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The Caribbean and the ISIS Threat

A few years ago is was all about Al Qaeda, now the world has become preoccupied with the threat from ISIS. Although some will challenge the degree to which the two terrorist organizations […]have been manufactured by the foreign policy of the West, BU is concerned that the Caribbean may be dragged into a cesspool…

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A few years ago is was all about Al Qaeda, now the world has become preoccupied with the threat from ISIS. Although some will challenge the degree to which the two terrorist organizations […]have been manufactured by the foreign policy of the West,

BU is concerned that the Caribbean may be dragged into a cesspool of geopolitics in the near future.

Immediately after the Paris terror allegedly carried out by ISIS, it was reported that three Syrians with fake passports were arrested in St. Maarten. As if this is not cause for worry for Caribbean residents – who live in one of the more peaceful geographies in the world – there is the more worrying development coming out of Trinidad. It is being reported by the venerable traditional media in Trinidad that hundreds of its citizens have joined the ISIS fight.  Is there any doubt Barbadians should be very concerned?

Several events in recent weeks point to a ramping up of global unrest in the ME. Note BU has not mentioned the Black on Black violence also ramping up in several countries in Africa which appears to be a horse of a different colour. What appears to be man’s inhumanity to man rampaging across the globe surely will touch God’s country in a direct way at some point. We have to admit the assurances from Prime Minister Stuart et al provide little comfort we in this part of the world are able to defend our borders from any terrorist threat.

The following commentary by  David Jessop addresses the issue of whether the Caribbean is immune from what the West has branded an ISIS threat.

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Commentary: The View from Europe: The Caribbean is not immune

Published on November 21, 2015
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By David Jessop
The sensitive subject of terrorism in a Caribbean context is a matter this column has addressed before with some caution. However, following recent events in Europe it is clear that it is an issue that now needs to be taken more seriously in the region as those who wish harm to the world begin to deploy their ‘foreign policy’.

http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/topstory-Commentary%3A-The-View-from-Europe%3A-The-Caribbean-is-not-immune-28407.html

274 responses to “The Caribbean and the ISIS Threat”

  1. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    The Gazer

    If Ganja is legalised it will be sold at the Corner store just like cigs or alcohol, taxed etc. This may come soon in Canada. After Prohibition of alcohol were people still jailed for conducting business legally? Legallising Ganja et al will drop the crime rate considerably especially if the TAX $$$$$$ revenue is properly used in education and training (in subjects where the skills/ knowledge is in high demand) with an emphasis on poor communities.

  2. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Wha gine on in Babadus ? Advocate online shyt down.

    Now this.

    EMERGENCY SERVICES HAVE been rushed to the Barbados Defence Force (BDF) headquarters.

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/75201/threat-reported-bdf-headquarters#sthash.Pc0q2nuE.dpuf

  3. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    MoneyBrain,

    If power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely I figure that benevolent dictators would be in short supply. How will we know when we’ve found one?

  4. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    and this…..

    MORE THAN 40 employees of the high-end Apes Hill Club are off the job, after being locked out of their place of employment this morning

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/75200/apes-hill-staff-job#sthash.DEmuSPZg.dpuf

  5. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    Donna

    I certainly agree and recognise that problem, hence why I have not made a concerted effort to become the Benevolent Dictator of Bdos or Canada, because people have great difficulty evaluating . Naturally, I have every confidence that I would operate well in that role, being incorruptible, seeking top notch counsel from the best and cleverest in various spheres.

    Democracy sounds great until we have a situation like the USA where a very high proportion of the population is receiving some form of income from the Govt. These people have the same vote as working people so it does not take a genius to figure out that those receiving cash will vote for those who take from the hard working to give to them. Needless to say Pols will do anything to receive votes and attain power, actual sensible, honest Leadership is not in their minds.

    Intelligent people know that the most efficient and effective form of Govt is Benevolent Dictatorship as proven in Singapore.

  6. TheGazer Avatar
    TheGazer

    @MoneyB
    I understand your reasoning.

