Robert Steele: The Virtual Caliphate – Between Two (or More) Evils
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Cultural Intelligence, IO Deeds of War, Peace IntelligenceSHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Saudi-Threat-2016
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Mongoose: House of Saud, House of Terror — a Pawn in Bankers’ Deliberate Take-Down of Europe and Russia
03 Economy, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 06 Russia, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime
Below the fold are four headlines, all but one from Pepe Escobar, that tie together three facts:
- Saudi Arabia is the single greatest source of global terror.
- Saudi Arabia may be about to crash and have a coup.
- The banking families are out to destroy Russia while shorting Europe.
Berto Jongman: Europol Report on Changes in ISIS Operations and Threat
09 Terrorism
EUROPOL Changes in modus operandi of Islamic State terrorist attacks
PDF (8 Pages): 160125 ECTC report changes_in_modus_operandi_of_is_in_terrorist_attacks
Key findings below the fold
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Berto Jongman: Data Mining Does Not Work for Finding Terrorists
09 Terrorism, IO ImpotencyThe White House Asked Social Media Companies to Look for Terrorists. Here’s Why They’d #Fail.
Jenna McLaughlin, The Intercept, 20 January 2016
Ahmet Sait Yayla: Defeating ISIS
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Cultural Intelligence, IO Deeds of War, Peace Intelligence
Deadly Interactions
EXTRACT: There are two significant roadblocks [to defeating ISIS]. The first is the Saudi government, which is pouring billions of dollars around the world into a campaign promoting its own Salafist approach to Islam. This has produced thousands of determined Salafist youth, the finest candidates for ISIS recruiters. The second roadblock is the political turmoil in the region, which can be blamed at least in part on the support the West has offered undemocratic leaders in the Middle East, under whose cruel and unjust rule Muslim people have suffered for decades. Terrorist organizations point out this “hypocrisy” and use it to persuade new recruits to embrace their violent regimes. PDF (9 Pages): Deadly_Interactions_ISIS_Turkey_Syria
Ahmet S. Yayla: Understanding ISIS
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, IO Deeds of WarSyrians who join IS are rewarded with salaried jobs which for young men translates into the ability to marry and for young women the money allows them to save their families from literal starvation. Foreign fighters are receiving additional rewards: wives, sexual slaves, and sometimes homes and cars. Daily life was punctuated by brutal practices – including floggings, torture and beheadings. Defections were the result of exposure to extreme brutality, disgust over the slave trade, observations of deep hypocrisy–a total mismatch between the words and deeds of IS. Charges of corruption and complaints about battlefield decisions that produced unnecessary deaths in their own ranks were also causes of disillusionment . Our informants all had come to hate IS and warn others not to join what they gradually came to see as a totally disappointing, ruthless and un-Islamic organization.
