Jamie Dettmer, Daily Beast: ISIS Wants a Truce
In the new edition of its magazine, ISIS floats the idea of a truce. Is the group flagging—or is this just another trick?
After months of being targeted by U.S.-led airstrikes, losing ground in Iraq and suffering defeat in a weeks-long assault to capture the Syrian border town of Kobani, is the Islamic State flagging and putting out feelers to see if a truce might be possible? Or is it just seeking to sow confusion in the ranks of its opponents and to undermine their unity and resolve by raising the idea of negotiations?
Intriguingly, the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, floated the idea on Tuesday of a negotiated truce in the latest issue of the militants’ English-language magazine Dabiq, via an article written by one of the group’s remaining Western hostages, British photojournalist John Cantlie.
WNU Editor: Here is an easy prediction .... no one is going to take up their offer.
I'll wager that the White House will send a back-channel envoy, though.
ReplyDeleteWith all the secret, back channel, and off the record activity they have going on, I bet they have a hard time keeping track of who said what, when, and to whom. But hey, everybody gets new US military equipment, so it works out in the end.
ReplyDeleteI suspect that there are a large number of back-channels opened (and being opened) right now.
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