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Every Paki should be happy as more $$$ will pour into Pakistan in the name of WOT. Pakistan has given a new dimension to Terrorism - "A flourishing Business"
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They might even be begging ISIS to hit Pakistan so they can get money.
"‹50 ISIS jihadists killed over past 24hrs in Syria
At least 50 extremists from the Islamic State (formerly ISIS) have been killed in US-led airstrikes in the past 24 hours in the town of Kobane, Syria, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The monitor added that the number of deaths was one of the highest daily tolls since the extremists started their assault on Kobani in September.
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At least 50 extremists from the Islamic State (formerly ISIS) have been killed in US-led airstrikes in the past 24 hours in the town of Kobane, Syria, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The monitor added that the number of deaths was one of the highest daily tolls since the extremists started their assault on Kobani in September.
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Iran bombs Isis in Iraq, says Pentagon
Iran has launched air strikes against Islamic State militants in eastern Iraq, according to the Pentagon. Rear Admiral John Kirby said the US believed it may be the first time Tehran had launched manned aircraft from inside Iran to strike Isis targets in Iraq. The Pentagon spokesman said the US had not co-ordinated air strikes or military activities with Iran. He said the US continued to fly missions over Iraq and it was up to the Iraqi government to avoid conflicts in its own air space. Iranian military leaders have acknowledged that dozens of their forces have been in Iraq fighting alongside Kurdish troops against Isis. The US has not invited Iran to join the coalition fighting the Islamic State group and Iran has said it would not join in any case.
Iran bombs Isis in Iraq, says Pentagon | World news | The Guardian
Iran has launched air strikes against Islamic State militants in eastern Iraq, according to the Pentagon. Rear Admiral John Kirby said the US believed it may be the first time Tehran had launched manned aircraft from inside Iran to strike Isis targets in Iraq. The Pentagon spokesman said the US had not co-ordinated air strikes or military activities with Iran. He said the US continued to fly missions over Iraq and it was up to the Iraqi government to avoid conflicts in its own air space. Iranian military leaders have acknowledged that dozens of their forces have been in Iraq fighting alongside Kurdish troops against Isis. The US has not invited Iran to join the coalition fighting the Islamic State group and Iran has said it would not join in any case.
Iran bombs Isis in Iraq, says Pentagon | World news | The Guardian
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ISIS may possesss nuclear material stolen from Iraq, report says
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LONDON: Islamic State terror group may have developed a nuclear device by using radioactive uranium stolen from Iraq's Mosul University after seizing control of the city last June, a British media report says. Militants boasted of the device on social media, with one even commenting on the destruction such a bomb would wreak in London, four months after the chemical went missing from Mosul University, Mirror newspaper reported.
One of the extremists making online threats to the west is British explosives expert Hamayun Tariq, who fled his home in the UK for the Middle East in 2012. Using the alias, Muslim-al-Britani, he tweeted, "O by the way, Islamic State does have a dirty bomb. We found some radioactive material from Mosul University." He wrote: "We'll find out what dirty bombs are and what they do. We'll also discuss what might happen if one actually went off in a public area."
A dirty bomb is a speculative radiological weapon that combines radioactive material with conventional explosives. It is claimed the device includes uranium from a stash of 40 kilograms looted by IS.
Iraq's UN ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim informed UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon of the theft in a letter on July 8. He wrote: "Terrorist groups have seized control of nuclear material at the sites that came out of the control of the state."
If the bomb does exist, militants are far more likely to use it in Syria or Iraq, rather than trying to smuggle it into a western country, the report said.
The IS militants have captured swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria. It is a splinter group of the al-Qaida which has distanced itself from the outfit, chiding it for its aggressive and brutal expansion. The IS gained international attention in August, when its fighters and those from other militant groups swept through the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, then overran swaths of territory north and west of Baghdad.
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LONDON: Islamic State terror group may have developed a nuclear device by using radioactive uranium stolen from Iraq's Mosul University after seizing control of the city last June, a British media report says. Militants boasted of the device on social media, with one even commenting on the destruction such a bomb would wreak in London, four months after the chemical went missing from Mosul University, Mirror newspaper reported.
One of the extremists making online threats to the west is British explosives expert Hamayun Tariq, who fled his home in the UK for the Middle East in 2012. Using the alias, Muslim-al-Britani, he tweeted, "O by the way, Islamic State does have a dirty bomb. We found some radioactive material from Mosul University." He wrote: "We'll find out what dirty bombs are and what they do. We'll also discuss what might happen if one actually went off in a public area."
A dirty bomb is a speculative radiological weapon that combines radioactive material with conventional explosives. It is claimed the device includes uranium from a stash of 40 kilograms looted by IS.
Iraq's UN ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim informed UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon of the theft in a letter on July 8. He wrote: "Terrorist groups have seized control of nuclear material at the sites that came out of the control of the state."
