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Maybe it's because of the pick and choose nature of where the west seem to intervene. Why don't they appear to help during atrocities in Africa and other areas of the world? France is fighting an insurgency in Africa as we speak and Obama has recently written a cheque for a further $10 million in support.

I can't see Obama getting involved either. His whole strategy thus far has been shambolic.

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I've read suggestions that Sotloff's murder took place right after Foley's, but was released weeks apart. If that is the case, then its possible to captured Briton is already dead.

I admit I have had similar thoughts, but it must be largely impossible for you to really understand their thinking at the time. Worst comes to worse, you get zipped by an AK, which, if given the choice, is something I'd choose over losing my head.

Lapal, IS have been in al-Anbar in various guises for the best part of 10 years. They were largely invited into towns by Sunni tribal leaders earlier in the year as they were seen as a lesser evil than the Maliki government. Iran doesn't have the resources to tackle them. They've been chucking their strange alliance of Kurdish forces and Shia militiamen at Tikirt for the best part of a month to no real effect. Living in a cave with your AK and the shirt on your back was part of al-Aqada's political and religious philosophy. IS are much more modern [which seems like a complete misnomer] and region centric, concerned with soft government and establishing themselves rather than taking the fight elsewhere. The head-chopping is entirely propaganda based. They cannot seriously want a few MEU's rolling up their driveway. There will be some of these guys that lived through Phantom Fury and Phantom Pheonix. Results in terms of casaulties on their part repeated would see IS ability to manenouvre and fight like anything resembling a conventional force completely destoryed. Back to Rubber Dingy Rapids missions and car bominbgs for them. Not that I expect Obama to do what is necessary to extinguish IS as a threat. He's the very definition of a rabbit in the headlights and has been the entire way through the Arab Spring.

Pretty much. A tw*t with a shit beard.

He can wave his finger all he likes. There are only three, maybe four, possible endings for him; 1) Somebody drops something very heavy and very loud on him from a great height. 2) The IS command make him perform a suicide bombing (the foreign fighters are only good for guard duty and have little military value. Most of the front line IS fighters cannot shoot for toffee- the Europeans are even worse) 3) He meets some ninjas in the middle of the night. If he's very lucky, they'll have stuck five or six rounds into him. If not, then he best hope orange is his colour, as he won't be wearing much else for the rest of his days.

I had read elsewhere that the English executioner is IS chief head chopper. If it's the same guy, then that would confirm it. About time somebody dropped a Paveway on him.

Why would we do that when we can sign him for free in the summer? Exactly. Cheaper signing on fee? To be honest, I agree it would make more sense to wait until the summer; you can bung him a few million to cover his wage expectations without breaking the structure in place, as we have saved £7.5million.

Yeah but there is a girl with a cock in her eye. IN HER EYE!

The one who's in Downton Abbey I think Still none the wiser. I didn't know who any of them were apart from the ones of Jennifer Lawrence, but then she had already sent me them anyway.

Its where the ball ended up after Carew took that penalty at St Jame's Park.

Its weird to think that you can never turn the internet off [i assume that's correct?].

Who was the girl with a cock in her eye?

That video is a part of their religious/political message; you're with us or we will kill you. It echoes 19th century Wahabbist teachings. Their recruitment is decent because, depending on reports, they pay anywhere between $300 and $600 dollars a month to their soldiers. If you used to have a big moustache, with some Ray Bans and a beret under Saddam, until Bremer cut your wage and your pension in 2003 by dissolving the Iraqi Army, then that's a very attractive job for you. Remove IS ability to self-fund and you'll also undermine their ability to wage war. Keeping them static for a time will also help erode their kit supply, while being degraded from the air. It's still going to take boots on the ground to remove them though.

His agent has already said Vlaar isn't going anywhere.

If Everton can only do a loan, then I cannot see Man United agreeing considering they can earn significantly more on a fee from us.

Pat Murphy has said that Cleverley has met Lambert and is keen on the move, but that we're not willing to make him our highest earner. Up to Cleverley then whether he wants to move now or sit in the stands for 12 months.

A terrorist organisation is often a matter of perspective. The PKK are a good example of how sometimes things are not so black and white, particularly now as they're proving very effective in stopping the IS advance northwards. Barbarism, however, is a good adjective to describe IS actions. Anybody who has seen the video I posted the other day or has seen some of the other footage since will come to the same conclusion. Its they're brand of post-Wahhabist Takfiri in action; an ideology of comply or die. What they're doing in that video and to their opponents in general (which includes Sunnis) has more in common with what the Mongol's did to the region in the 13th century. The second element of rendelc post is also something I agree with; they need to be destroyed. They only way they can be destroyed, and it's what everybody knows but people are refusing to acknowledge, is via ground forces. You cannot destroy IS ability to wage war from the air. They're a divisional size force, very flexible and able to manoeuvre with surprising effectiveness at battalion level thanks to the kit they have lifted off the Iraqi Army and the Saddam staff officers that have filled their ranks. Obama wants a local solution, and it part he is correct. Nobody has an appetite to fight a ten year plus insurgency again, but then this isn't an insurgency, it's more than that. We would need to stop their ability to function as a cohesive, if irregular, military body, to stop their self-funding via exporting oil through Turkey ($800 million across July and early August) then we might have reduced them to insurgency level.

Spread fear by slaughtering their enemies. There are scores of post-battle executions further into the video. What they're doing to Syrian troops in al Raqqa dwarfs this video though in it's semi-industrial slaughter.

The Nursa Front taking the crossing to the Golan Heights is an interesting one. Those AQ types will be chomping at the bit to try and mix it up with the Jewish crusaders. One of the reasons the US gives Israel so much scope, even in the face of some of what has happened recently in Gaza with civilian casualties; amidst the quagmire that is the Middle East, the IDF is still pretty useful. Particulaly when you have friends like Saudi Arabia.

I have serious doubts that he'd choose Hull over us. There is a good chance hey won't be in the league next season, they're a significantly smaller club and I see no evidence that their wage bill is any bigger than ours. We have clearly been given an indication of what Cleverley wants wage wise and we are ok with that hence we lodged a bid.

That article seems to be the sort of column filler you can put out in the vaccum between all the hullabaloo about a fee being agreed and anything concrete coming to fruition. It's been two days so saying "could/maybe" happen gets people talking, even if they know nowt.

I don't see the relevance in the point in attempting to conflate what IS is doing as being in anyway equivolent to actions by the US. Comparisons with Saudi Arabia are of course relevant; they're one of IS fathers and have a share of the fundamental Wahhabist view of "our way, or your head", only taken further than Wahhabism as SA know it because IS denies the core pillar of being subservient to the house of Saud, again this is IS stated political position. There is no current equivalence for what they're doing. The media, far from being part of some machine intent on eroding your civil liberties is vastly underreporting what they're doing. They have death camps in al Raqqa where captured Syrian Army are being murdered by the truck load on a regular basis. I mean that quite literally. It comes down to an Iraqi Kurd being decapitated in front of a Mosque not being as newsworthy as poor James Foley. IS have been strengthened by the men who kept Saddam ticking over. We didn't kill them when we opened the Box on this post 2003 or when they fought under the flag of AQII post 2004, and now they're busy setting up infrastructure for soft government and doing their best to annihlate their apostate enemies and those Sunnis that won't comply. *Warning: Highly Graphic Content* https://ia801509.us.archive.org/18/items/al_saleel_4/SaleelSawarim.mp4 That's a taste for what they're doing. That's not media hyperbole and it's nearly two months old. Since then, more civilians have been killed in Iraq in August than were destroyed by the IDFs concept of total war.