Obama Admnistration sees al Qaeda in Iraq…finally

Yes, it’s true, the Obama Administration can finally see clearly that al Qaeda has a hand in the violence in Iraq, reports the Washington Times;

“All of these suicide bombers, we believe, are foreign fighters recruited through extreme propaganda on the promise of paradise for killing other Muslims,” said [Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Bret McGurk].

The attacks “demonstrate a sophisticated global network that is able to recruit, train and deploy human beings to commit suicide and mass murder,” he said.

Mr. McGurk added the bombers are the “most precious resource” of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISIS) and the Levant, arguably the region’s most vicious al Qaeda-style extremist group, whose aim is “to carve out an Islamic caliphate stretching from Baghdad to Lebanon.”

Of course, this is nothing that rest of the world, particularly readers of this blog, haven’t already noticed. The article goes on to mention that suicide bombings have risen sharply from about 7/month in 2012 to 35/month in 2013. So they must have quite a recruitment program, and that’s not my idea of an organization that has been “decimated” as we were told before the 2012 presidential election.

In other Obama Administration foreign policy/terror war news, it seems that they’ve pretty much suspended the “drones over Pakistan” program, according to the Washington Post, to give Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif an opportunity to have “peace talks” with the Taliban there. Peace talks mean different things to different people, though.

For example, in Syria, on Sunday, an envoy from the ISIS to peace talks between rebels in Syria blowed up real good taking 16 people with him and sending another 20 to the hospital.

Category: Terror War