Posted on 09/12/2014 3:28:28 AM PDT by tobyhill
The CIA said Thursday that the number of Islamic State fighters has grown to as many as three times previous estimates; a day after President Obama announced he is drastically expanding the U.S. military campaign against the militants.
A spokesperson for the agency told Fox News that new assessments show that the militant group can muster between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters across Iraq and Syria.
The spokesperson said the new figures were determined after a review of “all-source intelligence reports” on the group from May to August.
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More targets I suppose, maybe try to get them all in one place.
Coalation is limited and small.
Bragging about new " Iraqi" Government that has Nouri al-Maliki has been demoted to Vice- President.
Just like the number of illegal aliens will be 3X after the Democratic Party of America announce amnesty.
the timeline of these tidbits of info being released from this admin is just ridiculous. i guess they JUST found this out RIGHT AFTER HIS SPEECH....and the gullible populace will believe every word of it!
Mike
There’s no troops on the ground, and all the fire power is coming from the air.
What are we going to do? Bomb trucks and cars out in the desert?
ISIS will move into populated areas. Then what?
What an idiot we have for president.
That would be a good idea, but it will require 2,268,000 virgins. Do you think there will be enough to go around?
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“Like moths to a flame” is how Bush described our war in Iraq.
Surely that couldn’t work twice, could it?
I’d say a few hundred F-18 sorties and a few hundred drones should take care of that nicely.
Load up a squaudron of B-52s with CBU bombs. Carpet bomb Islamic front line.
Many members are in the State Department. Anyone remember Huma Abedin.
Yestidday it was only 30,000.
Anybody else notice a trend, here?
20K to 31.5K JV players. No sweat.
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