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From Iraqi Jails To Paris Carnage - The Complete ISIS Timeline

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As it seems The West is losing its 'war on terror', with jihadi recruitment accelerating dramatically in the last few years, we thought the following timeline of how ISIS got here may be a useful reminder for when Washington once again reinserts itself 'on the ground' in the Middle-East...

As BloombergBriefs notes, groups such as al-Qaeda and Islamic State call their violent campaigns jihad — holy war waged on behalf of Islam. Mainstream Muslims argue that jihad is mostly a spiritual obligation involving internal struggle. In this view, violent jihad is permissible only in extreme cases when sanctioned by legitimate authorities. Nevertheless, the militant jihadists are winning recruits.

The number of groups engaged in violent jihad with the goal of creating their idea of purified Islamic societies grew to 49 in 2013 from three in 1988, a Rand Corp. study says. Their stated aim is to emulate Islam as practiced by the Prophet Muhammad’s early followers, known as the Salaf.

 

 

The biggest jump in recruitment started in 2010 and corresponds with the Arab uprisings, which weakened government control in parts of North Africa and the Mideast. That gave jihadist groups opportunities to expand that trumped the power of any theological position. 

But ISIS had been growing long before that...

 

Source: BloombergBriefs

 

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Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:03 | 6807548 ebworthen
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I see tactical nukes in the future.  Not advocating for it, just observing that this is a bloody mess that will be dealt with in the bloodiest, ugliest way. The World seems to be careening that way, unfortunately.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:07 | 6807560 AlaricBalth
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Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:08 | 6807564 Money Boo Boo
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what channel is the packer game on!  _'murikan mastermind of global destiny

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:40 | 6807656 OpTwoMistic
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Consider: US citizens want out of foreign entanglements so Paris is attacked.

Stop enlisting. You are cannon fodder

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:45 | 6807671 turtle
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As usual I couldn’t find my keys. They were not where I knew I had left them. When I quizzed my dear wife, she magically produced them from the kitchen key box. Before I had a chance to unload about her moving my stuff around, she hastened to inform me that “ISIS claimed responsibility”. I too now support the war in Syria.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 00:33 | 6807773 nevertheless
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The system is devised to have a ever ready supply of warm bodies. No jobs for American kids, so join the evil empire in killing brown people. And if we run out of American kids, import Mexcians and give them citizenship for their troubles. 

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 09:28 | 6808439 kralizec
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So, it's all George W Bush's fault?

If we give them Bush, will they lay down arms and be nice?

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 09:42 | 6808499 MasterControl
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Yeah didn't you know?  This guy Obama apparently is just doing the best he can and Bush fucked everything up so bad that it just can't be done.
Obama may need another 8 years of unfettered rule in order to really fix things...... 

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 09:43 | 6808505 kralizec
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Oh well, then...it would be racist to even think of resisting that!  I guess that's settled.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:15 | 6807584 Bloppy
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The West will be nuked first. Hard to believe they haven't already pulled it off.

 

 

 

Mother Jones warns fellow leftists: You’re out of touch on Syrian refugee issue

http://tinyurl.com/nwken45

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:24 | 6807605 Vlad the Inhaler
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Nukes work because the enemy wants to stop the death and destruction of the civilian population.  ISIS welcomes the death and destruction of the civilian population. 

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:07 | 6807559 Implied Violins
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And now, Dr. Death himself is saying we should 'team up' with Putin to 'eliminate ISIS:'

http://www.sott.net/article/306628-Kissinger-West-should-work-with-Russi...

Knowing that this bastard has visited Putin several times, what more evidence do people need that this whole fucking thing is a scam? False east::west dialectic so we buy into the BRICS once the dollar falls...

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:27 | 6807618 Tom Servo
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When will this ghoul finally fucking DIE already...

 

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 00:31 | 6807770 nevertheless
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Kissinger is all about Zionists, he could not care less about America. 

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 05:30 | 6808138 corsair
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That doesn't prove anything about Putin. All I see there is Kissinger doing damage control.

So, to answer your question, I need a lot more evidence that "this whole fucking thing is a scam".

