DoubleFlag in Tikrit

[ by Charles Cameron — more exectly, flag / stone — but a DoubleLogo either way ]

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#BreakingNews #Tikrit is liberated from anti-Western islamist extremists … by Anti-Western islamist extremists. pic.twitter.com/08NmZ5DDoo

— Conflict Reporter (@Conflict_Report) March 10, 2015

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I like this because of the twinning of logos in the image, a sort of DoubleQuote in the Wild, and also because of the parallelism of opposites it proposes in the wording of its text portion — Shia militia vs Sunni IS.

Grurray asked me whether it was the Hezbollah flag, and I made my guess but asked Phillip Smyth, who covers Shia militias in Iraq on Aaron Zelin‘s Jihadology.net at Hizballah Cavalcade. He replied:

@hipbonegamer @Grurray @Conflict_Report that's saraya tali'a khurasani AKA saraya khurasani. Note: logo is directly based on IRGC's.

— Phillip Smyth (@PhillipSmyth) March 10, 2015

@hipbonegamer @Grurray @Conflict_Report http://t.co/tBSmEnfSPi wrote this on em back in 2013. Needs an update,but you can see logo's genesis

— Phillip Smyth (@PhillipSmyth) March 10, 2015

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For further details on Shiite militias, see Phillip’s…

ICYMI, my monograph for @WashInstitute: "The Shiite Jihad in Syria and Its Regional Effects": http://t.co/VtIz2u2Gz9 pic.twitter.com/0toOdR8Vhw

— Phillip Smyth (@PhillipSmyth) March 9, 2015