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Brown Moses posted:
Have you considering visiting Syrian refugees? Since you work tirelessly for the rights of Syrians, I can imagine getting to meet them might help realize what it's worth for.
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Latest video doing the rounds via social media. My Arabic is pretty weak but apparently it is ISIS in this video. This NOT worksafe! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spa3CGDM6cQ This war is brutal man 
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Mar 8, 2014 17:20
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Pieter posted:Have you considering visiting Syrian refugees? Since you work tirelessly for the rights of Syrians, I can imagine getting to meet them might help realize what it's worth for. And I've got mod D&D!
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Mar 8, 2014 17:26
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Oh cool, ISIS executed a little boy and a bunch of non-combatant men because...? I wish that Assad would manage to drop a barrel bomb on these guys rather than the civilian populace of Aleppo for once. Also, when was this shot? I see snow falling in the video, but a cursory look at Syrian weather suggests that it's been heating up a bit.
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Mar 8, 2014 18:52
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suboptimal posted:Oh cool, ISIS executed a little boy and a bunch of non-combatant men because...? I wish that Assad would manage to drop a barrel bomb on these guys rather than the civilian populace of Aleppo for once. Sadly i don't know enough about the vid to answer that. I just hope that the ISIS guys get what they deserve.
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Mar 8, 2014 18:58
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Here's more info in Arabic, supposedly a group of foreign ISIS fighter led by Abu Asad al-Uzbeki
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Mar 8, 2014 19:16
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So, Libyan rebels in Sidra, I guess one of the port cities they've been blockading the government from collecting oil revenue, are cutting their own deals, and just filled up a North Korean oil tanker. If they're actually making a good deal of cash on these sorts of deals, it's going to help undermine the federal government significantly. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26495625
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Mar 8, 2014 20:13
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I think I saw somewhere that one of the government threatened to bomb the tanker if it attempted to leave the port. More on the executions video from Reuters quote:Separately, a video was published online by activists purportedly showing members of the al Qaeda splinter group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) executing eight prisoners. Brown Moses fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Mar 8, 2014 |
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Mar 8, 2014 20:18
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Has there been any evidence at all of Assad attacking ISIS since the Geneva talks? I know the FSA has been openly willing to give his people exact coordinates and everything.
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Mar 8, 2014 21:14
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Thanks for the information BM. I am starting to get plugged into extremist Muslims FB accounts in order to see what the "current" mood is. No surprises that they see this kind of stuff as "lies" and "propoganda".
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Mar 8, 2014 21:16
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NWS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BlaeFZMsIg This chap is being made to recite the muslim call to prayer. If he get's one word wrong he is probably a dead man. It is a way that some extremists "test" a person.
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Mar 8, 2014 21:19
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Brown Moses posted:I've been invited a couple of times, finding time is the problem for me. This month I'm off to New York on Monday to meet with Google Ideas, then Istanbul where I'll be working on my book proposal, website launch, and a presentation I'm doing for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, then Stockholm at the end of March to give that presentation, then in April I start the month by doing a lecture to journalism students in Wales, then I'm off to Norway to speak at an investigative journalism conference, followed by another journalism conference at the end of the month in Italy. Hopefully by that point my agent would have got me a publisher for my book, so I'll be spending time writing that. Just think, in another life you could've run a very successful Etsy store. Way to go!
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Mar 8, 2014 22:11
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Autech posted:Thanks for the information BM. You're following some fringe pages then, every single non-ISIS Islamist there is has been extremely critical of ISIS, whatever their particular allegiance may be. This goes for Qaeda believers, Sufis, Shiites, Salafi Jihadis, and pretty much any other strain of political Islam there is, violent or non-violent.
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Mar 8, 2014 23:02
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I've just come across this very interesting picture This is from an official ISIS Twitter account posting images from al Anbar, Iraq. What's interesting about this picture is it appears to be a Croatian M79 OSA being used to blow up US-made Iraqi army tanks, very strong evidence the weapons Croatia provided to Saudi Arabia for the FSA have reached the hands of ISIS and are now being used to attack the West's allies. I've blogged more details here.
