Maio 293 Posted June 18, 2014 (NY Times) Extremists Said to Take Control of Iraq’s Biggest Oil Refinery BAGHDAD — Refinery workers, eyewitnesses and an Iraqi Army officer reported the seizure of Iraq’s biggest oil refinery by Sunni extremists on Wednesday after army helicopter gunships failed to repel their attack. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tonci87 163 Posted June 19, 2014 Milosevic never seriously tried to rule over the Slovenes and Croats. He agreed to give half of Bosnia to Tudjman. Again not really true. He only agreed to that plan after his grand army received a massive beating by a rag tag Croatian militia on all fronts (wich really surprised everyone). The original plan was to conquer the whole of Croatia and then to proceed into Slovenia. Also keep in mind that the war wasn´t only about keeping the state together, but also about keeping the Serbs in power. They occupied a disproportionally large number of positions in all republic administrations, the state administration, the police and the military. Other cultural identities that were not Serbian were actively surpressed in public. (No teaching of Croatian in schools, no singing of Croatian national songs in public, the introduction of their writing to the republics that didn´t have it before, supression of the catholic church, unbalaced state spending that was much more in favour of Serbia than of any other Province, etc. All things that happened way before the war and that show that for the Serbian Leadership Yugoslavia was a way to dominate the other Countries and build that greater Serbia.) The fear of loosing all that control is one thing that made them go to war. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xalteva 10 Posted June 19, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLG6k5U2Ap0 Found this on my recommended youtube videos :D ,no idea what started the fight ,the "discussion" was between a governement partisan and a guy from a party defending the uprising ! funny but sad ... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tonci87 163 Posted June 19, 2014 The poor host..... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mistyronin 1181 Posted June 19, 2014 ( The Guardian ) Obama to send up to 300 'military advisers' to help Iraqi army repel Isis Team will help Iraq counteroffensive against insurgent group Isis but Obama indicates US air power will be kept in reserve Meanwhile in The Guardian Live Feed: President Obama said the US would build up its military assets in the region. Yesterday we published an AP-compiled list of those assets, mentioning six warships in the Persian Gulf and about 5,000 U.S. soldiers across the border in Kuwait.That list did not capture the number of troops as just described by an unnamed US official to the New York Times: More than 30,000 US troops in the Iraq region at sea and ashore, US official says. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mistyronin 1181 Posted June 20, 2014 From our friends in Vice: ( Vice News ) Here's Who Is Fighting in Iraq and Why Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xalteva 10 Posted June 20, 2014 From our friends in Vice:( Vice News ) Here's Who Is Fighting in Iraq and Why Funny how they look through the "people of Iraq" who started this revolution ! few months ago,certainly against Maliki but not in an ethnic perspective ... ISIS is just a troublemaker trying to force people in to a civil war.As stated in that video you posted earlier,sunna and chia have always lived in peace ! ISIS,Al Qaeda are just bunch of sadistic guys on drugs ready to shoot the first thing that moves ! and god knows who is financing them ... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ProfTournesol 956 Posted June 20, 2014 ISIS,Al Qaeda are just bunch of sadistic guys on drugs ready to shoot the first thing that moves ! and god knows who is financing them ... Saudi Arabia. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mistyronin 1181 Posted June 21, 2014 ( BBC ) Shia militia show of force raises tensions Thousands of Shia militia loyal to the powerful cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have paraded through the streets of Baghdad, raising sectarian tensions amid continued fighting in areas of Iraq.The cleric, whose Mehdi Army fought the US in Iraq for years, had called for a military parade across the country. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mistyronin 1181 Posted June 27, 2014 ( BBC ) Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki: Russian jets will turn tide "I'll be frank and say that we were deluded when we signed the contract [with the US]," Mr Maliki said."We should have sought to buy other jet fighters like British, French and Russian to secure the air cover for our forces; if we had air cover we would have averted what had happened," he went on. He said Iraq was acquiring second-hand jet fighters from Russia and Belarus "that should arrive in Iraq in two or three days". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vilas 473 Posted June 28, 2014 3:20 - do i hear properly ? Iraqi forces run away and local population in Iraq support ISIL ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mistyronin 1181 Posted June 28, 2014 3:20 - do i hear properly ? Iraqi forces run away and local population in Iraq support ISIL ? If they are Sunni and are tired of the gov only for Shia of Maliki... Would make kind of sense. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
negah 26 Posted June 29, 2014 Iraq has recieved the first attack aircrafts from Russia. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28077273 From the video it seems to be standard versions of Su-25. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spooky lynx 73 Posted June 29, 2014 Moreover it is early version of Frogfoot - without chaff/flare launchers mounted at the top of engines. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Degman 73 Posted June 29, 2014 Iraq's (legal) government will possibly buy 30 mil. euros worth number of croatian assault rifles and handguns. To be more precisious: VHS rifles and HS pistols. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tonci87 163 Posted June 29, 2014 Can you give me a source for that, I´d like to read it myself? Croatian stuff is very appreciated in the middle east because of its durability and reliability. The VHS is no exeption to that, an excellent gun. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Degman 73 Posted June 29, 2014 Source: http://www.jutarnji.hr/otkrivamo-iracani-kupuju-hrvatsko-oruzje-vrijedno-30-milijuna-eura-za-rat-protiv-dzihadista-/1202431/ Btw on their place I would buy newest VHS-2 rifle, as it is great and somehow like a perfect weapon. I just dont know about its price. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tonci87 163 Posted June 30, 2014 (edited) I think the VHS 2 might be much more expensive since it is the newest. But the VHS 1 is also damn near perfect. BTW here is a presentation of the VHS 2 Edited June 30, 2014 by Tonci87 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
justcametomind 10 Posted July 1, 2014 :D Tnks for link! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mistyronin 1181 Posted July 1, 2014 ( Al Jazeera ) US to deploy more troops to Iraq Two hundred more troops and detachment of helicopters and drones being sent to protect Americans and the US embassy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mistyronin 1181 Posted July 8, 2014 ( Vice News ) Someone Is Launching Airstrikes on Iraq, But No One Knows Who Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xalteva 10 Posted July 8, 2014 ( Vice News ) Someone Is Launching Airstrikes on Iraq, But No One Knows Who This is a joke :D ,the same who created ISIS maybe ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
