MESOP NEWS DOCUMENTARY (II) : The Islamic State & the Kurds – The Documentary Evidence

by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi – CTC Sentinel – September 21, 2017

Abstract: Drawing in part on internal Islamic State documents, this article aims to provide a new and more nuanced understanding of how the Islamic State has dealt with Kurds. Though the Islamic State is often characterized as being inherently anti-Kurdish, the organization has recruited Kurds and directed messaging toward Kurdish audiences. At the same time, internal documents in particular show the tensions between realities on the ground for Kurdish communities that lived under Islamic State control and the organization’s ideology that is, in theory, blind to ethnicity.

The controversy over how the Islamic State has treated Kurds is often colored with sensationalist language, with the suggestion that the Islamic State, an entity whose ranks consist primarily of Sunni Arabs, maltreats Kurds simply on the basis of their ethnicity. This narrative stems partly from conflating Kurdish experiences with the Islamic State with the organization’s genocide against the Yazidi religious minority in Iraq, which does not necessarily identify as ethnically Kurdish but speaks the Kurdish language. For example, one article in The National Interest claims that with the rise of the Islamic State, “the Kurds also began to make headlines, first as the victims of the barbaric hordes of the self-proclaimed caliphate, then as its most capable and willing adversaries.”1 Similarly, an October 2014 article in Financial Times spoke of the Islamic State’s “targeting of the Kurds.”2 Ranj Alaaldin, in an opinion piece for The Guardian, goes even further in generalization, asserting that “jihadi groups such as ISIS view Kurds … and other minorities as heretics.”3

The immediate counterpoint to these claims of Islamic State persecution of Kurds merely for being Kurds is that such behavior conflicts with the organization’s ideology. While the Islamic State’s main means of functioning and communicating is the Arabic language, the Islamic State’s worldview is, in theory, based on the dichotomy of Muslims and non-Muslims. Thus, when it comes to those identified as Muslim, their ethnicity should not matter. This line of thought has been expressed with consistency. For instance, in a speech announcing the establishment of the caliphate, the organization’s then spokesman, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, drew attention to the precedent of the acceptance of Islam by the Arabs that supposedly resulted in eliminating distinctions based on ethnicity. “By God’s blessing, they became brothers … and they united in faith … not distinguishing between non-Arab and Arab, or between eastern and western, or between white and black.”4

This article seeks to provide a more nuanced understanding between the narrative of Islamic State persecution of Kurds simply for being Kurdish and the theoretical ideal of no discrimination among Muslims on the basis of ethnicity. This subject will be explored primarily through internal Islamic State documents, though some of the organization’s external propaganda will be taken into account as well. As part of the investigation, this article will particularly focus on Islamic State recruitment of Kurds and the policies toward Kurdish communities and Kurds living in its areas.

Islamic State Recruitment of Kurds
The presence of Kurds in jihadi groups is by no means a new phenomenon. Most notably, prior to 2003, the history and background of the jihadi group Ansar al-Islam (Partisans of Islam), which was led by Mullah Krekar, illustrate Kurdish involvement in salafi and jihadi trends in the Iraqi Kurdistan area for decades.5 Beyond Iraqi Kurdistan, Brian Fishman has highlighted the case of Abu al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a Kurd from Mosul who was a veteran of the Iran-Iraq War.6 Abu al-Hadi al-Iraqi migrated to the Afghanistan-Pakistan area and became a leading figure in al-Qa’ida by the end of the 1990s. Among the training camps for residents of the al-Qa’ida guesthouse run by Abu al-Hadi al-Iraqi was a ‘Kurds Camp,’ which, as its name suggests, was intended to train Kurdish jihadi operatives.7

Given these precedents, it should not be surprising that the Islamic State would recruit Kurds who are ideologically committed to its cause. In this regard, there have been multiple propaganda items from the Islamic State featuring Kurds in the organization’s ranks. Prior to the caliphate announcement, one such item was the 26th video in the series “A Window Upon the Land of Epic Battles,” released in November 2013 by what was then the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham’s al-Itisam media. The video, entitled “A Message to the Kurds and a Martyrdom Operation,” features a Kurdish speaker threatening the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq, vowing that “by God’s permission, we will return to Kurdistan with the arms we have placed on our shoulders.”8The speaker continues, “By God’s permission we will defeat you just as we have defeated the apostates of the PKK and the shabiha of Bashar…despite the force of their arms and their large numbers.”9 The speaker is thus making a clear distinction between fighting Kurds merely for being Kurdish and fighting Kurdish political entities that are deemed apostate (i.e., Muslim by origin but having left the fold of Islam) for espousing a heretical, nationalistic outlook.

