Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Ambassador Francisco Madeira, visits troops from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in hospital on December 7, 2016. AMISOM Photo

patches689:


You have proven nothing, you are trying to start fights for no good reason

I said: They cannot be used in
A. Anatolia (Southern)
B. against the Kurds

The deployment of Leo2's is neither in Southern Anatolia or against Kurds. So what have you proven?

All you have proven is that you don't know where Al-bab is! Further you have shown you don't know who occupies al-bab!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POmzNkVfcg4

What exactly is your problem? Why are you obsessed with me?

Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Ambassador Francisco Madeira, visits troops from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in hospital on December 7, 2016. AMISOM Photo

africaken254:
when i said Turkish leopard were in Syria,why did you bother to comment !?

africaken254:
off topic :@henry remind me again about the bullsh#T @ patches689 said,why turkey wasn't allowed by the Germans to deploy its Leopard 2A4 tanks into syria

patches689:


because you:

A. mentioned my name
B. Insulted me
C. Lied about what I said

africaken254:
oh ,because of your racial superiority ,you have the right to call others idiots as you like !

sudan

patches689:


An idiot is an idiot regardless of the amount of melanin in his skin.

I find it strange that you choose to argue over what I said. Why?

TrueHeart365:


most of northern syria is inhabited by pkk and ypg. and that's where the leopards are currently deployed.

the problem is how you continue to defend false information despite evidence that proves you wrong

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Egypt's official MENA news agency said an assailant lobbed a bomb into a chapel on Sunday close to the outer wall of St Mark's Cathedral, seat of Egypt's Orthodox Christian church and home to the office of its spiritual leader, Pope Tawadros II.

Suicide bomb kills at least 29 at Somalia's main port: police

A suicide truck bomb hit the entrance of Somalia's biggest port on Sunday, killing at least 29 people, police said, an attack claimed by Islamist al Shabaab militants.

The fighters said they were trying to disrupt protracted parliamentary elections - part of efforts to rebuild the fractured nation after decades of war. The three-month vote is due to end on Dec. 29.

Gunfire rang out after the blast at Mogadishu Port, Mohamed Hussein, a worker there, told Reuters. Two others said work had been halted and staff sent home.

The bodies of victims lay strewn outside the capital's terminal in a street filled with rubble from damaged tea shops.

"At least 29 civilians died and 50 others have been injured in the blast. We believe it was a suicide truck bomb," police officer Colonel Abdikadir Farah told Reuters.

Al Shabaab's military operation spokesman, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, told Reuters the blast was aimed at police officers stationed close to the port.

"We killed 30 security forces and injured 50. We targeted them because they had been trained to provide security at so-called elections,' he said.

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africaken254:
this is the kind of fellow, who will never admit to infidelity even when found on top

TrueHeart365:


most of northern syria is inhabited by pkk and ypg. and that's where the leopards are currently deployed.

the problem is how you continue to defend false information despite evidence that proves you wrong

africaken254:
this is the kind of fellow, who will never admit to infidelity even when found on top

frumentius:


Maybe I'm doing the search thing all wrong; can someone dig up the post where Patches said Turkey's Leo2 can't be deployed in Syria?
I can only find the one where he mentions Anatolia, a region of Turkey.
Thanks muchly.

patches689:


Again, you dont seem to know the current situation.

Operation Euphrates Sheild is advancing on two axis's

1. Al-Bab (Isis territory)
2. Manbij (Kurd territory)

The leo 2's were spotted advancing on Al-bab against ISIS, not Manbij against the Kurds.

This means that the Turks have not broken their contractual agreements with the Germans.

Turkey fires on U.S.-backed Kurdish militia in Syria offensive

Turkish troops fired on U.S.-backed Kurdish militia fighters in northern Syria on Thursday, highlighting the complications of an incursion meant to secure the border region against both Islamic State and Kurdish advances.

Syrian rebels backed by Turkish special forces, tanks and warplanes entered Jarablus, one of Islamic State's last strongholds on the Turkish-Syrian border, on Wednesday.

But President Tayyip Erdogan and senior government officials have made clear the aim of "Operation Euphrates Shield" is as much about stopping the Kurdish YPG militia seizing territory and filling the void left by Islamic State as it is about eliminating the ultra-hardline Islamist group itself.

A Turkish security source said the army shelled the People's Protection Units (YPG) south of Jarablus. Turkey's state-run Anadolu agency described the action as warning shots.

Gunfire and explosions echoed around hills in the region on Thursday, a day after the incursion first began.

Some of the blasts were triggered as Turkish security forces cleared mines and booby traps left by retreating Islamic State militants, according to Nuh Kocaaslan, the mayor of Karkamis, which sits just across the border from Jarablus. He said three Turkish-backed Syrian rebels were killed but no Turkish troops.

Turkey, which has NATO's second biggest armed forces, demanded that the YPG retreat to the east side of the Euphrates river within a week. The Kurdish militia had moved west of the river earlier this month as part of a U.S.-backed operation, now completed, to capture the city of Manbij from Islamic State.

frumentius:
The weekly meltdown hath commenced.

africaken254:
i clearly stated we are now going to see Turk leopard performance in syria and then you gave your response,so don't try to twist the narrative. don't even try to insinuate that turk army army isn't attacking the YPG .Where is this imaginary concocted agreement ,you so claim to know about .where is the link to the agreement!?



read more http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-turkey-idUSKCN10Z07J

kikuyu1:


Yes and imo theres a very simple reason. People can't comprehend or accept the fact that a difference of opinion is just that-a difference of opinion.
Instead such simple issues morph into full blown internet intifadas.....SIGHHHH! Sometimes I think the subject matter makes people more emotional than warranted.

patches689:


tell me about it.

I say "hey guys, guess what...."

In response I get hit with a barrage of poo thrown at high velocity from two of our "eternally offended" residents.

Discussions are fun.

Poo flinging is boring.

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Uganda people defense forces

tdayof:
Henry just dey observe Wetin dey happen.