The thing that concerns me about anonymous taking down ISIS accounts is the possibility of them interfereing with ongoing Intel gathering or misinformation operations we might have going.
Opinion after Paris
What Muslims think of Islamic State
There is far less sympathy for the jihadists than rabble-rousers think
Nov 25th 2015
ONE in five British Muslims sympathises with jihadists, claimed a headline in the Sun, a British tabloid. The number referred to a poll, taken in the wake of the attacks in Paris, which in fact suggested that 20% of Muslim respondents felt some or a lot of sympathy for young Muslims who leave the UK to join fighters in Syria. Critics of what they judged a deliberate misrepresentation of Muslim feelings towards Islamic State (IS) quickly set up a Twitter hashtag, #1in5Muslims, that generated a torrent of tweets attacking the Sun. A typical example: #1in5Muslims have to hear this BS all the time.
So what do Muslims around the world really think of IS? The same poll showed that 71% of Muslim Britons have no sympathy for expatriate British fighters, a number not so different from the 77% of other Britons who felt that way in a survey conducted in March by the same polling firm, Survation. Other post-Paris polls of Muslims have yet to appear, but Pew, a research firm that publishes annual reports of attitudes in 10 Muslim-majority countries, concluded last spring that they were overwhelmingly negative towards IS. It found that 99% of Lebanese and 94% of Jordanians, for instance, held very unfavourable views of the group. Even in Saudi Arabia, a country whose Wahhabist creed is seen as a wellspring of jihadism, there is little indulgence: in a face-to-face poll in September sponsored by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a think-tank, a scant 4% of Saudi respondents expressed any degree of support for the group.
Recent IS attacks in Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon and France are unlikely to have boosted the groups popularity among Muslims. Like previous waves of jihadist terror they have provoked a bland chorus of condemnation and denial; government-salaried religious officials from Morocco to Indonesia say the group is a criminal gang and a blight on the Muslim faith. But this time deeper, introspective views are being aired more widely, and not only by secular critics of political Islam.
Teachers and preachers and professors declare support for the bombings, and stay in their jobs, and then we wonder why youths go and join [IS], laments a Twitter message from Ali al-Jifri, a popular Sufi leader in Abu Dhabi. Muhammad Habash, an exiled Syrian Islamic scholar, argues on the website All4Syria that IS is not a product of some conspiracy but the outcome of mainstream religious teaching:
http://www.economist.com/news/middl...-sympathy-jihadists-rabble-rousers-think-what
What Muslims think of Islamic State
There is far less sympathy for the jihadists than rabble-rousers think
Nov 25th 2015
ONE in five British Muslims sympathises with jihadists, claimed a headline in the Sun, a British tabloid. The number referred to a poll, taken in the wake of the attacks in Paris, which in fact suggested that 20% of Muslim respondents felt some or a lot of sympathy for young Muslims who leave the UK to join fighters in Syria. Critics of what they judged a deliberate misrepresentation of Muslim feelings towards Islamic State (IS) quickly set up a Twitter hashtag, #1in5Muslims, that generated a torrent of tweets attacking the Sun. A typical example: #1in5Muslims have to hear this BS all the time.
So what do Muslims around the world really think of IS? The same poll showed that 71% of Muslim Britons have no sympathy for expatriate British fighters, a number not so different from the 77% of other Britons who felt that way in a survey conducted in March by the same polling firm, Survation. Other post-Paris polls of Muslims have yet to appear, but Pew, a research firm that publishes annual reports of attitudes in 10 Muslim-majority countries, concluded last spring that they were overwhelmingly negative towards IS. It found that 99% of Lebanese and 94% of Jordanians, for instance, held very unfavourable views of the group. Even in Saudi Arabia, a country whose Wahhabist creed is seen as a wellspring of jihadism, there is little indulgence: in a face-to-face poll in September sponsored by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a think-tank, a scant 4% of Saudi respondents expressed any degree of support for the group.
Recent IS attacks in Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon and France are unlikely to have boosted the groups popularity among Muslims. Like previous waves of jihadist terror they have provoked a bland chorus of condemnation and denial; government-salaried religious officials from Morocco to Indonesia say the group is a criminal gang and a blight on the Muslim faith. But this time deeper, introspective views are being aired more widely, and not only by secular critics of political Islam.