After the declaration of the caliphate, propaganda appeals to Kurds emerged in productions such as “The Kurds – Between Monotheism and Atheism” from the Raqqa province media office. The video, which has Kurdish subtitles where necessary, features Kurdish fighters for the Islamic State while highlighting a contrast between Kurdish forbears portrayed as having performed great services for the Islamic cause—such as Salah al-Din, who fought the Crusaders and brought about the end of the Shi’i Fatimid Caliphate—and modern-day Kurdish nationalist causes, such as Mustafa Barzani and the Kurdistan Democratic Party, portrayed as allies of Israel.10

Syria and Northern Iraq

An item from the internal propaganda series Qisas al-Mujahideena and some external media reporting point to the existence of a Kurdish-speaking unit within the Islamic State’s fighting forces known as the Salah al-Din Battalion.11 According to Qisas al-Mujahideen,12 the battalion takes its name from a certain Salah al-Din al-Kurdi, who was originally from Halabja and took up arms against the U.S. occupation, forming his own contingents of operatives. Arrested by U.S. forces in 2008, he supposedly spent time in Abu Ghraib prison, but was then released on grounds of ill health. By late 2011 or early 2012, Salah al-Din al-Kurdi had returned to jihadi activity, joining the Islamic State of Iraq and then sent to conduct a suicide operation in the run-up to the Arab League Summit in Baghdad at the end of March 2012. (See Exhibit 1.)

Finally, there is evidence of significant Islamic State recruitment in Turkey among the Kurdish minority. As Metin Gurcan notes, the recruitment “reflects the fact that many Kurds live in southeast Turkey, the most religious part of the country.”13 Many of these Kurdish jihadis, coming from a historically marginalized minority in Turkey, appear to believe that the Islamic State would grant them equal rights.14

Thus, so far as recruitment is concerned, the evidence is clear that the Islamic State willingly accepts fighters and members of Kurdish origin. The criterion of acceptance that matters here is the ideological commitment to the Islamic State.

Kurdish Communities Living under the Islamic State
While the Islamic State has no problem in recruiting Kurds willing to serve and fight for the organization, most people in the various cities, towns, and villages that have fallen under Islamic State control do not become members of the Islamic State. Rather, they remain as civilians. Many of these civilians might have ended up working in various administrative offices and aspects of governance co-opted by the Islamic State (e.g., teachers in schools), but that does not mean that they became members of the Islamic State.

Kurdish communities and populations are known to have existed in many areas that were seized by the Islamic State, including villages in north and east Aleppo countryside, the cities of Raqqa and Tabqa along the Euphrates in central northern Syria, and the city of Mosul. According to Islamic State maxims, the theory is that the group should deal with these Kurdish communities solely on the basis of their religion. If they are Muslims who outwardly follow the rules and rituals of Islam, then there is no reason to treat them any differently than Sunni Arabs abiding by the dictates of the religion and living under Islamic State control. The principle is well illustrated in a statement distributed by the Islamic State’s Ninawa province media office in Mosul in late July 2014, denying the rumors of forcible displacement of Kurds from the province. The statement affirms, “The Sunni Kurds are our brothers in God. What is for them is for us, and what is upon them is upon us. And we will not allow any one of them to be harmed so long as they remain on the principle of Islam.”15 In practice, however, the widespread suspicions and associations of Kurdish communities with Kurdish nationalist parties have led to discriminatory treatment in many areas under Islamic State control.

The evidence for discriminatory treatment of Kurdish communities primarily comes from internal documents from Syria. Close cooperation between the U.S.-led coalition and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which includes the Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)—the Democratic Union Party and its armed wing the Popular Protection Units (YPG)—has been vital in pushing back the Islamic State in the north and northeast of the country. In June 2015, the Islamic State issued a notification in Raqqa province requiring Kurdish inhabitants to leave for the Palmyra area in Homs province.16 The decision was justified on the grounds of the “alliance of the Kurdish parties” with the U.S.-led coalition and that there were some among the Kurdish inhabitants under the Islamic State who had “cooperated with the Crusader alliance.” Thus, on the grounds of alleviating tension, the stipulation to leave Raqqa province was imposed. At the same time, the Islamic State was careful to emphasize that the properties of those Kurds required to leave but considered to be Muslims would not be confiscated, and the group made arrangements for their property to be registered with the real estate bureaucracy. A subsequent statement was issued by the emir of Raqqa city, warning Islamic State fighters that they could not infringe on those properties.17 This prohibition was reaffirmed the following month,18suggesting that violations had taken place. It is not clear, in the end, how far these stipulations against seizing Kurdish properties were enforced.

