Posted on Feb 24, 2017
The Islamic State Looks East: The Growing Threat in Southeast Asia | Combating Terrorism Center...
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"Much of the current analysis of the Islamic State focuses on its conflict against the West, and Europe in particular. This view, however, neglects the Islamic State’s global ambitions and reach. Asia, and particularly Southeast Asia, will likely provide key staging posts for the group, critical to its long-term fortunes. This article analyzes Islamic State and Islamic State-inspired activity in Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia by offering some parallels and contradistinctions vis-à-vis the situation in the West."
The Islamic State Looks East: The Growing Threat in Southeast Asia | Combating Terrorism Center...
Posted from ctc.usma.edu
ISIS
Terrorism
Southeast Asia
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And we've had SOF units in that AO for years now, fighting JI. This is not breaking news.
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Thanks for the update Sir. It appears to parallel the asemetric warfare. Where the enemy does not engage our strengths.
Notice, they go where there are a lot of Mosques aND Madrassa's. Communication pipeline and recruitment centers?
M. Morris RVT
Notice, they go where there are a lot of Mosques aND Madrassa's. Communication pipeline and recruitment centers?
M. Morris RVT
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IS forces have been operating in Southeast Asia for years, cultivating and developing a strong organization there. Carrying out bombings, kidnappings, assassinations, extortions, kidnapping, rape, child sexual assault, forced marriage, drive by shooting and drug trafficking for four decades now. They are also engaging in an insurgency for an independent province in the Philippines..
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