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benjaming9

US may finally strike in Syria, but no bunker required for Assad | Al Jazeera America - 0 views

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    This article talks about the struggles of the US to decided whether it would be wise to coordinate with the Assad regime to take on ISIS.
nicolet1189

Twitter CEO: ISIS Threatened to Assassinate Me for Deleting Jihadist Accounts - 0 views

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  • Twitter and their management should be assassinated,"
  • social media giant's platform has played a central role in ISIS's attempts to spread their terrorist propaganda across the globe.
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  • treading a fine line between upholding the Constitution's freedom of speech premise, while employing Twitter's own terms of service and security tactics in what has become a global effort (both through munitions as well as over the Internet) to thwart the onslaught of terror being wrought by ISIS.
  • Twitter prohibits the use of their platform to promote evil and agendas that threaten to harm the safety and security of citizens both domestically as well as internationally. 
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    Threats from ISIS extend to twitter as it threatened to assassinate the CEO Dick Costolo for deactivating ISIS held accounts. ISIS has also called upon citizens within the countries of twitter's operating facilities to attack Twitter employees on, currently Twitter has offices in the US, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Canada.
mjumaia

Saudi Arabia moves to allow girls to play sports in school | Al Jazeera America - 0 views

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    Saudi Arabian authorities have been asked to consider lifting a nationwide ban on sports for girls in schools, according to the official SPA news agency, in a religiously conservative country that included women in its Olympic team for the first time only two years ago.
allieggg

Egypt's Sissi Urges West to Support Libya - 0 views

  • Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi called on the United States and Europe Thursday to help the Libyan army in its fight against Islamist militants now to save the country from requiring intervention on the scale of Iraq and Syria.
  • "When we deal with terrorism only in Iraq and Syria, Libya will begin to be an attractive region affecting the stability of ... Libya and its neighbors. We will need the same measures happening in Iraq and Syria to be taken in Libya," Sissi said in an interview with France 24.
  • "The international community -- Europe and the Americans -- must help the Libyan national army regain its position and combat terrorism in Libya to restore security and stability," he said.
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  • Egypt is training anti-Islamist Libyan forces on its soil and sharing intelligence in a bid to stamp out militancy next door.
  • "If we intervened directly, I would not hesitate to announce that. But all we have done so far is to help the Libyan national army, the Libyan parliament, and the Libyan government," he said.
  • "There are no Egyptian armed forces in Libya," Sissi said. "We protect our borders from inside our borders."
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    Sissi calls for internationals support on fighting Islamic power in Libya.
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    The Voice of America reported President Sissi's call to the US and Europe to aid the Libyan army in their fight against ISIS, saving the country from requiring intervention on the scale of Iraq and Syria. Egypt has been training anti-Islamist forced on its own soil and sending them out to fight in Libya, but they have yet to intervene directly. He calls on the international community to help prevent further Islamic insurgency for the sake of stability throughout the region as a whole. 
rlindse3

For Silicon Valley, NSA may be kind of parasite, eventually kills its host | Customs To... - 0 views

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    Even though not relating to Iran, this article talks about the power the NSA has in penetrating computer data. It basically explains how no computer hardware or firmware is safe from NSA penetration and illustrates the power America has over other countries cyberspace.
rlindse3

Iran and Modern Cyber Warfare | Global Research - 0 views

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    Iran is developing a new cyberstrategy to protect against the intrusion of important government programs, and to oppose any anti-iranian cyber warfare and fight back. Under their new strategy they have already launched attacks on Saudi Arabia and companies in the U.S. such as Bank of America and Citigroup which gives the U.S. reason to concern on Iran's cyber warfare development.
jordanbrown16

Bad Move, ISIS: Why America and Iran Should Work Together - 0 views

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    How the United States and Iran should work together to combat ISIS without actual join cooperation.
kdancer

10 Reasons Why America Should Let Others Destroy ISIS and End Perpetual Military Involv... - 0 views

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    U.S. troops have been in combat longer than at any point in American history. In addition to two major wars, U.S. Special Forces were deployed to 133 countries (approximately 70 percent of the nations on the planet) in 2014. It makes little sense to continue with the same tactic of perpetual war, without any assurance of a better strategic outcome.
irede123

Military Fears ISIS is Eyeing Drug-Smuggling Routes to Enter U.S. - US News - 0 views

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    As oil prices plunge, and ISIS get less income, they are finding new ways to fund their activities. One such way is through drug smuggling into the US, from South America.
hwilson3

Time to Hold the Media to Account for Islamophobia | Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed - 0 views

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    This article takes a look at how the media- particularly in Western countries- has affected what is commonly known as islamophobia. Many people in America has strong prejudices against people who identify with the Islamic faith, and much of this is because they only hear negative attitudes about them from news media outlets. One interesting thing that I found about this article was the fact that it related these trends in media coverage to 9/11
mwrightc

What ISIS Really Wants - The Atlantic - 1 views

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    The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. With this new threat in the middle east there must be something or someone to combat it.
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    The issue with America fighting ISIS is that the United States and the rest of the world do not understand what we are dealing with in the battle against ISIS. This caliphate is more than just a bunch of radicals who want to run the world, it is a group of religious people fighting for what they believe is a pure Islam.
ysenia

Why We're Never Told Why We're Attacked - 0 views

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    Not much to do with my topic but an interesting piece on western perspective. Disclosing information on the constant involvement the U.S. has on other countries that aren't asking for help.
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