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In reply to the discussion: Islamic State 'retreating' in key Syria town of Kobane [View all]The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)Here is a typical example:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2786890/Funerals-fallen-battle-against-ISIS-Kurds-Hezbollah-bury-dead-desperately-try-stop-extremists-rampage.html
The headline says 'Funerals for the fallen in the battle against ISIS: Kurds and Hezbollah bury their dead as they desperately try to stop the extremists' rampage'.
The first sentence runs: 'Kurdish and Hezbollah fighters have been killed in suicide bombings and border clashes with ISIS militants as they fight to stop the extremists from extending their influence across the region.'
One can see where a person in a hurry to appear authoritative might take that as indicating two bodies fighting side by side, but of course no one with much knowledge of the geography and course of the conflict to date would have made that mistake, even on a cursory glance. And the body of the article makes it clear that the reference is to events in two widely separated locales, border regions of Lebanon, for the Hezbollah fighters, and the on-going battles on the Turkish border for the Kurds.
There is a small fundamentalist Kurdish group calling itself 'Party of God' ( Hezbollah ), but it is not affiliated with the Lebanese Shi'a body, and its militants and those of the P.K.K. shoot one another periodically.
It is worth point out this is hardly the first time you have done this. I remember well your citing not too long ago an article reporting that a large number of Yizidi were refugees in a particular location in support of a hasty claim you had made that most of the refugees in that place were Christians....