US journalist beheaded by ISIS...
Discussion
TheRealFingers99 said:
Jimbeaux said:
It's been simple enough for me, and apparently most everyone else on here. Not sure what your confusion is.
And the anomaly? Fuad Nahdi, first Muslim to address the General Synod of the Church of England has a fine piece in the Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/20...
TheRealFingers99 said:
Fuad Nahdi, first Muslim to address the General Synod of the Church of England has a fine piece in the Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/20...
Will he enjoy such fine coverage in Muslim lands?TheRealFingers99 said:
Indeed. But you're the one who continued it.
Maybe the Republicans in Texas will press for tanks for the YPG/YPJ? I mean, they have corn, cotton, wheat, desert and nodding donkeys, too? Must be just like us!
Not quite sure of everything you just said, but always willing to share a beer! Maybe the Republicans in Texas will press for tanks for the YPG/YPJ? I mean, they have corn, cotton, wheat, desert and nodding donkeys, too? Must be just like us!
Edited by TheRealFingers99 on Tuesday 18th November 17:36
Mermaid said:
Will he enjoy such fine coverage in Muslim lands?
I don't know. And I can't really check to find links because my Arabic amounts to "I'm bored, darling, don't forget the pineapple", "thank you", "hello", "goodbye", "God is great", "wow! God is great!" and "I swear by God" and I can't read it. (All my Arabic was picked up in takeaways and from a Somali girl friend -- it was her second language, after 2 dialects of Somali, -- she was also fluent in Italian and English -- and not a very good Muslim, but a believer, non the less.)But were you to contact the Guardian, they'd probably tell you who it was syndicated to, who picked it up. You'd be surprised, I think.
Of course, in the Rojava it's old news -- Muslims work, live, die and fight alongside Christians, Arabs, Atheists and "Devil Worshippers".
gpo746 said:
So there you have it Scouse house can't see the difference between a wholesale massacre of anyone that isn't a particular brand/ flavour of the month radical Islamic fukhead and the odd incident of an abortion doctor getting nobbled by a US nutter.
Thats about it really
Of course I can. Thats about it really
But the terror campaign against abortionists wasn't just the odd incident. Indeed, home grown, "Christian" US terrorism remains dangerous.
Obviously, since the ranking Muslim haters on here couldn't take the point that the folk killing IS were (tadah!) pretty much all Muslims, I decided to open a (rhetorical) second front.
Jimbeaux said:
TheRealFingers99 said:
Indeed. But you're the one who continued it.
Maybe the Republicans in Texas will press for tanks for the YPG/YPJ? I mean, they have corn, cotton, wheat, desert and nodding donkeys, too? Must be just like us!
Not quite sure of everything you just said, but always willing to share a beer! Maybe the Republicans in Texas will press for tanks for the YPG/YPJ? I mean, they have corn, cotton, wheat, desert and nodding donkeys, too? Must be just like us!
Edited by TheRealFingers99 on Tuesday 18th November 17:36
In good news
It's claimed that there may only be 250 ISIS left in Kobani town, possibly they'll be gone within a week. http://touch.latimes.com/#section/613/article/p2p-...
The big Iraqi refinery at Baiji has been retaken http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-eas...
Offensive in Diyala, to NE of Baghdad. with Peshmerga and Shiite militia involved. http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/19112014
In bad news
car bomb in Erbil by Daesh -- follows similar in Baghdad. Looks like this will become more of a pattern as ISIS are currently getting whacked on the battlefield. http://basnews.com/en/news/2014/11/19/kurdish-offi...
Isis has enough weapons to carry on fighting for two years, UN warns
It's claimed that there may only be 250 ISIS left in Kobani town, possibly they'll be gone within a week. http://touch.latimes.com/#section/613/article/p2p-...
The big Iraqi refinery at Baiji has been retaken http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-eas...
Offensive in Diyala, to NE of Baghdad. with Peshmerga and Shiite militia involved. http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/19112014
In bad news
car bomb in Erbil by Daesh -- follows similar in Baghdad. Looks like this will become more of a pattern as ISIS are currently getting whacked on the battlefield. http://basnews.com/en/news/2014/11/19/kurdish-offi...
