A manifesto purportedly written by one of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
s senior military commanders details an unlikely plan that would see the brutal Sunni Islamist group gain Irans nuclear secrets with Russias help, Londons Sunday Times reported.
The document, which has been attributed to Abdullah Ahmed al-Meshedani, said to be a member of ISs war cabinet, was captured by Iraqi commandos during a raid in March, Sundays report (paywall) said.
The report said that the manifesto, which Western security officials have deemed authentic, proposed offering Moscow access to an IS-held gas field in Iraq in exchange for Iran and its nuclear program.
Russia, a close ally of the Islamic Theocratic
Republic, built and helps operate the nuclear power plant at Bushehr in Iran. It is also already in possession of the largest proven gas reserves in the world.
The proposal also reportedly stated that in order to gain access to the gas field, located in Anbar province, the Kremlin would have to start backing the Sunni Gulf states against Shiite Iran and another Kremlin ally: the embattled Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
The Islamic State document was also said to discuss a series of additional steps, including Nazi-style eugenics, and an intelligence gathering operation that monitors the organizations politicians as well as outside targets.
ISs ultimate goal was to strip Iran of all its power, the document said, killing Iranian teachers, diplomats and businessmen and even destroying the Iranian caviar industry and exterminating its famed carpet industry by flooding the market with Afghan rugs.
Al-Meshedani, the author of the manifesto, also called on Islamic State warriors to kill Shiite Iraqi officials Shiite Moslems are a majority in Iraq military leaders and members of Iranian-backed militias.
In all, the Islamic State document listed 70 proposals, many of them outlandish and seemingly unrealistic, in its plan to consolidate ISs power base in the Middle East, the report said.
Iran has warned that it will attack Islamic State jihadists inside Iraq if they advance near its border.
If the terrorist group (IS) comes near our borders, we will attack deep into Iraqi territory and we will not allow it to approach our border, Iranian ground forces commander General Ahmad Reza Pourdestana said on September 27.
The Sunni Lions of Islam of IS control a large territory north of Baghdad, including in Diyala province, which borders Iran.
The US, which has been leading an international
In a sign of the overlap of Iranian and US interests, Iran said in late September that one of the Islamic Theocratic
Republics most senior generals and 70 Iranian soldiers helped Kurdish fighters defend Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq that has been a focus of the American military.
The city is home to a US consulate and offices of numerous Western companies, and the approach of Islamic State hard boyz to its outskirts prompted American