“The government had made significant investments in both weapons and manpower to try to hold onto the military base, making its fall a both a symbolic and a strategic blow”:
- Islamic State Militants Capture Major Syrian Air Base (Christian Science Monitor)
The bankruptcy of the Neoconservative position on Islam needs no further proof than the fact that they resort to the outright lie that Muslims are not condemning IS atrocities …
- Muslim Leaders Worldwide Condemn ISIS (Global Research)
- Islamic Authority: Extremists No ‘Islamic State’ (AP / abc News)
… but it is the darling of the Neocons who has mastered the big lie as Netanyahu pretends “Hamas is ISIS and ISIS is Hamas” …
- Israel Leader Tries to Link Hamas, Iraq Extremists (AP / abc News)
… when it is Israel itself that not only matches, but outdoes IS’s thirst for noncombatant blood:
“While the family of slain journalist James Foley mourns his passing, another American journalist … Peter Theo Curtis … [reportedly has] been handed over to a representative of the United Nations” …
- Kidnappers Free American Journalist Missing Since 2012 (Christian Science Monitor)
… but “Lebanese hostages held by Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria and the so-called Islamic State were threatened with death in a video yesterday unless Lebanon’s Hezbollah withdraws its support for Bashar al-Assad”:
- After Foley Murder, More Jihadi Threats to Murder Hostages (Christian Science Monitor)
An “Arab spring [is] happening in the Muslim community towards self-appointed community leaders. “The notion that the 60-plus organisations that signed the statement are not legitimate and are divisive is incorrect and unfair” — community activist Rebecca Kay:
- Muslim Unity Bid over Terrorism Laws Ends in Frustration (Sydney Morning Herald)
“[I]t’s not just Gaza… The attacks on freedom of speech and human rights organizations in Israel, the land-grabbing settler movement, a growing strain of anti-Arab and anti-immigrant racism, extremist politics, and a powerful, intolerant religious right — this mixture has pushed liberal Zionism to the brink”:
- The End of Liberal Zionism (NY Times)
“Major parts of the devices of the drone are intact and have been received by our friends that can be used for further information” — Revolutionary Guard spokeman General Ramazan Sharif
“Libya has lurched ever closer to fragmentation and civil war this weekend after Islamist-led militias seized the airport in the capital, Tripoli, proclaimed their own government, and presented the world with yet another crisis”:
“Omar Zakhilwal told the BBC he would have to cut salaries and lay off government workers if the crisis was not resolved by the end of the month”:
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