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| Emboldened in Syria and Iraq, Islamic State may be reaching limits of expansion |
| 2015-05-29 |
| [AlAhram] With its two biggest victories in nearly a year in Iraq and Syria, 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.... has energised its fighters, littered the streets of two cities with the bodies of its enemies and forced Washington to re-examine its strategy. The near simultaneous capture this month of Ramadi west of Baghdad and Palmyra northeast of Damascus has reinforced the sway of the self-proclaimed caliphate of all Moslems closer to the ramparts of Islam's two great historic capitals. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 Sounds like the prelude to a break-out. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2015-05-29 11:52 |
| #5 Our new strategy is to feed the crocodile until it's stomach bursts. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-05-29 07:59 |
| #4 I'm sure the contemporaries thought the same as the first Muslim expansion reached Cairo and Jerusalem. As recently demonstrated in Iraq, the number of people willing 'to die on that hill' to stop them seems rather concentrated in and around the Kurdish areas and ISIL has more than everyone else to do so every other place. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-05-29 07:48 |
| #3 Yea, well, it's no fun to be a western Muslim apologist nowadays---but, at least, it pays well. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-05-29 04:45 |
| #2 My personal theory du jour, is that ISIS gotta make good their massive losses. |
| Posted by: badanov 2015-05-29 01:21 |
| #1 maybe peaking in Syria and Iraq but still in early growth phase in other countries e.g., Libya, Nigeria, Somalia, Yeman |
| Posted by: lord garth 2015-05-29 00:40 |
