[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Haqqani terrorist network has released a new audio message of the network’s leader Sirajuddin Haqqani ...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network.... , nearly two weeks after a series of deadly attacks hit Kabul city.
The new audio message was distributed to media by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group front man Zabiullah Mujahid.
Sirajuddin Haqqani who is the also the deputy supreme leader of the Taliban group, rejects that the network was involved in the recent deadly attacks.
He claims that the attack close to Zanbaq square near the embassy of Germany was not plotted and carried out by the Haqqani network of the Taliban group.
Haqqani also claims that the network and the Taliban Lions of Islam never carry out attacks in public areas.
He also vowed that the Taliban Lions of Islam will continue to their fight until all foreign forces fully withdrawn from the country.
The first incident in the city took place on 31st of May, after a vehicle packed with explosives exploded leaving more than 150 people dead and over 400 others maimed.
A coordinated suicide kaboom also rocked Kabul city two days after the incident as scores of people had gathered in the funeral ceremony of Salim Izadyar, the son of the deputy house speaker of the Afghan Senate House, who was killed during the rallies organized to protest against the attacks and failure of the government and security institutions to ensure security for the people.
The Afghan intelligence said the directorate has credible information suggesting that the attacks were plotted and carried out by the Haqqani network based in Pakistain.
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[Iran Press TV] A prominent Egyptian rights lawyer has called President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi a "traitor" over his government's controversial decision to cede illusory sovereignty of two Red Sea islands to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , Egypt's top benefactor.
Khaled Ali, 45, who also ran in Egypt's 2012 presidential election, made the comment during a meeting of opposition parties on Sunday to condemn the ongoing review of last year agreement, which handed over the two uninhabited islands Tiran and Sanafir to the Arab kingdom.
"The president is a traitor and the prime minister is a traitor," said Ali in his address before the meeting, a video of which was posted on social media on Monday. "Whoever will be content to lower the Egyptian flag on Tiran and Sanafir and raise the Saudi flag in its place is a traitor," he added.
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Wrong answer. This is the right time to establish their control there.
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How many Egyptians would starve if the Soddies stopped paying for their food?
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How many Egyptians would starve if the Soddies stopped paying for their food?
Lots and lots, which is a quantity I suspect counted in the low tens of millions. Egypt is currently using new loans to pay off old bills; if I recall correctly inflation is running around 30%. When the Saudis run out of oil money it's going to get ugly, though not as ugly as it would have been before the new Egyptian gas wells opened for business.
h/t Instapundit
[WSJ] The state-owned Saudi Arabian Oil Co. expects its sales to the U.S. will drop below one million barrels a day in June, then slide to about 850,000 barrels a day in July, according to people familiar with the matter. The July figure would be the its lowest export total to the U.S. for that month since 1988, based on figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Saudi Aramco expects its August exports to decline by another 100,000 barrels a day, these people said, which would be the lowest export amount for that month since 2009.
Many oil traders have questioned whether production cuts by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Companies have done much to reduce a persistent global supply imbalance, in part because U.S. companies have rushed to fill any void left by OPEC. What a change from 1973
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Bear in mind that the Saudis have purchased the three largest refineries in the US.
The screwing with has yet to begin. Outages, anybody?
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Even a small war in the Gulf would do wonders for the oil price, by taking most Iran and Iraq oil off the market, but hardly affect Saudi shipments.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ever since Gulf and Arab countries, especially Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , UAE, Bahrain and Egypt had severed ties with Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... last week, Doha tried to make efforts to deny funding terrorism suspicions against it, particularly through diplomatic channels in a number of Western countries, specifically the United States.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... it did not seem to work, especially after statements by US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , on Friday that confirmed Qatar’s history with funding terrorism.
Qatar’s ambassador in Washington, Meshal bin Hamad al-Thani, was confused in an interview a few days ago on CNN when he was asked about his country’s funding of terrorism.
Perhaps this confusion was obvious when the ambassador hesitated to answer the question about the "status" of Saad bin Saad al-Kaabi, who is accused of funding al-Qaeda. The Qatari ambassador repeated the same answer, which did not in fact provide a clear reason why Qatar did not sue al-Kaabi, who is listed on the terrorism list by the Gulf and USA.