If the bomb does exist, militants are far more likely to use it in Syria or Iraq, rather than trying to smuggle it into a western country, the report said.
The IS militants have captured swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria. It is a splinter group of the al-Qaida which has distanced itself from the outfit, chiding it for its aggressive and brutal expansion. The IS gained international attention in August, when its fighters and those from other militant groups swept through the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, then overran swaths of territory north and west of Baghdad.
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ISIS shoots down Iraqi helicopter killing pilots
The Associated Press Saturday, 13 December 2014 Iraqi officials on Saturday said Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants shot down Iraqi helicopter near Samarra, killing two pilots onboard and raising fresh concerns about the extremists' ability to attack aircraft amid ongoing U.S.-led coalition airstrikes. The attack happened in the Shiite holy city of Samarra, about 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad. A senior Defense Ministry official told The Associated Press the Sunni militants used a shoulder-fired rocket launcher to shoot down the EC635 helicopter on the outskirts of the city. An army official corroborated the information. Both spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren't authorized to speak to journalists. The EC635, built by Airbus Helicopters, is used for transport, surveillance and combat. The militants shot down at least two other Iraqi military helicopters near the city of Beiji in October. Some fear the militants may have captured ground-to-air missiles capable of shooting down airplanes when they overran Iraqi and Syrian army bases this summer. European airlines including Virgin Atlantic, KLM and Air France, U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines and Dubai- based Emirates changed their commercial flight plans over the summer to avoid Iraqi airspace. The U.S.-trained Iraqi military virtually collapsed in the face of the militants' blitz, shedding their uniforms and abandoning sophisticated weapons near the northern city of Mosul. ISIS holds about a third of Iraq and neighboring Syria in its self-styled caliphate.
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The Associated Press Saturday, 13 December 2014 Iraqi officials on Saturday said Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants shot down Iraqi helicopter near Samarra, killing two pilots onboard and raising fresh concerns about the extremists' ability to attack aircraft amid ongoing U.S.-led coalition airstrikes. The attack happened in the Shiite holy city of Samarra, about 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad. A senior Defense Ministry official told The Associated Press the Sunni militants used a shoulder-fired rocket launcher to shoot down the EC635 helicopter on the outskirts of the city. An army official corroborated the information. Both spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren't authorized to speak to journalists. The EC635, built by Airbus Helicopters, is used for transport, surveillance and combat. The militants shot down at least two other Iraqi military helicopters near the city of Beiji in October. Some fear the militants may have captured ground-to-air missiles capable of shooting down airplanes when they overran Iraqi and Syrian army bases this summer. European airlines including Virgin Atlantic, KLM and Air France, U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines and Dubai- based Emirates changed their commercial flight plans over the summer to avoid Iraqi airspace. The U.S.-trained Iraqi military virtually collapsed in the face of the militants' blitz, shedding their uniforms and abandoning sophisticated weapons near the northern city of Mosul. ISIS holds about a third of Iraq and neighboring Syria in its self-styled caliphate.
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http://english.alarabiya.net/en/per...ess-arrest-rattles-ISIS-cages-on-Twitter.html
The arrest of Mehdi Masroor Biswas, author of the highly influential pro-ISIS twitter account @ShamiWitness, on Saturday in Bangalore, India, is putting jihadist tweeps on notice. Deactivation, suspension and anxious-ridden tweets have been widely visible in the last two days, while more questions are being raised to improve Twitter's anti-extremism tools and prevent ISIS from using it as a platform.
"He became a hub for ISIS recruits and propaganda," that's how Frances Townsend, president of the "Counter extremism Project" (CEP), sums up the rise and fall of Shami Witness, who raked up more than 18,000 followers on Twitter in the last two years.
From his executive office in India's "silicon valley," Shami Witness cheered on ISIS and its reign of horror more than 4,000 km away in Iraq and Syria. His outing and arrest this week after a Channel 4 investigation is a "very good development," Townsend tells Al Arabiya News, proving that an anonymous address and fake Twitter handles are no guarantee for impunity.
Sophisticated and 'legitimate'
Phillip Smyth, a researcher at the University of Maryland who had interacted with Biswas in the last two years, qualifies his strategy as "looking legitimate" while "humanizing ISIS."
Millions checked the Shami Witness Twitter feed every month, among them are leading journalists and counterterrorism experts in the West, desperate for any kind of information on the extremist group. His strength was in his ability to break news and report firsthand developments on ISIS, which proves according to Townsend that he had direct contact with its fighters on the battlefield.
Smyth's first interactions with Shami Witness were in spring of 2013, through Biswas' first account @elsaltador. "He played a neutral-slightly Islamist personality until around late 2013 before turning into full ISIS mode in 2014," Smyth tells Al-Arabiya News.
