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| IS in Kurdistan -- the hidden enemy surfaces | |
| 2015-09-20 | |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Just months after a boom-mobile tore through a busy street outside the U.S. consulate in Erbil's Ankawa district, the State Department on July 30 issued an emergency warning to its citizens about another credible threat. More than a year into the international fight against ISIS, sleeper cells operating in territory on the borders of 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... appear to be an ever-growing threat. A jacket wallah targeted Kurdish activists on the Turkish border in July, while the U.S. consulate's warning points to the continued menace that ISIS factions still pose in Iraqi Kurdistan. Thousands of Kurds are fighting ISIS in both Syria and Iraq, but Dr Tariq Nuri, director of the Erbil Asayish, or security service, said that hundreds have also joined the Islamists' ranks. Attacks by Kurdish cells within Iraqi Kurdistan hold a clear advantage for ISIS, he said. "They wanted to use Kurds because they can get past security more easily," he said. Renad Mansour, a Kurdistan expert from the Carnegie Institute, said that in the past, security of the Kurdish territories had often focused on Arab hard boyz within majority Kurd areas. "Talking to members of the security apparatus, they would say, 'the Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... were Arab so they were easily spotted. We were able to get rid of Al-Qaeda [from Kurdistan] in Iraq because we could see them in the street'." However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the May 18 arrest of a Kurdish six-member ISIS cell shows that the threat that Kurdistan faces is by no means just an Arab one. While Mansour sees ISIS sympathizers as a small minority within Kurdish society, he outlined a "growing trend of Islamization" in Kurdistan -- a factor underlying ISIS sympathies. "This has led to people putting religion before ethnicity, which is quite new and strange in the Kurdish context," he added.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Yep, not much mullah to prole footwashing in yur mosque. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-09-20 19:11 |