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CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 11:14 AM Jun 2014

IRAQ/SYRIA is becoming like GAME OF THRONES...

Could ISIS now be twice as powerful? Membership of extreme group may double in size as it merges with al Qaeda's 15,000-strong Syrian offshoot on border with Iraq

The number of Islamist extremists fighting for ISIS could double after al-Qaeda's 15,000 strong offshoot in Syria is said to have pledged allegiance to the militant group.

The merger is believed to have taken place in Albu Kamel - on the border of Syria and Iraq, where all of the crossings are currently in the hands of Sunni militia, many of them members of ISIS.


Full article: Daily Mail UK

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IRAQ/SYRIA is becoming like GAME OF THRONES... (Original Post) CJCRANE Jun 2014 OP
It pretty much always has been. MineralMan Jun 2014 #1
It's accelerated CJCRANE Jun 2014 #2
It all goes up and down, endlessly. MineralMan Jun 2014 #3

MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
1. It pretty much always has been.
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 11:34 AM
Jun 2014

There's really nothing new about factional disputes in the Middle East.

MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
3. It all goes up and down, endlessly.
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 11:40 AM
Jun 2014

We need to stop meddling in Middle Eastern politics. Really we do. It can never lead to anything positive that lasts.

You'd think we'd learn that lesson, but it seems like we never do.

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