After pushing back into the Sha’ar Gas Field late last week, ISIS seems to be continuing their offensive in the Homs Province, now taking the nearby Jahar field.
ISIS posted photos showing their flag flying over the Jahar field today online, and also posted photos they claimed were Syrian vehicles and weaponry seized during the battle to take the site.
Casualties were not reported so far, but ISIS’ statement claimed they’d not only taken the gas field, but the village of Jahar as well, and had taken two tanks among the vehicles.
The gas fields in Homs are one of the last major energy resources that the Syrian government still had, and their loss would further weaken the economy of the Assad government’s territory, while further expanding the already oil-rich ISIS control over regional energy reserves.
Not good. Assad needs to launch some major offensive at take those oil fields back. Where's Russia's help when you could use it?
It could be a false impression, but it is beginning to look like ISIS was created to be criminal, brutal and most perfect for the downfall of Syria, but with no ability to win the hearts and minds of the people, giving our Empire an easy way to establish another Western loving fascist dictatorship.
Then again, it could all backfire for our loser of an Empire, as Syria could end up::
(1) Abolishing divorce court, guaranteeing to each man a wife for life.
(2) No teenage boy allowed to drool over the curve and shape of any woman’s buttock.
(3) No one allowed to enrich themselves upon the misery of the ignorant.
(4) In every Western democracy the educated upper half hoards all the wealth. This would be abolished.
(5) In every Western democracy the laboring-class is kept impoverished by starvation wages. This would be abolished.
(6) In every Western democracy the big banks establish a monopoly over the economy. In the Islamic State there are no big banks.
Amazing. If we believe the news, it seems the more the US bombs ISIS, the more territory they gain, the more gas and oil fields they take.
And then you have articles on Yahoo that talk as though the loss of these means they are gone for good from Syrian control.
Why does it seem like the Obongos are helping to create a new state that:
1) Has access to natural resources stolen from Iraq and Syria
2) Is not (at least openly) hostile to Israel.