Cause and effect a Western concept

ISIS with RPG in an enclosed room.

http://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/terrorism/isis-fighter-no-rocket-scientist/4758591798001

RPG – Rocket Propelled Grenade.

An enemy of experts.

http://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/terrorism/tribute-to-terrorists-who-got-the-touch/3791251371001

Not.

‘I want to die with dignity and take all these bastards with me’

Spetznaz calls airstrike on his position rather than face capture by ISIS.

“Tell my family and my country I love them.”

Transcript:

Officer: command I am compromised, repeat I am compromised.

Command: please repeat and confirm

Officer: They have spotted me, there are shooting everywhere, I am pinned, request evacuation immediately

Command: evacuation request acknowledged

Officer: please hurry I am low on ammo, they seem to be everywhere, I can’t hold them for too long please hurry

Command: Confirmed, hold them off, continue return of fire, go to safe position, air support is monitoring, state coordinates

Officer: gives coordinates which are blurred in the translation

Command: command repeats coordinates which are blurred. Confirm

Officer: confirmed, please hurry I am low on ammo, they are surrounding me, bastards

Command: 12 minutes until evacuation, return to safe line, I repeat return to safe line

Officer: They are close, I am surrounded, this may be the end, tell my family I love them dearly

Command: return to green line, continue return of fire, help is on the way, followed by air support

Officer: negative, I am surrounded, they are so many of these bastards

Command: 10 minutes, return to green line

Officer: I can’t they have surrounded me and are closing in, please hurry

Command: move to green line, repeat move to green line

Officer: They are outside, conduct the airstrike now please hurry, this is the end, tell my family I love them and I died fighting for my motherland.

Command: Negative return to green line

Officer: I can’t command, I am surrounded, they are outside, I don’t want them to take me and parade me, conduct the airstrike, they will make a mockery of me and this uniform. I want to die with dignity and take all these bastards with me. please my last wish, conduct the airstrike, they will kill me either way.

Command: please confirm your request

Officer: They out outside, this is the end commander, thank you, tell my family and my country I love them. Tell them I was brave and I fought until I could no longer. Please take care of my family, avenge my death, good bye commander, tell my family I love them

Command: No response, orders the airstrike.

http://neveryetmelted.com/

ISIS is 50 miles from me?

“Army Gen. Loyd Austin on Wednesday relinquished command of the U.S. forces fighting the Islamic State in Tampa, Florida …”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/30/white-house-faults-decorated-us-generals-handling-/

Good grief! ISIS is in Tampa! How did the terrorists get that close? Shouldn’t someone call 9-1-1? I guess we’ll now say it’s Islamic State in Tampa. ISIT?

Police seize passport of Danish woman who fought ISIS

She is 22 and went to Iraq and Syria to fight alongside Kurdish Peshmerga against ISIS.

“How can I pose a threat to Denmark and other countries by being a soldier in an official army that Denmark trains and supports directly in the fight against the Islamic State?” she wrote on Facebook in October.

Her attorney argues: “She has never been charged or convicted of anything in Denmark. In each and every interview she gives, she expresses her belief in Danish values and on top of that she is supporting a cause that we have gone to war for via the [international] alliance [fighting Isis],”

http://www.thelocal.dk/20160205/danish-woman-who-fought-isis-loses-court-battle

Link to photographs:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=joanna+palani&qpvt=joanna+palani&qpvt=joanna+palani&FORM=IGRE

She is the kind of woman who drives Muslim murderers beyond batshit crazy.

One soldier has a U.S. 25th Infantry Division patch on his uniform.

Eradicating ISIS ‘in a matter of weeks’

“’The terrorists don’t know what a real war is, because they have only been subjected to airstrikes. They don’t have experience of real military action,’ said Kadyrov in an interview to a Russian news agency earlier this month. ‘If our request is granted, it will be a celebration for us,’ he said. ‘But it’s a decision for the commander-in-chief to take.’ According to Kadyrov, if Moscow would allow Chechen elite units, spetsnaz, to participate in the Syrian Civil War, the terrorist organization calling itself the Islamic State (ISIS) would be eradicated in a matter of weeks. Kadyrov himself would be happy to enter the battlefield in the first ranks of Chechen units if Putin orders him to do so.”

