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I completely agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by NP99
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-2...rofile/5542910
A good read on history lead up to ww1
This has always been a tough one to answer. What happened to conscientious objectors during WW1?
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/...ng-ww1/5553002
G'day fellow warriors,
I do not care if you have operational or non-operational service! What I do care about passionately, is those men and women that volunteered there time for there service of their country to protect our Australian civilian population from this kind of tyranny.
Regards,
PMC
The new dark ages: The chilling medieval society Isis extremists seek to impose in Iraq! LIMBS cut off for minor offences, opponents made to dig their own graves, singing and music strictly forbidden - a chilling vision of the medieval society Isis extremists today seek to impose on Iraq.
By: Adrian Lee
Published: Friday, July 11, 2014
Isis jihadists lead away Iraqi soldiers in plain clothes after capturing their base in Tikrit [AP] When the gunmen arrived in town one of their first tasks was to raid shops and confiscate every carton of cigarettes. The tobacco was loaded on to a truck and was soon burning on a giant pyre under the watchful eyes of the fanatics.
For residents in Raqqa near the border with Iraq in northern Syria this display of power was just a taste of life to come under Isis. Within days the radical Muslim group that is bulldozing through the region had decreed that women could not raise their voices in public or walk at a late hour without a male chaperone.
From elsewhere have come horrific stories of brutality including the alleged filming of mass executions. Now this group controls half of Iraq and is knocking on the door of the capital Baghdad.
When a force like that gets momentum and the security forces start to crumble it becomes difficult to stop Former US commander!
Led by a man who has been described as the new Osama Bin Laden, the aim of Isis is a new Muslim state straddling Syria and Iraq, which is to be run under ultrastrict sharia law.
For anyone stepping out of line the punishments are harsh. Isis believes in crucifixion and the amputation of limbs for criminal acts. It's claimed that to set an example the heads of their dead enemies are boiled in oil.
It is a return to the Dark Ages last witnessed when the Taliban joylessly governed Afghanistan. As the West dithers, apparently taken by surprise by the speed of the invasion, the Iraqi government has likened the rule of Isis in vast swathes of the country to the Nazi occupation of Europe and pleaded for help.
And our Prime Minister David Cameron is warning that we should not dismiss Isis as a foreign problem because the terror group is planning attacks in Britain. The ranks of Isis are being swollen by impressionable young men from overseas including Britons who are attracted by its religious ambition. This week one of the Britons, calling himself Abu Rashash Britani, sent messages from the front line calling for Cameron to be beheaded. He also urged his "Muslim brothers" in the UK to take to the streets.
Isis believes Muslim women should be fully covered up in public. It's only recently that Isis, which stands for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, has sprung to prominence. The organisation was founded in April 2013, when it grew out of Al Qaeda in Iraq. It's run by charismatic former Al Qaeda commander Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi who commands an estimated 10,000 fighters.
Baghdadi, who uses a series of other aliases, earned a doctorate from the University of Baghdad and is said to be an avid reader of poetry. He became radicalised and was held prisoner by US forces from 2005 to 2009. According to US sources when he was released from Camp Bucca in Iraq he remarked: "I'll see you guys in New York."He has earned a reputation as an astute leader who has exploited unrest between rival Muslim groups and positioned Isis as an even more radical alternative to Al Qaeda. Listed as a terrorist by the United Nations in 2011 he has a £6million bounty on his head.
Baghdadi keeps a low profile and when addressing his men is said to wear a mask to obscure his identity resulting in the nicknames "the invisible sheikh" and "the ghost". A Sunni Muslim, he has extreme views about how people should live and when a town is "liberated" by Isis forces sharia law is immediately declared.
Women are encouraged to stay indoors most of the time, supposedly for the stability of the home, but when venturing out must wear full Islamic dress including a veil and gloves.
Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi [AP ]Singing and dancing are banned along with alcohol, cigarettes and the popular hookah pipe. "Songs and music are forbidden in Islam as they prevent one from the remembrance of god and the koran and are a temptation and corruption of the heart," according to a statement issued by Isis."Every smoker should be aware that with every cigarette he smokes in a state of trance and vanity he is disobeying god and you will be put to death for violating Islam"
Shop owners are forbidden from displaying images of people in their windows and ordered to close 10 minutes before prayer time. It's also considered a sin to build elaborate tombstones. Under Islamic law death is final and resting places should be unadorned.
When prayers begin every man should attend a mosque or risk the wrath of the Isis enforcers who describe themselves as soldiers of Islam. Any political opposition to Isis or the carrying of weapons by other groups is banned.
In the areas of Syria it controls Isis has set up courts, schools and other services, flying its black jihadi flag everywhere. In Raqqa it even started a consumer protection authority for food standards, shutting down some street vendors and market traders.Taxes are imposed on local businesses and more chillingly it has operated a policy of killing all government employees including rubbish collectors.
The organisation even publishes an annual report to boost fundraising in which it publishes details of its atrocities. The latest edition of al-Naba (The News) boasts of 1,000 assassinations, planting more than 4,000 roadside bombs and freeing hundreds of prisoners.
The march of Isis began in Syria but it was the capture of Mosul, Iraq's second city with a population of two million people, which sent shock waves through the region. Despite vastly outnumbering Isis the Iraqi army appears to have crumbled in the face of the onslaught, which began only on June 9 and the invaders are now targeting the capital.
Burning a mountain of cigarettes, which are outlawed for being a distraction from god [TWITTER]One former US commander said: "When a force like that gets momentum and the security forces start to crumble it becomes difficult to stop." Worryingly Isis appears to be well organised and awash with cash following the looting of banks in towns and cities seized along the way. The group reportedly took hundreds of millions of dollars from Mosul's branch of Iraq's central bank.
According to some financial experts Isis is already the richest terror organisation in the world with a £2.7billion fortune.
Isis is said to earn significant amounts from the oilfields it controls in eastern Syria, reportedly selling some of the supply back to the Syrian government. It is now locked in battles for Iraq's major oilfields. Isis, which has also captured Iraqi military equipment, a handful of helicopters and vehicles, is believed to have been selling looted antiquities from historical sites. Money also pours in from sympathisers in the Gulf.