The documentary evidence suggests that not all Kurds who were living in Raqqa province under the Islamic State ultimately left these areas. It appears that it subsequently became possible to obtain an exception to the requirement to leave. From the Raqqa province city of Tabqa, a document dated December 2015 emerged from the ruins of the aftermath of the Islamic State’s defeat there by the U.S.-backed SDF. The document noted that those Kurds who still wished to reside in Raqqa province had to go to the office of Kurdish affairs.19 Many Kurds, of course, would have fled Islamic State territory entirely, and the Delegated Committee (a general governing body for the Islamic State) issued a directive in mid-August/mid-September 2015 requiring confiscation of property of Kurds who fled to “the land of kufr” (land governed by those deemed to be non-Muslims).20 It should be noted, however, that confiscation of property of those who fled the Islamic State was not unique to the Kurds and other ethnic minorities. A similar fate befell the properties of medical professionals who fled the Islamic State,21 as well as those accused of working with other factions opposed to the Islamic State like the Free Syrian Army.

The suspicion of Kurdish communities in Syria was not limited to Raqqa province. In Aleppo province, a number of villages with Kurdish communities came under the control of the Islamic State. Internal documents obtained by this author reveal a security report issued by the al-Bab office of the public security department in July 2016 and addressed to the higher public security ministry.b (See Exhibit 2.) The report gives a detailed description of “some of the Kurdish villages in the province that represent a danger to the Islamic State because of the loyalty of the majority of their inhabitants to the Syrian Democratic Forces, and their hatred of members of the Dawla [Islamic State].” Among the charges leveled in the al-Bab report are that the Kurdish communities have been deceiving members of the Islamic State about “places of the presence of the atheists” (referring to the Syrian Democratic Forces); “receiving and welcoming the atheists;” videos disseminated on the Internet featuring complaints about impositions of Islamic norms such as payment of zakat taxation and the dress code for women; and informing Kurdish forces in advance of Islamic State raids into their territory. For context, the reference to welcoming the SDF and the displays of rejecting “Islamic” morality are amply attested in reports at the time of the sense of liberation felt by many locals (not necessarily just Kurds) as the Syrian Democratic Forces were capturing the Manbij area in east Aleppo countryside from the Islamic State.22

The al-Bab report proceeds to give some specific cases, such as the village of Qibat al-Shih to the north of al-Bab town. According to the report, 99% of the village is Kurdish, with 70% having been with “the atheist party” (presumably referring to the Democratic Union Party/PKK). The Islamic State, the report claims, “killed many of the sons of this village for their loyalty to their Kurdish nationalism, as in the battle of Ayn al-Islam [Kobani], they were going to Turkey and from there to Ayn al-Islam to fight with the PKK.” In another case, about a village called Haymar Labadah on the route between Manbij and al-Khafsa with a population of 5,000, the report claims that “the majority of them are from those who hate the Islamic State.” More specifically, the report alleges, for example, that by night the people of the village attacked the Hisba [Islamic morality enforcement] base in the village 10 days after it had been opened, stealing 50,000 Syrian pounds ($90-100), a laptop, and some confiscated cigarettes. Moreover, the report says that there are people from the village who have been participating in the SDF campaign to capture Manbij.

On the basis of the various cases presented, the report concludes with the suggestion to “displace the people of these villages in the present time to avoid the cases of treachery that happened in the similar villages that have now fallen under the control of the PKK.”

Conclusion
Despite the recommendations of the security report, it is not clear whether the suggested policy of displacement was actually implemented, as opposed to the documents from Raqqa province where the evidence of implementation of forced displacement is unambiguous. At least some Kurdish communities continue to reside in areas of north Aleppo countryside retaken from the Islamic State by Turkish-backed Syrian rebels.23However, the fact that recommendations for displacement were put forward at all, taken in combination with the displacement that took place in Raqqa province, illustrates that Islamic State policies toward many Kurdish communities in areas under its control were tainted with suspicion and hostility. As one anti-PKK Kurdish activist currently based in the north Aleppo countryside area of Akhtarin explained to this author, more fieldwork will be required to track specific village and town cases of displacement, but in the general sense, the “proportion of [Islamic State] oppression on the Kurds was more” than that on the Sunni Arab communities.24

From a counterterrorism perspective, highlighting the internal documentary evidence of Islamic State suspicion and hostility toward many Kurdish communities, despite the theoretical ideal of only discriminating among people on the basis of their religion, may be worthwhile in an attempt to split Kurdish fighters from the ranks of the Islamic State, who may have joined the group believing that the Islamic State treats Kurdish Muslims fairly. CTC

Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi is the Jihad-Intel Research Fellow at the Middle East Forum, a U.S.-based think-tank, and an associate fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence at King’s College, London. He has testified on the Islamic State before British parliamentary committees. Follow @ajaltamimi

Appendix: Previously Unpublished Internal Documents Referenced in This Article


Exhibit 1: Biography of Salah al-Din al-Kurdi from the series Qisas al-Mujahideen


Exhibit 2: Security report on Kurdish communities issued by the al-Bab office of the public security department, July 2016


Exhibit 2 (cont.): Security report on Kurdish communities issued by the al-Bab office of the public security department, July 2016


Exhibit 2 (cont.): Security report on Kurdish communities issued by the al-Bab office of the public security department, July 2016


Exhibit 2 (cont.): Security report on Kurdish communities issued by the al-Bab office of the public security department, July 2016

Substantive Notes
[a] As a source for information, the series needs to be treated with a degree of caution. The stories related are designed to boost the morale of Islamic State fighters, and as such they are open to considerable embellishment and perhaps even total fabrication.

[b] These documents were obtained through an intermediary via the Syrian rebel group Ahrar al-Sharqiya, which is based in the north Aleppo countryside. Its members, who originate in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province, participated in battles against the Islamic State in Aleppo province and have taken Islamic State members as prisoners. In addition, they continue to maintain connections with contacts in eastern Syria and thus, have multiple avenues for obtaining Islamic State documents. The study obtained reflects a typical function of the Islamic State’s security department in the provinces—that is, to investigate anything that may be considered a security threat to the Islamic State.

Citations
[1] Burak Kadercan, “This is what ISIS’ Rise Means for the ‘Kurdish Question,'” National Interest, September 9, 2015.

[2] Thomas Hale, “A short history of the Kurds,” Financial Times, October 17, 2014.

[3] Ranj Alaaldin, “The ISIS campaign against Iraq’s Shia Muslims is not politics. It’s genocide,” Guardian, January 5, 2017.

[4] Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, “This is the promise of God,” Al-Furqan Media, June 29, 2014.

[5] Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, “A Complete History of Jama’at Ansar al-Islam,” aymennjawad.org, December 15, 2015.

[6] Brian Fishman, “The Man Who Could Have Stopped The Islamic State,” Foreign Policy, November 23, 2016.

[7] Ibid.

[8] “Al-Itisam Media presents a new video message from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham: ‘A Window Upon the Land of Epic Battles #26,'” Jihadology, November 15, 2013.

[9] Ibid.

[10] “New video message from the Islamic State: ‘The Kurds: Between Monotheism and Atheism, Wilayat al-Raqqah,'” Jihadology, August 2, 2016.

[11] For example, “Who is leading the Da’esh forces on the right side in Mosul…and why?” Qoraish, January 19, 2017.

[12] Story of Salah al-Din al-Kurdi, Qisas al-Mujahideen (see Exhibit 1). This was obtained by the author (via an intermediary) from an individual who worked in the Islamic State administration in Manbij and left for the Azaz area in the north Aleppo countryside.

[13] Metin Guran, “The Ankara Bombings and the Islamic State’s Turkey Strategy,” CTC Sentinel 8:10 (2015).

[14] Ibid.

[15] Specimen 8Y in Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, “Archive of Islamic State Administrative Documents,” aymennjawad.org, January 27, 2015. This archive of Islamic State administrative documents is housed on the author’s website and reflects an ongoing project that began in January 2015 to collect and translate Islamic State documents, which total more than 1,000 in number. This archive includes gathering of documents available in the open-source realm and documents collected privately from contacts, with determinations made as to their authenticity based on a number of criteria (e.g., use of stamps, absence of red flag motifs. etc.).

[16] Specimen 5M in “Archive of Islamic State Administrative Documents.”

[17] Specimen 6B in “Archive of Islamic State Administrative Documents.”

[18] Specimen 9Z in “Archive of Islamic State Administrative Documents.”

[19] Specimen 37R in Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, “Archive of Islamic State Administrative Documents (continued … again),” aymennjawad.org, September 17, 2016.

[20] Specimen 25J in “Archive of Islamic State Administrative Documents (continued … again).”

[21] Specimen 5I in “Archive of Islamic State Administrative Documents.”

[22] For example, Wladimir Van Wilgenburg, “Syrian Arabs around Manbij overjoyed IS vanquished, welcome SDF, Kurds,” Middle East Eye, June 12, 2016.

