CERTAIN Islamic State fighters are claiming they are victims of nepotism as Iraqi militants favour friends and family members for suicide missions.
Pro IS cleric, Kamil Abu Sultan spoke out about the grievances of Chechen IS fighters forced to wait on long lists in Syria to get the chance to blow themselves up.
Others, he says, are bumped to the top of the list in blatant cases of favouritism, reports Radio Free Europe.
Abu Sultan is from Dagestan, Russia’s ethnically diverse North Caucasus bordering Chechnya where a steadily growing number of fighters have joined the ranks of IS.
The written complaint entitled “Corruption In Dawlah” was hosted on a website called Qonah which has reported links to a Chechen militant in charge of IS’s Yarmouk Battalion.
Some fighters are so fed up with the long waiting lists in Syria — where demand to become a martyr is especially high — they are heading to Iraq where waiting lists can be considerably shorter.
“Amir Akhmed al-Shishani told me about a young lad who went to Iraq for a suicide mission, and he went there because in Sham (Syria) there is a very long queue,” Abu Sultan wrote in the post, according to Radio Free Europe.
However after waiting in line for three months in Iraq, the young fighter became disheartened and returned to Syria. The post said he later went to local leadership in the group to complain about nepotistic Saudis. He grumbled that fighters needed “blat” — a colloquial Russian word for connections — in order to blow themselves up.
http://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/is-fighters-claim-nepotism-means-they-unfairly-have-to-wait-longer-on-suicide-bombing-lists/story-fnh81ifq-1227365174799Got to love the Aussies and their way of getting to the meat of third world problems.
