{"id":5640,"date":"2015-11-24T13:22:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T18:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=5640"},"modified":"2016-09-14T10:26:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T15:26:49","slug":"foreign-terror-acts-signal-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2015\/11\/24\/foreign-terror-acts-signal-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Terror Acts Signal Weakness, Not Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Italian State Television interview with Dr. Orsini.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In light of recent terrorist attacks by Da\u2019esh (ISIS, ISIL) on Paris, Beirut, Yola, and many more cities, the world is paying attention to the terrorist organization\u2019s activities outside of Iraq and Syria<\/a>. Conversations have focused topics from who these terrorists are, whose deaths we mourn, and what these attacks are meant to accomplish.<\/p>\n

Alessandro Orsini<\/a>, a political sociologist at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, told Sputnik Italia News<\/a> that Da\u2019esh is choosing to launch foreign attacks because they want to split societies and public opinion, causing civic and political arguments around military interventions. The group is very intentional about which countries it chooses to terrorize. Orsini\u00a0references the attack on Madrid by Al Qaeda in 2004, which resulted in Spain withdrawing from Iraq (and a reprieve from Al Qaeda in Spain).<\/p>\n

Additionally, Orsini\u00a0points out a change in Da\u2019esh\u2019s approach to recruitment. Where initially they were focused on \u201cimporting\u201d terrorists to fulfill their goal of creating a Caliphate, now the group is also \u201cexporting\u201d terrorists to attack foreign cities. Orsini\u00a0concludes with some hope: he believes the changes in recruitment and stretch to attack European cities is proof of Da\u2019esh\u2019s weakness as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  In light of recent terrorist attacks by Da\u2019esh (ISIS, ISIL) on Paris, Beirut, Yola, and many more cities, the world is paying attention to the terrorist organization\u2019s activities outside of Iraq and Syria. Conversations have focused topics from who these terrorists are, whose deaths we mourn, and what these attacks are meant to accomplish. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2058,"featured_media":5641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,85],"tags":[39106,39116,39102,2705,29550,718,39101,39100,39105,799,302,39107],"class_list":["post-5640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-politics","tag-beirut","tag-crime","tag-daesh","tag-extremism","tag-international-crime","tag-iraq","tag-isil","tag-isis","tag-paris","tag-syria","tag-terrorism","tag-yola"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/11\/Foto-Rai-Uno.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5651,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions\/5651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}