coalition which will come together to “degrade and destroy” the Islamic State.
But based on the reactions of international leaders, he has yet to
receive any concrete commitments to take an active part in the military
campaign against the Islamic State.

Monday, September 15, 2014

Introduction
The successive atrocities committed by the Islamic State (IS,
previously called the Islamic State in Iraq and Al-Sham – ISIS) have
diverted the discussion away from an understanding of this
organization's political program, creating the erroneous impression that
it is simply a more vicious version of Al-Qaeda. According to this
view, this organization presumably intends to attack the West by means
of its foreign militants who hold Western passports and could return to
Western countries to carry out terror attacks – and hence it is
paramount to destroy the IS forthwith. Saudi King 'Abdallah bin 'Abd
Al-'Azizpromoted this approach when he said that he was certain that
those jihadists "would arrive in Europe within a month and in America
within two months".[1]
This report seeks to clarify the IS's doctrine based on the
organization's official writings and speeches by its leaders. It will
argue that, unlike Al-Qaeda, the IS places priority not on global
terrorism, but rather on establishing and consolidating a state, and
hence it defers the clash with the West to a much later stage. In this,
it is emulating and reenacting the early Islamic model.

A new paramilitary structure seems to have been formed as of recent in Kosovo, aiming chiefly to disentegrate FYROM, but also with tendncies against Montenegro, Serbia and Greece and with a potential role to play also in Albania as well.

Saturday, September 13, 2014

President Obama is