There are at least 2 anomalies which I failed to understand for a long time: (1) why is terrorist organisation Daesh also behaving like a commercial (eg, oil) corporation, and (2) why is it fighting on so many fronts and uniting its enemies in the process? I can’t think of any logical answer to my 2nd question that would not somehow contradict the answer to my 1st question. This puzzles me.
On 22 April 2015, the BBC featured a documentary on the World’s Richest Terror Army. Guardian: “The film cites officials [ ] who said that Isis has adopted a pragmatic, “tax-and-spend” approach to financing, building up a war chest of an estimated $2bn (£1.35bn) in the process. Crucial to its revenue is income derived from oil produced from large fields in eastern Syria, some of which it then sells on to its arch enemy, the Syrian government, according to an informed source on the ground and a senior US official in Washington”.
One could well argue that Daesh/ISIL – to a large extent – resembles SPECTRE . SPECTRE is an acronym for Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion and is a fictional global criminal syndicate and terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming and led by evil genius and super villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld. SPECTRE is not aligned to any nation or political ideology (Wiki).
There are some other striking similarities between Daesh and SPECTRE:
– links with international criminal/terrorist organisations;
– claiming of terrorist events;
– Paris. The physical headquarters of the SPECTRE organisation are laid in Paris, operating behind a terrorist front organisation aiding refugees named “Firco” (novels) and “International Brotherhood for the Assistance of Stateless Persons” (movies);
– organisational discipline is notoriously draconian with the penalty for disobedience or failure being death.
The main 2 differences are in its strategy and its Belief system. For latter see my 15 November 2015 blog on Daesh/ISIL, called “Belief system – the Truth – terrorism”.
Wikipedia: “SPECTRE’s main strategy is to instigate conflict between two powerful enemies, namely the superpowers, hoping that they will exhaust themselves and be vulnerable when it seizes power”. Essentially, a Divide & Rule strategy while Daesh/ISIL seems to adopt a reciprocal strategy – Unite & Lose. That is puzzling.
Uniting your enemies would only make sense when operating from a victim role. Please also see my 18 February 2015 blog called “Victim role – politicians, bankers and corporate bosses”. If the whole world is against you then perhaps that could invoke sympathy for the underdog. However, what’s the use of such sympathy when their entire organisation is being eradicated? If such scattered sympathy cannot be transformed into new recruitment then all such efforts are in vain.
Somehow these terrorist acts may be like the event that took place at Belshazzar’s feast (chapter 5 in the Book of Daniel), and also known as the story of the writing on the wall. (Wiki)
Sam Smith – Writing’s On The Wall (SPECTRE theme song) – artist, lyrics, Wiki-1, Wiki-2
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