And they get busy once they get there:More than 1,000 foreign fighters are streaming into Syria each month, a rate that has so far been unchanged by airstrikes against the Islamic State and efforts by other countries to stem the flow of departures, according to U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials.The magnitude of the ongoing migration suggests that the U.S.-led air campaign has neither deterred significant numbers of militants from traveling to the region nor triggered such outrage that even more are flocking to the fight because of American intervention.“The flow of fighters making their way to Syria remains constant, so the overall number continues to rise,” a U.S. intelligence official said. U.S. officials cautioned, however, that there is a lag in the intelligence being examined by the CIA and other spy agencies, meaning it could be weeks before a change becomes apparent.The trend line established over the past year would mean that the total number of foreign fighters in Syria exceeds 16,000, and the pace eclipses that of any comparable conflict in recent decades, including the 1980s war in Afghanistan.
Islamic State group militants lined up 30 men in western Iraq and shot them dead Wednesday, an official and residents said, the latest mass killing carried out by the group since its advance across the country.The slayings, on a main street in the al-Bakir district in the town of Hit, targeted Sunnis tribal fighters allied with the government and members of the security forces that the extremists captured when they overran the town, the official and the residents said.The militants first paraded the men through town, shouting through loudspeakers that the captured men were apostates who fought against them, residents said. The extremists then lined up the men and shot them dead with assault rifles, residents said.A photograph obtained by The Associated Press showed a line of the men's bodies by a small pool of blood as onlookers walked by.Anbar provincial council chairman Sabah Karhout said those killed were captured when the Islamic State group overran the town, located about 85 miles west of Baghdad, earlier this month.
So out newly composed Congress had better get busy as well as soon as it convenes in early January and use every legislative means possible to force the Most Equal Comrade to actually fight this outfit.
Isn't the US leading a coalition? If so, does what other leaders in the coalition have to say matter at all? Do you detest these other leaders in the coalition too? Do you call these other countries post whatever they are?
ReplyDeleteCan we at all consider that the bombs the coalition aka Post America drops are every bit as , for lack of a better term, "inflammatory" as the real American Cheney bombs dropped over the time he and Rummy et al dropped them? It's probably a damnable post American lie that Iraq Wars I and II only served to inflame Islamic anger and distill them into this. St Ronnie, pray for us.
ReplyDeleteThe other "coalition" members, such as they are, are, as always, looking for American leadership, which, as has consistently been the case on th world stage for six years, absent.
ReplyDeleteWhile any attempt on the part of infidels to resist terror and subjugation always riles jihadists, whether we fight back or not is not central to their determination to conquer us.
More like looking for American money to defend them. You're the MA in history, tell me about all the love we got from our "coalition" 10 short years ago. Could we even call it a coalition? And your ilk's raping about regaining international respect lost 6 years ago is a damn lie. You smart folks make that into a 5 syllable word beginning in d.
ReplyDeleteRaping might be an apt term for the preemptors amongst us, but this cell phone spell checker changed the word raging and I failed to catch it.
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