They have been around in one form or another since almost 2,000.their leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi is described as a mystery man having perhaps several id's,like a bad movie.
They were almost destroyed completely but like herpes keep coming back. Today their numbers were estimated at 6-10k before they started taking over Iraq. No telling how big they are now.
Seems they are left overs from the Saddamm Hussiens Bathist party and have all kinds of war(terrorist style) experience both in Syria and in Iraq. With the 429 million they just stole in Mosul they can conceivably hire tens of thousands of fighters(when that runs out they get money from the Saudis and Qatar and probably Kuwait as well) to join their side. Evidently $600 per month hires a fighter in an area where Iraqi soldiers where street clothes under their uniforms just in case they need to make a quick wardrobe change and get the hell out of dodge.
If ISIS finds Sunnis that are not deemed sufficiently religious enough they could be killed in a heartbeat. They killed thousands in Tikrit alone. No telling how many were Sunni. This is a viscous group that uses car bombs intimidation,you name it sort a far more religious Haqqni on steroids.
If ISIS finds Sunnis that are not deemed sufficiently religious enough they could be killed in a heartbeat. They killed thousands in Tikrit alone. No telling how many were Sunni. This is a viscous group that uses car bombs intimidation,you name it sort a far more religious Haqqni on steroids.
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The GIA group in Algeria was one of the wanna-be franchises deemed “too violent” by bin Laden in the 1990s. But the word violent was an interpretation by western analysts. What mattered about GIA from bin Laden’s perspective was that they were impossible to CONTROL — especially from afar.
The group that hit Benghazi proved to be impossible to control also, as they were suppose to kidnap Stevens not kill him.
Obama is trying to pass it all off as Maliki’s fault (a surrogate for blame-Bush) but we all know this is simply another event in the march of terrorists across the middle east and beyond.
For all his faults (and foibles and corruptions) Bush did know we were fighting terrorists and that they are all “too violent” for us, and that was the point.
I think Obama halfway believes in their cause (to the extent that it advances a broader Leftist agenda) and simultaneously believes he can CONTROL them. He can’t. But I also would not be surprised if they learn how to control him, and that in the course of doing so some of that stolen half-a-billion ends up in DNC coffers.
Wherever there is a big pot of Arab money, the DNC is surely lurking.