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2016-02-27 Iraq

ISIS in Iraq: A shadow of its former self

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Posted by trailing wife 2016-02-27 00:00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 How many articles like this have we seen here in the last 10 - 12 years?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-02-27 04:34|| 2016-02-27 04:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Moreso in the past 5-6 years. But your point is noted.

As I said repeatedly, the IS eastern front is being run by ex-Saddam Baathists with troops of local Arabs and volunteers rejected by leadership on the IS western front.

The question is: where are the Chechens/Caucasians going?

Posted by Pappy 2016-02-27 12:41|| 2016-02-27 12:41|| Front Page Top

#3 I think the Syrian thing has bled off a lot of ISIS assets and the Russian involvement has seriously damaged their logistics.

I think the movement into Libya is ISIS doing a reset on the Caliphate, trying to set one up in Libya. It appears Iraq, now that Maliki is gone, has grown to the situation and is no longer easy pickings. The Peshmerga, the tribal militias, and the NPS are all much better now.

Of course, our leadership will never admit to how much deep involvement our "special" people have had in this change of events. Nor that of the various shadow organizations of the British, the French and others in Iraq.

Hopefully, someone will find and pot Baghdadi and his deputies. But in the end, those who flock to ISIS will just move on to some other movement that espouses the same violence...Islam has a problem and Islam is the problem. Some how the Islamic leadership has to either put an end to this by declaring all of these groups Apostates or they have to quit kidding us and admit they actually support this madness...

Something tells me we are on the verge of a holy war between the forces of light and the forces of the darkness that is Islam.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2016-02-27 12:54|| 2016-02-27 12:54|| Front Page Top

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