Njulaina - Pejuang Negara Islam telah dihalau keluar dari Kobani, bandar Kurdish
yang melintasi sempadan Syria-Turki, selepas minggu pertempuran berat, menurut
sumber-sumber Kurdi demikian kepada RT.
Seorang komandan Kurdi berkata ISIS berundur semalam - menarik balik
sebanyak 2 km sebelah timur dan 9 km sebelah barat.
Orang Kurd kini penjelasan kota. Kelompok Islam tinggalkan di belakang
pelaku bom bunuh diri bersembunyi di runtuhan bangunan-bangunan di bandar.
"Kita masih boleh mendengar tembakan dan letupan sporadis yang
datang dari Kobani," RT Murad Gazdiev laporan dari sempadan Turki-Syria.
Walau bagaimanapun, pengumuman kemenangan dari pejuang Kurdis masih belum
dibuat kerana seluruh kota itu tidak dijamin.
ISIS fighters WITHDRAW
from Syria's EMBATTLED
Kobani - RT SOURCES . . .
Islamic State fighters have been driven out of
Kobani, the Kurdish town that strad-dles the Syrian-Turkish border, after weeks
of heavy fighting, according to Kurdish sources speaking to RT.
A Kurdish commander said that ISIS retreated
overnight – withdrawing by 2 km east and 9 km west.
The Kurds are now clearing the city. The Islamists
have left behind suicide bombers hiding in the ruins of the various buildings
in the city.
"We can still hear sporadic gunfire and
explosions coming from Kobani," RT's Murad Gazdiev reports from the
Turkish-Syrian border.
However, a victory announcement from the
Kurdish fighters is yet to be made because the whole of the city has not been
secured.
Hanya beberapa hari lalu Kobani telah dihapus kira2nya
dan telah diramalkan jatuh kepada pejuang IS, bahkan oleh sekutu Kurdis
terdekat. Militan Negara Islam mengawal hampir keseluruhan sempadan di antara
Syria dan Turki jadi ia adalah penting bagi mereka yang strategik untuk
mengawal bandar sempadan.
Pada hari Rabu dan Khamis sahaja lebih dari 14 serangan bom dilakukan di
mana 16 bangunan di Kobani telah musnah, sumber mengatakan kepada Haaretz.
Akhbar itu juga melaporkan bahawa sehingga 20 % peratus dpd bandar mungkin masih dikawal oleh militan IS. Pertempuran
untuk bandar sempadan strategik yang penting telah menewaskan hampir 600 orang.
Satu kenyataan hari ini dari US Komando Pusat
mengatakan bahawa serangan udara "telah terus melambat IS pendahuluan,
tetapi keadaan keselamatan di darat di Kobani masih rapuh." Ia juga
memberi amaran "Kami memerlukan lebih banyak serangan udara, dan juga
senjata dan peluru untuk melawan mereka di atas darat."
Berita dari Kobani datang sebagai baru PBB Hak Asasi Manusia Pesuruhjaya
Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, berkata IS adalah ", pergerakan berpotensi
pembunuhan yang kejam."
Beliau berkata bahawa kumpulan adalah "hasil
dari perkahwinan yang sesat dan mematikan satu bentuk baru nihilisme dengan era
digital."
Only a few days ago Kobani had been written off and
was predicted to fall to IS fighters, even by the Kurds' closest allies. The
Islamic State militants control almost entire border between Syria and Turkey
so it was vital for them strategically to take control of the border town.
On Wednesday and Thursday alone more than 14 bombing
raids were carried out in which 16 buildings in Kobani were destroyed, sources
told Haaretz.
The newspaper also reported that up to 20 percent of
the town may still be controlled by IS militants. The battle for the
strategically-important border town has already cost the lives of nearly 600
people.
A Thursday statement from US Central Command said
that the airstrikes “had continued to slow IS advances, but that the security
situation on the ground in Kobani remains tenuous.” It also warned “We need
more airstrikes, as well as weaponry and ammunition to fight them on the
ground.”
The news from Kobani comes as the new UN Human
Rights Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein, said that the IS is “a diabolical,
potentially genocidal movement.”
He said that group is “the product of a perverse and
lethal marriage of a new form of nihilism with the digital age.”
Njulaina - Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama ditetapkan
untuk melantik Ron Klain sebagai Ebola "tsar" diisi dengan menyelaras
usaha2 kerajaan dalam meme-rangi penyebaran virus di Amerika Syarikat, CNN
melaporkan.
Berita ini muncul kurang dari 24 jam selepas
presiden bertemu dengan pegawai-pegawai kesihatan terkemuka negara itu.
Berikutan mesyuarat itu, katanya kepada pemberita bahawa ia mungkin sesuai
untuk melantik orang yang tambahan untuk menyelaraskan tindak balas untuk Ebola
di Amerika Syarikat.
