US journalist beheaded by ISIS...

[Asterix]

TheRealFingers99 said:

Mr_B said:

Not much chat on this, but some reports say ISIS fighters are just a few km from Baghdad's western city edge, yet the UK's token force of jets is yet to drop a bomb.

Bombed earlier today by the US.

First, ISIS seem to have become very aware that bigger aggregations of troops, armour, etc. provide very easy targets for aircraft.

Second, the guy on Sky today was suggesting that that may have been a diversion, to draw attention away from a possible break-through to the Turkish boarder (Suruc, Kobane, etc.) which will give them access to more arms, recruits, etc.

Turkey? That would really be giving the wasp's nest a smack with a stick.

[TheRealFingers99]

Asterix said:

Turkey? That would really be giving the wasp's nest a smack with a stick.

Oh, they'll not invade. But it'll give them a great way of getting weapons and troups in, many Turks seem fairly sympathetic to ISIS (hence, you guess, the easy leakeage of western jihadis through the border, and the block on Turkish Kurds), the Turks will be happy if it ties up their Kurds.

Allied now with al Quaida, who can push north from around the Golan, they can push towards Homs or the sea. Israel may come on board if they see a cost free way of getting at a (by then) threatened Hamas.

[Lost soul]

TheRealFingers99 said:

Israel may come on board if they see a cost free way of getting at a (by then) threatened Hamas.

Ahh its all Israel's fault now is it

[TheRealFingers99]

Lost soul said:

Ahh its all Israel's fault now is it

Hardly their fault, but they've allied themselves with much nastier people than ISIS in the past when it served them. Dare I mention the Christian Phalangists?

[GT03ROB]

Lost soul said:

King Herald said:

I've worked in that sthole of a dogs anus in the past, and never want to go back again.

Happy time was it

I've got one day left in that place.....Happy time will start at around 10:30 tomorrow evening in Bahrain airport!!

[Digga]

GT03ROB said:

Lost soul said:

King Herald said:

I've worked in that sthole of a dogs anus in the past, and never want to go back again.

Happy time was it

I've got one day left in that place.....Happy time will start at around 10:30 tomorrow evening in Bahrain airport!!

Cousin was served with Military Police out there during GW2. Told some horrendous stories. He's a big, tough lad, but the place really got to him.

[Ayahuasca]

Has the RAF actually bombed any ISIS yet? They seem to be coming back without having found anything to shoot at.

[hornetrider]

Ayahuasca said:

Has the RAF actually bombed any ISIS yet? They seem to be coming back without having found anything to shoot at.

I wouldn't expect them to be bombing from Day 1. Probably conducting recce and intel gathering.

[Lost soul]

The RAF are only there as a token force , the French and the US have more than enough air power there to see the job get done

[Langweilig]

Ayahuasca said:

Has the RAF actually bombed any ISIS yet? They seem to be coming back without having found anything to shoot at.

Yes.

http://preview.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/raf-torna...

[Langweilig]

From MSN News. A grade A student with a bright future? Silly wee b more like.

http://preview.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/teen-jiha...

[Ayahuasca]

Langweilig said:

Ayahuasca said:

Has the RAF actually bombed any ISIS yet? They seem to be coming back without having found anything to shoot at.

Yes.

http://preview.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/raf-torna...

Interesting that the Tornados only bombed tactically ISIS positions that were in contact with Peshmerga, I guess this means that they were called in by UKSF air controllers who are on the ground with the Peshmerga forces (unless we have given the necessary comms and training to Peshmerga itself which seems unlikely). We knocked out one 'heavy weapons position' and one Hilux then. At this rate it is going to take a long time to wipe ISIS out...

[Langweilig]

Ayahuasca said:

Langweilig said:

Ayahuasca said:

Has the RAF actually bombed any ISIS yet? They seem to be coming back without having found anything to shoot at.

Yes.

http://preview.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/raf-torna...

Interesting that the Tornados only bombed tactically ISIS positions that were in contact with Peshmerga, I guess this means that they were called in by UKSF air controllers who are on the ground with the Peshmerga forces (unless we have given the necessary comms and training to Peshmerga itself which seems unlikely). We knocked out one 'heavy weapons position' and one Hilux then. At this rate it is going to take a long time to wipe ISIS out...

More here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29434628

The Kurds seem to be calling the shots.

[DAVEVO9]

Pick up truck vid was awesome

Good quality too

[Digga]

Ayahuasca said:

We knocked out one 'heavy weapons position' and one Hilux then. At this rate it is going to take a long time to wipe ISIS out...

Tens of millions of quids worth of GR4 Tornado, vs. about fifteen grands worth of HiLux plus a paltry assortment of arms and munitions. Sledgehammer vs. nut.

[RobGT81]

Digga said:

ens of millions of quids worth of GR4 Tornado, vs. about fifteen grands worth of HiLux plus a paltry assortment of arms and munitions. Sledgehammer vs. nut.

The engines will probably want rebuilding as well now.

[Lost soul]

Digga said:

ens of millions of quids worth of GR4 Tornado, vs. about fifteen grands worth of HiLux plus a paltry assortment of arms and munitions. Sledgehammer vs. nut.

They mentioned on the news last night that the US had flown over 3000 sorties with only about 300 of them resulting in attacks

[Lincsblokey]

A lot of our flights are Recce missions, its something the RAF are very, very, very good at, I also read a piece in a us paper with an interview with some high level bod in reference to the co-allition, he mentioned that the strikes would be in a rota pattern to enable each partner to rearm and take stock of the action so far.

[superkartracer]

Digga said:

Ayahuasca said:

We knocked out one 'heavy weapons position' and one Hilux then. At this rate it is going to take a long time to wipe ISIS out...

Tens of millions of quids worth of GR4 Tornado, vs. about fifteen grands worth of HiLux plus a paltry assortment of arms and munitions. Sledgehammer vs. nut.

http://www.businessinsider.com/isis-has-52-american-weapons-that-can-hit-baghdad-2014-7

Yeah but ISIS have snatched some billions of $$ worth of weapons that the yanks left...

They have some fairly nasty kit ( SA-24 etc etc ) , which makes them rather dangerous i reckon.

Edited by superkartracer on Wednesday 1st October 09:34

[Mermaid]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-eas...

Jim will like this.