TERRORISMO
El Estado Islámico aún es una amenaza tras la muerte de al-Baghdadi
October 28, 2019 - La muerte de Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, que se suicido al verse acorralado por las fuerzas de EUA, deja al llamado Estado Islámico sin líder obvio, pero el grupo miliciano sigue siendo una gran amenaza en Irak, Afganistán y otros sitios.
The loss of al-Baghdadi is a major setback for an organisation that in March was forced by American troops and Kurdish forces out of the last portion of its self-declared “caliphate,” which once spanned a swath of Iraq and Syria.
But the militant group, which arose from the remnants of al-Qaida in Iraq after that group's defeat by U.S.-led forces in 2008, has ambitions to regenerate yet again.
Key to the Islamic State is its “kill where you are” ethos, encouraging a far-flung network of followers, including those in the United States, to commit violence however and wherever they can. That jihadist message is likely to live on, even with the death of al-Baghdadi.
That means U.S. forces, perhaps in reduced numbers, will continue hunting and attacking key Islamic State targets, even as President Donald Trump says he’s committed to a 2016 campaign pledge to bring them home and end “endless wars” started under his predecessors.
Trump earlier this month went from declaring a near-complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria to deciding that some – perhaps several hundred – must stay to keep eastern Syria’s oil fields from falling back into the hands of the Islamic State. Trump also agreed to keep about 150 U.S. troops at a base in southern Syria.