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Thursday, September 4, 2014

Obama: The Islamic State has “already failed”

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

The Islamic State has conquered whole swaths of the Middle East. The Islamic State has stolen close to 500 million dollars from the Mosul’s central bank. They have immense wealth and far more resources than any other Islamic terror group. They seized American state of the art military equipment in Iraq. They have enough uranium to build a radioactive dirty bomb. They have more money and more firepower than America’s arch foe, their mother organization Al Qaeda.

House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Mike Rogers today contrasted al Qaeda before Sept. 11, 2001 with ISIS by stating al Qaeda was “small cell, very surreptitious, operated in the remote lands of Afghanistan, at least at the end of it, before the 9/11 attack. And so they never really were connected to thousands and thousands of people in a very open way. Well, with ISIS, what you see now is a terrorist organization that has a functioning army. And it is a functioning army. They have command and control to a large extent, more than you would see in any terrorist organization. They have tanks. They have artillery pieces. They actually named a few weeks ago an oil minister to try to make sure that they were taking full advantage of the oil refineries that they had captured, and how to sell it and disburse it in a way that they could see a daily revenue stream.”

The Islamic State has threatened Obama and vowed that they are coming after him. They have promised to raise the black flag over the White...


     

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