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Ursprungligen postat av
Ola Schubert
vov! Första världskriget 1916-1918 igen!
Vi borde skänka några Leopard 2 MBTs, liksom ett antal Bill 2 robotar. Archer artilleri tillsammans med artilleriradar Arthur skulle heller inte vara helt fel.
Det verkar som att de nöjer sig med vad som helst vid det här laget, det finns liksom inget utrymme för att vara petig.
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"Don't send us food, we don't need food," one man screamed. "We will eat mud if we have to. Send us weapons, send us Peshmerga," he continued, and then fell on his knees in front of Musa Ahmed and started kissing his shoes. Another man in the crowd watched the scene silently, tears pouring down his face.
Men med tanke på hur kreativa dem är på att bygga hemagjorda grejer så kanske det räcker med att skicka över matrial från bilskrot och verktyg. För Staden har nämligen brist på allt eftersom turksiska gränsen varit stängt under lång tid.
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Kobani has been cut off for months; residents survive using small petrol-fuelled generators and the basic supplies they can smuggle in from Turkey.
Shops in the town sit empty and shuttered, with nothing to sell, while dozens of half-built buildings line the main road, their construction halted when the supply of materials was stopped.
On Thursday, the first humanitarian aid reached the town, when 12 trucks were allowed to cross the border into Kobani. Sent by the Barzani Charity Foundation, an NGO based in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the trucks brought rice, beans, baby formula, blankets and other supplies, both to the refugees in Suruc and to Kobani's besieged residents.
"We are the first NGO to enter Kobani," Musa Ahmed, deputy director of the foundation, told the handful of journalists allowed to accompany the convoy. "It is our duty to help Kurds everywhere; we want to serve outside the borders of the Kurdistan Region."
http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2014/9/syriakurd1394.htm
Kobane är utsatt för embargo av Turkiet och belägrad av IS, ovanpå detta så är USA ytterst sparsam med sina flyggattacker i detta område. Kan man påstå att de är totalt omringade och helt ensamma?
Samtidigt vid andra ställen längs den turkiska gränsen så kan det vara så här laid back.
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Another critical issue for Turkey — in addition to ending its status as a transit route for Islamic fighters going to Iraq and Syria — is to terminate recruitment operations for these organizations. Recruitment takes place with the knowledge of some bodies that are close to the government, such as nongovernmental organizations that operate under the guise of humanitarian assistance. About a year ago, international human rights organizations based along the border reported that Islamist Turkish nongovernmental organizations were transferring humanitarian assistance that was actually combat materiel. The Turkish state itself was caught secretly transporting to Syria three truckloads of ammunition — swept under the carpet as humanitarian assistance — so there is no reason for state supported nongovernmental organizations not to do the same.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2014/09/turkey-un-security-warning-radical-syrian-groups.html##ixzz3EcdBSSd3
Det finns mer specifikt angående den där humanitära assistansen som skulle till en stad kontrolerad av ISIS och en annan salafistgrupp.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/01/vanished-turkish-truck-state-secret.html#