Saturday 21 June 2014

'KEKAGUMAN BARAT ke atas MUNAFIK IRAQ, mereka telah bersama-sama dalam MENYOKONG RADIKAL . . .



Srikandi גבורה Originally bilangan sekitar 10 ribu pejuang, yang barisan ISIS kini berkembang setiap hari termasuk dengan rekrut dari Barat. Beberapa negara-negara Eropah telah meluluskan undang-undang yang membolehkan mereka untuk menafikan kemasukan kepada warganegara mereka mengesyaki menjadi sebahagian daripada kumpulan-kumpulan Islamis.

Tetapi wartawan Timur Tengah Karin Leukefeld berkata ia Barat sendiri yang membantu mewujudkan dan lengan mereka pergerakan radikal.

RT (Russia Today) adalah rangkaian penyiaran berita global dari Moscow dan Washington studio. RT adalah saluran berita pertama untuk memecahkan 1 billion pandangan penanda aras YouTube. (RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 1 billion YouTube views benchmark).

'WEST's ASTONISHMENT Over IRAQ hypocritical, 
they've been SUPPORTING Same Radicals IN . . .

Originally numbering around ten thousand fighters, the ranks of ISIS are now swelling by the day including with recruits from the West. A number of European states have passed laws allowing them to deny entry to nationals they suspect of being part of Islamist groups.

But Middle East journalist Karin Leukefeld says it's the West itself that helped create and arm those radical movements.

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HAMAS MENGACAM 3 INTIFADA untuk MENJAWAB tindakan KERAS Secara BESAR-besaran ISRAEL . . .

MILITAN Palestin dari pelbagai PUAK Bersenjata, termasuk HAMAS, menghadiri sidang akhbar di Gaza City 17 Jun 2014 (Palestinians militants from various armed factions, including Hamas, attend a news conference in Gaza City June 17, 2014 (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)

Srikandi גבורה Hamas berjanji untuk "membuka pintu-pintu neraka" jika kerajaan Netanyahu memecat pemimpinnya dari Tebing Barat ke Gaza berkaitan dengan 3 remaja Israel hilang. Operasi menyelamat menyebabkan 280 tangkapan dan kematian seorang remaja Palestin.

Dengan Penyimpan bersantai Operasi ‘Brother’ di Tebing Barat, kerajaan Israel dan tentera adalah bersedia untuk mencari Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaer dan Naftali Frankel, yang didakwa diculik di Tebing Barat minggu yang lalu, ‘at any cost’.

HAMAS threatens 3rd Intifada to ANSWER 
Massive ISRAELi CRACKDOWN . . .

Hamas is promising to “open the gates of hell” if Netanyahu’s government expels its leaders from the West Bank to Gaza in connection with three missing Israeli teens. The rescue operation resulted in 280 arrests and a death of a Palestinian teen.

With Operation Brother's Keeper unwinding in the West Bank, the Israeli government and army are set to find Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaer and Naftali Frankel, who were allegedly kidnapped in the West Bank a week ago, at any cost.

Tentera Israel mengambil bahagian dalam operasi untuk mencari tiga remaja Israel berhampiran Tebing Barat Bandar Hebron 17 Jun 2014 (Israeli soldiers take part in an operation to locate three Israeli teens near the West Bank City of Hebron June 17, 2014 (Reuters/Ammar Awad)

Keadaan di wilayah Palestin semakin merosot, dengan IDF menjalankan pelbagai tangkapan dan militan Palestin melepaskan tembakan roket ke arah penempatan Israel.

Kepimpinan Israel mengekalkan remaja telah diculik dan menganggap Hamas sebagai suspek utama.

Para remaja Israel "telah diculik oleh Hamas," kata Perdana Menteri Benjamin Netanyahu. "Itu Kami tidak ragu-ragu. Ia benar-benar pasti. Hamas berulang kali telah memanggil untuk menculik dan membunuh rakyat Israel."

Netanyahu akan menyesal tindakannya terhadap rakyat Palestin dan Hamas, jurucakap organisasi, Sami Abu Zuhri, berkata pada sidang akhbar khusus untuk operasi menyelamat Tebing Barat Israel, berjanji untuk menangkis tindakan keras Tebing Barat Israel dalam masa beberapa hari.

The situation in the Palestinian territories is deteriorating, with the IDF conducting multiple arrests and Palestinian militants firing rockets toward Israeli settlements.

The Israeli leadership maintains the teens were abducted and views Hamas as the prime suspect.

The Israeli teens “were kidnapped by Hamas,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “We had no doubt of that. It's absolutely certain. Hamas repeatedly has called for the kidnap and murder of Israeli citizens.”

Netanyahu will regret his actions against the Palestinian people and Hamas, the organization’s spokesperson, Sami Abu Zuhri, said at a press conference dedicated to Israel’s West Bank rescue operation, promising to repel the Israeli West Bank crackdown within days.