The transition Smyth suspects was a reaction to Al-Qaeda's Syrian branch, the Nusra Front, whom Biswas favored originally, clashing with ISIS. During that period, Smyth says Biswas increasingly sent him privately "very sectarian posts and praised jihadist activity in Syria."
Shami Witness was sophisticated enough and "understood how to manipulate the English language social media sphere for analysis and attract journalists seeking quick information and snarky posts," according to Smyth. He tweeted Abdul Rahman Kassig's beheading video and hailed arrests of Kurdish women fighters in Kobane. He also gave logistical advice at times about crossing into ISIS territory.
Twitter and extremism
The Shami Witness bust and arrest is sending shockwaves through jihadist Twitter circles. Some have already reconsidered and deactivated their Twitter accounts, while others are questioning the authenticity of other Jihadist accounts and possibility of intelligence agencies tracking them.
(Courtesy of Twitter)
Despite this unsettling development for pro-ISIS accounts on Twitter, Townsend still sees the network "undisturbed, free to act without risk to disseminate propaganda, recruit and communicate within ISIS." Townsend, who has been a target of vicious ISIS threats herself, voices concern about lack of protocol and guidelines on Twitter to report members spreading extremist propaganda.
"It is faster to start a Twitter account than to do a pregnancy test," Townsend explains. Many of the pro-ISIS users who get blocked or reported recreate a new account in no time. Townsend, who worked as a homeland security advisor under U.S. President George W Bush, and CEP have been advocating putting more resources to help Twitter in data-mining and filtering its information.
Townsend suggests putting in place a set of algorithms that track extremist content, "similar to those that Google employs against pornography."
Right now, Twitter does not have the feature to report a user for supporting terrorism, and it could take 12 days to review a profile while thousands of pro-ISIS figures utilize the outlet to exchange information. A U.N. effort supported by a U.N. Security Council resolution is in effect as well to combat online support for ISIS.
Deactivating the Shami Witness account is a setback for ISIS and raises red flags and unease among fellow jihadists. But absent of a long-term effort that enforces anti-extremism guidelines and safety measures on Twitter, stories of a tech executive in India or elsewhere promoting ISIS' agenda in Deir Zour and beyond are bound to recur.
The arrest of Mehdi Masroor Biswas, author of the highly influential pro-ISIS twitter account @ShamiWitness, on Saturday in Bangalore, India, is putting jihadist tweeps on notice. Deactivation, suspension and anxious-ridden tweets have been widely visible in the last two days, while more questions are being raised to improve Twitter's anti-extremism tools and prevent ISIS from using it as a platform.
"He became a hub for ISIS recruits and propaganda," that's how Frances Townsend, president of the "Counter extremism Project" (CEP), sums up the rise and fall of Shami Witness, who raked up more than 18,000 followers on Twitter in the last two years.
From his executive office in India's "silicon valley," Shami Witness cheered on ISIS and its reign of horror more than 4,000 km away in Iraq and Syria. His outing and arrest this week after a Channel 4 investigation is a "very good development," Townsend tells Al Arabiya News, proving that an anonymous address and fake Twitter handles are no guarantee for impunity.
Sophisticated and 'legitimate'
Phillip Smyth, a researcher at the University of Maryland who had interacted with Biswas in the last two years, qualifies his strategy as "looking legitimate" while "humanizing ISIS."
Millions checked the Shami Witness Twitter feed every month, among them are leading journalists and counterterrorism experts in the West, desperate for any kind of information on the extremist group. His strength was in his ability to break news and report firsthand developments on ISIS, which proves according to Townsend that he had direct contact with its fighters on the battlefield.
Smyth's first interactions with Shami Witness were in spring of 2013, through Biswas' first account @elsaltador. "He played a neutral-slightly Islamist personality until around late 2013 before turning into full ISIS mode in 2014," Smyth tells Al-Arabiya News.
The transition Smyth suspects was a reaction to Al-Qaeda's Syrian branch, the Nusra Front, whom Biswas favored originally, clashing with ISIS. During that period, Smyth says Biswas increasingly sent him privately "very sectarian posts and praised jihadist activity in Syria."
Shami Witness was sophisticated enough and "understood how to manipulate the English language social media sphere for analysis and attract journalists seeking quick information and snarky posts," according to Smyth. He tweeted Abdul Rahman Kassig's beheading video and hailed arrests of Kurdish women fighters in Kobane. He also gave logistical advice at times about crossing into ISIS territory.
Twitter and extremism
The Shami Witness bust and arrest is sending shockwaves through jihadist Twitter circles. Some have already reconsidered and deactivated their Twitter accounts, while others are questioning the authenticity of other Jihadist accounts and possibility of intelligence agencies tracking them.
