wth is isis doing with the women and children though 
Reading through this thread....it's a damn shame the Coli isn't in charge of every country's foreign department. Yall are so confident that you've got all this shyt completely figured out based off your youtube research.
Oh, and Obama stans....looks like we've got boots on the ground now
change you can believe in
all us had to do is kill uday and qusa
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Expats Flee Iraq’s Oil Boomtown as Islamic State Attacks
By Anna Hirtenstein Aug 13, 2014 10:08 AM ET
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A refinery stands 20 kilometres west of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region of...Read More
Marc Kolber, a native of Long Island, has spent more than three years overseeing the construction of offices for foreign oil companies in Iraqi Kurdistan. Now he’s joining an exodus of expatriates from the capital, Erbil.
“The expat community in Erbil was thriving, it was a very welcoming and inclusive society,” Kolber said in a telephone interview as his employer made arrangements to evacuate staff. “But now about 80 percent of expats have left.”
The Kurdistan region of Iraq has attracted hundreds of foreigners in the past five years, enticed by a mixture of oil, security and growing prosperity. The autonomous region, largely free from the violence that’s plagued the rest of the country, has some of largest untapped oil fields in the world.
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Iraq’s Brittle Nationhood
“The future of Erbil and Kurdistan as a whole is in oil, if the oil companies leave, the region will have a difficult time,” Kolber said. “Everything was built with oil money. If that dries up, there will be next to nothing left.”
The Kurdish government is grappling with a humanitarian crisis as tens of thousands flee the violence near the region’s borders. The Islamist group seized villages and Iraq’s largest dam from the Peshmerga, Kurdistan’s military force.
Oil Investments
“Some local residents in Erbil worked themselves into a hysteria through rumors circulating on social media, causing mass panic,” said Danny Dougramachi, Erbil-based managing director of Federal Group, an Iraqi company with investments in oil and construction. “This spooked the expat community, some of whom requested their companies to get them out, and a domino effect followed with a mass evacuation.”
President Barack Obama’s military intervention -- including jet strikes against Islamic State forces and humanitarian drops of supplies to refugees -- has improved morale in Erbil, Dougramachi said.
“The minute Obama announced that he was considering air strikes last week, the mood changed, people were dancing in the streets and honking car horns, it was like a football victory,” he said. “Now the locals are not nervous anymore and the expats that are left are more relaxed.”
In Erbil, it’s possible to move freely, shop, eat in restaurants and mix with locals. The city has seen new shopping centers, hotels and restaurants built over the past five years.
Production Share
More than 20 international oil companies have come to Kurdistan since the U.S. invasion in 2003. In contrast to the federal government in Baghdad, Massoud Barzani’s regional administration offered explorers contracts that gave them a share of oil production.
First came small companies willing to take a gamble, then giants like Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM)and Chevron followed.
This year, Barzani’s government completed an oil pipeline linking Kurdistan with Turkey, allowing them to export crude directly and bypass the oil ministry in Baghdad. Before this month’s violence, the Kurds forecast oil production would jump from 400,000 barrels a day this year to 1 million barrels a day in 2015.
Suspended Drilling
Those targets may now be under threat after explorers including Afren and Hess Corp. suspended drilling as fighting flared around the city of Mosul, near Kurdistan’s border with the rest of Iraq and less then an hour’s drive from Erbil.
“One of our rigs is in the Maqlub block on top of a mountain and you can actually see Mosul in the distance,” said Randy Arnold, president of drilling services at Viking Services Ltd., an oilfield services company. “Our guys there said they saw fire and smoke in the city. We first withdrew our people back to Erbil and then we chartered a flight to fly everyone out to Istanbul.”
Marc Kolber said Erbil’s future will be determined by maintaining direct links with the rest of the world.
“If people can’t fly in and out of the region, they’ll leave,” he said. “Most international oil companies have a stomach for a little bit of unrest, but as soon as they can’t come and go anymore, they’ll pack up.”
Deutsche Lufthansa AG canceled flights to Erbil from Frankfurt, saying in a statement that “the safety of passengers and crew remains the company’s highest priority.” Emirates also suspended flights yesterday and Etihad Airways halted its route on Aug. 7.
Regional services by Turkish Airlines, Royal Jordanian Airlines, Middle East Airline and Pegasus Airlines are still flying to Erbil on schedule.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...-s-oil-boomtown-as-islamic-state-attacks.html
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By Anna Hirtenstein Aug 13, 2014 10:08 AM ET
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Photographer: Safin Hamed/AFP via Getty Images
A refinery stands 20 kilometres west of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region of...Read More
Marc Kolber, a native of Long Island, has spent more than three years overseeing the construction of offices for foreign oil companies in Iraqi Kurdistan. Now he’s joining an exodus of expatriates from the capital, Erbil.
“The expat community in Erbil was thriving, it was a very welcoming and inclusive society,” Kolber said in a telephone interview as his employer made arrangements to evacuate staff. “But now about 80 percent of expats have left.”
