Tag Archives: Graeme Wood

LinkSwarm for January 3, 2020

Posted on January 3, 2020 by Lawrence Person

Start your new decade out with another LinkSwarm! Iranian Revolutionary Guard Leader and Qods force commander Qasem Soleimani was killed in an airstrike in Baghdad. Further thoughts from Graeme Wood: Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’s … Continue reading →

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Al Baghdadi / Islamic State / Syria / Turkey / Kurds Happy Fun Update Ball

Posted on October 31, 2019 by Lawrence Person

Enjoy this roundup of links on the Islamic State in specific, and Syria, Turkey and the Kurds more generally, after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s timely demise: Why al-Baghdadi was special: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the hirsute rapist whom hundreds of thousands of … Continue reading →

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“The Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic.”

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Lawrence Person

This extensive Graeme Wood Atlantic piece on the Islamic State is must reading. Though many of the points Wood addresses about Koranic scriptural justifications for Islamic State actions (including its most horrific atrocities) have been covered here and in places … Continue reading →

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