    However, there will always be those who will not have a building or cash register and will still be trying to sell it. There will be limits on the amount you can have in your possession but a few will try to have a truck load. Some communities will use it in the streets without harassment and some communities will continue to play cops and dealers.

    Prohibition ended long ago, but you can still get moonshine in some areas.

  7. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    The Gazer
    True but the overall size of the problem should be vastly reduced if handled properly.

  8. greenmule Avatar
    greenmule

    ISTANBUL – Militants fighting in Syria for the so-called Islamic State have been flocking to hospitals in Turkey after being wounded in battle, sources tell iPolitics.
    A psychologist with an American NGO who spoke on condition of anonymity because she is not permitted to grant interviews said, “ISIS has been using hospitals in Adana.” Adana is a southern province in Turkey near the Syrian border.

  9. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    We as a nation are as prepared for ISIS, as we were for EBOLA.
    We will continue our usual stance as “Helpless spectators”

  10. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    greenmule December 4, 2015 at 10:03 PM #
    ISTANBUL – Militants fighting in Syria for the so-called Islamic State have been flocking to hospitals in Turkey after being wounded in battle, sources tell iPolitics.
    A psychologist with an American NGO who spoke on condition of anonymity because she is not permitted to grant interviews said, “ISIS has been using hospitals in Adana.” Adana is a southern province in Turkey near the Syrian border.
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
    One wonders if Turkey really is a signatory to the Geneva Convention. Those wounded Militants should be handed over to a neutral country or treated as POW’S. Unless they are Turkey’s allies.
    These hospitals in Adana may very well become targets.

  11. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Interesting.

    http://sitsshow.blogspot.ca/2015/12/russia-breaks-huge-story-isis-is.html?m=1

  12. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    We have seen what may be the start of a series of random bomb threats on the island. With the decrease in the number of public telephone call boxes , the two telephone service providers, should be able to easily pinpoint the source of these calls, whether its from a land line, mobile phone or call box.

  13. de Ingrunt Word Avatar
    de Ingrunt Word

    @Vincent, which part of the story in interesting? That Turkey is buying oil from ISIL or that the US supports the ISIL terrorists?

    Clearly ISIL has been finding a conduit for its oil and reports that it’s been going through Turkey have circulated. Why the oil fields have not been disabled is indeed a very interesting question but it’s not as simple as the ‘see oil infrastructure- bomb oil infrastructure’. Consideration to the environment is still important.

    That said obviously more can be done and should have been done from day one.

    But two points to note. One) If the US and its allies were as callous and indifferent to the needs and lives of every-day Syrian and Iraqi citizens, and the environment then all the oil tankers would have been bombed to oblivion and wells would have spewing toxins and smoke endlessly for months.

    Two) The Russians are not innocent players in this matter as they have protected the Assad regime from inception.

    Other reports advise that ISIL sells oil to some of the same rebel towns they otherwise fight. Surely some go to Turkey as well but some also goes to other parts of the region.

    So it’s facile and under-informed for other reports to suggest that the ISIL war can be stopped if the capitalist greed of the US was curbed. No doubt that drives part of the argument but certainly a much SMALLER part than conspirators would have us believe.

  14. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    de Ingrunt Word December 5, 2015 at 8:19 PM #

    @Vincent, which part of the story in interesting? That Turkey is buying oil from ISIL or that the US supports the ISIL terrorists?

    A different narrative……..always 3 sides to a narrative…….waiting for the third.

  15. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    The US has no reason to support Oil production in Iraq, since the current problem is Oversupply in the US and Globally. Also if ISIS has control it does not benefit Iraq. The Russians are masters of propaganda and please remember that Putin is Mr KGB!

