Could ISIS Strike the West With Chemical Weapons?

“I will not apologize for that, because we are fighting the long fight, and for us to do otherwise would be shortsighted”. ISIS? ISIL? Daesh? Violent extremists?

Both the Star and CP agree that the abbreviation “IS” should not be used as it is looks confusing in print. But, that two-letter short form is the style of several European news organizations that weighed in during our ombudsmen group discussion this week. Only years later did we realize that this was bin Laden’s hope for the September 11 attacks all along: To drag the U.S. into costly quagmires which would bleed us, financially and literally, into decline.

In recent days the Pentagon has highlighted attacks on oil-related targets that it previously had passed up or struck too lightly. (Unhelpfully, this gave them the same acronym as Pakistan’s intelligence service, namely Inter-Services Intelligence).

Since then they have been responsible for having over 10,000 Isis related Twitter accounts taken down.

The author, Sameer Al Khalifawy, claimed there had been “significant progress”. The Islamic State itself has taken tens of thousands of innocent lives in the region, and now hundreds more civilian lives in Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon and France. For example, on Sunday it used A-10 attack planes and AC-130 gunships to destroy 116 tanker trucks in eastern Syria as they lined up near an oil facility in the open desert.

However, he said it is not thought Islamic State has the ability to manufacture chemical or biological weapons outside of Iraq or Syria and we should not be “overly panicked” about the threat to targets in Europe and the UK.

Because the USA apparently believed the real money for Islamic State came primarily via selling refined oil, rather than crude, last year’s strikes heavily targeted refineries and storage depots, says Bahney. That left the Sunnis thinking they had no role in the new Iraq. Call it a win-win if you like.

But even the “Islamic” part of their name is contentious.

They did not reveal further details, including the number of individuals working there, or the team’s budget.

A photo posted on internet on April 7, 2015 shows militants from the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS posing in Yarmouk Palestinian camp, located in a suburb of Damascus, Syria, that is partially now under their control.

The group is also referred to as Daesh, or simply Islamic State.

All Muslims must reject the governments of any other country.

President Barack Obama was in the Philippines this week getting worked up about the only thing that really grinds his gears, the GOP. The kurds telling us they want more help from America, more troops, more support.

In addition, a chemical weapons expert warned that ISIS militants returning to the West could deploy chemical weapons inside the USA or Britain, perhaps against transportation infrastructure or at a sports stadium.

ISIS as a true rogue state endangers our interests, and other nations agree that it is a danger to theirs also. This is not Nazi Germany, where a state was co-opted by an extremist fascist movement, and willingly followed along.

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday to halt the entry of refugees from Syria and Iraq and tighten up the screening of immigrants.

While it is not for infidels to declare what is or isn’t Islamic – it seems pretty obvious that ISIS, which only admits Muslims, has a credible case to be called Islamic – the “self-declared” bit is undeniably silly. In no places would they.

“We flew over with F-15s and we dropped leaflets we had developed, written in Arabic, that essentially said, ‘Hey, run away, we’re about to strike your trucks, ‘ ” he says. Whereas the more countries that fight with us, the more secure we are. There they attacked foreigners, the most brazen of which were the assault on the Corinthian Hotel in Tripoli and the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians in February. In fact you’d find it unsafe.