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 09:39 | 6808481 venturen
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I think you need to focus on the moron in the white house and idiots he has selected like Aston carter and Samatha Powers...as these people are dangers to us all. It is clear that Hillary pays more attention to how much money she can make selling favors than any study of history to see how geopolitical strategy is executed. Not everything in the world is driven by the USA and Wall Street....there are people that would be happy to wipe out europe and the USA

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 09:43 | 6808503 MasterControl
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They can't.  Obama is black, he's off limits.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:11 | 6807569 WTFRLY
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Every alternative theory about Syria and ISIS, Serena Shim proved, on video. They killed her the same day as those airdrops to the Kurds where one was confirmed to fall into ISIS hands...

 White House, Media Silent One Year After Murder of US Reporter Who Exposed Western Links to ISIS October 20, 2015

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:13 | 6807576 WTFRLY
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Across the border from Kobani Oct 19 2014

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 08:46 | 6808352 redd_green
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Yep.  The whistle blowers are the first casualties.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:19 | 6807578 . . . _ _ _ . . .
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Look at this excuse for a reason to re-iterate a non-issue. They are getting desperate.

 

 

"OTTAWA — A man carrying a concealed knife on Parliament Hill has been arrested by the RCMP.

Cpl. Valerie Thibodeau, a media relations officer for the Mounties' national division, says Parliamentary Protective Services apprehended the man outside Centre Block, the main building on Parliament Hill that houses the Senate and the House of Commons.

She says the man is in custody as the RCMP continues to investigate and there is no further information to disclose at this time.

Security on the Hill has been tightened since Oct. 22, 2014, when a gun-toting murderer, Michael Zehaf Bibeau, managed to sprint across the lawn and through the main doors into Centre Block.

Zehaf Bibeau had just gunned down a soldier standing guard at the nearby National War Memorial.

He died himself in a hail of bullets just outside the door to the Library of Parliament."

 

They arrested a guy for having a 'concealed' knife (I'd be more concerned if the knife wasn't concealed) and wrote a story just to remind us how dangerous guys with beards are. The irony here is that most men in France carry their own knives and some restaurants don't set them as you are supposed to bring your own.

Prepare ship for ludicrous speed!

 

ps_ It wasn't a hail of bullets, it was one man with a pistol who shot him.

 

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 08:48 | 6808355 redd_green
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It wasn't a knife, it was a snickers bar. But it COULD have been a knife, or a gun, or a pocket nuclear device capable of destroying the entire western hemisphere.   So, of course, the police had to shoot him. 

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:20 | 6807594 Dre4dwolf
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Hmm so it seems that the amount of refugees being taken in directly correlates with an increase in crime and terrorism.

I wonder why? you think its global warming or the lunar cycles?

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:26 | 6807613 Vlad the Inhaler
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US homicides outnumber worldwide terrorist deaths by like 50 to 1.  If I were a refugee, I'd be scared as hell to come to America.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:31 | 6807632 logicalman
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In US you are much more likely to be killed by those serving and protecting the shit out of you than you are by a terrorist.

Keep away from those dudes.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 00:30 | 6807767 nevertheless
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lol, but also sad. 

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 09:40 | 6808489 venturen
Wed, 11/18/2015 - 09:45 | 6808509 MasterControl
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You are going to fuck up thier narrative with that shit.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:29 | 6807626 logicalman
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False flags are ALWAYS about blaming the wrong side, didn't you know that?

Do you have to take special classes to be able to type such ignorant crap?

 

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:24 | 6807606 jomama
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Here is another good timeline.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:36 | 6807649 . . . _ _ _ . . .
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You mean here. But thanks for that.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 01:15 | 6807856 jomama
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Nah, I meant to post what I posted. It's got some juicy bits about hired, white assassins in a Mercedes:

 

“Then people inside moved ­forward to see what was happening and he sprayed more bullets into them. I was trying to catch them on my camera phone but the gunman saw the light on my mobile and I ducked down behind the wall as they fired at my hotel. The gunman calmly reloaded his weapon several times. He then shot up at the windows in the street to make sure nobody was filming anything or taking photographs. It lasted over six minutes

“He fired lots of bullets. He was white, clean shaven and had dark hair neatly trimmed. He was dressed all in black accept for a red scarf."