[23] Aymenn al-Tamimi, “#Syria: Shami Front and Ahrar al-Sham visit Kurdish village of Susenbat in north Aleppo countryside: outreach to Kurdish tribal figures,” Twitter, May 1, 2017.

[24] Author interview, Ahmad Masto, anti-PKK Kurdish activist in Syria, September 2017.

 

MESOP NEWS DOCUMENTARY : Islamic State and Kurds – Full Documents & Translat

by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi  • 

As a companion to my study for CTC Sentinel on the Islamic State and its relations with the Kurds, here are the original documents in full with translation.

Biography of Salah al-Din al-Kurdi

From the first mujahideen of Halabja who rose up against the Crusader invasion of Iraq in 1424 AH, he resisted the American invasion after the fall of the regime of the tyrant Saddam Hussein who left the land as a permissible morsel before America, its allies and the Safavids who began to maltreat the Sunnis.

He formed with his companions working groups against the American occupaition, composed of a squadron of snipers and a squadron of engineering for mines and IEDs.

The Salah al-Din brigade managed to kill many of the soldiers of the Crusader occupation, destroy dozens of their vehicles and kill their agents in Baghdad and Kirkuk.

The American forces arrested him at the beginning of 1429 AH and he encountered in Abu Ghraib prison the worst treatment from the hateful Rafidites and Crusaders.

Salah al-Din was released from prison after his poor health condition, as the Crusaders thought that he would die at any moment, but it was God’s matter in keeping him alive.

Salah al-Din returned to his jihadi activity in 1433 AH with the Islamic State contingents in Iraq, as he gave bay’a to the Islamic State in Iraq and was sent on a martyrdom operation to strike the agents of America after it had undertaken the withdrawal from Iraq under the strikes of the mujahideen.

And Salah al-Din struck the gatherings of the Rafidites during their preparation for the so-called ‘Arab Summit’ that blessed the American invasion, and with his companions he killed more than 50 Rafidites.

The Salah al-Din al-Kurdi battalion continues operating in the ranks of the Dawla today and they are from the Kurdish Muslims, and their contingents were in the forefront of the soldierso the Dawla who attacked Ayn al-Islam and killed and drove out the PYD militias of kufr and atheism. And they continue on the path of the prior mujahideen until today.

Security Study on Some Kurdish villages in Aleppo province

Islamic State
Wilayat Halab
Markaz al-Amn al-Aam

No. 190
Date: 13 Shawwal 1437 AH corresponding to 18 July 2016 CE.

In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Dear brother: Amir of the Diwan al-Amn al-Aam (may God protect him)

As-salam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu

We commend God Almighty to you, and ask the Exalted to make you among those who serve His religion, and benefit Islam and Muslims through you.

We refer to you a detailed report on some of the Kurdish villages found in the wilaya, which constitute a danger to the Islamic State as most of their inhabitants are loyal to the SDF, and hate the Dawla personnel, and that has become clear in multiple phenomena, including:

1. Deceiving Dawla personnel, tricking them and lying to them about the places where the atheists are present.

2. Receiving the atheists, welcoming them and displaying joy and happiness at their coming.

3. Some of them appeared in video clips on the Internet complaining of the zakat tax taken from them, leaving the beard to grow, the shawl, and Shari’i dress for women.

4. When the brothers have attempted to infiltrate into some of the villages to launch a raid against the atheists, the people of the villages shouted and fled to the areas where the PKK were present to inform them of the Dawla’s coming.

5. Spreading of adornment among women in the border villages that remain under the Dawla’s authority, lack of heeding of any brother commanding what is right or forbidding what is wrong, as the brothers have corresponded with us and informed us that they do not feel secure over themselves from the populations in the villages that lie directly behind the line of ribat.

a) Qabasin village

– Located northeast of al-Bab town, in which the proportion of Kurds is around 35%, the majority of whom harbour the ideology of the Kurdish parties and are affiliated with them.

– Among them are those who handed over their weapons when the Dawla seized the villages and those who didn’t, and among them are those who have fought with the PKK until now, and among them are those who went for a short time. The majority of those present in the village are awaiting the return of the PKK to fight with them.

– Information has come from more than one source that the PKK’s next target is Qabasin and they have sleeper cells in it in addition to the fact that the town is of great importance to the Kurds, as it has a considerable residential population and on account of its midway position between Manbi and al-Bab and it is an important place to them because of its proximity to the Kurdish areas in the northern countryside.

