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Outrage! ISIS killers allowed to escape

August 17, 2016 By: Stephen Dietrich

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When it comes to combating Islamic terrorism, every choice boils down to two true options — kill, or be killed.

So when a couple hundred vehicles filled with previously-surrounded Islamic State fighters were allowed to leave the battlefield peacefully — all while U.S. and coalition drones watched from above — it left some analysts confused.

According to reports, as U.S.-backed forces seized the northern Syrian city of Manbijin, they struck a deal with ISIS — you can leave.

Military insiders confirm that coalition commanders under President Barack Obama approved the plan — and it is playing right into ISIS’ hands.

Letting such fighters flee back into the general population may be part of ISIS’ grand plan. According to The New York Times, recent terror tactics by the group “foreshadows a long and bloody insurgency … as the group reverts to its guerrilla roots because its territory is shrinking in Iraq and Syria.”

A U.S. military official said Tuesday that some of the escaped ISIS fighters may have already made their way into Turkey, and many others are moving elsewhere in Syria. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly so spoke on condition of anonymity.

Col. Chris Garver, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS, told Pentagon reporters that the decision to let the convoy leave the city was made by commanders of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces. He said there were reports of civilians in the vehicles, and the military wanted to avoid casualties.

Garver said the coalition has been tracking and watching the vehicles as they headed north, but he declined to say where they were.

 

The Associated Press contributed to this article

About the Author

Stephen Dietrich

Stephen is a U.S. Army veteran with over a decade of combined experience in political commentary, economics, and news.

Comments

  1. mona says

    August 17, 2016 at 10:42 am

    meanwhile, Dr Jim Willie tells us that UPS is flying in thousands of ISIS and training them in military bases in virginia. The guy at UPS that squealed lost his job.

    • Belle says

      August 17, 2016 at 10:45 am

      Who is UPS?

      • James Perry says

        August 17, 2016 at 11:12 am

        United postal service! A American company bringing terrorists to train in Virginia right! total b.s.

        • Dick says

          August 17, 2016 at 11:30 am

          That’s United Parcel Service

        • Glen E. says

          August 17, 2016 at 5:05 pm

          Wrong! UPS is United Parcel Service, the guys in the brown trucks. USPS in United States Postal Service. UPS would not and does not fly passengers. However, Obuma’s USPS might if ordered to do so. Then again with enough pressure – – –

    • Gayle says

      August 17, 2016 at 11:02 am

      Obamama wants a WAR so he an Hillary can stay in office. People can’t you see what is going on here. When they are free they can fight the American people. If Hillary get’s elected we will have a third world war. Trump was right they are supporting ISIS. Trump is trying his best to stop them an rebuild America but he is fighting the Devil’s in the White House who don’t want him in office so the only solution is to Vote Trump in this Election. Thank You!!

    • James Perry says

      August 17, 2016 at 11:07 am

      That’s ridiculous! Dr. Willie or you are full of sh##!

      • Susan Ifland says

        August 17, 2016 at 9:18 pm

        Is It?

    • MAMAKNOWSBEST says

      August 17, 2016 at 1:25 pm

      Mr. Obama has proven his loyalty to the Muslim causes time and time again….THE FACT THAT HE MADE ‘NO CALL FOR PEACE” IN WISCONSIN??? THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS NOT FOR MINORITIES ANYMORE….The KENNEDY”S DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS GONE….all we have left are cheaters liars and gold diggers!!!! I WILL TAKE MY CHANCES WITH MR. TRUMP OVER OBAMA/CLINTON ANY DAY OF THE WEEK!!!….THOSE TWO HAVE DID NOTHING FOR BLACK AMERICA….AND I MEAN NOTHING!!!!…..TIME FOR ALL OF US TO JUMP THE SHIP OF DEMOCRATS AND ESCAPE ALL THE DIRTY RATS LEFT ON-BOARD….TO HELL WITH THEM!!!….i AM GOING TO JUMP ON THE TRUMP TRAIN….I THINK THIS MAN WILL HELP US!!!…..OBAMA NEVER DID.

    • Peter Joffe says

      August 18, 2016 at 1:48 am

      All part of Obama’s plan to Islamise America and the world. If there ever was a traitor it is Obama. Any fool knows that if you have a terrorist in your sights you do not let him go to kill another day. Well done Obama, you are Americas leading terrorist! You have trained Clinton well and hoodwinked all the liberals to commit suicide!! Just because Obama is the president and the CIC it does not mean that he is able to keep the peace and do his job for his country, unless his country is Iran in which case he will get a medal from Iran.

  2. Jack Leeman says

    August 17, 2016 at 10:46 am

    If the information that I have is right the Military Officers swear an oath to fight all enemy’s ,both foreign and domestic. We have both and it looks like they are taking orders to not do their duty. The question why comes to mind. Why.

  3. Sue says

    August 17, 2016 at 10:54 am

    Typical Obama micromanagement. The ISIS fighters should have been droned as soon as they got out of the area.

  4. njohn G. says

    August 17, 2016 at 10:55 am

    President O’Bozo is nothing more than a loud mouthed coward.

    • Rivahmitch says

      August 17, 2016 at 11:01 am

      Actually, it’s also muslim, a marxist and a hater and a treasonous enemy of America. That’s quite a bit more than just “a loud mouthed coward”.

      • John G. says

        August 17, 2016 at 11:38 am

        Rivahmitch,
        Appreciate your help in expanding the reasons for detesting him and the job he has not done.