An expert in Middle East terrorism, Dr Natasha Underhill of Nottingham Trent University, says: "Isis was an opportunist organisation in Syria that grew out of Al Qaeda. But what's most worrying is that they were considered too extreme by Al Qaeda. "Isis has a lust for power and has been able to go into Iraq because there is so much disenchantment with the government there. They are vastly outnumbered by the Iraqi security forces but are very well organised and ferocious fighters. Most of the Iraqi army is barely trained to fire a weapon.
"The main tactic of Isis is to make surprise attacks which inflict maximum casualties and spread fear before withdrawing."Propaganda videos show Isis forcing families with sons in the Iraqi army to dig their own graves before they are shot. The terrifying message is clear: enemies can expect no mercy. Dr Underhill adds: "Their interpretation of sharia law is very strict along with the punishments they impose."
A spokesman for the Iraqi government, which has called for help from the US, says: "We have a situation similar to Rwanda where there is going to be genocide. This is similar to the Nazi occupation of Europe."
However any US intervention could inflame the region and unwittingly help topple the regime that was left in place when troops were pulled out of Iraq three years ago.
Recent history has shown the risks of becoming embroiled in conflict in the Middle East but there is also a reluctance to leave Iraq to its fate at the cruel hands of Isis. From the evidence provided of their methods so far that is scarcely surprising.
PS, this is what is happening now, while we enjoy our life's in a democracy forged by our great Defence Force Members!
WARNING THE FOLLOWING IMAGES ARE GRAFIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.asgraphic.org/videos/video382/index.htm
All the other video's sent to me from my Special Forces colleague in the US Army were to horrific for public viewing. One of the video's sent to me featured the autopsy performed in front of women and children in the Iraqi city of Mosul. A ASIS scumbag who is a butcher by trade, displays the poor Iraqi soldier remains like a jigsaw puzzle on the ground for everyone to witness.! Farken animals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Regards,
PMC
G'evening Macca,
ISIS are nothing more than cowardly terrorist scumbags.
I trained to kill shite like this, and when I face my maker (God), I can honestly say that I have no regrets with the enemy lives that myself and my fellow soldiers took over my military careers were taken for a better humanity to protect everyone (especially the Australian public) from the murderous actions from the above video.
PS, Strike Swiftly!
Kind regards,
PMC
G'day Paul,
You know how I feel about all this, I haven't your experience nor have I served but I have ears and a will to learn.
I have seen similar vids. They would make people vomit and have nightmares. These animals are allowed to rule uncontrolled because they can. Never, ever give in to political correctness in our great country.....
I too, Paul, get all of the vids in relation to ISIS and have had to stop watching them as it just makes my blood boil. These clowns are a cancer that need to be surgically removed. What is worrying to hear is the targeting of recruits here and those that are getting trained to commit these terrorist acts! IMO this has become a global problem and I hope that action is taken soon to sort these mongrels out once and for all.
We cannot let the weak bastards who go over to fight for Isis, or in fact any Religion motivated military action back into our Country. Once people get the taste of forcing others to obey their wishes by using brutality, it will be the first and favourite action regressed to when anything doesn't go their way, or they believe they are not being treated as "special" as they think they deserve. Having served in most every major actions over the last 30 years, I appreciate more and more how awesome and free Australia really is. I have witnessed immigrants bring the same hatred and beliefs, most causing the situations they are running from, to our country and reigniting the same tensions here.
We need to keep this Country an Oasis from the decline of freedom happening in so many other places. I don't know how to do this, other then close our boarders? I like the idea of an 'Exam" you have to pass to enter, insuring an understanding of our culture and standards. I personally would like proof of a trade to make sure new Australians bring something to the table, not relying on handouts. I'm not sorry if this makes me a racist, I know some problems need to be addressed before they became permanent and unresolvable.
Thank you
G'day folks,
Your views and comments are all so true!
It is folks like us that act has guardians to our world, so we can live in a free and democratic society devoid of brutality and oppression, in hope that everyone can live their life's in peace!
PS, WAR to me is and acronym meaning = We Are Ready!
Kind regards,
PMC
G'day folks,
I awoke to this news this morning, this make my farken blood boil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a joke we must look in the eyes of both our allies and enemies! We really are a laughing stock.
Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf received disability support payments while in Syria battlefields!
Khaled Sharrouf, who fled Australia for Syria using his brother’s passport, continued to receive the disability support pension of $766 a fortnight at least until February, about two months after he left Australia bound for Syria, The Weekend Australian reports.
That means Australian taxpayers may have been inadvertently funding his activities.
Sharrouf served three years and nine months for his role in the Pendennis plot, a terrorist conspiracy in which 18 men were convicted over plans to attack targets in NSW and Victoria.
The terrorist left Australia from Sydney on December 6 and authorities learned of his fraud by *December 18 at the latest.
Normally a disability support pension can be cancelled if the recipient is overseas for six weeks.
But currently the law does not allow authorities to cancel the payments of Australians suspected of involvement in criminal or extremist behaviour.
Human Services Minister Marise Payne would not comment on the Sharrouf case because of privacy reasons but told The Weekend Australian: “(But) recent events have highlighted the need for further measures to ensure Australians engaged in terrorist activities are not receiving payments”.
PS, This is a classic case of Sun Tzu, The art of war, "use your enemies resources against themselves". This is exactly what happens when we allow anyone into Australia without conducting the proper screening. Unfortunately, we have a certain group of left wing folks who are going to destroy the very fabric of our society, by undermining the government and the majority of the Australian publics democratic vote.
Regards,
Paul
Yet my ol girl goes to Thailand for a two week holiday and they cut off her pension
Cnuts
G'day men/women,
Thank goodness the government has acted to list this shower of shite as a Terrorist group!
Regards,
PMC
Islamic State listed as terrorist organisation by Federal Government
July 12, 2014 12:32PM
Updated 6 minutes ago
Related Story: Australian preacher uses 'street cred' to enlist young jihadists. The Federal Government has outlawed the newly formed group, the Islamic State, and listed it as a terrorist organisation.
The move by Attorney-General George Brandis replaces the former listing of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS, and reflects an expansion of the organisation's operating area.