Teachers and preachers and professors declare support for the bombings, and stay in their jobs, and then we wonder why youths go and join [IS], laments a Twitter message from Ali al-Jifri, a popular Sufi leader in Abu Dhabi. Muhammad Habash, an exiled Syrian Islamic scholar, argues on the website All4Syria that IS is not a product of some conspiracy but the outcome of mainstream religious teaching:
http://www.economist.com/news/middl...-sympathy-jihadists-rabble-rousers-think-what
Maybe if these terrorist would quit using the Muslim faith as an excuse to cause destruction and kill those not of the Muslim faith, they might get some more attention from those countries like the US that is quickly becoming too politically correct to admit what is obvious. Our Administration is pandering to the terrorist. Arab Spring, the birth of ICIS and the reluctance to go against them comes to mind quickly.
We could wipe out their entire facilities and trucks in a day or two. Pecking at them one truck at a time is nothing but made for TV, no matter who is doing it.
There are only so many terminals, and so many roads leading into and out of those terminals. There is no cover. Its open desert.
There are only so many terminals, and so many roads leading into and out of those terminals. There is no cover. Its open desert.
paris-attacks-the-remaining-unknowns
http://www.wsj.com/video/paris-atta...F1-6C3A6315209E.html?mod=trending_now_video_3
http://www.wsj.com/video/paris-atta...F1-6C3A6315209E.html?mod=trending_now_video_3
Op-Order of the day: Wag the Dog...
Moscow steps up attacks on Turkey as it accuses Ankara of letting ISIS smuggle out oil
Nov 28, 2015
• Putin has accused Ankara of permitting jihadists to smuggle oil across its border.
Vladimir Putin accused Turkey of allowing ISIS jihadists to run a "living oil pipe" across its border as he upped the ante in the row over the downing of a Russian jet.
The Russian President said that reconnaissance footage, shared with world leaders at the G20 summit earlier this month, showed that oil was being smuggled through rebel-held Syria and into Turkey "day and night". There were "vehicles, carrying oil, lined up in a chain going beyond the horizon", he claimed.
Speaking after talks at the Kremlin with the French President Francois Hollande, Putin accused Ankara of false naivety over ISIS's huge oil operation. "Let's assume that Turkey's political leadership knows nothing about it - it's theoretically possible, albeit hard to believe," he said. "There may be elements of corruption and insider deals. They should deal with it."
Putin has gone for the jugular after the Turkish military shot down the Russian SU-24 jet after accusing it of violating its airspace during an operation in northern Syria. The incident is thought to be the first time in 50 years that a Nato member has downed a Russian plane.
Turkey is acutely sensitive to claims that it is turning a blind eye to ISIS, a view held not only by Russia but also by Western states who believe that Turkey has not done enough to prevent militants from slipping across its 500-mile border with Syria.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...SIS-smuggle-out-oil/articleshow/49958408.cms?
Nov 28, 2015
• Putin has accused Ankara of permitting jihadists to smuggle oil across its border.
Vladimir Putin accused Turkey of allowing ISIS jihadists to run a "living oil pipe" across its border as he upped the ante in the row over the downing of a Russian jet.
The Russian President said that reconnaissance footage, shared with world leaders at the G20 summit earlier this month, showed that oil was being smuggled through rebel-held Syria and into Turkey "day and night". There were "vehicles, carrying oil, lined up in a chain going beyond the horizon", he claimed.
Speaking after talks at the Kremlin with the French President Francois Hollande, Putin accused Ankara of false naivety over ISIS's huge oil operation. "Let's assume that Turkey's political leadership knows nothing about it - it's theoretically possible, albeit hard to believe," he said. "There may be elements of corruption and insider deals. They should deal with it."
Putin has gone for the jugular after the Turkish military shot down the Russian SU-24 jet after accusing it of violating its airspace during an operation in northern Syria. The incident is thought to be the first time in 50 years that a Nato member has downed a Russian plane.
Turkey is acutely sensitive to claims that it is turning a blind eye to ISIS, a view held not only by Russia but also by Western states who believe that Turkey has not done enough to prevent militants from slipping across its 500-mile border with Syria.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...SIS-smuggle-out-oil/articleshow/49958408.cms?
I believe the FFL has been killing Islamists in Africa for some time now (Mali, CAR, Djibouti)....it just hasn't been getting much coverage.
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