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AS A HUMAN WE SHOULD RESPECT EACH OTHERS RACE/RELIGION. BY DOING THIS YOU GAIN NOTHING YOU PIECE OF SHIT! N
O RELIGION TEACH US TO CONDEMMED OTHERS.
Source: Abdils Abdul Malek
KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Malaysians recruited by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror group in Syria are moving up the ladder in terrorism – they’re leaving their janitorial posts to become snipers and suicide bombers in Iraq.
Previously cleaners and guards at the camps, Malaysians who fell for the ISIS promise of a false “jihad” are now being trained to become snipers and suicide bombers with the specific goal of regaining the group’s grip on Iraq.
Malaysia’s Special Branch Counter-Terrorism Division head Ayub Khan said the terror group now counted on some Malaysians to carry out its special ops missions all over Iraq.
“The presence of the ISIS in Syria is quite solid but the group is losing control over Iraq as many territories have fallen back to Iraqi government forces.
“Our intelligence show that they are relying more on Malaysians now to carry out strike missions against several key structures in Iraq,” he told The Star on Wednesday (Sept 30).
Senior Asst Comm (SAC) Ayub said the Malaysian militants were plucked from the Khatibah Nusantara cell in Syria to join the special ops squads.
“The Khatibah Nusantara consists of Malaysian and Indonesian ISIS fighters. They band together as their language and interests are similar,” he said.
This new development came to light following the deaths of three Malaysians in Iraq, believed to be on special ops missions, he said.
One of them was Zid Saharani Mohamed Esa, 43, who died in a clash with Iraqi forces in Bayji, Iraq, on Aug 29.
“We believe he was one of the snipers assigned to take out targets at a Iraqi government structure in Bayji.
“Zid, also known as Abu Hoor, went to Syria in July last year. He went to Bangkok and took a flight to Turkey before securing safe passage to Syria by land.
“Prior to this, he was involved with Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia and was detained under the ISA (Internal Security Act) in 2002,” he said.
SAC Ayub said the two others killed were Muhamad Syazani Mohd Salim, 28, and Fadzly Ariff Zainal Ariff, 31.
Muhamad Syazani, known as Abu Aydan, was also killed in Bayji in a skirmish with Iraqi forces on Sept 18 and was believed to be part of an ISIS infantry trained to fulfil a specific mission objective.
“He went to Syria on Sept 23 via Istanbul along with his older brother Muhamad Syazwan,” said SAC Ayub.
Fadzly Ariff Zainal Ariff died on Sept 26 after driving a truck filled with seven tonnes of explosives towards a bridge in Buhayrat, located in Fallujah.
“The attack also killed a group of Iraqi soldiers.
“Our intelligence indicates that Fadzly Ariff, known as Abu Ubaidah, had attempted suicide bombings twice but failed as his explosives malfunctioned the previous times,” said SAC Ayub, adding that the former burger seller went to Syria on Oct 11, 2013.
SAC Ayub said Fadzly Ariff’s mother Azizah Md Yusof was detained under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act on April 28 last year for giving support to ISIS, and subsequently charged on May 23 the same year.
The latest deaths bring the number of Malaysians killed in Syria and Iraq to 14.
“As with some deaths involving Malaysians in both countries, it was hard to get a DNA sample to completely verify and identify the militants involved,” he said, adding that they relied on their intelligence gathering network.
He said the police had identified 69 Malaysians with ISIS in Syria.
“Previously, there were militants who joined other terror groups like Jabhat al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda’s official affiliate in Syria.
“However, this trend has stopped as all of them have joined ISIS,” he said.
While the official figure was 69, SAC Ayub said the actual number of Malaysians in Syria could be about 100, including children.
Source: www.thestraitstimes.com
Two self-radicalised Singaporeans have been detained under the Internal Security Act for involvement in terrorism-related activities, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) announced on Wednesday (Sep 30).
Muhammad Shamin Mohamed Sidek, 29, and Muhammad Harith Jailani, 18, were detained in August this year. Investigations showed that they had harboured the intention to make their way to Syria to join the terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and engage in violence there, MHA said.
Shamin was influenced by ISIS’s online radical propaganda and was earlier convicted and sentenced to three months’ jail under Section 267C of the Penal Code for inciting religious violence through his pro-ISIS postings on social media. MHA said he continued to express support for ISIS throughout his three-month imprisonment and was thus arrested under the ISA in July this year to assess if he posed a threat to Singapore’s security.
