Japanese Hostage Taken by al-Zarqawi

[Russell]

Yep, they're not exactly making friends.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Yep, they're not exactly making friends.

They may have opened a can of Jordanian whoop-ass.

[Coligny]

Yep, they're not exactly making friends.

They may have opened a can of Jordanian whoop-ass.

the only thing st00pider they could have done would have been to do this with a Russian hostage...
The Soviet solution tending to be solving problems by killing everyone even remotely involved.

[wagyl]

Thank goodness the Soviet Union dissolved 23 years ago.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Is it just me or does IS not seem to have much to say about Israel?

[Coligny]

Thank goodness the Soviet Union dissolved 23 years ago.

So i guess we have to rename "galette des rois" too since there are no more king in France.

I admire your duty to be the deepest shitstain around. But, systematic threadjacking in the purpose of just harassing one user gets old quite fats.

(and before some highlight that I'm a chief engineer railroad threadjacker... there might be a difference between always going back too bewbs or Russian/Soviet era trucks and a wet turd systematically trying/failing to have the last word for the exclusive purpose to shit on another user. -last example... car climbing max angle... not even half a second of search just "warglarb colignyyyyyy" seems that self righteously eating all those fukushima grown vegetabulz might have had bad outcomes earlier than what could have been previousely expected...)

[Russell]

Is it just me or does IS not seem to have much to say about Israel?

Now, there you have an interesting observation!

Certain intelligence agencies have been known to infiltrate adversary groups in order to incline them towards acts that alienates public opinion.

It cannot be denied that the shenanigans of ISIS have caused a strong reaction in the world, and it is certainly possible that the Mossad is involved to a certain extent. There is a strong self-interest here.

By Way of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Is it just me or does IS not seem to have much to say about Israel?

Now, there you have an interesting observation!

Certain intelligence agencies have been known to infiltrate adversary groups in order to incline them towards acts that alienates public opinion.

It cannot be denied that the shenanigans of ISIS have caused a strong reaction in the world, and it is certainly possible that the Mossad is involved to a certain extent. There is a strong self-interest here.

By Way of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War...

It could also be a case of even IS knowing that they'd better solidly establish their Caliphate first before kicking that hornets' nest.

[Wage Slave]

Is it just me or does IS not seem to have much to say about Israel?

Now, there you have an interesting observation!

Certain intelligence agencies have been known to infiltrate adversary groups in order to incline them towards acts that alienates public opinion.

It cannot be denied that the shenanigans of ISIS have caused a strong reaction in the world, and it is certainly possible that the Mossad is involved to a certain extent. There is a strong self-interest here.

By Way of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War...

It could also be a case of even IS knowing that they'd better solidly establish their Caliphate first before kicking that hornets' nest.

That seems the right answer to me. They are pretty savvy and competent in many ways - Unfortunately. And they have plenty on their plate for now.

[Samurai_Jerk]

This just might be the thing that gets the Arabs off their asses.

Outrage boils in Mideast over Islamic State group killing

Outrage and condemnation poured across the Middle East on Wednesday as horrified people learned of the video purportedly showing the Islamic State group burn a Jordanian pilot to death.

Even in a region accustomed to the violence of war and the little regard the militants have for life, both political and religious leaders offered angry denunciations and called for blood as some on television wept on air talking about the killing of 26-year-old Lt. Muath Al-Kaseasbeh.

The head of Sunni Islam's most respected seat of learning, Egypt's Al-Azhar Mosque, even said that Islamic State militants deserved the Quran-prescribed punishment of death, crucifixion or the chopping off of their arms.

"Islam prohibits the taking of an innocent life," Ahmed al-Tayeb, the mosque's grand sheik, said in a statement.

Al-Tayeb said that by burning the pilot to death, the militants violated Islam's prohibition on the mutilation of bodies, even at wartime.

[Russell]

Is it just me or does IS not seem to have much to say about Israel?

Now, there you have an interesting observation!

Certain intelligence agencies have been known to infiltrate adversary groups in order to incline them towards acts that alienates public opinion.