Senator Brandis says the Islamic State is the same organisation and one of the world's most deadly and active terrorist groups. Explained: What is the Islamic State?
International correspondent Mark Corcoran takes a look at the feared group currently waging an insurgency across Iraq and Syria.
Australians wanting to participate in the conflicts in Syria and Iraq, where the group has declared its desire to create an Islamic caliphate, are being warned they could face jail terms of up to 25 years.
The listing comes as Australian man Musa Cerantonio awaits deportation in the Philippines after his arrest yesterday. he 29-year-old is regarded one of the world's foremost online jihadist preachers.
Professor Greg Barton from Monash University's Global Terrorism Research Centre says laying charges against Mr Cerantonio would not be straightforward, despite his large online presence. "He's spoken almost like a spokesperson for ISIS and yet he's been careful to walk a fine line and not acknowledge any formal connection with ISIS," Professor Barton said. "Now, formal connection would automatically be a chargeable offence but I think even what he's been doing has probably taken him across that line sufficiently that charges will be laid."
WARNING THE FOLLOWING IMAGES ARE GRAFIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.asgraphic.org/videos/video382/index.htm
There are Vets still trying to get recognised for their service injuries.......just wait in line fellas, the criminals the greens cry for need to be cared for as a priority, not you!!!
Well said NP99!Quote:
Originally Posted by NP99
Regards,
Paul
I saw this and had to laugh... just thinking how angry I get when I hear about the cr@p going on overseas, as I get older.... Send me over! (and I'm only approaching 50!)
Drafting Guys Over 60
This is funny & obviously written by a Former Soldier...
New Direction for any war: Send Service Vets over 60!
I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I'm too old to track down terrorists. You can't be older than 42 to join the military. They've got the whole thing ass-backwards. Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join a military unit until you're at least 35.
For starters, researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.
Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. 'My back hurts! I can't sleep, I'm tired and hungry.' We are impatient and maybe letting us kill some asshole that desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for awhile.
An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get up before 10am. Old guys always get up early to pee, so what the hell. Besides, like I said, I'm tired and can't sleep and since I'm already up, I may as well be up killing some fanatical son-of-a-bitch.
If captured we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brainteaser.
Boot camp would be easier for old guys.. We're used to getting screamed and yelled at and we're used to soft food. We've also developed an appreciation for guns. We've been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the screaming and yelling.
They could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I've been in combat and never saw a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training.
Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too. I've never seen anyone outrun a bullet.
An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to shave, to start a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn't figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back of his head.
These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm's way.
Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten coward terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple million pissed off old farts with attitudes and automatic weapons, who know that their best years are already behind them.
HEY!! How about recruiting Women over 50...in menopause!!! You think MEN have attitudes??
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh my God!!! If nothing else, put them on border patrol. They'll have it secured the first night!
I'm 55 and can still open a can of whoop arse......on anyone under 10 :)
I agree though, leave the young bucks home to shag and drink :)
Not sure about the woop arse on 'under 10', my 30 YO son don't argue when i say move..Quote:
Originally Posted by NP99
As for the young ones fine that can stay at home and do the drinking and shaging but I still want a but of drink and that "extra"stuff even if I have hit the 60's .. Also I am sure I can shoot as well as the youngness with any weapon ..
Eldest son went to Astan, had big concepts as per the "system". we disagreed on most points. He came back and would not disuse the fine detail. What he said though confirmed I was right the system was wrong. Come the second deployment he had a different POV on how the ops should go. Funny it was as I had already said it should go years before. At least the "system" grew up a bit, but not enough.
I may be old but I still can read the enemy better than the new Int guys. Call it better contacts.
My boys could give me a run for my money, but I'm sure in the back of their mind, they must be asking, can I take the old man? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by outback
Some fond memories :)
http://youtu.be/pZcZbStU6ic
LOL! I still miss my SLR!
Yeah, I had a spare gas plug, I could never get it clean enough for inspections :)
G'day fellow ex-or current serving members,
Unfortunately, I have been suffering from PTSD this week after viewing a very brutal and graphic video of a young Iraqi soldier being skinned alive by the terrorist group ISIS.
I was sent to visit Professor Bryant the Director of the Traumatic Stress Clinic of Psychology at Prince of Wales hospital on Wednesday afternoon for over an hour. He was absolutely shocked with what I told him and when he read my military medical docs file and especially about the skinning alive of young Iraqi soldier.
Professor Bryant was extremely sympathetic and understood exactly why I was suffering nightmares from the screams of that young Iraqi soldier. He prescribe me ASAP with 150mg of Effexor antidepressant medication.
Professor Bryant was further horrified that I have slipped beneath the both the Army and DVA radar because of what I have seen and been through during my life.
I informed him that there is a lot of ex-soldiers and current serving soldiers that have suffered the same fate as myself and they to have not been treated as they believe that they were copping well with there PTSD caused by their tragic experiences. Poor ole Professor Bryant was even more dismayed when I conveyed this info to him.
I was advised by Professor Bryant that he wanted to start me ASAP on psychotherapy, I jokily informed him that he was wasting his time, as I am a farked out unit, however, I said if he wanted to, that he could try what ever he wanted, apart from gay sex. (These bloody Psych's fail to have a sense of humour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
After filling out various questionnaires, I start psychotherapy on Tuesday afternoon. Effectively, I walk from the hyperbaric medicine unit to the farking nut-house about 50 meters away.
PS, I will keep you all informed as to what is involved with this treatment as I am very sceptical about Psychiatrists.
Regards,
PMC
Good luck with it all mate
G’day fellow soldiers,
Over the last two weeks our great nation has lost two of its finest Warriors and my fellow Commando's have lost another two “Brothers in Arms”
SPECIAL Forces soldier Todd Chidgey.
Lance Corporal Chidgey, 29, was born in Gosford in NSW and joined the Australian Defence Force in 2006. He is the 41st Digger lost in Afghanistan. It was a measure of Lance Corporal Chidgey skill as a soldier that he made rare direct entry into the elite No 2 Commando Regiment from civilian life.
He was on his seventh tour of Afghanistan when he was found dead in the Australian headquarters at the main coalition base in the Afghan capital.