Subsequent investigations by the Internal Security Department showed that Shamin planned to travel to Syria to join ISIS once he had raised enough money to fund the trip.
Shamin had also decided that if he was unable to join ISIS, he would consider fighting alongside a regional militant group that he considered to be aligned with ISIS. “He was undeterred by his arrest under the ISA and said he would pursue his plans to join ISIS after his release from detention. Shamin said he was prepared to die in the course of defending the ‘caliphate’ that was declared by ISIS,” MHA added.
Like Shamin, 18-year-old Harith was radicalised by online propaganda put up by ISIS. He harboured the intention to carry out armed attacks for the terrorist group, MHA said. “He was prepared to be trained by ISIS to fight and kill the group’s enemies, and to die in the process so that he would receive divine rewards for dying as a martyr.”
Harith had collected information on how he could travel to Syria and also tried to radicalise those around him to support ISIS’ cause in an attempt to recruit them to join ISIS together with him.
The detentions of Shamin and Harith underline the “persistent ISIS threat” and the threat posed by self-radicalised Singaporeans, MHA said. The ministry noted that a few of the
Singaporeans who have been detained had even been prepared to carry out terrorist attacks in Singapore.
“The Government takes a very serious view of any form of support for terrorism, including but not limited to the use of violence, and will take firm and decisive action against any person who engages in such activities,” the ministry said.
It encourages those who are aware that someone is involved in terrorism-related activities, or who see suspicious activities to promptly inform the Internal Security Department (1800-2626-473) or call the Police (999).
Source: www.channelnewsasia.com
The Islamic State, or ISIS, has captured the world’s attention with gruesome videos of beheadings, wanton destruction of antiquities and skilled use of social media.
It has also captured a large part of eastern Syria and western Iraq, proclaimed a caliphate based in Raqqa, Syria, and attracted foreign jihadists from around the world.
United States President Barack Obama said that the Islamic State must be degraded and ultimately defeated. He has appointed General John Allen to lead a coalition of about 60 countries in the task, relying on air strikes, special forces and training missions.
Some critics want him to send more American troops; others say that the US should settle for a doctrine of containment.
In the current US presidential campaign, some candidates are calling for “boots on the ground”. They are right: Boots are needed.
But the soldiers who wear them should be Sunni Arabs and Turks, not Americans. And that says a lot about the nature of the triple threat that the US and its allies now face.
The Islamic State is three things: A transnational terrorist group, a proto-state and a political ideology with religious roots.
It grew out of Al Qaeda after the misguided US-led invasion of Iraq; like Al Qaeda, it appeals to extremist Sunni Islamists.
But it has gone further, by trying to establish a caliphate, and is now a rival to Al Qaeda.
Its possession of territory creates the legitimacy and capacity for offensive jihad, which it wages not only against infidels, but also Shia and Sufi Muslims, whom it considers “takfir”, or not true Islamic monotheists.
The Islamic State extols the purity of seventh-century Islam, but it is extremely adept at using 21st-century media.
Its videos and social-media channels are effective tools for attracting a minority of Muslims — primarily young people from Europe, America, Africa and Asia — who are struggling with their identity. Disgruntled, many are drawn to “Sheikh Google”, where Islamic State recruiters wait to prey upon them.
By some estimates, there are more than 25,000 foreign fighters serving in the Islamic State today. Those who are killed are quickly replaced.
SUNNI MUSLIM SOLDIERS TO COMBAT ISIS
The tripartite nature of the Islamic State creates a policy dilemma. On the one hand, it is important to use hard military power to deprive the caliphate of the territory that provides it both sanctuary and legitimacy. But if the American military footprint is too heavy, the Islamic State’s soft power will be strengthened, thus aiding its global recruiting efforts.
That is why the boots on the ground must be Sunni. The presence of foreign or Shia troops reinforces the Islamic State’s claim of being surrounded and challenged by infidels.
So far, thanks largely to effective Kurdish forces, who are overwhelmingly Sunni, the Islamic State has lost about 30 per cent of the territory it held a year ago.
But deploying additional Sunni infantry requires training, support and time, as well as pressure on Iraq’s Shia-dominated central government to temper its sectarian approach.
