[Centraal] Irak en IS #102 ISIS onthoofd 2e Amerikaan

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Op vrijdag 5 september 2014 13:17 schreef IPA35 het volgende:

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"Irakese leeuw laat Amerikaanse zeearenden het vuile werk opknappen."

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Op vrijdag 5 september 2014 13:17 schreef IPA35 het volgende:

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"Irakese leeuw laat Amerikaanse zeearenden het vuile werk opknappen."

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Op vrijdag 5 september 2014 13:22 schreef mig72 het volgende:

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Het probleem is dat het Iraakse leger zelf van genocide beticht wordt door Human Rights Watch.

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Three top IS leaders killed in air strikes
A senior aide of the Islamic State (IS) militant group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was reportedly killed in an airstrike on Friday, together with two other senior members.

According to a report in Sky News, Abu Hajar al-Suri was killed in an airstrike conducted by Iraq between Mosul and Tal Afar cities outside of government control.

An explosives operative and the military leader of Tal Afar were also reportedly killed.

“Iraqi warplanes carried out a security operation today, resulting in the killing of …Abu Jajar al-Suri,” said Iraqi General Babaker Zebari.

He added the strikes were “based on accurate intelligence information.”

The group has dominated headlines in recent weeks, following the release of a video showing an IS militant beheading American journalist James Foley. On Tuesday, IS released a second video, showing another American journalist, Steven Sotloff, being beheaded. The militants said the brutal murders are in retaliation for airstrikes against the group in Iraq.

IS, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, is a Sunni jihadist group in the Middle East. In June, the group declared itself as a new Islamist caliphate, or state, to rule over Muslims across the world. It has called on other Islamist groups to pledge their allegiance to it.

The terrorist group has wreaked havoc over much of Iraq, where it is steadily making its way towards the capital, Baghdad, killing ethnic minorities along the way. Last month, United States President Barack Obama authorised air strikes in that country in attempt to stop the militants from gaining ground and to prevent the slaughter of religious minorities.

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http://nyti.ms/1lC1tKP
Iraqis Identify Prisoner as Chinese Islamist Fighter
BEIJING — The Iraqi Defense Ministry has posted on its Facebook page photographs that it says show a captured Chinese man who was fighting on behalf of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the Sunni jihadist group.

Iraqi officials have not released further details, but the photographs, if confirmed, would be the first visual evidence of a Chinese citizen fighting with ISIS, which has members from around the world, including the United States. Both the leader of ISIS and a Chinese diplomat said this summer that Chinese fighters had joined ISIS.

The first of the Defense Ministry’s photographs, posted on Monday, shows an Iraqi soldier holding up a muscular, Asian-looking man with a severely bruised and bloodied face. The man is wearing an olive-green camouflage T-shirt, pants, black gloves and an armband with white Arabic lettering on a black background.

A second photograph shows the man curled on rocks on the ground, with cuts and scrapes visible on his stomach and left elbow.

Arabic text accompanying the photographs says “Chinese Da’ash,” using what is roughly an Arabic acronym for ISIS, which prefers to call itself the Islamic State.

As of Thursday afternoon, the pictures had been shared more than 1,200 times and “liked” more than 9,500 times. The Iraqi Defense Ministry did not say what evidence it had that the fighter was Chinese.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry did not immediately return a request for comment on Thursday.

Chinese officials have in the past expressed concerns about citizens’ venturing abroad to join ISIS or other jihadist groups in the Middle East, or of their being influenced by such groups to carry out attacks within China.

Wu Sike, who until Wednesday was China’s special envoy to the Middle East, said at a news conference in late July that about 100 Chinese fighters were being trained or were fighting in the Middle East. Mr. Wu said that number was based on reports by foreign news organizations. Most of the fighters were ethnic Uighurs, he said, referring to a Turkic-speaking, mostly Muslim people who live in Xinjiang, a region in western China.

The Chinese government often says Uighur terrorists are to blame for a surge in violence in Xinjiang, while foreign scholars and terrorism analysts say the government appears to be exaggerating its reports of terrorist activities. Beijing has not released much evidence or details of what it has labeled terrorist cells and operations in the region.

The leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, mentioned Chinese fighters in a speech this summer at the start of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting. In the nearly 20-minute speech, released online July 1, Mr. Baghdadi listed 12 nationalities of fighters in ISIS, one of them being Chinese, according to a translation by SITE Intelligence Group, an organization in Maryland that tracks jihadist messages.

The recording was the first from Mr. Baghdadi after he had proclaimed himself caliph of the transnational territory of the Islamic State, and in it he encouraged Muslims to engage in jihad. He also called for religious workers, doctors, military experts and others with technical skills to join ISIS.

China was named first in a long list of countries where “Muslims’ rights are forcibly seized.”

There are several reasons jihadists would be hostile to China. Uighurs in Xinjiang have long complained about repressive policies imposed by Beijing. And along with Russia and Iran, China is a prominent ally of the Syrian government, which jihadists are trying to topple.