An official statement from the ADF said Lance Corporal Chidgey was a consummate professional who earned the respect of his *comrades through dedication and hard work.
The statement said his colleagues in the regiment described him as “a brilliant bloke to know and to work with, who was loyal to the core and would do anything for his mates”.
Defence Minister David Johnston said Lance Corporal Chidgey was a fantastic commando. “He was a great soldier and he is an enormous loss to the nation,” Senator Johnston said. “Every Australian soldier who has died in Afghanistan has made a difference in preventing that country from becoming a haven for international terrorists,” he said.
SPECIAL Forces soldier Sgt Gary Francis.
THE elite soldier killed during an Australian Defence Force training exercise in the New Zealand Alps yesterday had summited Mount Everest twice and was one of the world’s best mountain warfare experts.
Gary “Frankie” Francis, from the Sydney-based 2nd Commando Regiment, died during a training activity on Mount Cook. The 44-year-old former Royal Marine was leading a group of 10 commandos on a two-week Mountain and Cold Weather Operations (MACWO) exercise when he plunged 40 metres down a crevasse on the Grand Plateau.
PS, you will never be forgotten.
LEST WE FORGET!
Regards,
PMC
G'day fellow soldiers and Defence Force Personnel,
Unfortunately, the winds of the 'War of Terror are falling upon us once again!
Regards,
PMC
MH17: 'missile launcher' near Russian border
By PETER BAKER, MICHAEL R. GORDON and MARK MAZZETTIJULY 18, 2014
As emergency workers search for victims of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, Ukraine releases video it says shows a launcher, minus two missiles, heading towards the Russian border.
While officials are still investigating the chain of events leading to the destruction of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on Thursday, they pointed to a series of indicators of Russian involvement. Among other things, military and intelligence officials said there was mounting evidence that a Ukrainian military plane shot down three days earlier had been fired upon from inside Russian territory by the same sort of missile battery used to bring down the civilian jet.
WASHINGTON — The United States President Obama stated; Without going into detail about the intelligence I have been shown, Mr. Obama said that the separatists had been armed and trained “because of Russian support.” High-flying aircraft cannot be shot down without sophisticated equipment and training, he added, “and that is coming from Russia.”
He singled out President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, accusing him of waging a proxy war that led to the tragedy. “He has the most control over that situation,” Mr. Obama said, “and so far, at least, he has not exercised it.”
Iraq suicide bomber was Australian, say ISIS fanatics in sickening tribute to ‘Abu Bakr al Australian’
JULY 18, 2014
THE suicide bomber at the centre of one of Iraq’s most recent bloody tragedies was an Australian, according to the brutal fanatics wreaking havoc across the nation.
The man, who killed at least ten people by detonating his bomb belt near a Shia mosque, was named as Abu Bakr al Australi in a statement by fundamentalist Sunni Muslim group ISIS.
MUSLIMS MUST OBEY ME: Fiendish ISIS leader’s call to arms
The group said the man was an “emigrant” and also dubbed him a “brother” and a “knight” following the slaughter at a Baghdad market on Thursday.
It appears from the ISIS statement that the man from Sydney, Australia had converted to Islam and possibly adopted the name Abu Bakr al.
This is the first suicide mission by an Australian in Iraq.
The attack comes at a time of increased concern over the involvement of Australians in the horrific jiahd, or holy war, being waged across Iraq and Syria. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop today warned how such men are becoming “radicalised”.
The Australian newspaper has done a number of exposes on fanatics like convicted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf, who is among the Aussies believed to have carried out bloody, battlefield executions amid the carnage.
EXECUTIONER TAUNTS AUTHORITIES: How Khaled Sharrouf fled
ISIS — also known as the Islamic State, which sums up its goal of establishing a Muslim empire — has been surging through Iraq, driving back government forces and their Shia militia allies and mercilessly meting out executions and punishments.
It is also fighting in Syria — not just against President Bashar al Assad’s forces but also against more moderate rebels also battling the regime.
The Australian’s attack also wounded around 21 people. It was one of two bombings which killed at least 17 people in Iraq on Thursday.
The Sunni militant offensive that has overrun much of northern and western Iraq in the past five weeks has caused a spike in violence as fighting rages on new battlefronts across the country.
At the same time, smaller scale attacks — some of them targeting checkpoints, others hitting purely civilian areas — remain a facet of daily life.
The al Australian attack struck Baghdad’s Shorja Market, an open air emporium that is one of the most popular places for residents to buy foodstuffs, clothes and electronics. Over the past decade, it has been a frequent target for bombings.
DEATH HIDDEN ON A WOODEN CART
A police officer said a bomb hidden on a wooden cart exploded near a Shiite mosque in the market, killing at least ten people and wounding 21. A medical official in Baghdad confirmed the casualty figures.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility and a military spokesman said an initial investigation indicated the explosion was indeed a suicide attack and not a roadside bomb.
Shopkeepers in the market appeared to support that statement. They reported seeing a suspicious man trying to get into the mosque right before the explosion occurred. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
Baghdad has been on edge since the Sunni militant blitz led by the Islamic State extremist group seized the northern city of Mosul, vowing to push south to the capital.
The city has seen several small scale bombings in recent weeks, but it has so far been free of the large, coordinated attacks that plagued it in the run-up to April elections.
The second attack came in the town of Taji, some 20 kilometres north of the capital, where a suicide bomber rammed his car into a military checkpoint, killing four soldiers and three civilians, a police officer said. Thirteen people were wounded.
A medical official in a hospital in the northern Baghdad neighbourhood of Kazimiyah confirmed the casualty figures.
PS, folks you should be worried by the above new report!
Regards,
PMC
G'day fellow soldiers and Defence Force Personnel,
While the world is mourning the tragic shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on Thursday, ISIS started religious cleansing and is now the real threat to world peace.
Christians flee Mosul after ISIS ultimatum to convert or leave
AFP, Mosul
Friday, 18 July 2014
Christians were fleeing Iraq’s jihadist-held city of Mosul en masse Friday after mosques relayed an ultimatum giving them a few hours to leave or face death, the country’s Chaldean patriarch and witnesses said.
