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2016-06-24 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

ISIS’ Defeat in Syria Could Denote Qaeda’s Return

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Posted by badanov 2016-06-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top
File under: al-Nusra

#1 Well Duh.

This is a Sunni v Shiia fight, and whether the Sunni fight under under brand x or brand y is pretty much irrelevant.

Despite the Western media obsession with how nasty ISIS is.

Posted by phil_b 2016-06-24 05:15|| 2016-06-24 05:15|| Front Page Top

#2 The superorder of Dictyoptera. You seldom see just one.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-06-24 05:23|| 2016-06-24 05:23|| Front Page Top

#3 :)
Gack

Posted by Shipman 2016-06-24 11:33|| 2016-06-24 11:33|| Front Page Top

#4 If Nusra was regularly fielding suicide bombers and VBIEDs, I think the media would be making more of a deal about them. Or, at least, I haven't noticed much in the way of that sort of thing. ISIS took the wild-eyed eager-to-meet-their-houris suicide enthusiasts with them in the grand divorce; Nusra and company are still bastards, but they're less alarming bastards for the time being, and with the Russians and Alawi firebombing cities and rear areas like mad arsonists, it's hard to get excited about the evil, evil al Queda. Especially when they're primarily slaughtering Hezbollah; some might even sit back and make popcorn.

Posted by Charles M. Hagmaier 2016-06-24 12:17|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2016-06-24 12:17|| Front Page Top

#5 it's hard to get excited about the evil, evil al Queda.

They will have to be dealt with, though, because they are just as evil, merely in slightly slower motion. The Muslim Brotherhood is the same evil in slower motion yet, but look at the trouble they caused as soon as they democratically got themselves elected to power in Egypt.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-06-24 13:11|| 2016-06-24 13:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, true enough. IIRC, that lunatic cannibal who ate a human heart on camera & recently got waxed in combat was Nusra, they're monsters sure enough.

The longer the Syrian war goes on, the less it's looking like the Spanish Civil War, and the more it's looking like the Thirty Years War. I think it may end with Syria a depopulated wasteland. Russia certainly seems to be deliberately playing the role of France.

Posted by Charles M. Hagmaier 2016-06-24 15:15|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2016-06-24 15:15|| Front Page Top

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