters were among militants who clashed with Lebanese forces overnight in and around Arsal, a Lebanese town on the border with Syria. Thirteen Lebanese soldiers and an unknown number of militants and civilians were killed in the fighting, security officials said.

There has been no indication so far whether the advance in northern Iraq and the fighting in Lebanon were coordinated.

Fucitol posted:

i want everyone to know that everytime this thread has new posts i eagerly check to see if Iraq has turned into a giant lifeless void that will only be known for housing the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates.

i am continually disappointed

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

hell at least saddam usay and quday put some effort into it

Zeroisanumber posted:

Uday and Qusay you ignorant grunt.

chemosh6969 posted:

aren't those guys from the cantina scene in star wars?

quote:

SHANGAL—Kurdish Peshmerga forces have entered Shangal, said military officials, and they have cornered militants of the Islamic State in parts of the town.

Rudaw reporter in the area said that units from the 10,000-strong Peshmarga force who had encircled the town earlier in the day are now in the town center and try to rout the Islamic militants.

JDAMS CURE PASHTUN posted:

gg nextmap

GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:

http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/040820144

Cool I hope those ISIS retards eat some leathery Kurdish dick

GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:

http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/040820144

Cool I hope those ISIS retards eat some leathery Kurdish dick

quote:

Earlier in the day, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered the Iraqi air force to assist the Peshmerga in their fight against the IS militants.

E.Nigma posted:

On a scale of goatfuck to allah ackbar, how incompetent is the IQAF?