(Courtesy of Twitter)
Despite this unsettling development for pro-ISIS accounts on Twitter, Townsend still sees the network "undisturbed, free to act without risk to disseminate propaganda, recruit and communicate within ISIS." Townsend, who has been a target of vicious ISIS threats herself, voices concern about lack of protocol and guidelines on Twitter to report members spreading extremist propaganda.
"It is faster to start a Twitter account than to do a pregnancy test," Townsend explains. Many of the pro-ISIS users who get blocked or reported recreate a new account in no time. Townsend, who worked as a homeland security advisor under U.S. President George W Bush, and CEP have been advocating putting more resources to help Twitter in data-mining and filtering its information.
Townsend suggests putting in place a set of algorithms that track extremist content, "similar to those that Google employs against pornography."
Right now, Twitter does not have the feature to report a user for supporting terrorism, and it could take 12 days to review a profile while thousands of pro-ISIS figures utilize the outlet to exchange information. A U.N. effort supported by a U.N. Security Council resolution is in effect as well to combat online support for ISIS.
Deactivating the Shami Witness account is a setback for ISIS and raises red flags and unease among fellow jihadists. But absent of a long-term effort that enforces anti-extremism guidelines and safety measures on Twitter, stories of a tech executive in India or elsewhere promoting ISIS' agenda in Deir Zour and beyond are bound to recur.
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ISIS threatens Bangalore Police after Twitter handler Mehdi's arrest, warns of revenge : Karnataka, News - India Today
A senior police officer of Bangalore Police on Sunday received a message on micro-blogging site Twitter, threatening him with revenge for arresting Mehdi Masroor Biswas, the alleged handler of the Twitter account of the ISIS.
After Biswas was picked up on Saturday, DCP (Crime) Abhishek Goyal received a threat message in reply to his tweet about the arrest of the 24-year-old engineer working as "manufacturing executive" with ITC Foods in Bengaluru from his one-room apartment.
@goyal_abhei we will not leave our brothers in your hand Revenge is coming wait for our reaction
Responding to the threat, Goyal said he is not taking it much seriously.
"Personally I'm not taking the threat much seriously...taking it in stride and not much alarmed," he said.
Meanwhile, Biswas had been sent on a five-day police remand.
"Bengaluru CCB Police has got five-day police remand of Mehdi Masroor Biswas. He was presented before the Magistrate last night," Goyal said on Sunday.
The police have issued a notice to Twitter. They are also looking into the presence of any of the domestic connect or sleeper cell linked to Mehdi. His follower network is also being studied.
Preliminary investigation has shown that he is a propagandist of ISIS ideology and has been instrumental in influencing minds against India's friendly nations against whom ISIS is at war, a police source said.
On the basis of "credible" intelligence inputs received on the presence of ISIS Twitter Ideologue @shamiwitness in Bengaluru, the city police chief had formed a special team, which closed in on Biswas and arrested him.
Bengaluru Police had launched a manhunt for Mehdi after Britain's Channel 4 News had aired the report regarding the country's IT capital's link with the Twitter account that is followed by foreign jihadis.
Police on Saturday had said that Biswas has "confessed" that he was handling the pro-jihad tweeter "@shamiwitness" that became a source of incitement and information for new ISIS recruits.
Biswas has been arrested under Sec 125 of IPC (whoever wages war against the Government of any Asiatic power in alliance or at peace with the Government of India or attempts to wage such war, or abets the waging of such war), Sections 18 and 39 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Section 66 of the Information Technology act, they had said.
A senior police officer of Bangalore Police on Sunday received a message on micro-blogging site Twitter, threatening him with revenge for arresting Mehdi Masroor Biswas, the alleged handler of the Twitter account of the ISIS.
After Biswas was picked up on Saturday, DCP (Crime) Abhishek Goyal received a threat message in reply to his tweet about the arrest of the 24-year-old engineer working as "manufacturing executive" with ITC Foods in Bengaluru from his one-room apartment.
@goyal_abhei we will not leave our brothers in your hand Revenge is coming wait for our reaction
Responding to the threat, Goyal said he is not taking it much seriously.
"Personally I'm not taking the threat much seriously...taking it in stride and not much alarmed," he said.
Meanwhile, Biswas had been sent on a five-day police remand.
"Bengaluru CCB Police has got five-day police remand of Mehdi Masroor Biswas. He was presented before the Magistrate last night," Goyal said on Sunday.
The police have issued a notice to Twitter. They are also looking into the presence of any of the domestic connect or sleeper cell linked to Mehdi. His follower network is also being studied.
Preliminary investigation has shown that he is a propagandist of ISIS ideology and has been instrumental in influencing minds against India's friendly nations against whom ISIS is at war, a police source said.
