Warring with the USA brings in more recruits. What else is there to understand? It was already noted there is a growth in the ranks of ISIL. Having American soldiers to kill would be a jihadist's dream come true.
The Forever War.
August 21, 2014
By Tom Allard
...Renowned Norwegian terrorism expert Thomas Hegghammer agrees, (click here) questioning whether the attack on the Yazidis, raids into Kurdistan and the beheading of Foley could all be a "deliberate provocation strategy".
The Forever War.
August 21, 2014
By Tom Allard
...Renowned Norwegian terrorism expert Thomas Hegghammer agrees, (click here) questioning whether the attack on the Yazidis, raids into Kurdistan and the beheading of Foley could all be a "deliberate provocation strategy".
"ISIS seems to be doing everything it can (short of attacks on the West) to draw the US into conflict," he tweeted.
An angry West suits Islamic State, says Monash University terrorism expert Greg Barton. Hostility to Muslims feeds into their narrative of belittled Muslims persecuted by non-believers. It helps recruiting among their target audience and, at the same time, puts pressure on Western governments to act.
"One of the calculations they have to make is whether the public in the West is ready to back [a bigger military operation in Iraq and Syria]," he said. "An angry public is more likely to call upon their governments to do something drastic."
The dramatic last moments when the beheading of Sotloff is threatened are chilling considering some 20 journalists have – like Foley and Sotloff – been kidnapped in Syria, many by Islamic State....
The invasion into Iraq was a lesson in the expansion of extremism across the world. The USA intelligence community reported the increase in radicalization around the world and how terrorism grew like a cancer. A USA war in the Middle East has been a proven catalyst to extremism. There is no denying it. September 13, 2001 looked very different in radicalization of Muslims than it did after years of war in Iraq.
Obviously, ISIL is feeling the pain of advances in Kurdish forces with the assistance of air strikes to disarm ISIL soldiers from American military hardware. There were taped beheadings from Iraq during the Bush years, too. They are most frequently beheadings of people not affiliated with the military. They have no protection and are on their own in a war zone. If jounalists aren't embedded with a friendly military unity the should not be there, we witnessed this same problem in Libya. If friendly forces cannot protect them they are putting their lives at risk that almost INSURES death.
