The Islamic State is going to keep advancing until it is stopped, while our learned, tenured analysts assure us that it is a purely “nationalist” movement. “ISIS preparing to declare Islamic emirate in Lebanon: sources,” by Antoine Ghattas Saab, The Daily Star, February 23, 2015 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):
ISIS is preparing military plans to declare an Islamic emirate in Lebanon very soon to serve as a geographical extension of the so-called “Islamic State” announced by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Iraq last year, security sources said.
ISIS fighters have demanded support from the militant group in northern Syria to achieve this goal, the sources said.
They added that the ISIS command has begun preparations to set up a military organizational committee tasked with running Lebanese affairs and considering Lebanon as part of its state.
However, ISIS is facing difficulties in choosing a Lebanese commander for this mission. The reported appointment of the fugitive preacher Ahmad al-Assir for this post was merely a trial balloon, the sources said.
They added that arrangements to form an ISIS command for the Lebanon emirate were taking place under the supervision of the group commander Khalaf al-Zeyabi Halous, codenamed “Abu Musaab Halous,” a Syrian who had played a key role in the ISIS offensive to capture the Raqqa province in 2013.
Abu Musaab Halous, accompanied by a number of ISIS military commanders, recently visited the Qalamoun region on the Lebanese-Syrian border, where he met with field commanders with whom he discussed the creation of security and military formations between Qalamoun and Lebanon, the sources said.
In addition to the fact that the adventure of setting up an Islamic emirate in Lebanon has not received the green light from the powers backing ISIS, the group’s attempt expand into Lebanon might be doomed to failure, the sources added.
In the meantime, an influential party in Lebanon has received important information indicating that ISIS is bent on recruiting more suicide bombers equipped with explosives belts to target Shiite gatherings in Beirut and the southern suburbs as well as French and Western interests, while the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, which was targeted with a deadly twin suicide attack in November 2013, is still vulnerable to another assault.
As Lebanon faces growing security threats, military assistance to the Lebanese Army is expected to be stepped up to help the country stand on its feet.
The United States will provide the Lebanese Army with six Super Cobra fighter aircraft as part of the U.S. military aid to the Army, reports said. The aircraft are manufactured by the Bell military helicopter company….
rob774 says
This sounds like they are trying to draw Hezbollah away from Assad in Syria.
If they succeed then I wonder what Israel will have to say about Muslims knocking lumps out of each other next door?
marc says
Syria is also next door…or not?
But I think they have no chance.Hissbollah is very well trained and had more rockets than many countrys,also christs,druze and Lebanon army will fight them.No chance for them there!
TNT says
Don’t forget turkey backs ISIS and when turkey speaks ISIS listens.
Radical Moderate says
Why would we want the Islamic State stopped? Have an exodus of Christians. Isolation and containment, then leave the Muslims to themselves. No medical aid, no vaccinations no nothing, and then let nature take its course. Measles, Polio, a good strong Flu virus will decimate them, and we can hope that one of their beheading victims has Ebola.
EYESOPEN says
Not to mention the explosion of STDs that will occur – and HAS occurred wherever ISIS has reared its ugly head.
gravenimage says
Radical Moderate wrote:
Why would we want the Islamic State stopped? Have an exodus of Christians. Isolation and containment…
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There’s only one problem with this vision, I’m afraid—that the Islamic State doesn’t appear to be all that isolated, nor all that contained.
Not only has the Islamic State grown from Syria into Iraq, but now it has declared outposts in Sinai in Egypt, in Derna, Sirte, and Tripoli in Libya, and Now in Lebanon. And Turkey has been offering them support.
All signs that far from being contained, it is actively *spreading*.
allan carr bryan says
This article is a bit out of date, if, we are to believe what is being said lately that the asshole Baghdadi is on the run and looking for somewhere to hole up like that weasel Bin Laden (and don’t forget the US finally got to him as they will Baghdadi). The IS are taking a hell of a beating off their fellow Muslims, just wait until the big boys eventually join in…..
rob774 says
Killing individuals does nothing to stop the tide. The true measure of their strength is in the cities they hold.