"Ia mungkin masuk akal bagi kita untuk
mempunyai satu orang . . . supaya selepas gelombang awal aktiviti ini, kita
boleh mempunyai proses yang lebih teratur hanya untuk memastikan bahawa kami
melintasi semua T dan menghiasi semua ini yang saya ke depan, "kata Obama.
OBAMA to Appoint
Ebola 'CZAR' CHARGED With COODINATING Fight Against EPIDEMIC . . .
US President Barack Obama is set to appoint Ron
Klain as the Ebola "czar" charged with coordinating government
efforts in fight against the spread of the virus in the United States, CNN
reports.
The news comes less than 24 hours after the
president met with the country’s top health officials. Following the meeting,
he told reporters that it might be appropriate to appoint an additional person
to coordinate the response to Ebola in the United States.
"It may make sense for us to have one
person ... so that after this initial surge of activity, we can have a more
regular process just to make sure that we're crossing all the T's and dotting
all the I's going forward," Obama said.
Klain adalah Kes presiden Holdings, syarikat induk
untuk kepentingan perniagaan dan dermawan dari bekas ketua AOL Steve Case, dan
penasihat umum di Revolusi LLC, sebuah firma pelaburan berpangkalan di
Washington DC,. Sebelum ini beliau pernah berkhidmat sebagai ketua kakitangan
untuk jawatan Naib Presiden Joe Biden, dan juga bekas Naib Presiden Al Gore.
Beliau yg meninggalkan pentadbiran Obama pada Januari 2011.
White House menganggap Klain menjadi pengurus yang
baik dari semasa beliau menyelia pengagihan dana dalam akta rangsangan, menurut
CNN. Beliau tidak mempunyai latar belakang yg luas dalam berurusan dgn
penjagaan kesihatan, tetapi pentadbiran views tsar Ebola sebagai sebagai
pengurus.
Klain is the president of Case Holdings, the holding
company for the business and philanthropic interests of former AOL chairman
Steve Case, and general counsel at Revolution LLC, a Washington, DC-based
investment firm. He previously served as the chief of staff for Vice President
Joe Biden, as well as for former Vice President Al Gore. He left the Obama administration
in January 2011.
The White House considers Klain to be a good manager
from his time overseeing the allocation of funds in the stimulus act, according
to CNN. He does not have any extensive background in dealing with health care,
but the administration views the Ebola czar as a managerial position.
Kenaikan asap gunung
berapi dari Gunung Ontake, yang membentang Nagano dan Gifu wilayah, tengah
Jepun, 30 September, 2014 (Volcanic smoke rise from Mt. Ontake, which straddles
Nagano and Gifu prefectures, central Japan, September 30, 2014 (Reuters/Kyodo)
Njulaina - Sebuah gunung berapi Jepun tlh menafikan awal yg
2 reaktor nuklear yang ditempatkan dekat sarang aktiviti gunung berapi adalah
selamat, menya-takan bahawa ia adalah mustahil untuk meramalkan letusan tepat di
luar jangka masa beberapa hari.
Sendai loji kuasa nuklear di selatan Jepun dengan
mudah boleh menjadi sumber bencana nasional harus letusan kawah berlangsung di
salah satu gunung berapi sekitar berpose ancaman serta merta kepada laman web
ini, Toshitsugu Fujii, ketua panel kerajaan ditugaskan pada gunung berapi ramalan
letusan pada taklimat media pada hari Jumaat.
"Adalah tidak mungkin untuk meramalkan letusan
sejak 30 hingga 40 tahun akan datang," kata Fujii. "Tahap diramal
sangat terbatas." Beliau menambah bahawa ramalan boleh berlaku hanya dalam
waktu jam atau hari.
Kenyataan beliau bercanggah dengan orang-orang dari
pengawal selia nuklear yang bulan lalu berkata bahawa kedua-dua reaktor nuklear
Sendai telah berfungsi dalam peraturan-peraturan keselamatan nuklear diletakkan
di tengah-tengah tahun 2011 bencana Fukushima.
Mereka menyatakan bahawa tidak akan ada letupan dalam tempoh 30 tahun
akan datang - yang apabila reaktor Sendai sampai ke akhir hayatnya.
Rancangan Jepun untuk memulakan semula reaktor
nuklear Sendai tidak akan ter-pengaruh oleh letusan gunung berapi Gunung Ontake,
kerajaan memberi jaminan pada akhir September, apabila 30 orang terbunuh dan
berpuluh-puluh yang cedera.
"Ini adalah satu [letusan] stim yang didorong
dan ia telah berkata adalah amat sukar untuk meramalkan," kata Ketua
Setiausaha Kabinet Yoshihide Suga pada sidang akhbar sejurus selepas itu.
Justru kurangnya kebolehramalan yang membim-bangkan. Penentang restart nuklear
berkumpul lama selepas itu untuk menunjuk-kan terhadapnya.
"Tiada siapa yang tahu apabila bencana alam,
termasuk gempa bumi dan tsunami akan menyerang. Hakikat bahawa mereka tidak
boleh meramalkan letusan Gunung Ontake menyoroti bahawa "satu agenda,
Yoshitaka Mukohara, kepada Reuters.
