chemTrailActivist · @chemTrailActivi
9th Jan 2014 from TwitLonger
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"ISIS has failed to mobilize the Sunni population behind its militant leadership."
ISIS foreign fighters spur backlash in Iraq and Syria
ISIS is being fought by groups that mostly are Sunni, and many are Islamist and Salafist, which the very same constituencies it was appealing to.
In Syria, ISIS faced military setbacks in several regions — such as the Aleppo countryside and Raqqa — not to mention signs of division within its ranks when
some of its members defected to join Jabhat al-Nusra, which serves as the Syrian arm of al-Qaeda.
The organization is being pressured on both sides of the Syrian-Iraqi border, so it has become unable to withdraw from one side to another until the pressure is gone.
Therefore, it has lost many opportunities for strategic maneuvers, which pushed it to abandon its secretive nature and reveal its locations in several areas in Iraq.
This happened when ISIS took control of several areas in Anbar, including its most populated city, Fallujah, which it declared an Islamic emirate.
This seemed to be a military setback for the Iraqi army.
However, from a strategic perspective, this would not bode well for ISIS, as subsequent events in the last 24 hours have shown.
Fallujah’s notables, clerics and tribal sheikhs reached an agreement with the Iraqi army to remove any armed deployment in the city and allow local police to deploy again.
While this should not be translated into a conclusion that Sunni insurgency is over or sectarian tension has disappeared, it indicates that
ISIS has failed to mobilize the Sunni population behind its militant leadership.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/01/battle-isis-syria-iraq.html