Berkongsi nama2 mereka, kongsi # realiti mereka Israel. Kanak-kanak lelaki # EyalGiladNaftali kami masih diculik (Share their names, share #Israel's reality. Our boys #EyalGiladNaftali are still kidnapped) 4:18 PM - 16 Jun 2014

Maklumat terkini menunjukkan bahawa IDF telah menangkap 280 rakyat Palestin dalam satu operasi besar-besaran tindakan keras di Tebing Barat. Antara yang ditangkap itu terdapat lebih 50 rakyat Palestin dari 1,027 tahanan baru-baru ini dibebaskan sebagai sebahagian daripada perjanjian untuk mendapatkan pembebasan Sarjan Gilad Shalit.

Semasa mencari 3 remaja hilang, tentera Israel membunuh seorang budak lelaki Palestin berusia 14 tahun, Mohammed Dudin, yang ditembak di dada semasa pertembungan antara tentera Israel menjalankan tangkapan dan penduduk tempatan di Kampung Dura, selatan Tebing Barat bandar Hebron.

Kerajaan Netanyahu telah mengancam untuk memecat pemimpin Hamas dari Tebing Barat ke Gaza.

Jurucakap Hamas Sami Abu Zuhri berkata jika Israel menyedari ancaman daripada membuang pemimpin Hamas ke Gaza, Israel akan "membuka pintu-pintu neraka.'

The latest information suggests that the IDF has already arrested 280 Palestinians in a massive crackdown operation in the West Bank. Among the arrested there are over 50 Palestinians from the 1,027 prisoners recently freed as part of the deal to secure the release of Sergeant Gilad Shalit.

During the search for three missing teenagers, Israeli soldiers killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy, Mohammed Dudin, who was shot in the chest during a clash between Israeli soldiers conducting arrests and locals in the village of Dura, south of the West Bank city of Hebron.

The Netanyahu government has threatened to expel Hamas’s leaders from the West Bank to Gaza.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said that if Israel realizes its threat of expelling Hamas leaders to Gaza, Israel would be "opening the gates of hell.'

Palestin muda ditutup matanya membongkar senjata dalam satu majlis seperti tentera tamat pengajian di Fajer Al-Entesar (fajar kemenangan) kem musim panas, yang dianjurkan oleh pergerakan Hamas di Bandar Gaza 19 Jun 2014 (Blindfolded young Palestinians dismantle weapons during a military-style graduation ceremony at Fajer Al-Entesar (dawn of victory) summer camp, organised by the Hamas movement, in Gaza City June 19, 2014 (Reuters, Mohammed Salem)

"Intifada adalah acara yang paling besar dalam sejarah rakyat Palestin, dan ia memperbaharui diri setiap kali ada sesuatu peningkatan dalam pencerobohan Israel," kata Abu Zuhri. "Rintangan melalui setiap saluran adalah hak yang sah bagi rakyat Palestin, untuk membebaskan tanah air, tempat-tempat suci, dan banduan."

"Kami mampu mencetuskan Intifada yang ke-3 yang merupakan hak muktamad yang akan pergi apabila lebih banyak tekanan yang dikenakan ke atas rakyat Palestin," kata pegawai Hamas Salah Bardawil diumumkan pada perhimpunan menyokong pengarah rangkaian TV al-Aqsa ditahan oleh Israel pada Rabu. Hamas tidak akan tinggal terbiar jika Israel "terus dengan jenayah di Tebing Barat," tambah Bardawil, seperti yang dipetik oleh Ma'an.

Netanyahu menekan pentadbiran Abbas untuk memisahkan dirinya daripada Hamas.

"Abbas [mesti] membubarkan kesatuan dengan ini organisasi pengganas membunuh [Hamas]. Saya rasa itu penting untuk masa depan kita bersama, "kata Netanyahu.

Agensi berita Palestin Ma'an dinamakan seorang pegawai kanan Hamas pada hari Khamis sebagai berkata bahawa Hamas boleh memulakan satu lagi Intifada, namun menyimpan kerajaan perpaduan Palestin di tempat.

Presiden Abbas pun berbunyi Rabu, berkata: "Mereka yang dijalankan penculikan mahu memusnahkan kita"

"Israel menggunakan kehilangan 3 kanak-kanak lelaki sebagai alasan untuk melancarkan serangan ke atas rakyat Palestin," kata Abbas, menekankan bahawa satu tindakan tunggal telah meletakkan beratus-ratus ribu orang awam Palestin di Tebing Barat di bawah pengepungan Israel, yang dilihat sebagai "hukuman kolektif."

"Dasar hukuman kolektif yg dikenakan oleh kerajaan Israel adalah melanggar undang-undang antarabangsa," kata pejabat Abbas dalam satu kenyataan.

