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Terror Networks
IS: a global challenge
2014-11-13
[DAWN] THE sensational rise of IS, also known as Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 has caused global panic. It has also dramatically altered geopolitics, producing strange bedfellows. Putting aside their hostilities, the US and Iran now stand on the same side of the divide joining efforts to beat back the IS juggernaut. Also on the same side are the Arab countries.

The anti-IS campaign has created a coalition of 62 nations that includes Soddy Arabia
Posted by:Fred

#6  Thanks Pappy.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-11-13 16:37  

#5  Will someone please fix my pretty strike out in the above. My gratitude will be minimal, but real.

Done.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-11-13 05:56  

#4  Mystic, ISIS are the Sunni flavor of homicidal maniacs, as such they don't worry about Timmy in the well the hidden Immam. It's your Shia flavor of homicidal maniacs that want Lassie to die the occulted one to emerge from his well and commence scalp cutting in the name of a peaceful and righteous gawd.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-11-13 05:54  

#3  * WORLD NEWS > [National Journal] MOVE [Obama] TO AUTHORIZE MILITARY FORCE AGZ ISLAMIC STATE UNLIKELY IN LAME DUCK.

Lest we fergit, as an anti-US US Globalist, the Bammer's job as POTUS is to take no mil action or only minimum mil action, or otherwise to fall back before the tide.

HOW MUCH IS "TOO MUCH", HOW FAR IS "TOO FAR", ETC. BEFORE THE US, AS A SOVEREIGN NATION ANDOR AS AN IDEA, BECOMES EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED?
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-11-13 02:02  

#2  If ISIS followers are 12ers, they believe they can precipitate the return of the 12th Imam by starting the end time through a world wide religious war between Islam and everyone else.

Hence the appearance of irrational behavior by ISIS which actually makes sense to them based on their belief in the return of the 12th Imam...something the Saudis have promulgated through their evangelizing of Wahhabism.
Posted by: Mystic   2014-11-13 01:53  

#1  To defeat the rising threat from KSA/Arabian Peninsula-based Shia rebels, will Base-too-far Qatar ask the Qaeda + ISIS Boyz to mil intervene agz Iran-backed local Shia Rebs on the Peninsula, thus provoking a Qatar-Iran mil confrontation which in turn leads to a Saudi-Iran war which in turn provokes a US-Iran war???

just askin.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-11-13 01:32  

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