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New from Linux Beach:
Qui profite? Who benefits from the Paris attacks?
<http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/11/qui-profite-who-benefits-from-paris.html>
From Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono>:
/*Cui bono*/ (/kwiː ˈboʊnoʊ/
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English>), literally
"to whose profit?", is a Latin
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin> phrase which is still in
use^[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono#cite_note-1> as a
key forensic question in legal and police investigation: finding
out who has a motive for a crime.
Cui bono, or Qui profite in French, is also a good starting point for
understanding Friday's terror attack in Paris that took 129 lives and
injured hundreds more. It is the most recent of a string of attacks
claimed by Daesh that include 40 killed in twin Beirut bombings and
the downing of a Russian passenger jet.
The avowed purpose of Daesh is to build an Islamic State or caliphate
from the territories of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. These bold
attacks, especially in the west, do a lot to build the groups
notoriety which, paradoxically, helps its recruitment among young
disaffected Muslims. That would appear to be the most significant, if
not the only, benefit the group can expect from these attacks. It will
have enhanced its reputation as an enemy of the West. But it is also a
mixed bag for Daesh because these terrorist acts will mean the
military attacks on its base and support for those fighting it in
Syria and Iraq will be greatly intensified. Daesh may well have
overreached itself here as there may be a backlash it can't handle.
Perhaps they think all out war with the West is the best way to build
their caliphate. If they do, I think they are wrong.
Whatever their motivation, ISIS has taken credit for the attack, so
there would seem to be no need to look further for a culprit. At the
same time, I think we would be well served to remember that not
everything is as it first appears, particularly in the Middle East.
This morning both former CIA deputy director *Micheal Morrell*,
representing US imperialism on *CBS This Morning*
<http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/what-intelligence-community-is-looking-for-in-response-to-paris-attacks/>
and *Vijay Prashad*, representing the Imperial Left on *Democracy Now*
<http://www.democracynow.org/2015/11/16/we_shouldnt_play_into_the_hands>,
used the Paris attacks to argue that the US should support and work
with the Assad regime to defeat Daesh. This is also an argument being
advanced by the Russians and Assad himself.
*More...*
<http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/11/qui-profite-who-benefits-from-paris.html>
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