Posted on 08/09/2014 11:51:29 PM PDT by Steelfish
Fighters Abandoning Al-Qaeda Affiliates To Join Islamic State, U.S. Officials Say
By Greg Miller August 9 U.S. spy agencies have begun to see groups of fighters abandoning al-Qaeda affiliates in Yemen and Africa to join the rival Islamist organization that has seized territory in Iraq and Syria and been targeted in American airstrikes, U.S. officials said.
The movements are seen by U.S. counterterrorism analysts as a worrisome indication of the expanding appeal of a group known as the Islamic State that has overwhelmed military forces in the region and may now see itself in direct conflict with the United States.
“Small groups from a number of al-Qaeda affiliates have defected to ISIS,” as the group is also known, said a U.S. official with access to classified intelligence assessments. “And this problem will probably become more acute as ISIS continues to rack up victories.”
The influx has strengthened an organization already regarded as a menacing force in the Middle East, one that has toppled a series of Iraqi cities by launching assaults so quickly and in so many directions that security forces caught in the group’s path have so far been unable to respond with anything but retreat.
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Barbarian NAZI’s... not nearly as polite as the German ones...
which isn’t saying much
Al-Qaeda is so 2000’s.
Why is this a problem? They are attracting all the jihad-wannabes to Iraq. Will be much easier to nuke them.
Looks like we're just doing a change of name from AQ to ISIS.
SSDD
ISIS reaps what Al-Qaeda sows. It’s a bad seed.
Why is this a problem? They are attracting all the jihad-wannabes to Iraq. Will be much easier to nuke them.”
Exactly. I have told my libtard friends for years that the best plan is to just keep drawing them all into Iraq and strike them there. Better to have their little death playpen than to have them disbursed and swarming our country.
"The rising star of ISIS, the Sunni insurgent group terrorizing Iraq, is a fighter known as Omar the Chechen — a young, fierce military commander whose most distinctive feature is an unmistakable red beard. His nom de guerre is Omar al-Shishani, and he’s only 28. Terror analysts say his growing profile demonstrates not just the reach of ISIS but its ferocity: Al-Shishani grew up in the spartan Pankisi Gorge of Georgia, hardened by decades of fighting."
It's throwback time. Pankisi Gorge children.
And this is why I am following the chechen websites again more often. You betcha there are tons of chechens there - I knew this when I saw all the heads on posts. That is just so very chechen.
Kwick!!! give obama another peace prize
So I guess this is what Obamarx and Plugs meant when they said, “Osama bin Laden is dead and al Qaeda is on the run.”
They just didn’t say where they were running to.
Reminds me of the film “Khartoum”.
History must not show that the strong do not survive.
“Al-Shishani grew up in the spartan Pankisi Gorge of Georgia, hardened by decades of fighting.”
He is 28 years old and is hardened by decades of fighting. Hmmm.
Al-Queda, ISIS, muzzies and already swarming our country but have yet to get together to make their appearances known. Odumbo has left that border open for a reason and he continues to allow them access to our nation. He needs to be “OUT” permanently.
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