>>64234593
That's not a good thing that you can excuse with 'just business as usual'. From even the briefest of reviews, Al-Qaeda and ISIS are INTERNATIONAL organizations with claims to multiple sovereign states. To that end they perpetrate atrocities both at home and abroad, in Africa and in Europe.
From the brief review of Al-Julani's profile we can tell that he's:
>Follower of Radical Islamic notions
>Member and leader of multiple international terror groups
>Personally participated in hostilities and terror attacks
>Has deep connections in jihadi circles.
With him in control of a sovereign state, he can leverage taxes and profits of that sovereign state to purchase arms and pay off any debts or favors to his terrorist friends in Syria or nearby states. He can bolster ranks of terror groups with operatives holding credentials of Syrian Police, Syrian Military or other Syrian security services. Syrians joining these organizations can find themselves performing terror activities, or acting in support of them. Hell, he could appeal for an international loan that he can route towards other jihadist enterprises.
Meaning more suicide bombers, more bombs, more jihadi cells. Everywhere that he or his ISIS buddies would want them to be.
Despite various claims, Al-Julani still doesn't control the entirety of Syria, there are plenty of pockets that his forces do not control and do not patrol. Existence of these holdouts can be used to excuse any suspicious activity as activity of these holdouts, unrelated to ISIS or Al-Qaeda.
This is an international security threat, full stop. There's zero expectation of any change in Al-Julani's behavior or preferences given that he spent 22 years of his life in Jihad.
