Letters to the editor
ISIS and USA
Sir,
ISIS is not merely an instrument of terror used by USA to topple the Syrian government; it is also used to put pressure on Iran. Further, a 1997 US Dept. of Defense report stated that Data show a strong correlation between US involvement abroad and an increase in terrorist attacks against US. A commentator further states: Put simply, the War on Terror is conducted on a much larger scale by people with jets and missiles.
One thing is obvious: that terror groups have easy access to armaments and various types of bombs, mines and other destructive devices and this traffic has been compared to other concealed shipments of drugs, etc. Why and how this movements of various types of weapons happens. Why cannot these heavy and fairly conspicuous and visible weapons like automatic rifles, grenades, bombs and mines and other destructive devices, usually made from iron and steel materials and other metallic alloys cannot be detected and seized ? It is not that all these devices are just like chemicals that can possibly be shipped easily by civilians. Could someone throw some light on this paradox? There seems to be something more than simply smuggling.
S.A.Mansoor
Dhaka
