large swaths of territory across Iraq
and Syria.
Unexpectedly, the administration announced that American missiles had also
struck something called the “Khorasan group,” which was in the final stages of
planning attacks in the West. The group may even have been close to striking
inside the United States.

When U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sat down in Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia, on the 13th anniversary of 9/11, surrounded by the leaders of 10
Arab states, to build a coalition against Islamic State (ISIS), the
scene dripped with irony.
For decades, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, along with Arab billionaires in
Gulf Arab states, have financed the breeding grounds of Islamic
extremism in the tens of thousands of madrassas spread around the world,
from Philippines to Philadelphia.
Take the case of the al-Shabab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane, whose death
President Barack Obama boasted about atIslamic State's success: "At this moment the greatest
threats come from the Middle East and North Africa, where radical groups
exploit grievances for their own gain. And one of those groups is
ISIL—which calls itself the Islamic State."

Friday, September 26, 2014

The extremism of Islamist nature in Bosnia - Herzegovina that facilitated the recruitment of a significant number of Balkan muslims into the ranks of ISIS and other terrorist groups in the MENA region, does not come as a suprise, since a steady built up of networking and subversion has been going on for the past generation.Below some notable, hand-picked but "forgotten" examples follow along with brief description.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

While Western public opinion is fed information about the constitution
of a purported international coalition to fight against the "Islamic
Emirate", the latter changes