Many of Islamic State's affiliates and provinces outside of its core territory are simply existing jihadist organizations, or splinters of those organizations, that have attempted to leverage Islamic State's prestige by rebranding themselves as affiliates.
When Mexico removes the kingpins, their successors and key operators, these large criminal organizations will splinter and collapse, unable to threaten the state any longer.
The two groups are among a handful of criminal organizations that splintered into competing cells since the 2009 killing of Arturo Beltran Leyva, a powerful regional drug lord.
There, the state Reform Party is operating as one, splintered organization.
Government officials were eager to dismiss the group as a small and ineffective splinter organization.
Pakistan says that it has stopped all support to the organization and that splinter groups are now operating as rogue militants.
After being temporarily shunned by the group for having drawn too much negative attention, he created a splinter organization called Sharia4Flanders, but never managed to secure the interest of a second member.
Released on June 16, Mr. Bhaktipada, a Peekskill native who was born Keith Gordon Ham, returned to Manhattan and took up residence in the downtown headquarters of his Hare Krishna splinter organization, the Interfaith League of Devotees, which operates out of a building on First Avenue near Second Street.
Burk also said she was disappointed that no Augusta National members had spoken out after the leader of a Ku Klux Klan splinter organization applied for a permit last week to demonstrate during the Masters in support of the club.
But both German and American intelligence officials insist that Mr. Selek is the same man, who goes by the nickname Muaz, who trained in Pakistan at a camp run by the Islamic Jihad Union, a splinter organization of an Uzbek terrorist group.
