A battalion of Yazidi women are getting ready to fight Isis and I’m going with them. ibid.
There are an estimated 800,000 Yazidi in the world. All of them live in this part of Iraq. Their religion is not Christian or Muslim; they worship their own God. Isis performed more vicious brutality towards them than any other religious minority. ibid.
I’m in Iraq. I’ve come because of a woman called Shireen. She’s 23 and was forced to be a sex slave for Isis. But now she’s escaped and wants answers. Stacey Dooley: Face to Face with Isis, BBC 2018
In this spot up to 100 women and children were sold at a time. Around 3,000 Yazidis are still missing. ibid.
I’ve come to Syria to meet women who left the West to join the so-called Islamic State. Now IS has been defeated, their home countries don’t want them back: they see them as a threat. Most now claim the didn’t know anything about the brutality of IS. They say they stayed at home and cooked. Stacey Dooley for Panorama, Stacey Meets the IS Brides, BBC 2019
Since then the Kurds who fought IS to gain control of this part of Syria have been left with radicalised foreigners nobody wants. ibid.
One of the female guards was stabbed to death. Shamima Begum, who left the UK when she was fifteen … is no longer here, but I would like to talk to other British women in the camp. ibid.
Support for IS is still very strong. ibid.
… Inside their tents, but with the atmosphere so tense [sic] … ibid.
They [Yadizi women] were saying some of the Isis women were far worse than the men … No-one saw anything apart from an oven. ibid.
I finally hear British accents. ibid.
I didn’t turn my back on democracy. You did. You knew what Isis stood for. ibid. Stacey to Isis women
It’s hard to know where the truth lies. ibid.
Isis is the biggest, most baddest gang in the world right now. They think they can get an AK and get forgiven by God at the same time. Extremely British Muslims II, Waz and Nav, Channel 4 2017
‘Sharia can only be established with weapons.’ The Islamic State, Vice TV, Isis soldier, Vice 2014
A state that has been established by a hardline Sunni/Jihadist group that emerged at the mayhem of the Syrian civil war. ibid.
Under the command of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. ibid.
The battle for people’s hearts and minds became another important part of their overall strategy. ibid.
‘We call it a positive intervention.’ ibid. civil patrol
In Iraq the war against Isis is in its final phase … The Shia militia fighting on the side of America and the West are driving thousands of Sunni civilians from their homes. In hidden prisons the militia and torturing and killing Sunnis at will. Dispatches: Isis and the Battle for Iraq, Channel 4 2017
High above the war zone the all-seeing eye of the West searches out the enemy. But what do we really know about the enemy? The terrorists claim they’re fighting for Islam. The vast majority of Muslims and Western leaders too insist they have nothing to do with Islam. But who is right? Tom Holland, Isis: The Origins of Violence, Channel 4 2017
The Caliphate is the kind of ideal that never completely disappears. ibid.
‘They absolutely believe Islam will conquer the world.’ ibid.
‘They were all Yazidis. Women were separated from their children. The bastards then took the young and beautiful women to the edge of the village and killed all the rest.’ ibid.
The US allowing a group like Isis to form up and in some cases actively encouraging that including through smuggling guns through Benghazi and fighters through various corridors into Syria … He [Michael Flynn] said that Isis was a wilful creation of the White House. The Corbett Report, Did a New Study Just Find GMOs Safe? James Corbett online June 2016
There is a threat against me on a social media channel that belongs to Isis. But I can’t be scared. As we say in Raqqa, ‘Death is death’. City of Ghosts, 2017
This is a story about Raqqa. Our forgotten Syrian city on the Euphrates river that is now known as the capital of Islamic State. ibid.
In the power vacuum left by the revolution a new group invaded Raqqa. Its members held a black flag. ibid.
They painted our city black and shrouded it in darkness. ibid.
Executions and detentions were happening randomly. ibid.
These were the first screams of RBSS: Raqqa is being slaughtered silently. ibid.
Isis has been able to gather information about us. ibid.
They exploit Islam for their personal gain. ibid.
Children are Isis’ firewood. ibid.
As Isis tightened control it amassed a fortune … Isis emerged from the fractured chaos of the Middle East and quickly conquered a swathe of territory across northern Syria becoming the first terror group in modern history to create its own nation. Breaking History: New Age of Terror I, History 2018
‘They have rampaged across cities and villages killing innocent unarmed civilians.’ Enemy of Enemies: The Rise of Isil I II, Obama, Al Jazeera 2015
‘This unholy alliance between Ba’athism and I would say Wahhabism’ ibid. observer
The insurgency moved to a new state of terror … The US invasion of Iraq had spawned two insurgencies, uniting an increasingly sectarian conflict. ibid.
The combination of US troops and Sunni tribes had beaten back the Islamic state of Iraq. ibid.
The Americans cast a wide net rounding up thousands of Iraqi men. ibid.
‘The war in Syria helped to reverse the victory of Iraq over Al Qaeda.’ ibid. observer
‘Isil came knocking and said, We are your saviour.’ ibid.
Failures of governance since the 2003 US invasion had left Mosul vulnerable to a new invading force. ibid.
An international coalition was being exposed as a patchwork of conflicting interests, and Isil’s supposed usefulness to its supposed enemies was proving its greatest asset. ibid.
He secretly releases Islamic fundamentalists from his prisons, arms them and sends them over the border to fight the Americans. A Dangerous Dynasty: House of Assad, BBC 2018
The Muslim fundamentalists that Bashar released will cross the border back into Syria and try to set up an Islamic state there. ibid.
In June 2014 so-called Islamic State fighters occupied huge areas of Syria and Iraq, entirely overwhelming the Azidi community who lived Mount Sinjar. Thousands of Yazidis fled before the advance. Those that fell into IS’s were met with the utmost brutality: men were killed and young women forced into slavery. In a few short weeks, a culture that had existed for thousands of years was brought to the brink of destruction. I Was a Yazidi Slave, BBC 2018
‘Thousands of Yazidi girls were imprisoned. They had the most terrible things done to them.’ ibid. victim
‘When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families.’ Donald Trump, cited A Very Heavy Agenda
‘I would bomb the shit out of ’em.’ ibid.
The intelligence operatives involved in the hunt for Jihadi John have never spoken publicly about the mission. The Hunt for Jihadi John, caption, Channel 4 2019
He was very distinctive and within hours we had a name for that individual – Mohammed Emwazi. ibid. operative
He just was very pliable. ibid. teacher
The snarling attacks on Obama and Cameron I think are very much Muhammed Emwazi. ibid. dude
From the battlefields of the Middle East to the streets of Europe. Islamic State now threatens us worldwide. In a world exclusive, Sky News uncovered the existence of thousands of Islamic State files. Now we show not only the scale of the organisation’s international recruitment network but the true nature of the threat it posed. Secrets of the IS Files, Sky News 2016
He [defector] handed me thousands of computer files compiled by their high command. The most comprehensive intelligent leak in the organisation’s history. ibid.
An increasingly large number of those volunteers were coming from Britain. ibid.