It cannot be denied that the shenanigans of ISIS have caused a strong reaction in the world, and it is certainly possible that the Mossad is involved to a certain extent. There is a strong self-interest here.

By Way of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War...

It could also be a case of even IS knowing that they'd better solidly establish their Caliphate first before kicking that hornets' nest.

That seems the right answer to me. They are pretty savvy and competent in many ways - Unfortunately. And they have plenty on their plate for now.

Hmm, I think they are too stupid for that.

But anyway, the only way to know is how they will react when they make an Israeli prisoner. I guess they won't have much mercy then either.

Still, it is interesting that they are so silent about Israel.

[matsuki]

They have better cgi/videographers than NHK....

[Coligny]

They have better cgi/videographers than NHK....

and Iran...

(combined)

[Yokohammer]

They may have opened a can of Jordanian whoop-ass.

Yup ...

Jordan jets 'strike Islamic State' after pilot's death

The army did not specify the location of the air strikes, but said in a statement that "dozens of jet fighters" had struck IS targets, including training camps and weapons warehouses.

The air strikes were "just the beginning", the statement added.

State television showed people writing messages on what appeared to be missiles for the air strikes, with one calling IS "the enemies of Islam".

[Yokohammer]

Getting warm over there ...

Jordan conducts 56 air raids against ISIS in 3 days

We will wipe them off the face of the Earth

[Samurai_Jerk]

It's funny how all the freedom loving right-wingers in the US suddenly have a hard-on for King Adbullah II. They love how he's so decisive and ballsy unlike that "coward" Obama. The same Obama they hate for allegedly skirting congress to unilaterally push through his evil plan to become dictator of an American Caliphate. It's the same thing whenever you read a story about the Saudis beheading a rapist or murderer. Of course these are the same morons who want to pass bills to outlaw the implementation of Sharia Law in the US.

[matsuki]

Many Jordanians fear greater involvement could trigger a backlash by hardline militants inside the kingdom.

One might hop/expect those assholes to "go fight for their country." Not a bad plan to weed them out.

[Yokohammer]

Ka-boom, and more ka-boom.

Jordanian General: 'We Are Defending Not Only Our Country But Our Faith'

"We are defending our faith" ... very interesting take on the situation.
Kinda weird, but OK, they're kicking the crappola out of the Daesh.
Also interesting to note that the US is delivering lots of nice toys for them to play with.

[Mike Oxlong]

Radical scholar provided Japan with channel to IS at hostage crisis peak

Japan's government opened a communication channel with Islamic State in the decisive stages of its recent hostage crisis but was unwilling to use it to start negotiations, according to a Tokyo-based Islamic scholar who briefly became an intermediary.

Hassan Ko Nakata, 54, who police suspected was a recruiter for Islamic State, was asked by the foreign ministry to pass on a message to the group at the peak of the crisis last month, according to Nakata, associates and records reviewed by Reuters.

The request, which has not been previously revealed, shows Tokyo appeared ready at one point to talk to Islamic State to free two Japanese men who had been captured in Syria for ransom, despite the government's public vow not to give in to terrorism.

Islamic State beheaded the two hostages - a self-styled security consultant and a veteran war reporter - days later after Japan decided to team up with Jordan to deal with the crisis, a move that is now under scrutiny at home.

That decision to work exclusively with Amman, which was also trying to free a Jordanian hostage from Islamic State, not only closed communications via Nakata but also effectively ended separate contact that had opened up between the wife of hostage Kenji Goto, 47, the war correspondent, and his captors.

"The government sidelined whatever private communication channels there were in place and proved unable to establish effective contact with the militants until the very end," said Nils Bildt, president of security consultancy CTSS Japan, which has worked for the Japanese government.

Bildt said that may have been a mistake...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/ ... N720150208

[Russell]

In order to prevent those same mistakes again, the Japanese government ought to employ an increased number of radical Islamic scholars...

LOL

[kagemusha]

Ka-boom, and more ka-boom.

