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I bet if I go and reread the old speech Obama gave in Cairo, it will have gained new eye-rolling aspects in light of what followed. Not sure I can stomach going as far back as Condi's speech for added cynical laughs.
 
elbows said:
I bet if I go and reread the old speech Obama gave in Cairo, it will have gained new eye-rolling aspects in light of what followed. Not sure I can stomach going as far back as Condi's speech for added cynical laughs.
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The other reason i mentioned these sort of op-ed pieces appearing in respected media outlets is that they're often (but not always) reflective of what certain sections within the foreign policy establishment are considering, or at at least viewing as a possible scenario, however remote it currently is.
 
He knows his days are numbered.......
The Islamic State group’s reclusive leader has empowered his inner circle of deputies and regional commanders in Syria and Iraq with wide-ranging authority, a plan to ensure that if he or other top figures are killed, the organization will quickly adapt and continue fighting, U.S. and Iraqi intelligence officials say.

The United States is actively hunting al-Baghdadi — rumors that he was killed or injured this year have been dispelled. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said this month that if the opportunity for an strike against al-Baghdadi presented itself, “we would certainly take it.”
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http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/islamic-state-group-leader-prepares-in-case-he-is-killed/
 
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/l...rikes-sirte-after-deadly-crackdown-1505606411


One of Libya’s feuding governments has called on Arab countries to bomb Islamic State group targets in the coastal city of Sirte after IS crushed a local uprising, killing at least 40 people.

"We urge fellow Arab countries...to launch air strikes on Daesh terrorist group positions," the government based in Tobruk in the country's east, said in a statement on its Facebook page on Saturday, using an Arabic acronym for IS.

- See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/l...sirte-after-deadly-crackdown-1505606411#.dpuf
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teqniq said:
Islamic State Suffers Spate of Desertions in E. Syria
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The raid in May by U.S. commandos on a compound in Deir ez-Zor in which an Islamic State commander, Abu Sayyaf, was killed, spooked the extremists and caused them to intensify their internal security operations.
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I obviously wasn't paying attention when that 'Abu Sayaff raid' story broke, I'd missed it completely. Interesting context piece from the Christian Science Monitor asking 'Why him?' rhetorically.
 
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...w-satan-president-recep-erdogan-10460185.html

"Those who believe fight on the way of God, while disbelievers fight on the way of Satan.”

The first concerted American air strikes on Isis in Syria, launched from the strategic Incirlik base, came after the two countries agreed to establish an Isis-free “buffer zone” along the southern Turkish border.

But while Turkey has agreed to “coordinate operations” with the US against Isis, until now its own air strikes have almost exclusively focused on separatist Kurdish rebels.
 
Well they've gone and distinguished themselves again . They took 82 year old khaled Assad over a month ago in Palmyra . He was a renowned archaeologist, historian and scholar and the director of antiquities in palmyra . And now they've sawn his head off and hung his corpse up in the centre of palmyra . 82 years old .

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015...QN24K20150818?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
 
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