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2015-02-04 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Jordan hangs two Iraqi militants in response to pilot's death

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Posted by Steve White 2015-02-04 08:41|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 "He [King Abdullah] mentioned 'Unforgiven' and he mentioned Clint Eastwood, and he actually quoted a part of the movie."

Hunter would not say which part of "Unforgiven" the king quoted, but noted it was where Eastwood's character describes how he is going to deliver his retribution. There is a scene in the picture in which Eastwood's character, William Munny, says, "Any man I see out there, I'm gonna kill him. Any son of a bitch takes a shot at me, I'm not only going to kill him, I'm going to kill his wife and all his friends and burn his damn house down." - cite

Mongol time?

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-02-04 09:47|| 2015-02-04 09:47|| Front Page Top

#2 At least someone has the balls to do this.

Posted by chris 2015-02-04 10:42|| 2015-02-04 10:42|| Front Page Top

#3 There are no major roads between Jordan and the Syrian heartland of ISIS, it's all trackless howling wilderness. In order to get to them on the ground, the Jordanians would have to go through the goat-fuck chaos of greater Damascus/Daraa or the long way 'round through Anbar. This is also probably why Jordanian territory and civilians haven't been catching more hell directly from ISIS's Mad Max raiding parties.

Posted by Mitch H. 2015-02-04 11:02|| 2015-02-04 11:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Can we trade our King for your King?

Posted by Thusoque Trotsky2974 2015-02-04 11:30|| 2015-02-04 11:30|| Front Page Top

#5 This is how you respond.

The revenge executions will have absolutely no effect on IS activity – zip…zero…nada. They didn’t give two goat turds about that burka boomer. Moreover, she’s now no longer a failed martyr. Hell, her picture prolly will be the opening graphic on the next video that shows the female American aid worker getting strung up.

Posted by DepotGuy 2015-02-04 11:30|| 2015-02-04 11:30|| Front Page Top

#6 EU chides Jordan for hangings after pilot killed

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-02-04 12:07|| 2015-02-04 12:07|| Front Page Top

#7 How long have translators been adding "has nothing to do with Islam" to the end of statements from Muslims. I swear every quote in this story ends with that.

The acts of Mohammed, we're told, have nothing to do with Islam.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2015-02-04 12:14|| 2015-02-04 12:14|| Front Page Top

#8 hagmaier: think 'Rat Patrol'...

Posted by Steve White 2015-02-04 13:37|| 2015-02-04 13:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Something tells me the Jordanian airforce is going to be a little less circumspect in terms of worrying about collateral damage in ISIS controlled areas. The ghosts of Air Marshall Sir Arthur Harris and General Curtis LeMay will smile.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-02-04 16:27|| 2015-02-04 16:27|| Front Page Top

#10 The revenge executions will have absolutely no effect on IS activity – zip…zero…nada.

I suspect that anyone contemplating joining ISIS via Jordan just had their travel plans altered. Along with any local family members. I suspect pics on camel milk cartoons are going to start appearing.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-02-04 17:47|| 2015-02-04 17:47|| Front Page Top

#11

Two less wasters of oxygen.

Posted by BigEdLB 2015-02-04 18:27|| 2015-02-04 18:27|| Front Page Top

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