This story is the potential collaboration between Assad and ISIS. There is an even darker story with ISIS, one murmured about in Syria and Iraq but far too conspiratorial to suggest until recently. But America aids one while helping fight the other Article content There is a direct link between the death squads loose in Baghdad and the rebels battling for Damascus.
This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. (In reality, there is a third war: the regional-sectarian one, with Iran and Hezbollah backing Assad and Qatar, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia funding the rebels). As the Geneva negotiations proceed, Syria’s civil war has transmogrified into a war within a war: one pitting Assad against the rebels, and one pitting rebels against each other. One report put the casualties caused by rebel infighting at 1,000 in a mere two weeks.
Since early January, ISIS has been fighting other Syrian rebel groups, both Islamist and secular. It has imposed shariah in the towns it controls, kidnapped local activists and journalists, destroyed Shiite shrines, beheaded rival Islamists, and even tortured and executed children. Despite estimates putting its manpower at a modest 7,000, it is the most savage force in both countries. ISIS’s objective is the imposition of an Islamic state across Iraq and Syria. Like a corporate marauder, Baghdadi brazenly rejected the ruling, saying the merger was to go forward, and was finally disowned by Al-Qaeda Central last week.
When ISIS’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - who has a $10-million bounty on his head - unilaterally announced the merger of his group with Jabhat al-Nusra, the “official” Al-Qaeda franchise in Syria, he was firmly rebuffed by Al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawhiri. ISIS has not only enraged Syria’s moderate rebels, but has also inflamed rival Islamist entities and even Al-Qaeda’s leadership. It emerged in Syria only in April 2013, but like a malignant tumor turned cancerous, has increased in size and scope across Iraq-Syria, metastasizing and multiplying precipitously. ISIS overtook the Syrian city of Al-Raqqa in March 2013, drove the police from Anbar in Iraq, and today controls part of Idlib, Aleppo, Hama and Deir ez Zour. The Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is the successor to Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a murderous group that killed untold numbers of coalition forces and civilians. Stephen Harper’s remarks in Israel highlight that Canada is even more pessimistic. As Osama al-Nujaifi, speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, said: “After gaining victory over Al-Qaeda, those tribesmen were rewarded with the cutting of their salaries, with assassination and displacement.” Is Iraq to remain a state for Sunni, Shia and Kurd, or is it to become a Shiite autocracy?īeyond Iraq’s imperious premier is an even more nefarious force, and the ostensible reason why the United States has not intervened further in Syria. Nuri al-Maliki’s government in Baghdad, overtly sectarian and dictatorial, has since then discriminated against Sunnis, arresting their leaders and charging them on dubious grounds. forces funded and armed Sunni tribal leaders to rout the Al-Qaeda insurgency. The fall of Fallujah is especially ominous because of the great expense at which its original liberation came.
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