ISIS, losing in the Levant, focuses on Europe
According to AFP, UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, speaking to the UN Security Council, told them that ISIS is adapting to their loses in Syria and Iraq by shifting their focus to Europe;
“ISIL has reorganized its military structure, giving more power to local commanders and is more focused than ever before on enabling and inspiring attacks outside of conflict zones.”
Speaking before the UN Security Council, Feltman cited recent attacks in Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Sweden and Turkey.
The group has posted fewer messages on social networks in the past 16 months, but “the threat persists as supporters outside Syria and Iraq collect and redistribute this propaganda.”
The total number of IS fighters and the group’s revenues have also dropped during the same period, Feltman added.
But IS can count on tens of millions of dollars per month from oil sales, extortion, ransom kidnapping, antiquities trafficking and mining exploitation in territories they control.
While the number of foreign fighters recruited by IS has also decreased, “returnees and the relocation of fighters from the conflict zones to other regions now present a considerable threat to international peace,” Feltman said.
“Duh!”
Isn’t that what folks, especially Donald Trump, have been saying for years? That area of the world has been exporting terrorism for decades, why should any of it change now?
Nice of the rest of the world catch up to the realist, not that the UN is going to be able to do anything except talk. I’m sure they’ll find a way to punish Israel for it, though.
Category: Terror War
Just pointing out that this is a 16 month shift.
Not a 4 month shift.
And it is not evidence of a strategic victory. As is often the case in the war on terror a tactical or operational win causes strategic losses in the long run.
I would have preferred ISIS remained focused on Iraq and Syria.
“I would have preferred ISIS remained focused on Iraq and Syria.”
So you agree with President Bush when he said fight them over there instead of over here?
You REALLY need to take an adult reading comprehension class, Lars. Stop reading things into my writings which aren’t there.
A spew alert would have been nice, please.
Let just a few cockroaches into an abode, leave them unchecked, and see how quickly they infest and take over, terrorists are no different. It’s like hav a jar of 1000 jelly beans, ten of which are poisonous, do you still want to partake?
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.” – Sir Winston Churchill
So would you describe Trump’s strategy as, “Stop the world, I want to get off”?
More like kill them all and let allah count them in hell…
More like “KILL THEM ALL and let Satan eat their souls.”
Look at who crawled out of the basement… talking to hear his brain rattle.
He must have used his janitorial keys to get in the elementary school, to leach their wi-fi again. Word is that mommy disconnected his lap top from the family wi-fi.
Mommy’s been dead for seventeen years……
Joey, I will say this in all sincerity: if you truly think that the ‘just get along with each other’ is going to work on people whose only true purpose is to kill you where you stand, you are the biggest fool on the planet.
There is ZERO difference between radical islam and Stalin, whose directives were to transport and/or execute 20million++ Russians, or Hitler, the son of a Jewish mother, whose only goal was to rid Europe of Jews, anyone who disagreed with his policies and was responsible for the slaughter of 14 million people in Europe, and anyone who wasn’t perfect, or Pol Pot, who turned 12-year-old children into murderers of their own parents and was directly responsible for the slaughter of 2 million Cambodians.
The entire business of islam is to kill off anyone who won’t knuckle under and even then, you will probably be murdered in hideous ways because you’re an American.
That is what it represents. You can ignore what I and others say all you want to, but if you do not snap out of it, you’ll be on the receiving end of their hatred of Americans.
Don’t say you weren’t warned.
Yes Joe, please? Ex-PH2 is correct. Listen!
The only disagreement i’d have with that Ex, and it’s minor, is that radical islam is less constrained by national borders that stalin of hilter were, and with globalization, they have a much greater ability to export and spread their evil than any of the dictators you mentioned… that being said, the ideologies / level of evil are as you said the exact same.
Would you say that the Schengen Zone – no passport required – has something to do with this? I think it does. There are no boundaries now.
Stalin had all of Central Asia and eastern Europe under his thumb. Hitler was on a roll to acquire all of Europe, if he could.
