– Republican presidential candidates are already responding to the Paris attacks, as Marco Rubio did, by calling for just such “a civilizational conflict with radical Islam”. #PrayForParis trended across social media, as images, poems, letters went viral. Let us make sure we understand what it would entail not just to start it but also to end it. We have not seen a tipping point. They called themselves “al-Qaida in Iraq”. Their dream is to live in a black-and-white world of utter religious and political clarity (and calamity), while engaging in what American pundits like to term a “clashof civilizations”.
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As the world scrambles to respond, the questions pile up like the dead: Who are they? The difference in the attacks? “We’re not in this business to kill civilians, we’re in this business to stop” the IS group.
I was in Paris last Friday when the attacks took place – bloody.
What is that something? The world’s response to “terrorism” has been through increased military action.
The prediction comes as the French government debates whether to extend the country’s state of emergency to three months. They also are called IS and ISIL. All because of, you guessed it, “terrorism”.
In a recent report, the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) confirmed the use of sulfur mustard near Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo in August this year. Pressure mounted on Prime Minister Nouri-al-Maliki to resign.
Citing intelligence reports he has access to, he said the group has managed to attract chemical experts from overseas as well as Iraqi experts, including those who once worked for Saddam Hussein’s now-dissolved Military Industrialisation Authority.
Further, post 2003 institutions came to be organised along sectarian lines.
The Turks are instead hitting the Kurds in Turkey, Syria and Iraq. “And either they win, or we win”.
It is this emergence of a Sunni identity rooted in the notion of victimhood, that made the emergence of IS in Iraq possible. Again, to over simplify, Daesh is a form of an acronym for the group’s full Arabic name. So the reason why ISIS has capacity, it has capacity because it has been able to recruit foreign fighters, it has been able to create networks and also because of coordination between the Islamic State, in particular in Syria.
The third certainty is that while the United States, and Russian Federation, and now France, are all very theatrically bombing something in the Syrian desert (nobody really knows what), the funding of ISIS continues unabated as someone keeps buying ISIS oil.
It’s hotly debated how much ISIS makes from illicit oil sales. The name change was based on the Baghdadi’s intent to merge ISI with the Syria-based Nusra Front.
What explains the success against al-Qaeda? Other worldwide officials disputed this, however, saying the men were not connected with the group. It has wiped clean a 100-year-old colonial border in the Middle East, controlling millions of people in Iraq and Syria.
Hakim al-Zamili, the head of the Iraqi parliament’s security and defence committee said: “Daesh [Isis] is working very seriously to reach production of chemical weapons, particularly nerve gas”. “So we had to figure out a way around that”.
After nearly 18 months of the Obama administration’s half-measures, it’s obvious that defeat of the Islamic State is not going to happen absent a first-class, mobile ground force being launched to mate with overwhelming air power. “I will not apologize for that, because we are fighting the long fight, and for us to do otherwise would be shortsighted”. Because we know from Abaaoud, the one who organised the massive operations in France, it takes one person.
Protests erupted against the government of Syria’s president, Bashar Assad, in 2011 amid the wider Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and elsewhere. For instance, Nigeria defeated Boko Haram when it killed its leader Mohammed Yusuf. The Islamic State is not almost as strong as the hysteria of the moment suggests.
However, he said, US intelligence agencies have consistently underestimated the Islamic State group, which has shown itself to be more capable and innovative than al-Qaeda and has greater financial resources. Capacity building, however, is not on the agenda at all.
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France put forward the resolution on Thursday and sought quick approval from the 15-member council.
