Trump picks Priebus as Chief of Staff

From Afghanistan to Algeria, jihadists plan to use Donald Trump’s shock US presidential victory as a propaganda tool to bring new fighters to their battlefields.

Taliban commanders and Islamic State supporters say Trump’s campaign trail rhetoric against Muslims - at one point calling for a total shutdown of Muslims entering the United States - will play perfectly in their recruitment efforts, especially for disaffected youth in the West. “This guy is a complete maniac. His utter hate towards Muslims will make our job much easier because we can recruit thousands,” Abu Omar Khorasani, a top IS commander in Afghanistan, told  Reuters. Trump has talked tough against militant groups on the campaign trail, promising to defeat “radical Is-lamic terrorism just as we won the Cold War.” The president-elect later toned down his call for a total ban on Muslim entry to say he would tempo-rarily suspend immigration from countries that have “a history of exporting terrorism.” But he has offered few details on his plans to combat various radical groups, including IS, the Taliban and al Qaeda, which represent a wide spectrum of political views. “He does not differentiate between extremist and moderate Islamist trends and, at the same time, he overlooks (the fact) that his extremism will generate extremism in return,” Iraq’s powerful Shi’ite Mus-lim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said in a statement.