Abu berat letusan berikut akan membuat tumbuhan yang sukar untuk mencapai
dan akan memberi kesan kepada Tokyo serta kawasan sekitarnya.
Perdana Menteri Shinzo Abe sedang mencari untuk
memulakan semula reaktor kedua-dua bersama-sama dengan mana-mana daerah yang
lain 46 yang mungkin dianggap selamat kuasa nuklear dianggap kunci kepada pemulihan
ekonomi Jepun.
Malah sebelum bencana September, kebangkitan nuklear
Jepun telah menyebab-kan kemarahan rakyat yang tidak puas. Kebimbangan nuklear
kekal kukuh di Jepun sejak bencana Fukushima terbukti menjadi sejarah terburuk yang
ke-2 di selepas Chernobyl, dgn proses pembongkaran yg diperkirakan akan
berlangsung selama bertahun-tahun yang akan datang.
ACTIVE Volcanoes Near
JAPAN Nuclear REACTOR
are Safety threat – PANEL . . .
A Japanese volcanologist has refuted early claims
that two nuclear reactors stationed near a hotbed of volcanic activity were
safe, stating that it is impossible to predict an eruption accurately outside
the time span of a few days.
The Sendai nuclear power plant in southern Japan
could quite easily be the source of a national disaster should a cauldron
eruption take place at one of the surrounding volcanoes posing an immediate
threat to the site, Toshitsugu Fujii, head of a government-commissioned panel
on volcanic eruption prediction told a press briefing on Friday.
“It is simply impossible to predict an eruption over
the next 30 to 40 years,” Fujii said. “The level of predictability is extremely
limited.” He added that prediction can happen only in the space of hours or
days.
His statements contradict those of nuclear
regulators who last month said that the two Sendai nuclear reactors were
functioning within the nuclear safety regulations laid out in the wake of the
2011 Fukushima disaster.
They stated that there would be no eruption within the next 30 years –
which is when the Sendai reactors reach the end of their lives.
Japan’s plans to restart the Sendai nuclear reactor
won’t be affected by the volcanic eruption of Mt. Ontake, the government
reassured at the end of September, when 30 people were killed and dozens
injured.
“This was a steam-driven [eruption] and it has been
said it was extremely difficult to predict,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide
Suga told a news conference shortly afterwards. It is precisely this lack of
predictability which is a cause for concern. Opponents of the nuclear restart
gathered shortly afterwards to demonstrate against it.
“No one knows when natural disasters, including
earthquakes and tsunamis will strike. The fact that they could not predict the
Mount Ontake eruption highlights that,” one organizer, Yoshitaka Mukohara, told
Reuters.
Heavy ash following eruption would make the plant difficult to reach and
would impact Tokyo as well as the surrounding area.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is looking to restart both
reactors along with any of the county’s other 46 which might be deemed safe as
nuclear power is deemed key to Japanese economic recovery.
Even before the September disaster, Japanese nuclear
revival was incurring the wrath of disgruntled citizens. Nuclear fears remain
strong in Japan ever since the Fukushima disaster proved to be the second-worst
in history after Chernobyl, with the decommissioning process expected to last
for years to come.
Njulaina - Akhir bulan lalu, tentera Amerika Syarikat menyelesaikan latihan darat-simulasi tempur yg terbesar sejak serangan 11 September 2001 di persediaan utk konfrontasi dengan orang2 seperti negara Islam, yang menggabungkan taktik pemberontak dengan manuver kuasa besar-darat.
Latihan 12 hari yang diadakan 200,000 ekar Kesediaan Bersama Pusat Latihan Tentera Darat di Fort Polk, Louisiana termasuk penurunan awal sekitar 1000 pa-sukan payung dari Tim Pertempuran Briged ke-2 Bahagian Udara ke-82 bersama-sama dengan banyak pertempuran dan peninjauan bahan yang diperlukan untuk senario cepat-respon, Huffington Post.
Diterbangkan ke wilayah musuh fiksyen - "dikawal" oleh 800 pasukan dari sebuah batalion udara sebenar dikenali selama latihan sebagai Menentang Pasukan - pasukan payung dibebankan dengan mempersiapkan untuk latihan pertempuran sengit dalam persekitaran pra-dirancang untuk menjadi sebagai sibuk dari satu adegan pertarungan yang sebenarnya, jika tidak lebih-lebih lagi.
US paratroopers conduct largest drills since 9-11 with scenario reminiscent of fighting ISIS (VIDEO) . . .
Late last month, the US Army completed the largest simulated ground-combat exercise since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 in preparation for a confrontation with the likes Islamic State, which blends insurgent tactics with large ground-force maneuvers.
The 12-day exercise held at the Army’s 200,000-acre Joint Readiness Training Center in Fort Polk, Louisiana included an initial drop of about a thousand paratroopers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division along with numerous combat and reconnaissance materials needed for a swift-response scenario, The Huffington Post reported.
