Tahsin al-Khafaji, the official spokesperson for joint operations, told the Iraqi News Agency: “There are geographically complex areas in which terrorism resides and the movement of units there is restricted, so they have been replaced by technical efforts, aerial surveillance and intelligence information, which lead to airstrikes.”
Al-Khafaji added: “Security forces managed to cripple the movement of terrorism in the most complex geographical areas, and a large number of ISIS leaders and terrorist elements have been targeted since the beginning of year so far,” noting that “ISIS terrorist gangs no longer have the ability to protect their leaders. »
New tactics
He added, “Geographically complex areas are controlled through a technical effort that relies on advanced aircraft in the search and detection process.”
And the spokesperson added: “We also relied on multiple devices, equipment and capabilities to track the terrorist ISIS, in addition to analyzing information and data provided by our sources and translated into technical data entered into devices. and complex computers,” explaining that “security forces were able to reach, neutralize, and restrain ISIS terrorist elements through airstrikes.
Clever confrontation
Security observers and experts believe that strengthening Iraq’s security response and the use of advanced and intelligent technologies in the areas of surveillance, attacks, data analysis and information, including drones , thermal cameras and surveillance, listening and assessment devices, constitute a qualitative development in the Iraqi war and the security effort against ISIS, especially in rugged terrain, which has contributed to a sharp decline in the frequency of IS attacks and movements in the country.
Iraqi security and political expert Ali Al-Baydar said in an interview with Sky News Arabia:
This is a very smart and effective approach that has achieved record results in the fight against terrorism in Iraq, which is still a major challenge, and saves a lot of time, lives, efforts and money, in a way that tightens the screws more and more on the movements of the remnants of the Islamic State and its remnants, and the discovery, surprise and liquidation of their hiding places. Despite this, Iraq’s capabilities must continue to be developed in the field of enhancing the role of modern warfare and intelligence technologies, as the technical effort in general is still weak within Iraqi security institutions of all their training, and for this, it must seek the help of international expertise in this context, and develop its response in a manner consistent with the magnitude of the security challenges it represents. The experiences of countries in the region and around the world provide successful models in the use of advanced security technologies to combat terrorism and organized crime, drug smuggling, smuggling, antiquities, human organs and many other forms of security threats. Although Iraq announced the defeat of the Islamic State in the summer of 2017, after the terrorist organization had controlled for more than 3 years since 2014, large areas in the north and west of the country in particular, the cells of the organization and its remnants are still active in many of these regions and successively commit bloody attacks against Iraqi military and civilian centers.
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