U.S. Officials Blame The News Media On Why America's War Strategy Against The Islamic State Is Failing

Reuters / Ammar Awad

US Blames Journalists For Failure of Air Strike Strategy in Syria -- Newswire

American intelligence officials blaming news reports for failed military attacks against ISIS, arguing that the articles alerted a new terror group to dodge air strikes.

(Newswire.net -- October 12, 2014) -- Despite lunching 46 cruise missiles last month on eight locations in northern Syria to destroy the Khorasan group’s training camps, there were only one or two key militants killed, US officials told the Associated Press.

The officials said US-led airstrikes were ineffective because IS members were able to scatter as they learned of the targets from the media, highlighting a September 13 report by the AP, which disclosed the group’s significance, causing members to flee.

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My Comment: They are the ones (the U.S. government) who first disclosed/leaked the information about Islamic State strongholds .... not the news media.