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I dnt like Obama. More talk than substance. Bush was better in foreign policy.
Too much pressure on obama to not to go to war. He won in the first place on this this saying we will bring back troops. He needs to give good justification for going to war.Also America wont be able to take one more war. They are already down economically recovering just now.
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Islamic State militants, who once relied on wealthy Persian Gulf donors for money, have become a self-sustaining financial juggernaut, earning more than $3 million a day from oil smuggling, human trafficking, theft and extortion, according to U.S. intelligence officials and private experts. The extremist group's resources exceed that "of any other terrorist group in history," said a U.S. intelligence official who, like others interviewed, spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss classified assessments. Such riches are one reason that American officials are so concerned about the group even while acknowledging they have no evidence it is plotting attacks against the United States. The Islamic State group has taken over large sections of Syria and Iraq, and controls as many as 11 oil fields in both countries, analysts say. It is selling oil and other goods through generations-old smuggling networks under the noses of some of the same governments it is fighting: Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, Turkey and Jordan. The price the Islamic State group fetches for its smuggled oil is discounted —$25 to $60 for a barrel of oil that normally sells for more than $100 — but its total profits from oil are exceeding $3 million a day, said Luay al-Khatteeb, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution's Doha Center in Qatar. The group also has earned hundreds of millions of dollars from smuggling antiquities out of Iraq to be sold in Turkey, al-Khatteeb said, and millions more from human trafficking by selling women and children as sex slaves. Other revenue comes from extortion payments, ransom from kidnapped hostages, and outright theft of all manner of materials from the towns the Islamic State group has seized, analysts say. "It's cash-raising activities resemble those of a mafia-like organization," a second U.S. intelligence official said, reflecting the assessment of his agency. "They are well-organized, systematic and enforced through intimidation and violence."
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/islamic-state-groups-war-chest-110805652.html
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Iran, Syria, Iraq and Russia are the only ones fighting ISIL. Sauds and other Sunni states were openly supporting ISIL couple of months back. Amrika Bahadur and his friends were paid by Sauds to help ISIL. Things turned radically when few months back Iraqis shared some credible intelligence with Rest of World, Sauds realized that ISIL might actually get rid of Saud Monarchy once they control Syria,Iraq and Lebnon. Now Sauds have called Amrika Bahadur and his friends to eliminate only those elements in ISIL who they consider a threat to Saud Monarchy. Thats why America is still not ready with the strategy. Once payments and other finer details are sorted, Few specific members of ISIL along with couple of hundred of their supporters will be taken out and rest who pledge their allegience to Sauds will be given more arm food medicine money support to fight Iran, Syria, Iraq and Russia

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In Australia too...
Australian police allege that members of a group targeted in a sweeping counter-terrorism operation on Thursday planned to behead a random member of the public after draping the victim in the flag of Islamic State militants, Australia media reported. Without referring to specifics, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Australia was at "serious risk from a terrorist attack". He told reporters that the large-scale counter-terrorism raids in Sydney and Brisbane followed intelligence that Islamic militants were urging supporters to conduct "demonstration killings" in Australia. Court documents to be revealed later on Thursday were expected to show the plan involved snatching someone in Sydney and executing them on camera, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and other Australian media said. "The exhortations, quite direct exhortations were coming from an Australian who is apparently quite senior in ISIS to networks of support back in Australia to conduct demonstration killings here in this country," Abbott told a media conference in the Northern Territory. "So this is not just suspicion, this is intent and that's why the police and security agencies decided to act in the way they have." More than 800 police were involved in the pre-dawn raids, described as the largest in Australian history. At least 15 people had been detained, with one man charged with a serious "terrorism-related" offence, police told a news conference.
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How one can change so much suddenly. Bizzare end of young boy. But it is just as if anybody going crazy. Black day for black flag after teenage terror suspect's bloody end Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/black-day-for-black-flag-after-teenage-terror-suspects-bloody-end-20140924-10letn.html#ixzz3EEJgTe8F It seemed such an unlikely place for a suspected terrorist to die, a knife flashing, a single pistol shot among the blood.

