Terrorist cells looking to unite with ISIS

 

 

By Jaime Ortega.

According to a news story published on Dalsan Radio, Boko Haram the Nigerian Islamic organization has maintained close negotiations with Al-Shabab (Somalia) and also Islamic State Iraq and Levant (ISIL) to unite forces.

The Australian mediator by the name of Davis who oversaw the operation, said” We have evidences that Islamist groups in Somalia, South Sudan and Egypt are having discussions with ISIL so they can unite with it”

South Sudan is a training field for many Jihadist groups including Hezbollah, Hamas and Al-Qaeda; Boko Haram controls North Eastern Nigeria, and through the city of Boro that borders Chad, has easy access to communicate with South Sudan and Sudan.

According to The Daily Journalist intelligence, Boko Haram has tried to recruit new combatants from Sudan’s People Liberations Army (SPLA), and is also interested in joining a wider Islamic cause with ISIL.

Meanwhile in Egypt, the Ministry of Religious Endowments, despite the disavowal of Youssef Qaradawi the spiritual leader of The Islamic Brotherhood in relation with ISIL: The documented published, that ISIL and the Islamic Brotherhood had maintained ongoing connections the past 4 months.

Its is not clear what the conversations entitled, but as the statement declares, both groups share similar ideologies that would propose a problematic outlook for the Middle East and Africa in regards with terrorism expanding into a wider caliphate.

The Islamic Brotherhood has not recognized Adbel Fattah El-Sisi as a their new Egyptian leader, and would interested in ISIL’s expansionary vision reflecting  strict Sharia Law all over the Middle East.

An article brought Shukri Mohamed in Mogadishu also warns that Somali youth are leaving their homes in “Europe and the United States” to join the Islamic State. There is a growing rumor from some experts that some of the terrorist ‘modulus operanti’ leaving the US belong to the State of Minnesota, which holds the largest Somali community in the US.

After the death of Abdi Godane, (Al-Shabaab leader) from a US drone strike, it is likely that Al-Shabaab would be interested in sending fighters to Syria and Iraq and reinforce ISIL to fight against the west as they promised avenging their leader who died Friday.

ISIL is currently opening their campaign in South Asia. A splinter group of Pakistan’s Taliban Insurgents, Jamat-ul Ahrar, has already declared its support for the well-founded and ruthless ISIL fighters.

The leader of the group Ehsanullah Ehsan, said to Reuters by phone. “We respect them, if they ask us for help, will look into it and decide“.

The important clue is that Ehsan confirms that ISIL might be “asking for help” for the organization to increase in strength; specially, under pressure from NATO forces, and recent US drone strikes targeting ISIL’s border camps.

Down in South East Asia, other terrorist organizations have already pledged support to the new caliphate

Clips have been uploaded in recent weeks on the video sharing site YouTube showing both southern Philippines-based Bangsamoro Freedom Fighters and the Abu Sayyaf rebels pledging support to ISIL.

“We have an alliance with ISIL and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,” BIFF spokesman Abu Misry Mama told AFP by telephone Friday, referring to the brutal radical group’s leader.

ABC reported that 100 Filipinos, mostly from Abu Sayyaf are no training in ISIL camps in Syria and Iraq.

The Soufan Group has also released a document that shows fighters from Indonesia also joining forces with ISIL, whom support the new caliphate.

Despite all the possibilities for ISIL to uninify with other terrorist networks, the questions regarding Al-Qaeda’s participation remains unclear. Since Al-Qaeda disowned ISIL late on Feb 2014, for their gruesome tactics.

Ayman Al-Zawahiri the spiritual leader of Al-Qaeda  in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and AQI (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) has stated “Boko Haram, and ISIL do not represent his organization.” Adding, ” he does not recognize Abubakar Shekau or Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi as rulers of a new Islamic caliphate.”

Yet according to US intelligence, Al-Qaeda still remains a higher threat on US soil than ISIL. There is still a chance both groups could link-in to fight a greater war against the US inside its territory, sharing strategical points, coordinating a join attack by entering the US-Border illegally with the help with Mexican Cartels.

According to The Daily Journalist, ISIL remains a bigger threat to Europe; since most of its combatants belong to high populated sectors set on different cities among Europe, with well established muslim structures; The countries on high alert should include England, Denmark, Belgium Holland, Germany and France.

 

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