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2018-10-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Unpunctual Baghdadi barely survives Iranian attack by showing up late to meeting

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Posted by Fred 2018-10-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 Reminds me of the German Wolfsschanze. This could easily happen in my opinion to Trump. So many undermining him.People who cannot accept reality."Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor". Benjamin Disraeli
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Posted by Dale 2018-10-06 05:14|| 2018-10-06 05:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Huh. Iranian intelligence can figure out where he's going to be, and target him. American intelligence, despite vastly greater resources, can't. It's almost like we've put ISIS on our side against the Syrian government!

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-10-06 06:27|| 2018-10-06 06:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Sure, Herb. Tinfoil hat tight this AM?

Posted by Frank G 2018-10-06 10:30|| 2018-10-06 10:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Uh, so we haven't been allied with Al Qaeda? Wow, people don't know this?

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-10-06 10:37|| 2018-10-06 10:37|| Front Page Top

#5 So Al Qaeda AND ISIS?

Posted by Frank G 2018-10-06 10:55|| 2018-10-06 10:55|| Front Page Top

#6 American intelligence, despite vastly greater resources, can't.

We’ve just missed him a number of times, too, Herb. And given how ISIS had exploded outward, conquering in all directions until President Trump changed our rules of engagement, with the result that ISIS in Iraq is reduced to small remnants hiding in the desert and in smaller cells hiding in reconquered areas, it looks an awful lot like we are not on ISIS’ side.

As for the stupidities Mr. Obama engaged in when he was in the White House, it seems unfair to blame President Trump for those. Mr. Trump has disengaged from a number of groups, others have openly deserted to either Al Nusra or ISIS or merged with other third parties in Toad The Wet Sprocket fashion, such that parsing the extremely long list of parties involved in the various factions is well beyond my capabilities. Wikipedia’s page on the armed groups of the Syrian civil war is exceedingly long, extensively footnoted, and appears to have been updated as recently as September 2018. Link.

For those interested, the Wikipedia list of armed groups in Iraq is considerably shorter, but still — to me, at least —startling. Link.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-10-06 11:38|| 2018-10-06 11:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Herb I'm pretty sure you are at least close to right. Promoting infighting that is. Barry was funding them. Guessing Trump has ended that but onto Iranian intelligence.

It would make sense that Iran has more spy-boots on the grounds there. In TW's point on a global picture, Islamic fundamentalist jihad groups, well there are lots.

When Obammer declared, "we have Al Qaeda on the run" I just about spit. At the time there were about 36 Muslim terror organizations worldwide.

Posted by Woodrow 2018-10-06 12:43|| 2018-10-06 12:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Accidentally late on purpose? Maybe he didn't want a successor.

Someone dropped dime on the meeting.

Posted by The peanut gallery 2018-10-06 12:46|| 2018-10-06 12:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Why would we kill our allies?

Hell, US intelligence may have tipped him off to arrive late. The fact that we keep missing him is very telling, eh? Almost as if he's useful.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-10-06 14:27|| 2018-10-06 14:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Uh huh...keep on with that

Posted by Frank G 2018-10-06 16:46|| 2018-10-06 16:46|| Front Page Top

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