Flown into fictional enemy territory - “controlled” by 800 troops of an actual airborne battalion known during the exercise as Opposing Force - the paratroopers are charged with preparing for intense fighting drills in an environment pre-planned to be as hectic than an actual combat scene, if not more so.
Setelah mendarat, "pasukan akan jelas lapangan terbang dengan pemuat ‘front-end’ yang telah turun dengan pelongsor dengan mereka. Kemudian mereka akan mula melambai dalam aliran pesawat kargo berat yang membawa 4,000 pasukan lain; 2,000 pasukan penguat; dan kenderaan lapis baja, senjata berat dan walaupun helikopter tempur. Angkatan udara pejuang lingkaran di atas kepala, mereka akan menubuhkan sebuah teknologi tinggi, multi-bilik berhawa dingin pusat operasi tak-tikal untuk menguruskan beberapa pertempuran pecah, dan berhubungan den-gan rahsia Operasi Pasukan Khas yg mendahului mereka di atas darat, "The Huffington Post, David Wood dilaporkan.
Setelah tentera mendarat dan membuka kedai, senaman yang dipanggil bagi mereka untuk menghadapi krisis berulang, semua skrip terlebih dahulu. Tentera kedua-dua pihak mempunyai akses kepada kereta kebal, senjata berat, IED, udara dan meriam serangan, roket, dan senjata api yang kecil, tetapi namun semua bebe-rapa latihan dijalankan menggunakan peluru kosong. Pasukan dan bahkan kende-raan sokongan mempunyai sensor yang menunjukkan apabila mereka telah cedera atau terbunuh dalam tindakan. Walaupun mangsa simulasi, pasukan pegawai peru-batan harus hadir menggelami luka-luka di "medan perang."
Presiden Obama telah menegaskan bahawa dia tidak akan memerintahkan pasu-kan tempur untuk melawan atas alasan di Iraq atau Syria terhadap Negara Islam, kumpulan ekstremis yg telah datang utk mengawal kawasan yg besar di negara-negara. Namun atas pegawai tentera Amerika Syarikat tlh berkata bahawa mereka bersedia untuk mencadangkan kejalan itu. Amerika Syarikat mempunyai beberapa ratus tentera "penasihat" membantu pasukan keselamatan di Iraq.
Upon landing, the “troops will clear the airstrip with a front-end loader that came down by chute with them. Then they'll begin waving in a stream of heavy cargo planes carrying another 4,000 paratroopers; 2,000 reinforcing troops; and armored vehicles, heavy weapons and even helicopter gunships. While Air Force fighters circle overhead, they will set up a high-tech, multi-room air-conditioned tactical operations center to manage the multiple firefights breaking out, and link up with clandestine Special Operations Forces who preceded them on the ground,” The Huffington Post’s David Wood reported.
Once troops landed and set up shop, the exercise called for them to face repeated crises, all scripted in advance. Troops on both sides have access to tanks, heavy weaponry, IEDs, air and artillery strikes, rockets, and small arms fire, yet all but a few drills are conducted with blank rounds. Troops and even support vehicles have sensors that indicate when they have been wounded or killed in action. Despite simulated casualties, medic teams must attend to wounds on the “battlefield.”
President Obama has insisted that he will not order combat troops to fight on the ground in Iraq or Syria against Islamic State, the extremist group which has come to control large areas in those nations. Yet top US military officials have said that they are willing to suggest that path. The US has several hundred military “advisers” aiding security forces in Iraq.
Courtesy: U.S. Army
Jika Obama berubah arah dan memilih untuk menghantar pasukan darat untuk melawan Negara Islam, pasukan Airborne ke-82 terlibat dalam simulasi perang permainan adalah calon2 yang mungkin, Huffington Post melaporkan, dan operasi palsu ini dimainkan di Fort Polk dgn baik boleh bagaimana mereka akan tiba masa.
Keutamaan bagi pasukan jatuh ke dalam senario yg bermula dengan mendapa-tkan senjata kimia dan melihat kepadanya bahawa Amerika telah dipindahkan dari kawasan itu. Namun senario lain - kedua-dua orang-orang yang boleh berlaku dan telah berlaku - datang ke dalam bermain: konsulat Amerika Syarikat yang diserang, sebagai senyawa diplomatik Amerika Syarikat di Benghazi, Libya pada tahun 2012, yang membawa kepada kematian Duta Christopher Stevens dan lain-lain; Diplomat Amerika Syarikat menunggu untuk pemindahan; api dari tentera negara kononnya bersekutu, seperti yang berlaku kepada pasukan tentera Amerika di Iraq; kekuatan pemberontak sederhana yang memerlukan sokongan, seperti di Syria; dan tentera lawan, seperti Negara Islam, dengan menggunakan kedua-dua taktik pemberontak dan tentera-darat.
