Posted on 12/27/2015 12:01:09 PM PST by Jim Robinson
The Islamic State released a new audio message Saturday purportedly of its leader taunting the U.S. for not sending troops to fight the so-called "caliphate" in the Middle East.
In the 24-minute audio, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said the U.S. won't come to fight the extremists because "their hearts are full of fear from the mujahideen." The message was al-Baghdadi's first since May, and comes amid battlefield setbacks that ISIS has recently faced.
"America and its allies dream of destroying the caliphate through their proxies and henchmen, and whenever an alliance of theirs fails or a tail is cut, they hasten to establish another, until they recently declared the Salouli (Saudi) alliance that was falsely called Islamic," al-Baghdadi added.
Islamic State has been facing heavy pressure from the Saudi-led Islamic military coalition against terrorism in the Middle East along with a ground offensive from U.S.-backed Syrian rebels. The rebels captured a major dam on the Euphrates River from ISIS as part of the coalition's march on ISIS-held areas in northern Syria and Iraqi forces are on the brink of drawing the militants out of Ramadi, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, announced earlier this week a new offensive aimed at cutting supply lines between ISIS strongholds in the country's north. The SDF said Saturday it seized the Tishrin Dam, which supplies much of northern Syria with electricity.
An SDF spokesman told the Associated Press earlier this week that his forces are also trying to cut the supply lines between the Islamic State's de-facto capital of Raqqa and the group's stronghold of Manbij in northern Syria.
The SDF, dominated by the main Kurdish militia in Syria known as YPG, or People's Protection Units, has become a main force in fighting ISIS
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Why would the Saudi-backed Obama want to fight ISIS? Aren't they all allies in this battle for the new Islamic Caliphate? (not that ISIS has anything whatsoever to do with Islam)
The ISIS scumbag taunts Us and the saudis because they know there will be minimal repercussions.
Funny. That is how I view the Uniparty in America, as a US, Saudi-led, coalition.
Fungible money.
Drill, baby, drill.
Yup
The Saudis only care about keeping the money flowing to ISIS to keep them moving north in to Europe. Other than that they don’t care. Obama has already declared what side he is on hoping only to prevent attacks on US soil while he is in office.
Obama term 2 will be the moment historians will point to as the start of a massive bloody world war. While He is out golfing and fighting an imaginary war on imaginary global warming his lack of leadership and failures in the middle east have nearly brought NATO and Russia to a hot war, all but guaranteed a suicidal death cult Mullahcracy will have nuclear weapons (if they don’t already), and whose complete failure as military CIC allowed (and supported) ISIS to flourish.
Exactly. The US has a Muslim or Muslim identified president (along with many other people in our government) and the Saudi royals don’t want to rock the boat, because they’re afraid of openly empowering ISIS, on the one hand, and thereby losing their own bargaining chip, or opposing ISIS and getting taken out violently. What’s a poor Muslim to do?
Well apparently ISIS has been rooted out of their last neighborhood in Ramadi. Iraqi forces had to fight through traps and bombs - A shame ISIS made any inroads there at all. Mosul will be much harder. And NFW Obama has the balls to try to take back Raqqa.
My guess is he’ll even punt Mosul to the next pres.
Your forgot the /s
We’re stuck, because we can’t trust our enemy islamist so-called President to do the right things regarding the taking-on of these barbarians. Note the murders of six of our forces just this past week. Just the thing this soebarkah sonofabitch was hoping for.
And don’t look to our inillustrious Congress for any sort of assistance nor even solace for the families. Our Senators and Reps are essentially in on it with him.
We have to sit by like saps while a hundred thousand jihadis just come bopping into our country while soetoro tells us to just bend over and take it.
Civil War Two. Ha! We don’t have a chance.
I’m beginning to wonder if even God can help us.
No mention of Trump? I thought he was the sole basis of ISIS recruiting now.
Iraqi Army claim victory over ISIL in Ramadi
http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/12/28/09/08/iraqi-army-claim-victory-over-isil-in-ramadi
There is no US-Saudi led “coalition”, only a shell of a pretend game going on by Valerie and her charge.
I laugh every time I hear a “news” reporter talk about Obama’s war or fight against ISIS.
Thanks Fred Nerks.
Iraqi Army on the Verge of Big Victory in Ramadi
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3377162/posts
He doesn’t really want to fight ISIS - but the Russians forced his hand and to maintain some credibility in the West he has to show he’s doing SOMETHING.
The new Saudi-led alliance that was just set up is a sham - its main purpose is to take over part of Syria so the Saudis and Qataris can build their pipeline to the Mediterranean. They may fight ISIS a little, to try to look good, but that’s not their main objective.
I would be funny if we woke up tomorrow with Mosul a smoking, radioactive hole in the ground.
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