While it certainly is valid to point to these developments as setbacks for ISIS, they are too ephemeral in nature to tie them to the Paris attacks in particular.
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He told French MPs: “We must not rule anything out”.
All of which makes more grating Obama’s denunciation of Americans critical of his call to admit 10,000 refugees here. ISIS “does not represent Islam” and treating it as a “Muslim problem” will lead to “greater recruitment into terrorist organizations over time”. Our response to the attacks we suffered on 9/11 was military.
Q: Al-Qaida is al-Qaida.
Q: What about the news media, which by and large persists in using “Islamic State” and “ISIS”?
The leaflet states: “Get out of your trucks now, and run away from them”. Al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, which is known as Jabhat an-Nusra, refused to accept the authority of its Iraqi branch and instead pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda central, while the Iraqi branch, never very comfortable with Bin Laden’s less murderous savagery then declared itself independent.
Pressing his claims to be commander in chief, Mr Bush this week called for the imposition of a no fly zone over Syria to stop dictator Bashar al-Assad dropping bombs on civilians and lent support to sending a limited number of “boots on the ground” to embed U.S. troops with the Iraqi military against IS militants. Levant is the historical term for the region east of the Mediterranean including Egypt, Iran and Turkey. Amos says ISIS has become a kind of militant OPEC, setting the price of crude. Either we destroy the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq or the Islamic State will come for us at home. In a word, stalemate, although US military officials say they see the tide gradually turning in their favor. New countries were constructed, including Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq.
If Putin wants to enlist in the war against ISIS, sign him up.
We know and bear in mind that there is also a risk of chemical or bacteriological weapons, Valls told parliament.
But even the “Islamic” part of their name is contentious.
They did not reveal further details, including the number of individuals working there, or the team’s budget. The acronym of the group’s name in transliterated form is DAIISH, which is shortened in English to “Daesh“.
According to U.S. Department of the Treasury officials and data they released in the wake of the Paris mayhem, the terrorist group is actually taking in $500 million from oil a year. “Daesh” has allowed Arabic speakers to play with the name in pejorative ways, because it sounds like or rhymes with many words that have negative connotations – “daes”, for example, which means someone who tramples something underfoot, or “dahes”, the Arabic word for “sower of discord”.
“Degrading this source of revenue will reduce ISIL’s ability to fund their military and terrorist operations”, said Col. Steven Warren, the spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Baghdad, using another acronym for the group. Which, of course, we’re not.
President Obama’s strategy is to contain, degrade and defeat ISIS. His first responsibility is to keep Americans safe, and that includes those who defend the country. It may be that some sort of electronic transactions that have somehow to date eluded the United States are involved. The Islamic State doesn’t hate refugees as a matter of principle.
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“Fight them the way they fight you”. This is not Nazi Germany, where a state was co-opted by an extremist fascist movement, and willingly followed along. If he was assigned a general role by the highest echelons of ISIS to conduct attacks in Europe, this assignment apparently took place nearly a year ago. In addition, there are still no effective ground forces to challenge ISIS control of the most important population centers of Raqqa and Mosul cities, as well as the majority of Deir az-Zor province and the towns of western Anbar province and eastern Aleppo province. “I will not apologize for that, because we are fighting the long fight, and for us to do otherwise would be shortsighted”.
