A Road Map to Fighting Terrorism

What is the way to end all the mayhem terrorist attacks create, a senior journalist tries to find out.

The WTC attacks were unprecedented in the history of civil aviation, security experts said. (Photo: Reuters)      

“Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years”, Will Durant.

While writing this article, another terrorist act is taking place in Mali while the fighting is intensifying over Syrian skies against Daesh.

With repeated terrorist attacks all over the world, our collective conscious has now come to recognise the suffering of people in Yemen, Syria, Nigeria, Mali, Somalia, Ivory coast, Libya and Iraq, to name few countries. The Paris horror brought back the harsh memories of the 9/11 attacks. But this time, to the capital of Romance, Paris, the heart of Europe.

I share the humiliation, pain and grievances my fellow Parisians are facing. I too feel like we need to expose the perpetrators and their sponsors patiently and with integrity, since I am at war with these Takfiri-Salafist Wahabi terrorists (the foundation of Turkey Caliphate project), due to the pain inflicted on our people in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.

In order to not to fall prey to George Bush’s style of vengeful act by start bombing blindly and equate what happened on 9/11 in the US, we need to address the real causes rather than treating the symptoms after what happened in France.

Bullet impacts are seen in the window of a restaurant window the day after a series of deadly attacks in Paris. (Photo: Reuters)      

Good Al-Qaeda vs Bad Al-Qaeda

“Good Al-Qaeda” was created to defeat the Soviet Union by US-ISI-AL Saud, according to Hillary Clinton in her own testimony. When USSR withdrew from Afghanistan and the US decided to make military base in Saudi Arabia, its own sponsored Mujahideen turned their guns against their master. When the terrorist attacks happened on 11 September, they were labeled as the “Bad Al Qaeda” and were branded a terrorist organisation.

Many of the Arabs fled to their respective countries and started new networks in Yemen, Maghreb and joined the US invasion of Iraq to create Al Qaeda in Iraq. Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, a follower of Bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri, was made in-charge and started recruiting deprived Iraqi victims of sectarian violence into his network. The ideology is the same, but the implementation differs. It is based on the Jihadi Salafist- Wahabi movement and its teachings.

However, ISIS was bloodier. They took the Wahabi way and decided to attack follow religions of different sects including Sunni. The main objective was to gain loyalty and spread awe and fear among the people so that they can dominate, and take the lead to establish Islamic State which Bin Laden was against in the first place with Al Zarqawi.

Which leads to questioning why a third generation of migrants in Europe should join this Takfiri ideology? They never been to this part of the world but it was recruitment. The fire does not start in a garden but in a forest.

Collective Effort Can End Terrorism

The WTC burns after being hit by a plane on September 11 2001. (Photo: Reuters)

Taking advantage of alienated people, unemployed, petty criminals, radical Imams found a fertile ground in these countries to recruit mercenaries and send them to fight in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Algeria and Yemen in the pretext of the atrocities committed by that regime, while their governments were busy signing lucrative military deals with their sponsors.

When this heinous crime occurred, the silent majority had to rally out of fear to join the chorus of war on terror and show compassion and solidarity. The knee jerk reaction from the French government is a replica of Bush and his Neocons reaction after September 11th. There is no doubt that ISIS carried this crime and the terrorists were known to the authority in France and Belgium. Shouldn’t we address the real issue here and eliminate the infrastructure of terrorism, stop all arming and remove training camps?

Russia’s action against ISIS is vindicated and Russian planes started the campaign immediately and destroyed 80% of the ammunitions of ISIS hideout within a month where more than 3000 terrorists got killed, while hundreds fled the Raqqa province of Syria, the strong hold of Daesh. Many mercenaries started their journey back through Turkey using the same route they entered into Syria.

Now, everyone wants Russia to win the fight against terrorism and not the regime changes. The fight of terrorism and finding a political solution to the Syrian crisis are the main two issues topping the agenda now. While the former is global fight, the latter is left to the Syrian people to decide their future with international help and to end terror in Syria by stopping the sponsorships.

Use a Compass if GRPS/GPRS/GPS Fails

Maybe it is best to fight collectively rather than individually. All those mercenaries are returning to their motherland to create havoc and destroy European society. Without intelligent sharing and coordination, this task will be impossible.

The terrorist organizations literally kill the spirit of Islam. More provocative measures against people of this faith will benefit the terrorist groups to recruit more people, and thus governments across the globe need to practice strain, caution and take preventive measures.

President Obama concludes a meeting with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman (3rd L) at the G20 summit. (Photo: Reuters)      

The headline in The Independent on November 18 was:

“Francois Hollande’s ‘war’ with ISIS won’t stand in the way of France’s arms deals with Saudi Arabia”

Similarly when President Barack Obama meeting with Saudi King on the sideline of G-20, he was awarded an arm deal of $1.29 Billion including 19,000 bombs! We all know where all these weapons end. Ask any Syrian, Yemeni, Lebanese, Malian, Iraqi or any other nationality suffering from terror and the answer is unanimous: in the hands of the same terrorists creating havoc in many parts of the world.

So let us all not to die stupid. The Gulf states may be an asset for the US and West but it is a liability also.

It is time to gift US and Western leaders a compass since their GRPS devices are with the “Moderate Al Qaeda Rebels”.

All the roads will lead to the source of supporters of terrorists and their poisonous spider `s network all over the world.

India, The Catalyst

Narendra Modi meeting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. (Photo: Twitter)

What is the roadmap? In a multi-polar world, other voices of powers must be heard to reshape the New World Order and prevent chaos. Countries like BRICS can be of a big leap in this direction.

India, for example can take a lead role in defusing the crisis because of its proximity to the Arab world. She also enjoys good relations with all the other regional players. India has the second largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia and they are known to be patriotic and scholars of Islam.

I am sure they can play a major role in bringing other Muslim community into the main stream and reject Takfiri Jihadi-Salafist-Wahabi groups and their design to destroy humanity.

(The author is a senior Journalist and West Asia Expert)