The truth about terrorism:
August 21, 2017
Although Islamic State (click here) is losing fighters and territory in Iraq and Syria, it remained the world’s deadliest militant organization last year and the number of its attacks rose, according to a report from the University of Maryland.
Islamic State operatives carried out more than 1,400 attacks last year and killed more than 7,000 people, representing a roughly 20% increase over 2015, according to the university’s Global Terrorism Database. The increase occurred even as overall militant attacks worldwide and resulting deaths fell about 10% in 2016....
The charismatic movement within ISIS results in lone wolf attacks. They can't develop armies within a country's borders, but, they can employ terrorism. Sovereign countries with stable economies and militaries aren't going to have to worry about any takeover.
In the case of Afghanistan, the neighborhood won't put up with ISIS.
I know this sounds terrible, but, ISIS did the world a favor, it united all countries to end terrorist networks. The reporting by "The Guardian" would indicate it is working.
I remind. ISIS had it's beginnings in Syria by a man once imprisoned by the USA in Iraq. A lone wolf with religious guilt began a terrorist network in a marginal country.
All the Barcelona terrorists, including the imam, are either dead or incarcerated.
22 August 2017
By Martin Evans
...The Imam accused (click here) of masterminding the Barcelona terrorist attacks should have been deported at the end of his prison sentence for drug smuggling but overturned the ruling by arguing it would breach his human rights, it has emerged.
Islamic preacher Abdelbaki Es Satty was told he must comply with an expulsion order when he left jail in April 2014, according to the Spanish daily, El Mundo.
But the 42-year-old Moroccan won an appeal against the decision after arguing his case in front of a judge....
It is difficult to second guess a judge. Either a country practices human rights or not. I think intelligence failed on this imam.
What does an unemployed imam do?
August 22, 2017
By Jack Moore
The imam who authorities (click here) believe was at the center of the network that planned a wave of terrorist attacks in Catalonia was sacked from a Belgian mosque in 2016 over suspicions about both his past and his radical beliefs, according to members of the religious institution.
Police are investigating links between Abdelbaki Es Satty and the Barcelona network after Younes Abouyaaqoub drove a rented white van into pedestrians in the city’s famous Las Ramblas Boulevard on Thursday. The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack.
It was later claimed that Es Satty was one of two killed in an explosion a day before the assault in the town of Alcanar, 120 miles south of Barcelona, at a safe house where the cell was preparing for a larger attack.
In this case, the unemployed imam turned into drug smuggler while fomenting hate. The two kind of go together. Money. An unemployed imam fomenting hate needs money to carry out his mission.
