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State Dept. Official: ISIS No Longer a Terrorist Group But ‘A Full-Blown Army’
Cybercast News Service ^ | July 23, 2014 - 12:58 PM | Penny Starr

Posted on 07/23/2014 3:56:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai

A State Department official who just returned from a seven-week trip to Iraq, said the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)—or the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL)—is no longer just a terrorist group.

“ISIL is no longer simply a terrorist organization,” Brett McGurk, deputy assistant secretary for Iraq and Iran at the U.S. Department of State, said at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday. “It is now a full-blown army seeking to establish a self-governing state through the Tigress (sic) and Euphrates Valley in what is now Syria and Iraq.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: caliphate; iran; iraq; isil; isis; rop
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To: lightman

“The Bible also says that there is a lot of sex outside of marriage...not necessarily approved by God.”

That is here, not in the hereafter, and it’s called fornication, adultery, and homosexuality. Sin..period.
And no sex in heaven means ‘neither marry nor are given in marriage’....the only accepted sex by God..so I think he can keep it out of the hereafter since he created man/woman to start with...lol


21 posted on 07/23/2014 4:30:03 PM PDT by Kackikat (ELECTED officials took an OATH...Time to honor it....be a Patriot.)
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To: Olog-hai

What hath the Obamanation wrought?


22 posted on 07/23/2014 4:42:17 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: rbg81
How long before we start sending them aid?

Probably next week since they are King Obama's people.

23 posted on 07/23/2014 4:42:31 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: Logical me

We aid everybody but our own hard working citizens. Our country is under stress and in debt and we’re aiding other countries and illegal immigrants.


24 posted on 07/23/2014 4:44:48 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Global corporatism is the threat to freedom and rights. They want your sovereignty and politicians.)
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To: LeoWindhorse
We need to be applying strategic bombing arch light strikes wherever they can be targeted in their entire declared territory.

Flat desert with terrorists as far as the eye can see. What an opportunity for a Commander-in-Chief who isn't a Muzz.

25 posted on 07/23/2014 4:47:35 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: Olog-hai

If he just lurked on Free Republic, he could have saved himself airfare.


26 posted on 07/23/2014 5:06:48 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: rbg81
How long before we start sending them aid?

I'd bet we already send them aid.

27 posted on 07/23/2014 5:08:47 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Olog-hai

I remember reading that Arabs respect strength, and they basically support whoever is winning. This suggests that it’s true.


28 posted on 07/23/2014 5:44:01 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Olog-hai

One more “notch” for Obama and Hillary... the Arab Spring has sprung...


29 posted on 07/23/2014 5:53:54 PM PDT by GOPJ (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize-Voltaire)
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To: luvbach1

I tell you ....we could convince these sand dune daddies that that their God has forsaken them . THAT is the message we should be sending .

America needs 100% new leadership and we cannot afford to wait until 2016


30 posted on 07/23/2014 5:54:11 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse

What percent of their weaponry was directly given to these moozlum cretins by Clown Prince nobama? What was given through the Benghazi conduit by Clown Prince nobama? What percent of US-supplied-weaponry was seized when abandoned by the iraqi deserters? Clown Prince nobama really is the head if ISIS. DIMocRATs you have a great president there, you degenerates.


31 posted on 07/23/2014 6:54:45 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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