Interpol estimates that there are 28,000 IS members among 500 million inhabitants in the 28 EU countries. It follows that there are three times that number of IS members in the non-EU developed countries' population of 1.5 billion population.
I am surprised that UK is still bombing Iraq after invading Iraq in 2013 and now also wants to bomb Syria and eliminate IS members in Iraq and Syria.
The 100,000 or so IS members are living among approximately 900,000 helpers around them. These 1 million people are living among approximately 10 million innocent people.
Every time bombing a territory tactic is used, for every member and two helpers, 7 innocent persons are potentially murdered or at least injured.
Eventually, some on those innocent people will be encouraged to join IS.
Kurdish is the second official language in Syria, Iraq and Iran. The Kurds are hoping to curve out their own independent country in that region with 7%, 20% and 20% population of Kurds respectively.
It is best not to use bombing and/or drones but use ground troops to figure out whether there is any possibility of a rival leader to Bashar Al Assad and/or learn at grass roots level about the region. And then agree with Russia to support a long term plan.
Moderation and caution is desperately and urgently needed before any further military action is taken.
Otherwise we shall continue in a vicious circle of unnecessary expenditure and effort of counter-terrorism by both sides. We cannot defeat terrorists by terrorising them.
Nagindas Khajuria
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