Rather, it's contemplating sending Kurdish boots to the border where the refugees are crossing. The President said "military aid doesn't always mean bullets." And Turkey's foreign minister wasn't happy with John Kerry's criticism at the U.N. Kerry said Turkey had to do more. The minister said Kerry doesn't get to assign homework to Turkey.

Kerry, "We want to see Turkey in the forefront of the" words: So far Turkey is also a lot of things to be done, who did what? Does anyone put pressure on them? I give homework to Turkey, such an authority there? Syria 'We have repeatedly warned,' This business is getting worse. ' What did you do? If Turkey's own interests require what determines the roadmap. Turkey is not obliged to prove anything.

The airstrikes seem heavily geared towards ISIS, rather than the group the U.S. calls Khorasan (which as every media outlet has now reported, is not a group, but a region, and the fighters from the Khorasan region, which include Afghan Taliban, Pakistani Taliban and Chechens are hard core al Qaida who, once reaching Syria in the spring of 2013, teamed up with AQI/al Nusra. So far, the strikes have killed one leader of the al Qaida group being called Khorasan (anothers death is unconfirmed but seems likely.)

The SITE Intelligence Group reported that an "al Qaeda member who trained under Abu Khalid al Suri and fought in Khorasan (Afghanistan-Pakistan region) before traveling to Syria, confirmed the deaths of senior officials Muhsin al Fadhli (AKA Abu Asma'a al-Kuwaiti) and Abu Yusuf al Turki." Al Qaeda and the Al Nusrah Front have not issued a formal statement announcing al Fadhli's death.

Months ago, Nusra was in a bad spot, low on machinery and other war toys. In 2013, it and ISIS had become enemies. Now the air strikes have given them a common enemy: The U.S. and its allies.

Al Qaida Central and its leader Zawahiri don't seem to be warming to ISIS, so it's not clear that al Nusra and ISIS will kiss and make up, despite predictions by many a rejoinder is on the horizon. But both are now openly threatening the west.

Here's a short video showing a civilian casualty of the airstrikes in Raqqa.

Bottom line: Yesterday we had one enemy that said it would ask people already in the allied countries to go after civilians here. Now there are two groups. While ISIS is stronger, it's hard to see Nusra doing anything except either patching up its differences with ISIS or striking out on its own, with added assistance from al Qaida.

I haven't even gotten to the jailers holding the hostages yet. That will be my next post tomorrow.

Here's a training video with Abu Waheeb (Wahib) in which he does somersaults while holding his large rifle and then gets up perfectly, ready to fire. He does it starting at the four minute mark, for over a minute. He is the number one photogenic guy in ISIS -- and pretty scary looking. He looks like he's in his 40's but he's in his late 20's. He is ISIS' military commander in the Anbar province. He's as contradictory as the rest of ISIS. He doesn't cover his face, even when killing. And there are as many photos of him smiling, talking to a child or holding a bird as there are of him beheading people by the roadside or fighting.

I think the keys to the jail/hostage story will be the head jailer in Aleppo/Dana, Abu Obeida Al Maghribi, a Dutchman (who was from North Africa). More on that here. The hostages guarded by the Belgian jailers have said they worked for him. ISIS reportedly killed him the day after the James Foley video surfaced, because there were rumors he had given information to MI5.

The other person in charge of prisons was ISIS commander, Amru al-Absi (aka al-Athir al-Shami). He supposedly was in charge of kidnappings and security at the jail near Raqqa and the Turkey border crossing. His story (and that of his murdered brother, Faras al Ibsi) is here and here. Since we are still bombing in those areas, I sure hope the U.S. doesn't hit the hostages.