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2021-06-17 Africa Subsaharan

UN finds no evidence of Islamic State control over Congo militia

We are in agreement. How nice..

[AlAhram] The militia has strengthened its reach through recruitment, superior command over terrain and planting bombs that outstripped the capabilities of the Congolese army.

United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
experts said on Wednesday they had been unable to find evidence of direct support by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
for an Islamist militia in eastern Congo, which was blacklisted in March by Washington as a terrorist group.

Experts on Central Africa have been debating whether the Allied Democratic Forces

...the ADF is one of several murderous Moslem groups in NE Congo. In 2019 the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on them for the usual reasons. They don't appear to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or Islamic State, though ISIS claims their work from time to time — they just like killing infidels....
(ADF), blamed for increasing violence over the past two years in eastern Congo, has genuine links with the Islamic State group based in the Middle East, sometimes known as ISIS or ISIS.

The ADF has publicly aligned itself with Islamic State, which in turn has grabbed credit for some of its attacks. The United States referred to the ADF as "ISIS-DRC" when it added it to its terrorism blacklist.

In its latest report, the UN Group of Experts on the Congo said the ADF and Islamic State both benefited from making public statements that link them with each other. Such statements were "complementing and amplifying ADF local propaganda, and suggesting increased global reach for ISIS," the report said.

But it added: "The Group did not however find conclusive evidence of ISIS command and control over ADF operations, nor of ISIS direct support to ADF, either financial, human or material."

It found the ADF was getting better at making bombs using expertise from fighters recruited from East Africa, but that these bombs were used for "tactical, offensive, defensive and harassment purposes rather than as a terrorist tool".

The ADF has committed a spate of brutal reprisal attacks on civilians since the army began operations against it in late 2019. The group killed around 850 people last year in Congo’s restive east, according to UN figures, and violence has persisted this year with almost weekly attacks.

They advised the Congolese government to improve the army's intelligence and technical capabilities, while increasing efforts to negotiate with the group to disengage and disarm.

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#1 And if you can't believe the UN, WHO can you believe?

Posted by Bobby 2021-06-17 07:32|| 2021-06-17 07:32|| Front Page Top

#2 My thought *exactly*, Bobby. Right down to the capitalization!
Hey, is Hans Blix still working for the UN?

Posted by SteveS 2021-06-17 16:37|| 2021-06-17 16:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, that settles it.

It's an Islamic State militia!

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-06-17 17:49|| 2021-06-17 17:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Prominent in the Wilayat Wasat Ifriqiya, or Central African wilayah are the two wings of ISIS-DRC and ISIS-Mozambique, as identified by the CIA. ISIS-DRC, led by Musa Seka Baluku, styles itself as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) of Congo to escape the islamist tag.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-17 23:05|| 2021-06-17 23:05|| Front Page Top

#5 these bombs were used for "tactical, offensive, defensive and harassment purposes rather than as a terrorist tool

Have you ever read a more fcuked statement?

Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-17 23:08|| 2021-06-17 23:08|| Front Page Top

#6 styles itself as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) of Congo to escape the islamist tag.

I agree that they are definitely Islamist, Dron. I just am not aware of a functional connection with ISIS — cross-training with other ISIS groups, for instance — beyond a merely sentimental attachment in order to more effectively terrorize the unbelievers. There are apparently over 100 such groups in the region, many of them jihadi without being formally connected to anything more than the idea of their entitlement to pillage, plunder, and rape for the greater glory of Allah and the Ummah... and not working for a living, of course.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-17 23:19|| 2021-06-17 23:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Langley identified 'em as ISIS, TW, long before some islamophile in the UN decided to arrange for ease of mobility for daesh chapters with their 'report'.

US Department of State on ISIS affiliates

ISIS-DRC, also known as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) and Madina at Tauheed Wau Mujahedeen, among other names, is responsible for many attacks across North Kivu and Ituri Provinces in eastern DRC. Under the leadership of Seka Musa Baluku, ISIS-DRC has been notorious in this region for its brutal violence against Congolese citizens and regional military forces, with attacks killing over 849 civilians in 2020 alone, according to United Nations reporting on the ADF.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-17 23:46|| 2021-06-17 23:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Thank you, Dron. Now we know. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-17 23:48|| 2021-06-17 23:48|| Front Page Top

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