ISIS militants parade on military vehicles along the streets of northern Raqqa province. (File photo: Reuters)
ISIL Shows Increasing Strength And Structure, Takes War Where Al Qaeda Couldn’t -- Washington Times
The al Qaeda offshoot terrorist group conquering parts of Iraq is gaining strength thanks to prisoner releases and its social media magnetism for foreign fighter recruits.
As its ranks grow, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, sometimes called the Islamic State, has become the first terrorist organization to plan and execute a two-front land war, presenting yet another challenge to the United States in its long war against Islamic extremists.
Last week, ISIL showed it could capture towns and territory in Syria and Iraq at once. Al Qaeda and its franchises have not accomplished such a feat.
ISIL has demonstrated that it is an organized hierarchical army that launches campaigns based on brutal tactics, clear objectives and a time table.
“They’ve been able to project a lot of force projection capabilities into two countries simultaneously, which has been unprecedented for a single group,” said Patrick Johnston, a counterinsurgency analyst at the Rand Corp.
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4 comments:
WNU,
Can you install a print button on the blog?
It would be a big help thx.
You are not the first to ask me Aizino. Unfortunately ... I did investigate but it appears that Blogger does not permit this option to it's users.
Well then I have copy and past into a word document.
I used to clip newspaper articles. now I collect them electronically.
I don't want the the blog rolls and other stuff on every article.i want a clean print. Oh Well.
If just that if you cannot remember an article containing facts or well reasoned arguments, you cannot at times debate well no point people to good pieces.
That and 1984 could happen to a site like Wikipedia. If you have your own archive (albeit small) you can detect this and maybe point it out if you dare.
I see that the BBC is reprogramming staff. They will not carry opposing views on AGW anymore.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/07/04/BBC-on-its-climate-bias-Move-along-Nothing-to-see-here
Just for your info Aizino. This blog has almost 60,000 posts. Yes .... I have posted over the years almost 60,000 posts. On the upper left side of War News I have a search engine tool that only covers all articles posted on this blog. Whenever I want to research a past article or topic .... i just put in the keywords and presto .... I get my past posts and coverage is listed.
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