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2014-09-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Hezbollah: Obama not determined enough to confront ISIL

[ABNA.IR] U.S. President Barack Obama
My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it...
is not determined to crush Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
(ISIL) terrorists, Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem

... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
said.

"The flurry of international activity, which is sponsored by the U.S., is not serious in ending the takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
threat," Qassem said in remarks published Thursday by the local newspaper As-Safir.

He said Obama spoke of "containing" the threat and not "stopping" it.

"Comments made by Barack Obama are clear. The word 'containing' means to identify risks and disable some of its objectives while maintaining the this terrorist organization's role [as a method designed] to frighten certain countries in this region and to keep this risk as a scarecrow in appropriate places to make political gains, particularly in Iraq and Syria."

"Those who delve deeper into the American stance will notice that Americans accept ISIL in our region while trying to prevent it from spreading to its country. Terminating ISIL is not being considered at all."

Earlier, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs also stressed that the US government Obama seems not to be serious in combating terrorism in Iraq.

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the US "delay" in fighting terrorism and the ISIL has "fuelled suspicions and doubts about the US objectives in Iraq."

He added that the United States is concentrating its efforts on "fuelling sectarianism" in Iraq instead of fighting terrorism there.

Amir-Abdollahian said Washington's failure to make a distinction between "gunnies and political opposition groups" in Syria further strengthened terrorism and resulted in the creation of such groups as the ISIL.

Posted by Fred 2014-09-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top
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#1 It appears his efforts to enlist the locals to do the dirty work to contain ISIL are not working.

Seems to me Sheikh Qassem is calling BS on nowhere man's speech.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-09-12 10:18|| 2014-09-12 10:18|| Front Page Top

#2 The concept of Muslims following infidels in a conflict against other Muslims was flawed from the beginning. No one can be sure what Champ studied in college, but the geopolitics of religions may not have been on the list.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-12 10:25|| 2014-09-12 10:25|| Front Page Top

#3 "Americans accept ISIL in our region while trying to prevent it from spreading to its country. Terminating ISIL is not being considered at all."

Sheikh Qassem makes it sound like that's a bad thing.

Posted by Pappy 2014-09-12 12:54|| 2014-09-12 12:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Let Nasrallah do the terminating with his 100,000 rockets and etc. Oh, I forgot, those rockets are only for murdering Jewish families.

Posted by borgboy 2014-09-12 15:40|| 2014-09-12 15:40|| Front Page Top

#5 After all, both the anti-Gaddaffi + anti-Assad "Moderate" Rebels are still waiting for their formal US support in arms + $$$, etc. to appear.

The Bammer's anti-ISIS war plan is just a slightly improved rehash of what he = USA was benignly doing already, save wid more advisory-only SPECOPS.

WE WILL SEE IT, IFF-N-WHEN WE SEE IT.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-09-12 23:04|| 2014-09-12 23:04|| Front Page Top

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