– This village includes a considerable number of the known leaders in the atheist party, including:

1. Subhi al-Arif al-Sha’bo al-Muhammad: among the notables of the tribes in Bayt al-Sha’ab on the coming of the PKK to Qabasi in the days of the Sahwa (he offered repentance).

2. Mustafa al-Sadu, a military commander present in Afrin.

b) al-Nu’aimiya village:

– Belongs to the Muslima area.

– Comprising around 50 Kurdish families.

– Most of the young men and girls of the village are outside it (they travelled to the Kurdish bases in Turkey, northern Iraq and Kobani).

– The people of the village are known for their strong adherence to their Kurdish nationalist identity.

– When a problem arises between a Kurdish person and non-Kurdish person, the village arises and does not lay down.

– It is one of the Kurdish villages supporting the PKK.

– In 2013, the people of the village signed a document for the departure of the atheist party leader Abdullah Ocalan from the Turkish persons.

– In the days of the Free Army and in the beginning of the revolution, the people of the village set up a checkpoint affiliated with the party in it and put up the party banner on it on the grounds of protecting the village.

– The checkpoint remained for around the year and they wore clothing particular to the party in addition to banners with the presence of arms.

– The mukhtar was the one responsible for recruitment and providing the checkpoint’s necessities and bringing salaries and paying them.

– When the Islamic State entered the area, they denied their affiliation with the party, and the Dawla asked them to hand over their weapons.

– But they have only handed over a small part of them, and it is expected that there are hidden or buried weapons.

c) Haymar Labada village

– Located on the road between Manbij and al-Khafsa.

– Number of inhabitants reaches 5000 people.

– Most of them are among those who hate the Islamic State.

– Its people, around a month before the campaign [against Manbij], assaulted the Hisba base by night 10 days after it had been opened, while they stole a sum of 50,000 Syrian pounds, a laptop and some confiscate cigarettes.

– Among its sons are those participating in the atheist campaign against Manbij.

– Its people welcomed the atheists when they took control of the village.

– When the brothers penetrated through the village, they asked its people whether the PKK were present. They said: ‘No.’ But after the brothers advanced, they were fired on with bullets from behind.

– It is considered the first front line from the southern front.

d) Qibat al-Shih

– Located north of al-Bab city, with the proportion of Kurds at 99%; 70% having been with the atheist party.

– Arms are present in the village and they are awaiting the PKK.

– The Dawla has killed many of the sons of this village for their loyalty to their Kurdish nationalist identity for in the battle of Ayn al-Islam they were going to Turkey and from it they were entering Ayn al-Islam to fight with the PKK and when in that time a group composed of 14 people were arrested: among them we found one wounded in his forearm, and on asking him about it, he replied that he struck himself?!

– Total ignorance in matters of their religion, for many of them don’t know the obligatory prayers.

e) Barshaya

– Most of its inhabitants are Kurds.

– Large proportion of them are affiliated with the PKK.

– They have weapons that were hand over to the Dawla but after that the Dawla returned the weapons to them.

– Most of them are awaiting the return of the party to join it.

f) al-Ka’iba

– Located 8km south of al-Ra’i.

– All of its people are PKK and affiliated with Ayn al-Islam [i.e. the PKK branch there].

– A large proportion of them are smugglers who smuggle youth to Ayn al-Islam, and most of these people are from the Demo family.

– Before the Dawla came, there were people in it working in smuggling hashish and drugs, as it was considered a source of funding for the Kurdish parties before the coming of the Crusader alliance.

– There are houses present designated for prostitution in this village as well as dancers, according to many witnesses from the area.

– A number of incidents have happened in this village during the advance of the parties to Manbij, among them: the people of the village ganged up on one of the security brothers when he pursued one of the smugglers while the smuggler took refuge in the house of Naser al-Din Demo who hid him.

– When one of the brothers went to prepare a base in the village that had been confiscated by the real estate, a number of people from the village attacked the brother, at the head of them Muhammad Demo.

– When the security brothers went to the village to inspect the situation in Ramadan, they found that most of the people of the village were not fasting.

– Difficulty of security penetration of this village because of the lack of any person working with the Dawla in it.

g) Nu’man village

– Located 10 km north of al-Bab city and the number of its inhabitants reaches 2000 people.

– They have strong adherence to Kurdish nationalist identity.

– Before the Dawla entered, all of the youth of the people of the village were affiliated with the Yusuf al-Udhma battalion affiliated with the Kurdish parties.

– They had a checkpoint in the village with multiple people established on it: more than 25 people, all of them armed with rifles.

– 8 of them only were arrested and they only acknowledged two rifles.

