dante. 7,795 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 AP - An American fighting with Kurdish forces against the Islamic State group in Syria has been killed in battle, authorities said Wednesday, making him likely the first U.S. citizen to die fighting alongside them against the extremists. Keith Broomfield, who was from Massachusetts, died June 3 in a battle in a Syrian village named Qentere, near the border town Kobani, said Nasser Haji, an official with a group of Kurdish fighters known as the YPG. Broomfield had joined the YPG on February 24 under the nom de guerre Gelhat Raman, said Haji, who didn't elaborate on the circumstances of his death. U.S. Department of State spokesman Jeff Rathke confirmed Broomfield's death but declined to provide any details about the circumstances. He said the U.S. was providing consular assistance to his family. A friend of Broomfield, Joel O'Toole, said Broomfield went to Syria a few months ago to fight after becoming inspired by something he saw on television. "I think it's incredible," O'Toole told WHDH-TV. "It says a lot for someone to be motivated to get behind a cause like that and do something." A man who answered the door at a home in Bolton, Massachusetts, listed as owned by Broomfield's family said the family would not be commenting. No one answered the door at a family-operated business, Broomfield Laboratories, in the town. The fight against the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, has attracted dozens of Westerners, including Iraq war veterans who have made their way back to the Middle East to join Kurdish fighters, who have been most successful against the extremist group. Many are spurred on by Kurdish social media campaigners and a sense of duty rooted in the 2003 U.S.-led military invasion of Iraq, where ISIS fighters recently have rolled back gains U.S. troops had made. And while the U.S. and its coalition allies bomb the extremists from the air, Kurds say they hope more Westerners will join them on the ground to fight. Previously, a British citizen, an Australian and a German woman were killed fighting with the Kurds. Backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, Kurdish YPG fighters in Syria have successfully pushed back ISIS militants from Kobani and scores of nearby villages. More recently, they have closed in on the ISIS-held town of Tal Abyad, near the Turkish border. The town is the ISIS's main access point to Turkey from Raqqa, the group's de facto capital in Syria. source i'm a syrian jew and despite the fact that half my family was forced out of syria thanks to anti-jewish sentiments/riots.. seeing syria in shambles is just.. it hurts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chioma 4,091 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I am all up for war against ISIS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liya18 995 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I am all up for war against ISIS. well the real question is, who founded isis?...and the answer is obvious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chioma 4,091 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 well the real question is, who founded isis?...and the answer is obvious Abu Ayyub al-Masri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dante. 7,795 Posted June 11, 2015 Author Share Posted June 11, 2015 well the real question is, who founded isis?...and the answer is obvious america didn't fund or train ISIS (unlike other terrorist groups). america created a power vacuum that enabled ISIS to rise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liya18 995 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 america didn't fund or train ISIS (unlike other terrorist groups). america created a power vacuum that enabled ISIS to rise. Abu Ayyub al-Masri "U.S. Airdrops Weapons to ISIS" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chioma 4,091 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 "U.S. Airdrops Weapons to ISIS" That doesnt mean they founded the foundations of ISIS. ISIS had started around the 1999. Thats was before US and the iraq war And those weapons were illegal bought and some were given during the iraq war. USA is not giving any weapons to a terrorist group after the iraq war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dante. 7,795 Posted June 11, 2015 Author Share Posted June 11, 2015 "U.S. Airdrops Weapons to ISIS" http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Research/Files/Reports/2014/11/profiling%20islamic%20state%20lister/en_web_lister.pdf if you really want to know about ISIS, this is a good start, bub. my friend (whose job is to research politics in the Middle East) recommended it to me when I said i wanted to know more about ISIS . only a starting point, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arsene Lupin 3,500 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 "U.S. Airdrops Weapons to ISIS" Dont be foolish, if US was helping ISIS why would would they send jets to bomb them? http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/05/24/412628/US-ISIL-Iraq-Mowaffak-alRubaie http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/28/us-military-pilots-complain-hands-tied-in-frustrating-fight-against-isis/ and US just trains ''moderate rebels'' and gives them weapons who just all fight ISIS after getting all their guns http://www.ibtimes.com/us-backed-moderate-group-syria-signs-truce-isis-reports-1687662 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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