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Title: 'This is our football, it's made of skin #World Cup': After posting sickening beheading video of Iraqi policeman, ISIS boast of slaughtering 1,700 soldiers
Post by: mystery-ak on June 13, 2014, 10:29:38 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2656905/ISIS-jihadists-seize-two-towns-bear-Baghdad-U-S-tanks-helicopters-stolen-fleeing-western-trained-Iraqi-forces.html#ixzz34YinqERY (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2656905/ISIS-jihadists-seize-two-towns-bear-Baghdad-U-S-tanks-helicopters-stolen-fleeing-western-trained-Iraqi-forces.html#ixzz34YinqERY)

'This is our football, it's made of skin #World Cup': After posting sickening beheading video of Iraqi policeman, ISIS boast of slaughtering 1,700 soldiers

    WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

    Image of officer's decapitated head tweeted with sickening message: 'This is our ball. It's made of skin #WorldCup'

    Battle lines drawn as Iraqi forces gather at base just 20 miles outside Baghdad after militants seize two more towns

    President Obama rules out sending troops back to Iraq but promises to review military options including air strikes

    Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki claims security forces have now started to clear several cities of 'the terrorists'

    More than 20 UK nationals thought to be trapped in territories where Islamists are carrying out summary executions

    Al Qaeda-inspired militants stage jubilant parade of American Humvee patrol cars seized from collapsing Iraqi army

    Masked fighters wave the black flag of the Islamic State and flash the 'V' sign while shouting 'towards Baghdad!'

    Insurgents have also captured two helicopters, 15 tanks and armoured cars that used to belong to U.S. military

    Iraq's refugee population has increased by almost 800,000 this year as the government struggles against rebels

    President Barack Obama weighs up possible airstrikes - but rules out putting U.S. soldiers back on the ground

    ISIS leader dismissed Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as woefully incompetent, calling him 'underwear merchant'

By Simon Tomlinson and Amy White

Published: 01:34 EST, 13 June 2014 | Updated: 15:40 EST, 13 June 2014

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Title: Re: 'This is our football, it's made of skin #World Cup': After posting sickening beheading video of Iraqi policeman, ISIS boast of slaughtering 1,700 soldiers
Post by: Chieftain on June 14, 2014, 12:42:55 am

The faces of Mainstream Islam.

Title: Re: 'This is our football, it's made of skin #World Cup': After posting sickening beheading video of Iraqi policeman, ISIS boast of slaughtering 1,700 soldiers
Post by: alicewonders on June 14, 2014, 01:06:01 am

Quote from: Chieftain on June 14, 2014, 12:42:55 am

The faces of Mainstream Islam.

They're real-life monsters. 

Title: Re: 'This is our football, it's made of skin #World Cup': After posting sickening beheading video of Iraqi policeman, ISIS boast of slaughtering 1,700 soldiers
Post by: olde north church on June 14, 2014, 08:27:48 pm

Quote from: alicewonders on June 14, 2014, 01:06:01 am

They're real-life monsters.

To defeat them requires making them appear to be nancy boys.  Let's hope the next president has the stones.

Title: Re: 'This is our football, it's made of skin #World Cup': After posting sickening beheading video of Iraqi policeman, ISIS boast of slaughtering 1,700 soldiers
Post by: Fishrrman on June 15, 2014, 01:14:10 am

olde north church wrote:
[[ To defeat them requires making them appear to be nancy boys.  Let's hope the next president has the stones. ]]

I can think of only one person who has the inner strength to do that.
But she's livin' up in Alaska and folks say she couldn't be elected...