On Thursday evening, ISIS vehicle bombs were detonated in three neighborhoods in the Kurdish-held town of Tel Tamar, in the northeastern Hasakeh Province of Syria. At the time, 15 were confirmed killed, though many were buried in the rubble, raising concerns about a higher toll.
Those predictions proved tragically accurate, as by Friday afternoon, the toll had risen to 60 civilians killed, and as many as 80 others wounded in the incident. ISIS has since confirmed its responsibility for the bombs, which were three trucks packed full of explosives, saying they targeted Kurdish bases.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that there was “confirmed information” about casualties among Kurdish security, though the exact figures are unclear. The attacks were in heavily populated areas, including a marketplace and near a hospital, leading to the massive civilian toll.
Earlier this week ISIS had reported advancing onto hills overlooking the town. It is common for ISIS to start launching bombings against a town in the days leading up to an assault, harming the morale of defense forces, and overwhelming the limited medical facilities of the towns even before fighting begins.
Well, let's remove the infidel from power, and all will be well. And as Obama and other dumb and dumber western leaders in unison exclaim — Assad must go — millions of Salafi "true believers" are ready to die as they are cheered on! Let's feed the very ideology that kills, let's encourage it, let's keep their hope alive that they will with our help topple Assad, and with him crush what is today the bravest army on planet — Syrian Army. Let's give them air, let's give them ammunition, let their ideology takes wings. Ideology is not killed by bombs, it has to be defeated by firmly standing on the side of civilization of diversity. And in Syria, we are destroying the last diverse country in the Middle East. We need to really congratulate ourselves. The country where all faiths lived side by side, where women lived as they chose — that we want to destroy because the "true believers", Saudi Wahhabi sponsored Salafism demands that we do it?
Who are we? Do we know ourselves any more? Sun Tzu's lesson comes to mind. To win you have to know not just your enemy but also yourself.