Posted on 08/23/2014 1:43:45 PM PDT by GonzoII
The United States was said to be considering air strikes aimed at eliminating individual leaders of Islamic State as Turkey came under mounting pressure to stem the flow of jihadists across its border into Syria.
As Washington debated extending air strikes into Syria on Saturday, senior British politicians urged Ankara to act to block recruits from the UK and other countries from entering Syria via Turkey, en route to joining Islamic State (formerly Isis). This weekend large numbers of Isis jihadists were trying to secure greater control of the border area, pushing northwards in armoured trucks looted from abandoned Iraqi military bases.
Isis wants to establish dominance in the area in order to make it easier for potential recruits to gain safe passage and to allow the movement of vital supplies, including weapons and oil. The route has been used by most of the foreign fighters who have joined the cause, and is believed to have been taken by several hundred of those who have joined Isis from the UK.
US officials said that there was now a "new context" for confronting Isis – and cutting off its supply routes – following the beheading of US journalist James Foley. In a sign that Washington may widen the field of its air strikes, the White House said it was ready to "take action" against any threat to America in Iraq or Syria.
Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said: "If we see plotting against Americans, if we see a threat to the US emanating from anywhere, we stand ready to take action against that threat. We have made it very clear time and again that if you come after Americans, we're going to come after you, wherever you are – and that's what's going to guide our planning in the days...
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As if it’s just Liberals who are hypocrites. The outcry of the West right now is that Russia sent aprox. 300 convoys into Ukraine to deliver food without the permission of the central government. That deserves sanctions but bombing runs over Syria, Libya etc is to be lauded? The moral high ground has been lost and this foreign policy is sheer incompetence on display
Attention ISIS leaders!
You might want to be in your bunkers next Wednesday at noon local time.
P.S.
I am really displeased with you guys.
Why discriminate and target only the Seniors? Like a termite mound, you gotta get in there and destroy all the larvae too... Bibi can give some pointers.
If you’re an ISIS leader all you need to know is that it’s time to move.
“Decimate” is the wrong term as it means to cull 1 out of 10, at random. Erradicate, Annihilate, or Obliterate would be better word choices. Or... kill all of them, their wives, their brothers and sisters, son and daughters... hell, take out their goats too... total war. Make the whole Fertile Crescent sterilized glass.
It’s a bluff. Obama isn’t going to kill his Muslim brothers. He wants them to bring the caliphate to the U.S.,through the Mexican border...
I swear if Obama was Pres during WW II, we’d see the headline “Allies Set to Invade Normandy on June 6th”.
Why would that be the case? Did bin Laden move around constantly? No. He stayed at Abbottabad for years. Moving around is a problem for high-level people. Too small a security detail leaves them vulnerable to enemy units and bandits. Too big a detail and aerial reconnaissance leads to air attack.
Okey dokey.
Unless of course they are for the other side.
T H E M
A L L!!
Exactly.. why not provide addresses and moving vans. We have some dumb ass people governing this country.
Bomb the terrorists, not the families. And arms the Iraqi, Kurds and Syrian rebels to defeat ISIS.
Over there, Terrorism is a family business.
They are all moozlums...they hate you and want to murder you and your family.
I know!
Let's warn them!
Yes, exactly!
Why announce our plans to the enemy? Sheer stupidity, but what do we expect from the idiots in this administration?
Did FDR contact the Germans in 1944 and say, “Hey, we’re going to land troops on the coast of France on June 6th.”
It’s a bluff, so Obozo doesn’t look “weak.” There may be a couple of pin-prick attacks here and there, but nothing decisive. Main objective is to use these guys to get rid of Assad. Gotta get that pipeline through Syria.
US ‘set to launch air strikes’ on senior Isis terror chiefs in Syria
Good thing this will be a surprise attack. They will never prepare for this.
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