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ISIS name giving terror license to loose, growing network of offshoots
Fox News ^ | 2-20-2015 | Barnini Chakraborty

Posted on 02/20/2015 1:23:03 PM PST by OKSooner

WASHINGTON – Islamic State "affiliates" seem to be emerging at an alarming rate, giving the sense of an expanding terror network with satellites all over the world.

But a closer look, according to analysts, shows these ISIS offshoots are likely operating without much coordination with the Islamic State core. It doesn't make them any less dangerous, but helps explain how a group President Obama described just one year ago as "JV" has established a presence in nearly a dozen countries.

Unlike Al Qaeda, which in its prime was operationally stronger and had a better communication network with its affiliates, the ISIS network appears more fractured. There is no clear-cut power pyramid beyond its head, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. And a number of the affiliates existed before, only recently latching onto ISIS as the terror network grew in notoriety.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: isis; islam; islamicterrorism; jv; obama

1 posted on 02/20/2015 1:23:03 PM PST by OKSooner
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To: OKSooner

Don’t forget, CNN says right wing Americans are more dangerous.


2 posted on 02/20/2015 1:28:00 PM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: OKSooner

And our fearless leader does nothing to exterminate them.


3 posted on 02/20/2015 1:29:06 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: OKSooner

Please, dear Heavenly Father, help us through these deep tribulations until the demon in the White House is replaced.


4 posted on 02/20/2015 1:30:31 PM PST by ScottinVA (Communism, liberalism and Islam: Kindred ideologies dedicated to America's destruction.)
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To: ScottinVA

Unfortunately, there is much that the demon will have left on autopilot. :-(


5 posted on 02/20/2015 1:31:58 PM PST by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: OKSooner

Can I get an ISIS franchise for my town?

Will Baraq & Co give me a small biz loan to start it up?


6 posted on 02/20/2015 1:34:11 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: nascarnation

How quickly baraqoma metastasizes!


7 posted on 02/20/2015 1:44:56 PM PST by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: OKSooner

Many years ago there were just three cartels who were well organized and who controlled 99% of the drug trade into the United States. The DEA chopped off the heads of the cartels and they fractured into dozens of groups and the vacuum created also allowed small independent operators to enter the business. This created the perfect free market; the most efficient supply system imaginable. The price of cocaine dropped dramatically. I recall reading that in 1970 a gram was $100 dollars. Today I’ve read it’s a fraction of that.

Essentially, the same is happening to the terrorists. They have developed a wide-spread lose network which is essentially crowd funded. The central control is gone. Since terrorists don’t need sophisticated equipment to cause terror they can cause no end of damage by going after soft targets, like school children at bus stops. Imagine something like the Beltway Snipers who paralyzed the DC area for three weeks; now multiply that by dozens. The more successful each is the more who will join in the game.

By-the-way, did anybody notice Obama is bringing 75,000 Syrians over here?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks


8 posted on 02/20/2015 1:45:51 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: nascarnation

Only if you start calling it ISIL. The ice holes in the WH insist on it.


9 posted on 02/20/2015 1:45:58 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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