Posted on 12/11/2015 7:38:51 PM PST by markomalley
Mohannad is a spy for Daesh. He eavesdrops on chatter in the street markets of Mosul and reports back to his handlers when someone breaks the militant group’s rules. One man he informed on this year – a street trader defying a ban on selling cigarettes – was fined and tortured by Daesh (ISIS) fighters, according to a friend of Mohannad’s family. If the trader did not stop, his torturers told the man, they would kill him. Mohannad is paid $20 for every offender he helps to catch.
He is 14.
The teenager is one cog in the intelligence network Daesh has put in place since it seized vast stretches of Iraq and neighboring Syria. Informers range from children to battle-hardened fighters. Overseeing the network are former army and intelligence officers, many of whom helped keep former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party in power for years.
Saddam-era officers have been a powerful factor in the rise of Daesh, in particular in the Sunni militant group’s victories in Iraq last year. Daesh then outmuscled the Sunni-dominated Baath Party and absorbed thousands of its followers. The new recruits joined Saddam-era officers who already held key posts in Daesh.
The Baathists have strengthened the group’s spy networks and battlefield tactics and are instrumental in the survival of its self-proclaimed caliphate, according to interviews with dozens of people, including Baath leaders, former intelligence and military officers, Western diplomats and 35 Iraqis who recently fled Daesh territory for Kurdistan.
Of Daesh’s 23 portfolios – equivalent to ministries – former Saddam regime officers run three of the most crucial: security, military and finance, according to Hisham al-Hashimi, an Iraqi analyst who has worked with the Iraqi government.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.com.lb ...
A book on Saddam during Broccoli Bush 41s administration showed that 40% of old Iraq’s citizenry had been shanghaied by the Baathists into spying on all the rest. Produce actionable domestic intelligence or else.
Why call it Daesh...To do so leaves out “Islamic”.
Why call it Daesh...To do so leaves out “Islamicâ€.
That’s the point. I heard Senator Cronyn (pos!) telling us peons to call Islamics daesh because “it insults them”. What a tool.
It’s about leaving out Islamic.
All of which could have been avoided had Bill Clinton done his job and enforced the terms of the cease ire which ended the first gulf war.
My understanding is that Daesh is the acronym for ISIS in Arabic. ISIS is in English while Daesh is the same thing in Arabic. However the savages prefer ISIS over Daesh, something to do with Daesh sounding similar to another word in Arabic that means “to sow discord.” If a speaker wants to piss off ISIS refer to them as Daesh.
To add. The term the savages really prefer is ISIL, the one Obama uses.
L8R
Actually, Daesh means: al-Dawla al-Islamiya al-Iraq al-Sham. That's what I've always seen it called that in newspapers from the ME. For some reason, the Uniparty and their media think that calling it by its Arabic name will upset them.
BUMP
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