Spot On says
Your right about the cities but when you kill enough of them they will give up, Guaranteed. It has worked every time it has been tried in history, without exception. WWII was the most recent example. This was Gen. Curtis LeMay’s professed policy in WWII. His policy won.
TheBuffster says
SpotOn – The difference here is that in WWII the enemy didn’t have a religion that promised them Paradise for dying in the Cause of Hitler. With the Islamic State, the warriors are hoping to die in the Cause of Allah in order to reap the forever-after reward.
Killing enough of them to make them give up probably means killing all of them.
Don McKellar says
Yeah, and the Taliban and Al Qaeda have been completely wiped out and will never return to Afghanistan when the US pulls out next ye… er…next deca…er…next century…er…
M S case says
Yes the seals will get him…They surely had people on the ground that helped them get Bin Laden and they are, Somewhere still there and hopefully got some intel by now but when the army/government tells the enemy when they are going to attack them and where training camps are sure won’t help us any in driving these people into the sand…
Champ says
ISIS al-Baghdadi Dead? Unconfirmed reports …
“Report: IS officials killed in attack in Iraq
IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was reported to be heading to the site which was attacked, however his fate is unknown.”
http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/middle-east/the-arab-world/is-officials-killed-in-attack-in-iraq-11903
pumbar says
From majority Christian spring chicken to I.S shitehawk in 50 odd years.
SpiritOf1683 says
Its just a mere 40 years, since that dark day when the Paleonazis the Lebanese let in declared jihad.
Don McKellar says
My what a beautiful map of the black octopus of Islam and its tentacles in all its glory.
Baucent says
A propaganda piece, that’s all. Lebanon would be a bridge too far for ISIS, with a well armed Shi-ite Hezbollah fighting in home turf, not to mention rare unity support from Lebanese army and Christian militias.
Putin says
https://www.facebook.com/Vladimir.Putin.Page/photos/a.361474310605788.88150.356364014450151/796989297054285/?type=1&theater
Tomorrow is no ISIS…
Putin says
https://www.facebook.com/Vladimir.Putin.Page/photos/a.361474310605788.88150.356364014450151/796989297054285/?type=1&theater
cheesecake says
The biggest threat to Europe comes from within europe. The EU has allowed millions of Muslims to enter with little or no way of stopping them. We have already been infiltrated by a fifth column who wish to destroy us and what’s left of are way of life.
Spot On says
Your politicians, like ours, have been stealing citizens money with the intent to offer free-bees to Muslims and other third world people to immigrate to get votes. These same politicians take big checks from Saudis, Qatar, etc. All of us are caught up in this racket. One would ask if the politicians see their own future with this kind behavior? The answer is that power to them is like a strong elixir feeding their egomania and think only of themselves. They do not see their future beyond their next election.
andrew sapia says
it’s gonna be a blood bath in Lebanon. It’s still like 40% Christian, it used to be a majority Christian country but the Muslims were having none of that. We better come to their defense. I am sure the Shiites will give them a fight and so will the Christians but if they gain the advantage it’s going to be very ugly.
PRAY, PRAY, PRAY for Lebanon, and write your representatives
SpiritOf1683 says
Its less than that. Lebanon has gone from 60% Christian to 30% Christian in just the last 55 years. How different the world looked in 1960, before political correctness and moral relativism became a scourge.
Angemon says
Let them attack every nation at their borders at the same time and see how that works out for them. Sooner or later they’ll bite more they can chew and choke on their own bile.
Margarita says
When three Muslim students were shot by a mentally deranged man in Usa, the whole Islamic world crowds protested, chanting “death to America”. But when 21 Christians were decapitated by muslim ISIS, no Chirsitan around the world showed any emotion or sympathy. Even our political leaders like Obama just avoided to talk about it. So much for our “Christian love and brotherhood”!
Robert Young says
I like this ISIS map. Now, what we need to do is Carpet Bombing with Nuclear Weapons on ISIS territory. Then we will see if allah will protect them or if he is greatest.
I will bet that like NAZIs of WWII, he will run for cover.