Is ISIS Fraying?

[longknife]

Thanks to Grim's Hall blog for directing me to this article:


Islamic State appears to be fraying from within @ Islamic State appears to be fraying from within - The Washington Post


This should be no surprise. They're a bunch of cultist thugs hiding behind masks without the faintest care for those they conquer. Tribal leaders are turning on them and they not only face Iraqi and Iranian forces, but militias from local chieftains.


Cracks in ISIS are becoming more clear @ Weaknesses of ISIS - Business Insider

 

[aris2chat]

tide does seem to be turning

 

[irosie91]

Thanks to Grim's Hall blog for directing me to this article:


Islamic State appears to be fraying from within @ Islamic State appears to be fraying from within - The Washington Post


This should be no surprise. They're a bunch of cultist thugs hiding behind masks without the faintest care for those they conquer. Tribal leaders are turning on them and they not only face Iraqi and Iranian forces, but militias from local chieftains.


Cracks in ISIS are becoming more clear @ Weaknesses of ISIS - Business Insider

Isis is doing what "ISLAMIC" societies have been doing for the past 1300
years-------NOW--because of the speed of travel and communication,, ISIS
is just doing it FASTER than did ANDALUSIA some 500 years ago.
Infighting and self-destruction.

 

[Moonglow]

With an operation such as ISIS it was just a matter of time....

 

[Katzndogz]

Isis is fraying. Al Quaeda is on the run.

 

[Moonglow]

Isis is fraying. Al Quaeda is on the run.

It's more of a gated trot now...

 

[Coyote]

Thanks to Grim's Hall blog for directing me to this article:


Islamic State appears to be fraying from within @ Islamic State appears to be fraying from within - The Washington Post


This should be no surprise. They're a bunch of cultist thugs hiding behind masks without the faintest care for those they conquer. Tribal leaders are turning on them and they not only face Iraqi and Iranian forces, but militias from local chieftains.


Cracks in ISIS are becoming more clear @ Weaknesses of ISIS - Business Insider

I hope so - that would be good news indeed

 

[Bleipriester]

tide does seem to be turning

Nato will intensify supply drop flights.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

They were always "frayed".

Only 20K plus a relative few nutters scattered around the world. They have no real power and no future.

OTOH, there will always be ISIS/Taliban/al Qeda-type terrorists.

 

[RandomVariable]

Sorry people, ISIS is going to get a lot worse before it gets better, if it ever does. It's a religious thing.

ISIS now has a foothold in an oil-rich Mediterranean port city - Business Insider
Armin Rosen. Mar. 11, 2015, 12:50 PM

The reach of the Islamic State is becoming increasingly international in scope.

The jihadist organization has accepted pledges of allegiance from organizations in Afghanistan, Algeria, and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, with Nigeria's Boko Haram being the latest organization to apply for membership in the militant group also known as ISIS or ISIL.

A few hundred firmly entrenched and battle-hardened fighters control major choke points and have commandeered the city's radio stations and launched attacks in the surrounding area. The group beheaded 21 Coptic Christians on a beach outside the city in February and has attacked nearby oil facilities.


Moreover, Sirte's ISIS fighters seem to be taking direct cues from the Islamic State's headquarters in Mesopotamia. "The contingent here in Sirte has not only taken over a major Libyan city but also demonstrated clear coordination with the parent organization," The Times reports, citing the sophistication and even synchronicity of the groups' propaganda and messaging.


An ISIS takeover of Sirte is a huge problem for Libya. According to the US Department of Energy, about 80% of Libya's recoverable oil reserves are located in the Sirte basin, an area that "also accounts for most of the country's oil output."
...
The Sirte takeover has some broader implications as well. As Washington Institute for Near East Policy terrorism scholar Aaron Zelin told Business Insider in the context of Boko Haram's pledge to ISIS, an alliance with Africa's deadliest jihadist group shows that ISIS' message holds appeal even in spite of recent battlefield defeats.
...
Control over a Mediterranean base of operations conveys the same message, only in a location hundreds of miles closer to the major economies of continental Europe. And it gives ISIS many of the same advantages, like possible control over trade and criminal networks.

The Sirte outpost shows that ISIS still has plenty of strategic initiative, along with appeal that stretches far beyond Mesopotamia — and that this hasn't been weakened by the Islamic State's recent string of battlefield setbacks.​

 

[RandomVariable]

They were always "frayed".

Only 20K plus a relative few nutters scattered around the world. They have no real power and no future.

OTOH, there will always be ISIS/Taliban/al Qeda-type terrorists.

ISIS We re so much bigger than CIA thinks
Aaron Klein. 02/08/2015 at 3:21 PM

The Islamic State and its extremist allies currently boast an army estimated by Egypt to consist of about 180,000 Islamist fighters.

According to Egypt, ISIS has created an umbrella army with the Taliban, Al Shabab, Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, and local jihadist groups from Yemen, Mali, Gaza, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and the Egyptian Sinai.

Egypt is warning this ISIS-allied army is preparing for a major insurgency in numerous countries by this spring or summer.

Egypt’s 180,000 estimate dovetails with figures claimed by Fuad Hussein, chief of staff of the Kurdish President Massoud Barzani.

Hussein told the U.K. Independent in November that Kurdish intelligence believes ISIS militant fighters to number at least 200,000.


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[RandomVariable]

I'm sure that number does not include all the people all over the world who want to join ISIS but can not physically get there. The FBI has investigations into ISIS groups in all 50 states in America. Europe is full of them. It's a religious thing.

 

[Bleipriester]

They were always "frayed".

Only 20K plus a relative few nutters scattered around the world. They have no real power and no future.

OTOH, there will always be ISIS/Taliban/al Qeda-type terrorists.

ISIS We re so much bigger than CIA thinks
Aaron Klein. 02/08/2015 at 3:21 PM

The Islamic State and its extremist allies currently boast an army estimated by Egypt to consist of about 180,000 Islamist fighters.

According to Egypt, ISIS has created an umbrella army with the Taliban, Al Shabab, Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, and local jihadist groups from Yemen, Mali, Gaza, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and the Egyptian Sinai.

Egypt is warning this ISIS-allied army is preparing for a major insurgency in numerous countries by this spring or summer.

Egypt’s 180,000 estimate dovetails with figures claimed by Fuad Hussein, chief of staff of the Kurdish President Massoud Barzani.

Hussein told the U.K. Independent in November that Kurdish intelligence believes ISIS militant fighters to number at least 200,000.


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The West won't get rid of it with its current agenda. Unlimited tolerance in western countries, aggressive behavior towords ISIS' main enemy, Syria and even covert support for the group.