"... you don't lead 'em as much!"

That this is even an issue shows how screwed up we have become.

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Originally posted by mikeyspizza:
That this is even an issue shows how screwed up we have become.

That anyone outside of the combatants knows about this shows how screwed we are.

So...are the buses still there?

Eradication is the only answer. The "fighting age males" will fight again if left alive. The rest are simply either making more, or waiting their turn.

UPDATE:

BEIRUT — The Latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local):

10 p.m.

The U.S.-led coalition says a convoy of hundreds of Islamic State militants and civilians is still stranded in government-held territory in Syria after it prevented them from being relocated from the Lebanon-Syria border under a deal with Hezbollah.

The coalition said Monday that it has it has passed a message to the Syrian government through Russia asking it to separate the fighters from civilians. It says it has not taken any action to prevent food and water from being brought to the evacuees.

Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend says “the Syrian regime is letting women and children suffer in the desert. This situation is completely on them.”

The IS fighters and their families evacuated a week ago under a deal with Hezbollah, which agreed to give them safe passage to far eastern Syria, near the Iraqi border, in exchange for the remains of Lebanese soldiers captured in 2014. The U.S.-led coalition and Iraq have condemned the deal, saying IS fighters should be killed on the battlefield.

The coalition has carried out airstrikes to prevent the convoy from reaching IS-held territory, but has not targeted the evacuees themselves.

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5 p.m.

are they waiting for a bunch of us to get together, charter the plane and kill them ourselves?

whats the hold up?

why is this even a decision - it should be a reflex action by now

we're either in a war or we're not and I guess the answer to this answers the question once and for all

I think the Russians are going to take care of as they see fit guys. I just do not think they are going to let them go go on their merry way.

Isn't it multiple buses?

How did all the vehicles stop working at the same time, in the same place?


Edit: ah, bridge is out.

"Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, said in a speech Monday night that the evacuees included 26 wounded fighters, 308 armed fighters and 331 civilians, presumably family members of the militants."

308 armed fighters is way too many to let go. Hopefully the bus drivers will be allowed to leave before...the rest meet their 72 virgins.

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Originally posted by c1steve:
"Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, said in a speech Monday night that the evacuees included 26 wounded fighters, 308 armed fighters and 331 civilians, presumably family members of the militants."

308 armed fighters is way too many to let go. Hopefully the bus drivers will be allowed to leave before...the rest meet their 72 virgins.

That this convoy isn't dust already is a travesty.

War is war. Collateral damage? Good grief. There has never been, will never be, a war without collateral damage.

Russians might be getting ready to smoke 'em


http://www.foxnews.com/world/2...s-pentagon-says.html

We need to let the Russians "bring them to justice" wink wink.
Do it while the hurricanes are in the news.
Their version works better than ours when dealing with people like that.

That 308 hundred coward bastards probably murdered hundreds of unarmed people, need a long walk in the dessert,buzzards gotta eat.

I think a MOAB device dropped in the convoy would set the correct tone for future encounters.

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Originally posted by SapperSteel:

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Originally posted by c1steve:
"Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, said in a speech Monday night that the evacuees included 26 wounded fighters, 308 armed fighters and 331 civilians, presumably family members of the militants."

308 armed fighters is way too many to let go. Hopefully the bus drivers will be allowed to leave before...the rest meet their 72 virgins.

That this convoy isn't dust already is a travesty.

War is war. Collateral damage? Good grief. There has never been, will never be, a war without collateral damage.

Were this war dept being run by Stampy Feet I'd guess the delay would be due to masturbatory indecision. I suspect what's happening now is the warriors are in charge and they are using the stranded convoy as bait and to apply increasing urgency. That is how I'd play it.

don't we have some ordinance somewhere that is about to expire on its 'best before date' that we could use...

practice...

not letting a good munition go to waste

The latest includes photo:

region on Aug. 28. (Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images)
By Liz Sly September 8 at 6:06 PM
BEIRUT — At Russia’s request, the U.S. military on Friday called off its surveillance of a convoy of Islamic State fighters that has been stuck in the Syrian desert for the past 10 days, saying it is now up to the Syrian government to resolve its fate.

The decision to withdraw the warplanes that have been circling over the convoy came after Syrian troops advancing through the province of Deir al-Zour passed the point where the convoy is located, leaving it behind Syrian army lines, according to a military statement.

The convoy became stuck in the no man’s land between the front lines of the Syrian army and the Islamic State after the U.S. military bombed the road ahead to prevent it from reaching Islamic State territory in eastern Syria. It had been traveling there from western Syria under the terms of a deal struck between the Islamic State and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement to end fighting along the Lebanese border.

Because Syrian troops are now in control of the area, the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State agreed to a Russian request to halt the surveillance, in the interests of deconflicting the rival Russian- and U.S.-backed efforts to defeat the militants, the statement said.

The military added that it would continue to try to prevent the militants aboard the buses from reaching Iraq.

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Syrian forces reached the outskirts of the Islamic State-controlled city of Deir al-Zour, breaking a three-year siege on a group of ally soldiers. (War Media Room)
“The regime's advance past the convoy underlines continued Syrian responsibility for the buses and terrorists,” said Brig. Gen. Jon Braga, director of operations for the U.S.-led coalition. “As always, we will do our utmost to ensure that the ISIS terrorists do not move toward the border of our Iraqi partners.”

U.S. military officials had previously said that they would not allow the buses to reach any Islamic State-controlled area, in Syria or Iraq. It is unclear whether the Syrian advance into the area means the terms of the Hezbollah-brokered deal will now be fulfilled and the buses will be allowed to proceed to their original destination, the Syrian border town of Bukamal.

The original convoy of 17 buses loaded with Islamic State fighters and their families had already broken up, with six managing to head back into Syrian government territory and 11 getting stuck after the bombing of the road. The U.S. military did not bomb the convoy itself, because of the presence of women and children.

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There were several reports that some individual fighters managed to escape across the border into Iraq, and Hezbollah said in a statement Saturday that some buses had made it into to Islamic State territory, without giving details. An official linked to Hezbollah said the number was four.

But the U.S. military said it was sure no buses made it into militant-controlled areas. The military also said it killed 85 fighters in the vicinity of the buses who were attempting to escape.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.2bfbdfc0097d

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