Who is the Islamic State? (aka ISIS, aka ISIL)

President Obama wrote a secret letter to Iran's supreme leader about fighting ISIS.

Also, CNN says U.S. military indirectly coordinating activities in Iraq WITH IRAN, using Iraqi military as go-between.

 

$1M A Day!: ISIS Now 'World's Richest Terrorists' On Spoils of War

http://youtu.be/1vJ5B4I7oiE

"ISIS wants to start minting its own currency to challenge the global monetary system. RT's Maria Finoshina explains how the terrorists' economy made it this far."

Journalist who exposed ISIS has been killed (Oct 19)  in a suspicious car crash in Turkey. The US consulate has no interest in helping their national.

Quote:

  [Serena Shim had been reporting that] IS militants had crossed the border from Turkey into Syria in trucks apparently affiliated with NGOs, some of which allegedly bore World Food Organization symbols. She claimed that she had received images from Islamic State militants crossing the Turkish border and was one of the few reporters focusing on the matter.

Killed for reporting the news?

The Covert Origins of ISIS (and vid)

http://youtu.be/oMjXbuj7BPI

"Evidence exposing who put ISIS in power and how it was done..."

Gunman Takes Hostages in Sydney Cafe, Displays Black 'Jihadist' Flag (and vid)

http://rt.com/news/214395-australia-sydney-hostages-isis/

"The hostages were forced to hold a black flag with an Arabic inscription, prompting fears that ruthless 'Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL? militants were behind the attack.

Another report claimed the gunmen have explosive suicide belts..."

 

#Sydney Siege: 'Islamist' Hostage Drama in Australia LIVE UPDATES

http://rt.com/news/214399-sydney-hostages-islamists-updates/

"Another report claimed the gunmen have explosive suicide belts"

False-flag?

Who Created Cartoon Character 'Man Haron Monis' Behind 'Sydney Siege' Circus  -  by Tony Cartalucci

http://www.activistpost.com/2014/12/who-created-cartoon-character-man-ha...

"Previously an outspoken critic of the Iranian government, was interviewed by Australian media in 2001, loved Western society...As predicted, the suspect amid the 'Sydney Siege' has long been known on the radar of Australian law enforcement as well as a frequent visitor to Australia's court system.

He was interviewed by Australia's ABC network in 2001 as part of an ongoing anti-Iranian propaganda campaign."

Q&A: German Journalist on Surviving ISIL

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/2014/12/qa-german-journalist-surviving-...

"German journalist Jurgen Todenhofer, 74, embedded with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and spent 10 days in Mosul in northern Iraq with its fighters.

As far as our meetings with the ISIL fighters were concerned, the discussions were very hard. I have read the Quran many times and I always asked them about the value of mercy in Islam. I didn't see any mercy in their behaviour. Something that I don't understand at all is the enthusiasm in their plan of religious cleansing, planning to kill the non-believers. They will also kill democrats because they believe that they put the laws of human beings above the commandments of God.

There were very difficult discussions, especially when they were talking about the number of people who they are ready to kill. They were talking about hundreds of millions. They were enthusiastic about it, and I just can't understand that.

I had three strong impressions of ISIL. The first one was that ISIL is much stronger than we think. They have conquered an area which is bigger than Great Britain. Every day hundreds of new enthusiastic fighters are arriving. There is incredible enthusiasm that I have never seen in war zones.

Secondly, the brutality of their religious cleansing is on another level. And thirdly, I think the strategy of the western countries is completely wrong. They are a terror-breeding programme. We had fewer terrorsts before 2001 and these bombardments...Western countries will not defeat ISIS. Only Arabs..."

USRAELI Foreign Policy Revealed: Ex-CIA Senior Operations Officer For 'Sunni-Shia' War (and vid)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40777.htm

"The thing was ideal when IS was advancing on Baghdad because Sunnis were killing Shias. That's exactly what we need - Our best hope right now is to get the Sunnis and Shias fighting each other and let them bleed each other white..."