– A cell for smuggling prisoners from this village was arrested as it was working to smuggle Kurdish prisoners who fled from al-Bab prison previously.

– The village is composed of 4 families, all of them cousins: Bayt Balij, Bayt Hamdak, Bayt al-Ahmad, Bayt Hanash.

– A person is present in this village by the name of Mahmoud Ismail Hamdak, known as Abu Shiro, considered an administrative leader for the Sadd al-Shahba’ sector as they call it.

– There is another person called Bahjat Balij who supports the party in Afrin.

– Difficulty of penetrating this village for intelligence as all of them are cousins and loyal to their Kurdish nationalist identity.

According to the preceding in this report, we suggest displacing the people of these villages in the current time to avoid cases of treachery that have happened in similar villages that have now fallen under the control of the PKK.

Islamic State
Diwan al-Amn al-Aam
Amni Aam official- Aleppo

 

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21 Sept 2017 – FAZ – Es ist nicht leicht, den „Zweiten Bericht zur Lage der deutschen Sprache” zu machen, der gestern vorgestellt wurde. Die Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung und die Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften, die ihn herausgeben, sind seriöse Institutionen, und seine Verfasser, ein erlauchter Querschnitt — oder soll man sagen: Querschnitt*in?

Aber wir nehmen zu viel vorweg — der deutschen Linguistenzunft, alles andere als Hallodris. Andererseits haben die erleuchteten Sprachwissenschaftler bei ihrer Arbeit auch sogenannte Feldforschung getrieben, also beispielsweise in Zeltlager von Jugendlichen hineingehorcht, wo sie etwa folgenden Satz vernahmen: „Tobi, da biste ja noch, alter Granny-Lutscher.” Oder diesen: „Leute, fuckt mich nicht ab.” Es geht also nicht nur um trockene Fakten in dem Sprachlagebericht, sondern auch um das Leben da draußen, das wirkliche, wahre — was das für 29,95 Euro im Buchhandel vorrätige Dokument zu einem Vergnügen nicht bloß für Insider macht.

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MESOP NEWS CULTURE : DAS ENDE DES BUCHS IST AUCH SEIN ANFANG

FAZ Plus Artikel: Umsätze brechen ein : Ist das Buch am Ende?

21 Sept 2017 – FAZ – Manche Buchhändler müssen sich Zweitjobs suchen. Denn nur noch jeder fünfte Deutsche liest Bücher. Erträgt niemand mehr die Einsamkeit der Lektüre? – Von Sandra Kegel

…… nein nein, es wird eine Renaissance geben fürs Buch: es enthält Sprache jenseits der Zensuren der feministischen Sprachpolizeien, es verrät Strassennamen und Orte, die beseitigt wurden, erinnert historische Ereignisse, die der Korrektness zum Opfer fielen, Texte ohne Warnhinweise, Geschichte ohne deren Umschreibung ins Kommode, Leidenschaften und Lieben und Leiden, die der Zensuraufsicht längst nicht mehr genehm sind – es enthält alles, was in den stromlinienförmigen Konditionierungs-Medien weggestrichen ist.  Das Buch ist souverän gegenüber dem Algorithmus – es tendiert Richtung Emanzipation, die es einmal mit dem Menschen teilte.

Versorgt euch mit älteren Büchern: bevor auch sie verboten werden! Sie enthalten alles, was man braucht.

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MESOP NEWS : VOYEURISMUS & GESCHLECHTSKONTROLLE DER LBGTQ-KULTUR (BERLIN)

  • Bevorzugung gegen das Grundgesetz –

Kommentar : Privat war gestern –     Von Regina Mönch (FAZ)

20.09.2017-12:21 – Rechtschreibung erlernen: Noch lange nicht von gestern. Die Privatsphäre derer, die die Rechtschreibung lehren, scheinbar schon. –  Berlin will’s wissen: Lehrpersonen von sechzig Berliner Schulen sollten in einer Studie Informationen von sich preisgeben – auch über ihre sexuelle Orientierung.

Die Berliner Schulverwaltung hat bei der Humboldt-Universität und der privaten Sigmund-Freud-Universität eine Studie zur „sexuellen und geschlechtlichen Vielfalt“ von Jugendlichen in Auftrag gegeben. Sechzig Berliner Schulen wurden für die Befragung ausgewählt; die Teilnahme der Lehrpersonen an der Umfrage, heißt es im Anschreiben, sei freiwillig, aber von der Behörde „ausdrücklich erwünscht“. An dieser Formulierung und einigen höchst privaten Fragen zur (Lehr-)Person wie nach Dienstjahren, Alter, Adresse der Schule und Ähnlichem, entzündete sich jetzt ein heftiger Streit. Vor allem an der Frage: „Was ist Ihre sexuelle Orientierung?“ Auch die Frage nach Kollegen, die offen lesbisch, schwul, also „queer“ seien, befremdet viele.