Tentera Israel telah menutup kebanyakan rantau Hebron dan menutup lintasan ke Gaza sebagai mencari remaja hilang lagi. Selain itu, mereka telah mengharamkan lelaki Tebing Barat di bawah 50 dari perjalanan ke Jordan melalui Allenby Bridge.

“The Intifada is the greatest event in the history of the Palestinian people, and it renews itself every time there is an escalation in Israel's aggression,” Abu Zuhri said. “Resistance through every channel is the legitimate right of the Palestinian people, to liberate the land, the holy places, and the prisoners.”

"We are capable of igniting a third Intifada which is an irrevocable right that will go off when more pressure is exerted on the Palestinian people," Hamas official Salah Bardawil announced at a rally in support of the director of the al-Aqsa TV network detained by Israel on Wednesday. Hamas would not stay idle if Israel “continues with its crimes in the West Bank,” Bardawil added, as cited by Ma’an.

Netanyahu is pressing the Abbas administration to disassociate itself from Hamas.

“Abbas [must] dissolve the union with this murderous terrorist organization [Hamas]. I think that's important for our common future,” Netanyahu said.

Palestinian news agency Ma'an cited a senior Hamas official on Thursday as saying that Hamas could start another Intifada, yet keep the Palestinian unity government in place.

President Abbas chimed in Wednesday, saying: “Those who carried out the kidnapping want to destroy us.”

“Israel is using the disappearance of the three boys as an excuse to launch an attack on the Palestinians,” Abbas said, stressing that a single act has put hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians in the West Bank under Israeli siege, which is seen as “collective punishment.”

“The policy of collective punishment imposed by the Israeli government is a violation of the international law,” Abbas’s office said in a statement.

The Israeli military has closed most of the Hebron region and sealed off crossings into Gaza as the search for the missing teens goes on. Also, they have banned West Bank men under 50 from traveling to Jordan through Allenby Bridge.

Seorang askar Israel mengambil kedudukan semasa operasi untuk mencari 3 remaja hilang, di bandar Tebing Barat Hebron 18 Jun 2014 (An Israeli soldier takes position during an operation to locate three missing teenagers, in the West Bank city of Hebron June 18, 2014 (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)

"Ini taktik membalas dendam adalah sama seperti hukuman kolektif di bawah undang-undang antarabangsa," Fuad al-Khufash, pengarah Ahrar, sebuah kumpulan hak asasi Palestin, memberitahu Al-Jazeera. "Mereka tidak wajar & hanya berkhidmat untuk mengurangkan kebimbangan rakyat Israel, "katanya, dengan menyatakan bahawa tangkapan berlaku di Bethlehem, Hebron, Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah dan tuba.

Radikal Palestin dari Hamas membidas kedua-dua Israel dan Presiden Palestin Mahmoud Abbas, yang membantu Tel Aviv dalam operasi menyelamat.

Kedudukan Abbas tidak mencerminkan mood awam Palestin, kata Abu Zuhri.

Israel hanya memahami bahasa penculikan, pegawai Palestin Pertubuhan Pembebasan itu Jibril Rajoub, Khamis, menekankan bahawa walaupun beliau secara peribadi tidak memihak penculikan kedua-dua warga Palestin dan Israel.

Presiden Abbas dipanggil penangkapan orang-orang yang telah membelanjakan dekad di dalam penjara "yang terang-terangan pada pelanggaran perjanjian pelepasan itu".

Kaedah operasi menyelamat hanya memandu keganasan lagi, sebagai rakyat Palestin di kawasan Jenin yang membuang batu-batu dan bom api ke tentera IDF.

Wilayah Israel juga telah diserang dengan roket buatan tangan dari Semenanjung Gaza. Tentera Udara Israel melancarkan serangan balas sebagai balasan, memukul 5 "laman pengganas" dalam di utara dan tengah Gaza.

"IDF tidak akan bertolak ansur dengan percubaan untuk mencederakan kami [Israel] rakyat dan tentera, dan akan beroperasi terhadap semua elemen-elemen yang menghasut keganasan terhadap negara Israel," tentera berkata berikutan serangan.

Agensi berita Ma'an dinamakan seorang pegawai kesihatan Gaza yang mengatakan bahawa enam rakyat Palestin cedera dalam serangan.

“These revenge tactics are tantamount to collective punishment under international law," Fuad al-Khufash, the director of Ahrar, a Palestinian rights group, told Al-Jazeera. “They are unjustified and merely serve to alleviate the fears of the Israeli people,” he said, specifying that arrests took place in Bethlehem, Hebron, Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah and Tubas.

Palestinian radicals from Hamas lashed out at both the Israelis and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who is assisting Tel Aviv in the rescue operation.

Abbas’s position does not reflect the mood of the Palestinian public, said Abu Zuhri.

