Posted on 02/19/2019 10:09:55 AM PST by KingofZion
At the end, the Islamic State is little more than a hamlet of tents, pitched in panic between U.S. bombing raids.
Inside, there has been chaos, witnesses say. Families have fled. Militants are hoarding food. Some fighters have turned their guns on each other.
As U.S.-backed forces surround the last square mile of Islamic State territory, preparing for a final assault on the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz, people who have escaped describe a desperate scrabble for survival in the dying days of the statelet.
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One said she had walked “out of hell.”
They described how they had retreated in recent weeks from city to town and then into rural villages as the bombs kept falling and their Islamic State shrank. By the time they reached the villages of Sousa and then Shaafa, near Baghouz close to the Iraqi border, they had given up unpacking their suitcases, several women said.
“We were just moving again and again,” said a woman from the Syrian city of Aleppo, who gave her name as Om Mohamed.
Basic supplies in Islamic State territory have dried up. Prices have soared and civilians have subsisted on what food they have left, adding weeds as bulk to other ingredients when available and boiling the weeds by themselves when that was all they had.
Airstrikes have made the earth shake, with the U.S. military reporting 179 airstrikes in Syria targeting the militants in the two-week period that ended Feb. 9. Gunshots cracked dawn to dusk, residents said. People became too scared to collect the wounded, and so many died out in the open. Their bodies lay there for days.
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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
WP is very concerned.
Glad to see that the subhuman savages are feeling some discomfort. They need to feel the horror, pain, fright and suffering that they inflicted on innocent people.
Islamic state may be wiped out, but the barbarian ideology that led to it is still alive and well.
I would call those "seed". A pre-emergent is needed for these locusts. d;^)
Well ... they just got themselves elected into US politics.
It's not paranoia if they really ARE after you
Seven years after 911 they succeeded in electing one of their own into the White House. As it is, survivors go “home” to Sweden and are given apartments and stipends. We need to wipe them out where they stand.
On Fox News this AM, they reported that a woman who had left the US to join the ISIS fighters wants to come back to the US with her 18 mo. old jihadi offspring. The 24 yr. old says she was “brainwashed.” The response should not be “No,” but “Hell no!” She made her bed.....
The Washington Post needs to set up a “Go Fund Me” page for them.
That is the main problem for us Infidels, and Islam will not be addressed as long as people like Pope Francis give Islam aid and comfort.
Leaders political and religious, have to point out Islam poses a deadly threat to anyone on this earth who is not a practicing Muslim.- Tom
I can’t get your link to work...
Yeah, they're 'very concerned' the 'elites' in DC who feed off American wars will lose power. Here's a flash for the Washington Post - there are grown men who live in these former ISIS areas who are totally capable of fighting ISIS if they wanted to...
Americans should NOT be 'the police' of the world OR 'the stand-in fighters for people too indifferent to protect their own homeland.
This piece (from what I was able to read) is more proof we need to get the hell out of the middle east and STOP with the insane ego trip to back up corrupt deep state phony 'elites'...
Time to plan for the Minneapolis housing boom.
“As she was interviewed in the al-Hol displacement camp, three days after leaving the tatters of the Islamic State’s caliphate, the teenager tended to her four children under the age of 5 — all coughing or crying.
“I don’t know what to do now,” she said. “They told us the caliphate was ending as a territory, but they told us as well that it would live on in a way. Now, we’re all just waiting.””
a true believer ... if her children survive, they’ll man the next generation of extremist terrorist armies ...
I’m glad to hear that ISIS is being slowly crushed, but it should not still be up to the USA to make this happen.
Other rich countries need to do more that sit back and wag their fingers about what is not been done yet.
ISIS needs to be stomped out with a B-52 raid with precisely aimed JDAM bombs on their last stronghold.
And the leftists in Congress will eventually and quietly ship these women and their jihadi offspring to the US so that they can continue their warfare against Christians right in our back yard.
JoMa
MOAB
The fire of the Obama/Clinton/Kerry “Arab Spring” is being snuffed out. All that will be left is the Turkish maintained and protected area in Syria’s Northwest.
And of course Libya and Tunisia.
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