The Kurdistan region of Iraq has attracted hundreds of foreigners in the past five years, enticed by a mixture of oil, security and growing prosperity. The autonomous region, largely free from the violence that’s plagued the rest of the country, has some of largest untapped oil fields in the world.
Related:
- Map: Tracking Islamic State Militants in Iraq
- U.S. Officials Weigh Next Movesto Defeat Iraq Extremists
- Islamic State Is Attracting SE Asian Fighters, Soufan Group Says
Iraq’s Brittle Nationhood
“The future of Erbil and Kurdistan as a whole is in oil, if the oil companies leave, the region will have a difficult time,” Kolber said. “Everything was built with oil money. If that dries up, there will be next to nothing left.”
The Kurdish government is grappling with a humanitarian crisis as tens of thousands flee the violence near the region’s borders. The Islamist group seized villages and Iraq’s largest dam from the Peshmerga, Kurdistan’s military force.
Oil Investments
“Some local residents in Erbil worked themselves into a hysteria through rumors circulating on social media, causing mass panic,” said Danny Dougramachi, Erbil-based managing director of Federal Group, an Iraqi company with investments in oil and construction. “This spooked the expat community, some of whom requested their companies to get them out, and a domino effect followed with a mass evacuation.”
President Barack Obama’s military intervention -- including jet strikes against Islamic State forces and humanitarian drops of supplies to refugees -- has improved morale in Erbil, Dougramachi said.
“The minute Obama announced that he was considering air strikes last week, the mood changed, people were dancing in the streets and honking car horns, it was like a football victory,” he said. “Now the locals are not nervous anymore and the expats that are left are more relaxed.”
In Erbil, it’s possible to move freely, shop, eat in restaurants and mix with locals. The city has seen new shopping centers, hotels and restaurants built over the past five years.
Production Share
More than 20 international oil companies have come to Kurdistan since the U.S. invasion in 2003. In contrast to the federal government in Baghdad, Massoud Barzani’s regional administration offered explorers contracts that gave them a share of oil production.
First came small companies willing to take a gamble, then giants like Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM)and Chevron followed.
This year, Barzani’s government completed an oil pipeline linking Kurdistan with Turkey, allowing them to export crude directly and bypass the oil ministry in Baghdad. Before this month’s violence, the Kurds forecast oil production would jump from 400,000 barrels a day this year to 1 million barrels a day in 2015.
Suspended Drilling
Those targets may now be under threat after explorers including Afren and Hess Corp. suspended drilling as fighting flared around the city of Mosul, near Kurdistan’s border with the rest of Iraq and less then an hour’s drive from Erbil.
“One of our rigs is in the Maqlub block on top of a mountain and you can actually see Mosul in the distance,” said Randy Arnold, president of drilling services at Viking Services Ltd., an oilfield services company. “Our guys there said they saw fire and smoke in the city. We first withdrew our people back to Erbil and then we chartered a flight to fly everyone out to Istanbul.”
Marc Kolber said Erbil’s future will be determined by maintaining direct links with the rest of the world.
“If people can’t fly in and out of the region, they’ll leave,” he said. “Most international oil companies have a stomach for a little bit of unrest, but as soon as they can’t come and go anymore, they’ll pack up.”
Deutsche Lufthansa AG canceled flights to Erbil from Frankfurt, saying in a statement that “the safety of passengers and crew remains the company’s highest priority.” Emirates also suspended flights yesterday and Etihad Airways halted its route on Aug. 7.
Regional services by Turkish Airlines, Royal Jordanian Airlines, Middle East Airline and Pegasus Airlines are still flying to Erbil on schedule.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...-s-oil-boomtown-as-islamic-state-attacks.html
@Domingo Halliburton
US CentCom has youtube vids of them dropping bombs 
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Not a new member
Snowden said that entities attributing any claims that Mossad or Israel created IS/ISIS is a hoax. There is also no evidence of direct CIA involvement with the group in anything released from Snowden documents (that's not to say it is or isn't true).
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
US CentCom has youtube vids of them dropping bombs
More like the US bombing the Iraqi military and dropping supplies to the Israeli army
Domingo Halliburton
Handmade in USA
Expats Flee Iraq’s Oil Boomtown as Islamic State Attacks
By Anna Hirtenstein Aug 13, 2014 10:08 AM ET
0 Comments Email Print
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Photographer: Safin Hamed/AFP via Getty Images
A refinery stands 20 kilometres west of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region of...Read More
Marc Kolber, a native of Long Island, has spent more than three years overseeing the construction of offices for foreign oil companies in Iraqi Kurdistan. Now he’s joining an exodus of expatriates from the capital, Erbil.
“The expat community in Erbil was thriving, it was a very welcoming and inclusive society,” Kolber said in a telephone interview as his employer made arrangements to evacuate staff. “But now about 80 percent of expats have left.”
