ISIS:: The Truth behind beheadings

by Brad Power

In late summer 2011, ISI leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched operatives to Syria to set up a new jihadist organization. Among them was Abu Muhammad al-Jawlani, the leader of what would become JN, which officially announced itself in late January 2012.
By November 2012, Jawlani had built JN into one of the opposition's best fighting forces, and locals viewed its members as fair arbiters when dealing with corruption and social services. Due to these successes, Baghdadi changed the name of his group from ISI to ISIS in April 2013. He likely believed that it was acceptable to publicly announce what was already that JN and ISI were one and the same. Yet this did not sit well with Jawlani -- he rebuffed the change and reaffirmed his allegiance to AQC chief Zawahiri, who later tried (and failed) to nullify Baghdadi's power play.



Brad Power (code name) is an expert in Economic Intelligence, Middle East, Turkey and Radical Islam. He was conducting Intelligence operations in various countries since 2001 on behalf of international corporations. He speaks English, German, French, Greek and Turkish. He is writing articles about geopolitical risks in different reviews and magazines.

73 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 12, 2014