An IS secret to success: Shock troops who fight to the death

AP via Yahoo News ^ | 7/8/15 | HAMZA HENDAWI, QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BASSEM MROUE

[Kartographer]

They are the Islamic State group's elite shock troops. Fanatical and disciplined, they infiltrate cities of Iraq and Syria, unleash mayhem and fight to the death, wearing explosives belts to blow themselves up among their opponents if they face defeat.

IS calls them "Inghemasiyoun," Arabic for "those who immerse themselves," a sort of special forces unit parallel to its regular forces that is credited with many of the group's stunning battlefield successes. A recent online video from the group showed a unit preparing to launch an eventually successful attack on the central Syrian town of al-Sukhna. "Victory or martyrdom," the fighters, wearing blue bandanas, scream in a circle around their commander, pledging their allegiance to God and vowing never to retreat.

[Kartographer]

Sooner or later if they haven't already groups like this will cross the southern border and enter the large metro cities and unleash havoc the like of which Americans have never seen.

[Kartographer]

Ping

[BenLurkin]

Not to worry: they can be defeated by “better ideas”

Baraq says so.

[17th Miss Regt]

They are very determined and driven by the vision of the 72 young boys waiting for them in Allah’s heaven.

[Sasparilla]

One better idea would be a secure, guarded border.

[CodeToad]

It is easy to do that when you have the backing of the president of the united States.

[Lee Enfield]

Japanese fought to the death too. I say help ‘em.

[nikos1121]

It’s because they need “yobs”

[Dagnabitt]

Sure they’re fanatical, but nothing that can’t be beaten by some well aimed hashtags.

[notdownwidems]

So, we have something in common: they want to fight to the death, and I want to kill them!

[DannyTN]

Well, here they will face buck shot drenched in pig fat.

We'll see which is scarier:

• Islamic kamakazi fanatic effect on ol' country boys, or
• Politically incorrect ol' country boy effect on Islamists.

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[ZULU]

“Its tactics are often creative, whether it’s using a sandstorm as cover for an assault or a lone sniper tying himself to the top of a palm tree to pick off troops below.”

Creative?? Perhaps, but HARDLY original. These people would be exterminated by any professional fighting force. They are at their best combatting, women, children and amateurs.

[JimRed]

Time to negate the rewards of martyrdom with well-publicized pork laden ammunition.

[GraceG]

They are probably hoped up on many number of drugs

[ScottinVA]

ISIS is probably already arming up at secluded sites in this country. We’ve pretty much surrendered much of our national park areas to the mexican drug cartels. It’s not a far leap to imagine a deal struck between the two to share territory.

[Lee Enfield]

I suspect that 1st AD and 1st ID would run out of targets in less than a week, drive time included.

[Rumplemeyer]

Sooner or later if they haven’t already groups like this will cross the southern border and enter the large metro cities and unleash havoc the like of which Americans have never seen.

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Unfortunately you are correct, and when it happens the backlash will be swift and brutal for those responsible.

The “Immigration Reform” debate will be over, as will the careers of those who supported it, on BOTH side of the isle.

Hopefully it will also result in long prison sentences for those that did not enforce the existing immigration laws, thereby causing the carnage.

[ExSES]

Read history folks... Google the origin of the word assassin! The world faced these folks 1,000 years ago!

[Rumplemeyer]

I’ll take •”Politically incorrect ol’ country boy effect on Islamists”, Alex