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2019-10-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US official says no ‘major’ breakout of IS jihadists in Syria
Fog of war clears a little since yesterday, or not.
[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...
.

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."
Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-16 00:07|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top
 File under: Islamic State 

#1 If the Syrian gov get hold of them, they all will be executed and disposed of quietly. Men, women and kiddies.
Posted by Victor Emmanuel Flusoling2728 2019-10-16 01:16||   2019-10-16 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Victor, I guess that's one more decent reason to get out of Syria...
Posted by Glenmore 2019-10-16 09:31||   2019-10-16 09:31|| Front Page Top

#3 We had three choices with these people: (1) let them go (2) keep in prison indefinitely which also means pay for them indefinitely (3) shoot them. But then, maybe the decision will be made for us.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-10-16 14:29||   2019-10-16 14:29|| Front Page Top

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