Saturday, August 17, 2019

ISIS 2.0 Is Rising From Inside A Syrian Refugee Camp

Josh Rogin, National Post/Washington Post: ISIL is building a new caliphate from inside a Syrian refugee camp, and the West has no plan to combat it

ISIL women run a morality police inside the camp, enforcing sharia law and even conducting brutal executions, officials say.

ISIL has largely taken over control of a huge camp in northeast Syria, and there’s no plan for what to do with the 70,000 people there (including more than 50,000 children). The United States and Europe must immediately address this urgent national security and humanitarian crisis, before a new caliphate is established while we watch.

After the fall of Raqqa and the coalition defeat of ISIL’s strongholds, President Donald Trump announced that “100 percent” of the caliphate had been destroyed. But the tens of thousands of ISIL fighters and family members left over were herded into massive fenced internally displaced persons (IDP) camps with little aid, security or supervision. Separate from the IDP camps, which house mostly women and children, more than 2,000 ISIL fighters sit in a network of makeshift prisons. The entire system is managed by the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who are under-resourced, understaffed and allied with a United States that is eyeing the exits.

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WNU Editor: These wars never end.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

During WW2 in the USA NAZIs executed other POWs. Some camp commandments did not care, because that was one less German.

Some Germans came to the US saw the world with open eyes and/or appreciated their good treatment. I know of a German in the Afrika Korps, who said the best thing that happened to him was being captured by the Americans. Besides working I think he received or started the equivalent of an associates degree.

"there was more political freedom in the German army than in an American prison camp."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_United_States

I would assume due to budget constraints they are conducting minimal policing of the camps.

Bob Huntley said...

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