Paris Terror Attack : 35 dead, 100 held hostage

[minicarph]

what can you say of the exodus of foreigners, mostly not muslims, going to syria and fight isis cause with cultists vigor?

May zombie apocalypse dyan talaga.

[ClaNker]

Paris Bomber Sneaked in With Refugees, Officials Say

The route from Turkey across the Mediterranean and into Europe has been a perilous one for thousands of refugees fleeing the violence in Syria, but European authorities say one terrorist hidden among the innocents on a packed Greece-bound boat in early October was determined to bring the bloodshed with him -- all the way to Paris.

Ayan malinaw na.

[Juan Martinez]

"The group seized Mosul, Iraq, last June, and already rules an area larger than the United Kingdom. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been its leader since May 2010, but until last summer, his most recent known appearance on film was a grainy mug shot from a stay in U.S. captivity at Camp Bucca during the occupation of Iraq. Then, on July 5 of last year, he stepped into the pulpit of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, to deliver a Ramadan sermon as the first caliph in generations—upgrading his resolution from grainy to high-definition, and his position from hunted guerrilla to commander of all Muslims. The inflow of jihadists that followed, from around the world, was unprecedented in its pace and volume, and is continuing."

[Juan Martinez]

"Our ignorance of the Islamic State is in some ways understandable: It is a hermit kingdom; few have gone there and returned. Baghdadi has spoken on camera only once. But his address, and the Islamic State’s countless other propaganda videos and encyclicals, are online, and the caliphate’s supporters have toiled mightily to make their project knowable. We can gather that their state rejects peace as a matter of principle; that it hungers for genocide; that its religious views make it constitutionally incapable of certain types of change, even if that change might ensure its survival; and that it considers itself a harbinger of—and headline player in—the imminent end of the world."

[Juan Martinez]

"The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), follows a distinctive variety of Islam whose beliefs about the path to the Day of Judgment matter to its strategy, and can help the West know its enemy and predict its behavior. Its rise to power is less like the triumph of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (a group whose leaders the Islamic State considers apostates) than like the realization of a dystopian alternate reality in which David Koresh or Jim Jones survived to wield absolute power over not just a few hundred people, but some 8 million."

[Juan Martinez]

"We have misunderstood the nature of the Islamic State in at least two ways. First, we tend to see jihadism as monolithic, and to apply the logic of al‑Qaeda to an organization that has decisively eclipsed it. The Islamic State supporters I spoke with still refer to Osama bin Laden as “Sheikh Osama,” a title of honor. But jihadism has evolved since al-Qaeda’s heyday, from about 1998 to 2003, and many jihadists disdain the group’s priorities and current leadership.

Bin Laden viewed his terrorism as a prologue to a caliphate he did not expect to see in his lifetime. His organization was flexible, operating as a geographically diffuse network of autonomous cells. The Islamic State, by contrast, requires territory to remain legitimate, and a top-down structure to rule it. (Its bureaucracy is divided into civil and military arms, and its territory into provinces.)"

[Juan Martinez]

"We are misled in a second way, by a well-intentioned but dishonest campaign to deny the Islamic State’s medieval religious nature. Peter Bergen, who produced the first interview with bin Laden in 1997, titled his first book Holy War, Inc. in part to acknowledge bin Laden as a creature of the modern secular world. Bin Laden corporatized terror and franchised it out. He requested specific political concessions, such as the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Saudi Arabia. His foot soldiers navigated the modern world confidently. On Mohamed Atta’s last full day of life, he shopped at Walmart and ate dinner at Pizza Hut."

[Juan Martinez]

"The most-articulate spokesmen for that position are the Islamic State’s officials and supporters themselves. They refer derisively to “moderns.” In conversation, they insist that they will not—cannot—waver from governing precepts that were embedded in Islam by the Prophet Muhammad and his earliest followers. They often speak in codes and allusions that sound odd or old-fashioned to non-Muslims, but refer to specific traditions and texts of early Islam."

[Juan Martinez]

"To take one example: In September, Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the Islamic State’s chief spokesman, called on Muslims in Western countries such as France and Canada to find an infidel and “smash his head with a rock,” poison him, run him over with a car, or “destroy his crops.” To Western ears, the biblical-sounding punishments—the stoning and crop destruction—juxtaposed strangely with his more modern-sounding call to vehicular homicide. (As if to show that he could terrorize by imagery alone, Adnani also referred to Secretary of State John Kerry as an “uncircumcised geezer.”)

But Adnani was not merely talking trash. His speech was laced with theological and legal discussion, and his exhortation to attack crops directly echoed orders from Muhammad to leave well water and crops alone—unless the armies of Islam were in a defensive position, in which case Muslims in the lands of kuffar, or infidels, should be unmerciful, and poison away."

[Juan Martinez]

"The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. Yes, it has attracted psychopaths and adventure seekers, drawn largely from the disaffected populations of the Middle East and Europe. But the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam."

[Juan Martinez]

"Virtually every major decision and law promulgated by the Islamic State adheres to what it calls, in its press and pronouncements, and on its billboards, license plates, stationery, and coins, “the Prophetic methodology,” which means following the prophecy and example of Muhammad, in punctilious detail. Muslims can reject the Islamic State; nearly all do. But pretending that it isn’t actually a religious, millenarian group, with theology that must be understood to be combatted, has already led the United States to underestimate it and back foolish schemes to counter it. We’ll need to get acquainted with the Islamic State’s intellectual genealogy if we are to react in a way that will not strengthen it, but instead help it self-immolate in its own excessive zeal."

