I’ve got more basic questions. How come we never heard of this ISIS group until this year? What good is the NSA and CIA if they let a group like this come to fruition? Were those agencies too busy doing the dirty work of the Administration by spying on the Tea Party and other conservative groups?
Because, AlQueda was decimated. They no longer exist don’t ya know. We will now decimate ISISISILIS and then they won’t exist...
that is, until we give them a new name.
Intel was informing Obama that ISIS was advancing.
He ignored the warnings because he was afraid of alienating his base.
ISIS has been around for several years, operating in Iraq, mostly in Tal Afar and Baghdad.
Al Nusra was the AQ group that established in Syria because the Free Syrian Army and its coalition of anti-Assad fighters were ineffective on the battlefield and didn’t allow the radical jihadists into their coalition.
Al Nusra is well connected to Zawahiri and his wealthy Qatari financiers. They also were well connected to the Libyans that now owned much of Qaddafi’s weapons. A marriage made in hell.
So the Libyans and Qatari’s puffed up Al Nusra that then expanded the fight against Assad.
ISIL saw the success of Al Nusra and decided to move its war machine from Iraq to Syria, where ISIS then tapped the Qatari money and Libyan weapons also, competing with Al Nusra.
That is why Zawahiri kicked them out of Al Nusra. ISIS then decided to go back to Iraq for some easy pickings (like robbing the Mosul banks) because the Iraqi army is not combat effective.
ISIS has made a major tactical blunder because its leadership does not see a larger picture and feels immune from attack. Much like Hitler invading Russia too soon.
Now ISIS has no safe haven and what ever they do in the future, they’ll do it walking and living in tents.
THANK YOU!!!! Why isn't anyone asking this question? Isn't this why they are sticking their hands down YOUR pants at the airport?
I say dismantle every piece of the post 9/11 BS because it's been a colossal failure. Or none of this is real, has never been real and it's all designed, allowed and used by proxy for other nefarious purposes.