The world has been seized by a wave of terrorist attacks. After the hostage taking in Sydney and the terrible terrorist attack in Peshawar (Pakistani province), during which at least 148 people were killed, mostly children, tonight in the Yemeni town of Rada two explosions occurred: a car packed with explosives blew up near a checkpoint controlled at that moment by Shiites, as a school bus was driving by. And then in an area known for supporting Shia a second bomb was detonated, its goal was one of the leaders of the ruling party in Yemen.
And once again the victims of the terrorist attacks were children - according to sources, of the forty dead people – half were students. As noted by experts, that's how Islamic State's leader promises to turn the whole world into a reign of terror beginning to be implemented.
Islamic State has promised to immerse all the Western countries into chaos, and now it is trying to implement it somehow, noted the deputy head of the Editorial Council of Vestnik Kavkaza, the general director of the Caspian Cooperation Institute, Sergey Mikheyev. "All these events are confined to the New Year period, the Christmas holidays, to keep the Western world in suspense. At the same time, the growth of terrorist threats was stimulated by the publication of the torture report, which was declassified due to the efforts of the Democrats in the US Congress. All of this was an important component," Mikheyev said, adding that we can see how Islamic State has transformed from a local terrorist group into an international network.
"This is a completely new type of network, much more dangerous than a coordinated international grouping. In fact, the leadership of Islamic State can simply declare their demands. The single terrorist in Australia was not connected with the organized part of Islamic State most likely, he just made a call for violence. I do not exclude it. This means that Islamic State did not necessarily coordinate the attacks, they are only initiating this chaos, and that means to confront them harder than a well-organized conspiratorial network," the analyst said.
According to him, in the current situation we can say that Al-Qaeda was replaced by Islamic State as a global terrorist threat. "By the way, this threat has never diminished, killing bin Laden did not change anything really. Now Al-Qaeda has been replaced by Islamic State, and there's an interesting thing – the Americans somehow had dealings with both Al-Qaeda and Islamic State – they help Islamic State in Syria. This threat has not affected Russia and its neighbors yet, because the main blow is directed against the West. Of course, this does not mean that we are safe, and in my opinion the Western countries have spoiled relations with us for nothing, because it will be extremely difficult in this area without cooperation with Russia," Sergey Mikheev said.
According to him, to confront the threat we must be guided by common sense. "It is necessary to establish the relationship between Russia and the West and consolidate the international community under the auspices of the UN Security Council, to develop unified standards, so there is no division of terrorists into "good and bad", "profitable and unprofitable", "friends and foes". For now, the terrorists fighting Bashar al-Assad, if the United States is not directly pleased with them, it is at least indifferent to them, and the militants who are threatening Baghdad immediately have to be bombed. Double standards just spread and promote terrorist threats around the world. The main thing now is to overcome a recurrence of the "Cold War" and attempts by Western "hawks" to plunge the world into a confrontation, and not ideological (in fact we are just building capitalism, like the US does), but regional," the expert pointed out.
As a result, the world is reaping the consequences of the US approach to Russia as a threat, along with terrorism and the Ebola virus. "We can only fight terror together. While world powers are not united and do not understand the full depth of the threat, nothing will happen in this field. Now it turns out that the actions against international terrorism are taken in an arithmetical progression, but the terrorism is growing exponentially. We are not catching up with terrorism. "Al-Qaeda", "Taliban" and "Islamic State" can easily interact with each other and, in fact, become merged into a single massive organization having no problems in coordination. Meanwhile, the world community is split into parts. The terrorists take advantage of this, and today indeed the whole world is under a gun," Stanislav Ivanov concluded.
