ALQAEDA's and ISIS's recruiting process.

HOW ALQAEDA AND ISIS STARTS IT ALL ? THE RECRUITING

By: MD.SIKANDAR BASHIR

Lahore School of Economics –Batch of 2016

LSE- BBA 3/A

COURSE:INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

No, its not just the terrorists

Effective Recruitment

Pitches

Cultural

SocialHistorical

1) THE NET

THE NET (con)

Targeted population is engaged equitably.

Members may b sent a letter, invitation etc.

Homogeneous Target Audience approached with a single

undifferentiated pitch. Demographic-psychographic similarities

among members of the target audience.

THE NET (con)

In a MOSQUE with a Radical imam Ideal Location: Northwest Pakistan.

2) The Funnel

The Funnel (con)

A recruiter may use an incremental or phased, approach.

Target requires a significant transformation in identity and motivation.

Setting milestones such as hazing rituals and group identity-building exercises.

The Funnel (con)

Demonstrate of recruiters knowledge of radical Islam.

Violence to empower. look at them

3) The Infection

The Infection (con)

Target audience difficult to reach. Effective method is to recruit from within. A trusted agent can be inserted into the

target population to rally potential recruits through direct, personal appeals.

Critical variables to be investigated in this type of recruiting is time.

i.e police and military.

4) The Seed Crystal

The Seed Crystal (con)

Target audience is so remote or so inaccessible that a trusted agent cannot be put into it.

No NET.

The Seed Crystal (Con)

Who DO they Recruit ?

The Recruits.

A high level of current distress or dissatisfaction (emotional, physical, or both)

Cultural disillusionment in a frustrated seeker (i.e., unfulfilled idealism)

Lack of an intrinsic religious belief system or value system

Some dysfunctionality in family system (i.e., family and kin community exert ‘‘weak gravity’’)

Some dependent personality tendencies (e.g., suggestibility, low tolerance for ambiguity)

The Process in Pakistan

The MADRASSA’s

stats

18000-24000 unregistered Madrassa. 200,000 full-time students Islamabad- 83 illegally constructed

mosques and seminaries.  90% of foreigners studying in religious

seminaries have expired visa.  Ganj Madrassa in Peshawar : trains Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeJ) blamed for the

November 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.

Hafiz Syed. Chief Ameer of Jam-tud’dawah Bounty of $10 million on Hafiz Saeed

References

Tribune:http://tribune.com.pk/story/592995/sanctions-imposed-peshawar-madrassa-terror-training-base/

NATIONAL SECURITY RESEARCH DEVISION:

www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/reprints/2006/RAND_RP1214.pdf