There’s a lot of similarity there, except that the influence then was European, not Middle Eastern.
I’m not sure where to post this.
Nationwide protests against Islamic law now happening.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/anti-muslim-act-america-stage-marches-against-sharia-law-nationwide-n767386
And the protesters are being protested/attacked by the Hillary/Bernie supporters. The power YouTube!
I guess the Bernouts are in favor of Sharia law and being Dhimmis ruled by Moose-limbs. Maybe Lars is pro-sharia. After all, it is the multi-culti thing to do.
Co-belligerents in the wars against Christianity and Western Civilization.
Here in Austin they had a counter demonstration with all the assorted hairy armpit women and manbun scrawny boi’s out in force.
They were declaring that Austin is about “love” and that the mudslimers were welcome here along with sharia law…
You gotta be fucking kidding me…
There is absolutely nothing in sharia law that says love except for the man-boy love tangent.
The stupidity of #libidiots is incredible, they will allow a law in Austin that allows gay people to be thrown off of buildings, child sex with any and all children, the subjugation of women, slavery of unworthy individuals, raping women and then stoning the rape victim because she was with a man other than her husband and only God knows what other kinds of shit buried in that third century accord…
As I have said, co-belligerents in the wars against Christianity and Western Civilization.
Our addle-brained Left believe that once those two items are safely out of the way, they can build their progressive Utopia, and their Muslim co-belligerents will see the wisdom of it and moderate their behavior to participate.
Lenin referred to those anti-USA helpful Leftists as “useful idiots”, with good reason.
The Left, should they succeed in removing their two major obstacles, will soon call their co-belligerents “Master”.
So now we get to see what ISIS had in mind when they allowed all those military-aged men to “migrate” to Europe. Troops already in place, just waiting to take action. Europe is in for a rough decade ahead. Who could have known?
Who, indeed? I’d suggest that ridiculous Protestant churches in America (including my own) pegged these trash artifacts as “refugees,” and asked sympathy for them. Yes, it is coming from Protestant churches not just some of the Catholics who love “open borders.” We need to get our own arguments together, and soon, in order _not_ to be hoodwinked by the “refugees” in our midst.
I am not making this up: http://www.westgatechurch.org/events-archive/2017/4/30/understanding-and-loving-our-muslim-neighbor in my area of the woods, Silicon Valley.
You’re in Kalifornia, I’d believe almost anything out of there
The Swedish government has told the hospitals to stop treating victims of gang rape and instead, focus on the ‘migrants’ needs. That is not a joke.
Apparently, the REAL viciousness of sharia law is being downplayed when it should be reviewed. Unless things have changed since my trip to LV246 on a bug hunt, public executions by beheading and stoning women to death for being raped are against our laws and violated our constitution.
But that may not matter to people who live on dust buniies, nose hairs and pocket lint.
“And those who cried ‘Appeases, appease!’
Were hanged by those they sought to please. – Hiram Mann.
Let’s not call them SJWs or any of those other cute acronyms any more. Let’s call them what they are: APPEASERS.
It’s strange in the timing of this, but a newsletter I get every week is written by someone who has spent his entire working life in Flint, MI. He announced this week that he and his staff are moving permanently to Arizona, didn’t say what city.
I don’t know if it has to do with the contaminated water supply or something else, but isn’t Flint in the middle of that state, and nowhere near Dearborn?
When Nazi Germany was in it’s death throes the SS stepped up it’s atrocities. When the Caliphate is shattered all that ISIS will have left is terrorist attacks.
The West, especially the US, has given the countries in the region the backing that is helping them beat the Daesh.
It stands to reason the dying varmint will lash out at what killed it.
Note that, as we were kicking the Third Reich to the curb, and they stepped up their atrocities, we did -not- say “Oh my, they will lash out! We should stop before we make them angry.”
It was more like “They are getting desperate? Good! Pour on the coal. Redouble the effort.”
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