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| Georgia's Pankisi Gorge: the Making of a Jihadist |
| 2014-11-24 |
| [AnNahar] White smoke belches from the chimney of a lopsided stone house, mingling with thick fog in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge whose bucolic setting hardly fits its reputation as a jihadist hotbed. Temur Batirashvili, a 70-year-old subsistence farmer, warms his hands over a rusty stove as he tells the story of his son, one of the most feared commanders with 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.... group in Syria. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 It would be even better for Russia to move in and clean the place once and for all. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-11-24 02:34 |
| #1 It seems like it would be good for the CIA to have a presense in these places so that we could arrange for welcoming committees for these groups of traveling cannon fodder. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2014-11-24 01:39 |