Posted on 08/22/2014 10:33:34 PM PDT by GonzoII
Two days before Mosul fell to the Islamic insurgent group Isis (the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant), Iraqi commanders stood eyeballing its most trusted messenger. The man, known within the extremist group as Abu Hajjar, had finally cracked after a fortnight of interrogation and given up the head of Isis's military council.
"He said to us, 'you don't realise what you have done'," an intelligence official recalled. "Then he said: 'Mosul will be an inferno this week'.'
Several hours later, the man he had served as a courier and been attempting to protect, Abdulrahman al-Bilawi, lay dead in his hideout near Mosul. From the home of the dead man and the captive, Iraqi forces hoovered up more than 160 computer flash sticks which contained the most detailed information yet known about the terror group.
The treasure trove included names and noms de guerre of all foreign fighters, senior leaders and their code words, initials of sources inside ministries and full accounts of the group's finances.
"We were all amazed and so were the Americans," a senior intelligence official told the Guardian. "None of us had known most of this information."
Officials, including CIA officers, were still decrypting and analysing the flash sticks when Abu Hajjar's prophecy was realised. Isis swept through much of northern and central Iraq over three stunning days, seizing control of Mosul and Tikrit and threatening Kirkuk as three divisions of the Iraqi army shed their uniforms and fled.
The capitulation of the military and the rapid advances of the insurgents have dramatically changed the balance of power in Iraq, crippled prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, allowed Kurdish forces to seize control of the disputed city of Kirkuk and galvanised a Shia fightback along sectarian lines, posing a serious threat to the region's fragile geopolitics....
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$2 billion is a drop in the ocean for Islamic State (IS). Saudis & Gulf Sheikhdoms are worth many more $$$ & for decades. Actually, most key Islamic leaders are Very rich personally & fund IS or similar. Even in “breadcrumbs” any “donations” would be significant, for ‘mere mortals’. ‘Course IS also capitalizes on other dubious sources for funds.
I wonder how much of that a coyote in Mexico would take for safe passage over the US border...what do they get now $10,000 per head.
I’d imagine the cartels take a fair bit for smuggling thru third parties. But wealth in certain parts of the M.E. including key Islamic figures is icredulous. A minor example, the full suite of diamonds & sapphires that were given to princess diana by a Saudi prince over 2 decades ago. Might sound a ridiculous example but it’s an inkling & for just 1 Saudi prince. By the way, paper money or assets aren’t as important as lets say gold.
Incredulous
To clarify that was gifted to Diana for her wedding to prince Charles. My main point was wealth in that part of the world.
Ping.
Wonder how much points back to Saudi and how much of the 9/11 redacted report also points to Saudi Arabia...
incredible
Amazing.
I meant incredulous as in “expressive of disbelief”. But icredible too as in “unbelievable.” Thanks.
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Ho hum. Obama has crapped the pooch. $hite the bed. Like most late second term Dem prexidents with failed policies, he has created a war. This one will be a World War.
Thank you to all those who voted for Obama the Usurper. The Nobel Peace Prize winner without a dinner.He is a snake that is fulfilling our Free Republic prophecy that he would bring death and genocide to millons of human beings. This was predicted after we observed his conduct in Kenya in 2006/2007, when he counselled Odinga of the radical Islamist Orange party to creat mayhem and genocide through protesting the 2007 Kenyan election results. The result was that thousands died, including 70 old men, women and children in an incinerated church, after the Orange party terrorists locked every door and window, and applied the torch.Obama is nothing but a curse on the world, a horrible blight on the plant of American liberty.
We saw the future writing of history on the fascist wall in 2007, but no statement we could make would make any difference to a nation traduced by emotional inducement , and a disguised radical evangelistic Obama.
NOW we are saddled with an isolated, disconnected, treasonous so called president, who will destroy our nation rather than compromise his leftist principles to comply with the Constitution he swore to defend.He rejects his own Secretary of Defence and those who would defend our nation.
The entire free world and its innocent inhabitants will suffer horribly through starvation and disease. Sons and daughters will go to war and die for several generations, and nuclear warfare is a distinct probability rather than a remote possibility, as it was at the outset of the term of President Obama, the Reamer/Dreamer.
May Obama and every one of his running dogs rot in hell.Cursing the day he was born and his first breath will become common fodder to a nation that would at one time have deserved much better, but fell asleep at the switch and bought the created pap and emotional imagery fabricated by the left in America ( Zowie!...swoon....Americas FIRST BLACk president, as if his race would wash away any imperfections that dare manifest as it already had done in his true historical record, skillfully obscured.). America , you have been had.
All America can do now is bend over and take it right up the collective arse.And vote for another leftist in 2016 too, and watch the complete fall of a once great nation as it decends into Ferguson, Missouri style discivilization, brought about by hooting street apes with their pants down below their butts, championed by a nutter, cross eyed, caucasian phobic, radical Attorney General, Eric Holder.We have seen the mirror of America’s future, and it is disaster writ large.
Everyone who has the means should get out of a sinking nation while they can and if not, then move out of the cities and urban areas into the wide open rural areas of America.Buy a rifle and as much ammo as you can. Much worse is yet to come as Obama unleashes the dogs of demographic and conventional warfare on a still unsuspecting nation that voted to suffer its own treason. SHAME ON YOU!
Thanks for the ping, I’ve nothing to add, you’ve said it all. So very very sad.
Wow, and the Democrats insist on the no borders policy. They can invite their friends in at will. Does not bode well.
Don’t sugar coat it. Give it to us straight.
I hate reading the truth at 7am in the morning on a Saturday.
It makes me scared for my children.
It also makes me want to move to some place like Ecuador.
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