Posted on 08/13/2014 5:12:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
After seizing five oil fields and Iraq's biggest dam, Sunni militants bent on creating an Islamic empire in the Middle East now control yet another powerful economic weapon wheat supplies.
Fighters from the Islamic State have overrun large areas in five of Iraq's most fertile provinces, where the United Nations food agency says around 40 percent of its wheat is grown.
Now they're helping themselves to grain stored in government silos, milling it and distributing the flour on the local market, an Iraqi official told Reuters. The Islamic State has even tried to sell smuggled wheat back to the government to finance a war effort marked by extreme violence and brutality.
While Iraq faces no immediate food shortages, the longer term outlook is deeply uncertain
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Ummm check your title not quite to the ‘T’
GOOD CATCH!
Damn that George Bush.../ S
Oh, I'd say deeply certain. 7th century, here they come.
Will the new ads be “Wheaties: The Food of Islamic Jihadists Everywhere”?
Next: “The UnAmerican Express Card” - Don’t Leave Iraq Without It”
ISIS Hotel Chain - “Motel 8 - We’ll put your lights out”
the ISIS airline company - “Air Jihad”
ISIS and animal rights: “I’d walk a mile for a camel” and the camels are nervous
ISIS on women’s rights: “When you have a camel, who needs a woman?”
ISIS tours: “Welcome to the 12th Century”
ISIS TV Shows:
“I Dream of Jihad”
“My Three Sunnis”
“Who’s the Imam?”
“Jizra Shore”
“Meanwhile, we have Obama.”
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And we have the complicit Congress.
“How I Married Your Camel”
Old song changed from “The Old Chisum Trail” to the “New Jihadism Trail”.
New slogan for ISIS:
Join Jihad. The best way to get a head in life!
“Saddam was a wimp. So is Assad”
Song: “Do you know the way to Jihad” (San Jose)
Song: “Marrakesh Express”
Favorite ISIS movie: “Hang ‘em High”
If I were in charge of the military, my slogans re ISIS would be:
“You can run but you can’t hide”
“I’ll be watching you”
“Eye in the Sky”
“ A few nukes are gonna ruin your day”
“I’m gonna go Jihad on your ass” (and I don’t mean your donkey)
“And you thought Charles Manson was crazy. Just watch me”
*groan*
I think this is the future for the US.
well when I first saw the title I was thinking that maybe they meant ‘whey’
LOL!
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