CHILLING – A well-known German reporter has gotten inside ISISA, and has brought back a chilling report that is spreading over the internet.  We are facing a very determined enemy.   This is from the Logan Reporter, but I have seen it, in the last day, on many larger sites: 

THE first Western journalist in the world to be allowed extensive access to Isis territories in Syria and Iraq has returned from the region with a warning: the group is "much stronger and much more dangerous" than anyone in the West realises.

Jürgen Todenhöfer, 74, is a renowned German journalist and publicist who travelled through Turkey to Mosul, the largest city occupied by Isis, after months of negotiations with the group's leaders.

He plans to publish a summary of his "10 days in the Islamic State" on Monday, but in interviews with German-language media outlets has revealed his first impressions of what life is like under Isis.

Speaking to the website Der tz, Todenhöfer revealed that he actually stayed in the same hotel in Benghazi as James Foley, the US journalist who was beheaded on camera by Isis in August.

"Of course, I've seen the terrible, brutal video and it was one of my main concerns during the negotiations as to how I can avoid [the same fate]," he said.

Once within Isis territory, Todenhöfer said his strongest impression was "that Isis is much stronger than we think here".

He said it now has "dimensions larger than the UK", and is supported by "an almost ecstatic enthusiasm that I have never encountered in any other warzone".

"Each day, hundreds of willing fighters arrive from all over the world," he told tz. "For me it is incomprehensible."

COMMENT:  We'll look for further details from this reporter, but read this whole preliminary article now.  It's packed with information.  This is a very determined opponent.  We have a tendency to ridicule these new, ideologically based movements, just as we ridiculed Fidel Castro before he took power.  We do this at our peril.

December 22, 2014