Trump was at an event in Texas on Saturday.
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Fiorina said Saturday that she is angry and outraged over the attacks, mostly because Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton didn’t do enough to stop the growth of the Islamic State group.
The terms ISIS, (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), ISIL (The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) and the Islamic State all have roots in the same origin. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for all three events, which targeted elements that have been fighting Islamic State on what it views as its home turf.
World leaders are looking again to the US for leadership in the campaign to defeat the militant group.
There is no more time to avoid the truth of war.
The French have been “an extraordinary counter-terrorism partner”, he says.
When pressed by “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace, White House Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said they are not “reconsidering” their plan to take in almost 10,000 Syrian refugees, a plan that has been panned by many GOP 2016 candidates in the wake of the brutal terror attack, which left 129 dead and 350 injured.
In an interview taped Thursday for ABC News’s This Week, portions of which aired Friday morning, Obama said the US has “contained” the Islamic State from making territorial gains in Syria and Iraq.
In response to Todd referencing the bombing of the Russian airliner bombing, the Beirut bombing, and Friday’s attacks in Paris, Rhodes explained, “the President was referring very specifically to the question of ISIL’s geographic expansion in Iraq and Syria”.
It was not immediately clear what additional steps Carter meant, but they probably would include intelligence-sharing and closer coordination, such as the assistance offered in Sunday’s retaliatory strike by French warplanes.
Frederic C. Hof, a former special adviser to Obama on Syria who now is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a think tank in Washington, said the US may need to consider mounting a ground offensive with Western European support to go after Islamic State in Syria.
Speaking at a G20 leaders summit in Turkey, Obama described the killings in Paris claimed by Islamic State as an attack on the civilised world and said the United States would work with France to hunt down those responsible. Of course, while expressing their sympathies, they took jabs at the current administration, touting how they could’ve handled and will handle ISIS and Syria differently.
Officials say ISIS would like to launch similar attacks on US soil, but their ability to do so is limited. He added that the intelligence agencies are reviewing what information they had leading up to the attack in order to see whether any signs were missed.
Among the other warnings cited by Iraqi officials: that the Paris attacks appear to have been planned in Raqqa, Syria – the Islamic State’s de-facto capital – where the attackers were trained specifically for this operation and with the intention of sending them to France.
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said the latest terrorist attacks serve as a cautious reminder why the US border needs to be secured to keep out “radical, evil terrorists”.
