Iraq and ISIS Discussion

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/syrias-second-front/#-syrias-second-front

I watched this on Netflix and found it to be very informative about the past year and a half about the situation in Syria (2013 into 2014). I don't know for sure if this PBS link will work for the full 52 minute video, but if you have Netflix it is worth the time. It very well could be on their iTunes podcast section (Frontlines) as well.
 
Damn UN getting on their high horse again.

"They don't care what it's called; they are just following their ideology and that means getting rid of churches and minorities," said MEMRI Executive Director Steven Stalinsky. "It is the Islamic State, and there's no room for anyone else.

"This has been going on for some time, a systematic campaign to rid the region" of any vestiges of Christianity.

Although the United Nations has condemned the acts, Islamic State, as ISIS is also known, has enthusiastically circulated photos of its fighters destroying the sacred symbols and relics.
“We cannot remain silent,” Irina Bokova, head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, said Friday. “The deliberate destruction of cultural heritage constitutes a war crime. I call on all political and religious leaders in the region to stand up and remind everyone that there is absolutely no political or religious justification for the destruction of humanity’s cultural heritage.”
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I'll be managing my expectations on this one. This is good news if true, but keeping in mind that JRTN's influence has been greatly diminished with ISIL.
 
Florida173 said:
I'll be managing my expectations on this one. This is good news if true, but keeping in mind that JRTN's influence has been greatly diminished with ISIL.
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They don't fit in with plans for the Caliphate. Be that as it may, the Khalazzi Network claims to have killed him and his BGs in a 20 minute firefight and DNA tests are reportedly in the offing. We'll see...
 
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That ginger cuntbag should've stayed disappeared.

But all the better for us that he didn't. :thumbsup:
 
Iranian news is reporting that they shwacked Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...dadi-dead-Radio-Iran/articleshow/47070851.cms
ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dead: Radio Iran
NEW DELHI: The enigmatic chief of Islamic State jihadist group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead, Radio Iran has reported on Monday.

Earlier, a Guardian report quoting sources with inside knowledge of the group reported that al-Baghdadi was severely injured in a US-led coalition air strike in March.

According to that report, al-Baghdadi was inujred at al-Baaj district of Nineveh, close to the Syrian border. It also said he was making a slow recovery and was out of his day-to-day control of the jihadist group.

Al-Baghdadi, believed to be in his 40s, had a $10 million US bounty on his head. Since taking the reins of the Islamic State in 2010, he had transformed it from a local branch of al-Qaida into an independent transnational military force, positioning himself as perhaps the pre-eminent figure in the global jihadist community.

ISIS suffered a series of major setbacks in the recent months with many of its top commanders being killed or severely injured.

Recently, a top Iraqi military commander Lieutenant General Abdul Amir al Shammari told Sky News that his forces had killed "more than 250 terrorists in the past few days".
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The article doesn't give much in the way of specifics, and unfortunately I can't find any other articles that shed more light on this. Most of them are saying that al-Baghdadi was severely wounded in March, and his recent death was either the result of those injuries or some other unspecified event. I'll try to track down this "Radio Iran" and see if I can get the original report.

But hey, if he is dead then it might be a nice day for a celebratory beer or 12 ;-)
 
Deathy McDeath said:
Iranian news is reporting that they shwacked Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...dadi-dead-Radio-Iran/articleshow/47070851.cms


The article doesn't give much in the way of specifics, and unfortunately I can't find any other articles that shed more light on this. Most of them are saying that al-Baghdadi was severely wounded in March, and his recent death was either the result of those injuries or some other unspecified event. I'll try to track down this "Radio Iran" and see if I can get the original report.

But hey, if he is dead then it might be a nice day for a celebratory beer or 12 ;-)
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Hmm, I'll wait to celebrate when I hear it from a more reputable source.
That would be excellent news though, particularly after the death of al-Dori.
 
pardus said:
Hmm, I'll wait to celebrate when I hear it from a more reputable source.
That would be excellent news though, particularly after the death of al-Dori.
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Of course. I'm sure if something as big as this has happened then US sources will hear about it in due time. If we don't get a Pentagon press release about it in a day or two then it's probably safe to chalk it up as a rumor.
 
Deathy McDeath said:
Of course. I'm sure if something as big as this has happened then US sources will hear about it in due time. If we don't get a Pentagon press release about it in a day or two then it's probably safe to chalk it up as a rumor.
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Yeah, well fingers crossed!
 

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