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The Pakistani Talibs echo:

artappraiser — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 01:56:28 +0000

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The Pakistani Talibs echo: foreigner infidels get your asses out of Allah's territory.

American Mohamed Elibiary: “As I’ve said b4 inevitable that ‘Caliphate’ returns”

Which makes me think of the urban Egyptian majority and their preference for a strong man over "the terrorists."

And thinking of that makes me wonder, what is the news of those related by blood to the great warrior against the Crusaders, Saladin (not to mention the first sultan of Egypt and Syria):

Kurds Grab Fourth-Largest Iraq Oilfield Amid ISIL Advance
By Khalid Al-Ansary and Nayla Razzouk, Bloomberg News, Jun 16, 2014

Kurdish troops were defending Iraq’s fourth-biggest oilfield against Islamist militants after deploying outside their semi-autonomous region in the country’s north to seize the deposit claimed by the central government.

More than 100,000 Kurdish fighters, known as peshmergas, are guarding a “front line” from Iraq’s eastern border with Iran to the northern town of Fishkabur near Turkey, Jabbar Yawar, Peshmerga Ministry secretary-general, said yesterday in an interview in Erbil, the Kurdish region’s capital. They now occupy areas around the contested city of Kirkuk where BP Plc has been in talks with Iraq’s government to help reverse declining output at the oilfield discovered in 1927 [....]

You know you're gone too far

Elusive Trope — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:50:50 +0000

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You know you're gone too far when even al-Qaeda disavows your group. Moreover,

The chances are that the ISIS surge has now reached its peak and a fightback will begin. It really is a remarkable moment when America, Iran, Bashar al-Assad and the Sunni kingdoms of the Gulf all find themselves on the same side. Can there ever have been a more unlikely coalition, or more compelling evidence for the truth of the old dictum that "my enemy's enemy is my friend"?

ISIS is claiming :"credit"

jollyroger — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 02:48:30 +0000

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ISIS is claiming :"credit" for 1800 massacred prisoners.

..First as tragedy, then as

jollyroger — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 02:44:51 +0000

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..First as tragedy, then as farce...

I should caution that the

Bruce Levine — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 00:26:44 +0000

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I should caution that the Post links to pictures of what appear to have been mass executions of Iraqi soldiers by ISIS.