Just weeks after announcing the establishment of themselves in the region, ISIS’s Pakistan-based faction, dubbed ISIS Khorasan, has announced it will join a “unified military command” including top Sunni factions in the region.
Despite the Khorasan name (an historic term for the region), this faction has nothing to do with the group the US labeled “Khorasan” at the onset of the Syria War, which is really a US-invented term for al-Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra.
The new alliance will be led by representatives from the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Lashkar-e Islam, Jamaat-ul Ahrar, and ISIS Khorasan, potentially a significant collection of fighters.
Though ISIS officials say this is in keeping with their stated goal of united jihadists, it is far afield of their strategy in Syria, where they have often distanced themselves from other jihadist factions, and even fought against them in some instances. The new South Asia faction is clearly not as big as the Iraq-Syria one, and has to adapt its strategy.
And suppose, just suppose ISIS was created and run by the USA, NATO, and Israel, as it expands in all direction, which puts those powers in control of the Middle East. Far fetched?
•Who are the declared worse enemies of ISIS? Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas (Israel´s declared enemies).
•Who gets beheaded by ISIS? Interfering journalists and NGO do-gooders (the attitude taken from US military leaders about those professionals).
•Where does ISIS get its military supplies? Uncle Sam.
Nothing whatsoever makes sense with this new monster on the block, except that they are supposed to frighten western citizens. Now there´s the new recruitment film out, one that clearly show that there is no moral or legal difference between the sick beheadings of ISIS and the assassination of women and children by USA military units. It seems there is a competition to see who can be the most brutal and terrifying, between ISIS and NATO forces.
Let´s all pull out of the Middle East and Africa and let people solve their own problems, if that is still possible after the complete chaos we have created.