On the basis of "credible" intelligence inputs received on the presence of ISIS Twitter Ideologue @shamiwitness in Bengaluru, the city police chief had formed a special team, which closed in on Biswas and arrested him.
Bengaluru Police had launched a manhunt for Mehdi after Britain's Channel 4 News had aired the report regarding the country's IT capital's link with the Twitter account that is followed by foreign jihadis.
Police on Saturday had said that Biswas has "confessed" that he was handling the pro-jihad tweeter "@shamiwitness" that became a source of incitement and information for new ISIS recruits.
Biswas has been arrested under Sec 125 of IPC (whoever wages war against the Government of any Asiatic power in alliance or at peace with the Government of India or attempts to wage such war, or abets the waging of such war), Sections 18 and 39 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Section 66 of the Information Technology act, they had said.
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ISIS beheads 150 females, including pregnant women, for refusing to marry terrorists
Baghdad: As the world along with Pakistan mourns the death of children killed in the dastardly carried out terrorist attack in an army-run school in Peshawar by Taliban, reports of more violence from another brutal terror group have emerged. Islamic State militants have reportedly beheaded at least 150 women, some of them pregnant, for refusing to marry them. Iraq's Ministry of Human Rights, in a statement released, said that the women in the western Iraqi province of Al-Anbar were attacked by the Islamic State terrorists and were later buried in mass graves in Fallujah. "At least 150 females, including pregnant women, were executed in Fallujah by a militant named Abu Anas Al-Libi after they refused to accept jihad marriage," the statement said. Last month, at least 50 men, women and children were executed by the IS members in a tribe massacre in the village of Ras al-Maa. According to reports, the militants lined them up and shot them dead in public. ISIS had also recently published a pamphlet guiding its members on how to capture, keep and sexually abuse female slaves.
ISIS beheads 150 females, including pregnant women, for refusing to marry terrorists | Zee News
Baghdad: As the world along with Pakistan mourns the death of children killed in the dastardly carried out terrorist attack in an army-run school in Peshawar by Taliban, reports of more violence from another brutal terror group have emerged. Islamic State militants have reportedly beheaded at least 150 women, some of them pregnant, for refusing to marry them. Iraq's Ministry of Human Rights, in a statement released, said that the women in the western Iraqi province of Al-Anbar were attacked by the Islamic State terrorists and were later buried in mass graves in Fallujah. "At least 150 females, including pregnant women, were executed in Fallujah by a militant named Abu Anas Al-Libi after they refused to accept jihad marriage," the statement said. Last month, at least 50 men, women and children were executed by the IS members in a tribe massacre in the village of Ras al-Maa. According to reports, the militants lined them up and shot them dead in public. ISIS had also recently published a pamphlet guiding its members on how to capture, keep and sexually abuse female slaves.
ISIS beheads 150 females, including pregnant women, for refusing to marry terrorists | Zee News
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Malaysians heading for Syria and Iraq to fight for the dreaded Islamic State have been taking out bank loans to fund their journey and lifestyle there, according to police. Investigation papers on at least five IS sympathisers, who were stopped from travelling there, showed that they had not only disposed of most of their properties, but had also applied for loans, some up to more than Rs 20 lakh, New Straits Times quoted police sources as saying. A 30-year-old man, who was arrested at the international airport here, had taken a loan, quit his job and had begun his trip. Brunei and India were supposed to be among his stops, the report said. The Special Branch's Counter- Terrorism Division said it would alert banks to stop extending loans to those they had strong grounds to believe were IS members sourcing for funds. Sources close to probe said many of these suspects had applied for loans with no intention of repaying them as their road to martyrdom was one way, the report said. This trend had begun for some time and that many of these suspects' comrades in Syria and Iraq had done it before, the sources said. "Some of them subscribed to the idea that even if they do come back to Malaysia, they would be arrested and settling the loan would be the least of their problems," one of the sources said. Special Branch's principal assistant director Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay said police had found that this method of raising funds was fast becoming a trend among ISIS members. "We know that before this, many militants wanting to fight in Syria would sell off their belongings or were sponsored to go over (there) by IS supporters in the country. Lately, however, the trend of taking personal loans from banks is on the rise," he added.
ISIS fighters taking bank loans to fund journey | Siasat
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ISIS is a Sunni organization which it got its funding from Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Now they captured enough territory and oil resources that they do not need any more money from Arabian benefactors.
The greatest mistake in its creation was made by the US occupiers of 2003 invasions. First act was to demobilize the army which was Sunni for three hundred years and hand it over to the Shia population base. Arithmetic of this handover was right but cultural and Middle East situation was not right. Iraq was bastion of Turkish rule until WW1 for three hundred years. The later Sheikhdoms were also Sunni. So was Saddam Hussein who built the army was also Sunni Arab, hence demobilizing the army and handing it over to Shia population mistake was wrong. That was the fist basic mistake US made.