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JUPITER MACRON – THE HERO OF THE EUROPEAN PRO ISRAEL LEFT

 MESOP NEWS EAST KURDISTAN IRAN .  21 Sept 2017 – SPEECH AT UN MEETING

Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said that the nuclear deal with Iran was “essential for peace” and that his country would “not close any door to dialogue” with North Korea. (Here’s the video, in French.)

Someday he will Israel on Rothschild’s Ticket

https://www.facebook.com/EmmanuelMacron/videos/2033581283541114/  

MESOP NEWS : ISIS NEVER GOES / NOW STARTING IN EUROPE

ISIS’s Expanding Campaign in Europe – By Jennifer Cafarella with Jason Zhou – BY ISW (Institute for the study of War)

Key Takeaway:  ISIS’s attack campaign in Europe is expanding despite ISIS’s losses of terrain and senior leadership in the Middle East and North Africa. ISIS continues to plan, resource, and execute attacks from its remaining safe havens in Syria, Iraq, and Libya. ISIS has successfully expanded its coordinated attack campaign in Europe to target the UK and Spain. Rising levels of ISIS-inspired attacks in Sweden and Finland may signal growing online ISIS activity targeting vulnerable populations in those states and receptivity among those populations to the ISIS message. Coordinated attack attempts could follow. ISIS is sustaining its attack efforts in its initial target states of France and Germany, meanwhile. ISIS’s activity in Belgium, also an initial target state, is much lower, but the lack of ISIS attacks in Belgium does not signal incapacity. ISIS may be using its networks in Belgium to support attack cells elsewhere in Europe. ISIS also appears increasingly successful at inspiring low-level attacks in Europe despite its territorial losses, indicating its messaging is still resonant. ISIS’s campaign in Europe will continue and may even increase despite its losses in Iraq and Syria.

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MESOP WARNUNG : DIE ÜBERNAHME EUROPAS DURCH FEUDALE SOUVERÄNISTEN & INVESTMENT-BANKEN

 Emmanuel Macron fürchtet eine Koalition von CDU/CSU und FDP. Thomas Mayer berichtet in seiner Kolumne in „Geld & Mehr“, wie nervös Investoren auf einen Beitrag der Zeitung „Le Monde“ reagierten, in der eine Koalition von Union und FDP als Macrons Albtraum bezeichnet wird. Darin wird der französische Präsident mit den Worten zitiert: „Wenn sie sich mit den Liberalen verbündet, bin ich tot.“

Junckers Pläne : Brüssel ergreift die Macht  / Holger Steltzner

Der Luxemburger Jean-Claude Juncker hat europäische Visionen, dass es einem Angst und Bange wird.  – EU-Kommissionspräsident Jean-Claude Juncker will die Nationalstaaten entmachten. Und keiner protestiert. Nur die kleine deutsche FDP mault dazwischen.

Hat Jean-Claude Juncker Visionen? Oder leidet der EU-Kommissionspräsident unter Realitätsverweigerung?

Wohl beides. Juncker fordert einen allmächtigen EU-Kommissionspräsidenten. Den EU-Ratspräsidenten, der bislang die Mitgliedsstaaten vertritt, will er abschaffen, um die Machtfülle seines Amtes zu vergrößern. Auch den Einfluss der Kommission will er stark ausbauen und den EU-Haushalt kräftig aufstocken. Den Euro-Krisenfonds möchte Juncker nicht bloß zu einem Europäischen Währungsfonds umbauen, wie es viele andere auch wollen. Wenn es nach ihm geht, soll der Fonds nicht länger durch die Mitgliedsstaaten kontrolliert werden.

Was harmlos klingt, hat es in sich: Ein großer Teil der Milliardenhilfen kommt zwar weiterhin vom deutschen Steuerzahler. Aber der Bundestag soll nicht länger über die Gewährung von Krediten etwa an Griechenland entscheiden dürfen. Dieser Plan ist nicht demokratisch, sondern autokratisch. Hier zeigt Juncker sein wahres Gesicht. Das Königsrecht des Parlaments, die Entscheidung über die Verwendung der Steuergelder, und die Kontrolle durch die Wähler will der Kommissionspräsident aushebeln. In den Vereinigten Staaten und anderswo sind die Bürger für dieses Grundrecht der Demokratie auf die Barrikaden gegangen.

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