Time for me to get back to real issues…..there is enough hearsay these days to make one dizzy……
News about ISIS has been slow in coming with the exception of the chest thumping about how it will be defeated…..but while Americans were celebrating and whining over the results of the election….ISIS has been quietly expanding.
First it was expanding into Libya…the conflict there was the perfect set of conditions and then they sneaked into Afghanistan and have been quietly making head way in capturing territory.
And now they have found a foothold in Somalia….al-Shabaab, an AQ affiliate, has been making noise in the country for decades….but now the conditions were ripe and ISIS has come calling…..
On 26 October, about more than 50 heavily-armed Somali Islamic State (IS) fighters seized Qandala, a sparsely populated town in Somalia’s Puntland federal state on a rugged mountainous coastal strip overlooking the Gulf of Aden. It was a small, but highly symbolic, step forward for the group and demonstrates again how armed extremists exploit state disorder and local tensions to develop safe havens and rebuild after otherwise debilitating defeats. Unless Puntland treats this threat seriously and resolves internal tensions like that in the Qandala area and conflicts with neighbouring federal states, IS in Somalia could grow in strength and destabilise much larger parts of Somalia.
Source: The Islamic State Threat in Somalia | World Affairs Journal
The US already has troops operating in Somalia…..will this be an escalation in the making?
It feels good to get back to work after all these months….
Like the U.S. needs more escalation of military force in that region. How are we not an Empire again?
Damn good question…..Somalia may be the next biggie after Syria and Iraq….
There is nothing “Islamic” about the “Islamic State”.
Exactly….may pass that along….
Good idea, Chuq– pass it along.Thank you for your comment.
IS is a cancer fed by the greed and corruption of dying Western empires, Zionism and their puppets. These “terrorist” cells are necessary to global collapse of predatory capitalism, and many more such groups will arise and erupt on the political/military scene globally. They can be compared to the placing of thermite charges prior to imploding a large building. Their job: to destabilize, weaken, confuse and turn allies against each other. “Gravity” does the rest.
Good analysis….cannot add anything….but will think of something clever…LOL