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NOTES <strong>AND</strong> SOURCES n 71<br />
172. May 16, 2014 call to telephone number found on an embedded poster promoted by<br />
groups pushing Afghan Shiite involvement in the Syrian conflict.<br />
173. See https://www.facebook.com/205194039680673/photos/a.205261396340604.1<br />
073741828.205194039680673/223278724538871/?type=1&source=46&ref<br />
id=17.<br />
174. “Help & FAQ: What Is deviantART and Who Founded deviantART?” http://<br />
help.deviantart.com/116/.<br />
175. Personal conversation, July 16, 2014.<br />
176. Colin Freeman, “Iraq Crisis: Why Maliki’s Call to Arms Will Just Fuel<br />
Sectarian fires,” Telegraph, June 16, 2014, http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/<br />
colinfreeman/100276451/iraq-crisis-why-malikis-call-to-arms-will-just-fuelsectarian-fires/.<br />
177. See Kataib Hezbollah’s website, http://www.kataibhizbollah.com/ar/pages/video.<br />
php?fi=665&gfid=32, and for the video: http://www.kataibhizbollah.com/ar/<br />
pages/video.php?fi=665&gfid=32.<br />
178. One of these numbers was directly associated with Kataib Hezbollah. The other<br />
numbers were associated with PCMDSZ and the Badr Organization.<br />
179. Based on author’s and associates’ calls to the recruitment numbers over a tenmonth<br />
period.<br />
180. The lines called were marketed as venues for Afghan Shiites interested in fighting<br />
in Syria.<br />
181. Personal conversation with telephone recruiter, January 9, 2014.<br />
182. Ibid.<br />
183. Call by author to PCMDSZ recruitment line, May 15, 2014.<br />
184. “Radda al-Jaysh al-Iraqi ‘ala naghula al-Jaysh al-Hurr,” YouTube video, 6:20,<br />
posted by “SababAlSahaba,” October 16, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/<br />
watch?v=EWFTCWgOnFo.<br />
185. “Malathamu al-jamajim ferqa min al-jaish al-Iraqi masdaran li r’uba Da’ish,” al-<br />
Arus al-Ahwar, June 13, 2014, http://arusalahuar.com/archives/22660.<br />
186. See https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Images/Books/Smyth/Com<br />
bined/T-186abc.jpg for images (a), (b), and (c).<br />
187. See image of a LAFA militiaman holding a camouflaged Kalashnikov-type rifle at<br />
http://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/untitled45.png?w=300&h=225. In an<br />
official propaganda music video for ISOF’s Firqat al-Dhahibiyah (Gold Division),<br />
see the skull face-mask and custom camouflaged rifles: YouTube video, 5:03,<br />
posted by “Ibn al-Iraq al-Majruha,” May 6, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/<br />
watch?v=stHFXe2jrn0.<br />
188. See https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Images/Books/Smyth/T-188.<br />
jpg for image.<br />
189. See https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Images/Books/Smyth/Comb<br />
ined/T-189abcd.jpg for images (a), (b), (c), and (d).<br />
190. Richard A. Oppel Jr., “Mistrust as Iraqi Troops Encounter New U.S. Allies,”
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