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Volkerball posted:They have lessons you know. Is that a giant knife? It looks like something out of IS final fantasy. Section 31 posted:^^ so they are going after the kurds now? i thought they had a "truce" with Kurdistan? I have a friend in Kurdistan. So now i am worried.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Crap, ISIS has gunblade technology! We're doomed as soon as they co-opt the genies.
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Sithsaber posted:We're doomed as soon as they co-opt the genies. They'll just get depressed, lower their update frequency, and eventually close the thread and get banned by Allowtax. So there is still hope! 
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Absurd Alhazred posted:They'll just get depressed, lower their update frequency, and eventually close the thread and get banned by Allowtax. So there is still hope! Wait, are you saying ISIS has displayed on site forums activity?
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pengun101 posted:Is that a giant knife? It looks like something out of IS final fantasy. It's a custom butcher's knife.  (this is 18 inches/440mm, they get bigger) e; and of course it could also be a prop but, y'know, goes without saying i'd hope. "Big knives exist" is the extent of my point Willie Tomg fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Jul 6, 2014 |
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Sithsaber posted:Wait, are you saying ISIS has displayed on site forums activity? They said they were going to do it once a week, but they kept finding excuses to postpone it, and Allowtax got tired of their excuses.
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Al-Saqr posted:I just watched the sermon by Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the self proclaimed caliphate. This guy is about as impressive as a wet fart. really uninspiring and every bit as boring as I feared he would be. So how mad do you think they're gonna be when the Muslim world doesn't exactly flock to their side?
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A well known Syrian actress was killed when an artillery shell hit her home. Ironically, she had just acted in a drama TV show about finding love in the Syrian civil war: http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2014/06/28/pkg-king-syria-actress-killed.cnn.html
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illrepute posted:So how mad do you think they're gonna be when the Muslim world doesn't exactly flock to their side? Well when ISIS succeeds in blowing up some real prominent Shiite religious sites like the Golden mosque in Samarra, there's going to be some pretty brutal revenge acts committed on Sunnis by Shiite militias or whoever supports them. When that starts happening, guess who those Sunnis are going to flock to for protection?
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Charliegrs posted:Well when ISIS succeeds in blowing up some real prominent Shiite religious sites like the Golden mosque in Samarra, there's going to be some pretty brutal revenge acts committed on Sunnis by Shiite militias or whoever supports them. When that starts happening, guess who those Sunnis are going to flock to for protection? fingers crossed
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Charliegrs posted:Well when ISIS succeeds in blowing up some real prominent Shiite religious sites like the Golden mosque in Samarra, there's going to be some pretty brutal revenge acts committed on Sunnis by Shiite militias or whoever supports them. When that starts happening, guess who those Sunnis are going to flock to for protection? Would Iran just go full in then?
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Crowsbeak posted:Would Iran just go full in then? I think there will be a reactivation of the Mahdi army before you see any Iranian boots on the ground (in large numbers) There's plenty that the Iranians can do by proxy. They are smart enough to not send their army into Iraq because god knows what would happen after that. Who knows how they would be received? Even in supposedly "friendly" Shiite areas. After all, this is the same army that the Iraqis spent the entire 80s fighting.
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So, out of curiosity, how many people live under IS control anyway? 3-4 million, including Mosul's 2 million?
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Here is allegedly the first edition of ISIS/IS' magazine for you, titled Dabiq.pengun101 posted:so they are going after the kurds now? i thought they had a "truce" with Kurdistan? I have a friend in Kurdistan. So now i am worried.
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Section 31 posted:Here is allegedly the first edition of ISIS/IS' magazine for you, titled Dabiq.
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meristem posted:I hope that it turns out to be a CIA product. There is something about it that hurts my brain - it feels like those early 2000s fan translations of manga that got turned into memes because they decided not to translate half of the words? 'Just according to keikaku', I think, was one of them?
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Jesus Horse posted:nails are more poetic, being a carpenter and all. Driving nails through your body is also more dehumanizing than just tying you onto something.
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Nenonen posted:Driving nails through your body is also more dehumanizing than just tying you onto something. Yeah, nails are basically just the extra gently caress you cherry on top of the crucifixion sundae.
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meristem posted:So, out of curiosity, how many people live under IS control anyway? 3-4 million, including Mosul's 2 million? At least. They control vast swathes of the Raqqah and Deir Ez Zour governorates in Syria, which each have over a million residents, along with the similarly sized provinces of Anbar and Saladin in Iraq. Then you have their territory in places like the Kirkuk countryside, or Manbij east of Aleppo (prewar pop. ~100k). And, of course, you have their holdings in Ninawa/Mosul. All in all, I wouldn't be surprised if they topped 5 million.
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so has nothing happened int he last few days, or are we just on media blackout because of a three day weekend last we heard there was an active fight for tikrit
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I see ISIS has decided to do some renovating of their captured territory. I'm sure that will endear them to the locals.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:I see ISIS has decided to do some renovating of their captured territory. I'm sure that will endear them to the locals. I'm gonna guess that the M.O. of every remotely intelligent local in that territory is to stay the hell out of the way lest they cut off your head just because they're having a bad day. Ruthless brutality is a tragically effective tool for keeping people in line (to a point).
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I'm sorry if this is a silly question, but what the hell is up with up with the shape of the circle in ISIS's flag? Is there a reason why it's not a perfect circle?
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Kurtofan posted:I'm sorry if this is a silly question, but what the hell is up with up with the shape of the circle in ISIS's flag? Is there a reason why it's not a perfect circle? It's deliberately crude because its based off some sort of minted coin in the 8th century, either Ummayad or Abassid. I think at least. The Ummayads were kind of racist dicks.
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MothraAttack posted:At least. They control vast swathes of the Raqqah and Deir Ez Zour governorates in Syria, which each have over a million residents, along with the similarly sized provinces of Anbar and Saladin in Iraq. Then you have their territory in places like the Kirkuk countryside, or Manbij east of Aleppo (prewar pop. ~100k). And, of course, you have their holdings in Ninawa/Mosul. All in all, I wouldn't be surprised if they topped 5 million. If you're relying on old pop figures, you probably need to drop it a minimum of 25% to account for displacement.
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StabbinHobo posted:so has nothing happened int he last few days, or are we just on media blackout because of a three day weekend ISIS have been fighting Kurds in rojava, back in Syria. Seems to be their primary front at the moment.
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So someone carried out airstrikes in Mosul overnight, but no one's taking responsibility. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...7353_story.html
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All of them so far have been against Hezbollah in Syria. Attacks on ISIS in Iraq could be a lot of countries.
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MothraAttack posted:So someone carried out airstrikes in Mosul overnight, but no one's taking responsibility. It was me.
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StabbinHobo posted:so has nothing happened int he last few days, or are we just on media blackout because of a three day weekend Probably the media's short attention span as much as anything. They already did ISIS last week; time to move on now!
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Darkman Fanpage posted:It was me. Perhaps it was the antichrist.
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Xandu posted:Iran makes the most sense if not Iraq or the US, but it's totaly plausible the Iraqi military is uncoordinated enough that senior government leaders were completely unaware. What kind of airstrike capacity do the Iraqi military have?
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FAUXTON posted:What kind of airstrike capacity do the Iraqi military have? Well Ray is a cyborg who can fly...
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