ISIS/ISIL conflict in Syria/Iraq (No OpEd, No Politics)

no_name said:

Not making this up, Isis Hoodies and T-Shirts For Sale Online As Islamist 'Brand' Goes Global

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A toy soldier available on Rezji.com, an Indonesian site which by Tuesday could not be accessed, holds a gun in its hands and an ISIS flag with the Islamic tenet: "There is no god but God, Muhammad is the messenger of God."

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TerraN_EmpirE

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.... .... What the Exploitive?!
I suppose next is Jihad-Joe action figures with Suicide vests and infidel decapitation grip.
seriously this is definitely a new low. I mean I was disgusted with Che Guevara T shirts but at least he got what he deserved. This... This is....

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TerraN_EmpirE said:

Facebook, Twitter and other Social networking I can Understand, They Use those to network, spread there message and recruit. but Merchandizing? All I can think is that they are using this to supplement there income.

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Al-Qaeda’s Syrian offshoot has issued a loyalty pledge to Isis at a remote town on the Iraqi border, a monitor said.
The merger is significant as it opens the way for Isis to take control of both sides of the border at Albu Kamal in Syria and al-Qaim in Iraq, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Isis – which aspires to create an Islamic state that straddles Iraq and Syria – has spearheaded an lightening jihadist offensive that has captured swathes of territory north and west of Baghdad this month.

After months of clashes between the two sides, al-Qaeda’s official Syrian arm the al-Nusra Front “pledged loyalty to Isis” in Albu Kamal, said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.

“The pledge comes amid advances by Isis in Deir Ezzor province” in eastern Syria on the Iraqi border, Abdel Rahman told AFP.

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"God willing within one week this force will be effective and will destroy the terrorists' dens," he said.

He said that the process of buying US jets had been "long-winded" and that the militants' advance could have been avoided if air cover had been in place.

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"I'll be frank and say that we were deluded when we signed the contract [with the US]," Mr Maliki said.

"We should have sought to buy other jet fighters like British, French and Russian to secure the air cover for our forces; if we had air cover we would have averted what had happened," he went on.

He said Iraq was acquiring second-hand jet fighters from Russia and Belarus "that should arrive in Iraq in two or three days".

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SampanViking said:

Picked this up from the BBC, have not even bothered to check Russian Media

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Tired of being asked to jump through hoops by Washington re the sale of F-16's and no doubt unimpressed by Mr Kerry's overtures for his departure, Mr Maliki has sealed a deal with Russia and Belarus to buy some older model Flankers.

A very strategic decision by Moscow I think!

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Jeff Head said:

The only way such a force can be "active in one week," (as the artcile says Malaki indicated) is if the Russians themselves fly them in and use them to attack the ISIS forces.

We shall see if they actually do so.

If they do...and are effective in blunting the offensive...well, Putin will have trumped amd thumped Obama (and very embarassingly so)...again.

I know I am not surprised.

Obama could have helped in this fashion from the start but he chose not to. His purely intellectual, high browed ideals and desires are fine in theory, but in the world of Real Politic...they are simply brushed aside by actions that make a difference now. Putin understands this.

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