BREAKING: Islamic State, in video titled "A Message to America," beheads American journalist James Wright Foley.
I believe he was captured 3 years ago or so.
I accidentally came across the graphic pics.....you don't want to go there.
Also they are threatening to behead another journalist. Sick, sick bastards.
James Foley Went Looking to Support Terrorists in Syria, Instead They Cut Off His Head-August 19, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield
James Foley was one of a new breed of activists calling themselves journalists. He didn’t travel to report on a story, but to promote an agenda. And the agendawas obvious from his Twitter feed.
Any human life lost is tragic, but a moral individual would have much more empathy for the Syrian Christians who suffered at the hands of Foley’s favorite Jihadists than one of their pet propagandists.
Foley came to Syria to support the Sunni Islamist rebels against the Syrian government.
He cheered on the Sunni Muslim terrorists fighting to ethnically cleanse the Christians of Aleppo. In the conflict between Israel and Hamas, his tweets and retweets were chock full of pro-terrorist propaganda.
But Foley ran afoul of at least some of the Sunni Jihadists in Syria. His twitter feed was filled with references to the FSA. And the FSA was going to be eclipsed by the Al Qaeda affiliates. And that was where he ended up.
When Austin Tice, an actual freelance journalist was kidnapped by Jihadists, Foley ridiculed the idea that Jihadists had kidnapped him. Surely Syrian Jihadists wouldn’t do that sort of thing.
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I think the better question to ask would be why does he prefer not to.While you're at it, ask where does ISIS get it's funding, and who trained it's original cadre's, and where.
There is a much larger struggle in the mideast going on than ISIS vs syria or ISIS vs Iraq, that looms over everything else and affects all decisions and politics in the region,
and it has nothing to do with Israel.
I mean, it had to be made by a dullard.
I wouldn't worry about it, ISIS already said that when they conquer Saudi Arabia they are going to destroy Mecca and the Kabba, as they claim it is a pagan shrine and the Saudis and other Arabs are worshipping at a pagan alter that is nothing more than a rock, a fallen meteorite.Muslims will destroy Mecca long before we ever get around to it.
As for David Horowitz:
David Joel Horowitz (born January 10, 1939) is an American conservative writer. He is a founder and current president of the think tank the David Horowitz Freedom Center, editor of FrontPage Magazine, and director of Discover the Networks, a website that tracks individuals and groups on the political left. Horowitz founded the organization Students for Academic Freedom, whose self-stated goal is combating what it calls the "leftist indoctrination" in academia.
Sounds more like an obtuse disaproval of the Editors philosophy than any actual disagreement with the substance or text of the article. One look at Foley's twitter page tells you all you need to know about his anti-US anti-Israel pro-terrorist ideals.
How someone can imply Horowitz is a hack and maintain Foley wasn't is beyond me.It's a shame he died but cheering on muslims killing Christians doesn't make me a big fan.
At the moment, the answer is the banks they looted in Mosul.
Sounds like something Michael Scott would do. I betcha he quotes himself quoting other people too.
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While you're at it, ask where does ISIS get it's funding
At the moment, the answer is the banks they looted in Mosul.
Total ISIS assets over 3 Billion. Where did the other 2.5 BILLION come from? ISIS just popped up out of the ground?
It didn't.
Martin Chulov reported a senior intelligence official as saying:
"By the end of the week, we soon realised that we had to do some accounting for them," said the official flippantly. "Before Mosul, their total cash and assets were $875m [£515m]. Afterwards, with the money they robbed from banks and the value of the military supplies they looted, they could add another $1.5bn to that."
Rounding to two decimal points gives us an upper estimate of $2.38bn [£1.4bn] for what the group might have access to. Any number in the billions obviously seems a lot, so we took a detailed look at how that compares with other military spending.
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A series of documents discovered after an arrest has helped expose the finances of the Iraqi insurgent group Isis (the Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant), which seized control of the cities of Mosul and Tikrit last week.
Martin Chulov reported a senior intelligence official as saying:
"By the end of the week, we soon realised that we had to do some accounting for them," said the official flippantly. "Before Mosul, their total cash and assets were $875m [£515m]. Afterwards, with the money they robbed from banks and the value of the military supplies they looted, they could add another $1.5bn to that."
Rounding to two decimal points gives us an upper estimate of $2.38bn [£1.4bn] for what the group might have access to. Any number in the billions obviously seems a lot, so we took a detailed look at how that compares with other military spending.
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Your point being they are and have been self funded. OK.