Isis has enough weapons to carry on fighting for two years, UN warns
What is the feeling on whats going to happen next?
Clearly they are not keen on executing the women who isn't meant to be id'd. And John Cantlie doesn't seem to have been threatened directly yet...
I'd like to say that my guy says that is good. But something is telling me that something truly barbaric or horrendous is going to be done. They are clearly trying to goad us into a ground war - which now looks unlikely. So I'm not looking forward to what is coming up.
Clearly they are not keen on executing the women who isn't meant to be id'd. And John Cantlie doesn't seem to have been threatened directly yet...
I'd like to say that my guy says that is good. But something is telling me that something truly barbaric or horrendous is going to be done. They are clearly trying to goad us into a ground war - which now looks unlikely. So I'm not looking forward to what is coming up.
I think the tide is turning agains the Daesh IS.
As they start to lose momentum militarily, they will switch tactics to more terror-based activity IMO.
2015 will see the lands they have taken gradually taken back.
At the same time, the shadowy figures that support IS will start to lose interest as the western intelligence agencies close in on them.
Give it 3 years and I think IS will be finished.
We will probably never know what really happened behind all of this - who created IS and what was agreed that resulted in it all ending.
As they start to lose momentum militarily, they will switch tactics to more terror-based activity IMO.
2015 will see the lands they have taken gradually taken back.
At the same time, the shadowy figures that support IS will start to lose interest as the western intelligence agencies close in on them.
Give it 3 years and I think IS will be finished.
We will probably never know what really happened behind all of this - who created IS and what was agreed that resulted in it all ending.
For the hostages, who knows? I can't really see them executing John Cantlie now unless they can manage to scapegoat him for the defeat at Kobani (which would be quite a leap, even for them).
For the boots on the ground stuff, the Americans are talking about just that for Mosul (campaign slated for early 2015) but if Mosul can be surrounded I doubt it would be necessary, let alone sensible.
Still, the Americans have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the ME before now.
More of the same should get the job done with heavy weapons for the Kurds in Erbil and Rojava. And there are always the Iranians and the PJAK to dash in like the 7th cavalry if things go really pear shaped.
2 years, I'd guess, for the former Iraq (which may even survive as some sort of confederation).
Syria will take longer -- there are two elephants in the corner, Assad and Turkey.
For the boots on the ground stuff, the Americans are talking about just that for Mosul (campaign slated for early 2015) but if Mosul can be surrounded I doubt it would be necessary, let alone sensible.
Still, the Americans have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the ME before now.
More of the same should get the job done with heavy weapons for the Kurds in Erbil and Rojava. And there are always the Iranians and the PJAK to dash in like the 7th cavalry if things go really pear shaped.
2 years, I'd guess, for the former Iraq (which may even survive as some sort of confederation).
Syria will take longer -- there are two elephants in the corner, Assad and Turkey.
toppstuff said:
I think the tide is turning agains the Daesh IS.
As they start to lose momentum militarily, they will switch tactics to more terror-based activity IMO.
2015 will see the lands they have taken gradually taken back.
At the same time, the shadowy figures that support IS will start to lose interest as the western intelligence agencies close in on them.
Give it 3 years and I think IS will be finished.
We will probably never know what really happened behind all of this - who created IS and what was agreed that resulted in it all ending.
Let's just blame the Saudis (more cause than WMD) & launch a war against them (share the proceeds) - there will be a decent sized coalition of the willing.As they start to lose momentum militarily, they will switch tactics to more terror-based activity IMO.
2015 will see the lands they have taken gradually taken back.
At the same time, the shadowy figures that support IS will start to lose interest as the western intelligence agencies close in on them.
Give it 3 years and I think IS will be finished.
We will probably never know what really happened behind all of this - who created IS and what was agreed that resulted in it all ending.
ISIS Mosul governor killed in air strike along with 3 other leaders.
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