{"id":57074,"date":"2014-12-12T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57074"},"modified":"2014-12-12T10:03:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:03:31","slug":"jv-team-kills-5042-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57074","title":{"rendered":"“JV team” kills 5042 in November"},"content":{"rendered":"

AFP <\/a>reports that 5042 people died from jihadist attacks last month. Mostly the casualties occurred in Iraq, but also in Nigeria, Afghanistan and Syria. that’s all according to BBC World Service and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King’s College London.<\/p>\n

The research found Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria were responsible for around half of the violence — 308 attacks responsible for 2,206 deaths.<\/p>\n

“The data makes it clear that jihadists and Al-Qaeda are no longer one and the same,” the report said.<\/p>\n

It said that 60 percent of the killing was done by groups with no formal association with Al-Qaeda, pointing to “an increasingly ambitious, complex, sophisticated and far-reaching movement”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, whew. I feel better that al Qaeda has been decimated. Of course, according to the Guardian<\/a>, it is largely the fault of Bush;<\/p>\n

The single most interesting quote from the ISIS leader, whom Chulov refers to as Abu Ahmed, is quite disturbing: he credits the group’s rise, in large part, to American prison camps during the Iraq war, which he says gave him and other jihadist leaders an invaluable forum to meet one another and to plan their later rise.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Their network organized partially out of US-run detention centers has played a key role in that. The Iraqi government, Chulov reports, estimates that “17 of the 25 most important Islamic State leaders running the war in Iraq and Syria spent time in US prisons between 2004 and 2011.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Our biggest problems with this war against terror has been dealing with prisoners, so….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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