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2014-07-11 Terror Networks

Al Qaeda To ISIS: Get Off My Lawn—The Theological Debate Behind The Caliphate

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-07-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant

#1 Can we hope for a fight?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-07-11 04:52|| 2014-07-11 04:52|| Front Page Top

#2 IOW it'll come down to something like this:
"Je veux devenir calife à la place du calife"

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2014-07-11 08:06|| 2014-07-11 08:06|| Front Page Top

#3 I read the article through. The author, I think, confuses elements of the sitrep: theology for politics, ideology for war-fighting capacity, the fevers of youth for political astuteness. Still, a useful read.

Baghdadi is a competent field commander. Zarqawi was a psycho case, merely brutal. Zawahiri is a rump session for a Salafist movement that moves way beyond his remit. Baghdadi also has the taunting/mocking skill of Occupy White House and as much propensity to use it. The press love him for that.

Occupy White House will not touch him. And I still think Saud and Qatar fund him, which the article author does not touch one way or another and is important, either way.

Posted by TopRev 2014-07-11 14:14|| 2014-07-11 14:14|| Front Page Top

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