ISIS Coming To A City Near You

Iman Schumpert joined The Cavaliers

 

Does anyone wonder where the omniscient NSA has been during this struggle?
ISIS appears able to use the web brilliantly- with total impunity.
Social media has been its most formidable weapon.
Why can't the NSA locate a GB-sized mpeg?

 

3 would be ISIS jihadists were arrested in Brooklyn yesterday:
ISIS grows in Brooklyn | New York Post

I find the timing a tad suspicious with the Homeland budget debate going on in
Washington.

 

Nothing to see here. All cooked up by the FBI:

The FBI Wednesday announced the arrest of three men it alleges planned to help the Islamic State, news that at first appeared to confirm fears that radical extremism is spreading to the United States.

“The flow of foreign fighters to Syria represents an evolving threat to our country and to our allies,” U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said in a press release announcing the arrests. “We will vigorously prosecute those who attempt to travel to Syria to wage violent jihad on behalf of ISIL and those who support them.”

Left unmentioned in the FBI statement, however, is the integral role a paid informant appears to have played in generating the charges against the men, and helping turn a fantastical “plot” into something even remotely tangible. It appears that none of the three men was in any condition to travel or support the Islamic State, without help from the FBI informant.

Confidential Informant Played Key Role in FBI Foiling Its Own Terror Plot - The Intercept


Glenn Greenwald:

Once again, we should all pause for a moment to thank the brave men and women of the FBI for saving us from their own terror plots

Why Does the FBI Have to Manufacture its Own Plots if Terrorism and ISIS Are Such Grave Threats? - The Intercept

 

BTW, as little attention as the naming of Jihadi John, the kidnapping of 200+ Assyrian Christians, and the foiled terror plot have gotten here, you'd think we were still in an ISIS Timeout.

 

The 200+ fresh heads now available should keep the ISIS moviemakers busy for days.

 

ISIS destroyed artwork and antiquities at a museum in Mosul:

ISIS thugs take a hammer to civilisation: Priceless 3,000-year-old artworks smashed to pieces in minutes as militants destroy Mosul museum  | Daily Mail Online

I'm shocked this isn't a huge story.

When the US military didn't properly guard the museum in Baghdad against looting, it was just about the worst crime against humanity ever.

 

I hate to say it, but people just don't understand these idiots, can't relate to them, don't like them, don't want to hear about it and are just turning off to them at this point. It's how desensitization happens.

Maybe if we're lucky, ISIS will realize that they're just shooting themselves in the foot. But we probably won't be that fortunate.

 

Doesn't seem like much of a plot:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/n...on&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

"But before he could go off to wage war, he needed to get his passport back from his mother."

Sounds like these guys may of been Mormon but no mention in the NYT

 

Does this guy deserve a sympathetic New York Times profile?

 

If ISIS' bringing to a destructive end antiquities that have survived 3,000 years of man's inhumanity to man is not a metaphor for what these people are capable of, and what they represent to modern, civilized society...then I'm not sure what is.

 

And no one gives a shit.

When James "Jim" Foley was beheaded, the press had a meltdown, and were actually pissed that the President played golf two minutes after making a statement about his death.

I don't know if it's simply because he was a member of the press, or if it's just that he was the first high profile casualty, and we've now become numb to it, but there are now atrocities on a daily basis, and they barely register.

What's it going to take for anyone to give a shit again?

Though, I should also point out that, significantly, polls show increased support for US ground troops:

Amid more executions by the militant group ISIS, Americans increasingly see the group as a threat to the U.S. Now, 65 percent of Americans view ISIS as a major threat - up from 58 percent in October - while another 18 percent view it as a minor threat. Majorities of Republicans (86 percent), Democrats (61 percent) and independents (57 percent) view ISIS as a major threat.

With concern about ISIS growing, support for the use of U.S. ground troops in the fight against ISIS has risen. For the first time, a majority of Americans (57 percent) favor the U.S. sending ground troops into Iraq and Syria to fight ISIS. In October, Americans were divided (47 percent favored and 46 percent opposed), and in September these numbers were reversed (39 percent favored and 55 percent opposed).

Do Americans want to send ground troops to fight ISIS? - CBS News