re: 60 Iraqi battalions unaccounted for or defeated

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Doesn't matter who "wins" they will continue to sell the oil.

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Demographics and external support all but guarantee that the Capital will hold, but having ISIL in charge of large and strategically important areas of the country does not bode well.

I like to remind people that this is the group that Zawahiri and the rest of AQ's senior leaders disavowed for being too radical in its ideology and too indiscriminate in its tactics.