Posted on 08/17/2019 1:55:26 PM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
ISIL has largely taken over control of a huge camp in northeast Syria, and theres no plan for what to do with the 70,000 people there (including more than 50,000 children). The United States and Europe must immediately address this urgent national security and humanitarian crisis, before a new caliphate is established while we watch.
After the fall of Raqqa and the coalition defeat of ISILs strongholds, President Donald Trump announced that 100 percent of the caliphate had been destroyed. But the tens of thousands of ISIL fighters and family members left over were herded into massive fenced internally displaced persons (IDP) camps with little aid, security or supervision. Separate from the IDP camps, which house mostly women and children, more than 2,000 ISIL fighters sit in a network of makeshift prisons. The entire system is managed by the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who are under-resourced, understaffed and allied with a United States that is eyeing the exits.
In the largest IDP camp, called al-Hol, ISIL now exerts more influence and control than the few dozen SDF guards stationed there, according to U.S. officials, lawmakers and experts. ISIL women have created a morality police corps inside the camp, enforcing sharia law and even conducting brutal executions, officials said. ISIL is recruiting from the camp, smuggling fighters in and out and using it to plan attacks in other parts of Syria, officials told me. If its not already effectively Caliphate 2.0, it soon will be.
The IDP camp al-Hol is quickly becoming a mini-caliphate and a fertile recruiting ground for ISIS, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told me. The security footprint around the camp is incredibly weak, and the camp is being run by ISIS types under our very nose.
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Please don’t call them ISIL. That stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The Levant includes Israel. ISIS is the Islamic State of Iraq adn Syria.
Or simply Daesh.
Or maybe some can move to Canad if we do some of the things that might be done...escape the USA for USA instead of the draft...same thing.
I find your post a bit confusing, could you clarify please?
“And now we have the Obama foreign policy wing speaking out. Yes, that worked out well the first time with the birth of ISIS
Maybe you are referring to the “leading from behind” strategy of Obama to promote the Muslim brotherhood rebels against Syria/Assad.
Actually, the Obama crew just wanted Assad out of the way and it had to do with oil. It wasn’t until Putin started helping Assad that things started to change and we began our exit. The propaganda surrounding our role was just riddled with untruth. The people of Syria still like Assad.
The birth of ISIS? As I recall, those rebels were known as the Muslim Brotherhood — the very ones that McCain liked to chummy with. They got his ear & sympathy and McCain brought it back to the States. There is a pic farther down the page of him with the Muslim Brotherhood.
What the hell is ISIL?
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