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To: Windflier

More about how and why ISIS does not normally and randomly claim responsibility for mass killings.

“The vast majority of the Islamic State’s claimed attacks were undertaken by men acting in its name, often after leaving short video statements confirming their intentions.

“A false claim of credit in Las Vegas will effectively shred the Islamic State’s news agency’s credibility. It will become a news agency that was once reliable, and now associates itself indiscriminately with heavily armed crazy people in casinos. I see little advantage in such a shift. When Amaq claims an attack, it makes itself hostage to the facts that are revealed in the follow-up investigation.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/isis-amaq-las-vegas/541746/


212 posted on 10/02/2017 8:01:08 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216
“A false claim of credit in Las Vegas will effectively shred the Islamic State’s news agency’s credibility."

As if ISIS has any credibility to begin with.

You're a good man, Jim, but this is a load of hogwash.

213 posted on 10/02/2017 8:10:41 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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