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

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 [....]