These demobilized Sunni soldiers waged a ten year long secret war in which they compelled US to withdraw. In the process they themselves died in large numbers but killed sufficient number of Shias to create a fear in their mind. Hence when time came for Shia to rule and defend, they were no match to Sunnis.
An unknown Sunni cleric with the name Al Baghadadi, found the willing Arab countries willing to contribute money and ready recruits thoroughly brain bashed in Sunni Areas of Iraq and Southern Syria. Hence the fight began. His main regrouping was in Syria, where civil war raging and also away from the hands of US army, still in Iraq.
The new cleric was smart, definitely smarter than the US and Shias. He moved in the Sunni areas of Syria and captured good chunk of area where internal fighting was not that much prevalent. Then in a sudden swoop he captured most of Iraq's Sunni areas including Mosul, a large city. The Shia defenders just ran away leaving American supplied arms and equipment. In the captured areas they found American supported minorities. They had a field day inflicting atrocities on them. Moreover they had invited `nuts` from all over the Muslim world to come and fight alongside them. Hence about two thousand of these roughnecks showed up in Iraq and Syria to fight alongside of ISIS. They had been promised beauties in heavens, if they die for the cause. In fact they did not have to die, beauties were here in their lifetime in Yazadi and other minority communities.
ISIS would have captured Baghdad but timely US air intervention saved it.
Only community which stood up to them, were Kurds. They were ill equipped but fought well. They could be resupplied and brought at par with ISIS soldiers but Turkey would not let this to happen. Turkey is afraid of large population of Kurds well armed will destabilize them, hence prevented US supply of weapons.
Air war against ISIS has worked. They are at standstill. Whatever area they captured from Iraqi Shias, they are not going to give up. Whatever Syrian area they have, again they will not give up. Hence this fighting is at standstill. No Shia force from Iraq will ever be able to recover the area ISIS has captured. Same is true of Syria.
Ultimately Iraq and Syria may see a new country of ISIS emerging. Also Kurds will get a homeland.
What a folly, US policy made.
The greatest mistake in its creation was made by the US occupiers of 2003 invasions. First act was to demobilize the army which was Sunni for three hundred years and hand it over to the Shia population base. Arithmetic of this handover was right but cultural and Middle East situation was not right. Iraq was bastion of Turkish rule until WW1 for three hundred years. The later Sheikhdoms were also Sunni. So was Saddam Hussein who built the army was also Sunni Arab, hence demobilizing the army and handing it over to Shia population mistake was wrong. That was the fist basic mistake US made.
These demobilized Sunni soldiers waged a ten year long secret war in which they compelled US to withdraw. In the process they themselves died in large numbers but killed sufficient number of Shias to create a fear in their mind. Hence when time came for Shia to rule and defend, they were no match to Sunnis.
An unknown Sunni cleric with the name Al Baghadadi, found the willing Arab countries willing to contribute money and ready recruits thoroughly brain bashed in Sunni Areas of Iraq and Southern Syria. Hence the fight began. His main regrouping was in Syria, where civil war raging and also away from the hands of US army, still in Iraq.
The new cleric was smart, definitely smarter than the US and Shias. He moved in the Sunni areas of Syria and captured good chunk of area where internal fighting was not that much prevalent. Then in a sudden swoop he captured most of Iraq's Sunni areas including Mosul, a large city. The Shia defenders just ran away leaving American supplied arms and equipment. In the captured areas they found American supported minorities. They had a field day inflicting atrocities on them. Moreover they had invited `nuts` from all over the Muslim world to come and fight alongside them. Hence about two thousand of these roughnecks showed up in Iraq and Syria to fight alongside of ISIS. They had been promised beauties in heavens, if they die for the cause. In fact they did not have to die, beauties were here in their lifetime in Yazadi and other minority communities.
ISIS would have captured Baghdad but timely US air intervention saved it.
Only community which stood up to them, were Kurds. They were ill equipped but fought well. They could be resupplied and brought at par with ISIS soldiers but Turkey would not let this to happen. Turkey is afraid of large population of Kurds well armed will destabilize them, hence prevented US supply of weapons.
Air war against ISIS has worked. They are at standstill. Whatever area they captured from Iraqi Shias, they are not going to give up. Whatever Syrian area they have, again they will not give up. Hence this fighting is at standstill. No Shia force from Iraq will ever be able to recover the area ISIS has captured. Same is true of Syria.
Ultimately Iraq and Syria may see a new country of ISIS emerging. Also Kurds will get a homeland.
What a folly, US policy made.
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Malaysia Scores Victory Over Islamic State
Malaysia appeared to have scored a small victory in its assault against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants this week, with the country no longer deemed a safe transit point for recruits headed to Syria to join the group.