  16. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    ” German vice-chancellor accuses Saudi Arabia of funding Islamic extremism in the West
    In a highly unusual moment of a Western politician attacking a critical Arab ally, Sigmar Gabriel says the time has come to make it clear to Riyadh the time of looking away is over ”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/12035838/German-vice-chancellor-accuses-Saudi-Arabia-of-funding-Islamic-extremism-in-the-West.html

  17. Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right Avatar
    Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right

    A rifle’s journey from Belgium to Gaza

    http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/10C4F/production/_86678686_guntop.jpg

    “Three years ago, arms experts spotted a single advanced Belgian rifle in the hands of militants in Gaza. But how had a group listed by the EU and the US as a terrorist organisation obtained the weapon? Arms expert Nic Jenzen-Jones and the BBC’s Thomas Martienssen have tracked its journey.”

    Read it at http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34810155

    Then answer me a riddle, given the 16 bags dat certain merchandani merchants does bring unchecked into the airport, or the chasis that are filled with cocaine that the Office of the Attorney General go to throw out the case because the chasis gone missing from the evidence room, or some ingrunt administrative matter, wunna tink dat we going has any problems wid High Power Weapons like dese?

  18. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Interesting take on the reason for ISIS

    @https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/10153373408706939/?fref=nf

  19. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Who needs ISIS when we have our very own industrial suicide bombers among us. The problem with us is that we have very few standards . And those few are not policed.
    A truck carrying transporting a load of Oxygen and Acetylene bottles together, and in a horizontal position to boot.
    http://i.imgur.com/S8nK63p.jpg?1

  20. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right December 8, 2015 at 7:33 AM #
    A rifle’s journey from Belgium to Gaza

    From the photo It looks as if along with the guns, went the British style/ design Disruptive Pattern Material combat suits. A package deal?

  21. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ colonel Buggy

    You are a man whose moniker is not a mek up name like mine. Mine was actually an adaptation of a curse word sorry sentence that some people who was digging up de road in front de ole man driveway, when I used to drive, call de ole man when I start to drive out de Austin Cambridge and de marl dat Dem dig up start going back in de hole dem dig, imagine how dem call de ole man a piece uh badword cause I tell dem dat blocking up a driveway wid a car in it, din mek sense and dat dem like dem got goat parts…

    Only a military man would look at all of those cylinders so carelessly exposed and recognize them as explosive ordinance in the making and a threat which our ingrunt Defense and Security personnel, our Fire Marshall, our Health and Industrial Safety experts, generally dem sheeple dat can’t get miss ram marchandani to mek she one door Campus Trendz number two waiting to happen, safety compliant.

    The DDPM as you know should be dessert fatigues since this two for the price of one has made the designer blind jihadists target practice for the Arizona based drones and death from the air…dem may be ruthless but Dem ent too bright…

  22. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    ISLAM WAS BANNED FROM THE USA IN 1952 but Obama doesn’t want you to know that, nor does he respect or uphold US law.

    The Immigration and Nationality Act passed June 27, 1952 revised the laws relating to immigration, naturalization and nationality for the United States.

    That Act, which became Public Law 414, established both the law and the intent of Congress regarding the immigration of aliens to the US and remains in effect today.

    Among the many issues it covers, one in particular found in Chapter 2, Section 212, is the prohibition of entry in to the US if the alien belongs to an organization seeking to overthrow the government of the United States by force, violence or by other unconstitutional means.”

    This, by its very definition, rules out Islamic immigration to the United States but this law is being ignored by the White House.

    Islamic immigration to the United States would be prohibited under this law because the Koran, Sharia Law and the Hadith all require complete submission to Islam which is antithethical to the United States government, the Constitution and to the Republic.

    All Muslims who attest that the Koran is their life’s guiding principal subscribe to submission to Islam and its form of government.

    Now the politically correct crowd would say that Islamists cannot be prohibited from entering the United States because Islam is a ‘religion.’

    Whether it is a ‘religion’ is immaterial because the law states that aliens who are affiliated with any organization that advocates the overthrow of our government are prohibited.

    http://www.thepostemail.com/2015/12/08/public-law-414-june-27-1952/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1952
    Immigration and Nationality Act

  23. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    @ David,

    Have you been checking out the news from Paris, France?

  24. David Avatar
    David

    Thanks Exclaimer, saw a story on BU’s Twitter feed but dismissed it as an Onion yarn. Unbelievable.

    On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Barbados Underground wrote:

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