Israel only understands language of kidnapping, Palestinian Liberation Organization’s official Jibril Rajoub said Thursday, stressing though that he personally does not favor abductions of both Palestinian and Israeli citizens.

President Abbas called the arrests of the people who already spent decades in prison “a blatant infringement on the release agreement.”

The methods of the rescue operation are only driving the violence further, as Palestinians in the Jenin area are throwing rocks and fire bombs at IDF forces.

Israeli territory has also been attacked with handmade rockets from the Gaza Strip. The Israel Air Force launched retaliation strikes in return, hitting five “terrorist sites” in in northern and central Gaza.

“The IDF will not tolerate attempts to harm our [Israeli] citizens and soldiers, and will operate against all elements that instigate terror against the State of Israel,” the military said following the strike.

Ma'an news agency cited a Gaza health official who said that six Palestinians were wounded in the strikes.


Friday 20 June 2014

APA yang ANDA perlu TAHU tentang ISIS dan APA yang SEBENAR BERLAKU di IRAQ . . .

Militan daripada Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant (ISIL) menaiki dalam kenderaan yang ditawan ditinggalkan oleh pasukan keselamatan Iraq di lokasi yang tidak diketahui di wilayah Salaheddin (Militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) riding in a captured vehicle left behind by Iraqi security forces at an unknown location in the Salaheddin province (AFP Photo)

Srikandi גבורה Sebagaimana ISIS, sekumpulan dianggarkan terdiri daripada hanya beberapa ribu orang yang dipimpin oleh bayang-bayang boneka, kekalahan tentera banyak kali saiz utk menguasai sebahagian besar daripada Iraq, RT kelihatan menjadi apa yang ISIS, dan bagaimana ia telah mencapai kejayaan yang menakutkan itu.

Ikut TERKINI LIVE RT pada ISIS serangan di Iraq (Follow RT's LIVE UPDATES on ISIS offensive in Iraq)

JADI, apa itu ISIS ? Dan ADAkah ia juga ISIS, atau ADAkah ianya ISIL?

Satu lot paling komited dan fanatik di dunia hanya baru-baru ini telah berlalu nama sekarang, selepas Negara Islam yang tidak diiktiraf di Iraq dan al-Sham (ISIS) telah diisytiharkan pada April tahun lepas. Al-Sham telah yang biasa diterjemahkan daripada bahasa Arab sebagai Levant, oleh itu ISIL. Ia sebelum ini dikenali sebagai Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, Al-Qaeda di Negara Islam Iraq.

All you NEED to KNOW about ISIS and WHAT 
is happening in IRAQ . . .

As ISIS, a group thought to consist of only a few thousand people led by a shadowy figurehead, defeats forces many times its size to capture a large part of Iraq, RT looks into what is ISIS, and how has it achieved its terrifying triumphs.


So, what is ISIS? And is it even ISIS, or is it ISIL?

The world’s most committed and fanatical radical organization has only recently gone by its current name, after the unrecognized Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) was proclaimed in April last year. Al-Sham has been most commonly translated from Arabic as the Levant, hence ISIL. It was previously known as Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic State of Iraq.

Perubahan nama yang kerap tidak kosmetik - tetapi hasil langsung daripada keadaan merubah yg dibenarkan ISIS untuk berkembang pesat. Menumpukan kepada mencapai dominasi di Iraq, ia disimpan di bawah kawalan dalam tempoh yang agak tenang antara persengketaan awal mazhab yang tercetus berikutan pencerobohan yang diketuai pada tahun 2003, dan wabak permusuhan keluarkan tentera Amerika pada tahun 2011.

Sejak itu, ia tlh menjadi pemain utama, menerima satu lagi rangsangan kritikal apabila perang saudara di Syria bertukar menjadi konflik mazhab, membawa berjuta-juta dolar dalam pembiayaan dan beribu-ribu anggota baru dari seluruh DUNIA.

The frequent name changes are not cosmetic – but the direct result of the transforming circumstances which have allowed ISIS to rapidly flourish. Initially focused on achieving dominance in Iraq, it was kept under control in the relatively calm period between the initial sectarian strife that broke out following the US-led invasion in 2003, and the outbreak of hostilities following the American military withdrawal in 2011.

Since then, it has become a major player, receiving another critical boost when the civil war in Syria turned into a sectarian conflict, bringing in millions of dollars in funding and thousands of fresh recruits from around the WORLD.

Imej dimuat naik pada 14 Jun 2014 laman web jihad Welayat Salahuddin didakwa menunjukkan militan daripada Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant (ISIL) yang memandu di jalan di lokasi yang tidak diketahui di wilayah Salaheddin (An image uploaded on June 14, 2014 on the jihadist website Welayat Salahuddin allegedly shows militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) driving on a street at unknown location in the Salaheddin province (AFP Photo)

Pada masa ini, kubu kuat ISIS melanjutkan dari Raqqa di utara Syria semua jalan ke pinggir Baghdad - yang terbentang lebih daripada 500 km, walaupun kumpulan itu tidak mempunyai pengawasan yang komprehensif daripada jalan raya dan penempatan antara mereka.

