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2015-05-29 Terror Networks

Emboldened in Syria and Iraq, Islamic State may be reaching limits of expansion

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-05-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 maybe peaking in Syria and Iraq but still in early growth phase in other countries e.g., Libya, Nigeria, Somalia, Yeman

Posted by lord garth 2015-05-29 00:40|| 2015-05-29 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 My personal theory du jour, is that ISIS gotta make good their massive losses.

Posted by badanov 2015-05-29 01:21|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2015-05-29 01:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Yea, well, it's no fun to be a western Muslim apologist nowadays---but, at least, it pays well.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-05-29 04:45|| 2015-05-29 04:45|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm sure the contemporaries thought the same as the first Muslim expansion reached Cairo and Jerusalem. As recently demonstrated in Iraq, the number of people willing 'to die on that hill' to stop them seems rather concentrated in and around the Kurdish areas and ISIL has more than everyone else to do so every other place.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-05-29 07:48|| 2015-05-29 07:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Our new strategy is to feed the crocodile until it's stomach bursts.

Posted by ed in texas 2015-05-29 07:59|| 2015-05-29 07:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Sounds like the prelude to a break-out.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2015-05-29 11:52|| 2015-05-29 11:52|| Front Page Top

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