…

“Several military commentators have expressed doubts over the Russian air force’s capacity to deal a decisive blow to the Syrian insurgents, whether secular or jihadists. To acquire control over the territory, especially key infrastructure and transport hubs, Russia will at some point also need to deploy ground forces. Over the years, Syrian President Al-Assad’s army has proved incapable of eradicating the insurgents and has for some time been on the defense. It has been largely dependent on support from Moscow and Teheran and pro-Iranian armed groups such as Hezbollah. Having deployed its military to Syria, Moscow will find it increasingly difficult to withdraw from the war. If or when necessary, it will have to increase its support for the al-Assad regime to ensure its survival. A failure to do so would be regarded by many Russians as a matter of national humiliation – and as Putin’s personal fiasco.”

http://www.cacianalyst.org/publications/analytical-articles/item/13299-will-russia-deploy-chechen-units-to-syria?.html

Well, it’s combat, but it’s complicated

“Carter hailed 39-year-old Delta Force Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler as an exemplary hero who ‘ran to the sound of the guns’ in the helicopter assault Thursday with Kurdish Peshmerga fighters that freed 70 ISIS hostages. He was the first U.S. combat fatality of the campaign against ISIS.

"’This is combat,’ Carter said of the raid on an ISIS prison compound east of the town of Hawija in northern Iraq, and ‘we expect do to do more of this kind of thing.’

“However, Carter said that ‘things are complicated’ when asked if the policy against U.S. troops engaging in direct combat was still in effect."

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/10/24/delta-force-death-in-iraq-doesnt-reflect-combat-role-carter.html

Obama spokespersons said the raid decision was Carter’s and that the president had not signed off on the raid, but he was aware of the mission.

ISIS message to the White House

“Leave us alone with your burping and wait for a Khilāfah that Obama comes to you with… And who knows, maybe Michelle Obama’s price won’t even exceed a third of a dīnār, and a third of a dīnār is too much for her!”

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/isis-we-thank-allah-for-letting-us-rape-non-muslim-women/

‘Fight Speech with Speech, and Guns with Guns’

“(W)e must show no patience for victim-blaming. There will be some who will claim that Pamela Geller and the other event organizers provoked the attack — that we’d be safer if only we were more ‘respectful.’ Yet there is nothing worthy of respect in ISIS, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Hamas, or any of the other jihadist groups. Should we treat the beheaders of innocents better than our elite culture has treated our own peaceful Christian citizens? While I certainly will never equate ISIS with all of Islam, my message to peaceful, law-abiding Muslims offended by Geller’s speech is simple: Welcome to America. Here you have the freedom to practice your faith free from the massacres and violence that mark sectarian disputes in the Middle East, and here people have the right to mock your faith — as Christians have long understood. If one disagrees with Geller’s speech, the answer is more speech — not censorship and certainly not violence.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/417853/print

Link at http://www.floppingaces.net/most-wanted/fight-speech-with-speech-and-guns-with-guns/

(ISIS is not Islam? A small town police detective once set me straight on gangs, not intentionally, but by expressing an experienced position. Local police had picked up several bad guys on drug charges. The arrested wore gang colors, the detective said in an interview. LA gangs, Crips or Bloods. “So, they are gang wanna-bes?” I asked, since why would small town NE Texas bad guys be affiliated with a Los Angeles gang? The detective said, “If somebody tells me, and wants me to believe, he is a gang member, I’m taking his word.”)

Religion of peace kills more Christians

“Of the hundreds of Christians abducted by the Islamic State in recent days, at least fifteen have been executed, including one woman who was beheaded. Meanwhile, kinetic activists for the Islamic State destroyed priceless ancient artifacts in a museum of antiquities in Mosul. Neither incident had anything to do with Islam.”

http://gatesofvienna.net/

How the 8th century trumps the 21st

"There is a temptation to rehearse this observation—that jihadists are modern secular people, with modern political concerns, wearing medieval religious disguise—and make it fit the Islamic State. In fact, much of what the group does looks nonsensical except in light of a sincere, carefully considered commitment to returning civilization to a seventh-century legal environment, and ultimately to bringing about the apocalypse.

"The most-articulate spokesmen for that position are the Islamic State’s officials and supporters themselves. They refer derisively to 'moderns.' In conversation, they insist that they will not—cannot—waver from governing precepts that were embedded in Islam by the Prophet Muhammad and his earliest followers. They often speak in codes and allusions that sound odd or old-fashioned to non-Muslims, but refer to specific traditions and texts of early Islam."
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"The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic."

…

"Centuries have passed since the wars of religion ceased in Europe, and since men stopped dying in large numbers because of arcane theological disputes. Hence, perhaps, the incredulity and denial with which Westerners have greeted news of the theology and practices of the Islamic State. Many refuse to believe that this group is as devout as it claims to be, or as backward-looking or apocalyptic as its actions and statements suggest."

