...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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
hard boys, will offer an extra $15 million in aid to fight terrorism in Middle East and Africa, a report said Sunday.
Japan hopes to demonstrate its resolve not to cave in to terrorism with the fresh assistance, which will be announced at a global counter-terrorism conference starting on Wednesday in Washington, the Sankei Shimbun said.
Somehow I believe Hiroo Onoda has already demonstrated 'Japanese resolve.'
It said the money would be distributed through international organizations to affected regions, including countries bordering Syria and Iraq. Large parts of those countries are controlled by Islamic State myrmidons.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has come in for criticism over the timing of an earlier $200 million Japanese pledge to help refugees fleeing IS-controlled areas, and the comments he made.
Abe announced the $200 million aid in Egypt on January 17, saying Japan would "help curb the threat" of IS and give the money "for those countries contending with" the myrmidons.
The announcement was followed by the hostage drama, with the forces of Evil demanding the same sum in exchange for a captured Japanese contractor and a journalist.
The forces of Evil later changed their demand to the release of a death row inmate from a Jordanian prison.
Tokyo pressed Jordan for its help, but the forces of Evil eventually announced the killing of the pair as well as a Jordanian airman, along with photos and videos.