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Islamic State reportedly preparing for end of its so-called caliphate
[FOXNEWS] 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... terror leaders are reportedly preparing for the fall of its so-called caliphate after the U.S.-led coalition and Russian-backed forces made significant gains in recent months in Iraq and Syria. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the terror group’s leaders in Syria are bracing for its strongholds to fall, but vow to continue its wave of terror attacks abroad. U.S. counterterrorism experts believe the recent large-scale attacks in Istanbul and Baghdad are a sign that its reign in the Middle East is dwindling. Experts still believe that even if the bully boyz affiliated with ISIS start to move underground, the group will still remain dangerous abroad. "Where Al Qaeda was hierarchical and somewhat controlled, these guys are not. They have all the energy and unpredictability of a populist movement," retired Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden told The Post. ISIS officials still believe that its vision of a "caliphate" across the Middle East is still viable despite its losses across the region it claims. One also insisted that the group had "shifted some of our command, media and wealth structure to different countries." Officials in the terror group issued a grim statement to its fighters that soon all could be lost. The Post reported that an editorial in ISIS’ weekly Arabic newsletter acknowledged that its territory could be lost just two years have rejoicing in the start of its Islamic State across the Middle East. In the editorial, the group insists that the Islamic State will survive even if its foes take all of its territory. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... US- and Russian-backed forces would have to wait for victory, "until an entire generation of Moslems that witnesses the establishment of the Islamic State and the return of the caliphate ... is wiped out." "They don’t want to lose territory," Cole Bunzel, a doctoral candidate at Princeton University’s Near Eastern studies department who translated ISIS’ editorial on the future of the caliphate, told The Post. "But they’re trying to remind people that the group has a long history and they’re going to persist, just as they did in earlier times." Posted by: Fred 2016-07-14 |
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