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Jean-Pierre Filiu: "The Islamic State is like a steamroller"
Home NEWS International By Isabelle Lasserre
Updated the 08/08/2014 at 19:56
Jean-Pierre Filiu is a professor at Sciences Po, Middle East specialist and author, among other books, I write Aleppo (Denoël).
LE FIGARO. - What is he going on in Iraq today?
Jean-Pierre Filiu .- It is the continuation of a structured campaign, planned and ordered by the Islamic state. It began on June 10 with the fall of Mosul, was followed by the establishment of the caliphate and the expulsion of Christians, Yazidis and other minorities. As advances of the Islamic State (EI) have not been countered, jihadists have been able to conduct simultaneous operations in the Kurdish and government fronts. Each "raid" input for the next offensive by allowing fighters to capture new weapons stocks. The Iraqi army is unable to react and Kurds still unable to do so, it will continue. Al-Baghdadi strategy was to establish a caliphate straddles Syria and Iraq, using the so-called "terror management". No army can fight when human waves, driven by fear, withdraw to the lines of defense. When the Islamic state is focused on a goal, it acts like a steamroller.
"Today, for example, you do not realize how Gaza is a case of special resonance for the Islamists of the Islamic state."
Jean-Pierre Filiu
Western countries have underestimated the jihadist threat?
They do not understand that the jihadists managed in terms of flows and not stocks. They present the balance sheets of their destruction actions in Afghanistan or Mali, without imagining that organizations can rebuild and replenish their stocks of weapons quickly. The international community has not demonstrated strategic anticipation, it did not produce sound intelligence, she did not understand what the true goals of the jihadists. Western countries spend their time waiting for the next move or to fill the gaps! Today, for example, you do not realize how Gaza is a case of special resonance for the Islamists of the Islamic State . There is now a real threat to world peace. It is even an unprecedented threat: the existence of thousands of terrorists prepared to act on the European continent and elsewhere, such as the massacre perpetrated in Brussels by Mehdi Nemmouche recalled recently. Besides swathes of humanity - the Eastern Christians and other minorities - are disappearing before our eyes. This is a disaster.
Who today can defeat the Islamic State?
Those who hold the defensive lines in the region: Syrian revolutionaries in Aleppo and Kurds in Kirkuk . One of the only places in the world where the jihadists have been expelled, in Aleppo, with the Syrian revolutionaries. But the international community must also mobilize. If we fail to contain the jihadists in Syria and Iraq, they will continue to move forward.
"The vision of thinking that dictators are a bulwark against al-Qaeda is wrong and dangerous. For in the end, we all. Dictators and al-Qaida "
Jean-Pierre Filiu
What are the roots of this conflict?
Of course, there is the initial response of the United States in Iraq in 2003, which opened the door of the country to al-Qaida. In Iraq and Syria, it is the blind support of the United States to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and that of Russia to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad . The illusion that it is better or Maliki Assad al-Qaeda leads to strategic bankruptcy. Al-Baghdadi, the head of the Islamic State, became what it is because of Maliki and Assad. The vision of thinking that dictators are a bulwark against al-Qaeda is wrong and dangerous. For in the end, we all dictators and al-Qaida.
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Jean-Pierre Filiu: "The Islamic State is like a steamroller"
Home NEWS International By Isabelle Lasserre
Updated the 08/08/2014 at 19:56
Jean-Pierre Filiu is a professor at Sciences Po, Middle East specialist and author, among other books, I write Aleppo (Denoël).
LE FIGARO. - What is he going on in Iraq today?
Jean-Pierre Filiu .- It is the continuation of a structured campaign, planned and ordered by the Islamic state. It began on June 10 with the fall of Mosul, was followed by the establishment of the caliphate and the expulsion of Christians, Yazidis and other minorities. As advances of the Islamic State (EI) have not been countered, jihadists have been able to conduct simultaneous operations in the Kurdish and government fronts. Each "raid" input for the next offensive by allowing fighters to capture new weapons stocks. The Iraqi army is unable to react and Kurds still unable to do so, it will continue. Al-Baghdadi strategy was to establish a caliphate straddles Syria and Iraq, using the so-called "terror management". No army can fight when human waves, driven by fear, withdraw to the lines of defense. When the Islamic state is focused on a goal, it acts like a steamroller.
"Today, for example, you do not realize how Gaza is a case of special resonance for the Islamists of the Islamic state."
Jean-Pierre Filiu
Western countries have underestimated the jihadist threat?
They do not understand that the jihadists managed in terms of flows and not stocks. They present the balance sheets of their destruction actions in Afghanistan or Mali, without imagining that organizations can rebuild and replenish their stocks of weapons quickly. The international community has not demonstrated strategic anticipation, it did not produce sound intelligence, she did not understand what the true goals of the jihadists. Western countries spend their time waiting for the next move or to fill the gaps! Today, for example, you do not realize how Gaza is a case of special resonance for the Islamists of the Islamic State . There is now a real threat to world peace. It is even an unprecedented threat: the existence of thousands of terrorists prepared to act on the European continent and elsewhere, such as the massacre perpetrated in Brussels by Mehdi Nemmouche recalled recently. Besides swathes of humanity - the Eastern Christians and other minorities - are disappearing before our eyes. This is a disaster.
Who today can defeat the Islamic State?
Those who hold the defensive lines in the region: Syrian revolutionaries in Aleppo and Kurds in Kirkuk . One of the only places in the world where the jihadists have been expelled, in Aleppo, with the Syrian revolutionaries. But the international community must also mobilize. If we fail to contain the jihadists in Syria and Iraq, they will continue to move forward.
"The vision of thinking that dictators are a bulwark against al-Qaeda is wrong and dangerous. For in the end, we all. Dictators and al-Qaida "
Jean-Pierre Filiu
What are the roots of this conflict?
Of course, there is the initial response of the United States in Iraq in 2003, which opened the door of the country to al-Qaida. In Iraq and Syria, it is the blind support of the United States to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and that of Russia to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad . The illusion that it is better or Maliki Assad al-Qaeda leads to strategic bankruptcy. Al-Baghdadi, the head of the Islamic State, became what it is because of Maliki and Assad. The vision of thinking that dictators are a bulwark against al-Qaeda is wrong and dangerous. For in the end, we all dictators and al-Qaida.
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