Warlords may turn Syria into another Somalia: Brahimi

Brahimi said in an interview with German weekly Der Spiegel that the whole region may “blow up” if a political solution is not found to end the violence in Syria.
 
    “It will become another Somalia. It will not be divided, as many have predicted. It’s going to be a failed state, with warlords all over the place,” he said when asked what he anticipated would finally become of Syria.
 
The former UN-Arab League special representative for Syria also warned that the rise of the militant groups in Syria would pose a danger to the region and the West.
 
Brahimi stressed that al-Qaeda-linked group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is “active in both Syria and Iraq already, and Jordan is really struggling to continue resisting. Even Turkey. According to a senior Iraqi official, ISIS (ISIL) has carried out 100 operations in Syria and 1,000 operations in Iraq in just three months.”
 
The veteran Algerian diplomat further noted that some 500 or 600 French nationals and a same number of British nationals together with several thousand non-Syrians are operating against the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
 
“These are your nationals that are training in Syria and that are part of [ISIL], which believes that you have got to build an Islamic state all over the world. That’s a threat to you, isn’t it?” he asked.
 
Brahimi resigned as the envoy for Syria last month after making little progress to end the country’s violence, which erupted in 2011.