ISIS: Mapping A Militant Expansion

Tyler Durden's picture

To let the media tell it, ISIS has launched a successful “offensive” of late, taking control of Palmyra, a Syrian city that’s home to ‘treasures of antiquity’, as well as Ramadi, which gives the group control of  “strategic highway linking Iraq and Syria.”

ISIS has also claimed responsibility for a mosque bombing that claimed the lives of 21 Saudis on Friday. 

As the US moves closer to putting boots on the ground, The New York Times is out with a series of graphics which document the group’s spread. 

Note that the last graphic — which depicts a giant globe with highlights on “countries with groups that have pledged allegiance to ISIS” — makes it look like ISIS has launched a Naziesque blitzkrieg on the way to invading multiple countries. This, of course, is completely absurd. There are a lot of groups who can claim membership in a lot of countries meaning that we could produce a lot of these maps if we wanted to, but it wouldn’t mean that any of said groups were on the verge of a Napoleonic global conquest.

But reality never got in the way of a good story.

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two hoots's picture

We must be careful not to become involved in an another protracted war with ISIS.  Our mililiary is developing bad habits/systemic problems which can affect our war, real war fighting abilities.   Our pilots have no fear of the skys as our enemy is planeless, no radar to defeat or fear.  Our armored units are not prepared to fight on the modern battlefields and our navy is mostly doing Coast Guard type missions with little concern for anti-ship protection (except from hyjackers).  We must not loose site of the abilities of nations such as China/Russia.   

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Achilles Heel (not verified) two hoots May 23, 2015 2:40 PM

Looks like the NSA expansion has been outpacing them thus far. But whatever you do, STAY AFRAID & KEEP FUCKING THAT CHICKEN peeps!

 

If you're not afraid, YOU'RE A TERRORIST!

knukles's picture

Not that it has anything to do with anyone's religious beliefs, but sure looks like the The New Caliphate to me.
Of course, I know.  Barium says it's not religious, it's not.

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AIIB (not verified) knukles May 23, 2015 3:03 PM

Come on knuck, you're better than that...

 

The RELIGION=POWER control dynamic died out with money printing, (& prolly long before)...

 

The Crusades & Inquisitions are DEAD...

 

The only thing even mildly related to religion anymore is the fact that there are still many billions of people in this planet whose perspectives do not extend beyond what their church, or mosque, or synagogue, or temple tell them about the nature of man...

 

It is EXACTLY UPON THIS DYNAMIC, whereby the money counterfeitters prey (& wherein, are found, the 'oppressions' of the world)...

 

NOBODY'S GOD is going to save them... They'll have to seek salvation from within...

shovelhead's picture

Unless they get it from me.

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DaveA's picture

What church, mosque, synagogue, and temple teach about the nature of man is a lot closer to the truth than the progressive Kumbayah nonsense Obama was taught at Harvard!

GMadScientist's picture

It's not so much what they teach about the nature of man, but the way they leverage it for mind control that really bothers people with an intellect to call their own.

It's a lovely salve for people who most closely identify with livestock as a metaphor for their relationship with the divine.

PhoQ's picture

Don't lose sight of the loose site.

Oops, there it goes again. After it men and catch it in your browsers before it gets loose again.

GAILLARD1's picture

US uses what it takes to divide... Machiavel still lives on

Duc888's picture

 

 

 

1. Who funded and created them?

2. Who continues to fund them?

3. Who (and where) does the material assistance and EVAC for casualties come from?

disabledvet's picture

They're using our own technology against us.

 

That's a pretty cheap way to "get the job done" actually.

 

We've spent 100 billion on Afghanistan alone.

 

And what do we have as a consequence? Looks like War with Russia to me...

falak pema's picture

you don't seem to have a memory... Nam was that as were all those other Oil wars in Iran etc.

Your haloed government is the raging elephant in the china shop. Since Korean war days...everything they did when they said "we lost China" is a BIG LIE... and DAT has consequence the size of an age old Nemesis. 

Some lies are bigger than "a day in Infamy" as it countermands the act which got soldier Ryan into the great war making HIS NATION the new Rome.

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tony wilson and saturn zion devils (not verified) Duc888 May 23, 2015 3:53 PM

1. Who funded and created them?

der arabs livin in afghanistan caves north south east west of bagdad

2. Who continues to fund them? musselims livin in caves in syria and libya

3. Who (and where) does the material assistance and EVAC for casualties come from?

day make dem guns in der caves caualsualtea none day so crazy day die wid der boots and sneakers on ware day drops.

eye do not works for der mossad hasbro or saymynames jewisher folks i just believe colon powel and donald rums felt

GMadScientist's picture

gin rummy? samizdat you, bubbe? bienvenue ala caliphate obamique.

besnook's picture

we have no more freedoms to take so isis doesn't have any reason to hate us anymore.

