[ by Charles Cameron — today’s source of understanding addresses the tensions within the ISIS alliance — with a question about the Naqshbandiyya tagged on for our readers ]
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Here, including a “ramp-up” from two days ago, is a series of related tweets from Daveed G-R:
Key to ISIL's advance–and quite possibly, its biggest vulnerability right now–is the large coalition of groups it had to patch together.
— Gartenstein-Ross (@DaveedGR) June 18, 2014
Example: Mosul is currently run by ISIL, Jaysh Rijal al-Tariq al-Naqshabandi, Jaysh al-Mujahidin, the Islamic Army of Iraq, Ansar al-Islam.
— Gartenstein-Ross (@DaveedGR) June 18, 2014
I've noted the Islamic Army of Iraq was part of ISIL's advance. Today the Telegraph interviews IAI's Ahmed al-Dabash: http://t.co/rBANMzPfkO
— Gartenstein-Ross (@DaveedGR) June 20, 2014
Dabash's demands: 1) Maliki steps down, 2) Iraq's fragementation into three autonomous regions, 3) compensate Iraqis killed by US & Maliki.
— Gartenstein-Ross (@DaveedGR) June 20, 2014
Dabash on IAI's differences w/ ISIS: "We reject Sharia. We want a constitution, civil law." Implies IAI may eventually have to fight ISIS.
— Gartenstein-Ross (@DaveedGR) June 20, 2014
Nota bene:
We reject Sharia. IAI may eventually have to fight ISIS.
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While we’re at it, here are two other DG-R tweets on significant topics:
In a blow to Maliki, Sistani calls for "dialogue that yields effective government that enjoys broad nat'l support." http://t.co/KC3pkzhbmz
— Gartenstein-Ross (@DaveedGR) June 20, 2014
Re-upping my new @spectator article on ISIS and the era of pop-up terror: http://t.co/sXdx56SgDL
— Gartenstein-Ross (@DaveedGR) June 20, 2014
Daveed’s Spectator cover-article is (appropriately) spectacular, btw.
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Of particular interest to me, in case you read this and know where to point me, is anything re the strength or nominality of connection between the Jaysh Rijal al-Tariq al-Naqshabandi or Naqshabandi army and the Sufi Naqshbandiyya order.
Thanks!
