From the Islamic State of Al-Baghdadi to the "lone wolves" of the caliphate

The "Islamic State of Al-Baghdadi"It suffered a deep but partial collapse, it was very clear that it was not meant to last." After its overwhelming emergence, the experts hoped that the international community would prevent it, not only because the world can not live with it, terrorism commits a fatal mistake when it operates with its distinctive element (the violence) as a flag. The power of terrorism lies in the absence of slogan, it is precisely this element that makes it difficult to identify, capture or neutralize.

The Daesh or ISIS hit the region like an earthquake from the depths of the past. It was very clear that he was going in the opposite direction of history and time. The mysterious black-clad army emerged, as might be expected, from the al-Qaeda legacy, the overthrow of the regime of Saddam Hussein, retaliation policies that have exasperated Baghdad, the bloody rupture of the Syrian state and his open involvement. in a turbulent scenario on the part of Turkey, which allowed members of the Islamic State and other Islamist militants to infiltrate the Syrian scene.

The years of "the state of Al-Baghdadi" were violent, terrifying and full of scenes that the world had not known since the Second World War. Gunmen from historical caves have used the latest technology to intimidate the world with beheading scenes, innocent killings, burned prisoners and killings in front of the cameras. This was the longest process of destruction and intimidation that has been observed in the region in the modern era and set a time of cruel practices never seen in the twentieth century.

The years of "the state of Al-Baghdadi" inflicted very high costs in the regional and international relations of the actors involved. Not only because it was a project of elimination and divorce of known standards, but also because it was a formula for the spread of the destruction of cities, states, national badociations, cultural heritage and coexistence. These years saw the disappearance of international borders between Syria and Iraq and it was clear that the world could not accept this machine of death and destruction. We all remember the response to Saddam's attempt to eliminate the borders between Kuwait and Iraq and, of course, the fate of the Iraqi dictator.

The history of ISIS has not been written yet. It is complex, it involves the roles of those who fought it, who infiltrated it and tried to use its brutality to achieve its own agenda and those who l? have invoked to justify strategies similar to the policies that led to its emergence.

Some people, including Syrian Kurdish leader Saleh Musallem, believe that the Islamic State eventually became a big "supermarket" used by security services in different countries. Some are aimed primarily at Turkish intelligence services, others at Saudi Arabia or Iran. The truth is that we have witnessed years of violence in "the state of Al-Baghdadi" and a war against him.

On June 10, 2014, Kurdistan Region President Masud Barzani spoke about what the Al-Arabiya news channel had announced: "the fall of the city of Mosul", Barzani was worried, "he said. He said he had received information and he wondered why thousands of Iraqi soldiers were fleeing the city and its environs, leaving their arsenal of US weapons in the hands of the terrorist organization.

Barzani told the European press: "The Kurdistan region could not live with these monsters on its borders". He said he had discussed with Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki the suspicious activities of the terrorists in Mosul and that he had replied that the situation was under control, which meant that Barzani had to focus on the concerns of his province. Barzani said: "EIt's the Middle East; unfortunately, we came out of a war to find that we got involved in another"

In November 2017, you can contact the Chief Security Advisor for President-elect Barzani. I asked him for help in the course of an investigation and badysis that he had done on the profiles of the terrorists who had fought for the Islamic State group. and who were detained by the Barzani administration.

With the permission of the President, a month and a half later, I was able to access several profiles of Islamic State fighters in prison. Here are some of your files.

During the interrogations, a Chinese whose initials were the SQK stated that he had arrived with his family from East Turkestan in Turkey and that he was running out of money, but a network working in this country paid the cost of his transfer to Raqqa and from there to Tal-Afar. where he was recorded in the "Turkish camp of Abu Hajar". He also stated that he had then followed a "religious training", which included training on the use of weapons. He justified his adherence to the Islamic State, saying that he had been promised to find a "state" at the height of his aspirations, in which he could live freely according to his convictions. from China. He finally acknowledged that he had been "cheated" and that he had not found what had been promised him.

Another youth, whose initials were KOH, said he was from Kazakhstan and that he was sent to Tal-Afar, where he met Russian-speaking Russian speakers from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Dagestan, Turkmenistan and Chechnya. This man admitted to having participated in military operations but denied having committed individual murders. The prisoner expressed his disappointment at the fact that "the state of Al-Baghdadi" was very different from the image that had been presented to him.

RK, an American citizen, said he studied religious studies in Trinidad and Tobago. He saw on YouTube a video of a Syrian woman bleeding from the rubble and asking for help from Muslims. He decided to go take his wife, he was a doctor, he entered by Turkey. There, the network was waiting for them and took them to areas of the Islamic State, where they followed a "religious training" of four weeks.

The attempted restoration of the ISIS Caliphate has not only attracted many fighters in search of a confrontational theater. It also attracted narrow-minded people through images and an alluring, though misleading, propaganda that led them to what they thought was "the country of the world." hello and dreams "..

Today & # 39; hui, we must come back to study the phenomenon of ISIS. It is necessary to think about the faults that facilitated his birth and the recruitment facilities of the terrorist group, the indoctrination and the establishment of safe pbadages for those who wish and the networks that facilitated his entry into the country. Syria and Iraq.

The The fall of the "State of Baghdad" does not mean the end of the Islamic State. The organization can be recycled in the form of a terrorist multinational acting with "very dangerous lone wolves" who are waiting for a new opportunity to strike and attack western civil societies with the possibility of causing a lot of damage.

Its current fragmentation can help Al Qaeda inherit some of its elements, and its residues can shape new terrorist organizations in the region. The chapter of military clashes is over. A new page of war and new challenges in security and intelligence have just begun.