Seperti dalam realiti, komander darat semasa latihan yang disampaikan dengan pegawai yang bertindak staf Bahagian Udara ke-82, Komando Pusat Amerika Syarikat, Pentagon dan White House. Di samping itu, pasukan harus bekerja dengan Pasukan Operasi Khusus yang beroperasi selain daripada pasukan Tentera Darat yang lebih besar.
If Obama changes course and chooses to send ground troops to fight Islamic State, the 82nd Airborne troops involved in the war-game simulation are likely candidates, Huffington Post reported, and this fake operation played out at Fort Polk could very well be how they would arrive.
The priority for troops dropped into the scenario began with securing chemical weapons and seeing to it that Americans were evacuated from the area. Yet other scenarios - ones that both could happen and have happened - came into play: a US consulate is attacked, as the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya was in 2012, leading to the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and others; US diplomats waiting for evacuation; fire from a supposedly allied national army, as happened to American troops in Iraq; a moderate rebel force in need of support, like in Syria; and an opposing army, like Islamic State, using both insurgent and ground-army tactics.
As in reality, ground commanders during the exercise communicated with acting officials of the 82nd Airborne Division staff, U.S. Central Command, the Pentagon and the White House. In addition, paratroopers must work with Special Operations Forces that operate apart from the larger Army brigade.
Courtesy: U.S. Army
Pasukan itu menduduki tpt latihan sebelum dinamakan aspek utama dari Angka-tan Respon Global, "kekuatan serangan udara-darat gabungan yang selama 8 bulan akan datang akan berjaga-jaga."
Pentagon telah selama bertahun-tahun dikekalkan seperti pasukan dari Airborne 82 harus perlu untuk cepat-reaksi operasi menjadi kenyataan. "Siap" brigade harus menjadi bawaan udara dalam tempoh 18 jam dengan tujuan untuk menstabilkan kawasan di hadapan pasukan tentera Amerika Syarikat yang lebih kekal boleh bergerak.
Latihan itu ditanggung dari tahun 2012 Tentera Darat Amerika Syarikat dokumen strategi yang mencatat pergeseran apa kekuatan darat mungkin hadapi di masa depan, menyerukan pindah dari taktik kontra dari perang di Iraq dan Afghanistan dan ancaman yang banyak pelbagai, mungkin di tengah-tengah timur.
Tentera Amerika Syarikat mungkin mendapatkan apa yang ia dilatih dalam negara Islam kerana ia berjuang untuk wilayah yang banyak di tengah-tengah perang sau-dara di Syria dan penduduk yang dibahagikan di Iraq,
"Medan perang ini adalah sangat kompleks," kata Kolonel Christopher C. LaNeve, komander kumpulan operasi bagi Kesediaan Bersama Pusat Latihan dan seorang bekas komandan brigade. "Apa yg mempersiapkan Anda utk memerangi Negara Islam adalah menjadi sangat ganas pd masa ini anda perlu, & minit2 seterusnya dapat menangani orang awam."
The brigade finished the exercise prior to being named the main aspect of the US Global Response Force, “a combined air-ground assault force that for the next eight months will be on high alert.”
The Pentagon has for years maintained such a brigade from the 82nd Airborne should need for a quick-reaction operation materialize. The “ready” brigade has to be airborne within 18 hours with the aim of stabilizing an area before a more permanent US military team can move in.
The exercise was borne from a 2012 US Army strategy document that noted a shift in what ground forces may encounter in the future, calling for a move away from counterinsurgency tactics of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to more diverse threats, likely in the Middle East.
The US Army may get what it trained for in Islamic State as it fights for more territory amid civil war in Syria and a divided population in Iraq,
"This battlefield is incredibly complex," said Col. Christopher C. LaNeve, operations group commander for the Joint Readiness Training Center and a former brigade commander. "What prepares you for a fight against the Islamic State is being incredibly violent at the moment you have to, and the next minute being able to deal with civilians."
Njulaina - Beratus-ratus wanita & kanak-kanak perempuan yg tergolong dalam minoriti agama Yazidi telah diperbudak oleh Negara Islam militan, yang menjual mereka, memaksa mereka untuk berkahwin & memeluk agama Islam, bukan sahaja merosakkan kehidupan mereka, tetapi juga kehidupan keluarga mereka.
Di sempadan Iraq-Syria, RT Paula geser dalam menghubungi Amira, seorang wanita yang hidupnya berubah menjadi mimpi buruk selepas kakaknya ditangkap oleh Negara Islam (IS, yang sebelum ini ISIS) jihad kira-kira sebulan yang lalu.
Pemain berusia 27 tahun itu berjaya memanggil beliau dan mendedahkan bahawa jihad "yang menyakiti kami, mengeksploitasi kami, ramai di antara kita yang dijual". Perempuan tidak boleh melakukan apa sahaja untuk menyelamatkan diri. Apatah lagi, yang militan bahkan "jangan membiarkan kita membunuh diri kita sendiri."
