There are some interesting details to be found in the Iowa exit polls, though many of them aren’t all that surprising. The CBS exit poll showed that Cruz won thanks to his large advantage with self-described conservatives, especially the “very conservative” voters that make up the bulk of his support everywhere.
Via Stratfor,
Hillary Clinton emerged victorious in Iowa on Monday night, but it was a close call.
So close, in fact, that Bernie Sanders wants a recount.
US military contractor Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) and Israeli arms company Elbit Systems have won a £500-million contract to provide aircraft training for the UK military. RT reports: The Affinity venture, in which the two are partners, will provide fixed wing training for sections of the UK Armed Forces concerned with aviation. Affinity’s component is part of a larger deal led by Ascent Flight training and worth £1.1 billion. Ascent is itself a fifty-fifty venture between international arms firms Babcock and Lockheed Martin.
The British woman who took her 18-month old son to Syria, has been sentenced to six years in prison for joining ISIS. After telling her family she was going on holiday to Turkey in October 2014, 26 year old Tareena Shakil traveled to the terrorist stronghold of Raqqa in Syria. Her father claims that his daughter’s conviction is a ‘fix up’ by officials RT reports: While in Syria, Shakil posted pictures of her toddler next to an AK-47, as well as wearing a balaclava emblazoned with IS imagery.