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ISIS Leader to USA: ‘Soon We Will be in Direct Confrontation’
CNS News ^ | 06/13/2014 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 06/14/2014 7:44:19 AM PDT by Rusty0604

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), issued a rare audio message back on January 21 in which he flatly stated his group’s intention to march on Baghdad and move into “direct confrontation” with the United States.

“Our last message is to the Americans. Soon we will be in direct confrontation, and the sons of Islam have prepared for such a day,”

When the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on February 5 on al Qaida’s resurgence in Iraq, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iran and Iraq Brett McGurk presented written testimony explaining the agenda of ISIS (also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL), and discussed Baghdadi’s audio message to Americans.

“We take such threats seriously and through cooperation with this committee and the Congress, we intend to help the Iraqis in their efforts to defeat ISIL over long term,” McGurk told the committee in his spoken testimony.

House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers asked Brennan: “Do you believe that that ungoverned space presents a real threat to the United States of America, via al Qaida operations, or the West?

“I do,” said Brennan.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: europeanunion; iran; iraq; isis; israel; jordan; kurdistan; lebanon; nato; russia; syria; turkey; waronterror
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1 posted on 06/14/2014 7:44:19 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

With numbnuts in the Whitehut, we’ll have to rely on the IDF to take care of these savages.


3 posted on 06/14/2014 7:47:25 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Rusty0604

ISIS Spring! Thanks Hillary! I guess that it DOES depend on what the meaning of IS IS.


4 posted on 06/14/2014 7:48:53 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: Rusty0604
All is going according to plan.


5 posted on 06/14/2014 7:51:23 AM PDT by McGruff (ISIS Terror Leader Was Released By Obama from Camp Bucca in 2009)
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To: Rusty0604

No you will not , you’ll have to catch Obama first


6 posted on 06/14/2014 7:52:49 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Rusty0604

ISIS will probably wait till their butt-boy, obammy, leaves office, out of respect for all he has done to help them in their islamic conquest.


7 posted on 06/14/2014 7:53:14 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Rusty0604

And they want to fight for Allah and a Muslim caliphate. We don’t want to be there. They will win, but we should make it extremely costly, so their adversaries in the Muslim world can defeat them when we leave.

Of course, our crucial mistake was in not bombing their part of the world to oblivion after their 9/11 attack on us. They would have understood that they had no chance against us. Our misplaced mercy was rewarded with nothing but misery, making us weaker and the jihadis stronger.


8 posted on 06/14/2014 7:57:36 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Rusty0604
Sounds like we need to help somebody get to those 72 virgins sooner.
But not this bunch of cowards running this totalitarian regime.
Send Susan Rice over there to offer a surrender plan. She is the best, look you in the eye and lie negotiator we got. And send Jack Lew to handle the money transfer or whoever paid off the Taliban for deserter Bergdahl.
And send Eric Holder to read them their Miranda rights. And, of course, send Jay “Baghdad Bob” Carney to hold the presser. I think Reid, Schumer and McConnell should represent the Senate while Pelosi, Boehner and Hoyer could represent the House.
9 posted on 06/14/2014 7:58:47 AM PDT by cashless (Obama told us he would side with Muslims if the political winds shifted in an ugly direction. Ready?)
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To: jeffc

I don’t understand how intelligence was taken by surprise with the last few days of events if this was known back in January. Maybe they thought the guy was just talking like Obama does?


10 posted on 06/14/2014 7:59:00 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

Channeling zer0.


11 posted on 06/14/2014 7:59:14 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Rusty0604

Obama is probably reserving rooms for them at Arizona military bases as we speak. Before you know it, they will be voting citizens whether they want to be or not.


12 posted on 06/14/2014 8:00:36 AM PDT by RatRipper (The political left are utterly evil and corrupt)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
what the meaning of IS IS.

Dude, that was good!

What really gets me is that we had this war won, Iran was about to go into revolt, Lybia was peaceful. The dominos were all falling in the correct direction for the end of major terrorism. El-Presidente stopped and reversed their fall.

All the guys we lost, now for nothing.

13 posted on 06/14/2014 8:00:52 AM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun free zones?)
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To: Rusty0604

Obama will be reviewing his options over the upcoming days...


14 posted on 06/14/2014 8:01:03 AM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: txrefugee

What part of the world should we have bombed after 9/11? All of the terrorists were Saudi, and BinLaden was a Saudi national.


15 posted on 06/14/2014 8:02:36 AM PDT by grania
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To: Rusty0604
“Our last message is to the Americans. Soon we will be in direct confrontation, and the sons of Islam have prepared for such a day,”

Many of us have prepared, too.

But 'direct confrontation'? I doubt it. My guess is they'll send their women in suicide vests.

16 posted on 06/14/2014 8:02:49 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Rusty0604
"Soon We Will be in Direct Confrontation"???

Someone has a flair for the dramatic.



Whose running this outfit? Cobra Commander?
17 posted on 06/14/2014 8:03:21 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: chris37
Obama will be reviewing his options over the upcoming days...

Yes, indeed.


18 posted on 06/14/2014 8:03:25 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: chris37

And the answer is, “FORE”.


19 posted on 06/14/2014 8:03:53 AM PDT by kempster
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To: txrefugee
Of course, our crucial mistake was in not bombing their part of the world to oblivion after their 9/11 attack on us.

Yep...should have nuked a couple of major cities and then said "If we are attacked again we will double the cities nuked and we will continue to do so until there is no trace of Islam left on the earth."

But that would have and will never happen. We have lost the pride of our power.

20 posted on 06/14/2014 8:09:41 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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