September 27, 2014 SnyderTalk: What’s the difference between ISIS, al Nusra and the Khorasan Group?

1--Intro Covering Israel and ME

“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122: 6

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2--SnyderTalk Lead Headline for use

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Holly Yan—What’s the difference between ISIS, al Nusra and the Khorasan Group?:

Not long ago, the threat of terrorist attacks against the United States boiled down to two words: al Qaeda.

But this week’s U.S. airstrikes against al Qaeda offshoots show the president is playing whack-a-mole against a new generation of terrorists.

The attacks Tuesday inside Syria came in three waves and targeted ISIS, the Khorasan Group and, apparently, the al-Nusra Front.

The groups share a similar ideology. But there are key differences. Here’s how each stack up:

ISIS

What its name means:

The Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Some world leaders use the acronym ISIL, or the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.

But the group now calls itself just the Islamic State, believing it has already established a caliphate across parts of Syria and Iraq.

How it started:

Back in 2004, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi launched al Qaeda in Iraq and later tried to ignite a sectarian war against Iraq’s Shiite majority.

The new al Qaeda was re-branded in 2006 as the Islamic State in Iraq (ISI). It would add “and Syria” to its name later.

The group exploited a growing perception among many Sunnis that they were being persecuted by the Shia-dominated government led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, starved of resources and excluded from a share of power.

What its goal is:

ISIS has been trying to create an Islamic state across Sunni areas of Iraq and in Syria.

But it doesn’t stop there, one former ISIS militant told CNN.

“The main and principal goal of the Islamic State that they tell their new members is to establish an Islamic state that will encompass the Arab world,” the man said in Turkey. “And after that, we go to other countries.”

The group also claims its leader has authority over 1.5 billion Muslims around the world.

Who leads it:

At age 39, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi became the leader of ISIS in 2010 after Abu Omar al Baghdadi was killed in a joint U.S.-Iraqi operation.

Prior to taking over ISIS, al Baghdadi joined al Qaeda in Iraq. He served four years in a U.S. prison camp for insurgents, at Bucca in southern Iraq, where he almost certainly developed a network of contacts and honed his ideology.

He was released in 2009 and went to work.

Why the U.S. is targeting it:

ISIS has been pretty vocal about wanting to attack Americans and other Westerners — even though U.S. officials say ISIS fighters aren’t a direct threat to the U.S. homeland right now.

“At this point, we have no information that ISIL is plotting an attack inside the United States,” Matthew Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said last week in testimony to Congress.

The dangers, officials say, are to U.S. personnel and infrastructure in Iraq. There’s also a risk of militants with U.S. or other Western passports potentially possibly returning home and staging attacks.

A senior ISIS leader recently called for lone-wolf attacks in the United States and France — two countries that have been conducting airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq.

“The best thing you can do is to strive to your best and kill any disbeliever, whether he be French, American or from any of their allies,” the ISIS official said.

“Rig the roads with explosives for them. Attack their bases. Raid their homes. Cut off their heads. Do not let them feel secure. Hunt them wherever they may be.”

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SnyderTalk Comment: There are key differences between the Islamist groups that keep popping up, but those differences mean more to them than they do to the rest of the world.

In time, those differences will become catalysts that ignite war between Islamists.  When that happens, they will treat each other just as brutally as they are treating Christians and Jews now.  It’s their nature.

For the rest us, those differences are meaningless.  At this moment, they are targeting us for one simple reason: we don’t believe what they believe.  That’s why they have declared war on us, and in that regard, they are united.  That’s what we must understand and accept.

Yan failed to mention other Islamist groups that are potentially just as dangerous to the rest of the world as the groups she discussed.  For instance, the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas are being kept in check right now, but if conditions change, their true character will emerge for all to see.  Fatah is no better.  For that matter, neither are Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.  For all practical purposes, they are the same as al Qaeda, ISIS, al Nusra, and the Khorasan Group.

Those are facts.  We didn’t create them, and pretending that they aren’t facts won’t make them go away.

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This is the new full-length ISIS video.  Pay attention because they aren’t just talking to hear themselves speak.  They are recruiting an army.

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13--Perspectives 2

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Julian Borger: Iran’s Rouhani blames rise of Isis on western meddling in Middle East—The Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, has blamed the rise of Isis on western meddling in the Middle East in a speech to the UN but held out the prospect of closer Iranian cooperation in combating Islamic extremism if agreement could be reached soon on Tehran’s nuclear programme. Rouhani told the UN general assembly on Thursday that regional powers should lead the battle against Isis in Syria and Iraq. Western policies in the region had led to the rise of violent extremism in the first place, he said, and if outsiders wanted to help fight extremism now, they should support the Iranian leadership.

