The terrorist group known as ISIS may be prepping chemical and biological weapons, according to Iraqi and USA intelligence reports.
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Barack Obama calls it ISIL, as does David Cameron.
Please, NPR, just stop it.
In just the last week, the Islamic State killed a staggering 129 people in Paris and 43 in Lebanon.
Forgiveness comes in the form of a repentance ID card costing up to $2,500, which requires an additional $200 a year to renew, according to Aymenn Jawad al-Tami, a fellow at the Middle East Forum who closely follows the group. Scores of hi-tech, slickly prepared videos with the most modern production techniques, some of them showing the beheading of western hostages have lured new adherents from a range of countries including a few from India. They have crucified others.
Egypt: The Paris attacks also came more than two weeks after the militants claimed responsibility for bringing down a Russian airliner over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on October 31, killing all 224 people on board. By Phyllis Bennis, November 14, 2015 …Because now everyone knows the devastating wars that killed so many hundreds of thousands of ordinary people didn’t work to wipe out terrorism. I’m going to limit it to the current context involving the attacks by ISIS in Paris, Beirut, Baghdad and on the Russian passenger plane.
M.O., a humanitarian worker who has been to Syria many times and who is an expert on Salafist movements, spoke to Al-Monitor in Istanbul (on condition of anonymity) and confirmed that there is such a fissure between localists and globalists within IS that is becoming increasingly perceptible.
Experts and eye-witnesses describe their brutality as the worse ever seen.
On Sunday, USA defense officials said warplanes destroyed 116 oil-hauling trucks in eastern Syria, the biggest strikes on the oil trade since the U.S.-led air campaign began more than a year and a half ago. There is no denying ISIS needs to be eradicated given the extent of their threat and the brutality of their acts, but the USA has already caused irrepressible damage in the region following the 2003 Iraq invasion. It has withstood the aerial pounding by US and coalition warplanes, defended its core territories and apparently used its resiliency and social media savvy to replenish its ranks as quickly as they are reduced. He and other prisoners joined IS after they were released. Other members of Islamic State come from the political party that supported Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. He was ousted and later executed. If we wanted to do this right, we must settle the civil war in Syria.
An Islamic State fighter, waving a flag, cheers as he takes part in a military parade along the streets of northern Raqqa, Syria, June 30, 2014. The aspiration of the group is to convince the Muslim world that they are the Caliphate – the one true authority binding together all Muslims – which is something that all Muslims save for a very narrow lunatic fringe that no one considers representative of the faith as a whole reject.
You could also say the “Islamic State”, the name the group now prefers.
Put simply, Islamic State’s game has changed.
However, USA intelligence officials said that they do not believe ISIS has the technological capability to produce nerve gas or biological agents, citing that the terrorists were more likely to hurt themselves attempting to make them. All refugee applicants to the United States already go through 18-24 months of intense security screening coordinated by the United Nations refugee agency and the U.S. Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. It says they illegally transported it to Turkey and Iran, or sold it to the Syrian government. The director of the FBI acknowledged that virtually every field office had an open Islamic State-related investigation. This justifies why they attack Muslims and non-Muslims. It says its holy book – the Quran – supports the enslavement of women and girls. A few Yazidi women have escaped or were rescued.
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Neither M.O. nor O.B. can answer this question in the affirmative because both agree that holding on to territory in Syria and Iraq and establishing an Islamic state is the major pillar of the organization’s ideology.
