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« on: March 07, 2015, 06:39:56 PM »
This is not a good development...
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« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2015, 03:10:21 AM »
Quote from: Blue3 on March 07, 2015, 06:39:56 PM
This is not a good development...

It is logical.
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« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2015, 10:51:38 AM »
On the bright side, the international coalition is moving quickly against them.
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« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2015, 12:32:50 PM »
Quote from: swl on March 09, 2015, 10:51:38 AM
On the bright side, the international coalition is moving quickly against them.



Maybe too quickly. It might mean Johnathan will be re-elected.
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« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2015, 02:08:01 PM »

Yep, al-Qaeda is losing influence.
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« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2015, 11:37:00 PM »
Quote from: Blue3 on March 07, 2015, 06:39:56 PM
This is not a good development...

Symbolically, it's bad. I doubt it will have that much effect on the ground.
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« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2015, 12:31:06 PM »
I'm a tad surprised IS would even accept them, given the racial issues at play.
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« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2015, 12:54:17 PM »

al-Qaeda is sooo 2000s.
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« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2015, 02:42:17 PM »
Sounds like a recruitment ploy.
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« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2015, 04:20:37 PM »
Is is so much more respectable than Boko Haram. At least your average IS member knows how to read.

Boko Haram are just a bunch of inferior degenerates who should be liquidated to the last person.
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« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2015, 05:17:19 PM »
« Edited: March 10, 2015, 05:35:25 PM by Storebought »
I have the impression that Boko Haram is an insurgency parochial to Nigeria. Unlike al-Shabaab in Somalia, BH has no real affiliation with any movement or organization outside of the country. Granted, many of the recruits come from immediately bordering countries like Cameroon, but that tends to be the case in many African conflicts.

BH has survived this long because of tacit political support from northern politicians and info leaked from Nigerian security officers sympathetic to it. Reorganize the Nigerian Army and the state police forces and BH vanishes for good.

To comment directly on the article: I think it's just a stunt.
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« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2015, 06:13:03 PM »
Yeah basically everyone wants in on ISIS's notoriety. They are the cool kids with the social media and the international condemnation and foreign recruits with cool nicknames coming out of the wazoo; as I recall several Islamist groups in the Caucasus and SE Asia have played the Isis card to reclaim relevance.
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