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Hmmmmmmm.

http://www.news.com.au/world/new-us-inte...4aa8dc4fbc

Very unusual for a leftie MSM site to be promoting this kind of "ISIS really is just as big and invasive and horrible as the Right says it is" kind of stuff. I mean, these quotes:

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A NEW US intelligence report predicts the Islamic State terror group will spread worldwide unless it incurs significant losses in Syria and Iraq.

The leaked report, commissioned by the White House prior to the Paris attacks and the San Bernardino shootings, comes on the heels of another huge gain by IS with the assassination of the governor of the Yemeni port city of Aden.

The accompanying map puts big red blobs over Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, and Afghanistan as places that have ISIS "provinces". And then there's this...

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Experts say the leaking of Islamic State’s masterplan overnight show how much the west has underestimated the group.

The blueprint includes a complete system of civil service and government as well as “Soviet levels of economic control,” according to the Guardian.

“Far from being an army of irrational, bloodthirsty fanatics, IS is a deeply calculating political organisation with an extremely complex, well-planned infrastructure behind it,” Charlie Winter, a senior researcher for Georgia State University told the newspaper.

Titled, “Principles in the administration of the Islamic State”, its 24-pages reveal how IS has grown to become the wealthiest and most feared terror groups of the last 50 years. And that’s only the beginning.

“[IS] is a project that strives to govern. It’s not just a case of their sole end being endless battle,” said Aymenn al-Tamimi, an academic researcher who, through a businessman working with IS, leaked the documents to the press.

Written by an Egyptian named Abu Abdullah, the text is a manual for “cadres of administrators” after the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared a “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria on June 28, 2014.

It also delves into the mundane — health, education commerce, communications, jobs — and provides a guide on how to organise government departments including military, public relations and education.

Children will receive “training on bearing light arms”, while “outstanding individuals” will be “selected from them for security portfolio assignments, including checkpoints, patrols”.

Foreign fighters and “natives” must unify under the new regimen, it says, while calling for “factories for local military and food production”.

The Guardian claims it obtained the masterplan from a businessman working with Islamic State via IS researcher Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, who translated it.

In a blog post, al-Tamimi estimates the document was written between June and October 2014.

“If the west sees IS as an almost stereotypical band of psychopathic killers, we risk dramatically underestimating them,” said General Stanley McChrystal (retired), who according to the Guardian, led the military units that helped destroy IS’s predecessor organisation in Iraq from 2006 to 2008.

“If it is indeed genuine, it is fascinating and should be read by everyone — particularly policymakers in the west.

“In the Principles in the administration of the Islamic State, you see a focus on education (really indoctrination) beginning with children but progressing through their ranks, a recognition that effective governance is essential, thoughts on their use of technology to master information (propaganda), and a willingness to learn from the mistakes of earlier movements.”

Questions being: who leaked the DNI report, and why?