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Analysis: Islamic State advertises war crimes in video
The Long War Journal ^ | July 29, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Posted on 07/29/2014 2:59:58 PM PDT by KeyLargo

Analysis: Islamic State advertises war crimes in video By Thomas Joscelyn July 29, 2014

The Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that controls significant territory in both Iraq and Syria, has posted an extremely brutal video. While most Muslims were celebrating the end of Islam's holy month, the Islamic State is celebrating mass executions.

Warning: Some of the images below are graphic.

The Long War Journal is posting these images because they highlight the depravity of the Islamic State and its followers. The Islamic State likely believes that these images will help intimate its opposition into submission and earn new recruits, especially among young jihadists and sympathizers who are mesmerized by the orgy of killings. This will work with a certain segment of the jihadists' recruiting pool.

But over-the-top violence of this sort can also have the opposite effect, as it turns some potential recruits and supporters into foes. In this regard, the Islamic State is repeating the same mistakes made by its predecessors, al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), in the past. The indiscriminate violence carried out by these organizations alienated many Iraqis and sowed the seeds of their initial demise.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Politics; Religion; Science
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; iraq; islamicstate; massacre; massexecutions; muslims; terrorists; wot

1 posted on 07/29/2014 2:59:58 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo
If Israel did this to Palestinians the entire world would come unglued with anger!

Obama and the U.N. will issue a harsh statement in 5-4-3-2... NEVER?

2 posted on 07/29/2014 3:06:10 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: CivilWarBrewing
"The Islamic State's victims are marched to their death:"

I think that I have seen that image in the past?

3 posted on 07/29/2014 3:12:10 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

We put panties on their heads and the world was outraged.


4 posted on 07/29/2014 3:12:14 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: KeyLargo

Even with video proof, our feckless “leaders” are
afraid to call them war criminals.


5 posted on 07/29/2014 3:17:22 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Doesn’t even make the news.

Too busy showing the human shield victims of Hamas.


6 posted on 07/29/2014 4:14:24 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: tet68

Can’t antagonize Friends of Obama, can we?


7 posted on 07/29/2014 5:53:16 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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