Half a century ago, when John Kennedy was president, the U.S. government grew so angry at Fidel Castro that it set in place a plan to assassinate him. The plan failed but became public and outraged many Americans. It was soon decided that in future America would not use assassination as a tool of foreign policy, whether of a Cuban dictator or anyone else.
ISIL held huge areas of Iraq and Syria from 2014 to 2017, until those areas were taken over by U.S.-led coalition forces. In the past year or so the land controlled by ISIL was reduced from roughly the size of Britain to the size of New York’s Central Park. Michael Pregent, a former intelligence adviser to Gen. David Petraeus, said Baghdadi’s career depended on inspiration. “Baghdadi built a brand that enables anyone to jump aboard the ISIS bandwagon, claim allegiance to it, and stage an attack, maybe not now, but next year,” he said. “That powerful brand is still alive and well.” ISIL has claimed that Baghdadi’s successor is already appointed. His name is given as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi.
Enemies of ISIL have had some earlier successes. About 10,000 alleged ISIL members are now imprisoned in 20 camps, guarded by the Syrian Democratic Forces. There are said to be among them 2,000 hard-core foreign fighters from more than 40 countries. Thousands arrived from Russia. Other camps hold some 70,000 women and children from over 60 countries, most said to be family members of ISIL fighters.
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