ISIS Map Showing World Conquest – Likely False

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Mark Melin
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Last week, as media outlets published a map allegedly distributed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) showing the group’s intentions to expand their territorial acquisitions to places such as Spain and Portugal, the point was to alarm the western world to a coming political threat. But experts say the graph is not accurate and reflects western definitions a “caliphate,” or Islamic empire. Terrifying ISIS Map Showing its 5-Year Expansion Plan ABC News, for its part, splashed a headline that read: “See the Terrifying ISIS Map Showing its 5-Year Expansion Plan.” The report traced the map back not to…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

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