Islamic extremists, who travel abroad to engage in war and terror is not a new phenomenon. Nor do they return to their home countries.
How the issue was handled in the immediate future horrifies. In the 1980s, Afghanistan was occupied by the then Soviet union. Young radical islamists from the Middle east and north Africa traveled to the islamdominerade Afghanistan to fight against the ”godless bolsheviks”.
out of Afghanistan in 1989, many returned jihadistveteraner to their home countries. They took their våldstillvända belief. Saudiern Osama bin Laden founded al-Qaeda. Abu Musab al-In it went home to Jordan and laid the foundations for the Islamic state.
When the IS ”caliphate” in Syria and Iraq now is in tatters, at risk of the pattern to be repeated. The difference this time is that the jihadists who have voluntarily acceded to the ICE not only comes from the Middle east and north african region.
Of the volunteers who joined the ICE between 2013 and 2018 heard nearly 6,000 at home in Western europe, according to a report from the british research institute International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR). Just over 1900 of them came from France, 960 of the volunteers traveled from Germany, 850 from the Uk. Approximately 300 of the terrorresenärerna comes from Sweden.
are women or children. An EU-commissioned study from 2016, the claim that women’s subordinate role within the IS partly a myth. In the ”kalifatets” självutropade capital of Raqqa for example there was a female police force, the al-Khansaa brigade, which literally saw the ICE imposed by the morals and the dress code was maintained. Children as young as nine years have drillats in the IS military basic training.
The european countries have grappled with the återvändarproblemet in several years. But the question was asked further on his point of the president of the united states Donald Trump the other day.
In a message via Twitter called Trump to Europe takes care of about 800 jihadists who been captured during the final battle on the ICE-the enclave Baghouz on the syrian-iraqi border. ICE be fought by the Syrian democratic forces (SDF), an alliance supported by the USA, where syrian kurds dominate.
in Syria – about 2,000 specialsoldater – within a few months of withdrawal, on the order of the Trump. The president addressed an ultimatum to the european countries: take care of the ICE-prisoners, otherwise we release them free.
How such action benefits the USA’s long-standing ”war against terrorism” is unclear. But Trumps moves on Twitter has brought to the fore the question of how the european ICE-returner should be treated.
It is quick to conclude that the response of the ICE-terrorists, and their families, differ markedly between different european countries.
announced the French minister of the interior, Christophe Castaner to a 130-odd IS-terrorists in Syria who are French nationals will be returned to the home country to be interviewed by the police and possibly brought to trial. However, so far nothing has happened.
Germany is content, until further notice, to ”closely monitor” the French measures. The German foreign ministry says, ”review all options” for how the German citizens in the IS sold are to be handled.
the Uk’s minister of the interior Sajiv Javid has revoked the citizenship of brits who stayed in the ”caliphate”. Defense secretary Gavin Williamson has previously said that it would be best if british ICE warriors ”hunted down and killed on the battlefield”. But despite ministers ‘ intransigence, they have to still handle the individual, individuals, and cases.
is estimated to remain in the conflict zone in Syria. The Swedish government has said that they cannot expect consular help and suggested that it is best if they are judged on the spot. Stefan Löfven announced on Sunday that the government closes the door for the ICE-swedes.
There is seemingly no coherent european view on how the problem with ”the ICE travelers” are to be handled. There is not even any common american interpretation. During the autumn, it was reported that the city of Stockholm have not had any contact with the estimated scores of the IS terrorists who have returned to the capital. While the Gothenburg, sweden, however, had an active outreach relating to de-radicalisation.
In the now re-ignited the debate has been the proposal to set up an international ”ICE-tribunal” where the devotees to the terrorsekten should be prosecuted. An equally self-evident that ingenious idea, can seem. But the crass realpolitik may very well put a spanner in the works.
and the credibility of such a court is needed, namely a UN mandate, and a decision of the security council. And it is not at all certain that, for example, Syria’s al-Assad regime is interested in an independent commission of inquiry will and snooping around. Therefore, the tribunal can very well fail on a veto in the security council, submitted by Syria’s supporters Russia.