“Christian families are on their way to Dohuk and Arbil,” in the neighboring autonomous region of Kurdistan, Patriarch Louis Sako told AFP. “For the first time in the history of Iraq, Mosul is now empty of Christians.”
Witnesses said messages telling Christians to leave the city by Saturday or face execution were blared through loudspeakers from the city’s mosques Friday.
A statement dated from last week and purportedly issued by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihadist group that took over the city and large swathes of Iraq during a sweeping offensive last month warned Mosul’s Christians they should convert, pay a special tax, leave or face death.
“We were shocked by the distribution of a statement by the Islamic State calling on Christians to convert to Islam, or to pay unspecified tribute, or to leave their city and their homes taking only their clothes and no luggage, and that their homes would then belong to the Islamic State,” Sako said.
The patriarch, who is one of the most senior Christian clerics in Iraq, and residents contacted by AFP said Islamic State militants had in recent days been tagging Christian houses with the letter N for “Nassarah”, the term by which the Koran refers to Christians.
The statement, which was seen by AFP, said “there will be nothing for them but the sword” if Christians reject those conditions.
Last Update: Friday, 18 July 2014 KSA 21:34 - GMT 18:34
PS, these farkers need to be destroyed before we have a similar situation over the years to come in both Australia and Indonesia.
Regards,
PMC
Welcome to the ranks of certified crazy mate.... :)
G'day fellow soldiers and Defence Force Personnel,
The latest intell regarding the downing of flight MH17.
Regards,
PMC
BUSTED! Russia caught red-handed editing MH17 info
Saturday, 19 July 2014 17:03
THE Russian government has allegedly been busted editing a Wikipedia entry on the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 disaster to blame Ukraine.
A Twitter bot which monitors edits made on the site by Russian government IP addresses picked up the changes which were made on a page listing civil aviation accidents, the UK’s Telegraph reported.
The original entry stated that the plane was shot down “by terrorists of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic with Buk system missiles, which the terrorists received from the Russian Federation”.
It was changed to read: “the plane [flight MH17] was shot down by Ukrainian soldiers”.
The Twitter bot issued this alert:
It translates to: “Wikipedia article List of aircraft accidents in civil aviation has been edited by RTR [another name for VGTRK]”.
Intercepted phone calls
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has reportedly released recordings of intercepted phone calls between Russian military intelligence officers and members of terrorist groups that took place about 20 minutes after the crash.
One call was apparently made by Igor Bezler, who the SBU says is a Russian military intelligence officer and leading commander of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic.
Igor Bezler: “We have just shot down a plane. Group Minera. It fell down beyond Yenakievo (Donetsk Oblast).”
Vasili Geranin, a colonel in the main intelligence department Russian Federation armed forces then asks: “Pilots. Where are the pilots?”
Bezler replies: “Gone to search for and photograph the plane. Its smoking.”
A second call was between militants nicknamed “Major” and “Greek” about 40 minutes later.
“It’s 100 per cent a passenger (civilian) aircraft,” Major is recorded as admitting that he had seen no weapons on site. “Absolutely nothing. Civilian items, medicinal stuff, towels, toilet paper.”
Bizarre account
A top pro-Russia rebel commander in eastern Ukraine has given a bizarre version of events surrounding the Malaysian jetliner crash - suggesting many of the victims may have died days before the plane took off.
The pro-rebel website Russkaya Vesna quoted Igor Girkin as saying he was told by people at the crash site that “a significant number of the bodies weren’t fresh,” adding that he was told they were drained of blood and reeked of decomposition.
Nationalities of victims
Malaysia Airlines has released a new list of the nationalities of passengers who lost their lives on MH17. It lists 27 Australian lives lost — while the number according to Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is 28, including a dual-citizen.
• Netherlands: 189
• Malaysia: 44
• Australia: 27
• Indonesia: 12
• UK: 9
• Belgium: 4
• Germany: 4
• Philippines: 3
• Canada: 1
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The best coa for Russia would be to apologise and seek redemption.....not going to happen though!
G'day mate,Quote:
Originally Posted by NP99
That is the easiest way to defuse the situation, is that Russia get's the rebels to admit that they made a horrible mistake in that they mistook the passenger plane for a Ukraine military plane. The rebels apologise to the families and the world that this regrettable tragic accident occurred during the course of there War with Ukraine.
That is the simplest and honest way to approach this appalling situation, the world might not like it if they apologise, however, if it saves the world from entering into a potential world war. Then so be it.
Regards,
PMC
Yeah, at the moment leaders, esp,ours is just blowing hot air to appease the masses....
G'evening NP99,Quote:
Originally Posted by NP99
Both you and I are both ex-soldiers and I firmly believe if we in charge the world would be a better place for all humanity to live in, what ever the colour of skin and religious believes that people believe in.
When I was younger all I wanted to do was fight and be a warrior, now that I am older and hopefully wiser, all I want is peace and to be left alone, so that I can enjoy my remaining life with my family and friends!
PS, maybe I am just farked in the head for having those thoughts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kind regards,
PMC
I agree mate, age matures us.....if I was in charge we would have free bourbon and loose women, damn, that's when I was young!
G'evening folks,
I thought I would share some stories from Veterans that served in Iraq.
Kind regards,
PMC
Iraq Comes Home: Soldiers Share the Devastating Tales of War
Three veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan share the nightmare experiences that war has brought into their lives.
July 3, 2014 |
Editor's Note: This powerful article was missed by a lot of readers last week, so we're reposting it to get the attention it deserves.
Statistics are one way to tell the story of the approximately 1.4 million servicemen and women who've been to Iraq and Afghanistan. According to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2013, 86 percent of soldiers in Iraq reported knowing someone who was seriously injured or killed there. Some 77 percent reported shooting at the enemy; 75 percent reported seeing women or children in imminent peril and being unable to help. Fifty-one percent reported handling or uncovering human remains; 28 percent were responsible for the death of a noncombatant. One in five Iraq veterans return home seriously impaired by post-traumatic stress disorder.