Raffaello Pantucci, director of international security studies at the Royal United Services Institute in Britain, said there had been reports of Central Asians, Japanese and Chinese fighting in Syria and Iraq. China is worried about the jihadists’ returning home for the same reasons that Western nations are concerned about returning fighters, he said, but the threat could be lower.

“We don’t know where these Chinese are actually from,” he said. “Given the expectation that most Chinese out there will be of Uighur ethnicity, we don’t know that they have all actually come from China rather than from the large diaspora living in Turkey. If they are Turkey-based, then China would not necessarily be their first port of call to return to.”

“It also seems much harder for anyone to get back from Syria to China without attracting attention or falling afoul of border guards in China or elsewhere, given the difficult journey,” he added.

Last year, a video was posted online that showed a Chinese man whom the producers identified as Bo Wang fighting against the Syrian government. The video, which could not be verified, did not say to which group the fighter belonged. The man, who spoke Mandarin Chinese and called himself Yusef in the video, fired a Kalashnikov rifle in a field of flowers. He called on the Chinese government to drop its support of Bashar al-Assad, the ruler of Syria, or “all Islamic countries of the world will unite to impose economic sanctions against the Chinese government.

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Op vrijdag 5 september 2014 14:52 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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Op vrijdag 5 september 2014 18:06 schreef theunderdog het volgende:

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Mooi nieuws, al vind ik het allemaal wel wat toevallig. Of wisten ze precies waar die drie leiders zaten?

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Op vrijdag 5 september 2014 18:56 schreef IsaacCuenca het volgende:
De islamitische staat zal blijven leven.

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Op vrijdag 5 september 2014 18:56 schreef IsaacCuenca het volgende:
De islamitische staat zal blijven leven.

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Op vrijdag 5 september 2014 19:17 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Jup, maar de grenzen zullen constant veranderen. Dit gaat nog jaren duren. Op een gegeven moment gaat ISIS intern ook weer splitsen waarschijnlijk en dan begint het riedeltje weer opnieuw.

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Op vrijdag 5 september 2014 19:45 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Het is goed met jou

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Op vrijdag 5 september 2014 20:24 schreef mig72 het volgende:
Ik snap niet waarom IS zo gedemoniseerd wordt, zo slecht zijn die lui nog niet. Waarschijnlijk zijn het gewoon verzetsstrijders uitgemaakt voor terroristen door de VS om nog een oorlog te kunnen voeren. Op dat gebied kun je sowieso de VS niet vertrouwen, van mensen uitmaken voor terroristen.

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Op vrijdag 5 september 2014 20:43 schreef SadPanda het volgende:
While Turkey’s prospective EU membership has never been popular in this club, there are concerns over the sympathy of the AKP base for radical Islamist movements like the Islamic State (IS). “There is a new poll that suggests 38% of the AKP constituency considers IS favorably,” one European diplomat told Al-Monitor. “This is worrisome for us.”
http://www.al-monitor.com(...)o.html#ixzz3CT5qslfv

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Op vrijdag 5 september 2014 20:24 schreef mig72 het volgende:
Ik snap niet waarom IS zo gedemoniseerd wordt, zo slecht zijn die lui nog niet. Waarschijnlijk zijn het gewoon verzetsstrijders uitgemaakt voor terroristen door de VS om nog een oorlog te kunnen voeren. Op dat gebied kun je sowieso de VS niet vertrouwen, van mensen uitmaken voor terroristen.

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Op vrijdag 5 september 2014 21:06 schreef JerryWesterby het volgende:

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Turkije is al een poos zwaar verdacht.
Redenen zijn bijvoorbeeld:

- Hoe wordt IS bevoorraad? Kan alleen via Turkije. Die 'Syriegangers' gaan ook via Turkije en krijgen daar blijkbaar vrije doorgang.
- AK partij is de Turkse variant van de moslimbroeders. Soenitische politieke islam. Gelieerd aan de moslimbroeders in Egypte, Hamas, etc.
- Corrupte aap Erdogan had zo'n grote bek over het Assad regime, vroeg om steun van de NAVO (oa Nederlandse Patriot raketten) omdat hij zich bedreigd voelde, maar nu hoor je hem plotseling niet meer.
- Gemene zaak tussen IS en Turkije tegen de Koerden.

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Op vrijdag 5 september 2014 21:10 schreef MagicIsland1 het volgende:

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"verzetsstrijders"

Heb je al überhaupt naar wat YouTube videos van die gasten gekeken of wat interviews van hun gezien...

Mij best dat je anti vs/westen wilt zijn.

Maar als je na het ziet van wat ze zeggen/doen nog steeds denkt dat "die lui nog niet zo slecht zijn". Dan ben je gewoon niet goed bij je hoofd.

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Op vrijdag 5 september 2014 17:23 schreef hmmmmmmm het volgende:

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Ja want die economie loopt zo fucking goed