When the ambassador was asked whether Qatar was prosecuting Saad bin Saad al-Kaabi for funding al-Qaeda or whether he was tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! or imprisoned, the ambassador tried to divert by saying that the Qatari judiciary was prosecuting several cases related to terrorism funding cases, he repeated his answer twice.
Two days ago, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt issued a detailed statement of Qatari individuals and entities supporting and funding terrorism. Among those names was Saad bin Saad al-Kaabi, who is considered one of the funders of al-Qaeda.
Al-Kaabi organized fund-raising campaigns for al-Qaeda in Syria under the "Al-Sham Supply" campaign, with the assistance of other Qataris.
Since 2015, the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... has included Saad al-Kaabi on the sanctions lists for collecting money on behalf of al-Qaeda holy warriors in Syria.
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[Iran Press TV] Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... Airways has called on the UN's aviation body to declare "illegal" an ongoing boycott by some Arab counties of Persian Gulf region against the carrier.
In a televised interview on Monday, Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker called the move an "illegal blockade".
Baker also urged the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... ' civil aviation branch to intervene in the dispute.
The International Civil Aviation Organization "should heavily get involved, put their weight behind this to declare this an illegal act", CNN Money quoted the Baker as saying.
He went onto say that the move was in violation of the 1944 convention on air transport, charged with overseeing and regulating international aviation.
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[DAWN] The first British Muslim minister, Shahid Malik said on Sunday that Pakistani origin of one of the terrorists involved in the recent London attacks had nothing to do with his evil act and urged the UK to look inward for tackling the challenge posed by extremism.
Mr Malik warned against linking terrorism with religion: “In the case of Pakistan, the facts speak for themselves; very few countries have made the sacrifices and suffered the loss of lives that tragically Pakistan has experienced,” he said.
“Pakistan’s fight against extremism and terrorism has led to a huge toll with thousands of Pakistanis citizens, armed forces, security personnel and police being martyred and paying the ultimate price.”
He said it must be remembered that evil existed in all walks of life as Timothy McVeigh, who butchered 168 American citizens in Oklahoma, did not represent Christianity, in the same way that these vile creatures who killed innocent people in Manchester and London did not represent Islam. They both represent evil and evil had no religion.
He said: “Today Muslims across the world must unite in sending a strong message not just by condemning extremism and terrorism but confronting it wherever it rears its evil head, whether that is in our homes, in our shops, our workplaces, our colleges or online.”
Mr Malik said that Muslims were not responsible for the actions of these wicked individuals, adding Muslims had a responsibility to redouble their efforts not only to save innocent and precious human lives but rescue their religion from the clutches of “twisted individuals who follow a truly perverted interpretation of our beautiful faith, Islam”.
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McVeigh had 'non-Christian' support, but that's been somehow forgotten.
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Timothy McVeigh, who butchered 168 American citizens in Oklahoma, did not represent Christianity...
The idiot conveniently overlooks that McVeigh *never* claimed that Christianity *motivated* his work, and that McVeigh made various claims all over the religious spectrum, from being Catholic to being agnostic.
I'm getting really tired of something that one deranged individual did in the '90s somehow being cast as equivalent to what goes on day after day after day by Islamists.
[NEWS.AU] AUSTRALIA’S most senior Islamic terrorist has revealed his path to extremism and what sparked his decision to join al-Qaeda and rise through the terror organization’s ranks.
Mostafa Mahamed, who also goes by the name Abu Salayman Australi, claims his decision to join al-Qaeda was prompted by Australian authorities who had his passport cancelled when he travelled Syria in 2012.
Despite becoming prominent within the group and appearing in promotional online videos encouraging other westerners to join, Mahamed claims in a new YouTube video he did not initially intend to join the group.
"It’s important to clarify that from the beginning I didn’t come up to join up for AQ Syria branch," he said in the clip published over the weekend.
"I joined after my passport was cancelled by the Australian authorities."
The terrorist claimed he was placed in a "very difficult situation", and made the decision after discovering he could not return to Australia.
Why on earth did he go to Syria in the middle of a war, then?
"My family back home received a letter saying that my passport was cancelled and I was no longer in a position to travel with my Australian documents," he said. "I had to made a decision as to what I was going to do then. It wasn’t possible to just pick up and leave."
