Adam Taylor, Washington Post: A huge leaked list of Islamic State fighters sounds too good to be true. Is it?
It almost sounds too good to be true: a huge list of Islamic State fighters, leaked from inside the organization's own internal security division, potentially representing a treasure trove of detailed information on the group to be picked apart by intelligence agencies.
On Wednesday, Sky News revealed that it had acquired this list, reportedly registration documents for Islamic State fighters from 2013. There were tens of thousands of names on the list from at least 51 countries, the British news organization reported, making it perhaps the most important Islamic State leak since the Sinjar records of al-Qaeda in Iraq — documents discovered by U.S. forces in Iraq that contained the details of more than 600 fighters from that group, a precursor to the Islamic State.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- March 10, 2016
U.S. Officials Doubt Value of ISIS Names -- Shane Harrs, Nancy A. Youssef, and Katie Zavadski, Daily Beast
Return Flight: Why A Young Iraqi Left Germany After Only 100 Days -- Takis Würger, Spiegel Online
How Daesh is helping cement Kurdish dreams of statehood -- Al Bawaba
Iran’s Missile Tests and the Nuclear Deal -- Rick Gladstone, NYT
Is Iran's Ahmadinejad ready for a comeback? -- Saeid Jafari, Al-Monitor
Women in Saudi Arabia: One step forward, one step back -- The Economist
The U.S. and Israel Drift Apart -- George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
North Korean nuclear test shook the earth but where's the proper proof? -- Shadia Nasralla, Reuters
India's take it or leave it choice in Afghanistan -- Rupakjyoti Borah, Al Jazeera
NATO Must Reopen the Nuclear Dossier -- Karl-Heinz Kamp, Defense News
Spain Deserves a Government -- Bloomberg editorial
'We know our reality': Why Poland is cool on the EU refugee crisis -- Sara Miller Llana & Monika Rębała, CSM
Merkel’s migration deal with Turkey is bonkers -- Iain Martin, CapX
Brazil's Ex-President Lula And His Workers' Party Now A House Of Cards -- Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes
The End of Globalization? -- Daniel Gros, Project Syndicate
5 comments:
Supposedly it was sourced back to the head honcho of internal security " that the documents were contained on a memory stick that was stolen from the head of the Islamic State's internal security police.", but then many claim shoddy bureaucratic workmanship. So the Head Cheese of Internal Security has a bunch of hacks who have produced a shoddy list that he keeps in his possession, presumably as a key working document, maybe, or it's a fake. If it's a fake why does it exist?
As in getting the US to attack your Afghan brother-in-law over the crappy gift he gave you for marrying his sister.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/06/real-afghan-war-how-american-fantasy-conflict-created-disaster-afghanistan
Thanks Jay. Very interesting.
The NAZIs had good bookkeeping
The Croats burned theirs.
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