Daily Mail: Don't capture them, KILL them: Syrian rebels who drove ISIS out of Raqqa were ordered by US advisers to show no mercy to Western jihadists to stop them returning home to carry out terror attacks
* Envoy said it was vital to kill terrorists to stop them mounting attacks back home
* Comes after the remaining ISIS fighters in de facto capital fled after a standoff
* Thousands of people have left Europe to join the jihadists in Iraq and Syria
Foreign Isis fighters fleeing the group's fallen stronghold of Raqqa must be killed on the battlefield, according to a senior US adviser.
Brett McGurk, a top envoy for the American coalition fighting the terror group, said it was vital to kill foreign terrorists to stop them mounting attacks back home.
The comments come after the remaining Islamic State terrorists holed up in their de-facto capital fled after a final bloody standoff.
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As coalition retakes Raqqa from Isis, remaining foreign jihadis face certain death (The Independent)
WNU Editor: A British minister is backing this call to kill foreign Jihadists on the battlefield in Syria .... British IS fighters 'must be killed', minister says (BBC). More here .... Killing ISIS Fighters From the West Is the 'Only Way' to Prevent Their Return (Newsweek). There is a backlash to this U.K. minister's remarks .... ‘Kill them all’: Backlash against Tory who called for ISIS heads (RT).
Update: It appears that the U.S. military strategy of surrounding ISIS held cities and wiping them out has worked out .... ISIS Fighters Are Not Flooding Back Home to Wreak Havoc as Feared (New York Times).
3 comments:
At last some smart politicians. I do not want them back in Sweden either.
If you kill them all instead of imprisoning them as POWs for the duration of the war how will liberal lawyers 'earn' a payday?
That the war is of indeterminate length and against shadowy actors is their (Al Qaeda, ISIS, etc) fault. Our judicial and political system should not be screwed up, because Al Qaeda, ISIS and other recruits are stateless.
Put it this way. The pornographic watching Osama bin Laden once pledge allegiance to Mohammed Omar leader of the Taliban and the Taliban government.
If Al Qaeda still pledges allegiance to the Taliban and one day we sign a peace treaty with the Taliban, a lawyer could argue that we must release all Al Qaeda prisoners.
That assumes that Al Qaeda operatives would play be the rules that many states use, The Geneva Convention.
What if Zawahiri pledge allegiance to the Taliban every year from now on and in 2020 the Taliban lays down arms and a signs a peace treaty. Suppose that as they sign the treaty they call on Al Qaeda soldiers & terrorists everywhere to lay down arms.
You could make an argument that a rank & file soldier of Al Qaeda captured on the battle field in Afghanistan should be released. It wouldn't give them all a "get out of jail free' card if they committed a war crime such as shot up a mall, shot up an airport, blew up and embassy etc.
If the Taliban says lays down arms and some Al Qaeda keep fighting, the normal laws of war do not apply to them. If the are pledged to the Taliban and do not lay down their arms how can you ever trust them? I would think if you capture them after the Taliban lays down arms, there should be no date where they should be released. To argue that there is is insane. I think many liberals would argue that and as such I would argue that they are insane or functionally insane.
PS It is a conceit to think the Geneva laws of War govern Muslim terrorists. The people who 'mostly' obey the rules of the Geneva convention are of the Western civilization. For example the Gestapo did not want to obey and in many cases did not obey the Geneva Rules. Look at pilot Lamson being it in a concentration camp. Or worse look at the treatment of Russians by the Germans or vice versa. The life expectancy of a Russian prisoner in NAZI hands was virtually nil.
The Muslims terrorists do not come from the Western civilization and the Geneva Convention means squat to them.
Absolutely. No mercy for those guys. I put them up there with Nazis. If you targeted and killed civilians you have to depart from this world and go enjoy your oh so glorious afterlife..we just get tickets for you to get there faster ;-) thanks to all the brave fighters who killed and keep on killing isis members!
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