Mahamed claimed he was given an "opportunity to perform an obligation" that he encouraged all other Moslems to do.
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So cancelling his passport caused him 'mental anguish'?
The desire to 'break things'? Kill people? Love goats?
Amazing how powerful his valid passport must have been for his emotional well-being.
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[HeatStreet] Austria has passed a controversial law that fines women who wear Islamic dress covering the whole face, and takes away welfare benefits from immigrants who fail to learn the language.
“Those who are not prepared to accept Enlightenment values will have to leave our country and society,” reads the text of the law, RT reported.
Earlier this year, the draft law drew thousands of protesters against the government and parliamentarians, but it was passed by a centrist coalition last month and now was signed by the president.
According to the law, women will face a fine of €150 ($168) if they wear Islamic dresses, either the niqab or the burqa, in public places. In addition to the fines, all new migrants coming to Austria to live will now be forced to take a 12-month “integration course” that includes German language lessons if they wish to receive any welfare benefits.
The new law also makes it illegal for newcomers to distribute incendiary materials, and migrants will be encouraged to volunteer before acquiring permanent work permits in order to prepare them for life in the workplace.
Austria’s attempt to integrate new immigrants has come in response to the migrant crisis rocking most European countries. At least 90,000 migrants, mostly from Muslim-majority countries outside Europe, have arrived to Austria since 2015.
[DW] The Norwegian government has proposed a ban on full face veils in schools and universities. The law would apply to students taking part in introductory programs and language courses for newly-arrived refugees.
The proposal would be the first of its kind in the Nordic countries, but follows similar bans in La Belle France, Belgium, Bulgaria,the Netherlands and the German state of Bavaria
[DAWN] Two Chinese nationals kidnapped from Quetta last month were involved in preaching instead of business activities -- their declared purpose for visiting Pakistain -- Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar was informed in a high level meeting today. Right.
Lee Zing Yang, 24, and Meng Li Si, 26, were kidnapped from Jinnah Town Quetta on May 24 and later murdered by the Death EaterIslamic 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
So, really, the ISIS guys were perfectly justified in murdering them, because preaching anything in an Islamic country carries the death sentence.
It was not immediately clear what the interior ministry suspected them of 'preaching'. Maybe they were Rosicrucians or something.
The interior ministry confirmed the two Chinese had been killed but it was not clear if their bodies have been found.
After the briefing, the Interior Minister ordered an initial review, followed by regulation and the streamlining of the visa process to avoid the misuse of business visas by foreign nationals.
The interior minister was told that the abductees had gone to Quetta and were engaged in preaching under the garb of learning Urdu from a Korean national, Juan Won Seo, who is the owner of ARK Info Tech.
The minister was informed that the two were part of a group of Chinese citizens who obtained business visas from the Pak Embassy in Beijing and entered Pakistain.
Nisar expressed his displeasure at the laxity often shown in granting visas by Pak missions abroad. He directed all Pak missions to undertake proper scrutiny of visa application forms and acquire all necessary details before exercising their powers.
Nisar directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs be taken on board and their input be included while formulating new visa policy guidelines for issuance of visas to the foreigners on various visa categories.
At present, Chinese citizens are able to obtain visas faster than other nationals, and for longer periods when their work relates to CPEC projects.
He also called for a data bank of Chinese nationals present in the country to be maintained.
This data bank, to be prepared by National Database Registration Authority (Nadra), should be shared with all security agencies, ordered the minister in the meeting, which was attended by the secretary interior, advocate general, director general of immigration and passports, the deputy chairman Nadra and others.
The minister also said that ensuring the security of foreign nationals is a shared responsibility and that the Pak government was doing its bit to secure foreigners.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... he was quick to point out that the visitors held some responsibility as well, and should inform local authorities about their movements and activities.
The minister observed that it is "highly unfortunate that a misuse of the terms of business visa contributed to the unfortunate abduction and subsequent murder of two innocent Chinese".
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[Iran Press TV] The Israeli regime is set to reduce electricity supplies to the Gazoo Strip, worsening an already severe shortage in the besieged Paleostinian enclave.