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Mar 9, 2014 00:27
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Muffiner posted:You're following some fringe pages then, every single non-ISIS Islamist there is has been extremely critical of ISIS, whatever their particular allegiance may be. This goes for Qaeda believers, Sufis, Shiites, Salafi Jihadis, and pretty much any other strain of political Islam there is, violent or non-violent. Ahh, i haven't followed any specific pages/groups but have just set up a fake account and befriended a load of folk - some of them are truly despicable and yeah, are pretty much on the fringes. They still want "evidence"
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Mar 9, 2014 01:50
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What western equipment does the Iraqi army use? Are we talking tanks? If so, which? Abrams? Wonder if we'll see videos of western tanks being blown up in spetacular form.
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Mar 9, 2014 03:47
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Autech posted:Latest video doing the rounds via social media. My Arabic is pretty weak but apparently it is ISIS in this video. It makes me wonder how many of these ISIS executioners suffer PTSD. How many of them are hesitant to do these acts? Obviously some of them suffer from it, but others seem to casually mow civilians down like some low-budget video game super villains, and then pretend they benefited from it somehow. It makes my head hurt trying to understand that intense religious beliefs can be so powerful that you can so easily dehumanize another human for simply believing the same religion a slightly different way. Sectarian violence is so alien to most of us westerners. Even if this video isn't sectarian, it shows how desperate and narrow-minded some people in war environments can become. This thread really has opened a lot of curiosities of mine that I wish to answer. Imapanda fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Mar 9, 2014 |
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Mar 9, 2014 05:11
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I highly doubt drug use isn't rampant in the ISIS, specially the execution squads.
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Mar 9, 2014 05:22
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Mans posted:I highly doubt drug use isn't rampant in the ISIS, specially the execution squads. Are there any decent newer articles discussing drug-use in the Syrian situation? It completely went over my head, isn't opium usage seriously heavy in the region?
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Mar 9, 2014 05:54
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Imapanda posted:It makes me wonder how many of these ISIS executioners suffer PTSD. How many of them are hesitant to do these acts? Obviously some of them suffer from it, but others seem to casually mow civilians down like some low-budget video game super villains, and then pretend they benefited from it somehow. I think they were hosed up in the head to begin with, and gravitated to a group they would let them indulge in their sick desires.
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Mar 9, 2014 06:24
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The Einsatzgruppen had the job of shooting civilians day in and day out, and despite being nazis believing they were ridding the world of subhumans, still exhibited high rates of alcoholism, desertion, and other disciplinary issues.
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Mar 9, 2014 06:38
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It is highly more likely that these are just the regular old rebel that everyone cheerleads for. Because, after all, didn't the rebs chase ISI out of Syria and into the friendly US and GCC training camps in Turkey and Jordan?
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Mar 9, 2014 07:43
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Mans posted:I highly doubt drug use isn't rampant in the ISIS, specially the execution squads. They execute people over cigarettes..
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Mar 9, 2014 09:28
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They don't need drugs, they've got religion.
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Mar 9, 2014 09:31
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Mans posted:What western equipment does the Iraqi army use? Are we talking tanks? If so, which? Abrams? They've Americanized all their inventory and training. Iraqi troops are being trained in Jordan as we speak. For a state with an obviously tyrannical ruler aligned with the 'other side', currently engaged in a three way sectarian war against both the Anbar tribes and ISIS, not to mention the blatant but under the table support of the Syrian Regime with both personnel and transport, he does get a lot of support from the international community.
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Mar 9, 2014 10:39
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Imapanda posted:It makes me wonder how many of these ISIS executioners suffer PTSD. How many of them are hesitant to do these acts? Obviously some of them suffer from it, but others seem to casually mow civilians down like some low-budget video game super villains, and then pretend they benefited from it somehow. I think that most of them don't live long enough to come to term with their actions.
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Mar 9, 2014 13:47
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Muffiner posted:They've Americanized all their inventory and training. Iraqi troops are being trained in Jordan as we speak. For a state with an obviously tyrannical ruler aligned with the 'other side', currently engaged in a three way sectarian war against both the Anbar tribes and ISIS, not to mention the blatant but under the table support of the Syrian Regime with both personnel and transport, he does get a lot of support from the international community. Maliki is now an obviously tyrannical ruler? It's funny how we went from Saddam and the Sunni minority controlling Iraq in a clear dictatorship to now the Shias nominally ruling and everyone making GBS threads on Maliki for not being inclusive enough for the Sunnis that are carbombing people every day.
