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ISIS Releases Dabiq No. 4 : Yazidis, Sotloff and Attacks on the West

By Jeralyn, Section War In Iraq
Posted on Sun Oct 12, 2014 at 04:00:18 PM EST
Tags: ISIS, Dabiq, Yazidis, Sotloff (all tags)
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ISIS has released the 4th issue of its Dabiq magazine, available here. It's more than 50 pages, and aside from the written statement by John Cantlie which I write about here, I think the three most interesting parts are the call for recruits to launch lone wolf attacks in their Western home countries and credit ISIS for any killings, an attempted justification for enslaving Yazidi women and turning them over as concubines to Islamic soldiers, and a letter it purports was written by deceased hostage Steven Sotloff to his mother. I'll summarize these in turn, and more briefly describe other topics addressed in the issue.

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