Keluarga itu bimbang bahawa ia akan menjadi mustahil untuk mencari wanita itu walaupun jihad yang menekan: "Kami tidak pasti sama ada dia masih hidup"
"Hidup saya hancur,. Saya tidak fikir kita pernah dapat lagi kembali ke kehidupan yg normal, tidak selepas tewas saudari kami, keluarga saya ibu saya," kata Amira.
'WON’T Even let Us Kill OURSELVES': Ordeal Of
Enslaved Yazidi WOMEN . . .
Hundreds of women and girls belonging to the Yazidi religious minority have been enslaved by Islamic State militants, who are selling them, forcing them to marry and convert to Islam, ruining not only their lives, but also the lives of their families.
On the Iraqi-Syrian border, RT’s Paula Slier contacted Amira, a woman whose life turned into a nightmare after her sister was captured by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) jihadists about a month ago.
The 27-year-old managed to call her and revealed that the jihadists “are hurting us, exploiting us, many of us are being sold”. Women can’t do anything to save themselves. What’s more, the militants even “won’t let us kill ourselves."
The family fears that that it would be impossible to find the woman even if the jihadists are suppressed: "We are not sure if she is alive.”
"My life is ruined, my mother’s, my family’s. I don’t think we can ever go back to a normal life, not after losing our sister," Amira said.
Amira terdesak kerana beliau belum mendengar dari kakaknya, ISIS tawanan, selama hampir sebulan (Amira is desperate as she hasn't heard from her sister, ISIS captive, for nearly a month (Still from RT video)
Human Rights Watch (HRW) baru2 ini telah mengeluarkan satu laporan, menge-sahkan pelanggaran terhadap manusia yang berasal daripada masyarakat Yazidi, sebuah kumpulan agama minoriti Kurdis, oleh militan IS. HRW berkata ia berjaya mengesan 16 Yazidi yg melarikan diri perhambaan, dan juga ditemubual 2 wanita yang ditahan melalui telefon.
Wanita berkongsi cerita tentang beberapa kes rogol dan penukaran agama secara paksaan, dengan beberapa mangsa hanya kanak-kanak - militan hanya mengambil "orang2 yg mereka inginkan, kadang2 dengan kekerasan." Mereka menunjukkan bahawa ia adalah satu amalan biasa untuk IS untuk memisahkan orang tawanan ke dalam kategori, bergantung kepada umur dan jantina mereka.
Militan IS baru-baru ini diterbitkan justifikasi dalam talian untuk segala macam kejahatan pejuangnya boleh berbuat atas nama Allah "Kami akan . . . memper-budak wanita anda, dengan izin Allah Ta'ala"
Perhatian khusus dari militan IS pergi ke Yazidi, yang mereka anggap sebagai penyembah syaitan.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has recently releaseda report, confirming abuses against people belonging to Yazidi community, a minority Kurdish religious group, by the IS militants. HRW said it successfully tracked down 16 Yazidis who escaped slavery, and also interviewed two detained women via phone.
The women shared stories of multiple rapes and forced religious conversions, with some of the victims just children – militants just picked up “those they desired, sometimes with force.” They revealed that it was a common practice for IS to separate its captives into categories, depending on their age and sex.
The IS militants recently published online justifications to all sorts of crimes its fighters may do in the name of Allah: "We will . . . enslave your women, by the permission of Allah, the Exalted."
A special attention of the IS militants went to Yazidi, whom they regard as devil worshippers.
Beratus-ratus Yazidi wanita muda dan gadis-gadis remaja telah diperbudak oleh ISIS (Hundreds of Yazidi young women and teenage girls have been enslaved by ISIS (Still from RT video)
"Selepas penangkapan, wanita dan kanak-kanak Yazidi kemudian dibagi sesuai dengan syariah di kalangan para pejuang Negara Islam yang mengambil bahagian dalam operasi Sinjar."
Sebuah agama sekte yang dengan kira2 1 juta pengikut, Yazidi berakar dalam Zoroastrianisme, agama Mesopotamia purba, & beberapa pengaruh agama Kristian dan Islam. Beratus-ratus ribu orang terpaksa meninggalkan rumah masing2 di sebuah kota dari Sinjar di Iraq barat utk menyelamatkan diri daripada militan IS.
“After capture, the Yazidi women and children were then divided according to the Sharia amongst the fighters of the Islamic State who participated in the Sinjar operations.”
A religious sect with around 1 million followers, Yazidi has roots in Zoroastrianism, an ancient Mesopotamian religion, and some influences of Christianity and Islam. Hundreds of thousands of people had to leave their homes in a town of Sinjar in western Iraq to save themselves from IS militants.
Askar Amerika Syarikat ditempatkan di Latvia duduk di dalam tangki Abrams dalam sebuah simulasi di pangkalan tentera Adazi 14 Okt 2014 (U.S. soldiers deployed in Latvia sit in an Abrams tank during a drill at Adazi military base October 14, 2014 (Reuters/Ints Kalnins)
Njulaina - Kereta kebal Amerika Syarikat yang tiba di Latvia sebagai NATO lenturan kudrat dalam acara jelas kekuatan menuju Moscow. Mesin-mesin yang sedang digunakan di seluruh Amerika Baltik dan Poland dalam tempoh 2 minggu akan datang dan akan digunakan untuk latihan.