[_Cathy_]

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[Juan Martinez]

people here have intellectual discussions until you came. and don't belittle media reports because most of the time that is where Intel info comes from. I'm sure you don't know that there is such a thing as intelligence cycle, and all raw infos are processed into this cycle.
have you ever wonder why all opcent have arrays of televisions tuned in to different channels?
I'm sure you don't know that because you haven't in in one.
now, that is angst

[minicarph]

people here have intellectual discussions until you came. and don't belittle media reports because most of the time that is where Intel info comes from. I'm sure you don't know that there is such a thing as intelligence cycle, and all raw infos are processed into this cycle.
have you ever wonder why all opcent have arrays of televisions tuned in to different channels?
I'm sure you don't know that because you haven't in in one.
now, that is angst

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[Monseratto]

Turkey shoot...

AC-130 Gunships And A-10s Destroy 116 ISIS Fuel Trucks

Over the Weekend the U.S. Air Force (USAF) operating out of Incirlik Air Base, in Turkey, destroyed 116 ISIS fuel trucks using two AC-130 gunships and four A-10 Warthogs, striking a major logistical and economical blow to the terrorist group. The airstrike was near Deir al-Zour, an area in eastern Syria controlled by ISIS. The terrorist group is reported to have 1,000 fuel transport trucks.

“This part of Tidal Wave II is designed to attack the distribution component of ISIL’s oil smuggling operation and degrade their capacity to fund their military operations,”- Colonel Steven H. Warren

Targeting fuel trucks used to be off limits because of the civilians operating them, but shortly after the Paris terrorist attacks the rules of engagement changed. Before destroying the tankers the USAF, using F-15s, dropped information leaflets telling the drivers to scatter as an attack was imminent. To show the drivers that USAF was serious they had A-10’s conduct strafing runs close to the trucks an hour before the strikes.

With France announcing they are at war, we will see an increase in operational tempo from the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic state.

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Turkey shoot...

AC-130 Gunships And A-10s Destroy 116 ISIS Fuel Trucks

Over the Weekend the U.S. Air Force (USAF) operating out of Incirlik Air Base, in Turkey, destroyed 116 ISIS fuel trucks using two AC-130 gunships and four A-10 Warthogs, striking a major logistical and economical blow to the terrorist group. The airstrike was near Deir al-Zour, an area in eastern Syria controlled by ISIS. The terrorist group is reported to have 1,000 fuel transport trucks.

“This part of Tidal Wave II is designed to attack the distribution component of ISIL’s oil smuggling operation and degrade their capacity to fund their military operations,”- Colonel Steven H. Warren

Targeting fuel trucks used to be off limits because of the civilians operating them, but shortly after the Paris terrorist attacks the rules of engagement changed. Before destroying the tankers the USAF, using F-15s, dropped information leaflets telling the drivers to scatter as an attack was imminent. To show the drivers that USAF was serious they had A-10’s conduct strafing runs close to the trucks an hour before the strikes.

With France announcing they are at war, we will see an increase in operational tempo from the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic state.

[Monseratto]

Who needs Putin?



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Putin comes in from the cold: Desperate world leaders cosy up to Russian President to get him to join the fight against ISIS

Desperate world leaders today lined up to try to woo Russian President Vladimir Putin to back global efforts to defeat ISIS.

For more than a year relations with Moscow have been in the deep freeze over Russian incursions in Ukraine.

But now Mr Putin is seen as holding the key to resolving the bloody civil war in Syria which has given rise to ISIS fanatics.

It has led to the spectacle of US President Barack Obama, British PM David Cameron and Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud posing for photos with the Russian President.

The Kremlin has been accused of using a campaign of airstrikes to target opponents of Syrian president Bashar Assad and not ISIS strongholds.

But world leaders now accept there is little hope of degrading and destroying ISIS without the co-operation of Russia.

Mr Cameron today offered 'compromises' to Russia on the future of Syrian dictator Assad in return for help targetting ISIS.

Read more: World leaders cosy up to Vladimir Putin to get him to join fight against ISIS | Daily Mail Online
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[badkuk]

Putin has claimed that militants/radicals in and around Russia are joining ISIS in droves, so it might be in Russia's best interests to fight ISIS...but i wouldn't put it past him to milk this to the last drop.

Do you guys think he'll put Russian boots on Syrian/ISIS grounds?

[ClaNker]

Who needs Putin?

The correct question is. Who need that stupid community organizer from WH?

That narcissistic idiot mocks ISIS as JV team and just recently claimed ISIS is contained. He want's ASAD thrown out not ISIS.

[safeorigin]

There's an attack in Garissa University in Kenya. 147 dead. Attackers are from Al Shabaab group. Winter campaign is going to be a blood bath.

One would think IS is coordinating with Al Qaeda from the way they have been coordinating with Al Nusra in Syria and Lybia.

[anonemus]

There's an attack in Garissa University in Kenya. 147 dead. Attackers are from Al Shabaab group. Winter campaign is going to be a blood bath.

One would think IS is coordinating with Al Qaeda from the way they have been coordinating with Al Nusra in Syria and Lybia.

Last April pa yan di ba?