[_ Old Earth _] If you think Obama's economic pressure in ISIS isn't working...

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ISIS are so strapped for cash that they are having to rely on children's helium balloons as a way of spying on the enemy.

Images posted online show Peshmerga forces standing with a Dora The Explorer inflatable shot out of the sky while being used by the terror group to monitor their terrain.

The colourful balloon - which features a picture of the kids' cartoon favourite - was carrying a camera when it was popped out of the sky earlier this week.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rga-forces-t-afford-drones.html#ixzz42VS0IqEz
 
Barbarian said:
ISIS are so strapped for cash that they are having to rely on children's helium balloons as a way of spying on the enemy.

Images posted online show Peshmerga forces standing with a Dora The Explorer inflatable shot out of the sky while being used by the terror group to monitor their terrain.

The colourful balloon - which features a picture of the kids' cartoon favourite - was carrying a camera when it was popped out of the sky earlier this week.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rga-forces-t-afford-drones.html#ixzz42VS0IqEz
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Al that shows us is that they are clever.
IEDs are cheap and deadly. They caused the majority of American casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They don't have Apache helicopters, Hellfire missiles, Abrams tanks, B1 bombers to drop precision guided munitions on their enemies, and satellites to track targets from space. So they fight with what they can get their hands on. (And what the Obama administration will provide them as he has for the Muslim Brotherhood side of the Syrian civil war and did for the MB in Libya)

It is called "asymmetric warfare." It's what fighters do when they face an enemy with superior technology. (Jet fighters, bombers, helicopters, satellite recon etc.) They use what they get their hands on.

The idea that Obama's "economic pressure" on Isis is making any difference is silly. They have plenty of oil rich Muslim brothers who are more than willing to donate.
 
Jim Parker said:
Al that shows us is that they are clever.
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If it was effective, it would have been cleverness. It was desperation, from lack of resources.

The idea that Obama's "economic pressure" on Isis is making any difference is silly.
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Well. let's see what the evidence says...

Faced with a cash shortage in its so-called caliphate, the Islamic State group has slashed salaries across the region, asked Raqqa residents to pay utility bills in black market American dollars, and is now releasing detainees for a price of $500 a person.

The extremists who once bragged about minting their own currency are having a hard time meeting expenses, thanks to coalition airstrikes and other measures that have eroded millions from their finances since last fall. Having built up loyalty among militants with good salaries and honeymoon and baby bonuses, the group has stopped providing even the smaller perks: free energy drinks and Snickers bars.


Necessities are dwindling in its urban centers, leading to shortages and widespread inflation, according to exiles and those still suffering under its rule. Interviews gathered over several weeks included three exiles with networks of family and acquaintances still in the group's stronghold in Raqqa, residents in Mosul, and analysts who say ISIS is turning to alternative funding streams, including in Libya.


In Raqqa, the group's stronghold in Syria, salaries have been halved since December, electricity is rationed, and prices for basics are spiraling out of reach, according people exiled from the city.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/0...shortage-cuts-back-on-perks-and-salaries.html

They have plenty of oil rich Muslim brothers who are more than willing to donate.
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Apparently not as many as we were once led to believe. Throttling their cash flow is working.
 
Barbarian said:
Apparently not as many as we were once led to believe. Throttling their cash flow is working.
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What works in stopping groups like ISIS is other, larger, groups of well armed and well trained troops killing them. It has been demonstrated that, once they are dead, they quit, murdering, raping, beheading, burning, crucifying, and their other favorite hobbies.
 
Jim Parker said:
What works in stopping groups like ISIS is other, larger, groups of well armed and well trained troops killing them. It has been demonstrated that, once they are dead, they quit, murdering, raping, beheading, burning, crucifying, and their other favorite hobbies.
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Lol,don't hate
 
Jim Parker said:
What works in stopping groups like ISIS is other, larger, groups of well armed and well trained troops killing them.
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That's what the Kurds and their allied Christian militias are saying. Seems to be working for them. ISIS has given up a lot of territory and a good number of strategic cities to the Kurds. (with a little help from U.S. air support)

It has been demonstrated that, once they are dead, they quit, murdering, raping, beheading, burning, crucifying, and their other favorite hobbies.
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Unfortunately, it's become necessary. Killing their leaders seems to work pretty well, too:

May, 2015
In a ground raid deep in Syrian territory, U.S. special operations forces killed a top ISIS leader who they were attempting to capture and interrogate about American hostages and how the terror group finances its war machine, the Obama administration said today.

Officials told ABC News that the large-scale operation that killed ISIS oil and gas "minister" Abu Sayyaf was carried out by the Army's elite counter-terror unit known as Delta Force under the direction of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).
http://abcnews.go.com/International...kill-key-isis-leader-ground/story?id=31092834

Jim Parker said:
Absolutely no hate!
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I don't hate vermin. I just want them dead.



 
Defeating ISIS wouldn't change much. Another jihadist group will take its place. The problem is much larger, the problem is Islam's totalitarian ideology. Until Islam is destroyed in its entirety, the problem will always be there. It's already been threatening the rest of the world for 1400 years.
 
Mike S said:
Defeating ISIS wouldn't change much. Another jihadist group will take its place. The problem is much larger, the problem is Islam's totalitarian ideology. Until Islam is destroyed in its entirety, the problem will always be there. It's already been threatening the rest of the world for 1400 years.
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Hard to change a culture without simply killing every Arab or muslim. This would include the kurds and destroying all books on islam. Even with the destruction of nazi Germany. We still have in a small minority the neo nazis.
 
What does this topic have to do with Christianity and science?

nothing
 
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