{"id":43918,"date":"2015-03-11T02:29:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T02:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=43918"},"modified":"2015-03-11T02:29:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T02:29:56","slug":"doubleflag-in-tikrit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=43918","title":{"rendered":"DoubleFlag in Tikrit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; more exectly, flag \/ stone &#8212; but a DoubleLogo either way ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BreakingNews?src=hash\">#BreakingNews<\/a>&#10;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tikrit?src=hash\">#Tikrit<\/a> is liberated from anti-Western islamist extremists &#8230; &#10;by Anti-Western islamist extremists.&#10;<a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/08NmZ5DDoo\">pic.twitter.com\/08NmZ5DDoo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Conflict Reporter (@Conflict_Report) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Conflict_Report\/status\/575257676285886465\">March 10, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>I like this because of the twinning of logos in the image, a sort of <strong>DoubleQuote in the Wild<\/strong>, and also because of the <strong>parallelism of opposites<\/strong> it proposes in the wording of its text portion &#8212; Shia militia vs Sunni IS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grurray <\/strong>asked me whether it was the Hezbollah flag, and I made my guess but asked <strong>Phillip Smyth<\/strong>, who covers Shia militias in Iraq on <strong>Aaron Zelin<\/strong>&#8216;s Jihadology.net at <a href=\"http:\/\/jihadology.net\/hizballah-cavalcade\/\">Hizballah Cavalcade<\/a>.  He replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hipbonegamer\">@hipbonegamer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Grurray\">@Grurray<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Conflict_Report\">@Conflict_Report<\/a> that&#39;s saraya tali&#39;a khurasani AKA saraya khurasani. Note: logo is directly based on IRGC&#39;s.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Phillip Smyth (@PhillipSmyth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhillipSmyth\/status\/575346866826645504\">March 10, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hipbonegamer\">@hipbonegamer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Grurray\">@Grurray<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Conflict_Report\">@Conflict_Report<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/tBSmEnfSPi\">http:\/\/t.co\/tBSmEnfSPi<\/a> wrote this on em back in 2013. Needs an update,but you can see logo&#39;s genesis<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Phillip Smyth (@PhillipSmyth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhillipSmyth\/status\/575347965038063617\">March 10, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>For further details on Shiite militias, see Phillip&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>ICYMI, my monograph for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WashInstitute\">@WashInstitute<\/a>: &quot;The Shiite Jihad in Syria and Its Regional Effects&quot;: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/VtIz2u2Gz9\">http:\/\/t.co\/VtIz2u2Gz9<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/0toOdR8Vhw\">pic.twitter.com\/0toOdR8Vhw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Phillip Smyth (@PhillipSmyth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhillipSmyth\/status\/575058860458819584\">March 9, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; more exectly, flag \/ stone &#8212; but a DoubleLogo either way ] . #BreakingNews&#10;#Tikrit is liberated from anti-Western islamist extremists &#8230; &#10;by Anti-Western islamist extremists.&#10;pic.twitter.com\/08NmZ5DDoo &mdash; Conflict Reporter (@Conflict_Report) March 10, 2015 ** I like this because of the twinning of logos in the image, a sort of DoubleQuote in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,627,45,1078,1047,1077,393,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-iraq","category-is","category-isis","category-phillip-smyth","category-twitter","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43918"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43931,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43918\/revisions\/43931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}