The Awful Truth: The World is at War
By James Lewis
AmericanThinker.com
September 8, 2014
American Thinker and other commentary sites have been covering the Jihad War in great detail. But a coherent overview only came together for me after visiting the Long War Journal’s Threat Matrix, sponsored by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy.
The Threat Matrix helps us to see worldwide jihadist violence.
In just the last two weeks we see jihadist warfare in:
Nigeria (Boko Haram)
Iraq and Syria (ISIS, Assad and Hezb’ollah)
Gaza (Hamas)
Sinai Desert (Ansar Jerusalem against Egypt)
Afghanistan (Taliban)
India (Al Qaida)
Pakistan (Waziristan terrorists)
Iraq (Iranian-sponsored terrorist group, “League of the Righteous”)
Libya (Libya Dawn Coalition and others)
Somalia (Al Shabaab)
Syria again (Al Nusrah, AQ affiliate)
Iran (International Shi’ite terror sponsor, using Hezb’ollah and Quds Brigade).
Qatar and Saudi Arabia (Sunni terror-sponsors, including Hamas)
Turkey appears to be a major sponsor of ISIS,. It is run by an Islamofascist regime.
These groups operate in the Gulf region, in Asian countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan, and in North Africa. We could add the Uyghurs in China and the Chechens in Russia.
We could easily add Europe, the United States, Israel and Russia as targets of Islamist terror strikes, including 9/11 in Manhattan, the British Underground bombing, the Madrid train bombing, massive car burnings in Paris, the Beslan and Moscow Theater attacks, in the UK, the massive Pakistani child rape scandal just uncovered in Rotherham.
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