Burnt Offering  -  by Jennifer Loewenstein

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/02/04/burnt-offering/

"No sane human being will applaud the latest act of unspeakable barbarism carried out by ISIS against its hostage, the Jordanian pilot, First Lieutenant Moaz al Kasabeh. Too many people will nevertheless point to this latest unspeakable murder as a rationale for continued, even stepped up efforts by the US and its 'coalition partners', including (tragically) Jordan, to bomb it into oblivion.

Thanks to our media and to the mainstream political commentators in the United States, it will be decidedly more difficult for the average news reader to discern that this is the worst possible action our leaders can take..."

Oh, so Japan is suddenly an Imperial, colonial power again now that they have had the misfortune of having two of their citizens butchered.

I suppose it is too much to expect that counterpunch will remember that next time the subject is causes of WWII. I thought the party line was that it was all American aggression, and Manchuria was just some sort of natural expansion, or something .

And this:

Jordan executes two prisoners in response to burning alive of pilot.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jordan-executes-2-al-qaeda-prisoners-after-...

yes Bec, but when 'our' bombs burn and crush people to death, it's always for good and noble ends. 'Democracy' or 'Freedom' or 'Responsibility To Protect' etc.  ISIS is the West's own Frankenstein monster...

 

Jordanian Pilot Death, Blowback of West Policy: Analyst (and vid)

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/02/04/396161/West-policy-towards-ISIL...

"Press TV has conducted an interview with John Wight, journalist and political commentator to discuss the gruesome murder of a Jordanian pilot by the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group.

Wight believes the policy being followed by the West and its allies in the Middle East with regard to the conflict in Syria has now backfired in their faces..."

 

Hanging prisoners belonging to an organization that makes readily use of suicide bombers doesn't strike me as an effective punishment or reponse.

 

Historically when soldiers were mistreated, abused tortured or murdered by their captors they tended to fight harder.  ISIS may find out countries like Jordan are quicker to set aside the Laws of Armed Conflict.

If it's any consolation, they won't really be harming "their own" people... just apostates and infidels who had it coming.

There was a shooting at a Muslim private school today in NDG.

Could we call this an act of terrorism?

Nevermind.

I guess if some terrorists take credit for it, or if any kind of hate message or "warning message" is found, perhaps you can, alan.

Meanwhile, though, in case anyone's thinking alan is referring to another school shooting (like, with actual guns and victims and suchlike) it actually appears that someone took some potshots at the school windows with a pellet gun over the weekend.

"Jihad John" was radicalized by MI5, according to CAGE, a London-based independent advocacy organization.

Who is Mohammed Emwazi aka "Jihad John"? The story of Mohammed Emwazi

Mohammed Emwazi is 26 years old British citizen. He was born in Kuwait in 1988, but moved to the UK at the age of six with his family and has lived there since. Raised and educated in West London, he went on to complete a degree in 2009. He hoped that with this degree he could build a successful career in Arab countries, particularly as he was fluent in Arabic, English and a British citizen. After completing his studies Mohammed began making plans for settling down, for his future. As for most, this included marriage. Regarding this, he was speaking to a potential spouse and her family over the phone back in his home country, Kuwait and the only step that remained was for him to go there and formally conduct the marriage contract.

The group Cage released a set of case files, running to nearly 10,000 words, which showed that Emwazi had been subjected to repeated harassment from the UK intelligence services for years before he had joined ISIS. This was a major revelation, going far beyond what the Washington Post had uncovered. It showed that:

The MI5 agent then attempted to turn Emwazi into an informant. He told Emwazi that ‘this was an opportunity for him – not a lot of people got to meet MI5.’ Emwazi refused. In response, the agent replied: ‘You’re going to have a lot of trouble…you’re going to be known…you’re going to be followed…life will be harder for you".