Currently, ISIS strongholds extend from Raqqa in northern Syria all the way down to the outskirts of Baghdad – a stretch of more than 500 km, though the group doesn’t have comprehensive oversight of the roads and settlements between them.
Keajuan kumpulan Islam itu apabila tutup pada Baghdad boleh dibandingkan - jika tidak melebihi - kadar pencerobohan 2003. Tidak seperti Amerika Syarikat dan sekutu-sekutunya, walaupun, ISIS tidak mempunyai keupayaan melancarkan serangan udara yang merosakkan, bagaimanapun dalam perbalahan melalui terbarunya kumpulan itu dilaporkan berjaya dgn ketara meningkatkan kuasa ketenteraan menangkap berpuluh-puluh kereta perisai buatan Amerika Syarikat dan senjata berat lain dari berundur tentera Iraq.

The speed with which the Islamist group is closing in on Baghdad can be compared – if not exceeds – the pace of the 2003 invasion. Unlike the US and allies, though, ISIS does not have a capability of launching destructive air strikes, however in its latest offensives the group has reportedly managed to significantly boost its military power capturing dozens of US-made armored vehicles and other heavy weaponry from the retreating Iraqi military.

Wikimedia Commons/ADuran

ISIS adalah SEBAHAGIAN dan Daripada yang SAMA 
dengan Al-Qaeda, BETUL tak ?

Tidak, ia adalah lebih buruk lagi. Al-Qaeda telah uji langkah2 untuk memahami keganasan Barat sejak 9/11, tetapi berlainan dengan ISIS ia secara falsafah, organisasi, dan juga secara rasmi, kerana ia telah mengisytiharkan dirinya sebuah badan yang berasingan sepenuhnya. Jika apa-apa kedua-dua organisasi - walaupun kedua-dua mendukung Sunni Islam - kini lebih daripada pesaing sekutu.

Walaupun Al-Qaeda, dalam bentuk-bentuk yang terkenal, adalah sebuah pertubuhan pengganas, dengan sel-sel tidur, kem-kem latihan dan serangan pengganas, ISIS pada masa lebih merupakan militia dan sebuah wilayah penyangak dengan infrastruktur sendiri, lebih serupa dengan Boko Haram dan fiefdoms setempat lain yang telah melahirkan di negeri-negeri Afrika tanpa undang-undang atau gagal.

ISIS is part of and similar to Al-Qaeda, right ?

No, it is significantly worse. Al-Qaeda has been the touchstone for the Western understanding of terrorism ever since 9/11, but ISIS differs from it philosophically, organizationally, and even officially, as it has declared itself an entirely separate body. If anything the two organizations – though both espousing Sunni Islam – are currently more rivals than allies.

While Al-Qaeda, in its most well-known forms, is a terrorist organization, with sleeper cells, training camps and terrorist attacks, ISIS as of now is more a militia and a rogue territory with its own infrastructure, more similar to Boko Haram and other localized fiefdoms that have spawned in lawless or failed African states.

Imej dimuat naik pada 14 Jun 2014 laman web jihad Welayat Salahuddin didakwa menunjukkan militan daripada Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant (ISIL) melaksanakan berpuluh-puluh yang ditangkap Iraq pasukan keselamatan ahli-ahli di lokasi yang tidak diketahui di wilayah Salaheddin (An image uploaded on June 14, 2014 on the jihadist website Welayat Salahuddin allegedly shows militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) executing dozens of captured Iraqi security forces members at an unknown location in the Salaheddin province (AFP Photo)

Al-Qaeda telah menjadi lebih sedar mengelakkan tindakan kekejaman yang berleluasa atau tidak produktif sejak kematian Osama Bin Laden, tetapi ISIS pesta di dalamnya, mendukung falsafah agama jadi tanpa kompromi ternyata hampir nihilistik.

Kawasan-kawasan itu tlh mendapat telah disimpan di bawah kawalan oleh 1 aliran tiada penghujung hukuman sebat, pencacatan, pemancungan kepala dan penyaliban. Sasaran boleh yg dipilih atau sewenang-wenangnya, tetapi tiada siapa yang terkecuali - lawan Syiah, saingan Sunni, tentera yang ditangkap atau "tidak bermoral" wanita2.