Words are another way. Below are the stories of three veterans of this war, told in their voices, edited for flow and efficiency but otherwise unchanged. They bear out the statistics and suggest that even those who are not diagnosably impaired return burdened by experiences they can neither forget nor integrate into their postwar lives. They speak of the inadequacy of what the military calls reintegration counseling, of the immediacy of their worst memories, of their helplessness in battle, of the struggle to rejoin a society that seems unwilling or unable to comprehend the price of their service. Strangers to one another and to me, they nevertheless tried, sometimes through tears, to communicate what the intensity of an ambiguous war has done to them.
One veteran, Sue Randolph, put it this way: "People walk up to me and say, 'Thank you for your service.' And I know they mean well, but I want to ask, 'Do you know what you're thanking me for?'" She, Rocky, and Michael Goss offer their stories here in the hope that citizens will begin to know.
Michael Goss, 29, served three tours in Iraq. He grew up in Corpus Christi and returned there after his other-than-honorable discharge. He lives with his brother. He is divorced and sees his children every other weekend while working the graveyard shift as a bail bondsman. He is quietly intelligent, thoughtful and attentive, always saying "ma'am" and opening the door for people. He struggles with severe PTSD and is obsessed with learning about the insurgency by studying reports and videos online. He is awaiting treatment from the Veterans Administration. He has been waiting for over a year.
Michael Goss:
I gave the Army seven years. It was supposed to be my career. I did three tours in Iraq, in 2003, 2005 and 2009. But during the last one, I started to get depressed. I lost faith in my chain of command. I became known as a rogue NCO. That's how I got my other-than-honorable discharge.
One night they said to me, "Sgt. Goss, gather your best guys." I say, "Where we going?" They say, "Don't worry about it, just come on." So we get in the car and go. We drive three blocks away, and there's six dead soldiers on the ground. They say, "You're casualty collecting tonight." I'm not prepared for that. I wasn't taught how to do that. But you're there. So you pick them up, and you put them in a body bag, pieces by pieces, and you go back to your unit, and you stand inside your room. And they're like, "You're going on a patrol, come on." You're like, "Hang on a minute. Let me think about what I just did here." I just put six American guys in damn body bags. Nobody's prepared for that. Nobody's prepared for that thing to blow up on the side of the road. You're talking, and you're driving, and then something blows up, and the next thing you know, two of your guys are missing their faces. They just want you to get up the next day and go, go, let's do it again, you're a soldier. Yeah, I got the soldier part, OK?
It gets to the point where they numb you. They numb you to death. They numb you to anything. You come back, and it starts coming back to you slowly. Now you gotta figure out a way to deal with it. In Iraq you had a way to deal with it, because they kept pushing you back out there. Keep pushing you back out into the streets. Go, go, go. Hey, I just shot four people today. Yeah, and in about four hours you're going to go back out, and you'll probably shoot six more. So let's go. Just deal with it. We'll fix it when we get back. That's basically what they're telling you. We'll fix it all when we get back. We'll get your head right and everything when we get back to the States. I'm sorry, it's not like that. It's not supposed to be like that. All the soldiers have post-traumatic stress disorder, and they're like, "Hey, you're good. You went to counseling four times, you can go back to Iraq. It's OK." No. It doesn't work that way.
I have PTSD. I know when I got it -- the night I killed an 8-year-old girl. Her family was trying to cross a checkpoint. We'd just shot three guys who'd tried to run a checkpoint. And during that mess, they were just trying to get through to get away from it all. And we ended up shooting all them, too. It was a family of six. The only one that survived was a 13-month-old and her mother. And the worst part about it all was that where I shot my bullets, when I went to see what I'd shot at, there was an 8-year-old girl there. I tried my best to bring her back to life, but there was no use. But that's what triggered my depression.
When I got out of the Army, I had 10 days to get off base. There was no reintegration counseling. As soon as I got back, nobody gave a fuck about anything except that piece of paper that said I got everything out of my room. I got out of the Army, and everything went to shit from there.
My wife ended up finding another guy. I'm getting divorced, and I'm fighting for custody. She wants child support, the house, the car, the boys.
I get three nights off a week. And I drink and take pills to help me sleep at night. I do what I can to help myself. I talk to friends. Soldiers who were there. Once in a while one of my old soldiers will call me, drunk off his ass, crying about the stuff he saw in Iraq. And all I can do is tell him, "You and me both are going to have to find a way to work this out." That's the only thing I can tell him.
I do martial arts, that's what I do. I go in a cage and I fight. It helps take my mind off of things. I get hurt, but I can't feel it. I don't feel it until after it's all over with, I want to get hurt as pay back for killing that poor innocent 8 year old child.
So let's put this in perspective now. I got three Iraq tours, multiple kills, I picked up plenty of dead bodies, American bodies, enemy bodies. I killed an 8-year-old girl, which still haunts me to this day. I come back home. My wife finds somebody else. I'm sleeping on my brother's couch while she has the apartment, the kids, the car, everything that we worked on together. I work as a bail bondsman making $432 a week, which all goes to my brother. I have to fight just to see my boys because she's at the point where she thinks I don't deserve to see my kids because I haven't had help for my PTSD. She's scared I might do something stupid. And the VA won't help me out because of my other-than-honorable discharge. What else do you want to know?
Every month the VA sends me a letter saying I'm still under review. I'm like, I couldn't care less about the money. I don't care about disability percentage. I want you to tell me to go to this fucking doctor here and go get help. That's what I want them to tell me. If they think I don't deserve money because I got kicked out with other-than-honorable discharge, fine. But don't tell me I'm cured all of a sudden, because I'm not. I still have my nightmares, anxiety attacks, panic attacks, I still see the glitter from the IED blowing up when I'm going down the street. I still see the barrette in her hair when I carried her out of the car to the ambulance when she was bleeding all over me. I still see all that. And there's nothing that I can do about that now.
Rocky, 26, prefers to remain anonymous. He joined the Army shortly before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and went to Iraq in 2004 for one year and a day. A Houston native, he lives alone now in a Dallas apartment, goes to community college and works in construction. He's funny, playful and handsome, and carries a pool cue in his trunk to be ready for a game at any time. He doesn't tell people he's a veteran. He doesn't like to talk about it. This story is an exception.
Rocky:
I was one of those kids that could have been handed anything on a silver platter. But I really worked hard for everything anyway, because I wanted to prove myself. And my parents, who would have given me anything, ruled with an iron fist. And I was patriotic. So it seemed like everything in my life pointed to the Army as the way to go.
