{"id":54197,"date":"2017-03-01T19:41:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T19:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=54197"},"modified":"2017-03-01T19:41:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T19:41:28","slug":"karlremarks-sharro-moves-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=54197","title":{"rendered":"“KarlreMarks” Sharro moves on"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — from Abu A and Abu B to Steve and Donnie ]
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Karl Sharro<\/strong> is a Middle Eastern architect and satirist based in London, whose two modes of \u201csimply\u201d explaining the Middle East<\/a> I presented a while back. His third view envisions ISIS as a board game, and asks Who can devise the most convoluted way to wipe out the Islamic State?<\/a><\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Anyway, KarlreMarx has two jihadist ezxtremists he’s been tracking for some while — Abu A and <\/strong>Abu B:<\/p>\n

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Outside Sharro’s fevered imagination, ISIS does indeed have an air force — of weaponized drones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Suicide? No, martydom — and individual ISIS members are as expendable as their goals are lofty:<\/p>\n

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Sometimes, to be honest, those goals make little sense..<\/p>\n

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— and besides, eclipses are signs of impending apocalypse..<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Time rolls on, however — and Sharro has shifted his target. As he put it in a tweet today<\/a>, “I decided to retire Abu A and Abu B and replace them with another radicalised pair”:<\/p>\n

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Steve and Donnie<\/strong> — two’s company.<\/p>\n

We shall see what we shall see..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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