SnyderTalk Comment: Rouhani is a real piece of work.  Regrettably, he will be believed by many including the left-wing “intelligentsia” in the U.S. and Israel.  I hate to use the word “intelligence” or any derivitave thereof in connection with them, because intelligent they are not.  Yahweh calls them “stupid”.  Using another biblical term, they are full of “dung”.

Peter Huessy: Manufacturing Excuses So Iran Can Get Nukes— While security threats have been increasingly serious, the United States and its allies have not been willing honestly to face the challenges of our time — especially from the coalition of oil-rich, rogue state sponsors of terror and their jihadist affiliates. Instead they have been content to push for declining defense budgets and jettisoning their security obligations. This has — and is — making it increasingly difficult to find the leadership necessary to lead a coalition of nations to defeat the threats we face. The United States is making three critical mistakes. First, much of the deterrent effect of U.S. military power is being squandered. Not only have the U.S. and its NATO allies neglected their defense needs and cut defense budgets by a collective $2 trillion from the base budgets of 2009, but many leaders have adopted the view that military power is the problem, not part of the solution.

David Ignatius: U.S. War Strategy Takes Shape—The U.S. has gone into battle again, in yet another Muslim country, to attack the menace of violent extremism. This time, at least, the president could announce that U.S. military action was joined by a coalition of leading Arab nations: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan, Bahrain and Qatar. The president insists that there won’t be American combat “boots on the ground,” but the role of American military advisers assisting Iraqi and perhaps rebel Syrian forces will be crucial. Obama and his advisers, led by Gen. John Allen, have focused on five main lines of operation against the Islamic State: direct military action, counterterrorism operations against foreign fighters, disruption of financing, humanitarian assistance, and media activities to delegitimize the extremists. The U.S. will lead the training of about 10,000 Sunni “national guard” troops in Iraq, drawn from tribal fighters. These Sunni forces will act as a local gendarmerie, to keep order in their home regions once Islamic State fighters have been cleared. Training camps are already under construction in Jordan and northern Iraq, and are expected to be ready in three to six months.

Prof. Abraham Ben-Zvi: The point of no return— After years of sparing no effort to downplay radicalism and the threat of Islamic terrorism, U.S. President Barack Obama has finally decided to take action. Faced with the murderous rampage of the Islamic State group, the American president has ordered military action, even if at this point it is limited to [an] aerial campaign. As of Tuesday, after weeks of strikes on Islamic State strongholds in Iraq, the U.S. expanded its operation to Syria. Unlike its aversion to take similar action in this theater — against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime — a year ago, this time the White House is adamant to lead a wide coalition against the threat emerging on Syrian and Iraqi soil. As many as five Middle Eastern states participated in the massive strikes of Islamic State targets in northern Syria, which Obama said was only the initial stage of an ongoing effort on that front.

Burak Bekdil: How Turkey Plans to “Combat Anti-Semitism”—In Turkey, hate speech is a crime only if it is committed against Muslim Turks. The penalty for failing to pay the tax [only for Jews] should be the revocation of the Jew’s business and the seizure of his property. — Faruk Kose, columnist for Yeni Akit, honored with a permanent seat aboard Turkish President Erdogan’s private jet. At the beginning of September, President Barack Obama met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Wales. After the meeting, the White House said in a statement: “They exchanged views on how best to cooperate in the struggle against ISIL [Islamic State of Iraq and Levant/Syria] and violent extremism in Iraq and Syria, and on the need for strengthened measures against foreign fighters transiting to and from the battlefield.” What could be more normal if the U.S. president discussed measures against extremism with the president of a country that now borders ISIS? But it was bizarre that Obama and Erdogan also discussed one topic that was neither NATO- nor ISIS-related. The White House said: “The President and President Erdogan also discussed the importance of building tolerant and inclusive societies and combatting the scourge of anti-Semitism.”

Julia Edwards and Mark Hosenball: FBI: Militant in Beheading Videos Identified— A masked Islamic State militant seen wielding a knife in videos at the beheading of two Americans has been identified, FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday, but he declined to give the person’s name or nationality. The videos released in August and September of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff showed a masked Islamic State militant brandishing a knife and speaking English with a British accent. A European government source familiar with the investigation said that the accent indicated that the man was from London and likely from a community of Asian immigrants. U.S. and European officials said the principal investigative work identifying the man was conducted by British government agencies.

SnyderTalk Comment: The person’s name wasn’t released to protect the lives of his friends and family. There are a lot of angry people in the U.S. and Europe who would kill them mercilessly as payback. It takes only one of them to get the ball rolling.

