The Isis papers: leaked documents show how Isis is building its state

[xht]

Blueprint lays bare new contours of Islamic state, complete with civil service, regional government and Soviet levels of economic control

A leaked internal Islamic State manual shows how the terrorist group has set about building a state in Iraq and Syria complete with government departments, a treasury and an economic programme for self-sufficiency, the Guardian can reveal.

The 24-page document, obtained by the Guardian, sets out a blueprint for establishing foreign relations, a fully fledged propaganda operation, and centralised control over oil, gas and the other vital parts of the economy.

The manual, written last year and entitled Principles in the administration of the Islamic State, lays bare Isis’s state-building aspirations and the ways in which it has managed to set itself apart as the richest and most destabilising jihadi group of the past 50 years.

Together with other documents obtained by the Guardian, it builds up a picture of a group that, although sworn to a founding principle of brutal violence, is equally set on more mundane matters such as health, education, commerce, communications and jobs. In short, it is building a state.

As western aircraft step up their aerial war on Isis targets in Syria, the implication is that the military task is not simply one of battlefield arithmetic. Isis is already far more than the sum of its fighters.

The document – written as a foundation text to train “cadres of administrators” in the months after Isis’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared a “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria on 28 June 2014 – sketches out how to organise government departments including education, natural resources, industry, foreign relations, public relations and military camps.

Dated some time between July and October 2014, it details how Isis will build separate training camps for regular troops and veteran fighters. Veterans, it says, should go on a fortnight’s refresher course each year to receive instruction in the “latest arts of using weapons, military planning and military technologies”.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/07/leaked-isis-document-reveals-plan-building-state-syria

[mikhael]

Just another stupid idea by the silly human race. We've seen it in the past, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, The Shinning Path, Cambodia. The silly human race will always have no-minds that will follow the most idiotic ideas. Remember Jim Jones and the purple cool-aid drinkers. It will all come to pass and they will go down just like all the other no-mind sheep do. Remember to educate your children and teach them NOT to follow but to be free thinkers.

[zenitzz]

While Russia, Iran and Syrian army are fighting with ISIS american coalition bombs Syrian army, helps ISIS and defends Erdogan's oil business . That is only thing that you should know about this war)

[bryant.coleman]

While Russia, Iran and Syrian army are fighting with ISIS american coalition bombs Syrian army, helps ISIS and defends Erdogan's oil business . That is only thing that you should know about this war)

And the pro-American mainstream media ignores all of this and the stupid American voters believe that they are actually bombing the ISIS and Turkey is helping them in the fight against the Jihadists.

In the past week alone, we have seen attacks against the anti-ISIS forces carried out by three coalition partners.

1. The Turks shelled regime forces in Latakia (North-West Syria).

2. The Americans bombed regime forces in Deir-ez-Zorr (Eastern Syria, under seige from the ISIS for almost 3 years now).

3. The Israelis bombed the regime forces in Damascus.

Makes me wonder what these "coalition forces" are actually trying to do.