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| Gen. John Allen: Islamic State has lost half of its leaders in Iraq |
| 2015-02-26 |
| [WAPO] U.S. intelligence shows that half of the Islamic State's leaders in Iraq have been killed, but there is still a long fight ahead to render the group irrelevant, the retired U.S. general in charge of the international coalition to counter the militants told Congress on Wednesday. Forget about the EKIA (enemy KIA), the numbers are deceptive and oftentimes meaningless. Concentrate on who actually owns the terrain ! "We have pretty good intelligence on this matter," Gen. John Allen said of the number of militant commanders killed. "In the process of tracking the elements within the senior echelons of [Islamic State's] leadership, we have been tracking and systematically as we are able to find them, deal with them." "We have pretty good intelligence"...which we are refusing to share with our allies. Care to comment on that General ? Allen's testimony follows a meeting in Kuwait this week in which new Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter and a group of more than 30 senior U.S. diplomats and military commanders held a wide-ranging debate about how the militants should be targeted in the future. Allen told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Islamic State cannot be eliminated entirely, but must be countered and targeted to the point that it does not pose a threat to the future of Iraq. "We're not going to eradicate or annihilate ISIL," Allen said, using one of the acronyms for the group. "Most of these organizations that we have dealt with before, there will be some sort of residue of that organization for a long period of time to come. But we don't want it to have operational capabilities that create the opportunity for it threaten the existence of Iraq or other states in the region." "We're not going to eradicate..." Regime talking point and surrender monkey kak. Allen's entire testimony is designed to dampen the impact of the upcoming Netanyahu address to Congress. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 Yes they replace the heads but each new head has less experience and is probably less intelligent to boot. Keep killing the heads. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-02-26 14:23 |
| #6 Allen told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Islamic State cannot be eliminated entirely, but must be countered and targeted to the point that |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-02-26 13:17 |
| #5 |
| Posted by: Spereling Hupeling6103 2015-02-26 08:53 |
| #4 The Hydra symptom: If the heads are cut off, the heads would grow back. One head cut-off would result to two heads growing back in its place. |
| Posted by: Willy 2015-02-26 08:48 |
| #3 General: Hamas lost 500+% of its leaders to IDF---and still functioning. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-02-26 05:47 |
| #2 20,000 - 30,000 e-mails to Jill Kelley guarantee it. It's the Chicago way. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-02-26 01:24 |
| #1 ISIS has lost half its leadership and our military has lost almost all of its leadership in the Stalinistic purge of our officer corps. We need people who will FIGHT not talk or look good in a uniform or know twenty seven computer programs or do origami. |
| Posted by: Mystic 2015-02-26 00:39 |