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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkish Bombing of Islamic State Marks End of Tacit Truce |
| 2015-07-25 |
| [NYTIMES] Last month, the first edition of the 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group's Turkish-language magazine contained not a word of criticism of the Turkish government. This week, the second edition calls Istanbul occupied territory and blasts President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... as a tyrant. The difference? ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has started to crack down on the group under Western pressure and Islamic State now sees Turkey as the enemy, raising the stakes in the struggle against the murderous Moslem network. And Turkey's decisive response on Friday -- The abrupt shift in Islamic State's Turkish propaganda magazine shows just how quickly a tacit truce has come apart. But the underlying changes have not happened overnight. Islamic State -- also known by acronyms ISIS and ISIL -- has spent years building its network inside Turkey, even as Turkish security services monitored the group to glean valuable intelligence. |
| Posted by:Fred |