(03-26-2024, 04:53 AM)MrJesterium Wrote: I'd say if CIA had lost control of ISIS, there'd have been a lot more incidents on US soil. Why would terrorists who want to make a statement go after the weak and helpless, that wouldn't suggest they're strong. The whole point of funding terrorists is to have them wreaking havoc in other countries. The US is vulnerable to attacks by trained Ukrainian and Israeli extremists, once the funding is cut off, they'll start getting desperate and taking matters into their own hands.
The objective of terrorism is not to show strength, it's to terrorize folks. Terrorists nearly always go after the weak and helpless, because those types can't kill them right back. It's tough to pile up a body count for terrorism purposes when your "victims" just kill you right back. Your killing days stop if you're dead, so they pick victims that can't dead them before they're done terrorizing.
It's possible the CIA is behind this, but equally possible it's not. The problem with "backing" organizations of this nature is that there comes a time when thee are too many people involved to properly control. Things can get out of hand when they start believing their own bullshit and going their own way.
Also, "cut-outs". The guys that were hired for this were doubtlessly hired by ISIS middle men. The ones that hired them are sitting pretty in other places. The chain can only be readily followed up to a certain height before cut-outs come into play insulating the real master-minds. That's what dead-drops and cut-outs are for. The principles involved can't identify people when they don't know who they are.
Quote:Supposedly, the context for them cutting off a terrorist's left ear was to put a certain element of their faith to the test, to see how much pains they would be willing to endure for their cause. (After all, ISIS members would rather go out in a blaze of glory than face capture.)
I was unable to confirm such a belief exists with my Muslim contacts, it's not a Sunni belief that's for sure.
Let's not kid ourselves. The Russian torture actions were nothing less than terrorizing the terrorists. They allowed it to be publicized as a message: "we're coming for you, and this is what you can expect. Any other asswipes out there planning this sort of shit, you're gonna get the same. Come at us, bros". It wasn't intended to extract intel, it was intended to send a message. It was just terrorizing the terrorists.
Quote:Here's an interesting dream I've picked up, but haven't really incorporated, as I couldn't find a suitable context for it:
Quote:Then I had another dream about black holes. And apparently some kind of time related event that occurs at specific years somewhat regularly. The time event marks a potential collapse of the vacuum or simulation apparently. All I remember is that one such event happened in 471 AD and several years since then, and it's apparently possible to predict when the next one is.
I honestly don't know what to do with it. Around 472 AD, Vesuvius erupted, that's all I managed to find.
Rome was sacked in 472 AD. While not a "natural disaster" itself, usually invasive migrations are sparked by natural disasters that make the "homeland" unlivable for a while causing the inhabitants to seek riches elsewhere. A large volcanic eruption in 536 AD, for example, wrought havoc for several years in Europe. Some historians claim that 536 AD was the worst year in human history on account of it. The location of that eruption is unknown. Some folks say it was Iceland, others say it was El Salvador, but no one knows, and it may have been anywhere volcanoes are. Who's to say that something equally disastrous didn't happen in 472 AD, but perhaps in a different locale where it went unrecorded?
That's the problem with retroactive "prophecies" - you reach a point where not enough information was recorded to prove or disprove them, and from there on, it's all speculative.
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