Bahagian Kavaleri-1, yang berpusat di Fort Hood di Texas, tlh dikerahkan di Adazi, tidak jauh dari ibu negara Latvia Riga. 150 tentara menggunakan 5 buah kereta kebal M1A2 Abrams, serta 11 Kenderaan Pertempuran Bradley dalam demonstrasi latihan.
Panglima Briged 1 Bahagian Kavaleri-1, John Di Giambattista berkata, "Ini adalah lebih daripada sekadar satu misi latihan ini adalah lebih daripada sekadar perja-lanan merentasi Atlantik;.. Ini adalah lebih daripada latihan multinasional ini ada-lah bagaimana kami menunjukkan komitmen negara kita untuk meyakinkan sekutu NATO kami, "Reuters melaporkan
US tanks Arrive in Latvia to WARD Off ‘perceived’
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US tanks have arrived in Latvia as NATO flexes its muscles in an apparent show of strength towards Moscow. The machines are being deployed across the Baltic States and Poland over the next two weeks and will be used for training exercises.
The 1st Cavalry Division, based at Fort Hood in Texas, was deployed in Adazi, not far from the Latvian capital of Riga. 150 soldiers used five M1A2 Abrams tanks, as well as 11 Bradley Fighting Vehicles in a training demonstration.
The commander of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division, John Di Giambattista said, "This is more than just a training mission. This is more than just a trip across the Atlantic; this is more than a multinational training exercise. This is how we demonstrate our nations' commitment to reassure our NATO allies," Reuters reports.
Latvians, serta jiran Baltik dan Poland telah menyambut penyebaran pasukan dan kereta kebal sebagai penghalang kepada ancaman yang dirasakan dari Rusia. Ini adalah salah satu penempatan terbesar pasukan tentera ke dalam sebahagian dari bekas Kesatuan Soviet.
Martins Liberts, yang merupakan Panglima Briged Infantri Latvia, berkata bahawa ia adalah baik utk pasukan negaranya untuk dgn bekerjasama sehingga peralatan ketenteraan kini.
"Secara jujur, sejak merdeka, kita tidak mempunyai peluang untuk bekerja dengan kereta kebal sebagai sekutu, tetapi kami akan melakukan itu sekarang. Ia akan menjadi satu pengalaman yang unik," katanya, menurut Reuters.
Latvians, as well as their Baltic neighbors and Poland have welcomed the deploy-ment of the troops and tanks as a deterrent to the perceived threat of Russia. This is one of the largest placements of US military forces into part of the former Soviet Union.
Martins Liberts, who is the Commander of the Latvian Infantry Brigade, said that it was good for his country’s army to work with up to date military equipment.
"To be honest, since independence, we have not had the chance to work with tanks as allies, but we will do that now. It will be a unique experience," he said, according to Reuters.
# Pasukan pertama 2-8 CAV telah mengambil alih misi di Poland dan di Baltik (#FirstTeam's 2-8 CAV has taken over the mission in Poland and in the Baltics. #LiveTheLegend) 7:59 AM - 14 Oct 2014
Abrams M1A2 adalah upgrade dari Abram M1A1, yg tlh digunakan dlm pertempu-ran semasa Perang Teluk 1991. Abrams bersenjata dgn M256A1 120mm meriam halus membosankan, sementara mereka juga mempunyai satu mesin M240 7.62mm gun.The kekuatan tempur terdiri dari sekitar 700 tentera dan 20 kereta kebal.
"Tujuannya adalah utk menjadi demonstrasi yg jelas dari komitmen untuk sekutu-sekutu kami. Kita mungkin mengambil sedikit lebih lama untuk menyebarkan dari pasukan yg lebih ringan, tetapi tidak ada yang seperti tangki jika anda benar2 ingin mencapai kesannya, "kata Kapten John Petani, pegawai hal ehwal awam utk Iron-horse, sebagai Bahagian Kavaleri-1 atau yang dikenal pada awal Oktober ‘in early October’, sebelum penyebaran itu dibuat.
The Abrams M1A2 is an upgrade of the Abram M1A1, which was used in combat during the 1991 Gulf War. The Abrams are armed with a M256A1 120mm smooth bore cannon, while they also feature one M240 7.62mm machine gun.The combat force consists of around 700 troops and 20 tanks.
“The purpose is to be a very visible demonstration of commitment to our allies. We may take slightly longer to deploy than lighter forces, but there’s nothing like a tank if you really want to achieve effect,” said Captain John Farmer, public affairs officer for Ironhorse, as the 1st Cavalry Division is otherwise knownin early October, before the deployment was made.
