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
March 17th, 2015 at 3:22 am
Msrs Cameron and Zen,
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While we won’t comment on Mr. Smyth you may wish to check out these tweets on his Tweep and a man that many ZP readers seem to follow: Robert Caruso.
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https://twitter.com/LibertyLynx/status/577266415016624128
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https://twitter.com/LibertyLynx/status/577248013157961728
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https://twitter.com/LibertyLynx/status/577248570337673216
March 17th, 2015 at 6:05 am
Nobody:
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I must request that you refrain from anonymous ad hominem attacks on those who are neither quoted here nor present to defend themselves.
March 17th, 2015 at 3:24 pm
I will have to second Charles.
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Mr. Caruso has strong opinions with which many ppl disagree or agree vehemently, judging from twitter, but he is not a member of this site, nor is he, as far as I am aware, even a regular reader of ZP. You should either engage Robert on twitter directly, or do so openly on a more appropriate forum, like a personal blog or listserv. Thanks