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A series of documents discovered after an arrest has helped expose the finances of the Iraqi insurgent group Isis (the Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant), which seized control of the cities of Mosul and Tikrit last week.
Martin Chulov reported a senior intelligence official as saying:
"By the end of the week, we soon realised that we had to do some accounting for them," said the official flippantly. "Before Mosul, their total cash and assets were $875m [£515m]. Afterwards, with the money they robbed from banks and the value of the military supplies they looted, they could add another $1.5bn to that."
Rounding to two decimal points gives us an upper estimate of $2.38bn [£1.4bn] for what the group might have access to. Any number in the billions obviously seems a lot, so we took a detailed look at how that compares with other military spending.
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Ignoring other contributors to this particular point, I'm not sure the article's figures are all that relevant. The fact that it causes us a few hundred million to put a fighter or a bomber in the air or a couple million to keep a soldier in the field in Afghanistan for a year has little bearing on what it costs to keep an army of castaways and religious zealots in the fold. While their weapons and armaments cannot keep up with ours no matter how much they have in the tank they could certainly pursue SAMs that could raise the stakes for us (at least to an extent).
Far as SAMs, they have all they need from the 20,000 they picked up in Benghazi after we decided to leave the warehouses they were in, under our custody,unguarded. Never wondered what really happened there?
If they have them, they apparently don't know how to use them. Not a single US, Iraq or Kurd jet, drone of helicopter has been shot down as far as I know.
Unless you expect them to be fired from Libya you going to have to explain how they get transported to Iraq or Syria. I don't see anyone giving them safe passage as they've managed to piss off every standing government in the region.
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Great WHITE Ghost for nothing.
What's the matter RB, WHITE offends you?
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In comment 11816854 RB^2 said:
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Great WHITE Ghost for nothing.
What's the matter RB, WHITE offends you?
Describing yourself as a WHITE person for no particular reason puts you in the company of people that is very telling, actually.
except that never happened. I explained the origin of the name 5 times here, I'm sure you saw it at least once, I'm not going to do it again, has nothing to do with me, or what color I am.But go on with your own bad self making shit up, it's what you're good at.
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I like how a comment about the journalist being a terrorist sympathizer becomes about how I'm a racist. Which is a lie to begin with. But you keep at it.Not that I give 2 shits about Horowitz or his politics.And not that he even wrote the article.
Is your point that Foley wasn't a pro islamist terrorist progandist? Or do you simply have another agenda? because you never did respond to the original point, like the other obfuscation artists in here.
Feel free to start another thread on Horowitz if you like.
This was about James Foley, this thread here.
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Great WHITE Ghost for nothing.
What's the matter RB, WHITE offends you?
If anything should offend me, it's that you're white.
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without GORGA.
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And, for the record, it was you who cited FrontPage as somehow being authoritative.
You have a nice day now, you and bob.So full of spunk, you two.
In a fair way, Israeli style, to minimize innocent casualties - warn them a month beforehand.
"Hello, Islamic world? Your bad element took down the WTC buildings in NY? We are going to wipe Mecca off the map in retaliation. But to show you how fair minded we are, and how considerate of innocent human life, we are telling you beforehand. Leave Mecca, and anywhere within 200 miles of Mecca, because we are going to destroy it with nuclear weapons. And BTW, we have lots more of them to use if need be!"
Now that would be a message that radical Islamists would understand.
And you know if we don't nuke them they WILL nuke us. It's just a matter of time before some nit witted Jihadis get their mitts on a nuke, isn't it?
In a fair way, Israeli style, to minimize innocent casualties - warn them a month beforehand.
"Hello, Islamic world? Your bad element took down the WTC buildings in NY? We are going to wipe Mecca off the map in retaliation. But to show you how fair minded we are, and how considerate of innocent human life, we are telling you beforehand. Leave Mecca, and anywhere within 200 miles of Mecca, because we are going to destroy it with nuclear weapons. And BTW, we have lots more of them to use if need be!"
Now that would be a message that radical Islamists would understand.
And you know if we don't nuke them they WILL nuke us. It's just a matter of time before some nit witted Jihadis get their mitts on a nuke, isn't it?
Leaving aside the question of crossing a threshold that has existed for almost 70 years, wouldn't that radicalize several hundred million Muslims who are not currently radical (Indonesia? US?)?
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BlueLou, on behalf of all people with Jewish roots (and well, all people), if you would stop sharing your views publicly, it would be very appreciated. Thanks.
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I laughed...nicely done, Peter.