Park Life

You can still smoke in most bars in Hamburg and Berlin...It's frightening what's happening in England. 30,000 pubs have shut down since the smoking ban...They estimate about 100,000 jobs gone.

Smoking should be banned in outside areas including all London's parks and famous landmarks like Trafalgar and Parliament Square, former Health Minister Lord Darzi has proposed. It would mean 40 per cent of London – 20,000 acres – would be smoke-free, more than any other city in the world. The plan is backed by Dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer, and is expected to be taken up by Boris Johnson, London Mayor." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/11161450/Ban-smoking-in-London-parks-Lord-Darzi.html Ridiculous.

Cause we were fighting everybody in a country where everyone has a gun and knows the terrain - mountains (which is ideal for guerilla warfare), not 2,000 odd battle hardened jihadis camped out mainly on the plains. Morale amongst the Afghan mountain fighters is some of the highest in the world along with the ability to chose when to fight and when to hide...Jihadi morale is mainly held together by money and not religion as the media would have one believe...They're all making loads of dollars every day they fight. That's why when the going got tough in Syria they got the fuck out and moved into Iraq....

Military doctrine suggests that irregular forces like ISIS are a general ratio of 25/1 with regard to accomplished soldiers and volunteer die hards/ fanatics with little battle training. Looking at the make up of IS I'd say its main fighting capability are Chechen, ex-Afghanistan and Bosnians and various Arab mainly Sunni groupings. A mix of special forces ie SAS, GSG, Delta Force...Marines and so on..would have the role of harassing at night and picking off the leaders and best fighters..This is devastatingly demoralising for an irregular and disorganised army who are planning on the hoof. The Special forces also act as accurate spotters for air supports taking out smaller pods of fighters where they rest/hide. IS having to fight night and day would soon think about getting the fuck out...Especially while losing its leadership on a nightly basis.

ISIS was/is a complete quasi - Western invention as a back door to to have another crack at the destabilisation of Syria (it can be argued that's gone way off course). It's why they were left alone for months with money coming in from the usual American stooges (Saudi/Bahrain/Turkey)...to carry out their hit and run and flag raising/beheading hi jinx. Militarily they'd honestly have a hard time taking 'The Shed'. They haven't come up against any proper opposition so far (the Peshmurgha) being the closet to putting up a proper fight. Most of the the others just dropped their expensive guns and ran... I'd send the SAS out there on a jolly, would clean this shit up in a month.

Behave.

Exactly. What in the name of Angelina Jolie is he doing mixed up in football?

Who is this Scudamore anyway?

Front page of The Times.

Crabola.

Have you turned him yet?

Good article that. Cheers. Kurds are pretty good fighters with staying power...Properly backed they would piss all over Isis.

You get trapped in cupboards for hours.

They done a scientific test on what?

Think Fish has them... fish@iain;tgotshit.co.guy

More politically motivated than the Waffen SS.

Yeah they fell asleep at the back.

Just more cash and carry terrorism hyped up as M&S ready meal.

This post is so factually incorrect and so totally moribund of sense it deserves a place in the Tate Modern.

Second highest suicide rate after farmers.

Yup, something around that.

“We have to ask why the majority of the leaders of the Islamic State (IS), formerly the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), had all been incarcerated in the same prison at Camp Bucca, which was run by the US occupation forces near Omm Qasr in southeastern Iraq….. First of all, most IS leaders had passed through the former U.S. detention facility at Camp Bucca in Iraq. So who were the most prominent of these detainees? The leader of IS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, tops the list. He was detained from 2004 until mid-2006. After he was released, he formed the Army of Sunnis, which later merged with the so-called Mujahideen Shura Council… Another prominent IS leader today is Abu Ayman al-Iraqi, who was a former officer in the Iraqi army under Saddam Hussein. This man also “graduated” from Camp Bucca, and currently serves as a member on IS’ military council. Another member of the military council who was in Bucca is Adnan Ismail Najm. … He was detained on January 2005 in Bucca, and was also a former officer in Saddam’s army. He was the head of a shura council in IS, before he was killed by the Iraqi army near Mosul on June 4, 2014. http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/06/americas-terrorist-academy-in-iraq-produced-isis-leaders/ Camp Bucca was also home to Haji Samir, aka Haji Bakr, whose real name is Samir Abed Hamad al-Obeidi al-Dulaimi. He was a colonel in the army of the former Iraqi regime. He was detained in Bucca, and after his release, he joined al-Qaeda. He was the top man in ISIS in Syria… According to the testimonies of US officers who worked in the prison, the administration of Camp Bucca had taken measures including the segregation of prisoners on the basis of their ideology. This, according to experts, made it possible to recruit people directly and indirectly. Former detainees had said in documented television interviews that Bucca…was akin to an “al-Qaeda school,” where senior extremist gave lessons on explosives and suicide attacks to younger prisoners. A former prisoner named Adel Jassem Mohammed said that one of the extremists remained in the prison for two weeks only, but even so was able to recruit 25 out of 34 inmates who were there. Mohammed also said that U.S. military officials did nothing to stop the extremists from mentoring the other detainees… No doubt, we will one day discover that many more leaders in the group had been detained in Bucca as well, which seems to have been more of a “terrorist academy” than a prison.” (“The mysterious link between the US military prison Camp Bucca and ISIS leaders“, Alakhbar English) http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/12/how-the-west-created-the-islamic-state/

Nothing a couple of dabs won't fix.

I need to go there.