- Picture found @: Business Insider
- "Experts said there were notable similarities between the strategies laid out in the book and the strategies taught in western military training.
- The author details ISIS's core strategies for maintaining control in the region.
- The notebook describes a solution, written in large letters "THE BIG SOLUTION" which explains that ISIS should not use "conventional military power against a much stronger foe," and suggests the group focus on "insurgency" until their political situation allows for a more conventional approach."
- The author also discusses expanding efforts to other countries, including Saudi Arabia. A page reportedly questions: "How to make Saudi like Syria? Can we get people to hate Their [sic] rulers?"
- The author continues: "Mecca and Medina are a priority for the [caliphate] to actually influence world Muslims. But to get there we need to destabilize Al-Saud.
- The author offers suggestions on how to pull "the USA to another major war to exhaust its economy."
- "The US decisions are very important, and they depend on the Presidential elections."
- "However, if democrats lose, a Republican administration would be more likely to bring US boots on the ground, and cooperation with Iran will likely stop," the author reportedly wrote.
- The journal also reportedly layed out a strategy for confronting the US on the battlefield: "Fighting the USA might be more dangerous militarily, but it will grant IS respect in Muslim [sic] eyes.""
- Graph found @: Business Insider
~ Article and pictures found @: Business Insider
Population:
Sweden - 10,135,303
Belgium - 11,358,357
Morocco - 33,848,242
U.K. - 65,648,100
France - 67,201,000
Germany - 82,800,000
Russia - 144,526,636
U.S.A. - 325,719,178
*Not sure how accurate the numbers on the chart are, but I find it odd that with all the shootings and various kinds of aggressive criminal actions, that are different then past history, the US had only 7 returning jihadi's. Either that is not an accurate number, or many jihadi's never left America and took actions here. I know all about divide and conquer wars.
