ISIS fighters received their training from US and British troops in the hopes they would be content committing their war crimes and atrocities in Syria. That proved to be a false assumption on their part. Now these same fighters are streaming into Iraq from Syria in droves! That the problem with training terrorists in the first place – they can come back later and bite you in the ass!
According to news sources in Baghdad the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is a “regional threat with aspirations to become a worldwide terrorist organization”, quoting (unnamed) senior administration officials speaking with reporters on background said last night, noting that “ISIL a determined and very capable foe.”
“In June, ISIL crossed the border from Syria into Iraq and took Mosul, Iraq’s third-largest city. President Barack Obama said at the time that the United States would establish a joint operation center in Erbil, the capital of northern Iraq’s Kurdistan region, and in Baghdad.
The United States surged both manned and unmanned intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets into the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility”, according to in an article published August 10, 2014 titled: US officials describe ISIL as determined- capable foe.”
Source: US officials describe ISIL as “Determined – capable foe” http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/us-officials-describe-isil-as-quot-determent-and-capable-foe-quot/
Capable Foe!
Well ya, I suppose so – after all they should know the US is largely responsible for training and equipping many of the Islamic states fighters in secret camps in Jordan – with the intention of assisting them in deposing Syria’s Bashir al-Assad.
See video: US was responsible for training ISIS in Jordan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuo7-U7mOo
See related reports: Is President Obama freaking insane? https://groundreport.com/is-president-obama-freaking-insane/
See video: US backed ISIS closing in on Baghdad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpMffGExu40
See video: Rand Paul: Obama’s plans means siding with Islamic terrorists http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xjc-ToK7AQ
See video: US funding terrorists in Syria http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3wunzGveRM
See Ground report exclusive : “Has the Obama administration ever armed ISIS with lethal weapons? Inquiring minds would like to know!” https://groundreport.com/has-the-obama-administration-ever-armed-isis-with-lethal-weapons-inquiring-minds-would-like-to-know/
It is believed that both the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar have also been actively funding and arming the anti-government Jihadists in Syria and that ISIS now have more than $1 billion dollars in cash (gold, diamonds and precious metals) they have either stolen, extorted or been donated.
More recently,intelligence sources in France have indicated that leading figures from within Saddam Hussein’s former regime have joined forces with ISIS to lend them their considerable years of experience fighting both Iran and the American military in a Guerrilla war throughout Gulf war 1 and Gulf war 2.
According to Iraqinews.com:
“The president (Obama) also sent military assessment teams to examine the situation and assess the capabilities of both the Iraqi security forces and ISIL.”
What happened next reportedly shocked them!
On Aug. 2, ISIL launched a multipronged attack across hundreds of kilometers in northern Iraq. “It was swift; it was effective,” one official said. “They … acted with tremendous military proficiency.”
The article continued:
“U.S. officials coordinated through the joint operation centers with Kurdish Peshmerga commanders and with the Iraqi air force and Iraqi security forces in Baghdad. This developed into “a fairly historic level of cooperation” between the Iraqi air force and the Peshmerga, the official said, as Iraqi aircraft supported Peshmerga ground units with tactical airstrikes.
ISIL responded rapidly. “Given the rapidness in which it is able to maneuver, given its ability to direct indirect fire attacks followed by direct assaults with heavy weapons, it is a militarily proficient organization,” the official said. “We are seeing that increasingly … in Syria and also increasingly in Iraq. And it requires a level of sophistication in terms of a military response.”
On Thursday, ISIL launched another series of attacks, endangering the approaches to Erbil. This threat prompted the president’s decision to authorize U.S. airstrikes, the official said.
Another part of the equation is the danger to the Yezidi people trapped on the slopes of Mount Sinjar. “The Yezidi population has been targeted by ISIL,” the official said.
ISIL has targeted the Yezidi since the days of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — the al-Qaida in Iraq leader who was killed in 2006. ISIL is an outgrowth of that terror group. “It is their mission to ethnically cleanse areas of anyone that it disagrees with, and that could mean Christians, it could mean Yezidis, or anyone else,” the official said.”
It should be noted that nowhere in the report did it mention the US official by name. Numerous attempts to query members of Iraqinews proved fruitless by email communication.
Its assumed they are quoting US combat personnel on the ground in Baghdad – but we have been unable to confirm this.