Hardcore militant outfit Islamic
State (IS), deadlier than Al-Queda, has snatched away the life of an American
journalist Steven Sotloff close on the heels of the beheading of James Foley, a freelance
US journalist who were captured by the outfit, one in 2012 and another in 2013
which has sent shock waves among the citizens the world over. On recalling the
cold-blooded way with which those two journalists were killed send shudders
down the bodies of all of us, the world citizens.
On recalling the killing of
Steven Sotloff, another picture, a heart-rending one emerges before us. In spite
of the polite appeals and prayers of his wife to self-proclaimed Caliph,
Abbobakkar-Al-Bagdadi to set her husband free which was displayed on the
television channels world wide. Those appeals and heartfelt prayers of his wife
were enough to melt even the persons who are basically unemotional. Instead of her
pleadings and prayers the response was just the opposite. It must have excited
the terrorists and they might have celebrated the beheading of Steven Sotloff
with much fanfare.
‘Maximum City’ authored by Suketu
Mehta, is a matter of factly written story of Mumbai by touching all aspects of
the cosmopolitan city. In the book which is a fairly large work a huge chunk of
the said book deals with underworld of Mumbai.
A number of young men who are
loyal to their masters, most of them living abroad with pomp and pageantry
whose signals guide the young men to fish
out the victims and do away with them without showing any mercy whatsoever.
The victims often plead with the
trigger - happy youth to spare them from death, which actually intoxicates and
excite these underworld youth if and when or even otherwise the victim begs the
underworld ‘incarnations’ by sparing their lives actually are doing them a
favour since his parents and siblings for whom he is the sole bread winner.
Such pleadings often lead the
underworld youths travel down the memory lane, who were not blessed with such
love, affection and care right from their early days of their life and a number
of them were orphans and therefore in a hurry to deprive the victim’s family of
his livelihood and ruthlessly trigger their guns and shoot them point blank
there by enjoying maximum satisfaction.
These underworld youth and the
militants of the terror outfit Islamic State (IS) are moving along the same
wavelength.
Islamic State (IS), is the
Frankenstein Monster which was provided with financial assistance and logistical
weapons by United States itself, as the famous defence analyst Brahma Chellany
noted in one of his articles, to fight against the Bashar-Al-Asad, the Syrian
President, thereby helping them to oust Azad from power, then the name of the
Islamic State (IS) was Free Syrian Army. The same forces have turned against
United States now and Brahma Chellany’s assumption that Islamic State (IS) have
gradually evolved into Frankenstein Monster is absolutely correct which nobody
would like to disagree.
It was the same scenario in
Afghanistan in 1989. To drive out Soviet Union from Afghanistan, US without
weighing the pros and cons of such a step extended a helping hand to Al-Queda
led by Bin Laden. Funds and lethal weapons were generously supplied in ample
measure to them to force the Soviet troops to withdraw from Afghanistan. The same
hard-core militant outfit, ie; Al-Queda later turned against the USA and like
the Frankenstein Monster, turned against its creator were the first to strike US by demolishing World Trade Centre and reducing it into a
pile of dust in 2001.
And now Islamic State (IS) has
turned out to be the principal enemy of US.
The exasperated Obama, US
President has ordered his forces to bombard and thereby wipe out the last
terrorist from the soil of Iraq and Syria.
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