TEN thousand ISIS fighters are poised to strike in northern Iraq after using the pandemic to rebuild their forces.
The chilling warning has come from both the commander of Kurdish forces preparing to resist the maniacs' onslaught and the United Nations.
It comes as the RAF has also been called into action to strike at targets in Iraq.
ISIS once controlled a vast swath of territory across Iraq and Syria, seized in terrifying offensive in 2014, culminating in its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declaring an Islamic Caliphate in a Mosul mosque.
The bloodthirsty jihadis ruled with extreme brutality before a coalition of Kurdish forces backed by western airpower pushed them into their final pocket of territory in Baghouz, Syria in 2018.
But since their apparent defeat, they have been slowly rebuilding, despite the death of Baghdadi at the hands of US special forces.
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WNU editor: I am skeptical that there are 10,000 ISIS fighters. But the U.S. military is still seeing ISIS as a threat .... US sees fighting resurgent ISIS as priority, not guarding oil (Arab Weekly).
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BFD. America can't maintain a basic utility infrastructure or deal with the pandemic
Foreign terrorism is way down the list of threats to ordinary Americans.
Why is it a big deal?
From what people telegraph they could care less about the Kurds.
People certainly care less what happen to the Sunni. I actually care or cared about the Sunni. I am not sure how many are left given birth or death rates, but the Sunni in Western Iraq were our allies. Obama left them. The Surge might have worked due to exhaustion.. Or it might haver worked for a year or two, The Surge worked as week as it did due to synergy. The Sunni were sick f Al Qaeda and their heavy hand ands so signed up with us. There was an interactive effect that was greater than the sum of the parts.
But Bush left office. Obama did not call, and Maliki surrendered to his demons.
Some of those Sunni allies joined Al Qaeda 7 years later.
And they will now.
Nothing and I mean nothing we are doping no w will prevent it. It may retard it, but it won't prevent it.
May be the Middle East needs a 30 years war. Or maybe the British and French lines need to be erased.
Maybe some hacks and Lincoln Project types in Foggy Bottom have to realize that more people than the Iranians and and Israelis have nukes.
When did Iran get nukes?
8:26 AQ Khan is a figment of your and my imagination.
And Iranians were never in North Korea!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_nuclear_weapon_program
During WW2 the Japanese used 3 separate ways to enrich uranium. They used centrifuges, Clusius tubes, and one other method.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotope_separation
All the MSM are doing is keeping your eye on the birdie. They are carefully metering out the dollops of information they are giving you.
Remember the criticism of MSM and campaigns? They write books after the campaign with juicy tidbits, because they want to make money, but they would not want to change votes ahead of an election. So stuff that might have changed your vote comes out afterwards in a book instead of during the campaign. Information weaponized.
Placement of information in the title, the lede, the nutgraph or buried umpteen paragraphs down makes a different in narrative shaping. Delaying information for a Friday dump or a few days or a few weeks effectively weaponizes it.
There are places off limits to inspection in Iran and does the press make a fuzz about it?
Review what you think you know.
Hiding 10K ISIS in a desert seems a bit exaggerated. That's a large logistical trail even if they don't use soap or TP.
True dat.
Some of those jihadis are going to be locals or live with locals. In Anbar ISIS slaughtered a whole tribe (Albu Nimr) because they would not join. Presumably the other tribes, the unslaughtered tribes joined up and skirmished often enough to not draw attention.
"The Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) slaughtered more than 300 members of a Sunni tribe, including women and children, during the group’s latest killing spree in Iraq’s Anbar province.
Iraq’s Ministry of Human Rights confirmed that 322 individuals from the Albu Nimr tribe, who had reportedly risen up against ISIS’s brutal rule near Heet in the country’s Sunni heartland, were brutally murdered over the weekend."
https://time.com/3555891/iraq-us-isis-massacre-sunni-tribe-albu-nimr/
The tribes in Anbar joined the US in 2007 because they were sick of Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda was ruling them, The US would make peace and leave. Al Qseda would not and they were brutal. So after awhile the Sunni backed the US.
All of these 10K (assuming the CIA is not starting yet another domestic disinformation campaign and can add, subtract & multiply) are not so much pro ISIS and foreigners from outside, but are sick of Alawites and other Shia ruining their lives and persecuting them. AL Qaeda is the lesser of 2 evils.
If you joined the Sunni part of Syria with the Sunni part of Iraq to make a state and created Kurdistan, the fighting just might end.
Joe Biden suggested just that. It is one of the few good things he ever said. The Sunni in Iraq are not getting a share of the oil wealth. Instead they are being murdered by the Shia dominated government. Not many Sunni in Baghdad anymore. Why is that?
Should the Sunni stay in Iraq state for the oil wealth which they are not getting anyway?
Maybe the Sunni in Iraq and Syria would be better off joining Jordan or Saudi Arabia?
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