Posted on 08/11/2014 3:36:19 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
U.S. spy agencies have begun to see groups of fighters abandoning al-Qaeda affiliates in Yemen and Africa to join the rival Islamist organization that has seized territory in Iraq and Syria and been targeted in American airstrikes, U.S. officials said.
The movements are seen by U.S. counterterrorism analysts as a worrisome indication of the expanding appeal of a group known as the Islamic State that has overwhelmed military forces in the region and may now see itself in direct conflict with the United States.
“Small groups from a number of al-Qaeda affiliates have defected to ISIS,” as the group is also known, said a U.S. official with access to classified intelligence assessments. “And this problem will probably become more acute as ISIS continues to rack up victories.”
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Cleanse the planet of this islamist scourge forever
You can thank Jimmy Carter for Shelving the Neutron Bomb
Al Qaeda = yesterday’s news.
That’s the official ‘success’ story of the Obummer administration. Al Qaeda is indeed on the path to defeat...
because they have been succeeded by an even more vicious, richer, larger, geographically entrenched, and somewhat more competent Terror Caliphate!
This is nothing. Let them kill each other. It won’t cost us anything. It’s no big deal if ISIS?ISIL takes over everything from Syria around to Libya. Who cares if they take over Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the Arab Oil emirates, Qutar, Somalia...
It just doesn’t matter.
Who cares if they take over Iran and it’s nuclear program?
None of this matters. The U. S. is finally out of it.
The world is soon to be a better place.
Finally!
I suspect in Gaza, you will see defections from Hamas to the IS as well.
Good, nape the lot of them when they are all together.
Do these clowns view going from al Qaeda to ISIS like an opportunity for career advancement? Do these idiots even have jobs?
It’s pretty clear why mooselimbs have never contributed anything of value to the world. Islam is about destruction. I guess killing and destruction are the only things that make muzzies feel productive.
“Islamic State”...isn’t that an Ivy League college?
You pose an interesting thought.
And in the next decade their biggest “customer” by far for the oil will be the ChiComs.
Who do business more like the mob than the US or Europe the ragheads are used to dealing with.
Wherever terrorists gather, we should kill them. Carpet bombing is a good start, but precision bombing is okay too. Dead terrorists are always a good thing - there is no way for America’s enemies to play catch-and-release once the thugs are dead.
And as these people scamper over to ISIS/ISIL, they take everything Obama supplied to them, with them. (of course, that’s only if it wasn’t there already)
I seriously advocate nuking them
Immediately after Obama is deposed and replaced
Both of which should happen soon
The world can’t wait
No way will the Obamanation consider doing anything decisive against his bros.
Let ISIS take over the world and then nuke what’s left.
Yes, and China will send in troops too. And they won’t leave like we do. The global hegemon is going to switch from a philanthropist (model) to an occupier (model).
China’s territory will expand exponentially.
I can’t wait until our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren get to deal with this, because their parents, grandfathers, and great grandfathers were so obsessed with sitting on their hands.
They probably will. Just hang in there...
I don’t advocate that. Why?
If we use nukes again, then we’re fair game for nukes.
I don’t want world bodies thinking in their hearts we have it coming.
“”Do these idiots even have jobs?””
I’ve wondered the same thing for years with all the demonstrations we’ve seen around the world (starting in 1979), the streets are always packed with young men. Do they not have homes, families, jobs or do they just grow up to join a mob that heaps destruction on others?
Put boots on the ground to ally with the peshmergs and then wipe ISIS out to the last man.
Truly hate it when the disinformation starts flying as the truth. isis is al-qaeda and al-qaeda is isis. What a waste of the printed news.
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