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Iraq
ISIS crushes rebellion plot in Mosul as army closes in
2016-10-15
[Ynet] ISIS has crushed a rebellion plot in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, led by one of the group's commanders who aimed to switch sides and help deliver the caliphate's Iraqi capital to government forces, residents and Iraqi security officials said.

ISIS executed 58 people suspected of taking part in the plot after it was uncovered last week. Residents, who spoke to Rooters from some of the few locations in the city that have phone service, said the plotters were killed by drowning and their bodies were buried in a mass grave in a wasteland on the outskirts of the city.

Among them was a local aide of ISIS 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...
, who led the plotters, according to matching accounts given by five residents, by Hisham al-Hashimi, an expert on ISIS affairs that advises the government in Baghdad and by colonel Ahmed al-Taie, from Mosul's Nineveh province Operation Command's military intelligence.
Rooters adds more details, plus this:
A Mosul resident said Islamic State had appointed a new official, Muhsin Abdul Kareem Oghlu, a leader of a sniper unit with a reputation as a die-hard, to assist its governor of Mosul, Ahmed Khalaf Agab al-Jabouri, in keeping control.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Turkish media report that the operation to capture Mosul in Iraq from #ISIS has started.
Posted by: phil_b   2016-10-15 17:33  

#2  The Saudis and Russians made a big discovery after the fall of the Soviet Union: that you couldn't beat the United States the country, but you could corrupt American politicians for what amounted, in their world, to chump change. You could spent a billion dollars on some useless piece of Soviet military junk, or you could spend on a junket. The junket was more effective. - cite.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-10-15 12:28  

#1  Sent to me in an email, and intended as humor. Perhaps this is an example of humor masking truth:

"ISIS has a foolproof way to avoid destruction. All it has to do is make a large contribution to the Clinton Foundation."

Posted by: Besoeker   2016-10-15 09:01  

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