US should use al-Qaida forces to defeat ISIS, former CIA chief David Petraeus reportedly says.

US should use al-Qaida forces to defeat ISIS, former CIA chief David Petraeus reportedly says.(JPost)

Fourteen years after al-Qaida's September 11 attacks on the US, retired US army general and former Central Intelligence Agency director David Petraeus has been advocating the use of moderate members of al-Qaida's branch in Syria in order to fight ISIS, The Daily Beast reported on Tuesday.

Petraeus, the former commander of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, has been "quietly urging US officials" to consider aligning with the so-called moderate members of Nusra Front in Syria, four sources familiar with the conversations, including one person who spoke to Petraeus directly, told The Daily Beast.

Petraeus reportedly advocates "trying to cleave off less extreme Nusra fighters, who are battling ISIS in Syria, but who joined with Nusra because of their shared goal of overthrowing Syrian President Bashar Assad," according to those familiar with the general's thinking.

Christopher Harmer, a senior naval analyst with the Middle East Security Project at the Washington, DC-based Institute for the Study of War, told The Daily Beast that Petraeus's recommendation is "an acknowledgment that the US stated goal to degrade and destroy ISIS is not working."

"If it were, we would not be talking to these not quite foreign terrorist groups,” Harmer said.

“Strategically, it is desperate,” he added.   Hmmm.....I've got news....they already do thanks to Turkey, Qatar and the Obama 'admin'.Read the full story here.

Of course girls have access to education in 'liberated' #Syria #AlQaeda pic.twitter.com/kI7WNp6ugh

— маяковский (@moscow_ghost) September 1, 2015

ISIS reveals new coins to replace 'satanic conception of banks'

ISIS reveals new coins to replace 'satanic conception of banks'. (albawabaeg).

ISIS has revealed its plan or minting its own gold and silver coins in it's latest hour-long video entitled "The Rise of the Khilafah and the Return of the Gold Dinar," released on Saturday.

The video, narrated in English with Arabic subtitles, begins with an extensive analysis on “the capitalist financial system of enslavement, underpinned by a piece of paper called the Federal Reserve dollar note,” and the corruption that allowed for the American destruction of the monetary system intended by Allah with the production of paper money used to finance oil trade.

The new ISIS currency comes in several denominations of silver gold and copper. The coins are imprinted with Islamic symbols and "are completely void of human and animal images in accordance with Shariah law."

The reverse side of one coin shows seven wheat stalks, "representing the blessing of spending in the path of Allah," says the narrator.

Another coin is imprinted with a map of the world, "representing the extent of territory Mohammad's reign would reach, including Constantinople, Rome and America," and another is imprinted with a spear and shield "showing that the source of provision of Mohammad were from jihad in the name of Allah."

An ISIS activist is seen on camera walking through the streets, presenting the newly minted coins to shop keepers, armed men, and civilians with their smiling children. The activists explain to the people that the gold coins hold their value and are worth more than paper money in the bank. The dinar coins are intended to return the power of the money to the people.

"We are witnessing the return of days, like those during the time of the prophet," says one shop keeper, hugging and kissing the ISIS activist.

My dear brothers this will be achieved by our promise and then by our blood for there is no other path to victory except through sacrifice and jihad for the sake of Allah

The video concluded with a three minute lyrical music video showing ISIS warriors fighting against different backdrops. The song runs through different reasons the warriors fight and each paragraph is inter-cut the chorus which sings, "For the sake of Allah we will march through the gates of paradise where our maidens will wait. We are men that love death just as you love your life, we are soldiers that fight in the day and the night."

#ISIS fait découvrir sa monnaie à la population #goldendinar #dinar pic.twitter.com/slqklfcikg

— Marshall FR (@Chief_MarshallR) August 29, 2015

the copper fulus... pic.twitter.com/sF55Hz5DLV

— J. Faraday (@CTstudies) August 29, 2015

The silver Dirham pic.twitter.com/qGBPH9TkrX

— J. Faraday (@CTstudies) August 29, 2015

UPDATE 2 from the video release! They explain the "look" weight and material of each coin: (here the Dinar) pic.twitter.com/9ajUdPK4xv

— J. Faraday (@CTstudies) August 29, 2015

Daesh currency (already published 2014) The gold Dinar: 5Dinar gold coin and 1 Dinar gold coin pic.twitter.com/7KkY9WdeJh

— J. Faraday (@CTstudies) August 29, 2015

5 Dinar is equal $659 , 1 Dinar= $139 (current value), that's an estimate from November 2014 (weight of coins incl.) pic.twitter.com/G5TaFjmPXd

— J. Faraday (@CTstudies) August 29, 2015