The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Megathread

[CountDeMoney]

Apparently their assets are now in excess of $2 billion.

Boy, I bet the American taxpayer is going to be red with apathy over that.

[Ed Anger]

Emails must've bounced back.

[email protected]

[DGuller]

How did all those knuckleheads let themselves be captured? 

I kind of wander about that myself, though thankfully I can't know what you think in such a situation.  By this point the Arabs all throughout the region should know that getting captured means death if you're lucky, or grisly recorded execution if you're not.  I'd strap explosives on myself and try to take someone down with me, but it's easy for me to say from here.  Maybe humans are extremely optimistic when facing certain death, and choose any options that at least delays the inevitable, in hopes of a miracle.

[jimmy olsen]

Apparently their assets are now in excess of $2 billion.

Boy, I bet the American taxpayer is going to be red with apathy over that.

9/11 cost half a million dollars. I'm pretty sure they can top that with a bank account like that.

[Tonitrus]

It's kinda looking like we should have backed Assad.

[CountDeMoney]

It's kinda looking like we should have backed Assad.

Nobody ever listens to me and my US Foreign Policy, © 1958.  Strongmen are the best men.  They keep a cap on this sort of sectarian bullshit.

[CountDeMoney]

Apparently their assets are now in excess of $2 billion.

Boy, I bet the American taxpayer is going to be red with apathy over that.

9/11 cost half a million dollars. I'm pretty sure they can top that with a bank account like that.

I'm thinking they're going to be a little too busy chopping off heads for a while.  Don't buy into the Lindsay Graham paranoia.

[alfred russel]

9/11 cost half a million dollars. I'm pretty sure they can top that with a bank account like that.

It is not about how much money they can find. If a half million dollars could be converted into knocking down a couple skyscrapers, none of our tall buildings would have made it past 2010.

[Admiral Yi]

Timmy is worried they'll buy a rail gun and mount in on a surplus Russian carrier.

[Ed Anger]

I need a map.

[garbon]

I need a map.

I'm too tired to post the soda map though.

[Sheilbh]

Apparently Kurds and ISIS have reached a sort-of non-aggression agreement. Which makes a lot of sense for them both.

Meanwhile the regime in Syria is now targeting mostly ISIS held areas. I think they were kind of fine with them for a while as they discredited the opposition and always 'cleansed' an area of rebel groups before turning on them. Now that they're causing serious problems for Iran, it looks like they're not being ignored anymore.

[Syt]

Lon Asgeles?

[Viking]

How did all those knuckleheads let themselves be captured? 

I kind of wander about that myself, though thankfully I can't know what you think in such a situation.  By this point the Arabs all throughout the region should know that getting captured means death if you're lucky, or grisly recorded execution if you're not.  I'd strap explosives on myself and try to take someone down with me, but it's easy for me to say from here.  Maybe humans are extremely optimistic when facing certain death, and choose any options that at least delays the inevitable, in hopes of a miracle.

The israelis have known this for years. Gilad Shalit was the exception.

[Valmy]

Lon Asgeles?

What?  You never heard of the Lon Asgeles Asgels?  I think Moke Trut plays for them.