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Champ: US intelligence underestimates Islamic State
[Daily Times Pakistan] WASHINGTON -- United States intelligence agencies underestimated Islamic State activity inside Syria, which has become ground zero for militants worldwide, President Champ said in a CBS television interview broadcast on Sunday.Not the Champ's fault, somebody else's. Under the bus please. Have we had an intel agency that has gotten anything right since the Red Scare of the 1950s? Conversely, the US overestimated the ability of the Iraqi army to fight the militant groups, Champ said in an interview taped on Friday, days after the US president made his case at the United Nations for action. Citing earlier comments by James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, Obama acknowledged that US intelligence underestimated what had been taking place in Syria. Militants went underground when US Marines quashed al-Qaeda in Iraq with help from Iraq's tribes, he said. Again, not his fault, somebody else's. Posted by: Besoeker 2014-09-29 |
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