The Islamic state

[Pickman's model]

Article here on Assad's role in the rise of ISIS, and how he benefits

a fuck load of supposition and assertion there.

 

[DotCommunist]

One notes that they apparently looted it first, so perhaps this was more about criminality rather than their vehement opposition to gods that have been dead for three thousand years.

An article posted weeks back on IS funding mentioned that as well as kidnap\extortion\oil they were also selling artefacts on the shady markets.

 

[frogwoman]

Anyone see that report about ISIS twitter accounts? Up to 90,000 worldwide apparently.

I was looking through ISIS twitter last night, fairly disturbing stuff, jihadis were plying their wares on a stall in east london a few days ago encouraging people not to vote

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...unts-supporting-extremist-group-10090309.html

 

[frogwoman]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...itia-just-latest-piece-jihadi-propaganda.html

Shia militias allegedly execute 9 year old suspected of supporting ISIS

do we reckon this is genuine?

 

[Pickman's model]

Anyone see that report about ISIS twitter accounts? Up to 90,000 worldwide apparently.

I was looking through ISIS twitter last night, fairly disturbing stuff, jihadis were plying their wares on a stall in east london a few days ago encouraging people not to vote

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...unts-supporting-extremist-group-10090309.html

a regular feature of jihadi activity in e london, they've been at it for years.

 

[frogwoman]

a regular feature of jihadi activity in e london, they've been at it for years.

I find the fact there are loads of Twitter personalities enthusiastically supporting ISIS from the uk quite weird. How come they've not been picked up? Mind you i am sure the police are using resources far more productively, tracking down climate change activists and so on.

 

[Pickman's model]

I find the fact there are loads of Twitter personalities enthusiastically supporting ISIS from the uk quite weird. How come they've not been picked up? Mind you i am sure the police are using resources far more productively, tracking down climate change activists and so on.

quite a few of them no doubt are police along the lines of mark kennedy / stone

 

[laptop]

a regular feature of jihadi activity in e london, they've been at it for years.

First spotted al-Muhajiroun on Brick Lane in about 1993. Being ignored by attendees of the Brick Lane mosque. They soon moved down to camp outside the Saudi-funded East London mosque.

 

[DotCommunist]

The radio report said twitter had promised to squash IS accounts, but thats not going to work is it- five minutes to register a new account via proxy.

 

[treelover]

Anyone see that report about ISIS twitter accounts? Up to 90,000 worldwide apparently.

I was looking through ISIS twitter last night, fairly disturbing stuff, jihadis were plying their wares on a stall in east london a few days ago encouraging people not to vote

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/isis-propaganda-study-finds-up-to-90000-twitter-accounts-supporting-extremist-group-10090309.html

Did AFN/AFA respond?

 

[Pickman's model]

Did AFN/AFA respond?

were they even contacted?

 

[frogwoman]

Did AFN/AFA respond?

No idea, this was posted on an ISIS supporters twitter feed and i doubt they would have said if there had been any oppo.

 

[treelover]

were they even contacted?

If its the far right, their 'intelligence' networks certainly do.

 

[Pickman's model]

If its the far right, their 'intelligence' networks certainly do.

wtf?

simple question: to the best of your knowledge were afn/afa (afa??) even contacted about this? y / n

 

[butchersapron]

Rewinding:

The Roddick Foundation and The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust have ceased funding CAGE and will not be doing so in future.

 

[Pickman's model]

treelover i'll take that as a 'no' then

 

[J Ed]

 

[Flavour]

now destroying Hatra

does anyone have any idea how many other important archaelogical sites lie in ISIS-held territory, therefore coming under threat? I have no idea, but I know there are lots in Syria, perhaps more in the Western half of the country though closer to the sea.

 

[agricola]

now destroying Hatra

does anyone have any idea how many other important archaelogical sites lie in ISIS-held territory, therefore coming under threat? I have no idea, but I know there are lots in Syria, perhaps more in the Western half of the country though closer to the sea.

Dont know - but Ur will probably be safe because they will think it is something you say on twitter.

 

[J Ed]

Some grim pictures on twitter, supposedly of ISIS fighters beheaded by pro-Assad militia.

 

[Nylock]

now destroying Hatra

does anyone have any idea how many other important archaelogical sites lie in ISIS-held territory, therefore coming under threat? I have no idea, but I know there are lots in Syria, perhaps more in the Western half of the country though closer to the sea.

Don't know but according to this article, territory they hold in Iraq has 1800 sites...

 

[frogwoman]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/07/boko-haram-suicide-bombers-50-dead-maiduguri


Boko Haram pledge allegiance to Islamic State

This may be optimistic but I can't see this lasting, isn't BH's leader a bit of a megalomaniac himself?

 

[DotCommunist]

they can make a pledge and perhaps send some fighters but from what I read BH has serious territorial ambitions at home - this will be more of a token gesture I'd have thought?

 

[frogwoman]

To what extent are they gonna take orders from Daesh now tho?

 

[agricola]

they can make a pledge and perhaps send some fighters but from what I read BH has serious territorial ambitions at home - this will be more of a token gesture I'd have thought?

Its probably more about accepting the idea of al-Baghdadi as caliph and gaining legitimacy in those circles as a result than it is about any kind of alliance / agreement to support / follow orders.

 

[DotCommunist]

Its probably more about accepting the idea of al-Baghdadi as caliph and gaining legitimacy in those circles as a result than it is about any kind of alliance / agreement to support / follow orders.

that makes sense. I had been wondering if JAN splitting from AQ proper might signal them forming alliance with IS- or wether the religious and practical differences might be too great for that.

 

[agricola]

that makes sense. I had been wondering if JAN splitting from AQ proper might signal them forming alliance with IS- or wether the religious and practical differences might be too great for that.

Religiously I dont think there would be that much of a problem for them to do that - one either accepts that he is a genuine caliph or not - but practically one would have thought that anyone who felt sympathy for IS amongst their ranks would have long since joined them anyway.

 

[frogwoman]

that makes sense. I had been wondering if JAN splitting from AQ proper might signal them forming alliance with IS- or wether the religious and practical differences might be too great for that.

I find some of the stuff about al-Q and Jabhat al Nusra being more moderate and potential allies against IS quite sickening.

 

[Dogsauce]

I find the fact there are loads of Twitter personalities enthusiastically supporting ISIS from the uk quite weird. How come they've not been picked up?

Maybe a lot are bait accounts operated by the plod to fish in people for further attention? Deduct also a certain number that will be regular teenager pricks trolling for attention and Walter Mittys doing their own undercover fishing, pedo-hunter style.

 

[frogwoman]

nah i have just found another one that seems to be a genuine jihadi. Anyone come across a sumbag called Abu Baraa?