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ISIS Wants a Truce
The Daily Beast ^ | 3/31 | Janie Dettmer

Posted on 04/01/2015 8:08:49 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

After months of being targeted by U.S.-led airstrikes, losing ground in Iraq and suffering defeat in a weeks-long assault to capture the Syrian border town of Kobani, is the Islamic State flagging and putting out feelers to see if a truce might be possible? Or is it just seeking to sow confusion in the ranks of its opponents and to undermine their unity and resolve by raising the idea of negotiations?

Intriguingly, the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, floated the idea on Tuesday of a negotiated truce in the latest issue of the militants’ English-language magazine Dabiq, via an article written by one of the group’s remaining Western hostages, British photojournalist John Cantlie.

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You'll pardon me if I remain skeptical......
1 posted on 04/01/2015 8:08:49 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Yeah. I bet they do.


2 posted on 04/01/2015 8:10:09 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I’m sure Obama is tripping over his prayer rug to comply.


3 posted on 04/01/2015 8:10:27 AM PDT by skeeter
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RE: ISIS Wants a Truce

After all they did? NO. Eliminate them from the face of the earth.


4 posted on 04/01/2015 8:10:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Is it April Fools Day in ISIS land, too?


5 posted on 04/01/2015 8:10:59 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Kill them all. Let Allah sort it out.


6 posted on 04/01/2015 8:11:16 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

A truce? What..... we give them each 70 virgins and they stop fighting?


7 posted on 04/01/2015 8:11:25 AM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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hey this is April Fools Day...... ya know!




8 posted on 04/01/2015 8:11:33 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

"Truce" means "good opportunity to stab your enemy in the back" in Islamic.


9 posted on 04/01/2015 8:11:37 AM PDT by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

The goal of all forces fighting ISIS members should be to slaughter all of them. No quarter given. Worthless pieces of inhuman slime should be exterminated.


10 posted on 04/01/2015 8:12:04 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Screw truce. Kill them all. There can be no place on earth for animals like these. Do not allow them peace so they can built up forces, and they will.


11 posted on 04/01/2015 8:12:32 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: TangledUpInBlue

KILL THEM ALL


12 posted on 04/01/2015 8:13:07 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were judged by the content of their character.)
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Eliminate them from the face of the earth.

Yep. They've earned it.

13 posted on 04/01/2015 8:13:14 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bingo bingo bingo.


14 posted on 04/01/2015 8:13:56 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: TangledUpInBlue

The idiots in the White Hut will certainly embrace this based on what we learned from the “truces” in the Veitnam war.


15 posted on 04/01/2015 8:14:05 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: TangledUpInBlue

LOL, don’t joke ,Obama will send Kerry


16 posted on 04/01/2015 8:14:16 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

“Truce” is Arabic for, “Hang on, I’m reloading.”


17 posted on 04/01/2015 8:14:26 AM PDT by Buggman (returnofbenjamin.com)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Death is VERY peaceful. Kill them all, then accept a truce. . . (evil grin)


18 posted on 04/01/2015 8:14:44 AM PDT by Salgak (Peace Through Superior Firepower. . . .)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

There is no truce with monsters


19 posted on 04/01/2015 8:15:42 AM PDT by wardaddy (Dems hate western civilization and GOP are cowards...We are headed to a dark place)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

April fool’s joke, right? Cuz no truce with murderous ba$!@#£$ who cut off heads, crucify, maim, stone, torture, burn people in cages...no, we should annihilate them, until they are only dust!


20 posted on 04/01/2015 8:15:44 AM PDT by sassy steel magnolia
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