Israeli media said on Monday that the security cabinet decided Sunday to reduce the daily amount supplied to Gazoo by around 45 minutes.
Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan told alleged that the reduction was due to an ongoing row between Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... and the Paleostinian resistance movement, Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,.
Hamas has run Gazoo since 2007, when it seized it from Abbas's Fatah following an electoral dispute over parliamentary polls won by the resistance movement.
Abbas runs the Paleostinian Authority (PA), the Paleostinian leadership based in the occupied West Bank.
Multiple attempts at reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah have failed.
The PA however had continued to pay Israel for some electricity delivered to Gazoo.
The PA decided to cut electricity payments for Gazoo in April.
Hamas said then the "catastrophic decision" would have "dangerous" consequences.
Electricity supply is a major concern in the hot and cramped territory, which is currently marking the holy fasting Moslem month of Ramadan.
Gazooks currently receive only three or four hours of electricity a day.
The electricity is delivered from the territory's own power station and others in Israel and Egypt.
Residents who can afford it use generators to power their homes or businesses in the impoverished Paleostinian enclave of some two million people.
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Once again Hamas fails to make friends, but definitely influences people. Those negotiations with their Egyptian brothers must have been fascinating.
[Ynet] The Electric Corporation in the Gazoo Strip claims that the Egyptian Electric Company has informed them that it will disconnect all electricity lines to the Gazoo Strip. These are three power lines that supply 25 megawatts, especially to the southern Gazoo Strip.
[IsraelTimes] High-level delegation from embattled terror group returns from Egypt, but no word on effort to improve relations with vital neighbor
A high-level Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", delegation returned home from Cairo after nine days of security and political talks intended to improve ties with Egypt, but has not announced any breakthroughs or any signed agreements, Hamas-linked media reported Monday. But the delegation did get to enjoy nine days of nice hotels with comfy beds and soft sheets, plus plenty of nummy nom-noms. So it was time well-spent.
Hamas denied reports in Arab media that an agreement had been signed between Cairo and Hamas.
A delegation including Hamas Gazoo chief Yahya Sinwar and a senior commander in the group’s military wing, Tawfik Abu Naim, left to Cairo on June 4 in an attempt to improve relations Egypt.
Hamas has been under intense pressure lately both from the Paleostinian Authority and due to the crisis with Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... -- a key Hamas supporter -- which is being urged to cut contacts with the Gazoo-based terror group.
Hamas is eager to restore ties with Egypt, which controls its border and joins Israel in imposing a blockade aimed at preventing arms reaching Hamas.
Hamas and Egypt have had cool relations since Egypt’s Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, was tossed by the military in 2013. Morsi came from Hamas’ parent group, the Moslem Brüderbund.
"All the shared issues have been studied in a serious and deep way with our Egyptian brothers," a Hamas source told the terror group’s official radio station al-Aqsa voice on Monday.
The source denied reports in the Arabic press that a written agreement had been signed between Cairo and Hamas.
The delegation left Gazoo for Cairo just one day before Egypt, along with Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, cut off diplomatic ties with Qatar.
While in Cairo, Sinwar also met with former Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan, the political rival of Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
[Al Jazeera] Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blamed the United States for instability in the Middle East and said Washington's fight against 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) was "a lie".
"You [the United States] and your agents are the source of instability in the Middle East... Who created Islamic State? America... America's claim of fighting against Islamic State is a lie," Khamenei said on Monday in a meeting with high-ranking Iranian officials, according to his official website.
Iran and the United States cut diplomatic ties shortly after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution and enmity to Washington has long been a rallying point for hardline supporters of Khamenei in Iran.
Khamenei has made several statements denouncing the United States since the start of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, while US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has spoken out against Iran in harsh terms since taking office, indicating he will reverse the previous administration's attempts at rapprochement with Tehran.
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[Iran Press TV] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has criticized the new US administration for failing to fully live up to its commitments under the landmark 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, saying the White House would finally have to abide by the deal.
"Unfortunately the behavior from the new administration in Washington is not very promising," Zarif told news hounds after a meeting with Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende in Oslo on Monday.
"But, we believe that at the end of the day they [US administration] will find it necessary to abide by the deal and we believe the rest of the international community will make it clear...that it considers the deal as a multilateral agreement and not a bilateral agreement between Iran and the United States," the Iranian minister added.
