[Ynet] The pan-Arab Al Hayat newspaper reported Tuesday that as part of Jordan's war effort against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group it will send special forces to operate in Iraq, with the goal of eliminating the leaders of the terrorist group - including His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
The newspaper quoted Western diplomats and Iranian officials who said that Jordan had reached an understanding with the Iraqi government for freedom of operation for Jordanian special forces near Islamic State strongholds in Iraq.
| Why are they announcing this, instead of ghosting in quietly? |
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