Tentera Amerika Syarikat, dikerahkan di Latvia dengan pasukan Combat 1 Berkuda Bahagian Briged 1, menghadiri upacara giliran di pangkalan tentera Adazi 14 Oktober 2014 (U.S, soldiers deployed in Latvia with the 1st Cavalry Division 1st Brigade Combat team, attend a rotation ceremony at Adazi military base October 14, 2014 (Reuters/Ints Kalnins)
Bahagian 1 Berkuda akan menggantikan beberapa pasukan Amerika Syarikat ber-senjata ringan, yg dikerahkan pada bulan Mac, berikutan referendum di Crimea, di mana penduduk tempatan yang dipilih utk menyerahkan dari Ukraine dan melihat semenanjung menjadi sebahagian daripada Rusia.
Bahagian 1 Berkuda mempunyai sejarah yg panjang, yg telah ditubuhkan pada tahun 1921. Sejak itu bahagian ini berjuang dalam Perang DUNIA yang Ke-II, dan juga kemudiannya di Korea dan Vietnam. Dalam abad yang ke-21, unit ini telah terlibat dalam lawatan ke Iraq dan Afghanistan. Bahagian ini juga telah melanda skrin besar, telah muncul dalam epik Amerika perang Vietnam, wahyu Sekarang.
The 1st Cavalry Division will replace a number of lightly armed US paratroopers, who were deployed in March, following a referendum in Crimea, where local residents elected tocede from Ukraineand saw the peninsula becoming part ofRussia.
The 1st Cavalry Division has a long history, having been formed in 1921. Since then the division fought in the Second World War, as well as subsequently in Korea and Vietnam. In the 21st Century, the unit has been involved in tours to Iraq and Afghanistan. The division has also hit the big screen, having appeared in the American Vietnam War epic, Apocalypse Now.
Tentera Amerika Syarikat ditempatkan di Latvia melakukan selama latihan di pangkalan tentera Adazi Oktober 14, 2014 (U.S. soldiers deployed in Latvia perform during a drill at Adazi military base October 14, 2014 (Reuters/Ints Kalnins)
Ini bukan kereta-kereta kebal pertama yang telah dikerahkan di Eropah sejak akhir Perang Dingin. Pada bulan Januari tahun ini, 29 kereta kebal Abrams M1A2 telah dihantar ke Jerman ‘sent to Germany’ utk menggantikan versi lama dari kende-raan tentera yang sama.
Kereta-kereta kebal Abrams akan menyertai 33 M2A3 Bradley Perang Infantri kenderaan serta pelbagai lain kenderaan sokongan berat yang akan diletakkan sekurang-kurangnya Grafenwohr, iaitu kira-kira 220 kilometer ke utara Munich dan digunakan untuk latihan.
These are not the first tanks to have been deployed in Europe since the end of the Cold War. In January this year, 29 Abrams M1A2 tanks weresent to Germanyto replace older versions of the same military vehicles.
The Abrams tanks will join 33 M2A3 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles as well as numerous other heavy support vehicles that will be positioned at Grafenwohr, which is around 220 kilometers north of Munich and used for training exercises.
Tentera Amerika Syarikat ditempatkan di Latvia melakukan selama latihan di pangkalan tentera Adazi 14 Oktober 2014 (U.S. soldiers deployed in Latvia perform during a drill at Adazi military base October 14, 2014 (Reuters/Ints Kalnins)
Penyebaran Bahagian 1 Berkuda di Latvia adalah akibat langsung dari suatu per-janjian bagi mewujudkan pasukan gerak cepat di Eropah Timur, berikutan sidang kemuncak NATO di UK pada bulan September.
"Ini adalah pertunjukan perpaduan dan tekad kita," kata bekas Setiausaha Agung NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen pada sidang kemuncak itu di Cardiff pada awal Sep-tember. "Sekiranya anda pernah berfikir utk menyerang satu kumpulan, anda akan menghadapi seluruh pakatan," kata bekas Perdana Menteri Denmark.
Baltik Amerika telah menjadi pendukung kuat yang NATO memperkuat di rantau ini, tetapi organisasi adalah tertakluk di bawah perjanjian 1997 dengan Rusia, yang melarang daripada meletakkan pangkalan-pangkalan tentera di Lithuania, Latvia atau Estonia. Hal ini dapat dielakkan dgn melakukan putaran berterusan "latihan" yang boleh dalam jumlah latihan untuk perkara yang sama.
The deployment of the 1st Cavalry Division in Latvia is a direct result of an agree-ment for creating a rapid reaction force in Eastern Europe, following the NATO summit in the UK in September.
“This is a demonstration of our solidarity and resolve,” said formerNATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussenat the summit in Cardiff in early September. "Should you even think of attacking one ally, you will be facing the whole alliance,” the former Danish Prime Minister added.
The Baltic States have been among the most vocal advocates of NATO strengthe-ning in the region, but the organization is bound by a 1997 agreement with Russia, which bars it from placing permanent bases in Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia. This can be circumvented by staging constant rotations of “exercises” that can in practice amount to the same thing.
