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What’s In A Name? From ‘Al-Qaeda’ To The ‘Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia’

December 29, 2016 By Nu’man Abd al-Wahid 1 Comment

The recent repackaging of Syrian al-Qaida affiliate from Jabhat al-Nusra to Jabhat Fatah al-Sham has hoodwinked very few people.

The Americans, who blacklisted Nusra back in 2012 and are widely and practically sympathetic to the Syrian Islamist insurrection against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, have refused to accept there is anything substantial in the name change besides different labeling.

Taking a step back, the name “al-Qaida” itself has indefinite and opaque origins but the leaders and individuals who came to personify “al-Qaida,” especially after the atrocities in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, emanated in an Islamist insurgency which had considerable support from the West. Specifically, the Afghan war in the 1980s which pitted the old Soviet Union against Islamist jihadis was where many of al-Qaida’s future operatives and leaders learned their bombastic trade.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Media & Culture Tagged With: al-Qaida, history, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Syria, terrorism, Wahhabism

Assasination By Drone: America’s Fatal Fallacy

June 30, 2016 By Jakob Reimann 1 Comment

“The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.” — Pres. George W. Bush

Endless hopes were pinned on Pres. Barack Obama when he entered the Oval Office in 2009. Hardly anyone back then seriously considered it possible that Obama would trump the belligerence even of Pres. George W. Bush who was seemingly hated the world over and would bomb nearly twice as many Muslim countries as his unspeakable predecessor.

On June 23, President Obama announced the killing of Taliban leader Akhtar Mansour through a drone strike in the Afghan-Pakistani border region.

Obama bizarrely praised the extrajudicial execution of Mansour: “Today marks an important milestone in our longstanding effort to bring peace and prosperity to Afghanistan.”

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Afghanistan, al-Qaida, Barack Obama, drones, Pakistan, Taliban

Airstrikes: The Ridiculous Revenge Strategy Against ISIS

February 6, 2015 By Mohammad Tomazy 2 Comments

ISIS recently released a footage showing the captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive in a Hollywoodish scene.

Technically, the brutal scene was professionally filmed. It was taken from various angles with high-resolution lenses. They also prepared the scene very well, as there was a cage and the fighters wore military uniforms inspired by traditional Afghani dress. ISIS succeeded in sending a brutal message to the world.

The message is also intended to terrify members of the coalition against them.

Airstrikes against ISIS’s locations are, so far, the mainstay strategy. However, al-Qaida affiliated groups have no pyramidal command, but are cluster groups that share a common ideology. They often fight each other for zones of influence. For example, ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra are bitter enemies, although they have the same ideology.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Afghanistan, Africa, Al Qaeda, al-Anbar, al-Qaida, Amman, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Baghdad, blowback, Daesh, death penalty, endless war, Human Rights, i24news, Iran, Iraq, Iraq National Army, Iraqi News, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Jordan, Jurf al-Sakhr, King Abdullah II, Kurdistan, Kurds, League of the Righteous, Maath al-Kassasba, MENA, Middle East, Peshmerga, propaganda, Qasem Suleimani, Sajida al-Rishawi, Salafism, Saudi Arabia, Shiite, Shiite Islam, Sunni, Sunni Islam, Syria, Takreet, terrorism, The Independent, Tikrit, Wahabism, War, Yadollah Javani

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