Jordanian General: 'We Are Defending Not Only Our Country But Our Faith'

"We are defending our faith" ... very interesting take on the situation.
Kinda weird, but OK, they're kicking the crappola out of the Daesh.
Also interesting to note that the US is delivering lots of nice toys for them to play with.

A lot of misconception around here.

1. The Jordanians don't kick anything, it was a nice symbolic act but after that nice Hollywood style headline the main war will continue in northern Iraq and north-eastern Syria. The Jordanian managed to raise a loot of dust, kill some goats and probably some civilians. Their army is exactly what keeps this state alive.
2. No one but the Kurd and Hezbollah is actually fights ISIS seriously. the gulf states pay lip service due to the Iranian threat. The Americans won't decide till the the deal with Iran is complete or dead and after the next election. The EU buys oil from ISIS through third party in Mosul and does what it normally do - sit and enjoy watching the distasteful barbarian die.
Israel backs the Kurd to protect its long term investment in them and Iran is doing so for the same reason to protect its investment in Syria and Lebanon.
3. ISIS like any kind of similar regime in the region will collapse into itself and again revive according to the Geo-politics of the region. As the Imam of New York bravely said yesterday - as long as Wahhabi doctrine spreads there will be nothing but hatred and war.

[Salty]

... As the Imam of New York bravely said yesterday - as long as Wahhabi doctrine spreads there will be nothing but hatred and war.

Exactly - which is why Saudi Arabia needs to be bombed - well, at least their Wahhabi mosques. Time to nip this hatred spreading cancer where it starts.

[Russell]

... As the Imam of New York bravely said yesterday - as long as Wahhabi doctrine spreads there will be nothing but hatred and war.

Exactly - which is why Saudi Arabia needs to be bombed - well, at least their Wahhabi mosques. Time to nip this hatred spreading cancer where it starts.

And now we are at it, let's also bomb Mecca...

[Samurai_Jerk]

... As the Imam of New York bravely said yesterday - as long as Wahhabi doctrine spreads there will be nothing but hatred and war.

Exactly - which is why Saudi Arabia needs to be bombed - well, at least their Wahhabi mosques. Time to nip this hatred spreading cancer where it starts.

And now we are at it, let's also bomb Mecca...

With a nuke during the Hajj.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Egypt strikes IS group in Libya after video of mass killing

Egypt said Monday it has launched airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Libya after the extremist group released a grisly video showing the beheading of several Egyptian Coptic Christians it had held hostage for weeks.

[...]

The video purporting to show the mass beheading of Coptic Christian hostages was released late Sunday by militants in Libya affiliated with the Islamic State group.

The killings raise the possibility that the extremist group — which controls about a third of Syria and Iraq in a self-declared caliphate — has established a direct affiliate less than 500 miles (800 kilometers) from the southern tip of Italy. One of the militants in the video makes direct reference to that possibility, saying the group now plans to "conquer Rome."

The militants had been holding 21 Egyptian Coptic Christian laborers rounded up from the city of Sirte in December and January. It was not clear from the video whether all 21 hostages were killed.

[matsuki]

Of course this all overshadowed in the news here because Toyota is offended by the unauthorized use of "ISIS"



http://toyota.jp/isis/

[Coligny]

I know you will blame me for alway going back to my only true god (well... after Marx and Lenin)...
But they are pushing Darwinism a bit far...

[matsuki]

I know you will blame me for alway going back to my only true god (well... after Marx and Lenin)...
But they are pushing Darwinism a bit far...

Not like the self dense force is exactly menacing....

[Coligny]

Aren't those clowns supposed to fill a report everytime they fire a bullet ?

Between their unproven gear for combat situation, Micky Mouse club training and total lack of experience in combat situation they are as fucked as a schoolgirl in a candy van in case of conflict...

(I'd fuck that though... The APC I mean...)
(Wait, do they allow people in combat unit to have a vagina ? Because, if there is one country where the risk of tactical collapse coming from some act of chivalry to save the damsel in distress is nil its toats here...)

[matsuki]

Some of my competitors are touting their shit as "Used by the self defense forces!" as if that means anything more than they were the cheapest bid.