The Kurdistan region of Iraq has attracted hundreds of foreigners in the past five years, enticed by a mixture of oil, security and growing prosperity. The autonomous region, largely free from the violence that’s plagued the rest of the country, has some of largest untapped oil fields in the world.
Related:
Islamic State fighters are battling Kurdish troops just 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Erbil, threatening the energy boom that’s brought a thriving international airport and modern office blocks to one of the world’s most ancient cities. Oil companies including Chevron Corp. (CVX) andAfren Plc (AFR) have evacuated expatriate staff and halted drilling operations.
- Map: Tracking Islamic State Militants in Iraq
- U.S. Officials Weigh Next Movesto Defeat Iraq Extremists
- Islamic State Is Attracting SE Asian Fighters, Soufan Group Says
Iraq’s Brittle Nationhood
“The future of Erbil and Kurdistan as a whole is in oil, if the oil companies leave, the region will have a difficult time,” Kolber said. “Everything was built with oil money. If that dries up, there will be next to nothing left.”
The Kurdish government is grappling with a humanitarian crisis as tens of thousands flee the violence near the region’s borders. The Islamist group seized villages and Iraq’s largest dam from the Peshmerga, Kurdistan’s military force.
Oil Investments
“Some local residents in Erbil worked themselves into a hysteria through rumors circulating on social media, causing mass panic,” said Danny Dougramachi, Erbil-based managing director of Federal Group, an Iraqi company with investments in oil and construction. “This spooked the expat community, some of whom requested their companies to get them out, and a domino effect followed with a mass evacuation.”
President Barack Obama’s military intervention -- including jet strikes against Islamic State forces and humanitarian drops of supplies to refugees -- has improved morale in Erbil, Dougramachi said.
“The minute Obama announced that he was considering air strikes last week, the mood changed, people were dancing in the streets and honking car horns, it was like a football victory,” he said. “Now the locals are not nervous anymore and the expats that are left are more relaxed.”
In Erbil, it’s possible to move freely, shop, eat in restaurants and mix with locals. The city has seen new shopping centers, hotels and restaurants built over the past five years.
Production Share
More than 20 international oil companies have come to Kurdistan since the U.S. invasion in 2003. In contrast to the federal government in Baghdad, Massoud Barzani’s regional administration offered explorers contracts that gave them a share of oil production.
First came small companies willing to take a gamble, then giants like Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM)and Chevron followed.
This year, Barzani’s government completed an oil pipeline linking Kurdistan with Turkey, allowing them to export crude directly and bypass the oil ministry in Baghdad. Before this month’s violence, the Kurds forecast oil production would jump from 400,000 barrels a day this year to 1 million barrels a day in 2015.
Suspended Drilling
Those targets may now be under threat after explorers including Afren and Hess Corp. suspended drilling as fighting flared around the city of Mosul, near Kurdistan’s border with the rest of Iraq and less then an hour’s drive from Erbil.
“One of our rigs is in the Maqlub block on top of a mountain and you can actually see Mosul in the distance,” said Randy Arnold, president of drilling services at Viking Services Ltd., an oilfield services company. “Our guys there said they saw fire and smoke in the city. We first withdrew our people back to Erbil and then we chartered a flight to fly everyone out to Istanbul..”
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...-s-oil-boomtown-as-islamic-state-attacks.html
@Domingo Halliburton
this shyt is never going to end what can you do? Just get ready for higher gas prices.
I almost agree with the Canadian up there I guess you need to rule with an iron fist.
Primordial
Pro
Turkey supports an independent Kurdistan...in Northern Iraq
not a chunk of southern Turkey though...
Yea, if anything, the Turkish gov't is supporting a buffer zone/puppet state masquerading as an independent nation in that volatile region.
There's a reason they felt comfortable emptying out the PKK from Turkey into that region
Primordial
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can we talk about how 10,000 men at max are able to fight on 3 fronts? and maintain control over areas they hold?
something dont smell right, but ill let yall tell it
that's not even getting into how the regional powers in the area (Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey etc.) are all just enjoying the view from the sidelines like 
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Yea, if anything, the Turkish gov't is supporting a buffer zone/puppet state masquerading as an independent nation in that volatile region.
There's a reason they felt comfortable emptying out the PKK from Turkey into that region
Turkey really got a hell of a deal out of this whole situation minus all the refugees.
Things were starting to get crazy with the PKK around a year and a half ago.
Assad will be gone eventually. Funding and providing arms for everyone in Syria. Peace with PKK. Buffer zone between Iraq.
Of course I knew that...I'm a coli poster. I knew their exact location at all times, their mission details, and the bda from every mission.the boots never left.... but you knew that.
Trajan
Veteran
The Guardian files paperwork on Peshmerga 
Islamic State has exposed peshmerga's military vulnerability
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/12/islamic-state-peshmerga-vulnerability-kurdish-isis
Islamic State has exposed peshmerga's military vulnerability
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/12/islamic-state-peshmerga-vulnerability-kurdish-isis