ISIS 'melaksanakan' 1,700 tentera Iraq, gambar post yang mengerikan (GRAPHIC) ISIS 'execute' 1,700 Iraqi soldiers, post gruesome pictures (GRAPHIC)

Tidak mengejutkan, walaupun ketua pertama ISIS, Allahyarham Abu Musab, adakah pengakuan taat setia kepadamu Al-Qaeda kembali pada awal tahun 2000, kedua-dua organisasi telah jatuh.

Al-Qaeda has become more conscious of avoiding acts of indiscriminate or counter-productive brutality since the demise of Osama Bin Laden, but ISIS revels in it, espousing a religious philosophy so uncompromising it appears almost nihilistic.

The areas it has secured have been kept under control by an endless stream of floggings, mutilations, beheadings and crucifixions. The targets can be well-chosen or arbitrary, but no one is spared – Shia opponents, Sunni rivals, captured soldiers or “immoral” women.


Unsurprisingly, although the first leader of ISIS, the late Abu Musab, did swear fealty to Al-Qaeda back in the early 2000s, the two organizations have fallen out.


Titik berbuka adalah maut melawan antara ISIS dan Al-Qaeda yang disokong Nusra di Syria. Rayuan oleh Al-Qaeda untuk membahagikan sfera pengaruh telah bulat-bulat ditolak oleh Abu Bakr, pemimpin ISIS, yang menghabiskan masa selama 4 tahun dalam kurungan Amerika Syarikat, sebelum dibebaskan pada tahun 2009. Selepas komunikasi semakin mudah tersinggung antara 2 pihak, Al-Qaeda "berlepas diri" ISIS pada awal tahun ini, sebagai balasan memprovokasi ISIS utk memanggil organisasi "pengkhianat" dan "jenaka."

Dengan kebangkitan ISIS, ramai mengatakan bahawa ia kini Al-Qaeda Ayman al-Zawahiri yang perlu berikrar taat setia kepada Abu Bakr 43 tahun.

Bagaimana ISIS dibiayai?

ISIS beroperasi sebagai perusahaan komersial-mafia gaya setengah, kebajikan antara-bangsa separuh soleh, mencari penderma kaya di Teluk Amerika dan di seluruh DUNIA.

Ia sudah tentu tdk kekurangan kesempatan dlm mengkomersilkan aktiviti ketenteraan. Pada tahun 2012 ISIS - atau ISI kerana ia ketika itu - mengambil alih medan minyak di Syria, mengaut keuntungan daripada menjual minyak pada harga diskaun kepada sesiapa yang bersedia untuk membayar.

Ia telah didagangkan dalam bahan-bahan mentah di kawasan itu telah ditangkap, dan juga mula berjinak dlm menjual barangan antik dari monumen di bawah kawalannya.

The breaking point was the internecine fighting between ISIS and Al-Qaeda-backed Nusra in Syria. Pleas by Al-Qaeda to divide spheres of influence were flatly rejected by Abu Bakr, the ISIS leader, who spent four years in US captivity, before being released in 2009. After increasingly testy communication between the sides, Al-Qaeda “disowned” ISIS earlier this year, in return provoking ISIS to call the organization “traitors” and “a joke.”

With the rise of ISIS, many say that it is now Al-Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri who should be pledging allegiance to the 43-year old Abu Bakr.

How is ISIS funded?

ISIS operates as a half-mafia-style commercial enterprise, half pious international charity, looking for wealthy donors in the Gulf States and throughout the globe.

It is certainly not lacking in opportunism in commercializing its military activities. In 2012 ISIS – or ISI as it was then – took over oil fields in Syria, reaping profits from selling the oil at discounted prices to anyone willing to pay. It has traded in the raw materials in areas it has captured, and even dabbled in selling antiques from monuments under its control.

# ISIS laporan tahunan "al-Naba" - Laporan - termasuk infographic tahun 2013 serangan 4 "pihak berkepentingan" (#ISIS annual report “al-Naba” – Report – includes infographic of 2013 attacks 4"stakeholders" #Iraq pic.twitter.com/VeHtsZQnMQ MT @WilliamsJon 9:45 PM - 18 Jun 2014

Kadang-kadang, ia tidak perlu menjadi begitu rumit. Kejayaannya terbesar telah merampas sebuah bilik kebal ‘vault’ kerajaan di Mosul - ditangkap minggu lalu - yang dilaporkan mengandungi lebih daripada $ 425,000,000. Dengan barang rampasan yang diambil semasa kemajuan terkini itu, yang dianggarkan dada ‘chest’ perang ISIL itu kini mencecah lebih $ 2 bilion.

Tetapi sama penting adalah pendapatan dari ISIS tidak diketahui itu - namun mudah diteka - penyokong dari Semenanjung Arab. Sebagai penyokong utama di dunia gaya-Arab fahaman Wahabi, pegawai Iraq mendakwa ISIS mendapat aliran dana & sokongan daripada pengusaha politik terlibat, bekerja dari keselamatan Arab Saudi & sempadan US-dilindungi Qatar.