Governments aren’t good at keeping secrets.  It’s just a matter of time before his name gets out.  Investigative reporters are all over this story right now.  The one who breaks it will be on every news channel for days or even weeks.  He or she will be swamped with offers from book publishers.  A book about the ISIS assassin’s life would sell millions of copies.  The person who writes it could make $30 million or more.

When the news finally breaks, there is a very good chance that the murderer’s friends and family will have to be placed in something like a witness protection program.  Even that may not be enough to protect them.

The only way to ensure their safety is to capture him, try him, and execute him quickly.  Given the brutality of his crimes, that may not be enough, either.

It’s called vigilante justice.  It’s what happens when governments fail to do their job.

Olli Heinonen: Why Iran’s Ballistic Missiles Matter—The P5+1 negotiations with Iran should include talks on Iran’s ballistic missile capability. UN Security Council Resolution 1929 requested, inter alia, that Iran shall not undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons. The IAEA report from November 2011 describes Iranian work – known as Project 111 – on engineering studies to examine how to integrate a new spherical payload into the existing payload chamber, which would be mounted in the re-entry vehicle of the Shahab-3 missile. The IAEA has assessed that the payload in question is likely a nuclear device. In light of these findings, addressing verifiable limits to Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities should form part of a comprehensive nuclear agreement. The agreement should seek to suspend Iran’s ballistic missile-related work and/or impose a moratorium on the testing of all ballistic missiles, with verifiable ends. Ignoring the strategic linkage between Iran’s nuclear program and its missile program weakens any monitoring and verification system, undermines regional stability and security, and disregards both UN Security Council Resolution 1929 and the sanctions termination criteria as stipulated in U.S. law.

New York Daily News Editorial: The UN Convicted Israel Before Its Show Trial Even Began—Hamas started the conflict by firing thousands of rockets indiscriminately into the Jewish state from heavily populated areas of Gaza, and prolonged the suffering by violating cease-fire after cease-fire that Israel honored. While each Hamas rocket was a war crime, too much of the world attacked Israel for retaliating in self-defense. Among those is the UN Human Rights Council, a body dominated by Israel’s foes that has focused incessantly on Israel while turning a blind eye to abuses by the world’s worst regimes. The Council empaneled a commission “to investigate all violations of international humanitarian law” during the war with an authorizing resolution condemning the Jewish state 18 times, while never once mentioning Hamas.

Omer Einav: What Hizbullah May Learn from the Gaza War—Given the weakening of regular armies in the region in recent years, Hizbullah and Hamas now represent the two main immediate threats to Israel. Prior to the Gaza war, Hamas adopted Hizbullah’s operational concept regarding rocket fire, based on multiple launchings from launchers concealed underground in built-up areas. Hizbullah is likely to reinforce its operational concept of operating from within built-up areas, in view of the IDF’s efforts to avoid a massive entry into populated areas, due to concern about its own losses and heavy collateral damage to the civilian population.

Alan M. Dershowitz: The Right to Protest the Metropolitan Opera Decision to Put on “The Death of Klinghoffer”— On Monday night I stood in front of the Metropolitan Opera listening to hundreds of Jewish and non-Jewish protesters who were aggrieved by the decision of the Metropolitan Opera to produce a work called The Death of Klinghoffer by John Adams. The plot of the opera centers on the cold-blooded murder of an elderly, wheelchair bound, Jewish-American man, who had taken a cruise with his dying wife to celebrate their 36th wedding anniversary.  Palestinian terrorists selected him for execution because he was Jewish, shot him and dumped his body into the sea.  It was not the televised beheading of a journalist or an aid worker who had volunteered to perform an important function in a dangerous area.  But it was at least as brutal and unjustified, precisely because Leon Klinghoffer was an ordinary tourist, who simply happened to be Jewish.

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9--Jerusalem Post

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Egypt slams Turkish leader Erdogan after UN speech

SnyderTalk Comment: “Erdogan delivered a speech which featured stinging criticism of Sisi’s rise and what he called the UN’s inaction after Morsi’s overthrow; Egypt accuses Turkish leader of supporting terrorists.”  Egypt is correct.  Turkey is a serious problem and it has been a problem since Erdogan took power.  Turkey no longer has any right to be a part of NATO.  We can’t afford to allow them to have close proximity with our privileged information much less our military apparatus.

Erdogan offers to host Muslim Brotherhood leaders ousted from Qatar

Turkish president criticizes UN for failure to act in global crises

France Leads Immigration to Israel

French television airs footage of life under Islamic State rule in Syria

UNHCR: Syrian, Iraqi and other asylum seekers on rise in West

SnyderTalk Comment: WARNING: Some of them are moles, and people don’t trust their governments to protect them.  It’s a dangerous combination.

