Iraq militants seize Mosul

[Blubbartron]

And he'll look at them and go "Want to see deez drawings I did of all these people?" and drool out of a corner of his mouth.

And then he'll drink a beer and snort some coke.

[Correction]

Boots on the ground

The team that landed on Mount Sinjar on Wednesday conducted a reconnaissance mission, officials said. “Today a team of fewer than 20 US personnel conducted an assessment of the situation on Mount Sinjar. All personnel have returned safely to Irbil by military air,” a US defence official said, on condition of anonymity.

In Washington the Obama administration was forced to defend itself against accusations of mission creep after admitting that it was considering a direct role for US forces in creating a “humanitarian corridor” for the evacuation.

World Police, etc.

[Andalusian girls]

someone has to be

[Andalusian girls]

Maliki is GONE thank God fuck that dude he did more than anyone to drive disaffected Sunni tribes into ISIS's arms

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middle...927824856.html

[Kuya]

http://gawker.com/isis-beheads-ameri...ium=socialflow

Any other news site carrying this?

[Tarage]

It's trending on the bookfaces.

[Serra]

MSNBC and CNN reporting it too:
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/kidnapped...-executed-isis
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/19/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1

[shepardG]

Massive spaceships. Its the only real answer. Cant change people that dont want to change. At some point ya just gotta leave em to their own shitty ways and peace the fuck out.

[BaneTheBrawler]

yeah but this is the best planet we know of; should send those fuckers elsewhere. and then accidentally program their ship to take them into the sun.

[Tarage]

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just glass the entire area?

[shepardG]

Im not trying to become something like them, and only way to do that is to "duces! " and gtfo.

[BaneTheBrawler]

no. dat oil


also, a better way to do that and not be like them is to be an immortal cyborg and outlive their philosophy. GET ON IT SCIENCE

[Ezek]

Here we go again:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/wo...tion.html?_r=0

Video Claims to Show Beheading of U.S. Reporter Steven Sotloff by ISIS

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has beheaded Steven J. Sotloff, the second American executed by the Islamic militant group, and posted a video of it on the Internet, the SITE Intelligence Group, a research organization that tracks jihadist web postings, said Tuesday. Mr. Sotloff’s family issued a statement saying it believed he had been killed.

The execution of Mr. Sotloff, 31, came despite pleas from his mother aimed directly at ISIS’s top leader seeking mercy for her son, a freelance journalist who was captured in northern Syria a year ago.

Word of Mr. Sotloff’s beheading came two weeks after James Foley, 40, another American journalist, was beheaded by ISIS, which warned that Mr. Sotloff would be the next to die.

The videotaped beheadings and threats by ISIS have helped rocket the group’s ascendance into a top crisis for the Obama administration and its Western allies.

An image taken from a video released by the SITE Intelligence Group shows Steven Joel Sotloff, 31, before his execution at the hands of a fighter from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Josh Earnest, a White House spokesman, said he could not immediately confirm the authenticity of the video showing Mr. Sotloff’s killing. “It is something that will be analyzed very carefully by the U.S. government and our intelligence officials to determine its authenticity,” he told reporters in Washington.

Jen Psaki, the State Department spokeswoman, said that American intelligence agencies would “work as quickly as possible” to determine whether the video was authentic. She said the United States would be “sickened” by confirmation of Mr. Sotloff’s beheading.

In the video, Mr. Sotloff describes himself as “paying the price” for the Obama administration’s decision to strike ISIS targets in Iraq. The same masked fighter with British-accented English who appeared in the video of Mr. Foley’s beheading also appears beside Mr. Sotloff, asserting, “I’m back, Obama, and I’m back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State.”

The SITE group also said ISIS was threatening a third captive, a Briton it identified as David Cawthorne Haines, as the next beheading victim.

Mr. Sotloff was a Florida native who wrote for Time magazine and other publications, and who had reported on the convulsions of the Middle East for the past few years. His capture by ISIS was largely kept a secret for months at the request of his family until he was seen in the execution video of Mr. Foley two weeks ago.

It was unclear from the video of Mr. Sotloff where and when it was recorded. Some Western intelligence officials have said that they believe Mr. Sotloff was executed the same day as Mr. Foley, and that the propagandists at ISIS decided to space out the publicity of each one.

But the video reported by SITE on Tuesday showed Mr. Sotloff with a small beard and some hair on his head — in contrast to the Aug. 19 video showing Mr. Foley’s death, in which Mr. Sotloff was nearly bald and relatively clean shaven. This indicated that the video was probably made at different times.

Last Thursday Mr. Sotloff’s mother, Shirley, released an emotional video appeal to his captors, asking the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the Muslim world, to grant amnesty to her son.

“I ask you to use your authority to spare his life,” Ms. Sotloff implored.

[kuronosan]

Just fucking kill them all already.

Seriously. You leave that region alone at this point and they're just going to mow over innocent people.

This is ridiculous, barbaric, and stupid.

[Kuya]

I wonder if they honestly think this would deter the USG.

[kuronosan]

They're banking on the citizens turning, I'm sure.

[Outlaw]

It's worse than people even know. There are reports that they abducting boys and putting them in terror training camps to brainwash them with their brand of Islam. They are also making them watch beheadings and in some cases do the beheading themselves.

I won't even mention what they are doing to women and girls, it's just too sick.

[Outlaw]

60 Minutes did a good segment on ISIS this Sunday. Some parts are graphic just to warn you.

[quannum]

looks bad, we should leave

[Andalusian girls]

or we can just go to war in Syria