Posted on 09/22/2014 6:27:35 PM PDT by markomalley
Nope... According to inside sources the rebels/FSA (free Syrian Army) is 95% Al-Quada.
Furthermore, whatever happened to the saying, “you are with us or you are with the Terrorist”?
Our government admits the FSA is allied with the Al-Qaeda. So CLEARLY... they are with the terrorist.
This is an operation against Assad and Syria. Attacking ISIS is just their excuse to attack Assad in Syria. Even Obama’s UN Ambassador Samantha Power’s comments admits fight is against ISIS is designed to take out Assad.
Watch this video where she admits it’s against Assad.
I think in the UK and Europe they switch the months and days the opposite way we do in the US. (took some getting used to when I lived there.)
I would assume it’s the same in the ME.
"European Guest, Since Dec 10, 2010"
Square that circle.
I am not. Who said anything about regime change?
Video... ISIS ‘Compound Airstrike’ 9/23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bpakeG9x7o&index=3&list=UUNEEHeS9Y2yFVLbWGeHhbYA
Video...ISIS ‘Storage Facility Airstrike’ 9/23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5tyRw8INSs&list=UUNEEHeS9Y2yFVLbWGeHhbYA&index=4
Interesting strike...
Sept. 23:..... ISIL Vehicle Staging Ground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nShvy9S4pg4&list=UUNEEHeS9Y2yFVLbWGeHhbYA&index=1
Nighttime Sky Refueling F-16...looking down on aircraft!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahLNOzFVsHk&index=2&list=UUNEEHeS9Y2yFVLbWGeHhbYA
I heard somebody was tweeting about "alot of drones flying overhead" from CNN this morning.
I agree with everything you said.
U.S. Central Command
U.S. has also taken action to disrupt the imminent attack plotting against Western interests by Khorasan Group in Syria.
I’m wondering too.
(”Kinetic befuddlement” - I like that one.)
One post sez ISIL headquarters is there. A sensible target then...if actually targeted. Another post notes the ‘S’ in ISIL is ‘Syria’, so the target (not necessarily clear) may be strategically important to a long-term ISIL win there.
Have to assume that this administration’s actions in the ME are favorable to “Arab Spring” goals.
What Is the Khorasan Group, Targeted By US in Syria? Only known of a few days ago....
EXERTS:
Khorasan’s goal is to attack the West in spectacular fashion – and that such plots appear to be “imminent.”
“We had very good indications that this group, which is a very dangerous group, was plotting and planning imminent attacks against Western target to include the U.S. homeland,” Kirby told ABC News’ “Good Morning America”. “We knew that there was active plotting going on for an attack on the U.S. homeland.”
Later, Lt. Gen. William Mayville told reporters the U.S. believed Khorasan Group to be “nearing the execution phase” for an attack in Europe or the American homeland, likely using Western recruits to execute the plot.
The U.S. military said today that by striking a little known terror cell called the Khorasan Group in Syria it was able to take out dangerous men who were “plotting and planning imminent attacks against Western targets to include the U.S. homeland.”
In the midst of the well-publicized campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the military’s first official announcement that a different, potentially more deadly terror group existed, that it’s members were planning an “imminent” attack on America and that those planning the attack had been killed in the U.S.-led bombing campaign all came as something of a surprise, considering that for the public, the group was virtually unheard of until a few days ago.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/khorasan-group-targeted-us-syria/story?id=25700467
see post 293 looks like they found another sinister group in a few days ago in Syria with the objective of attacking our homeland...
Words are one thing. Actions another. Do we know who was _actually_ hit?
U.S. official:
“We’re characterizing our targets as Khorasan + ISIL but it’s possible others were there.
“It is a toxic soup of terrorists.”
Letter from the President — War Powers Resolution Regarding Syria
TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AND THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE
September 23, 2014
Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)
As I have repeatedly reported to the Congress, U.S. Armed Forces continue to conduct operations in a variety of locations against al-Qa’ida and associated forces. In furtherance of these U.S. counterterrorism efforts, on September 22, 2014, at my direction, U.S. military forces began a series of strikes in Syria against elements of al-Qa’ida known as the Khorasan Group. These strikes are necessary to defend the United States and our partners and allies against the threat posed by these elements.
I have directed these actions, which are in the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States, pursuant to my constitutional and statutory authority as Commander in Chief (including the authority to carry out Public Law 107-40) and as Chief Executive, as well as my constitutional and statutory authority to conduct the foreign relations of the United States. I am providing this report as part of my efforts to keep the Congress fully informed, consistent with the War Powers Resolution (Public Law 93-148). I appreciate the support of the Congress in this action.
Sincerely,
BARACK OBAMA
Via Whitehouse
Militant: 'Khorasan's' leader Muhsin al-Fadhli, 33,...Khorasan - which has been described as a collective of 'seasoned Al Qaeda veterans' - is understood to intercept Westerners travelling to fight for radical groups in Syria, including ISIS. As many of these would-be jihadists retain their passports and travelled to Syria without their home nation's knowledge, Khorasan trains them not for combat in the Middle East - but rather for future terror attacks back home in the West.
Al Qaeda allies were 'in final stages' of plans to attack American homeland from terrorist safe haven in Syria when US airstrikes hit
Lieutenant General William Mayville, the Pentagon's director of operations, said Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from US warships in the region were used to hit the group's compounds, workshops and training grounds around the city of Aleppo.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2766906/Al-Qaeda-allies-final-stages-plans-attack-American-homeland-terrorist-safe-haven-Syria-US-airstrikes-hit.html
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