Seperti mana-mana perusahaan naik-dan-datang, publisiti baru-baru ini dan reputasi yang berkembang mungkin membentuk bulatan mulia, di mana ISIS akan menerima dana tambahan, utk melampiaskan feats lebih mengagumkan pemusnah utk meng-gembirakan penyokong itu.

Bagaimana ISIS berjaya menangkap wilayah begitu banyak?

Pada 10 Jun, kurang daripada seribu ISIS militan di trak pikap soka menduduki ‘occupied’ bandar Iraq utara Mosul dengan jumlah penduduk 1.8 juta orang.

Bandar ini sepatutnya berada di bawah perlindungan pasukan tentera Iraq US-terlatih kira-kira 30,000 ditempatkan di rantau ini. Ia dilengkapi dengan peralatan buatan Amerika Syarikat ketenteraan yg canggih - sebahagian daripada senjata & perkakasan yang dibekalkan oleh Washington ke Baghdad, yg tlh dianggarkan bernilai berbilion-bilion dolar Amerika.

Sometimes, it doesn’t have to be so elaborate. Its biggest single success was plundering a government vault in Mosul – captured last week – that reportedly contained more than $425 million. With the loot taken during its recent advances, ISIL’s estimated war chest now stands at over $2 billion.

But just as important is ISIS income from its unknown – yet easily guessed – backers from the Arabian Peninsula. As the WORLD’s foremost proponents of Saudi-style Wahhabism, Iraqi officials claim ISIS gets a steady stream of funds and support from politically engaged operators, working from the safety of Saudi Arabia’s and Qatar’s US-protected borders.

Like any up-and-coming enterprise, its recent publicity and burgeoning reputation is likely to form a virtuous circle, where ISIS will receive additional funds, to wreak more impressive feats of destruction to the delight of its backers.

How did ISIS manage to capture so much territory?

On June 10, less than a thousand of ISIS militants on soft-shelled pickup trucks occupied the northern Iraqi city of Mosul with a population of 1.8 million people.

The city was supposed to be under the protection of the US-trained Iraqi military force of about 30,000 stationed in the region. It was equipped with sophisticated US-made military equipment – part of the weaponry and hardware supplied by Washington to Baghdad, which has been estimated to cost billions of US dollars.

Imej yang disediakan oleh jihad Twitter akaun Al-Baraka berita mengenai 13 Jun 2014 didakwa menunjukkan Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant (ISIL) militan bertempur dengan tentera Iraq di lokasi yang tidak didedahkan berhampiran sempadan Iraq-Syria, di daerah daripada Sinjar, Iraq barat laut (An image made available by the jihadist Twitter account Al-Baraka news on June 13, 2014 allegedly shows Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants clashing with Iraqi soldiers at an undisclosed location close to the Iraqi-Syrian border, in the district of Sinjar, northwest Iraq (AFP Photo)

Walau bagaimanapun, Mosul jatuh dengan sebarang tentangan jelas sebagai puluhan tentera Iraq melarikan diri menjatuhkan pakaian seragam mereka dan meninggalkan perkakasan berharga di belakang. Militan disambut mendapat buatan Amerika Syarikat Humvees dan tangki - beberapa yang telah sejak menuju ke Syria untuk digunakan menentang kuasa-kuasa kerajaan - dan juga didakwa ditangkap sekurang-kurangnya satu helikopter Black Hawk.

Kekurangan semangat am dan kesepaduan dalam tentera Iraq telah dinamakan punca kerugian memalukan ini dan bandar-bandar lain - termasuk bandar strategik Tal Afar dekat dengan sempadan Syria dan tempat kelahiran Saddam Hussein Tikrit.

Membantu perbarisan ini kemenangan ISIS telah sokongan yang didakwa menyapu daripada penduduk Sunni tempatan, yang sebelum ini disokong regim Sunni Saddam Hussein digulingkan oleh tentera yang diketuai.

Faktor mazhab, tetapi juga cara selepas pencerobohan Iraq PM kerajaan Nouri al-Maliki telah mengendalikan konflik agama dan sosial di negara ini, sudah tentu menyumbang kepada tentera Iraq yg tdk popular di kawasan-kawasan yang diduduki ISIS.

Rupa-rupanya, menggantikan beberapa komander Sunni dengan Syiah tempatan tidak membantu, dan cara ISIS memenangi sokongan dari puak-puak tempatan melalui rundingan telah menunjukkan betapa sedikit kerajaan pusat baru bernilai di utara Iraq luar bandar.

However, Mosul fell with no apparent resistance as scores of Iraqi troops fled dropping their uniforms and leaving the precious hardware behind. The militants celebrated getting US-made Humvees and tanks – some of which have since headed to Syria to be used against the government forces – and even allegedly captured at least one Black Hawk helicopter.

