Red Cell: Terrorist Attack. Social Sciences Essay

Red Cell: Terrorist Attack
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Introduction
When someone mentions the Islamic State (IS) terrorists, then what comes to mind is the Middle East, where the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) exist. You are not mistaken to think that because it is a terrorist group, it follows the doctrines of the Salafi Jihadist, a fundamentalist of the Sunni Islam CITATION AlI14 \l 2057 (Al-Ibrahim,, 2014). In early 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or ISIS, dominated the news headlines globally after driving the Iraqi forces working for the government out of key cities, like when they captured Mosul and after conducting the Sinjar massacre CITATION AlS14 \l 2057 (Al-Salhy, Suadad, Arango, & Tim, 2014). While the news of the capture of Mosul was growing, the group’s firm grip of the Saharan Africa was equally quietly growing, but not after it had a merger with Boko Haram. Over the years later, other IS affiliates started growing started coming out especially in African countries like the West Africa there is a group known as the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) or the ISIS West Africa, another one called the Islamic state in Somali (ISS) which are located in the northern Somali stretching to Puntland, and the third one just close by is known as the Islamic State in Somali, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda (ISISSKTU) which is raising a lot of concern.
Terrorist Group Profile
ISIS in Greater Sahara (ISGS)
This began with a merger of two other jihadi groups, the movement for oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) and the Masked Men Brigade, from which emerged another group called al-Mourabitoun. With the leader being Mokhtar Belmokhtar also known as the one-eyed commander CITATION WAR17 \l 2057 (WARNER, 2017). This group operates in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. The first thing a group like this does is to carry on attacks in the countries allied to the United States. In February 2017, the group ambushed a convoy of the Nigerien army close to the Mali border, near a place called Tirzawane village. They seized vehicles, ammunitions and arms from the convoy and went ahead to kill 16 soldiers and civilians and wounded 18CITATION Men18 \l 2057 (Cooper, Thomas, & Gibbons-Neff, 2018). In October 2017, the group carried on an attack at the Sahel region where they ambushed a joint US – Nigerian force which led to the death of 4 green berets and many soldiers from Niger CITATION Jou18 \l 2057 (Journalist of Menastream, 2018). The second way, hypothetically, will be to recruit members who will disguise themselves as those who come to the US to seek asylum or further their education. Since this group has money, funding education in the US is nothing to them. Once they are there, they can rent apartments and make them a place where they create bombs. Since this kind of people are deluded to carryout suicide attacks, and when they are in the country, they can access most public places, that way, they carry bombs with them (sometimes tied around their waist or chests).
Terrorist Group Profile
ISGS is affiliated to the ISIS, therefore they draw their strategies and ideologies from the IS, even their way of carrying out attacks are the same. This group pledges...