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Palmyra falls to the "Jayvee" ISIS

Posted: May 20, 2015

Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have taken full control of Syria's ancient town of Palmyra, according to activists and a monitoring group.

The Syrian army has collapsed and ISIL has taken over the city of Palmyra, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

The monitor reported earlier on Wednesday that ISIL had advanced into the ancient city of Palmyra.

Deadly clashes had raged overnight between the Syrian government and ISIL, with troops firing rockets from outside the city in an attempt to block ISIL's offensive.

ISIL launched an attack on Palmyra last week, causing material damage to residential areas while clashes left many dead and injured.

They managed to capture two gas fields, leaving hundreds dead.

Abo Muaz, an activist in Palmyra, confirmed to Al Jazeera that ISIL had taken the entire city.

"The Syrian army has retreated, ISIL are infested in almost all of the city. The army began its retreat almost two hours ago," he said.

"We do not hear any clashes taking place either.

"A large number families are currently fleeing from several parts of Palmyra. Clashes have been taking place and regime warplanes have not stopped bombing the city."

Palmyra is an ancient city which dates back to the 1st and 2nd century.

Located in central Homs province, it lies 210km northeast of Damascus in desert that stretches to the Iraqi frontier to the east.

The city contains architecture of one of the most cultural centres and world heritage. The 2,000-year-old world heritage site is also known as the The Pearl of the Desert.

Hundreds of statues and ancient artefacts from Palmyra's museum have already been transferred out of the city, according to Mamoun Abdulkarim, the Syrian antiquities director.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/05/isil-takes-full-control-syria-palmyra-reports-150520184842272.html

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Don't hold your breath waiting of Obama - He doesn't care what happens

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Obama is such a narcissist, he doesn't give a damn. Now, if it interfered with Obama's golf, he'd be all over this like flies on honey.

Get your grandkids and have them sign - up --- mine aren't going

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What the hell are talking about? Sign up what - Another case of reading what is not there

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nm

Sorry, didn't know you just wanted to - insult Obama

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thought you were talking about what everyone else who is insulting Obama is talking about---the need to invade Iraq, again.

That will be a tar baby that we will never leave. I, for one, will not have my children die for that cause.

but, go ahead, worry about golf.

Thank God other people worry about Americans safety - left to you, we'd all be wearing burkhas.

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But you carry on with your snark and burying your head in the sand. The rest of us will be protecting your and your grandchildren.

Tar baby my A$$ - just another sick, twisted comment you get to throw out there because YOUR rights have been protected by so many others with the guts to stand up to evil.

What size burkha do you wear by the way? Wanna get your order in early.

Moving on to posts with actual thought behind them...leaves you out.

When applying for driver's license male - 16-26 sign selective service

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xx

Oh, no worry, if you're really dyed in the wool - Republican you'll buy your way out

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Yup - Like Obama - nm

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nm

Let's see when was the draft used last? - um, um, I think Obama was 7

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or was this some tangential comment, unexplained and unsubstantiated.

Yup - DemAlinsky would run and throw your kids to the wolves - Gotta keep th yellow streak down their back clean.

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x

LOL - the Pubs are in for SUCH a huge letdown - when they lose big-time in 2016.

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The middle eastern countries need to solve their....sm - Alice

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own problems. We cannot do it and sending our young men and women to their deaths in a futile attempt to defeat ISIS or any other middle eastern extremist organization will end up being a bottomless hole. In the end, we will not be safer for it.

Duh - and let's just ignore the ISIS camps found in - New Mexico and Texas

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nm

Are you sure those weren't just NRA picnics? - NM

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What!!?? Did I say that? nm - Alice

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That's why the government is going to attack - Texas!

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Jade Helm here we go!

I wouldn't want togo to war again in Iraq, - but if we attack Texas, then -

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where do I sign up? ;D

I know, right? Texas can't protect itself from ISIS, maybe the government can help;) - (edited) Anon Formerly Known as Julia Sugarbaker

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LOL, OMG, that was funny, as was the NRA picnic.

Having said that, I personally do not think we need to repeat the previous mistakes from the Iraq War of not having the enough intel first, before we go to war with ISIS.

We don't even fully know our enemy, which is imperative before taking action. The phrase "rush headlong into battle" is a warning against rushing into battle without properly fully assessing the situation. We are just now becoming aware of who funds ISIS, as well as where they are all even located, thanks to Delta Force's actions last week, finding just the tip of the iceberg for the first time rather than speculating, but there is much more to uncover.

