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  • IT’S OVER: FSA Assault Syrian Army Position

    IT’S OVER: FSA Assault Syrian Army Position

    In this video, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) assaults a Syrian Army position. It appears there is a fixed position on the 2nd floor with personnel that just won’t allow themselves to be defeated. The FSA fires multiple machine gun barrages, rifle fire, and even several direct hit RPG shots.

    The war in Syria began in July, 2011, as a result of the Arab Spring in that country that started several months earlier. There are four major factions in the Syrian Civil War – the Syrian Government, the Opposition Government (includes Al Qaeda and the FSA), the Kurdish Force (includes YPG), and ISIS.  Each faction has taken over and controls a portion of Syria and there are rumors that Al Qaeda and ISIS are going to unite to give themselves a stronger joint position. Needless to say, this video is a perfect example of the realities on the ground and the combat that continues on a daily basis in Syria.

  • VIDEO: Free Syrian Army Ambushes Syrian Tanks

    VIDEO: Free Syrian Army Ambushes Syrian Tanks

    The ongoing ISIS movement and its repercussion from the coalition forces have been in the news for some time now and is a very controversial issue in America and in the Middle East today. The spotlight is on Islamic Terrorism and the Syrian Civil War. This video shows one tank being destroyed and another shot with most probably an RPG. This particular video is not ISIS in Iraq, but that of the Free Syrian Army attacking a Syrian government convoy back in 2012.

    Whatever may be the real case behind the scene, the scene sure is one of the rare real life shots captured related to the ongoing Syrian Civil War. The war began in 2011 as a chain reaction to the so called Arab Spring and now being led by the various groups within Syria and Iraq. ISIS, FSA and YPG are three of the major Middle Eastern factions, opposing the present Syrian government, that are involved in the war along with the intervention from the western coalition forces. ISIS is also against the government of Iraq and Iran, causing strange bedfellows. Nontheless, this video of tanks blowing up is great to watch.

     

  • Obama Sends Additional Soldiers to Iraq

    Obama Sends Additional Soldiers to Iraq

    President Barack Obama has signed a new deployment directive to send additional soldiers to Iraq. The extra 1500 troops were sent by the Obama administration to serve in Iraq as advisers, security, and trainers. Most of them will reach Iraq by December. This means that the number of US troops will reach up to around 3,000. The president is asking for additional funding from the Congress to send to Iraq – or at least $5 billion to append to the Iraq funds.

    A statement from the White House says that the new troops will not actually be fighting in Iraq, but will be working as supervisors, strategists, and trainers in the field. The troops will be working to assist the military that is already available there who are fighting ISIS / ISIL.

    Many Americans and critics are seeing this as a gradual buildup, similar to the buildup in Vietnam that happened slowly over time. Thinking back to the Korean War, this seems to be like mission creep similar to when General MacArthur changed the mission from driving the North Koreans out of South Korea to conquering North Korea and taking the fight to China with nuclear weapons. China ended up invading and driving the Americans back to the 38th Parallel. With Operation Iraqi Freedom being over, it seems that there is a resurgence to get the US involved over there again.

    If it is going to happen again, it needs to happen with a clear mission, overwhelming force, and approval from congress.

  • Fake “Kill ISIS for $500K” Story Exposed

    Fake “Kill ISIS for $500K” Story Exposed

    There is a company, Horner G6S Mercenary Incorporated, who is hiring mercenaries to go kill ISIS members for $500K a piece – so the story goes. Of course this is fake.  All articles from the National Report are works of fiction, much like the Onion or the EU Times. The reason these websites write these tall tails is simple, they make a lot of money on the traffic their exaggerated headlines generate.

    If we were to do a write up about this story, assuming it were true, our write up would look like this:

    The National Report came up with a news item stating that a militant organization out of Phoenix, Arizona, is hiring assassins to kill ISIS members for a cool $500,000. The supposed name of the organization is Horner G6S Mercenary Incorporated. The said company is willing to pay half a million dollars regardless of one’s “killing” experience. G6S is owned by Paul Horner, who is in complete disagreement with the way President Barack Obama has handled the ISIS crisis.

    Gwen Hawkins, one of those who has signed up with the company, has expressly stated that she would like to volunteer as a human time bomb and would like her family to cash out the insurance policy she had taken out in case of her death. Jason McKay, one of the newest members, said that he would be willing to be infected with the Ebola virus and get caught by ISIS so they can be infected as well. Michael Adams, one of the more established assassins, suggested forcing these people to eat bacon would be a good way to disarm them, since it is against their religion.

    There are speculations running around that Ross Perot was the one who founded this organization as a way to start a presidential bid for the elections in 2016.

    You can read more about this satire article here and here.