An ISIS recruiter in Syria, using the name Abu Hud, posted a warning on the ISIS website urging Indonesians not to transit Malaysia in the wake of the police crackdown against the group there, the Malaysian newspaper The Star reported Tuesday.
"If Indonesians ask where they have to go through, please do not give advice to pass through Turkey or any place where they have to transit to Malaysia"¦ It is tantamount to suicide. It is not safe anymore!" the notice posted on the blog said.
The recruiter also reportedly advised anyone transiting countries with the intention of eventually joining ISIS not to bring anything with them while traveling that is related to the group or its activities, such as a video, book or sticker. This is was allegedly how several Malaysians and Indonesians were previously detected by authorities.
In response, Malaysia's deputy inspector-general of police Noor Rashid Ibrahim told The Star that the counter-terrorism division would continue its efforts to hunt down Malaysians as well as recruits of other nationalities in order to prevent the country from becoming a hideout, base, or transit point for militants.
"We are glad our efforts are showing results and are preventing militants from joining IS through Malaysia"¦ We will continue our vigilance at all exit and entry points to ensure no one slips through our net," he said.
Despite this positive development, several sources that The Star cited cautioned against declaring victory just yet. One said the warning on the ISIS website could merely be a trick to throw Malaysian authorities off guard, while a few others emphasized that the militants would now just use alternative routes to transit to ISIS-controlled territories, including stopping in Brunei, Hong Kong, China and other European countries.
As The Diplomat reported previously, Malaysian authorities have been cracking down on ISIS militants in recent months amid reports of their rising threat in the country. News has surfaced of militants seeking to influence domestic political parties, raise funds, and plan attacks on government agencies and entertainment centers in addition to their desire to use Malaysia as a preferred transit point. Aside from a recent wave of arrests, Malaysia is also expected to introduce a new Anti-Terrorism Act in the coming months to strengthen the power of law enforcement agencies, which has raised concerns among rights groups.
Since February 2014, Malaysia's special branch counter-terrorism division has reportedly arrested 51 suspected Malaysian militants, with a number of Indonesians also apprehended.
Malaysia Scores Victory Over Islamic State | The Diplomat
Malaysia appeared to have scored a small victory in its assault against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants this week, with the country no longer deemed a safe transit point for recruits headed to Syria to join the group.
An ISIS recruiter in Syria, using the name Abu Hud, posted a warning on the ISIS website urging Indonesians not to transit Malaysia in the wake of the police crackdown against the group there, the Malaysian newspaper The Star reported Tuesday.
"If Indonesians ask where they have to go through, please do not give advice to pass through Turkey or any place where they have to transit to Malaysia"¦ It is tantamount to suicide. It is not safe anymore!" the notice posted on the blog said.
The recruiter also reportedly advised anyone transiting countries with the intention of eventually joining ISIS not to bring anything with them while traveling that is related to the group or its activities, such as a video, book or sticker. This is was allegedly how several Malaysians and Indonesians were previously detected by authorities.
In response, Malaysia's deputy inspector-general of police Noor Rashid Ibrahim told The Star that the counter-terrorism division would continue its efforts to hunt down Malaysians as well as recruits of other nationalities in order to prevent the country from becoming a hideout, base, or transit point for militants.
"We are glad our efforts are showing results and are preventing militants from joining IS through Malaysia"¦ We will continue our vigilance at all exit and entry points to ensure no one slips through our net," he said.
Despite this positive development, several sources that The Star cited cautioned against declaring victory just yet. One said the warning on the ISIS website could merely be a trick to throw Malaysian authorities off guard, while a few others emphasized that the militants would now just use alternative routes to transit to ISIS-controlled territories, including stopping in Brunei, Hong Kong, China and other European countries.
As The Diplomat reported previously, Malaysian authorities have been cracking down on ISIS militants in recent months amid reports of their rising threat in the country. News has surfaced of militants seeking to influence domestic political parties, raise funds, and plan attacks on government agencies and entertainment centers in addition to their desire to use Malaysia as a preferred transit point. Aside from a recent wave of arrests, Malaysia is also expected to introduce a new Anti-Terrorism Act in the coming months to strengthen the power of law enforcement agencies, which has raised concerns among rights groups.
Since February 2014, Malaysia's special branch counter-terrorism division has reportedly arrested 51 suspected Malaysian militants, with a number of Indonesians also apprehended.
Malaysia Scores Victory Over Islamic State | The Diplomat
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ISIS Executes Pigeon and Bird Breeders in Diyala, Iraq
Raising doves and pigeons is a deadly pursuit in ISIS-controlled Iraq.
The popular hobby is in the sights of extremist Islamist fighters, who this week rounded up 15 boys and young men in the eastern province of Diyala for pursuing a pastime now deemed un-Islamic. Three have already been executed, according to a security official in the area who spoke to NBC News on condition of anonymity.