Endeavour Hills began its life as a suburb 31 kilometres south-east of Melbourne's CBD in 1974, named after Captain Cook's ship, its boosters advertising it as "a better place to live" - a place of parks and safe streets, the future assured. Are Numan Haider's online photos a sign of his recent voyage into extremism? Are Numan Haider's online photos a sign of his recent voyage into extremism? And there, on Tuesday night, with Australia's terror threat on high, Numan Haider, 18, lay dead on a street outside the Little Stars Child Care and Early Learning Centre, an Australian Federal Police agent bleeding from serious knife wounds and a Victoria Police constable slashed. Advertisement The bare facts of Haider's last minutes are known; the knife produced after the boy shook hands with the two policemen only metres from the suburb's 24-hour police station, the slashing and the stabbing, the bullet that ended his sudden rampage. And the bigger curved knife and the black flag, assumed to be of the Islamic State, found upon his body. The larger questions about the journey that drove Haider to his final act of malevolence or madness remain vastly less clear. The presumption has become that he wished to behead a policeman and drape the body with the flag. Haider's last frenzied minutes came, after all, just a day after the official spokesman of the so-called Islamic State, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, issued a proclamation calling on its followers to kill non-believers in the West, including Australians. If there was no explosive device or a gun to hand, he ranted on the terrorists' favoured international weapon, the internet, "smash his head with a rock; or slaughter him with a knife; or run him over with your car ..." He was, this boy, known to police and, according to everyone up to the Prime Minister, he was considered worthy of the status of "terror suspect" because of his behaviour over the past three months. He was said to have been seen waving his black flag in the Dandenong shopping centre only recently, and shouting slogans. There was a glimpse, perhaps, of the young man's recent voyage into extremism on his Facebook page before all trace of it was removed within half a day of his death. His profile picture on July 8 shows him with friends, clean shaven, white shirt, thin tie, staring confidently into the lens of a camera, as young men do. The profile picture changed dramatically on September 18, four days before he would be shot dead. This time, there is a menacing figure in black balaclava and camouflage shirt holding a black flag, Arabic script wending elaborately across its surface. It is not the flag of Islamic State, but because it is black, it is associated with jihadi groups of many stripes. The words are those of the generic Islamic creed: "There is no god but God and Muhammad is the messenger of God." On September 18, too, Haider posted on his Facebook page that "the main message I'm sending with these statuses and photos is to the dogs AFP and ASIO who are declaring war on Islam and Muslims, go fist each other up the ass." The questions that most hover is how a boy who had been educated in Melbourne's suburbs - he graduated last year from Lyndale Secondary College, not far from his family home in Narre Warren South - reached the point where he was in touch with the world's most brutal terrorist group, halfway across the world? And how had he come to hate the Australian police and the security services to the extent that he would take a knife to their representatives? His parents, immigrants from Kabul, Afghanistan, are said to be moderate and liberal and not particularly religious, and too shocked on Wednesday to speak publicly. The police and counter-intelligence agents had been in touch with the parents in recent weeks, trying to find a way to persuade their son to cool his growing rage. The police and security agents knew he had been associated with the Al-Furqan Islamic Centre in Springvale, considered by moderate Muslim leaders to be a fringe organisation fired by the radical views of Muslim preacher Sheikh Harun, also known as Harun Mehicevic. Mehicevic had led a small group of followers away from the more moderate Bosnian mosque in Noble Park more than a decade ago. Counter-terrorist agents had kept a close eye on the Al-Furqan centre, and in September 2012 a number of people associated with the centre were subjected to raids by the AFP. Twelve houses were raided, most of them in Numan Haiden's stamping grounds: Narre Warren, Springvale South, Narre Warren South, Officer, Craigieburn, Hallam, Ormond, Endeavour Hills and Noble Park. Haider, however, had not been attending the centre for months, according to colleagues who didn't wish to be named. He had become more religious, and had begun hanging out with other young extremists. Haider's passport, along with others', was cancelled. His hate, pretty clearly, grew. And on Tuesday he is believed to have told the police at Endeavour Hills he was willing to talk. He wouldn't enter the police station - he wanted to have his chat outside. He brought knives. And attacked. And died in a place that once promised to be a better place to live. His body lay in the street outside the Little Stars childcare centre, its slogan suddenly mocking: "Play, learn and grow together." "He was too young," said a friend. "He didn't even have a full-grown beard."
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/black-day-for-black-flag-after-teenage-terror-suspects-bloody-end-20140924-10letn.html#ixzz3EEK0lcF1
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