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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State has gone underground in its Syrian stronghold since President Barack Obama authorized U.S. air strikes on the group in Syria, disappearing from the streets, redeploying weapons and fighters, and cutting down its media exposure.
In the city of Raqqa,
450 km (280 miles) northeast of Damascus, residents say Islamic State
has been moving equipment every day since Obama signaled on Sept. 11
that air attacks on its forces could be expanded from Iraq to Syria.
Islamic State activists who typically answer questions on
the Internet have been off line since then. Its leaders have not given a
direct response to Obama: his speech last week was not mentioned in a
video released on Saturday showing the beheading of British hostage
David Haines by an Islamic State militant.
As the
United States tries to assemble a coalition to fight Islamic State, the
jihadist group appears to be trying to leave as much uncertainty as
possible about its strategy.
Facing U.S. air strikes in Iraq, Islamic State fighters
abandoned heavy weaponry that made them easy targets and tried to blend
into civilian areas. In anticipation of similar raids in Syria, the
group may already be doing the same.
In Raqqa, the group has evacuated buildings it was using
as offices, redeployed its heavy weaponry, and moved fighters' families
out of the city.
"They are trying to keep on the move," said one Raqqa resident,
communicating via the Internet and speaking on condition of anonymity
because of safety fears. "They have sleeper cells everywhere," he added.
"They only meet in very limited gatherings."
The top U.S. general promised on Tuesday "a persistent and
sustainable campaign" against Islamic State in Syria, and Washington is
probably already watching its positions in Raqqa. Obama approved
surveillance flights over Syria last month, and footage taken by
activists earlier this month appeared to show an American-made drone
over the city.
The militants are not dormant; the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks violence in the
country's civil war, said they had shot down a Damascus government war
plane near Raqqa using anti-aircraft guns.
However,
another resident said: "Islamic State is now carrying out tactical
defensive moves by relocating their assets to different places so that
their heavy weaponry is not all concentrated in one place."
Raqqa and the surrounding province is Islamic State's main
base in Syria. Last month, its fighters drove the final government
forces from the area when it seized an air base.
Since seizing the Iraqi city of Mosul in June, the group
has also extended its control over neighboring Deir al-Zor province,
which borders Iraq. Making good on its promise to redraw the Middle
East, Islamic State has declared a new province including territory on
both sides of the frontier.
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In Raqqa, Islamic State had taken charge of many aspects
of civilian life, managing everything from traffic to bakeries in an
effort to establish a state run according to its own, radical
interpretation of Islam.
Islamic State has been trying to give a sense of business as
normal even as it has reduced its presence in the streets, said another
resident of the city whose population numbered about 200,000 before the
civil war. "They are giving the impression they don't care," the
resident said.
"These days the fighters are not deployed heavily on the streets. Only
those who have to are appearing. The streets are empty and the people
are worried and scared."
Some activists did appear on the outskirts of Raqqa on
Tuesday. They were pictured collecting wreckage of the downed Syrian war
plane and loading it into the back of a truck flying the group's black
flag.
Since
Obama's speech, shops in Raqqa have been closing early and the value of
the U.S. dollar has jumped in the local hard currency market, residents
said. Dozens of people have left the city, though there has been no sign
of mass migration.
While preparing for an attack, Islamic State has also been trying
to promote its cause among residents. Some already express support for
the group whose rule has brought a modicum of stability, albeit in a
hardline form.
A 14-point statement distributed in recent days reminded residents of
Islamic State rules such as its ban on smoking and drinking, and
requirement for women to cover up and stay at home. It also warned that
anyone who dealt with President Bashar al-Assad's government would face
death.
But the
statement also tried to promote the group, telling residents they would
see "the great difference" between Islamic State rule and that of the
"oppressive secular government" - a reference to Assad. "Live joyfully
and in plenty in an Islamic government," declared the statement, which
was obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Hassan Hassan, an analyst at the Delma Institute in Abu
Dhabi, said the statement amounted to a carrot and stick approach. "It
was obviously a move to reassure people but warn them at the same time,"
he said.
However, governing Raqqa would come second to survival in the face of
U.S. air strikes. "(Islamic State) has always had that back-up plan,
even before the news of an imminent action by Americans," Hassan said.
"It's important to realize these people don't need to be in bases."
In one of the few responses to Obama's announcement, an
Islamic State supporter warned of attacks on the United States and its
allies if they continued to carry out military action against the group,
the SITE monitoring service said on Tuesday.
Hassan said the group had yet to issue a proper response.
"They are reflecting on what to do next. It's probably their way of
making it vague - so that people don't know what to expect."
(Additional reporting by Mariam Karouny; editing by David Stamp)
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The gravity of the existential threat we face from Islamic Jihad is truly of epic proportions. It is essentially a battle pitting free-civilized man against a totalitarian barbarian. What is at stake is the struggle for our very soul - namely who we are and what we represent. The lives that were sacrificed for individual rights and freedoms that we've come to cherish are being chiseled away from right under our noses by the stealth jihadists. And many of us are in denial and totally clueless.
The left's appeasement and pandering to evil is nothing new. What makes their utopian delusions so infuriating and unpardonable is that it is not only they who will have to pay the consequences, and deservedly, so, they are thwarting and undermining our best efforts at resistance and are thus dragging us down in the process as well.
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