Pretty bleak and awful? Sure. Even extremely. But people will persist in performing what Eric Flint calls ‘stubborn little decencies’ in order to spite Evil.
https://twitter.com/laurakfillault/status/690553387893452800
Yazidi fighter raising a cross on a destroyed Assyrian church in Shingal city – @EzidiPresshttps://t.co/8LKSfpDbfp… pic.twitter.com/AQGIozqzKY
— Conflict News (@Conflicts) January 22, 2016
Background: …well, read my friend and RedState colleague Aaron Gardner, who wrote on this subject himself (including stuff about the laptop mentioned below). But specifically… Syrian rebels (against pretty much both Assad and ISIS these days) reportedly found a laptop and handed it off to Foreign Policy magazine. Said laptop apparently turned out to have quite a number of alarming files in it. How alarming? Well, FP is calling it “The Laptop of Doom:”
The laptop’s contents turn out to be a treasure trove of documents that provide ideological justifications for jihadi organizations — and practical training on how to carry out the Islamic State’s deadly campaigns. They include videos of Osama bin Laden, manuals on how to make bombs, instructions for stealing cars, and lessons on how to use disguises in order to avoid getting arrested while traveling from one jihadi hot spot to another.
But after hours upon hours of scrolling through the documents, it became clear that the ISIS laptop contains more than the typical propaganda and instruction manuals used by jihadists. The documents also suggest that the laptop’s owner was teaching himself about the use of biological weaponry, in preparation for a potential attack that would have shocked the world.
Continue reading Alleged ISIS laptop had a checklist for creating bioweapons.