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/

Russian widow of Norwegian jihadst identified as Istanbul suicide bomber

“Istanbul (AFP) - A teenager from Russia's Muslim region of Dagestan suspected to have carried out a suicide bombing in Istanbul was said Friday to have been the widow of a Norwegian jihadist who died fighting for the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria.”

http://news.yahoo.com/istanbul-suicide-bomber-teen-widow-norwegian-jihadist-170030584.html


It's not as though this caliphate thing will spread out from the Middle East.

General says we must understand ISIS

Counterargument:

1. Locate enemy. 2. Kill enemy. 3. Over beers afterward, perhaps attempt to understand enemy. 4. More beer.

‘How to Win Wars’

http://theothermccain.com/

‘And the Europeans need to know that when we come, it will not be in a nice way.’

“It will be with our weapons. And those who do not convert to Islam or pay the Islamic tax will be killed.”

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Author’s journey inside ISIS: They’re ‘more dangerous than people realize’

Posted on Monday, December 22, 2014 by CNN in International News

Juergen Todenhoefer’s journey was a tough one: dangerous, but also eye-opening. The author traveled deep into ISIS territory — the area they now call their “caliphate” — visiting Raqqa and Deir Ezzor in Syria, as well as Mosul in Iraq.

Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, was taken by ISIS in a Blitzkrieg-like sweep in June.
Todenhoefer managed to visit the mosque there where the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Bagdadi, gave his only public address.

And he saw the realities of daily life under ISIS, with all shops having to close for prayers in the middle of the day.

“There is an awful sense of normalcy in Mosul,” Todenhoefer said in an exclusive interview with CNN.

“130,000 Christians have been evicted from the city, the Shia have fled, many people have been murdered and yet the city is functioning and people actually like the stability that the Islamic State has brought them.”

Nonetheless, he says, there is an air of fear among residents: “Of course many of the them are quite scared, because the punishment for breaking the Islamic State’s strict rules is very severe.”

According to ISIS’s leadership, the group’s fighters managed to take Mosul with only about 300 men, even though more than 20,000 Iraqi army soldiers were stationed there when the attack was launched.

Todenhoefer spoke with several ISIS fighters who took part in the operation.

“It took us about four days to take Mosul,” a young fighter told him.

“So you were only about 300 men and you defeated 20,000 troops in four days?” Todenhoefer asked.

“Well, we didn’t attack them all at once, we hit their front lines hard, also using suicide attacks. Then the others fled very quickly,” the fighter explained. “We fight for Allah, they fight for money and other things that they do not really believe in.”

Glow in their eyes

Todenhoefer told CNN the enthusiasm the ISIS militants showed was one thing that stood out.

“When we stayed at their recruitment house, there were 50 new fighters who came every day,” Todenhoefer said. “And I just could not believe the glow in their eyes. They felt like they were coming to a promised land, like they were fighting for the right thing.

“These are not stupid people. One of the people we met had just finished his law degree, he had great job offers, but he turned them down to go and fight … We met fighters from Europe and the United States. One of them was from New Jersey. Can you imagine a man from New Jersey traveling to fight for the Islamic State?”

He went on to say that one of ISIS’s main points of strength is their fighters’ willingness — even their will — to die on the battlefield.

Todenhoefer met one somewhat overweight recruit in a “safe house” who said he wears a suicide belt to every battle because he is too chubby to run away if he is cornered and would choose to blow himself up, rather than be captured.

ISIS also has a track record of abusing, torturing and executing prisoners of war. Todenhoefer was briefly able to speak to a Kurdish captive while in Mosul. The captive claimed he had not been tortured, but Todenhoefer said he found that hard to believe.

“This was a broken man,” Todenhoefer said. “It was very sad to see a person in this state. He was just very weak and very afraid of his captors.”

Todenhoefer conducted the interview with the prisoner while several ISIS fighters stood guard. He asked the man whether he knew what would happen to him.

“I do not know,” the captive told him. “My family does not even know I am still alive. I hope that maybe there will be some sort of prisoner exchange.”

Child ISIS fighters


Todenhoefer was also taken to see child soldiers outfitted with Islamic State gear and brandishing AK-47s. One of the boys seemed very young but claimed he had already gone to battle for ISIS.

“How old are you?” Todenhoefer asked.

“I am 13 years old,” the boy replied — though he looked even younger than that.

One of the most remarkable episodes of Todenhoefer’s trip to the ISIS-controlled region came when he was able to conduct an interview with a German fighter who spoke on behalf of ISIS’s leadership.

