...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....
Death Eaters in Syria and Iraq.
Sergei Melikov, President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...'s envoy to the North Caucasus, says at least five Death Eaters who came back after fighting in Syria were killed in security sweeps last year.
Melikov said Thursday the Islamic State group poses a "very serious threat" to the North Caucasus, Russian news agencies reported. He said efforts are needed to prevent young people from joining the ranks of bully boys.
Melikov's comment echoed Putin's speech to bigwigs of the Federal Security Service
... the successor to the KGB...
, the main KGB successor agency, in which he said one of its top priorities should be tracking Russian citizens who have left to fight alongside the Islamic State group.
"It's important to take additional measures to cut international links and resource base of the terrorists, block avenues for their entry and exit from Russia," Putin said Thursday.