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More details on the schism between the Hazimis and lesser-extremists in #IS: Abu Anisa al-Dagestani, an Azeri commanded and Hazimi, blames the caliph's insufficiently stern position on takfir for the loss of land and men last year. chechensinsyria.com/?p=26129
According to Abu Anisa al-Dagestani, the caliph reversed the May 2017 expansion by the Delegated Committee of the takfir ruling after his wife had a dream in which Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, and Abu Muhammad al-Furqan came to his house and ignored him. #pt
The caliph reversed the May 2017 takfir ruling by a deft institutional manoeuvre: he invited its author, Ismail al-Ithawi (Abu Zayd al-Iraqi), to a meeting in August 2017 and threatened to kill him if he didn't reverse himself. #pt
Final interesting point: if Abu Anisa al-Dagestani is telling the truth that the expansive-takfir fatwa was withdrawn after the caliph threatened Ismail al-Ithawi (Abu Zayd al-Iraqi) at a meeting in August 2017, then it means al-Ithawi's testimony to the @WSJ contains lies #shock
Al-Ithawi says the last time he saw Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was May 2017 (he also distances himself, claims disillusionment, and that the caliph is at death's door: all red flags, lies he knows his captors want to hear): on.wsj.com/2MVRIqc
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#YPG/#PKK publicly invites the #Asad/#Iran system into the border areas, particularly Minbij, which was captured because of the efforts of the U.S., working in coordination with #Turkey, having promised that the city would be handed over to local rule after #IS was gone.
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9 Sept:

1543: Mary, Queen of Scots, 9-months-old, crowned

1923: CHP becomes a political party

1944: Communist coup in Bulgaria

1970: "Black September" events begin, end with PLO expelled from Jordan to Lebanon, where they cause another civil war

2001: Ahmad Shah Masud killed
9 September 1976: Mao Zedong finally died.

Mao is the only rival to Stalin as the most murderous tyrant of the 20th century. Sadly the totalitarian regime he created in #China survives in somewhat modified form to the present.
9 September 1922: The Turkish forces enter Izmir, effectively defeating Greece.

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