The Syrian Civil War. Do you support a side?

[Austupaio]

Well, this was an interesting couple of pages.

Also, if the U.S. can't secure the Mexican border any better than we're managing it right now, which is pretty ****ing poorly if you weren't somehow aware, then the ****ing Saudi's certainly can't manage one over even harsher and less populated terrain.

 

[rejenorst]

Yeah those desert folk are cunningly creative too.

Spoiler

 

[rebelknight]

Yeah those desert folk are cunningly creative too.

Spoiler

The **** is that supposed to be?
A guard tower?

 

[Swadius 2.0]

It's a car getting over a wall by using rails often seen employed by large trucks to move vehicles to allow the car to drive over the wall. Seems like they might not have done all the geometry required because it looks like the car is wedged in there because the peak of the wall is too sharp for the wheels to clear.

 

[Temuzu]

What would even bring you to the conclusion that a fence with a car is a guard tower?

Jhessail is always right.

 

[rebelknight]

What would even bring you to the conclusion that a fence with a car is a guard tower?

Jhessail is always right.

Oh shush.
I was not 100% serious.

 

[MadocComadrin]

Don't worry Rebel, some day, either in a virtual world or the real one, I will build a guard tower out of a car just for you. 

 

[Trueten]

Since ISIS thread is closed, I'll post it here:

In Graphic Photos and On Twitter, ISIS Members Record and Tout Executions of Gay Men

They throw homosexuals off the buildings.

Spoiler

Some sort of a weekend fun. I can't imagine how far they can go with their madness.

 

[Leonidas300]

Neardenthal monkeys...

 

[pentagathus]

Neanderthal monkeys? Where?

 

[Temuzu]

That's no way to talk about your relatives.

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

And what the heck does a German valley have to do with the middle east? 

 

[Ambalon]

Neardenthal monkeys...

Neanderthal or monkeys? Make up your mind.

Since ISIS thread is closed, I'll post it here:

In Graphic Photos and On Twitter, ISIS Members Record and Tout Executions of Gay Men

They throw homosexuals off the buildings.

Spoiler

Some sort of a weekend fun. I can't imagine how far they can go with their madness.

Important question: is there a video of that? If so, does it play to It's Raining Men?

 

[Kobrag]

Neardenthal monkeys...

No need to debase yourself by using racial slurs [Though I think it's more of a USian thing though?]. =/

They are ****ing twats though.

 

[pentagathus]

Not to try and detract attention from the brutality of the situation but why the **** would you throw someone of a roof as a form of execution? Think of the poor bastard who has to clear that up.

Apparently IS actually is kind of a proper state with law an official law enforcement system and everything. I'm not expecting them to be toppled anytime soon unfortunately. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-30585783

They've released about 200 elderly/infirm yazidis though, apparently no indication of why. ofhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-30868508

 

[Austupaio]

They were slowing down the captors, who were mobilized quite often. It's not a sign of mercy or anything, just pragmatism.

 

[Temuzu]

Pretty sure throwing homosexuals off a cliff is the punishment according to this guy, who was a companion of Muhammed's, and a respected scholar among both the Shias and the Sunnis.

Other punishments include burning alive, and another one that the Taliban did not too long ago, IIRC it was something like burying the under stones, and then bring down a wall over them, if they are alive after 30 minutes when they are unburied, they get to live.

Man, I wish I could be bothered to study the Quran, it seems to be a lot more interesting than the Bible. But alas, I dont care too much.

 

[Bromden]

Neardenthal monkeys...

Says the guy who worships people who threw babies off a cliff.

 

[Wellenbrecher]

He didn't even spell it right, amusingly enough.
Neandertal, or -thal if you're old fashioned.

 

[Temuzu]

Continuing with the ISIS theme, there are claims that the Peshmerga have used some sort of chemical warfare against Mosul. Though some sources say that there are indeed chemical gasses in Mosul, but they were created when a water processing plant that ISIS used as an HQ got blown up, releasing the chlorine inside.

No sources because they're all twitter and such, but I thought it'd be interesting nevertheless. Peshmerga are slowly surrounding Mosul apparently.