During his presidential campaign, US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... had promised to repeal the nuclear accord which he referred to as a "disaster" and "the worst deal ever negotiated."
Zarif expressed regret that the US has "not lived up fully" to its commitments under the JCPOA and said, "We believe that the nuclear agreement is the result of multilateral processes endorsed by the Security Council."
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Dear Mo - May I call you Mo? Thank you so much.
Let me explain something. We had some senators a year or two back who tried to explain to you (and more than a few of our own people) that the deal that Mr Obama's people reached with you was a non-binding agreement if our Senate didn't vote to accept that.
For their trouble, those senators were accused of treason, mostly by people who knew better but decided it was a cheap and easy way to make people look bad. (You may remember it; it was in all the papers.)
Thing is though, the senators were right: Our President had the right and authority to assign someone to sign the deal, and sadly, he sure as hell had the ability to send you an airplane load of money. But unless the Senate approved it in open debate, the deal died with the Obama administration. Under our Consitution (hell of a document, you should read it sometime)we don't have to abide by diddly otherwise. Yeah, I know, you guys were counting on Felonia von Pantsuit (who would have probably kept the deal going) to get elected, but hey, so did a bunch of other people - the line forms to the right.
Look, I get it - you guys are used to doing the double crossing, but this time 62,979,636 Americans popped you the bird. You're pissed.
Tough. Yell all you want. Ain't gonna make any difference. So go play with your toys, and remember - new sharif in town. If you get itchy bomb trigger fingers, the folks in charge now aren't going to be as willing to look the other way.
Mike
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[Iran Press TV] Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution ...Iran's doddering head theocrat... Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei ...the successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the actual dictator of Iran... says the US is responsible for instability in the Middle East.
The Leader made the remarks on Monday while addressing a gathering of high-ranking Iranian officials.
Referring to Washington’s role in the establishment and military support of the ISIS terrorist group, Ayatollah Khamenei stressed that "the claims of establishing an anti-ISIS coalition are lies." He added that the US is only against an "uncontrolled ISIS" and will oppose anybody who tries to really destroy the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorists.
The Leader also noted that the recent accusations by US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... over Iran supporting terrorism were preposterous.
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[REUTERS] 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... is on the brink of losing the two main centers of his 'caliphate' but even though he is on the run, it may take years to capture or kill him, officials and experts said.
Islamic State fighters are close to defeat in the twin capitals of the group's territory, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria, and officials say Baghdadi is steering clear of both, hiding in thousands of square miles of desert between the two.
"In the end, he will either be killed or captured, he will not be able to remain underground forever," said Lahur Talabany, the head of counter-terrorism at the Kurdistan Regional Government, the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. "But this is a few years away still," he told Rooters.
One of Baghdadi's main concerns is to ensure those around him do not betray him for the $25 million reward offered by the United States to bring him "to justice", said Hisham al-Hashimi, who advises Middle East governments on Islamic State affairs.
"With no land to rule openly, he can no longer claim the title caliph," Hashimi said. "He is a man on the run and the number of his supporters is shrinking as they lose territory."
Iraqi forces have retaken much of Mosul, the northern Iraqi city the hardline group seized in June 2014 and from which Baghdadi declared himself "caliph" or leader of all Moslems shortly afterwards. Raqqa, his capital in Syria, is nearly surrounded by a coalition of Syrian Kurdish and Arab groups.
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So recent ( this week) statements on Rantburg were in error or not? Bagdaddy is NOT dead. Or did you do an article "suspecting" or "it was rumored" he was dead..?
When he is laid out and we see the flies....sort of like Uday and Quesey, say. Then I will quit being Thomas .
Until then...no rumours please. Maggots in the beard and a closeup.
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Until then...no rumours please. Maggots in the beard and a closeup.
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Ah yes, these are happy days as Mr. Baghdadi beats a brave retreat and ISIS is ground to a pulp. They have no leader, are surrounded, Qatar is finally being targeted for their support, and hopefully the cowardly perfumed prices will get a chance to offer their last full measure of devotion as well. These are good days when the enemy lives in fear.
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