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Europe
Donald Trump demands Europe take hundreds of ISIL fighters
2019-02-18
[Al Jazeera] Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
must take in hundreds of ISIS fighters captured in Syria or else the United States may be forced to release them, US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
 warned.

He made the comments in a series of tweets on Saturday demanding that Britannia, La Belle France, Germany and other European allies put more than 800 detained cadres from Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, ISIS) with their citizenship on trial.

The president issued the warning as a US-backed militia battles the last remaining ISIS combatants in a tiny sliver of territory in eastern Syria.

"The caliphate is ready to fall. The alternative is not a good one in that we will be forced to release them," Trump said of the war prisoners.

Posted by:Fred

#13  Ditch, mulcher, ISIS prisoners, some assembly required. Problem solved.

And legal under the Geneva convention.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2019-02-18 13:08  

#12  There might be some old "camps" in Siberia that could be fixed up.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-02-18 09:04  

#11  Carbon footprint!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-02-18 07:52  

#10  Burn them all in cages. That's what they did to their prisoners, so turnabout is fair play.
Posted by: Raj   2019-02-18 07:43  

#9  We establish who is who and what they have done, then act accordingly.

A very German solution. I like it...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-02-18 07:41  

#8  But seriously. A holding camp run by European forces in the region (maybe in no man's land at the border or a temporarily exterritorital zone?) could work. We establish who is who and what they have done, then act accordingly.
Posted by: European Conservative   2019-02-18 07:17  

#7  @trailing wife

Maybe my Gülen approach would work? Release them into Turkey with the appropriate info.
Posted by: European Conservative   2019-02-18 07:07  

#6  Procopius, the islands you name are inhabited by fine people. They have done nothing to deserve this.

The Subantarctic islands are much better suited. I don't know whether seals are halal though.
Posted by: European Conservative   2019-02-18 07:05  

#5  Of course it isn’t that easy, European Conservative. But now various governments, including America’s, will begin pondering — with some sense of urgency — how to formally deal with the situation. We saw yesterday (see here) what the current positions of a number of countries is on the subject, but really it is not fair to burden the limited resources of non-state government of the SDF to handle it, especially as they are in the middle of two existential wars — against ISIS on one side and Turkey on the other... and the situation with Assad not yet finalized, but clearly no longer a negotiation between equals.

Iraq is happily judging their ISIS prisoners — male and female alike — condemning them, and hanging them in job lots. But what is ignored when done by the Iraqis will be loudly condemned should the Kurds openly engage in it, not to mention that the Kurds thus far seem less willing to take such a brutal approach.

Not to mention that President Assad may yet decide that dealing with the SDF’s ISIS captives is hs perogative as the national government. And he has been known to release prisoners just to spite those they would go after once freed...
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-02-18 06:13  

#4  ..or Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. A 21st Century Botany Bay project.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-02-18 05:56  

#3  This isn't as easy at it sounds.

Yes, European countries need to take back "their" citizens, but that's complicated. Germany has no diplomatic representation in Syria which could establish citizenship, and we certainly won't take back scum that is not "ours".

Then, it might not be that easy to take them back and put them in jail. We don't have and do not want something like Guantanamo, but crimes might not be easy to prove. This means they would have to be released (and supervised 24/7).

The SDF sure doesn't want them. Too bad they have never heard of the Somali dictator Siad Barre, who was president in 1977 when the German Lufthansa plane was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists and successfully stormed by German GDG 9 forces.

Before the storming the German negotiator met with Barre and tried to find out what should be done with surviving terrorists.

Barre looked at him stunned: "You will have surviving terrorists???"

But yes, the Kerguelen Islands should be lovely in spring.
Posted by: European Conservative   2019-02-18 04:47  

#2  else the United States may be forced to release them

The US doesn't have custody of them and don't want them. The SDF has threatened to release the prisoners if they are not taken off the SDF's hands.
Posted by: Elmeting Omomonter9115   2019-02-18 01:17  

#1  release them on a random small island in the southern Indian Ocean
Posted by: 746   2019-02-18 01:12  

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