 

this probably means they are ready to kill us now.

 

 

Jacksons Ghost's picture

With infinite fiat backing them who knows what they can achieve? In Theory, Bomb Langley and end their funding and they will dry up and blow away.

rocymf's picture

You could end their funding tomorrow and they'd still be here. They fund themselves through the drug trade and front companies. What the governement gives them is just gray.

surf0766's picture

Beck stated this over 5  years ago. They called him crazy.   He was correct once again.

knukles's picture

Of course he's crazy.  he's one of them nutjob Conspiracy Theorists.
Honey, plug my tin foil hat in, will you?  Lots of electrical noise in the air.

Trucker Glock's picture

"Beck stated this over 5  years ago."

Stated what?

philosophers bone's picture

"I'm a Loser baby, so why don't you kill me?"

Sudden Debt's picture

Send the Autobots to clean that shit up!

Ignatius's picture

I just clicked to see if ISIS was in my home town as yet.

GreatUncle's picture

Your click has been recorded as ooking for friends.

FEMA camp for you.

cheech_wizard's picture

I only want to know two things... are they paying wages in gold and silver coins yet? And why have they not attacked Israel?

 

new game's picture

shooting into a mirror, na not that craxy yet?!

Sinnedi's picture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzROPGiwu_w

they are on the border.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9h2Gbby9Xg 

PROPHECY ALERT: Turkish President Erdogan "Invade Jerusalem"

 

here is the end goal.  "The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time." 4

Macon Richardson's picture

They're paying in dollars which should answer both of your questions.

GreatUncle's picture

You cannot win this unless you are prepared to put troops on thre ground.

Jack Burton's picture

Almost every place ISIS is on the rise has either been invaded and conquered by the USA and NATO: Iraq, Afghanistan

Or attacked and under proxy war by the USA : Syria, Lebanon

Or been governemnt changed by air attacks: Libya, Yemen

Or a firm US allie: Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan

So then, ISIS seems to run with it's US pals? What if this is not a joke, but really true. The above evidence proves a strong link between US intervention and then massive ISIS growth.

Lastly, who support ISIS the most? Saudi Arabia and Israel, the USA's golden boy nations.

GMadScientist's picture

Is the "nobody go outside thar be crazy mooslims" shtick not a perfect cover for whatever we'd like to set up in said regime-changed locales? If I had to move things without people sans satellites catching on, I'd wait for a disaster/snowstorm/martial-law to do so. Certainly looks like the back pages of those PNAC binders to me, yup.

I'm not sure I'd agree on the 'solidity' of any of those countries beyond Jordan, and that only as long as it proves useful to them.

Perseus son of Zeus's picture

The reason israel is on the map is because that's GHQ.

CPL's picture

ISIS

Israeli Security Intelligence Services = aka Mossad

Funded by who?  First world taxes of course and all that foreign aid for bagels and locks.  Says so right here in the playbook: Conflict and Insurgency in the Contemporary Middle East edited by Barry Rubin.  If you want to read a head to the part where Israel launches and starts WW3 for the greater good of Zion (like they get a swing at year zero for the bullshit they cause).  Also the part in their where they knife all the people that got them there in the back.  Pardon, removing the useful idiots so there is more space for them.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=XS2bOiNcl_IC&pg=PA115&dq=Israeli+Securi...

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Counterpunch (not verified) CPL May 23, 2015 5:47 PM

there's no real question that Saudi and Israel are supporting ISIS significantly. Murkier is the extent of CIA/.mil complicity. Seems like they are "accidentally" air dropping a lot - need cover?

Nor is it out of character. Lavon Affair, USS Liberty...

http://how911wasdone.com/
https://archive.org/details/MastersOfDeception
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/9-11/Israel_did_it

Israel’s Hidden Faces : A Long Day’s Night for Us All:
http://www.wikispooks.org/blog/archives/277

The Oded Yinon Plan --> PNAC --> planned war on Iran

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/02/brief-history-netanyahu-cr...

all based on lies.

There is an army of wraiths heading toward Israel....

