Will Western governments now start to admit that there is such a thing as the global jihad, and that it is advancing? No, they’re much more likely to continue in their delusions and fantasies until the jihadis get around to confronting them directly.
“Fears explode that Syria could become ‘base for global jihad’ after Assad’s defeat,” by Giles Sheldrick, Express, December 8, 2024:
Syria is on the brink of civil war as rebels raced to fill a power vacuum left by ousted despot Bashar al-Assad.
His brutal 24-year reign of terror was ended by an Islamist anti-government offensive forcing him and his family to flee.
The lightning-fast coup toppled his military regime in hours, but what comes next has the world nervously watching as players in the powder-keg Middle East jostle for position.
Thousands poured onto the streets after the army withdrew, dancing and chanting: “Assad is gone, Homs is free”.
Colonel Richard Kemp, the decorated former British Army commander, said: “No one has any real idea how this situation will develop and could see Syria becoming an Afghanistan-style base for global jihad, threatening us all. Rebels will have access to massive weapons stockpiles, including chemical weapons, tanks, and planes.
The whereabouts of Assad, 59, who trained as a surgeon at Western Eye Hospital in London in the early nineties, and his wife Asma and two children remain unknown.
Amid the chaos, the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has emerged as a successor to the regime.
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