Thereafter, the harassment continued and intensified which led to him losing two fiancée's, his job and new life in Kuwait. The harassment and abuse he suffered, was all without criminal charges ever being brought against him, with the legal remedies available to him failing, he attempted to start a new life abroad in Kuwait only to be blocked by the UK security agencies continually.

The CAGE press conference on Jihadi John / Emwazi Video

Why Britain won’t talk about crucial elements of Jihadi John’s story

Sky News duly began her interview with a CAGE spokesman by asking “What level of harassment by the security services here in the United Kingdom justifies beheadings?” – a plainly preposterous straw man argument that literally no-one was making. Liberal pin-up Jon Snow also glossed over the evidence produced by CAGE, before getting down to the most important business of the day: demanding that their spokespeople condemn terrorism, and seeking to belittle them when they question why this demand is only ever made of Muslims, or worse still, refuse to participate in the ridiculous spectacle.

It was already a nailed-on certainty that the government and the media would turn the “extremist” spotlight onto CAGE and its supporters in a witch hunt that would make McCarthy blush. But having anointed Peter Oborne the Supreme Ruler of Media Integrity for taking on the Telegraph, perhaps they should ask him what he thinks about CAGE’s treatment at the hands of the establishment. Or reflect on CAGE’s founder and director’s own experience at the hands of MI5, or his three-and-a-half years of illegal detention in Guantanamo Bay and Belmarsh prisons. Nope: they’re just “apologists for terrorism”, guilty until proven innocent.

Human rights and social justice groups should be supporting CAGE in its endeavours to uncover the extra-judicial prosecution of the “war on terror” in this country. They won’t because they’re scared of the “public perception”.

 

USA! USA! How many kids did you kill today?!

Now We Know Why ISIS Cover Up Their Hands and Arms

bwa ha ha ha. Always ready to leap to the defense of the Yanqui Empire, eh Magoo?

If you had bothered to read the story, then you would have noticed that the authors acknowledged that the photo was photo=shopped. They posted it anway, just to draw attention to the many agents provocateurs by the USA, including in ISIS.

Anyway, my own posting was provocative. Which was helpful in smoking out the Yanqui sycophants. lol.

ikosmos wrote:

bwa ha ha ha. Always ready to leap to the defense of the Yanqui Empire, eh Magoo?

Anyway, my own posting was provocative. Which was helpful in smoking out the Yanqui sycophants. lol.

If you're accusing babblers of being "Yanqui sycophants" that's a personal attack, despite the "lol". Not permitted here, as you well know.

Mr. Magoo wrote:

Here's the same photograph on the Daily Telegraph site, from nine months ago.

So what story are we supposed to read that calls this out as faked?

The article itself says that the photo is faked. Though I'm not sure what the Friends Of Syria thought they were going to prove by publishing it, when the first thing they do is admit that it's photoshopped.

ISIL Bulldozes Ancient Iraqi City of Nimrud

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/03/05/400448/ISIL-bulldozes-ancient-c...

"The Takfiri ISIL militants have 'bulldozed' the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, Iraqi government officials say..."

NDPP wrote:

ISIL Bulldozes Ancient Iraqi City of Nimrud

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/03/05/400448/ISIL-bulldozes-ancient-c...

"The Takfiri ISIL militants have 'bulldozed' the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, Iraqi government officials say..."

It is a terrible crime. Unfortunate that similar distruction of a 1500 year old site doesn't cause worldwide outrage:

dies.org/2009/08/alabama-city-destroying-ancient-indian-mound-for-sams-club.html

Fixed link:

http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/08/alabama-city-destroying-ancient-indian-mound-for-sams-club.html

@ Magoo. Thanks

and @ NDPP

There are differences, and the fact that WalMart did it just because it was in the way is actually more mind-boggling. At least ISIS did it for a reason. Though they are also allegedly selling artifacts for profit.

While artifacts like that do belong in their home countries, this is one case where it is a good thing some of them are in museums elsewhere.

 

God told them to