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Mar 9, 2014 19:49
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A lot of people think democracy is the tyranny of the majority. With the #1 tyrant being the head of state. They think a fairer form of democracy would be if everyone accepted their sectarian/partisan viewpoint and put them in power. If they don't then they think another democratic method is the use of force to impose their sectarian/partisan viewpoint.
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Mar 10, 2014 01:35
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Miruvor posted:Maliki is now an obviously tyrannical ruler? It's funny how we went from Saddam and the Sunni minority controlling Iraq in a clear dictatorship to now the Shias nominally ruling and everyone making GBS threads on Maliki for not being inclusive enough for the Sunnis that are carbombing people every day. Malki is one of those clear cut dictators with death squads, torture rooms, shadowy agencies outside the reach of law and a thirst for power that looks to be insatiable. I don't think it is anything but obvious that he is a dictator, gradually receding to the levels of Assad and Saddam. Some good news: the nuns that were taken from Maloula 4 months ago we're exchanged for 125 prisoners. The exchange happened over the border in Lebanon, and surprisingly it was JAN who did the exchange, even though it wasn't them who took the nuns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3ZZyRv3kSo A press conference with one of the nuns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADCeIFOUpvM Haven't found a subtitled version, but it's a run of the mill 'we were treated kindly' thing.
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Mar 10, 2014 09:19
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This was the lead story on the BBC website a short while ago: Syria: Assad forces 'using starvation as weapon of war' Amnesty International have issued a condemnation of the Syrian government about their treatment of the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus which has seen heavy fighting. It currently has about 20,000 Palestinian refugees remaining, of an original population of over 100,000, who have been cut off without proper supplies for months. Quick note, this is a "refugee camp" which is more like a Damascus city quarter which was set up by refugees from Palestine back in 1957.
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Mar 10, 2014 12:41
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-hearst/saudi-arabia-threatens-to_b_4930518.htmlquote:Saudi Arabia has threatened to blockade its neighbouring Gulf State Qatar by land and sea unless it cuts ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, closes Al Jazeera, and expels local branches of two prestigious U.S. think tanks, the Brookings Doha Center and the Rand Qatar Policy Institute.
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Mar 10, 2014 13:57
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Is there any chance at all Al-Jazeera will actually be closed because holy poo poo. 
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Mar 10, 2014 14:21
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No, I don't see that happening. It may take on a more friendly tone though.
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Mar 10, 2014 14:23
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WOW that escalated quickly. Also the GCC wide security law is terrible and Kuwait's parliament rejected it after the Foreign Minister agreed to it, which is one advantage of having the only voted parliament in the GCC I guess. I'm not surprised with the Jazeera and MB comments but I didn't expect Saudi to have an issue with the US thinktanks.
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Mar 10, 2014 14:32
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That Huffington Post article makes it sound as if the current Egyptian government is facing more popular resistance than I have heard from other places. I general I've heard some pretty depressing things about the general kowtowing to the army. Is it really that big a drain right now? Also, I find it "amusing" that Saudi Arabia is supporting Islamists against the current authorities in one of their near neighbours all whilst condemning the Muslim Brotherhood as dangerous radicals in Egypt.
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Mar 10, 2014 14:44
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So Assad is winning in Yabroud?
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Mar 10, 2014 14:46
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Holy moly, Saudi Arabia is dropping the hammer. I'm sad about Al Jazeera. No one should be able to lean on the press like that—especially press that does a fantastic job. Then again, not perfect world, etc.
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Mar 10, 2014 15:11
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MothraAttack posted:So Assad is winning in Yabroud?
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Mar 10, 2014 16:25
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Muffiner posted:The rebels have retaken Sehel and parts of Rima, which means Hezbullah and the regime have not really made any gains since the start of this offensive. Sounds like Stalingrad in the Middle East. Edit: Or more like Verdun in the Middle East.
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Munin posted:Also, I find it "amusing" that Saudi Arabia is supporting Islamists against the current authorities in one of their near neighbours all whilst condemning the Muslim Brotherhood as dangerous radicals in Egypt. Saudi Arabia is Sunni and so they support Sunni insurgents while opposing Shia activities of all kinds.
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