ISIS by Brendan January

Author:Brendan January [January, Brendan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: 9/11, Al-Qaeda, Brendan January, Civil War, Crime, Historical, History, History & Government, Iraq, Iraq War, Isis, Isis: The Global Face of Terrorism, Islam, Islamic Jihad, Law, Law & Crime, Middle East, Middle Eastern History, Nonfiction, People & Places, People and Places, Radicalism, Refugee, Religion, Religious Extremism, Social Studies, Syria, Taliban, Terrorism, Twenty-First Century Book, War, Young Adult Nonfiction, Young Adults
ISBN: 9781512467918
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Published: 2017-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

An ISIS fighter stands guard at a checkpoint in Mosul in 2014. ISIS pays jihadists well and provides them with housing and other benefits. Joining the terrorist organization can be appealing to those with few economic opportunities.

He underwent military training and was dispatched to Mosul, which had just been captured by ISIS. He soon learned new skills. His commander ordered him to a field, where another ISIS fighter held a blindfolded civilian. The man was crying. The ISIS fighter pushed him to his knees, and the commander handed Hassan a pistol. “They showed me how to do it,” Hassan recalled. “You point the gun downward. Also to not shoot directly at the center of the head, but to go a little bit off to one side.” Hassan executed the man.

“Where to Go”

To help fighters like Hassan reach its bases in Syria, in 2015 ISIS released a fifty-page e-book called Hijrah [pilgrimage] to the Islamic State. It describes in detail how to travel to Turkey, which shares a long and largely uncontrolled border with Syria. Like a vacation brochure, the document includes advice on “What to Pack Up. Who to Contact. Where to Go.” The book advises recruits to take a number of precautions. It says to keep travel plans secret from everyone, including family. It also cautions recruits to use encryption (message encoding) when communicating online. It notes that Android phones are more secure than iPhones.

Those traveling by plane, the book says, should buy round-trip tickets to and from Turkey. That way, they will look like tourists. It advises them to learn about Turkish tourist attractions and to be “chill to the airport officers,” because, after all, “you’re just tourists.” Any traveler coming directly from the Middle East is a red flag to Turkish police, so the brochure instructs Middle Eastern recruits to fly first to Spain or Greece and then to make their way by car or boat to Turkey. It also tells them how to reach out to ISIS facilitators in Turkey, providing the Twitter accounts of ISIS handlers who can smuggle them across the border.

The brochure promises that once recruits have reached an ISIS facility in Syria, they won’t have to pay for housing, electricity, or water. They will receive a monthly tax-free allowance and free medical care. The document warns that life with ISIS won’t be comfortable or easy. Since the supply of electrical power is inconsistent in Syria, recruits are instructed to bring a solar battery charger and a headlamp for seeing in the dark. Syrian winters are cold, the brochure notes, so recruits need to bring a warm jacket, hat, and sleeping bag.

“Sounds great, right?”

A main goal of ISIS propaganda is to make the organization look normal. One ISIS video depicts children smiling and waving on an amusement park ride. The group regularly publishes Dabiq, an online magazine that puts a positive spin on life under ISIS rule. For example, one issue noted that ISIS provides street cleaning, electrical repairs, nursing care for the elderly, and children’s cancer centers in the areas it controls.

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