Syrians who join IS are rewarded with salaried jobs which for young men translates into the ability to marry and for young women the money allows them to save their families from literal starvation. Foreign fighters are receiving additional rewards: wives, sexual slaves, and sometimes homes and cars. Daily life was punctuated by brutal practices – including floggings, torture and beheadings. Defections were the result of exposure to extreme brutality, disgust over the slave trade, observations of deep hypocrisy–a total mismatch between the words and deeds of IS. Charges of corruption and complaints about battlefield decisions that produced unnecessary deaths in their own ranks were also causes of disillusionment . Our informants all had come to hate IS and warn others not to join what they gradually came to see as a totally disappointing, ruthless and un-Islamic organization.
Mongoose: Germans Warn Saudi Arabia Destabilizing Middle East
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Officers CallGerman spy agency warns of Saudi intervention destabilizing Arab world
Germany's foreign intelligence agency BND has released a disparaging report on Saudi Arabia. Their assessment says the country is destabilizing the Middle East with proxy wars in Yemen and elsewhere in the region.
CounterPunch: USA Slavery & Terrorism
01 Poverty, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 06 Genocide, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 TerrorismMongoose: ISIS Leader “We Are Funded By The Obama Administration”
02 China, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 06 Russia, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers CallISIS Leader: We Are Funded By The Obama Administration
Yousaf al Salafi, a man believed to be the Pakistani commander of Islamic State (ISIS), claims that confessed that he has been receiving money through the United States. Al-Salafi made his claims during an interrogation by the Pakistani government. Salafi confessed that he “received money to recruit young people to fight in Syria and that the United States paid him $600 a head for anyone that joined.” Michael Flynn, former director of Obama’s Defense Intelligence Agency, said in the months following al Salafi’s admission that he warned the Obama administration three years ago that the groups they were funding in Syria were actually Islamic jihadists.
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Robert Young Pelton: Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) and the Syrian Refugee Crisis
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Immigration, IO Deeds of PeaceI am working on MOAS.EU 59 million people are considered displaced. Lot of people.
Our new ship arrives in the Aegean on the 18th
Europe may turn its back on refugees this winter. But our rescuers won’t
Graphic: ISIS Arms Routes
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational CrimeSteve Aftergood: CRS on The Islamic State
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers Call, Peace IntelligenceCRS on Islamic State and US Policy
Phi Beta Iota: The CRS report is superb on the facts in relation to the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) if one assumes they are an autonomous entity. It falls severely short in failing to inform Congress on the culpability of elements of the US Government (CIA, State, Pentagon), Saudi Arabia, and Turkey as well as Israel, Qatar, and Iraq, in creating ISIS, nurturing ISIS, and protecting ISIS.
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