Will the West get into the trap put by the ISIS?
What ISIS really has in mind
Recent attacks by ISIS sympathizers in Paris, London and San
Bernardino, California, are not random acts of mindless violence and
gory atrocities.
Far from it, they are part of a well-developed strategy by the
Islamic State, or ISIS, to draw the western powers into a far larger war
in the Mideast. They are being aided in this quest by the loud-mouthed
right of American, British and French politics.
They are drawing inspiration from the defeats of the Anglo-British army of Hicks Pasha in the Sudan in 1883 that was lured up the Nile then ambushed and swamped by 300,000 Dervish and tribal warriors. And by the defeat in Afghanistan of the British at Maiwand in the second Anglo-Afghan War of 1880.
Five years ago, I asked an Iranian militant if he did not fear a US
invasion of Iran. “We will welcome one,” he told me with a smile.
“America will break its teeth on Iran.”
Five years later, it’s the turn of ISIS militants to advocate the same strategy.
Georgia-born
Chechen Tarkhan Batirashvili (aka Omar al-Shishani) joined a
Turkey-based radical group “to earn some money” in 2010. Today he is one
of the most powerful ISIS field commanders in Syria.
Chechen Tarkhan Batirashvili (aka Omar al-Shishani) joined a
Turkey-based radical group “to earn some money” in 2010. Today he is one
of the most powerful ISIS field commanders in Syria.
