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Author Topic: The Let's go back to Iraq, now without WMDs Thread. About the IS(IS) threat.  (Read 207494 times)

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Re: The Let's go back to Iraq, now without WMDs Thread. About the IS(IS) threat.
« Reply #1665 on: February 03, 2017, 04:14:02 am »

Well, the Russians and even Syrian have been killing some ISIS dude from time to time over the last year you know.
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Re: The Let's go back to Iraq, now without WMDs Thread. About the IS(IS) threat.
« Reply #1666 on: February 03, 2017, 01:43:38 pm »

Well, the Russians and even Syrian have been killing some ISIS dude from time to time over the last year you know.
That's not the surprising part

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Re: The Let's go back to Iraq, now without WMDs Thread. About the IS(IS) threat.
« Reply #1667 on: February 03, 2017, 02:15:22 pm »

Well, the Russians and even Syrian have been killing some ISIS dude from time to time over the last year you know.
I read that as singularly ISIS dude. Like some sort of bad 90s fantasy movie or X-TREEEEEME comic, this one ISIS dude keeps coming back from the dead and Russia, Syria, Turkey, and the US forces have to band together to defeat him, complete with shenanigans of the wacky variety.
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Re: The Let's go back to Iraq, now without WMDs Thread. About the IS(IS) threat.
« Reply #1668 on: February 03, 2017, 02:16:23 pm »

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Re: The Let's go back to Iraq, now without WMDs Thread. About the IS(IS) threat.
« Reply #1669 on: February 05, 2017, 10:39:54 am »

Turkish army purge, in numbers.

They've literally fired one-third of their entire fucking army. On all levels of command chain. Afiget'.
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« Reply #1670 on: February 05, 2017, 10:43:54 am »

Didn't someone already post numbers on the army purge? But yeah, he's undermined his army so much that he's neutered his own armys effectiveness, as has been mentioned earlier in the thread, or in another thread.

edit: Yeah, you did, back a page: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=141977.msg7335975#msg7335975 Though not in detailed numbers like that document.
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Re: The Let's go back to Iraq, now without WMDs Thread. About the IS(IS) threat.
« Reply #1671 on: February 05, 2017, 10:46:53 am »

Turkish army purge, in numbers.

They've literally fired one-third of their entire fucking army. On all levels of command chain. Afiget'.
At least they were fired instead of, y'know, fired.
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Re: The Let's go back to Iraq, now without WMDs Thread. About the IS(IS) threat.
« Reply #1672 on: February 05, 2017, 10:52:30 am »

Turkish army purge, in numbers.

They've literally fired one-third of their entire fucking army. On all levels of command chain. Afiget'.
At least they were fired instead of, y'know, fired.

He did execute a few key leaders, or at least the ones immediately involved in the coup. But yeah, the top of the command chain got hit especially hard, almost half of his admirals and generals.
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Re: The Let's go back to Iraq, now without WMDs Thread. About the IS(IS) threat.
« Reply #1673 on: February 05, 2017, 11:21:31 am »

As far as I know, there have been no executions. There have been casualties during the actual coup, sure, but of those imprisoned afterwards, none have been executed.
It might still happen though, but for now the death penalty has not yet been reintroduced through parliament.
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Re: The Let's go back to Iraq, now without WMDs Thread. About the IS(IS) threat.
« Reply #1674 on: February 05, 2017, 03:07:30 pm »

There are crimes much worse than launching and planning a coup. Launching and planning a failed coup are foremost on this list.
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Re: The Let's go back to Iraq, now without WMDs Thread. About the IS(IS) threat.
« Reply #1675 on: February 06, 2017, 05:41:10 am »

Apparently a scud missile fired by yemeni rebels has hit a military base in saudi arabia last night. No death count yet
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Re: The Let's go back to Iraq, now without WMDs Thread. About the IS(IS) threat.
« Reply #1676 on: February 06, 2017, 06:17:34 am »

Seems really touchy, no report of that in the mainstream press.
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Re: The Let's go back to Iraq, now without WMDs Thread. About the IS(IS) threat.
« Reply #1677 on: February 06, 2017, 04:11:43 pm »

AMN is reporting it, but they're not the most reliable bunch. From what I can tell they did in fact launch a scud, but if it really was the military base they were aiming for they need to adjust their firing solution.
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