Michael Knights argues that one driver for the ongoing resilience, or even revival, of Sunni militancy is the growing influence of the Jaysh Rijal al-Tariq al-Naqshabandi (JRTN) movement, which has successfully tapped into Sunni Arab fear of Iraq’s Shi`a-led government and the country’s Kurdish population, while offering an authentic Iraqi alternate to al-Qa`ida in Iraq (AQI). The JTRN is not very known and there is not a lot information about them on the internet. The features of JRTN are becoming clearer, providing an interesting case study of an insurgent movement that learned from the mistakes of other militants and has successfully created a hybrid of Islamist themes and nationalist military expertise, suggest Knights. Furthermore the JRTN has sympathy within the Iraqi security forces and judiciary, and allegedly within the 12th division of the Iraqi army in Kirkuk.
0 reacties:
Post a Comment