IAEA rejects Arab resolution to curb Israel’s nuclear capabilities

Iraqi forces regain control of Islamic State-held areas

Islamic State ‘brand’ gains ground among Asian militants

Qatari leader tells CNN: We do not support terrorist movements

SnyderTalk Comment: That’s what Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used to say.  Now, he’s getting his payback.

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10--Arutz Sheva

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After Russia Ban, Lithuania Turns to Kosher Market

Emergency Aid Sent to Ukrainian Jewish Refugees

Group: Keep Kaparot Ritual Kosher and Cruelty-Free

Photo Essay: Slichot in Jerusalem 

Filipino ISIS Group Holding Two Germans Hostage 

A Tenth of ISIS’s Terrorists are European

More Girls Than Boys Born in Rocket-Plagued City

The UN Honors the Group that Spawned the Fogel Massacre

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11--THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

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Israeli Arab Priest Tells UN Human Rights Council to “End Witch Hunt” of Israel

For Obama at the UN, what a difference a year makes

Qatari emir urges world to shun Israeli leaders

France: Hunt is on for terrorists in beheading 

UN Security Council takes aim at foreign jihadists

Arab states risk backlash by joining Syria strikes

For Europe’s Jews, 5774 a year of upheaval and uncertainty

Uncompromising, Bennett transforms party and Israel’s right

Hamas, Fatah announce return of unity government to Gaza

At UN, Obama says too many Israelis ready to abandon peace

SnyderTalk Comment: What a ridiculous thing to say.  When one of your so-called “peace partners” kidnaps and murders your people, fires rockets and mortars at your civilian population, and builds tunnels into residential communities to inflict terror and the other “partner” jumps for joy, what would you expect.

The Israeli people aren’t stupid.  That’s more than I can say for Obama.

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12--Other News

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Iraqi PM: Plot to Attack US, Paris Subways

U.S. officials reassure public following Iraqi PM’s warning of alleged IS plot to attack U.S., Paris subways

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Rosh Hashanah Greeting to Jewish Communities Around the World

Turkish Leader Erdogan’s Misstep in NYC

Pentagon: Khorasan in Syria Was “Nearing the Execution Phase” of an Attack

6 Reasons Why the U.S. Should Not Arm the Syrian ‘Moderates’

SWU and a Final Deal with Iran

U.S: Strikes in Syria Are Just the Start of a Prolonged Campaign

Obama: “We Will Not Tolerate Safe Havens for Terrorists”

U.S. Told Iran of Intent to Strike Islamic State in Syria

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4--Scripture of the Day Yahweh

Genesis 31: 22-24

22 When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled, 23 then he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him a distance of seven days’ journey, and he overtook him in the hill country of Gilead. 24 God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night and said to him, “Be careful that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad.”

SnyderTalk Comment: Read His Name is Yahweh.

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5--HNIY Print form 3

His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important.  It’s available in eBook format and in paperback.  It’s also available for free in PDF format.

  • God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15)
  • “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
  • “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘Yahweh our righteousness.’” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)
  • Yeshua said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” (John 8: 58)

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14--Blessings from Revelation 2

Blessings in the Book of Revelation is a book that you need to read, especially now.  There are blessings throughout the Scriptures but Revelation is the only book in the Bible actually containing a specific blessing for reading it. It’s repeated twice, once at the beginning and again at the end. This is the reason that I believe Revelation should be the first step toward studying biblical prophecy. Though not easy to do, Revelation can be broken down and understood by anyone, not just the academic elite. So, Revelation’s blessings are for everyone.  Click here to order the eBook.  Click here to order the paperback.

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Other Books by Neil Snyder

  • Stand! is a suspense novel that exposes the lies, corruption, and greed underlying the theory that man-made CO2 emissions are responsible for global warming. Professor Wes Carlyle and Karen Sterling, his research collaborator, carefully scan the audience for their would-be attacker—a member of the enviro-gestapo who has been following them for days.  Wes spots his man in the back of the room leaning against the wall.  Suddenly, another man in the audience steps forward and moves toward Karen at a menacing pace.  With a vicious stroke, he swings a billy club at her head.  Click here to order the eBook.  Click here to order the paperback.
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  • Falsely Accused is a true story about a young woman who was accused of committing a double homicide. It’s about a travesty of justice, and it reveals Yahweh intervening in the life of a believer to rescue her from danger in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.  Everyone will enjoy the book, but young people in particular need to read it because the mistakes made that led to the problem could have been avoided.  They were the kinds of mistakes that young people are prone to make.  As they say, forewarned is forearmed.  Click here to order the eBook.  Click here to order the paperback.

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