The man — clearly unapologetic about the group’s transgressions — vowed there was more to come; he also issued a warning to Europe and the United States.

“So you also want to come to Europe?” Todenhoefer asked him.

“No, we will conquer Europe one day,” the man said. “It is not a question of if we will conquer Europe, just a matter of when that will happen. But it is certain … For us, there is no such thing as borders. There are only front lines.

“Our expansion will be perpetual … And the Europeans need to know that when we come, it will not be in a nice way. It will be with our weapons. And those who do not convert to Islam or pay the Islamic tax will be killed.”

Todenhoefer asked the fighter about their treatment of other religions, especially Shia Muslims.

“What about the 150 million Shia, what if they refuse to convert?” Todenhoefer asked.

“150 million, 200 million or 500 million, it does not matter to us,” the fighter answered. “We will kill them all.”

Beheadings

The interview became testy when they reached the topic of beheadings and enslavement, especially of female captives.

“So do you seriously think that beheadings and enslavement actually signal progress for humanity?” Todenhoefer asked.

“Slavery absolutely signals progress,” the man said. “Only ignorant people believe that there is no slavery among the Christians and the Jews. Of course there are woman who are forced into prostitution under the worst circumstances.

“I would say that slavery is a great help to us and we will continue to have slavery and beheadings, it is part of our religion … many slaves have converted to Islam and have then been freed.”

The ISIS spokesman blamed the beheading of captured Western journalists and aid workers on the policies of the United States.

“People should really think about the case of James Foley,” he said. “He did not get killed because we started the battle. He got killed because of the ignorance of his government that did not give him any help.”

Even with recent gains by Kurdish forces against ISIS in northern Iraq, Todenhoefer sees the extremist group as entrenched, building state institutions, and that it shows no sign of losing its grip in the main areas it controls in Iraq and Syria.

“I think the Islamic State is a lot more dangerous than Western leaders realize,” he said. “They believe in what they are fighting for and are preparing the largest religious cleansing campaign the world has ever seen.”

http://www.gantdaily.com/2014/12/22/authors-journey-inside-isis-theyre-more-dangerous-than-people-realize/

Link at gatesofvienna.net

Georgian soldier dies fighting for Ukraine

Aleksandre Grigolashvili died in Lugansk on Dec. 19. He joined the Georgian army in 2007 and fought in Afghanistan and South Ossetia. Family members said he went to the Ukraine two months ago to fight for the pro-Kiev forces against pro-Russian militia.

http://www.eurasianet.org/node/71436

Lugansk was formerly called Voroshilovgrad. Pro-Russian forces declared the Lugansk People’s Republic last May and announced merger with the Donetsk People’s Republic.

That a former Georgian soldier went to Ukraine to fight against pro-Putin militia, after fighting Russians in South Ossetia and Taliban in Afghanistan, shows the problems of the area far exceed Ukraine and Russia.

Grigolashvili’s death is being used by political factions in Georgia, but that should not surprise anyone. Politicians are quite adept at using dead soldiers for political benefit.

Abu Omar al-Shishani, another former Georgian soldier, is a commander of ISIS in northern Syria. Although al-Shishani, as Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili (his Georgian birth name), fought Russia in the South Ossetia war, he now leads Chechens in ISIS.

http://www.eurasianet.org/node/68956

None of these wars is truly local. All forces have soldiers who have fought each other in other countries.

ISIS can take credit for arrangement of enemies

“In fact, ISIS has led to an almost unbelievable broad coalition against it, all of whom seek to destroy it. Here is a short, clockwise list: Russia, Turkey, Iran, the Kurdish militias (Pêşmerge), the Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Syrian army, the Lebanese army, Hezbollah and Israel.

“It can take credit for another almost unbelievable achievement: It managed to return the US Army to Iraq under the Obama administration. Apart from the aerial strikes that are already taking place, US Secretary of State John Kerry is also working on building a wide international coalition to eradicate the organization.” – Amos Yadlin, former director IDF military intelligence.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4567128,00.html

Link at fark.com

This can’t be true

ISIS captures Saddam’s chemical weapons stockpiles.

“17.09 Chemical weapons produced at the Al Muthanna facility, which Isis today seized, are believed to have included mustard gas, Sarin, Tabun, and VX.”

But … But they don’t exist! During the illegal American invasion and occupation, no chemical weapons were found!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10910868/Iraq-crisis-Obama-may-launch-air-strikes-without-Congress-amid-calls-for-Maliki-to-go-live.html

At maggiesfarm and pjmedia.