After the debacle in Libya (where the Islamic State supports jihadist militias and has announced the creation of three “distant provinces”), Mr Obama is understandably reluctant to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime, only to see the Islamic State take control of more territory, accompanied by genocidal atrocities against Syria’s many non-Sunnis.
But Mr Assad is one of the Islamic State’s most effective recruiting tools. Many foreign jihadists respond to the prospect of helping to overthrow a tyrannical Alawite ruler who is killing Sunnis.
The US diplomatic task is to persuade Mr Assad’s supporters, Russia and Iran, to remove him without dismantling the remains of the Syrian state structure. A no-fly zone and a safe zone in northern Syria for the millions of displaced people could reinforce American diplomacy. And providing massive humanitarian assistance to the refugees (at which the American military is very effective) would increase US soft power enormously.
As it stands, the funding and coordination of America’s soft-power strategy is inadequate. But we know that hard power is not enough, particularly to contest the cyber territory that the Islamic State occupies — for example, by developing a capacity to take down botnets and counter hostile social-media accounts.
Even if the US and its allies defeat the Islamic State over the coming decade, we should be prepared for a similar Sunni extremist group to rise from the ashes.
Revolutions of the type the Middle East is experiencing take a long time to resolve. The sources of revolutionary instability include tenuous post-colonial boundaries; arrested modernisation; the failed Arab Spring; and religious sectarianism, exacerbated by the interstate rivalry between Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia and Shia-ruled Iran.
In Europe, wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants lasted for nearly a century and a half. The fighting ended (with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648) only after Germany lost a quarter of its population in the Thirty Years’ War.
But it is also worth remembering that the coalitions of that time were complex, with Catholic France aiding Dutch Protestants against Catholic Habsburgs for dynastic rather than religious reasons. We should expect similar complexity in today’s Middle East.
Looking ahead in a region where the US has interests as varied as energy, Israel’s security, nuclear non-proliferation and human rights, American policymakers will need to follow a flexible strategy of “containment plus nudging”, which implies siding with different states and groups in different circumstances.
For example, whether or not Iranian policy becomes more moderate, sometimes Iran will share US interests, and sometimes it will oppose them. In fact, the recent nuclear agreement may open opportunities for greater flexibility.
To seize them, however, US foreign policy towards the Middle East will have to develop a higher level of sophistication than the current debate reveals.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Joseph Nye is a professor at Harvard University and the author of Is the American Century Over?, recently co-chaired an Aspen Strategy Group discussion on the Islamic State and radicalism in the Middle East.
Source: www.todayonline.com
KUALA LUMPUR: Akibat sering mengganggu isteri kepada anggota bawahan, seorang ketua atau komandan militan Negara Islam (IS) telah dipenggal kepalanya.
Anggota kumpulan militan tersebut bagaimanapun kini berada dalam pelarian kerana bimbang diambil tindakan oleh penyokong-penyokong tegar ketuanya.
Kejadian yang dilaporkan Iraqi News itu berlaku di Sharqat, Salah al-Din yang terletak di utara Baghdad dan memetik memetik sumber yang enggan didedahkan identitinya.
Menurut ceritanya, anggota IS yang berusia 28 tahun dan berasal dari Iraq itu mengetahui bahawa isterinya sering digoda komandan tersebut setiap kali dia meninggalkan kediaman untuk bertempur di medan perang.
Beberapa hari lalu sejurus pulang, dia nekad berdepan dengan ketuanya itu untuk bertanyakan tentang masalah tersebut. Pertemuan itu tidak berakhir dengan baik apabila kepala ketuanya telah dipenggal.
Berikutan kejadian mengejutkan itu, pihak IS telah mengeluarkan perintah untuk menangkap lelaki berkenaan, sama ada hidup atau mati, dan dibawa kembali ke markas IS di Sharqat.
Sharqat merupakan kubu kuat IS di wilayah Salah-al-Din sejak berjaya ditakluk pada Jun 2014.
Sementara itu, nasib isteri anggota IS berkenaan tidak diketahui. Secara umumnya, walaupun golongan wanita tidak dilayan dengan baik dalam IS, masih ramai wanita dari negara luar yang tertarik untuk menyertai kumpulan militan itu.
Source: www.astroawani.com