I was 20. I'm sure I was different then. I don't know how. I know how I am now. I assume that the character traits that I show now are the core set of values that I left with. My sense of pride, hard work. Everything I have, I made out of nothing.
You get to see what people are made of over there. You get to see how shallow people are, how weak they are. How strong they can be in horrible moments. And then how the people you should be looking up to are hiding, and you have to look out for them. You get to really see what a person is made of.
And over there, I learned to read people. I know what they're going to do before they do it. After seeing the same movements before you get shot at or bombed, the same symptoms of the city and the people around you -- it's a fluid movement. Doors close, people disappear, and all of a sudden you're like, OK guys, hunker down, it's about to hit us. And all of a sudden, you're under fire.
People would pop shots at us and pop back. They'd have a setup where they have a bomb in the road, and everybody sits by the windows when they set off an IED. When we're looking at what's going on, everybody's laughing and pointing and smiling after your buddy's sitting there bleeding. So I held them all responsible. Everybody that was in the guilty range.
If there was gunfire coming from a window, I shot into that window and made sure nothing was coming back out at me. One time, there was an RPG shooter shooting at me. He hit a Bradley in front of us, and we were in a Humvee. He hit the Bradley in front of us, and the round didn't go off. It got stuck in the mud. So the Bradley rolled back, and we rolled back. And I had to shoot the position-caller before I could shoot the actual shooter. He didn't have a gun, but I knew what he was doing. He was the one calling out what's going on. He was on the phone. So I sent a shot up 20 feet above him and below him and to the side of him. And he just stood there. On his phone, talking the whole time. Innocent people run. The bad guys stay and fight. If they're not running, they're going to be calling. That's the way I see it. So I shot him. If you freaked out and stood still, I'm sorry. I cannot take this chance again. You have to start making these moral decisions. Better to be judged by 12 than carried by six. You're caught in the fucking middle of it.
After that, now I think, well, now I'm damned. Now I've done the worst thing. There's not much more worse you can do than shoot an unarmed person. It's not just, man, now I got to fucking deal with this. It's like, man, I hope nobody saw that, because I'll go to jail, too. You feel so horrible. You kind of die inside. There's really nothing beneath me now. I'm at the bottom of the barrel. You're worried about salvation and people finding out these dirty little secrets. It's not something that you wanted to do. It might be something that you had to do, that you accidentally did. Things happen. And then there's the whole fear of going to jail for trying to do what's right for your country -- it's bad. Sometimes you think people are shooting at you, and you'd rather just chance it because you're hoping they don't have an armor-piercing round.
But I'm not going to bow down. I know what I'm made of -- do you? Most people have no idea what matters. When I'm standing at the gates and I see St. Peter, I'll say, lemme in. I try to do right now. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. I go to school, maybe I'll earn a midlevel job. Just fly under the radar. I don't want any attention. I just want to be away from people. Not many people call me still. I keep it real dim in my apartment. I like it calm and quiet. This is what life's made of. Being able to relax and be safe. Watch a movie, play some video games. Just to sit back and have fun with your friends. That's beautiful. Civilian's do not understand war and what we soldiers have been through, they live in fantasy world of BS.
Sue Randolph, 39, grew up in Saudi Arabia and earned her master's degree in Arabic at the University of Michigan. After her service in 2003, she moved to Houston with her husband, a geologist. She now works in satellite communications and raises her 3-year-old daughter, a self-identified "princess," and a 2-month-old kitten named Sparkles. Randolph's family goes kayaking and hiking on weekends. She is clever, quick-witted, passionate and kind. She still struggles with anxiety while driving and when she's near crowds. She finds news about the war upsetting and frustratingly inaccurate.
Sue Randolph:
I joined the Army because I had $65,000 in student loans and didn't know how I was going to make payments. Since I had a master's in political science -- Middle East studies and Arabic -- I ended up doing translation as part of the search for weapons of mass destruction. For a year, my team drove around behind the 3rd Infantry getting shot at, getting mortared, looking at warehouses of documents, chemicals, and parts of things that could be WMDs. I mean, you name it, we did it. We talked to people. We went into people's houses.
The technological level of the things I saw wasn't anywhere near anything [former Secretary of State] Colin Powell talked about. The buildings we went into, wiring was on the outside of the walls. I didn't see anything like the equipment you'd see in a fifth-grade science lab. The most technically advanced thing we saw was a 12-volt car battery hooked up to bedsprings for torture. But not anything on the chemical or biological level.
Iraq looks like it's straight out of the Bible. It's mud brick, it's falling down. It's kids with sticks herding goats. There's like three high-rises in all of Baghdad, and those are the only ones you'll ever see on any newscast. The rest of it is mud brick falling down.
At the time, I would see little girls on the side of the road, and I felt like I was part of a big machine that was going to help them have a better life. At the time. Now, looking at all of the lack of evidence for us being there except GW throwing a temper tantrum, frankly I feel -- not used, because I signed up for it -- but I feel like we were there for no good reason. Eventually Saddam would have been overthrown, either by his own people or through Iran or someone else, and change would have come. It wouldn't have been on our timetable, but it would have happened. I don't think it was worthwhile at all.
When I went back to my base in Germany, it was like a bad dream. It was like nothing happened. Then I got out of the Army and came back to the States. Once you leave the Army, there's no reintegration help of any kind. Unless you went looking for it, there was nothing. And even if you went looking for it, you had to dig.
The military says that they're giving exit counseling and reintegration. What they're calling reentry counseling, in my experience, was, "Don't drink and drive. Pay your bills on time. Don't beat your spouse. Don't kick your dog." All of these things that once you've reached a certain age, you're supposed to know. None of it is, "If you have discomfort with dealing with crowds, if you don't feel comfortable with your spouse, if you can't sleep in a bed, if you don't want to drive down the road because you think everything is a bomb, here's what to do." No psychological or de-stress counseling is involved in this reintegration to garrison. And that's just if you're staying in the Army. If you're leaving the Army, you get, "Here's how to write a resume."
