Comprehensive account on the causes and current state of ISIS
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Fuckin comedy gold here. A few daft isis fuckers going up against the Peshmerga.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM3ElTvF52I
Abu Hajaar is a complete liability.
“Be careful Abu Abdullah, Hold it up” says he to the man with the rocket
They have finally come round to Putins thinking.
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Assuming this is real, those are a hapless shower. Poor aul Abu Hajaar is like a stooge in Dad’s army.
Paints IS in a fairly thick light. You’d want to be a pretty thick fuck to blow yourself up in the name of God I suppose.
Turkey have gone into Northern Syria
Obama and his nobel peace prize then 
You couldn’t make it up.
The US has basically agreed to be Saudis lapdog in return for continuation of the petrodollar
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There are going to be three powers in the ME, Israel obviously, Saudi, and Iran with Russian backing. The Saudis are serious about diversifying out of oil, it’s just that it’s almost all military. A right tinderbox.
Well they gave one to Kissinger. The difference being that everyone knows Kissinger is/was a bloodthirsty cunt. Obama, like many hawkish democrats is unlikely to be outed as such. The Democrats have no incentive to do so, and the Republicans dare not suggest a liberal president was too tough.
Dronebama
Some of the stuff Greenwald and Scahill have revealed is terrifying, especially the extent to which the NSA is now using metadata to come up with targets. Creating models of phone and pc usage and using fit with that, and that alone, to approve missile strikes.
"The source underscored the unreliability of metadata, most often from phone and computer communications intercepts. These sources of information, identified by so-called selectors such as a phone number or email address, are the primary tools used by the military to find, fix, and finish its targets. “It requires an enormous amount of faith in the technology that you’re using,” the source said. “There’s countless instances where I’ve come across intelligence that was faulty.” This, he said, is a primary factor in the killing of civilians.
… between January 2012 and February 2013, U.S. special operations airstrikes killed more than 200 people. Of those, only 35 were the intended targets. During one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets. In Yemen and Somalia, where the U.S. has far more limited intelligence capabilities to confirm the people killed are the intended targets, the equivalent ratios may well be much worse."
The battle for Mosul begins today. Could be a long one. ISIS last foothold in Iraq
It’s been very high profile. They must be confident. Would be a major propaganda victory for ISIS if the offensive failed.
How many battles has there been for Mosul at this stage?
It’s really going to catch ISIS on the hop. The element of surprise will be key.
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I had to laugh today the general chap was on saying they were going to attack them from 5 directions. You’d think he’d keep that info to himself 
They were so badly embarrassed the last time though that they are crowing like fuck about it. They outnumber the ISIS lads something like 10/1 and they’ve the US dropping bombs for them so it’s a bit of a no contest. If they lose this they may as well pack it in.