Time to widen scope of anti-IS operation
[ARABNEWS] I write this week safely from New York, where the focus of many meetings this year at the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
is on fighting terrorism, in particular how to defeat the so-called Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS). One of the main topics is how much IS is being nourished by the support it receives from the citizens of the same countries involved in the coalition to defeat it.
Posted by: Fred 2014-09-24 |