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Obama going to Pentagon to discuss anti-IS campaign
Posted On Dec 14 2015
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President Barack Obama on Saturday said he would review America’s counter-terrorism strategy, particularly military actions against the dreaded Islamic State terror group, with his national security team to prevent attacks against the US.
“So the secretary of state and representatives of the intelligence community, law enforcement, homeland security – all of the parts that we know are necessary to protect our people and strike at our enemies will be involved”, Carter said. This comes approximately a week after the President addressed the nation from the Oval Office about his terrorism-fighting strategy. That’s how they recruit.
Terrorist attacks in San Bernardino and in Paris, last month, have increased anti-Muslim feelings in the West.
After the meeting, Obama is expected to make a statement from the Pentagon briefing room, the White House said. “They’re always assessing whether or not there are some intensifications that can be used to benefit our strategy, but there is no specific announcement of a change that I know of that’s planned for Monday (14 December), but we will see what the meeting yields”, Earnest said.
On Thursday, at the National Counterterrorism Center, which analyses intelligence at its facility in suburban Virginia, Obama plans to address reporters after a briefing by intelligence and security agencies on threat assessments.
Concerns about extremism emanating from the Middle East have taken centre stage in the presidential race.
According to The Washington Post, the White House scheduled a conference call with religious leaders to discuss ways to fight discrimination and promote religious tolerance.
Republicans have accused Mr Obama of failing to grasp the severity of the risk to the United States from terrorism. “We have to defeat it”, Hurd said in the weekly Republican address.
He says it will likely be a long, frustrating conflict, but the U.S.is doing the right thing by also working behind the scenes with allies in the region to try to resolve it.
