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Obama sending support forces to Iraq
Some crazy Arab shit
ISIS is a sectarian Sunni militia—that’s all. A big one, as militias go, with something like 10,000 fighters. Most of them are Iraqi, a few are Syrian, and a few hundred are those famous “European jihadis” who draw press attention out of all relation to their negligible combat value. The real strength of ISIS comes from its Chechen fighters, up to a thousand of them. A thousand Chechens is a serious force, and a terrifying one if they’re bearing down on your neighborhood. Chechens are the scariest fighters, pound-for-pound, in the world.But we’re still talking about a conventional military force smaller than a division. That’s a real but very limited amount of combat power. What this means is that, no matter how many scare headlines you read, ISIS will never take Baghdad, let alone Shia cities to the south like Karbala. It won’t be able to dent the Kurds’ territory to the north, either. All it can do—all it has been doing, by moving into Sunni cities like Mosul and Tikrit—is to complete the partition of Iraq begun by our dear ex-president Bush in 2003. By crushing Saddam’s Sunni-led Iraq, the Americans made partition inevitable. In fact, Iraq has been partitioned ever since the invasion; it’s just been partitioned badly, into two parts instead of the natural three: the Kurdish north, and the remainder occupied by a weak sectarian Shia force going by the name of “The Iraqi Army.” The center of the country, the so-called “Sunni Triangle,” had no share in this partition and was under the inept, weak rule of the Shia army.
Some crazy Arab shit that would melt a people who believe in the development and protection of a Jewish nation from the inside
Let's speculate as to what's in the glass:MicrobrewTeaMotor oilSome crazy Arab shit that would melt a person who believes in the development and protection of a Jewish nation from the inside
a little mad i never though of that
As for you, O soldiers of the platoons and organizations, know that after this consolidation and the establishment of the khilāfah, the legality of your groups and organizations has become invalid. It is not permissible for a single person of you who believes in Allah to sleep without having walā’ (loyalty) to the khalīfah.
SPIEGEL: When you were prime minister, you weren't the perfect democrat either. You stand accused of serious human rights violations.Thaksin: I accept this criticism. We made mistakes, particularly in the war on drugs ...SPIEGEL: ... during which thousands of people are believed to have been killed.Thaksin: Perhaps my expectations were too dramatic. I wanted something to happen. I wanted to scare those criminals, to send them a warning. But I never personally ordered anybody to be killed. I'm a Buddhist, and I believe that those who kill will be killed themselves in their next life.
SPIEGEL: Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei has accused the US of bringing its "stooges" to power in Iraq. Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal has warned Iran not to "intervene" in Iraq. This doesn't exactly look like rapprochement. Zebari: I can tell you what Khamenei and Saud al-Faisal mean: There is an ongoing conflict about the new government. Everybody wants Iraq to go in a new direction and everybody wants to see new faces. I have told Saud al-Faisal: We have a democratic system and a political process. Sixty-two percent of Iraqis voted on April 30. We are going to have a parliament and a new government according to the results of this election. We don't have princes who can appoint people by royal decree. We change our leaders according to our own rules. Khamenei, for his part, thinks that -- according to his interpretation -- the Americans are trying to influence this process and install their own supporters into government.SPIEGEL: Is he right?Zebari: I am not going to judge him and will not be drawn into such a discussion.
That's not exactly true. ISIS/ISIL are just different ways of translating Sham. (I prefer ISIS because the Levant in English usually refers to the Mediterranean coast.) Back in my day we called them AQI (al-Qaida in Iraq), but their name changed and has now changed again so I'm wondering if we're going to just use IS or if those in the know are going to use al-Dawla or if that will just be for sympathizers. I also wonder what the intelligence community is calling them since that's what people who run in military circles will use. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what sticks since the caliphate is only a couple of days old.
That map is so confusing. What is happening in Central Europe?
Quote from: The Business on July 03, 2014, 08:32:54 AMThat map is so confusing. What is happening in Central Europe?It's from a Paradox game. Austria-Hungary, separate German states, Russian empire.
The graphic was probably made my Broseidon.
Quote from: Broseidon on July 03, 2014, 09:54:25 AMQuote from: The Business on July 03, 2014, 08:32:54 AMThat map is so confusing. What is happening in Central Europe?It's from a Paradox game. Austria-Hungary, separate German states, Russian empire.ISIS has good taste.
https://twitter.com/DavidKenner/status/484771353896046592
Establishing a Caliphate seems like it'd be a real bitch to try and manage these days.
It is ours and that message should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States.
The German government ordered the CIA’s top officer in Berlin to leave the country Thursday in an extraordinary escalation of a conflict between the two allies over U.S. espionage.The move amounts to a high-profile expression of German anger over alleged CIA operations uncovered by German investigators in recent weeks, as well as continued public outrage over the exposure last year of widespread U.S. surveillance programs whose targets included Chancellor Angela Merkel.A spokesman for the German government, Steffen Seibert, confirmed the expulsion of the CIA station chief in a statement that made clear Berlin regards U.S. espionage efforts as a breach of trust.“The representative of the U.S. intelligence services at the Embassy of the United States of America has been requested to leave Germany,” Seibert said. Continued cooperation would require “mutual trust and openness,” Seibert added. “The Federal Government continues to be ready for this and expects the same from its closest partners.”The decision means that the United States will be forced to withdraw an officer who oversees U.S. spying programs in Germany and serves as the main point of contact with German intelligence services, exchanging information on subjects ranging from terrorist plots to Iranian nuclear ambitions.In ordering the CIA station chief to leave, Germany resorted to a form of retaliation that is occasionally employed by espionage adversaries such as the United States and Russia, but rarely by such a close ally.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2014/0703/Robert-Mugabe-says-no-whites-may-own-land-in-ZimbabweMugabes hatred for white people is
