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    Post by Franky Sat 06 May 2017, 10:32 pm

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    Post by notazbad2000 Sat 06 May 2017, 11:08 pm

    That was an amazing piece!


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    Post by ahill Sun 07 May 2017, 1:37 pm

    Thanks Franky,

    Oh my, what those poor people have to go through. 
    Hopefully it won't be long before they have their country back 
    and they can get on with living a peaceful life.
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    Post by Lobo Sun 07 May 2017, 2:59 pm

    WOW, what a raw realization of battle that is not on the big screen and filmed in a studio.  Thank you Franky.  We all need to keep praying for the peace and the protection of the civilians and the brave soldiers.
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    Post by duck2000 Sun 07 May 2017, 5:16 pm

    yes i feel so sorry for those poor people ... puke.. choke.. give me a break.. these are the people who ALLOWED this too happen! so cry me a river..there are NO  civilians here!
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    Post by duck2000 Sun 07 May 2017, 5:40 pm

    The conflict between Iraqi Sunnis and Shias sustains ISIS

    One of the single most important factors in ISIS's resurgence is the conflict between Iraq's largest two Arab religious groups: Shias and Sunnis. ISIS fighters themselves are Sunnis, and the tension between the two groups is a powerful recruiting tool for ISIS.
    In the most basic theological terms, the Sunni-Shia split in Islam [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]with a controversy over who would take power after the Prophet Mohammed's death. Today, of course, Iraq's sectarian problems aren't about relitigating seventh-century disputes; they're about modern political power and grievances. But those do tend to fall along Sunni-Shia lines.
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    A majority of Iraqi Arabs are Shias, but Sunnis ran the show when Saddam Hussein, himself Sunni, ruled Iraq. Saddam spread a false belief, still surprisingly persistent in the country today, that Sunnis were the real majority in Iraq. Thus, Sunnis felt, and still feel, entitled to larger shares of political power than might perhaps be warranted by their size.
    Meanwhile, the Iraqi civil war sparked after the 2003 US-led invasion had a brutally sectarian cast to it, and the pseudo-democracy that emerged afterward empowered the Shia majority (with some [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] from Washington) at the expense of the Sunni minority. Today the two groups don't trust one another and so far have competed in what they see as a zero-sum game for control over Iraqi political institutions. In 2013, Shias used control over the police force to arbitrarily detain Sunni protestors demanding more representation in government.
    So long as Shias control the government, and Sunnis don't feel that they're fairly represented, ISIS has an audience for its radical Sunni message. That's an important part of how the group built up support in Iraq's heavily Sunni northwest.
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    Post by duck2000 Sun 07 May 2017, 5:41 pm

    ISIS used to be al-Qaeda in Iraq

    The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, better known as ISIS, has claimed responsibility for the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris. To really understand the group, the first thing you need to know about it is that it used to have a different name: al-Qaeda in Iraq.
    US troops and allied Sunni militias defeated al-Qaeda in Iraq during the 2007 "surge" — but didn't destroy it. The US commander in Iraq, General Ray Odierno, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] the group in 2010 as down but "fundamentally the same." In 2011, the group began rebuilding, and in 2012 and 2013 it freed a number of prisoners held by the Iraqi government, who then joined its ranks.
    Meanwhile, the group saw an opportunity in Syria, where peaceful protests descended into violence in mid-2011 and 2012. It began [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] in Syria in mid-2011 in order to participate in the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime, a move that helped it gain fighters and valuable battlefield experience.
    In 2013, the group once known as al-Qaeda in Iraq — now based in both Syria and Iraq — rebranded as ISIS.
    Tension grew between ISIS and al-Qaeda, and they formally divorced in February 2014. "Over the years, there have been many signs that the relationship between al Qaeda Central (AQC) and the group's strongest, most unruly franchise was strained," Barak Mendelsohn, a political scientist at Haverford College, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]. Their relationship "had always been more a matter of mutual interests than of shared ideology."
    According to Mendelsohn, disagreements over Syria pushed that relationship to the breaking point. ISIS claimed that it controlled Jabhat al-Nusra, the official al-Qaeda faction in Syria, and it defied orders from al-Qaeda's leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, to back off. "This was the first time a leader of an al-Qaeda franchise had publicly disobeyed," he says. ISIS also defied repeated orders to kill fewer civilians in Syria, and the tensions led to al-Qaeda [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] any connection with ISIS in a February communiqué.
    Today, ISIS and al-Qaeda compete for influence over Islamist extremist groups around the world. Some experts believe ISIS may overtake al-Qaeda as the most influential group in this area globally.
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    Post by sassy Sun 07 May 2017, 5:47 pm

    WOW, very interesting, thanks  thumbs thumbs
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    Post by duck2000 Sun 07 May 2017, 5:47 pm

    Is al Qaeda Sunni or Shiite?

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    [size=85]Well, do you know the answer? If you don’t, it probably isn’t all that consequential…unless you are involved in the intelligence business.[/size]
    Jeff Stein, a reporter for the Congressional Quarterly, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] to Silvestre Reyes, the five term Democrat from Texas, the new incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who now sits on the House Intelligence Committee.
    Reyes stumbled when I asked him a simple question about al Qaeda at the end of a 40-minute interview in his office last week. Members of the Intelligence Committee, mind you, are paid $165,200 a year to know more than basic facts about our foes in the Middle East.
    We warmed up with a long discussion about intelligence issues and Iraq. And then we veered into terrorism’s major players.
    To me, it’s like asking about Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland: Who’s on what side?
    The dialogue went like this:
    Al Qaeda is what, I asked, Sunni or Shia?
    “Al Qaeda, they have both,” Reyes said. “You’re talking about predominately?”
    “Sure,” I said, not knowing what else to say.
    “Predominantly — probably Shiite,” he ventured.
    He couldn’t have been more wrong.
    Al Qaeda is profoundly Sunni. If a Shiite showed up at an al Qaeda club house, they’d slice off his head and use it for a soccer ball.
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