[CHRON] The intelligence gathered by U.S. military surveillance flights over Syria could support a broad bombing campaign against the Islamic State myrmidon group, but current and former U.S. officials differ on whether air power would significantly degrade what some have called a "terrorist army."Further complicating the plans, any military action against Islamic State murderous Moslems in Syria would also have the effect of putting the U.S. on the same side as Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
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, whose ouster the B.O. regime has sought for years.
The Islamic State group is headquartered in the Syrian city of Raqqah and has been fighting the Assad government, though it is also at war with moderate rebels who have received arms and funding from the U.S. The group, which controls a large part of eastern Syria, crossed into Iraq earlier this year and has captured much of the Sunni sections of northern and western Iraq, prompting U.S.
U.S. officials say that surveillance drones and spy planes had begun flying over Syria on the orders of President Barack Obama
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, who is considering a series of military options against the Lion of Islam group that also killed an American, journalist James Foley, and is holding an American woman hostage.
In recent months, the threat from the Islamic State has eclipsed the issue of Assad, who escaped U.S. military action after Obama pulled back planned