“JV team” kills 5042 in November
AFP reports that 5042 people died from jihadist attacks last month. Mostly the casualties occurred in Iraq, but also in Nigeria, Afghanistan and Syria. that’s all according to BBC World Service and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King’s College London.
The research found Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria were responsible for around half of the violence — 308 attacks responsible for 2,206 deaths.
“The data makes it clear that jihadists and Al-Qaeda are no longer one and the same,” the report said.
It said that 60 percent of the killing was done by groups with no formal association with Al-Qaeda, pointing to “an increasingly ambitious, complex, sophisticated and far-reaching movement”.
Well, whew. I feel better that al Qaeda has been decimated. Of course, according to the Guardian, it is largely the fault of Bush;
The single most interesting quote from the ISIS leader, whom Chulov refers to as Abu Ahmed, is quite disturbing: he credits the group’s rise, in large part, to American prison camps during the Iraq war, which he says gave him and other jihadist leaders an invaluable forum to meet one another and to plan their later rise.
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Their network organized partially out of US-run detention centers has played a key role in that. The Iraqi government, Chulov reports, estimates that “17 of the 25 most important Islamic State leaders running the war in Iraq and Syria spent time in US prisons between 2004 and 2011.”
Our biggest problems with this war against terror has been dealing with prisoners, so….
Category: Terror War
“estimates that “17 of the 25 most important Islamic State leaders running the war in Iraq and Syria spent time in US prisons between 2004 and 2011.”
So tell me again please, why did we ever release them? Did they promise to take a trip through Disney World and then go back home to the family goat farm?
The Religion of Peace sure is peaceful of late. Of course it’s all our fault. Never mind the fact that moslem scumbags were declaring jihads against America as early as The Year of Our Lord 1792, as a pretense for large-scale extortion (encouraged in the koran). Never mind that they’ve been engaged in aggressive warfare ever since a certain filthy child molester started his cute little cult in the Arabian Desert 1300 years before our forebears ever told George III to fuck off. It’s all our fault.
The Guardian article does bring up a good point about jihadist detainees, though. The logical conclusion is that we should stop letting the muj fucks out. I’m certain the detention facility at Guantanamo has room for a gallows. Problem solved.
Sir, I would remind you that this is the internet and logic and common sense have no place here.
I would also remind you that the tactics that would be employed by the great generals, such as Sun Tzu, Alexander the Great, and Patton, might hurt feelings and be too effective.
5,024 Kills by ISIL/IS?
Isn’t that more than WE killed?
This clown’s point is that members of disparate groups were gathered to gether in a prison and this gave rise to ISIS. So freaking what? The US Mafia did something along similar lines. From separate groups of murderers and lesser criminals to a conglomerate of murders and lesser criminals. Regardless of how they ISIS organized, separately or together their product remains the same: murder and terror.
Always a problem in any conflict – what to do with captives, especially the best/brightest who are more likely to be a pain while incarcerated, attempt escapes, and be a royal pain whenever they do manage to return to their own side. If you split them up into various facilities they “share the wealth” with other captives and teach them their bad habits, if you concentrate them into one facility you ferment a witches brew of talent like the Germans did at Stalag Luft III or Colditz. Unless you make a permanent early end to them, prisoners are always a giant logistical issue.
Well, since they don’t wear a uniform or rank insignia, they try and hide behind civilians to do their evil, I would think they would qualify under the Geneva Convention as an “unlawful combatant”, spy or saboteur so we can just line them up and shoot them all legal like.
Course, I’m not a lawyer, honorary CPO, or pilot and I didn’t sleep at a Holiday Inn last night, so I could be wrong.
How about a combination of techniques, old and new.
First, use the CIAs “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” (EIT) to wring as much intel out of these goat fuckers and boy rapers as possible.
Second, take the goat rapers that are still alive after the EITs, line them up, and give them a choice; they can either be shot with 45s dipped in pig fat/lard (ala Gen Pershing, Phillipine/Moro uprising), or hung and their fresh bodies fed to the pigs. Let one or two stay alive to witness and spread the word among their fellow goat rapers (again, h/t to Gen Blackjack).