Abu Abdullah, a 52-year-old farmer, told NBC News about the moment earlier this week that six gunmen barged into his home and dragged away his oldest son, who is 21.
"My son was standing beside me. I asked them why, and they said, 'He is not following the real Islam, he must be punished for being a pigeon breeder. This habit is taking him away from worshiping Allah," Abdullah said on the telephone.
The fighters put the household's pigeons in bags and burned them. Then they took away his son.
"I begged them again to know where are they taking him, what are they going to do to him. They said he is going to be taken to be judged according to the Islamic Sharia," Abu Abdullah said. "They pushed me, and when my son tried to stop them from pushing me they beat him. Then they put him inside the car and left."
"I begged them, but I was begging criminals not, as they claimed, Muslims," he said.
This story was repeated throughout the village as fighters rounded up men and boys aged 16 to 22, and destroyed their birds.
ISIS has imposed its hardline interpretation of Islam on the areas it now controls, forcing women to wear all-enveloping coverings and men to pray five times a day. Often, those who fall foul of its rules are executed in public.
The recent crackdown on bird breeders stems from ISIS' need for new fighters to battle the Iraqi and Syrian governments, as well as residents' growing desperation, according to the security official.
"ISIS is looking to get more people to join them, they are trying to force men to do that," he said. Most people live off farming but because of the fighting, can't sell what they cultivate. Some are turning to breeding pigeons and doves, either to race, eat or keep as pets. Abu Abdullah's son, for example, augmented his family's income by selling pigeons.
The hobby, which was especially popular among middle and lower classes before the U.S. invasion in 2003, has been targeted by extremists of all stripes. Suspicion of bird-breeders stems from the fact they tend to feed their animals at the same time devout Muslims traditionally hold their first of five daily prayers.
This distrust has prompted some clerics to issue fatwas against bird breeders. :facepalm
All this is immaterial for Abu Abdullah, who can only think of his missing son. "We are helpless and hopeless. I know they will kill him sooner or later," he said as he began to sob. "I'm waiting for someone to tell me he was killed, and the only thing I will do is to take his body and bury it."
ISIS Executes Pigeon and Bird Breeders in Diyala, Iraq - NBC News
Raising doves and pigeons is a deadly pursuit in ISIS-controlled Iraq.
The popular hobby is in the sights of extremist Islamist fighters, who this week rounded up 15 boys and young men in the eastern province of Diyala for pursuing a pastime now deemed un-Islamic. Three have already been executed, according to a security official in the area who spoke to NBC News on condition of anonymity.
Abu Abdullah, a 52-year-old farmer, told NBC News about the moment earlier this week that six gunmen barged into his home and dragged away his oldest son, who is 21.
"My son was standing beside me. I asked them why, and they said, 'He is not following the real Islam, he must be punished for being a pigeon breeder. This habit is taking him away from worshiping Allah," Abdullah said on the telephone.
The fighters put the household's pigeons in bags and burned them. Then they took away his son.
"I begged them again to know where are they taking him, what are they going to do to him. They said he is going to be taken to be judged according to the Islamic Sharia," Abu Abdullah said. "They pushed me, and when my son tried to stop them from pushing me they beat him. Then they put him inside the car and left."
"I begged them, but I was begging criminals not, as they claimed, Muslims," he said.
This story was repeated throughout the village as fighters rounded up men and boys aged 16 to 22, and destroyed their birds.
ISIS has imposed its hardline interpretation of Islam on the areas it now controls, forcing women to wear all-enveloping coverings and men to pray five times a day. Often, those who fall foul of its rules are executed in public.
The recent crackdown on bird breeders stems from ISIS' need for new fighters to battle the Iraqi and Syrian governments, as well as residents' growing desperation, according to the security official.
"ISIS is looking to get more people to join them, they are trying to force men to do that," he said. Most people live off farming but because of the fighting, can't sell what they cultivate. Some are turning to breeding pigeons and doves, either to race, eat or keep as pets. Abu Abdullah's son, for example, augmented his family's income by selling pigeons.
The hobby, which was especially popular among middle and lower classes before the U.S. invasion in 2003, has been targeted by extremists of all stripes. Suspicion of bird-breeders stems from the fact they tend to feed their animals at the same time devout Muslims traditionally hold their first of five daily prayers.
This distrust has prompted some clerics to issue fatwas against bird breeders. :facepalm
All this is immaterial for Abu Abdullah, who can only think of his missing son. "We are helpless and hopeless. I know they will kill him sooner or later," he said as he began to sob. "I'm waiting for someone to tell me he was killed, and the only thing I will do is to take his body and bury it."
ISIS Executes Pigeon and Bird Breeders in Diyala, Iraq - NBC News
