Yet, as the Paris attacks showed, the group is now acting on global ambitions.
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The lack of obvious threats is, of course, beside the point when American “safety” is at stake! “We had been watching them [ISIS targets]”.
“Companies called Isis have been forced to confront how attached they are to the name”.
The terror movement started in Iraq as a branch, or subsidiary, of al-Qaeda, and was organized after the American invasion, meant to lead a guerilla war against American forces in the manner the mujahideen had gone after the Soviets in Afghanistan. The United States has been carrying out air strikes against the IS for more than a year.
Bin Laden’s strategy did not work out for him, in large part because his Iraqi franchise was too murderous.
You said that using IS or ISIL grants a kind of sovereignty to the group by calling it a “state”.
In the Al-Monitor article of October 26 titled “Is Russian intervention in Syria pushing “moderate jihadis” toward Islamic State?”. But so far, IS has not fully adopted al-Qaeda’s approach – and while the Paris attacks demonstrated planning and involved simultaneous coordinated attacks, an al-Qaeda hallmark, they were also waged against relatively “soft” targets.
Who are the Islamic State? . One thing’s for sure: Years of repeated, horrific attacks against Shia Iraqis led to deep divisions in Iraqi society, which have yet to heal. And again, you asked earlier, really this represents a major shift in the modus operandi of Isis.
After intelligence disclosures by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, terrorist groups such as the Islamic State discovered more ways to hide their communications from intelligence agencies, he said. Levant is the historical term for the region east of the Mediterranean including Egypt, Iran and Turkey. The question is, did ISIS mean Syria or greater Syria? The terrorist group reportedly moved its research labs, experts and materials from Iraq to “secured locations” inside Syria.
It has released many hostage execution videos to threaten the West and admonish its Arab allies for targeting the group. New countries were constructed, including Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. We are winning.’ So these attacks, basically, help the so-called Islamic State try to rechange the narrative and try also to convince its base, its supporters, plus they inspire many recruits, because these attacks are massive, massive – in particular, the downing of the Russian plane and the bloodbath in Beirut and Paris and now Mali.
As IS’s statement of responsibility indicated, France was probably chosen as its first Western target because of the government’s active involvement in the anti-IS coalition, its intervention against Islamists in Mali, the state’s strong secularism – which prohibits public displays of religion including the hijab – and the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad, both by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the newspaper Liberation, which republished the notorious Danish cartoons of 2007.
The Financial Times reported that ISIS changed it strategy this week by ordering truckers to stay away and instead pick up a receipt that gives them a specific time to return and fill up. “They have quite an organized supply chain running fuel into Iraq and [throughout] the ‘caliphate, ‘ ” says Michael Knights, an Iraq expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, using the militant group’s religiously loaded term for itself. US troops can do more to inflame than to suppress enmity.
Second, “Daesh” also has pejorative connotations in Arabic.
I think it’s Obama’s childish way to screw with an adversary by refusing to call them by the name they call themselves – like how we still call Myanmar “Burma” and how Republicans call it the “Democrat” (as opposed to Democratic) Party. They are practiced at using social media for propaganda and resorting to the “dark web” for masking operational planning and coordinating. We advise our journalists to remind listeners and Web users that it is a “self-described” or “self-declared” Islamic State to make clear that the organization is not a “state” in the usual sense of that word, even though it claims to be one.
President Barack Obama says he sees encouraging progress.
“They are extremely smart”. During the Iraq War, AQI would frequently go back and forth between Syria and Iraq to resupply, so it had a lot of contacts in the country. President Putin spoke of IS receiving donations from nearly 40 countries, including the US. Glued to our television sets in the United States, we looked on in horror at scenes of chaos and bloodshed that shattered the lives of so many in Paris.
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ISIS sells the crude to smugglers for discounted prices, sometimes $35 per barrel but as low as $10 a barrel in a few cases, four Iraqi intelligence officials told the AP in separate interviews. The overwhelming majority of Muslims detest, denounce and feel themselves threatened by ISIS and its subsidiaries and partners. Very alarming because it’s very easy to kill civilians, in particular if you have fanatical people who have the will and the resources and the skills.
