ISIS' Quarterly Report Reveals It's Steady Growth And Expansion

Reuters

An Analysis Of ISIS Quarterly Reports: Kill And Conquer -- Vocativ

James Foley's beheading illustrates ISIS' ruthlessness; the growing organization's reports reveal its calculating nature

Any doubts about how ruthless and single-minded the Islamic State (commonly referred to as ISIS) had become were dispelled on Tuesday. A gruesome propaganda video began circulating that evening, showing the purported beheading of James Foley, an American journalist who disappeared in Syria in 2012. A masked ISIS executioner, speaking to the camera in a distinctly British accent, announces in the video that the murder is in response to American air strikes on ISIS in Iraq, ordered by President Obama 12 days earlier.

ISIS is becoming an increasingly ruthless and effective killing machine, one we can now quantify. For several years, as the organization evolved—moving between Iraq and Syria and changing its moniker—what we now know as ISIS has been cataloging its litany of vicious attacks in minute detail. Each event is labeled with the precise date, type and location of the attack. ISIS has, to date, released consistent reports on its operations only in Iraq; no such material is provided on Syria. Likewise, detailed information about the victims has been largely withheld, until the emergence of the video showing Foley’s murder.

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My Comment: A terror organization that releases a quarterly report .... I am still trying to reconcile myself on that. This is definitely a terror organization like no other.