Intl. community is to blame for rise of global terrorism: Analyst

Press TV has conducted an interview with Jim W. Dean, managing editor of the Veterans Today from Atlanta, to discuss a new study conducted by the Institute for Economics and Peace revealing that global fatalities of terrorist attacks hit a record high in 2014.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: What is the main problem? Why are we seeing such a spike in terrorist attacks now?

Dean: Well, we found that, basically, no one will address state-sponsored terrorism because the two main engines for these big numbers are Daesh or the Islamic State and also Boko Haram and neither of these could operate on the scale of their operating without state sponsors.

The French, unfortunately, have been very active in African terrorism; no media will touch that what so ever. Boko Haram seems to have no problem getting new trucks to be driving all over the African continent; they have no trouble getting satellite cell phones which require quite a bit of ID, and verification and accounts and how they are going to be paid for. And No one seems to be asking any question about this at all.

Then in the Middle East, we know that Daesh is exporting some of their oil through the Kurds even though the Kurds have been victims. [Massoud] Barzani has been helping them move oil to make a dollar; the Turks have been doing the same in violation of all kinds of international laws. But no one does anything about it except [for] alternate media. But there is nothing that is done legally. The UN has not done very much of it at all. So it is a failure of international institutions and the laws that they have created not to enforce them.

Press TV: After the Paris attacks; from the so-called international community, are perhaps more appropriate some of the Western capitals, according to at least verbal rhetoric they are willing now and ready to deal with Daesh the way it should be done. Do you think that this is likely to happen that there is going to be solidarity on all France to counter this terrorist group?

Dean: I think we will see an increase, but I think that will still be an increase in show. Unfortunately, in these numbers that this report is showing, does not include tens of thousands of Syrians that have been killed in real terrorist attacks, but they are done in terrorist military formations which are added into these bombings that are called traditional terrorist acts. But terrorism now is being applied on a military scale and the numbers are much bigger. And then the other problem we have with state-sponsored terrorism is state-sponsored immunity and even extends to a degree, the contractors, because people who are not active in military wearing uniforms, they are retired; they are involved in training terrorists. The Chechens are being trained for years upon the Republic of Georgia and the the Pankisi are Gorge by American contractors, breaking all kinds of international crimes... .Until we do not try to solve this problem of immunity for state-sponsored terrorism, it is never going to go away.

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