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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Kurdish-led forces 'may not be able to contain ISIL prisoners'
2018-12-22
[Al Jazeera] Kurdish-led forces in Syria may not be able to hold prisoners from the 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, also known as ISIS) if the situation in the region gets out of control, a senior Syrian-Kurdish official has said.

Ilham Ahmed of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) warned that the Trump administration's decision to withdraw all of its forces would have dangerous repercussions and a destabilising effect on the entire region.

"Under the threat of the Ottoman Turkish state, and with the possibility of ISIS (ISIS) reviving once again, I fear the situation will go out of control and we no longer be able to contain them," Ahmed said at a news conference in Gay Paree on Friday when asked if the SDF was considering releasing hundreds of ISIS detainees.

On Thursday, The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
 reported that the SDF had discussed releasing almost 3,200 local and foreign ISIS prisoners.

Posted by:Fred

#4  "They keep falling fatally with head injuries as we moved them from a secure holding place to another"
"But it's level flat ground?"
"Exactly! Perplexing"
Posted by: Frank G   2018-12-22 17:55  

#3  I'll be shocked if they let any of their prisoners live. We're the only reason the took prisoners in the first place most likely.
Posted by: Charles   2018-12-22 14:40  

#2  It's hard to be a jihadi missing a foot. Just sayin'.
Posted by: gorb   2018-12-22 12:05  

#1  If the Kurds are forced out of Manbij that they took and held from ISIS with US support, like the State Department and Trump want, ISIS will move into the vacuum.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2018-12-22 09:02  

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