Discussion
NicD said:
pete a said:
What about the CIA ?
what about them? As for ISIS, they do have an aim. To annexe large parts of North Africa and Middle East and rule over the land and the people in it. Very similar to the Taliban.
The Taliban used to hang men, women and children in public (even in football stadiums) just for playing music or for disagreeing with their leaders. ISIS are no different other than their use of social media to brag about their killings.
GT03ROB said:
What about them? I'd wager you would not be in any danger from the CIA should you set foot in the USofA & preach Islam.
Why don't you set foot in an ISIS controlled area & preach christianity. I'd be interested to see the outcome.
Sorry, I should have put a few smileys on my comment which was really meant as a bit of sarcastic tongue in cheek banter for the tin foil hat brigade.Why don't you set foot in an ISIS controlled area & preach christianity. I'd be interested to see the outcome.
pete a said:
GT03ROB said:
What about them? I'd wager you would not be in any danger from the CIA should you set foot in the USofA & preach Islam.
Why don't you set foot in an ISIS controlled area & preach christianity. I'd be interested to see the outcome.
Sorry, I should have put a few smileys on my comment which was really meant as a bit of sarcastic tongue in cheek banter for the tin foil hat brigade.Why don't you set foot in an ISIS controlled area & preach christianity. I'd be interested to see the outcome.
Get too used to berkish comments around here!
How Cameron is not being hauled over the coals for this is staggering. To depose the ruler of such a strategically placed country without having the faintest notion whatsoever of what sort of systems of power and influence might emerge in his place was the height of irresponsibility. Absolute f
king hubris, total lack of forethought. Talk about making up foreign policy as you go along. God only knows what the FCO was telling him but any decent academic with a working knowledge of the place would have been able to tell them that there was no hope of a functioning political system without Gaddafi, seeing as the bloke had a) effectively dismantled the apparatus of Govt over the previous 40 years and b) spent all his time either suppressing or holding together the various elements of society that are presently tearing the country apart.
king hubris, total lack of forethought. Talk about making up foreign policy as you go along. God only knows what the FCO was telling him but any decent academic with a working knowledge of the place would have been able to tell them that there was no hope of a functioning political system without Gaddafi, seeing as the bloke had a) effectively dismantled the apparatus of Govt over the previous 40 years and b) spent all his time either suppressing or holding together the various elements of society that are presently tearing the country apart.Pesty said:
Isis are big fans of the Who?
Pesty said:
but they have music in their videos. Zod said:
Pesty said:
but they have music in their videos. 
The Islamic State continue their march into Libya.
wsj said:
Two European citizens have gone missing from a Libyan oil field after a suspected terrorist attack, as the North African nation said it had pulled all staff in the area.
On Friday, suspected members of the extremist Islamic State attacked an oil field in central Libya, killing eight guards in the latest of a string of attacks.
A Czech citizen along with an Austrian, both working for international oil companies in Libya, have now gone missing from the facility, a Czech foreign ministry official said Saturday.
Unknown gunmen on Friday fired on the Ghani oil field Friday, located about 500 kilometers from Tripoli and run by a joint-venture with Suncor Energy Inc. of Canada. Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek told Czech state television on Saturday that the attackers were probably members of the local affiliate of the Islamic State organization.
The news comes after Libya’s state-run National Oil Co. said all personnel had left 11 fields that were under force majeure in Central Libya—a clause providing legal protection for disruptions.
The country, which is home to Africa’s largest oil reserves, has been mired in violence and political divisions since longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi was killed in an uprising in 2011. A civil war has broken out between the internationally recognized government-based in the country’s east and a rebel faction known as Libya Dawn that controls the country’s capital of Tripoli.
Both sides have recently come under attack from the Libyan branch of Islamic State, an extremist militant movement that has overrun parts of Syria and Iraq.
The Islamic State has claimed attacks against Central Libya’s oil facilities in recent weeks as warring parties there have turned their sights on the country’s oil industry, once the lifeblood of its economy.
Libya is pumping about 500,000 barrels of crude oil a day, three times less than its peak output.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/eight-guards-killed-in-attack-on-libya-oil-field-1425721466On Friday, suspected members of the extremist Islamic State attacked an oil field in central Libya, killing eight guards in the latest of a string of attacks.
A Czech citizen along with an Austrian, both working for international oil companies in Libya, have now gone missing from the facility, a Czech foreign ministry official said Saturday.
Unknown gunmen on Friday fired on the Ghani oil field Friday, located about 500 kilometers from Tripoli and run by a joint-venture with Suncor Energy Inc. of Canada. Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek told Czech state television on Saturday that the attackers were probably members of the local affiliate of the Islamic State organization.
The news comes after Libya’s state-run National Oil Co. said all personnel had left 11 fields that were under force majeure in Central Libya—a clause providing legal protection for disruptions.
The country, which is home to Africa’s largest oil reserves, has been mired in violence and political divisions since longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi was killed in an uprising in 2011. A civil war has broken out between the internationally recognized government-based in the country’s east and a rebel faction known as Libya Dawn that controls the country’s capital of Tripoli.
Both sides have recently come under attack from the Libyan branch of Islamic State, an extremist militant movement that has overrun parts of Syria and Iraq.
The Islamic State has claimed attacks against Central Libya’s oil facilities in recent weeks as warring parties there have turned their sights on the country’s oil industry, once the lifeblood of its economy.
Libya is pumping about 500,000 barrels of crude oil a day, three times less than its peak output.
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