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[IsraelTimes] The United States is not aware of any "major" escape of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
hard boyz since The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
launched its assault on Syrian Kurdish fighters holding the prisoners, according to a US official.
"We haven’t seen any major successful breakout so far of the detainees," the senior administration official tells news hounds on condition of anonymity.
However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
the official says that anywhere between 50 and 150 wives and children of Islamic State prisoners had escaped in the chaos after Ottoman Turkish forces attacked last week.
"We don’t know where they went. That’s one significant event there," the official says.
"But of course, we don’t have the same ability to monitor this," he said, acknowledging the reduced capacity of the United States as it withdraws troops on orders of President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
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The official’s remarks appeared at odds with US Defense Secretary Mark Esper who, criticizing Turkey on Monday, said the incursion "resulted in the release of many dangerous ISIS
 ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
detainees." 
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