Totentänzerlied's picture

Brzezinksi and his gang spelled it out I don't how many years ago. Germany and the UK are the anchors in Europe. Japan and Korea are the anchors in the Pacific. Eurasia was the problem. Israel, Saudi Arabia, and until the revolution, Iran, were the Middle East anchors. It would never be permissible for any competing foreign power to dominate or even integrate Eurasia. 

Thus the dictatorships, the revolutions, the Dominos, the Mujahideen, the lavishing of weapons and materiel and training on regional allies, US penetration into central asia's former SSRs, the endless exploitation of Shia-Sunni tensions, etc. etc. etc.

Of course this is only one aspect of the situation. There are many, many others, not least of which that most of these areas are among the poorest, least modernized, and least US-friendly in the world, thoroughly fake nation-states established by imperial decree, and have probably crossed the event-horizon from developing to "undeveloping" - they can't afford the energy (and resources) required to maintain a modern nation-state, and are economically strategically irrelevant enough to be thrown under the bus. Think Ukraine.

Billy Bob101's picture

What makes ISIS so good that a few of them with a video camera can make such fools of the US?  They are so good they could sneak a whole brigade with all their equipment, wearing black sheets, through airport security on a plane to the US without being detected.  (They'd have to check their Toyota pick up trucks.)  There's no stopping them!!  They could be anywhere!!  It's terrifying!

NoWayJose's picture

At least when ISIS takes over a town or region, there is NO uncertainty as to who is in charge!

Kaervek's picture

I guess by taking over you mean raping, pillaging and mass murdering anyone they damn well please? Wouldn't really matter if there was uncertainty to who just raped your family, because everyone is dead anyway.

The dark side of humanity, now live on twitter and your social media of choice. Share, like, spread the fear.

But who is in charge? Allah? I don't think so.

Those who really believe they are doing god's work are the true pawns. What a fucking joke humanity has become, imbeciles with weapons decapitating each other in the desert. And some bombs on top for good measure, fuk yea. If there really is a god, his sense of humor is rather dark and somewhat disturbing.

falak pema's picture

The greatest betrayal of Western Values : the great Wahhabist/US alliance now gone viral and uncontrollable in the lands where Pax Americana spawned its bastardised sons of Frankenstein strain. 

http://www.aljazeera.cm/indepth/opinion/2011/04/201142612714539672.html

What you sow neo-con America you now reap ...when the Sunni sons of rabid Jihadist Wahhabism outshine their oil monarchist fathers and in the same breath expose the "our petrodollar money your problem" world- wide USD cum militarism gone mad scam now suffering from QE infinity Great Gatsby type overhang.

Dear Henry must be squirming in his geriatric underwear..."What have zey done to my doomsday machine"....it was built on "detente and asymmetric wars" and NOT confontration with China the new giant that my "ping pong" strategy seduced into OUR camp ! 

Y Y Y do zey do this to my Trilateral construct... Vee haff no friends and all enemies...

Mein gott ! Vat haff we done !!

Rusputin's picture

I thought the US military-industrial-complex... Sorry... ISIS/ISIL/IS... Wanted southern Europe for the 'Caliphate'? I saw Spain and stuff as part of future 'The IS Kingdom'! What happened?

Now they only want North Africa! The soft easy to conquer with bombing F-16s, sorry I mean beheading 'terrorists' and stuff.

Is that because someone in S.Europe has figured it out whaat to do, with some guys with guns on the streets and a bit of wiretapping?

GMadScientist's picture

Take a trip to Paris and see how much Arabic you hear.

Dekyus's picture

and Israel the command center

falak pema's picture

If Israel is the command center and not the new "Templar state" --created in 1948 to protect the great Oil patch, that Balfour cum Sykes Picot divide  and subsequent UN resolution put in place, -- the BW spawned US Pax Americana oligarchy pyramid running the world stands on its head! 

Too easy to think that the Scarsdale and Long Island WS investment bank lobby of the imported "tribe"-- via Ellis Island days  of the Tramp-- runs the scions of Yale and all those other centers of power. 

I don't buy that and I'm not a tribesman; far from it.  POwer is now divided between the Ivy league oligarchy and the scions of immigration; from all new strains : italo-jewish-Irish-hispanic-asiatic. The melting pot of America was supposed to be its sign of Enlightenment type emancipation of Man, like that torch bearing Lady; not its contrary! 

Today America regresses in a spiral that is contray to all western values. We head to neo-feudalism. When "l'Occident simple resembles l'Orient compliqué !"

MOAR n MOAR ! We look more and more like the Ottoman Empire in its decline.

Salzburg1756's picture

You can add Minnesota.