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"The IS capture of al-Rutba has given the terrorist group “a direct shot to the Saudi border and the Jordanian border,” the official said, while the Iraqi-Syrian border at al-Qaim is “basically gone. … This is a tremendous threat to everybody, and it is really sharpening the minds.” Asked if the United States had directly discussed the IS threat with the Syrian regime, the US official said “not that I’m aware of.”"
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ISIS or IS gets its largest funding from Qatar. "Accidentally" bomb Qatar and those oily sheiks might have second thoughts about bankrolling their pet thugs.
Bombing Qatar would put a real crimp in their style.
James Inhofe, top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee and I assume on the list of those who receive high level intelligence briefings, says about ISIS:
“They're crazy out there and they're rapidly developing a method of blowing up a major U.S. city and people just can't believe that's happening.”
The Secretary of Defense says that ISIS is a terrorist organization "beyond anything that we've seen."
We've seen one terrorist group bring down the WTC. What aren't they telling us.
That they are the JV?
Here's a good piece in the Daily Beast about who's funding what and why in that crazy part of the world. It's all rather head-spinning, and reminds me of nothing so much as some of the strategy/political scenes in Lawrence of Arabia.
We're going to have to back, regardless of who likes it or not.
Just the way it is.
Rabel said...
James Inhofe, top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee and I assume on the list of those who receive high level intelligence briefings, says about ISIS:
"They're crazy out there and they're rapidly developing a method of blowing up a major U.S. city"
Thanks to the Demos, there are a number of cities where nobody would notice.
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