SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  
To: Don Hurst who wrote (789300)6/12/2014 12:14:56 AM
From: Broken_Clock   of 1575173
 
It's called self determination. Arab Spring on steroids. When does Obomber recognize the new State?
+++

Not What the US Planned: Al-Qaeda Tears Down Syria-Iraq BorderBulldozers Tearing Down Earthen Border
by Jason Ditz, June 11, 2014

While most of the high profile coverage of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)’s latest gains came in the major cities it took over, one of the most telling aspects of what is happening in Iraq’s northwest and Syria’s northeast could be seen only at what passes for a border.

Syria and Iraq are largely divided by a berm, an earthen mound border that prevents vehicles from driving through in places other than the official crossings. The problem is neither Syria nor Iraq controls these areas anymore: on both sides it’s all AQI land.

AQI seems confident this isn’t just a temporary possession either, and so their bulldozers are hard at work, tearing through the berm and clearing some new dirt roads to connect their new state more efficiently.

That reflects the group’s ongoing effort to rebrand itself the “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,” which has designs on eventually taking most or all of both Iraq and Syria as one Salafist theocracy.

These days, that seems less like an idle threat and more like a reality, as ISILstan now seems to encompass much of Syria from the edge of Aleppo through Raqqa, and down into al-Bukamal, then spans Iraq’s Anbar and Nineveh Provinces, with the capital of Salaheddin Province, Tikrit, also falling today.
Report TOU ViolationShare This Post
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  

HomeMailHotSubjectMarksPeopleMarksKeepersSettings
Terms Of UseContact UsCopyright/IP PolicyPrivacy PolicyAbout UsFAQAdvertise on SI
© 2025 Knight Sac Media.  Data provided by Twelve Data, Alpha Vantage, and CityFALCON News