General lack of morale and cohesion in the Iraqi army has been named the cause for the humiliating loss of this and other cities – including the strategic city of Tal Afar close to the Syrian border and Saddam Hussein’s birthplace Tikrit.

Aiding this parade of ISIS victories has been the allegedly sweeping support of the local Sunni population, who previously supported the Sunni regime of Saddam Hussein overthrown by the US-led forces.

Sectarian factors, but also the way the post-invasion Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki’s government has handled religious and social conflicts in the country, certainly contributed to Iraqi army being unpopular in ISIS-occupied regions. Apparently, replacing some Sunni commanders with Shiites locally did not help, and the way ISIS won the support of local tribes via negotiations has shown how little the new central government is valued in northern rural Iraq.


Walau bagaimanapun, kita juga perlu sedar bahawa ISIS ada sekumpulan samseng pelampau kurang terlatih. Dengan tahun-tahun pengalaman di medan perang Syria, kumpulan itu mempunyai kem-kem latihan menghasilkan pejuang cukup bersedia, dan ia telah disertai oleh puluhan tentera upahan di luar negara secara profesional terlatih.

Jurucakap ISIS Syaikh Muhammad Adnani telah menerangkan kejayaan semasa kumpulan itu dengan kehendak Allah, yang berkata bahawa "Negeri [Islam] tidak wujud dengan bilangan, mahupun peralatan, mahupun senjata, mahupun kekayaan, sebaliknya ia wujud dengan kurniaan Allah semata-mata, melalui fahaman "dalam satu kenyataan baru-baru ini disiarkan di YouTube.

Ia masih tidak jelas berapa lama polisi kejam dan menindas ISIS akan menjamin sokongan mereka di atas tanah di Iraq, semasa mereka cuba untuk memenangi hati penduduk tempatan 'dengan propaganda agama dan impian yang khalifah merentas sempadan yang besar.

However, one also has to realize that ISIS is no bunch of poorly-trained extremist thugs. With years of experience on the Syrian battlefield, the group boasts training camps producing well-prepared fighters, and it has been joined by scores of professionally trained overseas mercenaries.

ISIS spokesman Shaykh Muhammad Adnani has explained the group’s current success by the will of God, saying that “the [Islamic] State has not prevailed by numbers, nor equipment, nor weapons, nor wealth, rather it prevails by Allah’s bounty alone, through its creed” in a recent statement posted on YouTube.

It remains unclear for how long the brutal and repressive policies of ISIS will guarantee their support on the ground in Iraq, while they are trying to win the locals’ hearts with religious propaganda and dreams of a huge cross-border caliphate.

Ia adalah ironik bahawa kumpulan Islam tegar akan menggunakan peralatan yang disediakan oleh Washington ke Baghdad dalam pemberontakan yang disokong Barat di Syria, tetapi pada masa yang sama mungkin berhadapan oleh Barat di Iraq, di mana militan kini bertanding terbesar di negara ini medan minyak ‘oilfield’.

It is ironic that the hardcore Islamist group will be using the equipment provided by Washington to Baghdad in the Western-backed insurgency in Syria, but at the same time may be confronted by the West in Iraq, where the militants are now contesting the country’s largest oilfield.


Pertempuran dengan militan di Iraq bermain di luar medan minyak berhampiran, saluran paip, kilang penapis. Berikut adalah petanya (Battles with militants in Iraq play out near oil fields, pipelines, refineries. Here's a map). http://on.wsj.com/1iqkR6B 

Setelah menghabiskan berbilion-bilion di Iraq dan perang ke atas keganasan untuk mendapatkan kepentingan sendiri di rantau ini, Amerika Syarikat & sekutu-sekutunya telah tidak bersedia untuk mengakui 2003 serangan yang paling dahsyat ‘bloodiest’ adalah satu kesilapan dengan kesan2 bencana bagi rantau Timur Tengah keseluruhan.

Walaupun 2013 telah ditandai dengan keganasan sektarian paling berdarah di Iraq dalam tempoh 5 tahun, ia kebanyakannya pergi tanpa disedari dengan "masyarakat antarabangsa." Baru-baru ini, bekas Perdana Menteri UK Tony Blair memilih untuk menyalahkan ‘blame" sistem buruk politik dicampur dengan penyalahgunaan agama" sebagai punca segala masalah di Timur Tengah.

Having spent billions on Iraq and war on terror for securing its own interests in the region, the US and its allies have been unwilling to admit the devastating 2003 invasion was a mistake with disastrous consequences for the whole Middle Eastern region. While 2013 was marked by the bloodiest sectarian violence in Iraq in five years, it mostly went unnoticed with the “international community.”

Recently, the former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair chose to blame” bad systems of politics mixed with abuse of religion” as the root of all the problems in Middle East.


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