MOSCOW - President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has put Daesh or the Islamic State militant group at stage six.

In an exclusive interview, President Ghani has told Russia’s RT news that Al-Qaeda was the terrorism version 1 but Daesh is the sixth version of terrorism.

“If Al-Qaeda was terrorism version one, Daesh [the Arabic acronym for ISIS] is terrorism version six,” he told RT news.

“The organizational form is totally modern. The means of communication deployed, the networking, the recruitment through the internet. So the morphology involved is very rapid – if you look into network theory, it shows that Daesh bypassed about four to five stages of network formation in a very short period. That means that innovation within the psychological system is very rapid.” He said.

“The level of territorial conquest Daesh has managed to achieve is unprecedented. It has managed to do, in a period of collapsed time, what took Al-Qaeda or other organizations years, or at times decade of planning. So, that speaks both of its own abilities, but also an enabling environment – the collapse of the Syrian state on the one hand, and the incompetence of the Iraqi on the other.” President Ghani added.

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani while pointing to all of those who face threat from Daesh warned that “if you are going to contain it, we need to be equally fast, creative and coordinated,” he said. (KP)