See: More Than a Month of SILLIness
I can't take much more and it is going to be a "multiyear campaign."
"Islamic State group says it’ll mint its own coins" by Maamoun Youssef | Associated Press November 15, 2014
CAIRO — The leader of the Islamic State group has ordered the terror organization to start minting gold, silver, and copper coins for its own currency, the Islamic dinar.
A website affiliated with the group posted the order late Thursday, saying that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi instructed his followers to mint the coins to ‘‘change the tyrannical monetary system’’ of Western economies that ‘‘enslaved Muslims.’’
It's done more than that; the private central banking scheme has enslaved us all while enriching a few.
This is pure propaganda put out there so that criticism of the private central banking looting scheme is equated with terrorism.
The order was approved by the Islamic State group’s Shura Council, an advisory board, according to the website. The posting’s authenticity could not be independently verified, but the website has been used in the past for Islamic State postings.
Meaning it's crap propaganda, that's all.
After seizing large swaths of Iraqi and Syrian territory earlier this year, the Islamic State group proclaimed a caliphate on lands under its control. It has also sought to implement its harsh interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia, and Baghdadi has proclaimed himself the caliph.
According to photographs of prototypes, the coins carry words in Arabic: ‘‘The Islamic State / A Caliphate Based on the Doctrine of the Prophet.’’
It’s unclear where the group intends to get the precious metals for the coins. The posting said the dinar’s purchasing power would be its weight in gold, silver, or copper.
One of the gold coins has seven stalks of wheat, cited in the Koran, while another has a world map, a reference to Islam someday ruling the planet.
At least there will be no more usury.
One of the silver coins shows a sword and a shield in a reference to holy war, or jihad, while another has a minaret symbolizing Damascus, from one of the Prophet Muhammad’s sayings.
Another coin carries the symbol of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, revered as Islam’s third-holiest place.
I'll have to get to a service there soon since that place has been aboil lately.
The copper coins carry the symbol of the crescent moon and three palm trees, also significant in Islam.
The posting said instructions would be issued by the Islamic State’s treasury department to inform people how to use the currency.
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Better spend them quick:
"Iraq’s forces drive IS militants from key town" by Hamza Hendawi and John Heilprin | Associated Press November 15, 2014
BAGHDAD — The recapture of Beiji is the latest in a series of setbacks for the jihadi group, which has lost hundreds of fighters to airstrikes by a US-led coalition in a stalled advance on the Syrian town of Kobani. On Friday, activists there reported significant progress by Kurdish fighters defending the town.
Iraqi security officials said government forces backed by allied militiamen took control of Beiji and also lifted a monthslong Islamic State siege on its refinery — Iraq’s largest. However, two military officials reached by telephone in Beiji late Friday said there was still some fighting going on at the refinery, but reinforcements had been sent in and Iraqi forces were poised to retake it.
The security officials said the army used loudspeakers to warn the small number of residents still holed up inside the town to stay indoors while bomb squads cleared booby-trapped houses and detonated roadside bombs.
Also Friday, a suicide bomber tried to drive an explosive-laden bulldozer into a Beiji college used by government forces, the military officials said. The bomber was shot dead as he approached the gate, but still managed to detonate his explosives, killing three soldiers and wounding seven, they said. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Beiji will now likely be a base for staging a push to take back Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit to the south, after government forces tried to retake it earlier this year. That campaign stalled and the city remains in Islamic State hands.
In Syria, meanwhile, activist Barzan Isso said the situation has improved for the defenders of Kobani following the recent airdrop of weapons by the United States and the arrival of heavily armed Kurdish fighters from Iraq to join the effort.
The U.S. tried to airdrop them in, but "it appears the wind caused the parachute to go off-course, and that the weapons in the bundle were not enough to give the enemy any advantage."
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In Geneva, meanwhile, a UN panel investigating war crimes by the Islamic State group said Syrians and Iraqis are subjected to a ‘‘rule of terror,’’ with the calculated use of public brutality and indoctrination to ensure the submission of communities under its control.
Makes you wonder how they have won so many over, huh?
It said the extremists have denied food and medicine to hundreds of thousands of people and have hidden fighters among civilians since the start of the US-led air campaign.
The conclusions from the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, a four-member panel of experts, are based on more than 300 interviews with people who fled or are living in Islamic State-controlled areas and on video and photographic evidence....
That, unfortunately, no longer means a thing coming from the propaganda pre$$ mouthpiece.
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