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ISIS is reorganising in Iraq to become an 'Al Qaeda on steroids' with 'better techniques' and 'a lot more money', intelligence officials warned today.
The militants are said to be posing an increased threat after becoming more skilled and dangerous than Al Qaeda, two years after losing the last of their territory in Iraq.
The group have been buying vehicles, weapons, food supplies and equipment - and now have more technological nous, Kurdish and Western intelligence officials said.
Perpetual war, as long as it doesn't get out of hand, is perpetually good for business.
Last time it got out of hand was the 1930s.
Managers of the military-industrial complex for the most part know what they are doing. So-called PLO, so-called Al Qaeda, so-called ISIS, the ones before them, the ones in-between, and the ones after them are all part of the manufacturing process.
Don't shovel against the tide, don't spit into the wind.
A different kind of IS has emerged, he says, which no longer wants to control any territory to avoid being a target. Instead - like their predecessors in al-Qaeda before them - the extremists have gone underground, in Iraq's Hamrin Mountains.
"This is the hub for ISIS [Islamic State group] right now," said Mr Talabany. "It's a long range of mountains, and very difficult for the Iraqi army to control. There are a lot of hide-outs and caves."
He warned that IS would be nourished by the current unrest in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and would exploit the sense of alienation among their fellow Sunni Muslims - a minority community. In Iraq, this is a familiar and bloody pattern.
"If we have political unrest," he said, "this is Heaven or Christmas come early for ISIS."
Growing ranks
The militants are also benefitting from strained relations between Baghdad and the Kurdistan regional government, following a Kurdish independence referendum in 2017.
There is now a vast area of no man's land in northern Iraq between Kurdish Peshmerga security forces and Islamic State 'getting stronger again in Iraq' their Iraqi counterparts. According to Mr Talabany, the only ones patrolling in this area are IS.
I love how Leftists only hope for the worst, and for bad things to happen to the U.S. and our military. Sad, when you must root for the Terrorist Murderers, and align yourselves with them.
"Defeated ISIS" shows up on all those Trump accomplishments lists, so this must be fake news.
They are defeated... Why do you think they are reorganizing... Nobody said they were extinct... Or are you asking Trump the go out and kill them all...
I love how Leftists only hope for the worst, and for bad things to happen to the U.S. and our military. Sad, when you must root for the Terrorist Murderers, and align yourselves with them.
No one is hoping for bad things to happen to the US and its military. You're getting out over your skis with that silly accusation.
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