Al-Qaida’s Seven Rules for the Effective Terrorist -- William Saletan, Slate
ISIS is breaking all of them. It will live to regret it.
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is scaring the hell out of everyone. It has infested Syria, overrun Iraq, alarmed Iran, and convinced U.S. politicians it’s the most dangerous terrorist organization ever. But frightening everyone isn’t a long-term growth strategy. ISIS is destroying itself.
Al-Qaida, the organization from which ISIS recently split, understands this truth. For years, Osama Bin Laden and his lieutenants tried to explain to their affiliates the folly of unchecked brutality. In letters and directives captured in the 2011 raid on his compound, Bin Laden stressed the importance of patience, discretion, and public opinion. His advice, boiled down to seven rules, forms a clear outline of ISIS’s mistakes.
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My Comment: ISIS sees itself as an organization that is the ascendency .... as far as they are concerned .... "Al Qaeda's rules" do not apply.
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