 

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 06:02 | 6808156 smacker
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It's odd in that article the Mirror wrote: "Two heavily armed ISIS gunmen pulled up in a black Mercedes-Benz and calmly slaughtered scores of ­innocent diners in a Paris bistro ­before driving away." [note the Mirror's emphasis on "ISIS gunmen"]

But the actual eyewitness reported this:

"“At about 9.30pm a new looking black Mercedes pulled up outside with dark tinted windows at the back and the passenger and driver windows down. I could clearly see the passenger’s face as he was not ­wearing a hat or mask.

As soon as the car stopped he quietly opened the door and got out in front of the restaurant.

“That is when I saw he was ­holding a machine gun that was resting on his hip. I could not take in what I was witnessing."

 

Who were the two gunmen in the black Mercedes???

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:33 | 6807640 coast
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ummmm...the source of this story comes from bloomberg...I dont believe a word of it...why is it being an article on ZH?  I dont know everything, but I know not to trust bloomberg.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:43 | 6807661 Azwethinkweiz
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Jon Galt posted a good video from the Kelly Files: Former CIA/Al Qaeda Double Agent Predicts US Terror Attack within Next 2 Weeks!

http://johngaltfla.com/wordpress/2015/11/17/former-ciaal-qaeda-double-ag...

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:54 | 6807700 Demdere
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RIght.  Intelligence services do publish their later estimates of their accuracy, don't they?  Supported by audited statements of monies paid, signed receipts.  Like that $500B they just pissed away putting half a dozen "moderate fighters" into Syria to oppose Assad.  I have great trust in our authorites, surely none would siphon a proportion of those funds into their own pockets?

What does Siebel Edmonds say about that?

Recall that Bremmer never got the mechanisms that measured the oil going into the ships working?  Tech problems, I am certain.  Surely the recipients measured it carefully and paid for it all.  To the Iraqis, I mean.

Intelligence services are a positive danger to a society because they are sometimes right, it is just impossible to know when going forward, but gives them such great credence when they can cherrypick the past.

Weathermen have a track record, can tell your their statistical averages.  Intelligence agencies don't even tell you how their head-in-the-baskets rate compares to other agencies after unexpected changes of govs, do not appear to have omniscience in even such vital arenas.

Abolish them all for the health of the country.

https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/for-world-peace-arm-your-n...

https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/lebowski-enlightenment-8/

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 00:38 | 6807784 nevertheless
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Zionists own the system: http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/november/17/...

 

"our" government is not for Americans but for special interests...and their is no more "special interest" that Isreal & Zionists. 

 

 

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 01:50 | 6807915 Gregor Samsa
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Seems like there was a turning point in 2011.... wonder what happened in 2011....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_Libya

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 07:14 | 6808211 Urban Redneck
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There was actually a turning point in mid 2013.  Why am I not surprised that it was suspiciously left off of the narrative?  In fact the only thing mentioned for the entire year before ISIS started capturing enitre cities was a mundane "name/branding change"...

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 05:42 | 6808145 smacker
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Whatever the merits of jihadist terrorism, these patsies are aiming their anger at the wrong people. It is not innocent people in the West who have bombed and destroyed their countries, killed their families, imprisoned them and tortured them et al.

It is Western governments who went out of control years ago. These are the people who need to be held to account, not people living in Paris, London and elsewhere going about their private lives. When jihadists keep attacking innocent people it makes the whole show look very suspicious and organised by people in the shadows.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 06:25 | 6808176 stilletto
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The report doesnt go back far enough. The USA started encouraging militant Islamic Jihad far earlier. In 1980 the USA supplied and supported the Islamic Mujahidin in Afganistan to fight the Soviets. The USA then supplied and supported the Bosnian muslims in the mid 1990s and finally the muslim Kosovan separatists at the end of the 90s. It taught the muslims to organise and fight while ignoring their long greivance against Israel. The blow-back attacks of 9/11 followed a long period of the USA teaching the islamic terrorists and naively believing they could control and steer them. Now the genie is well and truely out of the bottle. Well done USA for creating this evil.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 11:18 | 6808852 libertysghost
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Seems a gap between his "arrest" in 04 and him taking over a "cell" in 06.  Hmmm?  No need to fill in any details there,  maybe something like, 

2005 After extensive "enhanced interrogation", Baghdadi began receiving payments from a "MIC Banks".  No further information on this person can be found.

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