Putin sends 4,000 troops to Syria as he steps up bid to WIPE OUT the evil Islamic Sta

[B00Mer]

Putin sends 4,000 troops to Syria as he steps up bid to WIPE OUT the evil Islamic State

THE number of Russian military forces in Syria has reportedly swelled to 4,000 as Vladimir Putin continues his bid to destroy the Islamic State.

The figure has doubled since Moscow began airstrikes against the notorious terror group at the end of September, according to US officials.

They also claimed the number of bases used by Mr Putin's men in the war-torn nation has grown.

Hundreds of ISIS jihadis are thought to have already been wiped out – along with the group's arms supplies.

The Russian foreign ministry refused to comment on the size of Mr Putin's contingent yesterday.

But there are no Russian troops in combat roles in Syria, according to a spokesman for the Kremlin.

He added that forces are guarding Russia's bases in the west of the country – and working with the Syrian military.

The US officials also claimed several Russians have been killed – but failed to give exact numbers.

The only death reported by the Russian government is a serviceman who committed suicide.

Washington has strongly criticised Mr Putin's intervention in the Syria crisis, accusing the Russian president of trying to prop up president Bashar al-Assad.

Mr Putin hit back at their claims last month, saying his country wants to "contribute to the fight against terrorism" which threatens "the whole world".

He added: "I think some of our partners simply have mush for brains.

"They do not have a clear understanding of what really happens in the country and what goals they are seeking to achieve."

The US has failed to wipe out ISIS after more than a year of air strikes – and is finally set to send special operations forces into Syria.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8qttUJrl20

Source: Putin sends 4,000 troops to Syria as he steps up bid to WIPE OUT ISIS | World | News | Daily Express

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When Putin is done with ISIS he's going to eat Trudeau lunch over Arctic Drilling

 

[B00Mer]

 

[WLDB]

Well if he wants to do it so be it. Makes it easier for everyone else. Just sit back and watch. Though considering they are fighting to keep Assad in power they cant really say they are fighting terrorism. Dictators are by their nature terrorists.

 

[MHz]

You trying to take ES's place? Did you miss the thread on Syria? Should we just take your thread as the liar version??

Well if he wants to do it so be it. Makes it easier for everyone else. Just sit back and watch. Though considering they are fighting to keep Assad in power they cant really say they are fighting terrorism. Dictators are by their nature terrorists.

Is that who JFK was mentioning?

 

[taxslave]

Good let the commies spend some time and money there. Putin has a huge muslim population under his thumb that need to be shown who is boss in the region.

 

[MHz]

Since he is Christian we should do the same right??

 

[captain morgan]

Since he is Christian we should do the same right??

This isn't about Putin, it's about the lunatics that are transforming the ME into a mass graveyard

 

[gopher]

4,000 troops

that's considerably less than the amount sent by Bush when he announced his "mission accomplished'' which ended the ME menace

 

[Ludlow]

The Soviet Union spent a great deal of time in Afghanistan to no avail. Hopefully Russia will have better success this time.

 

[Blackleaf]

So, we may have got Jihadi John.

How the US and UK tracked down and killed Jihadi John outside Isil's iconic clock tower

The killing of Mohammed Emwazi, also known as Jihadi John, was the culmination of 15 months of intensive intelligence work by MI6, GCHQ and the CIA


By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter
13 Nov 2015
The Telegraph

For Jihadi John, death could not have been more different than that of his victims. While his hostages suffered unimaginable horror as he beheaded them, for him the end came instantaneously and without warning.

For more than a year British and US intelligence agencies had been trying to gain live information on the whereabouts of the masked man whose first victim, the American journalist James Foley, was murdered in a video posted on YouTube in August 2014.

Their efforts finally paid off shortly before midnight on Thursday, when intelligence pinpointed him to a car in the centre of Raqqa, Syria, within a short walk of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s headquarters in the old governorate building.

Mohammed Emwazi – his real name was finally confirmed by David Cameron for the first time today – is understood to have been located by either MI6 or GCHQ, either through a human source on the ground or by monitoring his communications.

Emwazi beheaded (clockwise, from top left) David Haines, James Foley, Alan Henning, Peter Kassig and Steven Sotloff

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The intelligence was passed on to the Pentagon, enabling the operators of an armed Predator drone already in the sky above Raqqa to spot the car in which he was travelling.

At 11.40pm Syrian time (9.40pm GMT) the order to kill was passed to the drone operators, most of whom are based at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada.

Controlling their drone via a satellite link, they selected their target and released a Hellfire missile from 10,000ft.

Experts say the Predator may have been several miles away at the time, invisible in the night sky. Its missile, travelling at Mach 1.3 (995mph) arrived at such speed that Emwazi would have known nothing before it struck. At 11.51pm the car, and its four occupants, were blown up.

The result was described by one US official as a “flawless” strike, a “clean hit” that would have “evaporated” Emwazi, with no collateral damage. “We are 99 per cent sure we got him,” the official said.

Unconfirmed reports suggested another of those killed was another of the four British jihadis nicknamed “The Beatles” by their captives because of their English accents. Emwazi, 27, was given the nickname John after John Lennon.

Emwazi’s death, if confimed, was doubly symbolic for the allied forces that hunted him down. Not only was Isil’s main propaganda tool neutralised, but the location of the strike was within sight of two of the locations most strongly identified with the terrorist group.

The missile strike happened in or next to Clocktower Square, the roundabout chosen by Isil to carry out public executions.

In 2012, the roundabout was the location of the city’s first protests against Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, as a popular uprising spread across the country. By the summer of 2013, Isil had seized control of the city, and video footage from May of that year shows three rebel soldiers, blindfolded with a green rag reminiscent of the colours of the revolution, before being shot dead.

Emwazi is understood to have been travelling from the Isil headquarters, inside what was once the office of Raqqa's city governor. He may also have been living in the building.


The Telegraph - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph - Telegraph

 

[EagleSmack]

So, we may have got Jihadi John.

How the US and UK tracked down and killed Jihadi John outside Isil's iconic clock tower

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Oh the Brits are going to take credit. We had to clean up your dirty laundry in the ME. I cannot believe the British PM said Britain has a long reach.

So, we may have got Jihadi John.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The US got him. You're welcome.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I'm perfectly good with the Russians and DOUCHE killing each other. I'll take the extra-large tub of popcorn for that one.