IS – the jihadist Hydra

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The “Islamic state” has had to contend in Syria and Iraq heavy losses. But he is not defeated for a long time. On the contrary, He is recovering and is likely to remain Europe’s dangerous.

A sniper of the IS, Syria, in January 2018

The ambush was insidious. On 4. June of this year received police officers of the town of Tarmiya, Northwest of Baghdad, a call for Assistance alleged civilians. This stated that they had found a car that was probably loaded with explosives. If the police could not guard to send a couple of employees who could look at the car. As the officers vehicle approached, opened hidden arming of the terrorist organization “Islamic state” (IS) to protect the fire. Seven policemen were killed.

With actions like these, of the IS shows that there is, with him, despite all the military defeats still is. “The IS has not left Tarmiya at all,” said shortly after the assassination of the Secretary-General of the Shi’ite terrorist militia, Qais al-Kharzali. He called on the Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi, of the problem.

The fact that it is precisely the representative of a Shiite militia calling on the government, IS to proceed, can this book as a double success: it can be under the IS-trailers sentiment against the Shia – hatred and rivalry between the denominations in the IS a proven tool of propagandistic mobilization. On the other, the appeal to the Iraqi Prime Minister on the involuntary nature demonstrates, as the significance of the presence of IS in Iraq still applies.

Recruitment area for the IS: the detention camp “Al-Hol” in the North-East of Syria

Terror in Iraq

In fact, the IS in Iraq is brought, regardless of the use of his or her defeats continues to be a highly dangerous organization. In the Northern and Western provinces of Iraq, he stated in this year alone so far, 139 attacks. 274 persons were killed, among them 170 police officers. In a particularly obscene way, documented the IS his claim to power in the town of Samarra, North of Baghdad: in the beginning of August, the decapitated IS militants there to the public a police officer.

The IS is, however, not only against the state but also the population. Of farmers, he demanded protection money. This does not have to pay to burn down the terrorists in the fields. Such actions are not directed only against the Farmer, they also aim on the population to feel safe, in this way, the government alienate and the conditions of the past years back your choice – those in which the IS controlled the area and controlled.

Deadly legacy: dead bodies in Rakka let after the city was liberated from the domination of the IS, February 2019

There is little reason currently to ensure that the times of the IS in Iraq, as in Syria, are over. At the end of July, Abu Ali al-Basri, the head of the Iraqi Anti-terrorism enlightenment boasted that his troops have suffered in their work with only a handful of losses, but at the same time about 3500 IS-fighters killed. However, these Figures weigh little in the face of currently in Iraq and Syria is still present as well as active resistance fighters. The New York Times estimated their numbers to 18,000 men. The top management of the IS have a capacity of up to 400 million dollars, which will partially be invested in new attacks.

“IS has learned from the BA’ath Regime”

“The IS adapts, it is consolidated, and creates conditions that lead to a possible uprising in the Iraqi and Syrian nuclear country”, – stated in a June 2019 published study by the United Nations. As a key field for Recruitment, the prison camp are in this respect in the Kurdish areas in the North-East of Syria. The precarious conditions there were ideal to keep the ideology of the IS under the jihadis detained at the life, and to recruit new members.

The IS trying to impress the fact that he surrounds himself with a Nimbus of invincibility. Rank would be taken higher militia captured or killed were not known, the IS-leadership is the message. In the IS is fundamentally different from Al-Qaeda, cited the politics of the Middle East involved in the Internet magazine Al-Monitor the Iraqi Anti-terrorist commander al-Basri. “The IS has by the BA’athist Regime (the party of former dictator Saddam Hussein, Anm. d. Red.) learned. Many IS members were formerly in this Regime. They lie and deceive, as well as Saddam’s Regime did it. This is your style.”

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The IS and Europe

Such tactics come at potential targets in Europe, says the UN study. “The radicalization of Criminals within the prison system in Europe remains a delicate point. There, prisons provide a place for prisoners who are affected by poverty, exclusion, Frustration, low self-esteem and violence” – exactly the group of people that IS targeted.

In addition, the French daily newspaper “Le Figaro writes” could be around back in 2000, the former IS fighters from Iraq and Syria to Europe. Although it had been in the countries of the EU for quite some time, no IS-stop more. But this could change very quickly. The current situation does not point to peace, the newspaper said, but on something else: a cease-fire.