Defeated Islamic State Alive and Well

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It's interesting. We have politicians claiming ISIS has been defeated. Yet here we are. And are lone wolves being riled up by actions the US government is involved with?

Authorities have voiced particular concern about the Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan called Islamic State Khorasan Province, or ISIS-K. The group carried out deadly bombings in Iran and Russia last year, and eight Tajik men were detained last year after crossing the southwestern U.S. border when authorities learned they might have ties to the Islamic State.

An Islamic State flag, weapons and a “potential” improvised explosive found in the truck that plowed through crowds in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, killing at least 10 people, have raised the specter that the international terrorist group played a role in the attack.

Law enforcement officials said on Wednesday that they were trying to determine the suspect’s potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations. Counterterrorism specialists pointed to several telltale signs.

“By carrying an ISIS flag with him during the attack, the suspect wanted to show that he was a true believer, aligned with the ISIS cause, and perhaps hoping to trigger others into following suit,” said Colin P. Clarke, a counterterrorism analyst at the Soufan Group, a security consulting firm based in New York.

Mr. Clarke said the attack was a fairly sophisticated assault, given the multiple layers involved: truck ramming, firearms and improvised explosive devices.

“This horrific attack is a painful reminder of how effective ISIS propaganda is at inspiring violent extremists, including many living in the West,” he said.

U.S. officials have been warning for months that the conflict in Gaza and Lebanon, as well as unrest in Central Asia, could spill into the United States, most likely in the form of small radicalized groups acting on their own initiative or lone-wolf terrorists.

Authorities have voiced particular concern about the Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan called Islamic State Khorasan Province, or ISIS-K. The group carried out deadly bombings in Iran and Russia last year, and eight Tajik men were detained last year after crossing the southwestern U.S. border when authorities learned they might have ties to the Islamic State.

“At a time when the terrorism threat was already elevated, the ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans inside the United States to a whole ’nother level,” Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, said in a speech in April.

“We continue to be concerned about individuals or small groups drawing twisted inspiration from the events in the Middle East to carry out attacks here at home,” Mr. Wray said.

Since the last shards of the Islamic State’s religious state, or caliphate, were destroyed in Syria in 2019, the group has been making a slow but steady comeback. It has built on the strength of affiliates in Afghanistan and Africa, as well as in areas of Syria that were formerly controlled by Russia and Bashar al-Assad’s government.

Just last month, the United States conducted one of its largest strikes in Syria against ISIS in months, saying it hit “over 75 targets.” Earlier in 2024, the Pentagon warned that the group’s attacks in Iraq and Syria were on track to double.

But the question on the mind of investigators on Wednesday was to what extent, if at all, the suspect in New Orleans was influenced by ISIS or some other terrorist organization.
In a 2010 article in its magazine, Inspire, Al Qaeda encouraged adherents to use vehicles “to mow down the enemies of Allah.” But the tactic did not really catch on among would-be terrorists until several years later, when the Islamic State began to call publicly for vehicle attacks.
 
People are as usually, very confused on this subject


Iraqi, Syrian Democratic Forces Destroy ISIS’ ‘Caliphate’

WASHINGTON —
While Iraqi security forces and Syrian Democratic Forces have destroyed the idea of an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ‘Caliphate,’ much work remains to be done against the terror group, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Robert Manning said today.

The above did not equate to the destruction of ISIS itself -- or I've called it Daesh
Daesh was/is used in the region as an insult (look it up).
 
ISIS comes in handy when they need ISIS to come in handy.


oldie but goodie - 9 years ago


Censor, ban, restrict? Why are right wingers always so alarmist and Flame Zoney, Rubber Roomy in their responses? The Collapse of Iraq and the Rise of ISIS: Made in America?

Why are right wingers always proposing we censor, ban or restrict free speech? I can remember back when I was young, and I met my first stupid adult... before I realized that stupid right winger and conservative were two totally different beings. ... but back then, conservatives fought back against stupid right wingers who called for censorship of books, lyrics, speech, protests. Strongly against it in no uncertain terms. Even if it offended people, right wingers believed only they had the free right to speech and it shouldn't be abridged for any reason other than .....well you get it.


September 23, 2015 Topic: Global GovernanceSecurityDefense Region: Middle EastUnited StatesIraq Tags: IraqISISUnited States Politics

The Collapse of Iraq and the Rise of ISIS: Made in America?​


The George W. Bush administration created many of today’s worst geopolitical problems. ISIS is one of them.
 
It's interesting. We have politicians claiming ISIS has been defeated. Yet here we are. And are lone wolves being riled up by actions the US government is involved with?

Authorities have voiced particular concern about the Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan called Islamic State Khorasan Province, or ISIS-K. The group carried out deadly bombings in Iran and Russia last year, and eight Tajik men were detained last year after crossing the southwestern U.S. border when authorities learned they might have ties to the Islamic State.




Yeah, that's what happens when Biden keeps giving them money.
 
Funny how 4 years of DEMOCRAT rule can cause that.

Maybe we should give BILLIONS more to Iran (the worlds largest state sponsor of terrorism).
but, but, but...

your math sux: 6 years ago MAGA

Trump Says ISIS Is Defeated. Reality Says Otherwise.


The radicalized children of the Islamic State will threaten the world for generations to come unless the president changes course.

By CHARLES LISTER
March 18, 2019
 
Looks like Trump will have to take care of ISIS once again. It will take him MINUTES to kill them all!

Biden could get it done...but he wont. Just like obama did nothing to them.
 
Looks like Trump will have to take care of ISIS once again. It will take him MINUTES to kill them all!

Biden could get it done...but he wont. Just like obama did nothing to them.
Too bad he never did take care of ISIS,

 
It's interesting. We have politicians claiming ISIS has been defeated. Yet here we are. And are lone wolves being riled up by actions the US government is involved with?

Authorities have voiced particular concern about the Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan called Islamic State Khorasan Province, or ISIS-K. The group carried out deadly bombings in Iran and Russia last year, and eight Tajik men were detained last year after crossing the southwestern U.S. border when authorities learned they might have ties to the Islamic State.




As long as the Quran and Islam exists, so too will the ISIS mentality. Islam is without a doubt, the most tyrannical, violent and vile religion on the planet.
 
As long as the Quran and Islam exists, so too will the ISIS mentality. Islam is without a doubt, the most tyrannical, violent and vile religion on the planet.
Quran and Islam existed for around a few thousand years before the current troubles.

What has changed?
 
Too bad he never did take care of ISIS,

I saw no ISIS flags in the USA when Trump was president. I wasn't watching internet videos of Americans being murdered by ISIS like when Obama was president.

And I wont when Trump is president again...which will be in 19 days.

You can start crying now if you like...I'll sit back & enjoy your tears :D

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