But I do support ISIS containment into one region and protection of uninvolved areas from them, as well as efforts to stop recruitment and efforts to gather further intel.

I do not think war is likely BECAUSE of what happened the last time - fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

We will do extra digging before we ever let that happen again, even Republicans, if for nothing else of how badly doing so reflected on them, to include not only lost lives but wasted government money.

So let Pataki shoot himself in the foot like Rubio, Cruz and Jeb already have. NEXT!

I specifically did not address the Tea Party along with Republicans because most, as everyone knows, are just angry and want an excuse to fight people.

Speaking of which, hey Tea Party - shooting off your mouths, all safe and sound behind computer screens, gambling with other peoples' lives is easy, when it's not you or your family members in the military!

If you're sooooo eager to fight ISIS, imagining it's going to be sooooo easy (and cheap)?

Go do it yourselves, then! Sign up for the military or fly to Israel, buy some weapons, and go live the dream!

Haha! I know you meant NRA picnic, not NPR picnic. sm - Alice

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I went to an NPR picnic once and it was great fun!

Hahaha! All those gun-toting NPR-ers;) Thank you, I'll correct it - The Anon Formerly Known as Julia Sugarbaker

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Yes, I meant NRA. OOPS!

Too funny, I love NPR news, guess that's what I was thinking of.

Yup - a beheaded grandchild is so much more attractive. - Dems ridiculous comments never disappoint

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in their total absurdity.

Send your then. nm - mine are not going either

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Reference is to draft and military involvement - REAL PEOPLE

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but I guess it got your attention, now I just have to figure out how to get people to think about it.

She's talking about signing up with the armed - forces to go fight them.

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nm

OP never mentioned any military involvement. Only the - DemAlinsky shot right to that

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scenario, twisting the OP. Just another attempt to incite. Same old, same old.

Because others fought for the right of free speech and others protected that right through the years, DemAlinsky get to make these knee jerk comments.

Wonder who the DemAlinsky's are going to call when ISIS breaks out here in the USA?

What other scenario but troops. It's either that, more of the.... - sm

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status quo, or leaving completely. What would be your choice. Not hard to imagine.

Big Biz loves war. It's a moneymaker. - :(

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nm

Cue Cheney in the background rubbing - his money grubbing hands together

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xx

This is so sad to hear. ISIS is a cancer that needs excised. - The sooner the better.

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Nothing is sacred to them, and no one is spared, especially if you are a Christian. This outfit is reaching the destruction the Nazis left in their wake with the holocaust.

Obama does not are what happens to these victims. If it was a black thug shot by a white policeman, or a gay that could not get a wedding cake from a Christian baker, Obama would be hitting the airways 24/7.

ISIS is not running ads for people to "help" them if you are good with a sword to assist with beheadings because there are so many.

Obama has done NOTHING to elevate or improve world conditions. He is a buffoon in every sense of the word.

We have ISIS coming in through our border, we have the Pope - provoking war between Israel and

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Palestine (Holy Roman Empire),
Obama killing the Monroe Doctrine, a soon to be nuclearized Middle East, racially charged unrest, all of this sounds like some kind of prophesy.

Add to that the idea that the founding documents are outdated, - well if your rights don't come

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from God and they come from man, then they can be abrogated by a man...like a Pope, or a so-called President.

Plus illegal immigration. Just look at California. It lliberalism can be traced to immigration - in the 1980s, and it's a foregone

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conclusion that its electoral votes will go for a Democrat.

The rest of the country is going to look like California.

If the rest of the country were more like CA, - everyone would be better off.

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Except for maybe that tornadoes, floods and hurricanes part.

Bill Clinton in 1998 had intel about Iraq and WMDs, the same intel as Bush, - then 9/11 happened and someone

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had to take action, Hillary, John Kerry, Dianne Feinstein. Here's Clinton warning everybody how bad Saddam was...

"Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors. Their purpose is to protect the national interests of the United States and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world. Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threat his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas, or biological weapons."

But somehow Clinton was telling the truth and Bush lied. It's the same intel!

The ultimate goal by the MSM, UN, et al is to get Bush and Rumsfeld - for war crimes, that makes them salivate,

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by the time the UN resolutions (19?) were over the WMDs had been moved to Syria, they have a deadly arsenal of chemical weapons.

They didn't remotely rely on the same intelligence. - They wanted regime change in Iraq.

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The Bush Administration made the case for war based on hand selected intelligence while ignoring other evidence.

People need to clue in to the fact that these guys were trying to connect Saddam Hussein to Iraq the next day after 9/11. They wanted regime change.

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