Wrong policies, behind the spread of takfiri terrorism

Terrorism has no borders and requires unifying all international genuine efforts to overcome it. Eliminating terrorism is a necessity for maintaining international peace and stability.

Fighting terrorism is the primary prelude for any political solution to the crisis in Syria.

It is necessary that the countries supporting terrorism be compelled to stop this conduct in abidance by the Security Council’s counterterrorism resolutions.

  From the very beginning of the crisis in Syria, the Syrian government has been calling for uniting international efforts to combat takfiri terrorism, because this plight will plague the whole world, as it has no borders and no limits.

Syria has also called on the states that are supporting the takfiri terrorist organizations financially and logistically to halt such support because the spread of such plight would be a catastrophe that befalls the whole world. However, some Western and regional states continue to provide terrorist organizations operating in Syria with funds and arms to achieve sinister political purposes, namely destroying the Syrian state in service of the Zionist project.

The result was catastrophic as terrorism spread in many areas including Lebanon, Tunisia, Turkey and France. The terrorist attacks which targeted Paris couldn’t be separated from those that took place in Beirut, and what has been happening in Syria since 5 years and in other regions, because terrorism is one field in the world and terrorist organizations don’t recognize borders.

Wrong polices adopted by western states, particularly France, towards events in the region, and its ignorance of the support of a number of its allies to terrorists are reasons behind the expansion of terrorism.

There is a necessity of adopting new polices and taking active procedures to stop support for terrorists logistically or politically in order to overcome the epidemic of terrorism.

The terrorist attacks in France proved that there is no state which would be safe from terrorism. There is a necessity for unifying efforts of regional and international sides to combat it and stop this phenomenon which poses threat to the peoples of the region and the world.

In a posthumous video, Amedy Coulibaly, a gunman who killed four hostages in another terror attack at a Paris supermarket before he was slain by police, claimed he was acting on behalf of the Daesh Takfiri group in coordination with the two brothers who attacked Charlie Hebdo offices.

He said the two brothers, Said and CherifKouachi, were affiliated with the al-Qaeda terrorist group.

 The cowardly terrorist attacks against innocent people reflect the ugliness of terrorism which targets and terrifies unarmed civilians and residents.

It is the same terrorism against which Syria has repeatedly warned.

The armed terrorist organizations and their criminal acts have no limits and don’t distinguish between the states and peoples, nor they take into account any value for life, heritage or culture.

Time has come for the governments and states to unify efforts in a clear and organized way to confront terrorism and its supporters.

Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis France has sought to use whatever means necessary to regain control of the country it used to occupy after the first World War.

That effort has even included arms deliveries to terrorists despite an EU embargo.

President Francois Hollande refuses to work with the Syrian government against ISIS, and Paris also refuses to engage in diplomacy with Damascus, but the recent terrorist attacks may compel France to significantly alter their policies across the region.

The recent attacks of Paris affirm what Syria has warned of that terrorism has no borders and religion and will rebound on its supporters. The countries that provided all kinds of support to terrorism and began to suffer from it should review their wrong policies and cooperate seriously to eliminate terrorism.

Syrian people are determined to continue their battle against terrorism and to preserve Syria’s territorial integrity as well as its national independent decision.

K.Q.