They don't prepare you to leave. Hell, they didn't prepare me to be there. I was going into people's houses trying to tell the wife and kids as we're segregating them out from the men that we're the good guys. But they're crying because one of their kids got killed because he was up there sleeping on the roof when we decided to bust into their house. I mean that's crazy. But we're the good guys. Now I have to deal with that for the next 20 or 30 years. I have a 9-year-old. I deal with that every day.
I think we are going to end up like after Vietnam if we're not careful. The Vietnam guys were treated really horribly, and whether they came back and quietly went back to their lives or not, they were all stereotyped in a criminal negative. And I'm afraid if we as a society don't learn what we didn't do for those guys, we're going to have that in spades. We don't have low-end kind of industry jobs for them like working in the auto plant, so they're not going to be supporting their families. And they're going to be angry. They're going to feel like they're owed. Do we get everybody counseling as soon as they get out, mandatory 90-day counseling? I don't know how. But there isn't enough money in this country right now to make some of these guys feel like what they went through was worthwhile.
We have no comprehension of the psychological cost of this war. I know kids in Iraq who killed themselves. I know kids that got killed. OK, that's apparently the price of doing business. But multiply me by 2 million. If I'm fairly high-functioning, what about the ones that aren't? They're going back to small-town America, and their families aren't going to know what to do with them. It's like, what do we do with Johnny now?
No person should ever judge a soldier killing women, children or the unarmed in combat. Never judge unless you have been fired at by the filth called the enemy. The above stories....men you did the right thing, I would stand next to you and fight the fight.
Well said my fellow Warrior!Quote:
Originally Posted by NP99
Kind regards,
Paul
G'day folks,
The following story is so true, unfortunately, a percentage of civilians fail to understand and live in fantasy worlds of grandeur and ignorance and typically, we soldiers end up having to take up the fight to save there farken hides!
Regards,
PMC
ISIS is the real threat to world peace
BY NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI AND JEFFREY HELLER
IRAQ/SYRIA Sat Jul 19, 2014 7:28am EDT
The situation in Gaza and Israel is grim, but there's another situation that is pure evil and should have our attention.
ISIS has taken over large chunks of Syria and Iraq and are now holding weapons, armor, and vehicles provided by the United States Army. They have declared all that follow them to be safe, everyone else, Muslim or not is in their cross hairs. So much was made about a raid by Israeli forces at the Al Aqsa Mosque, but I noticed something very interesting, the Israeli forces weren't trying to blow up the Mosque. A fight breaks out between armed forces and rock throwing protesters at a Mosque and it's got our attention, but where's the outcry and the fury over a group that has actually blown up places of worship?
ISIS has killed tens of thousands of people in Iraq and Syria. Thousands. Sadly those lives lost don't get our attention and especially in the Western world because we're all busy watching Israel V Hamas round 4 take place. ISIS is a threat to every Iraqi and Syrian, but also the rest of the world. Every Muslim and Non-Muslim alike are targets for ISIS and their followers. With control of so much land, oil, and weapons it's only a matter of time that ISIS goes global with their battle plan.
Already ISIS has proclaimed that they and their leader are the leaders of all the Muslims in the world. That bold claim, while widely brushed aside, is a serious one. An armed militant group that is hell-bent on domination is feeling so confident that they have lay claim on every Muslim life and land in the world. Today it's in Syria and Iraq, tomorrow they'll be sending fighters the world over to take what they think its theirs.
There should be mass protests and media coverage of ISIS al over the world and it's merciless conquering of Iraq and Syria, but there isn't.
ISIS has killed over 25,000 people. 15,000 including women and children while 1.2 Million people have been driven from their homes. Let's compare that with the more "popular" war Israel Vs Hamas. In Gaza close to 350 people have been killed.
The entire world's media is focused on Israel,Gaza and global warming, all the social media and citizen action fronts are mobilizing to stop the bloodshed, and rightly so. The question remains , why have we been so silent while 25,000 people have perished in Iraq alone? We haven't even looked at the death toll from Syria. Israel and Hamas both have their axe to grind with each other and Israel will agree to a truce again soon enough, and Hamas eventually will given in too. That war has an end that we call can see. There is a clear list of demands on both sides to end the violence too, however with the ISIS there isn't. They're not asking for the lifting of a blockade or the end to rocket strikes, they're looking to dominate the people and eliminate all that stand opposed to them.
ISIS is the biggest threat the Middle East and the rest of the world has today. They have systematically terrorized civilians with mass murders, sexual violence, kidnappings, and even destruction of places of worship. They aren't sending any warnings, they aren't giving an avenue for a way out, it's either surrender to their will or be killed.
As a Muslim I must speak up against the ISIS. They do not represent me or my family and they surely do not represent Islam. They're drugged up militants getting high on murder, rape, and violence and must be stopped. As an American I am ashamed and deeply distraught over the fact that our weapons, our vehicles, our military equipment is being used to carry out their attacks. It's humiliating enough that we were all duped into Iraq in the first place , now the very equipment used to invade Iraq and then arm its military is in the hands of Terrorists
Speaking up against ISIS means there will be a target on your head. You won't just got bombarded with hate emails and comments but they'll threaten your entire family. It's not easy to speak up against a group that scary with no moral code. If we don't speak up and stand up to them now, those in Iraq and Syria are going to be destroyed and soon their sights will turn to the rest of us while we live in a blinded reality.
The ISIS Map for what they plan to conquer after Iraq and Syria. As unlikely as it may seem to take over so many countries, they have already managed to take two. They don't need to take control for their presence to be felt, their terrorists tactics alone will change the way we live unless we stop them now. Indonesia will be next on their agenda as they have the worlds largest Muslim population.
The problem has always been that those that make the decisions have never had to serve on the front lines and so will always ever only make decisions based on popularity rather than respect and duty.
There's a storm coming and we're lead by people unprepared and incapable of dealing with it.
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I was always sceptical of the ‘Psych after action’ we received in the Australian Military, but after reading of the way the Yanks are treated, I am a lot happier of the way we were treated. Access to help – Mates for Mates, Soldier on ect, after you leave, and DVA and medical while you still serving sounds way, way better then the ‘ignore the problem and it will go away’ treatment those in the preceding stories are subject to.
Once again, I love being an Australian