        • Constitutionalist says

          August 17, 2016 at 4:51 pm

          John G.-
          i believe D’OweBama is what was once called a “chickenhawk.” He’s never fought anyone in his life, sits in safety somewhere, and orders others to go and fight…taking the risks of maiming and death he’d NEVER take, himself. After all, gotta perfect that golf game!

          i remember reading that whenever he attends a parade in which there are rifle companies, he insists that all bolts be taken from all rifles, too – and perhaps he’s right. It would be almost funny if, as a rifle company passes in review, they suddenly wheel, kneel, take aim, and fire a broadside in his direction to permanently take this treasonous POS out.

  5. ch says

    August 17, 2016 at 11:01 am

    That is why Obama has fired over 250 top military men who swore an allegiance to the Constitution and has replaced them with Yes men, so Obama can do what he wants. He wants ISIS to thrive, he wants the muslimes to infiltrate the US as he is a muslime himself and wants us in the US to die. He hates the US and all we stand for.

    • Lifestford says

      August 17, 2016 at 12:50 pm

      So true

  6. Wayne says

    August 17, 2016 at 11:06 am

    This is political correctness run amok. O’Bama believes if you let them go back to there people they will inform them how good the fighters were to let them go free and peace will spread throughout the land.
    How naive can one be? And who gave him the power to think for all of us? Not me!

    • Dick says

      August 17, 2016 at 11:32 am

      I wonder if he still wants to buy that bridge??????

  7. rodney says

    August 17, 2016 at 11:11 am

    you ate wasting your breath.. he doesnt give a shit about the USA

  8. Abe says

    August 17, 2016 at 11:24 am

    This just confirms what Trump as been saying about ISIS being a creation of Obamey and Shillary! I knew something was rotten when Obama sent 1000 Marines to Jordan in 2010, and that was the last peep the lame stream said on that. Lo and behold about 6 months after that came ISIS out of the wild blue yonder.

  9. Curt Mitchell says

    August 17, 2016 at 11:25 am

    UPS- that is the little brown trucks. USPS- is united postal service. That is who brings tour mail.

  10. gnb says

    August 17, 2016 at 11:32 am

    Is ISIS a CIA/Mossad creation? Would “our” government lie about it? Well, to those naive souls out there who refuse accept that
    possibility as only a “conspiracy theory”, please remember all the years that J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI denounced talk of the “Mafia’s” existing as only a “conspiracy theory”. Yes, “our” government can and does lie to us all the time. Aided and abetted by “our” MSM Jackal journalists, who are either too cowardly; too corrupt; or too brainwashed to tell the truth about anything.

    • Julie says

      August 17, 2016 at 9:16 pm

      No to all of that…THEY ARE PAID, yes, PAID TO MUCH to do what is morally acceptable !!!

      • Julie says

        August 17, 2016 at 9:25 pm

        My reply was addressed to..gnc !!
        Regarding his comment of the journalists !!

  11. R hunt says

    August 17, 2016 at 11:49 am

    Am I the only one who noticed the sentence “that the decision to let the convoy leave the city was made by commanders of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces” This was not our decision and theoretically we do not have ground forces in place.

    • Joe says

      August 17, 2016 at 12:44 pm

      Did you notice this sentence
      Military insiders confirm that coalition commanders under President Barack Obama approved the plan.

      • Bill says

        August 17, 2016 at 1:05 pm

        I think there was more to it than they are implying here. Quick judgements are not good. I don’t believe any of these comments.

  12. Chuck says

    August 17, 2016 at 11:52 am

    The article states that ISIS vehicles were trapped, but civilians were mixed in with the jihadists, which led to the decision to let them leave. So I would be asking how we knew civilians were within the group, whether it was speculated or a hard truth. I can see why, it the info was hard truth, that a decision to allow them to leave would be made. Our own MSM would crucify the soldiers involved had women and children been killed in the assault. Not to mention the global outcry, the type that Israel gets on a daily basis because defending themselves at times subjects civilians to attack. It’s a cowardly tactic used by radical Islamic murderers in an effective way that plays on media networks that eagerly and intentionally report their distrusted filth.

    • Lifestford says

      August 17, 2016 at 1:01 pm

      Some times such WW11 you find civilians have been in death counts ! I’m sorry but you have to bring the enemy to submission! If that calls for ifighting, or bombing, and the civilian population is injured or killed, the war will end with pointed fingers, however how many other lives were saved !

  13. Milton Thomas says

    August 17, 2016 at 12:36 pm

    Anyone can see that We have been invaded and being conquered from the inside , 61 more murdering radical muslums left in Gizmo and He will be sent all of them back to the front lines..

  14. JR says

    August 17, 2016 at 1:35 pm

    “Terrorist should have two choices – surrender or die.”

    No, they shouldn’t be given any choice.They should just be killed.

    • froggy57 says

      August 17, 2016 at 9:45 pm

      When I was a young man, there were orders to shoot to kill the looters and rioters. Lets alone enemy combatants. And if there were ISIS troops in the trucks, then the ‘civilians’ were muslims.

  15. Rick says

    August 17, 2016 at 3:47 pm

    Hamas and Hezbollah have been using civilians as shields FOREVER. A Muslim civilian staying in a war zone KNOWS s/he and their children will immediately upon their martyrdom ascend into Paradise (to garner their 72 raisins). So, bomb the sh*t out of the trucks and kill the ISIS terrorists! When the Leftist media jump on civilian deaths, remind them of civilian (non-Muslim) deaths in San Bernardino, Paris, Kabul, Karachi, Mumbai and Nice. Wake up, you ‘Peaceniks,’ you are being used……again. Von Clausewitz told it straight, war is the last resort of diplomacy, but should it become necessary, it should be as violent as possible, breaking things and killing people. Too bad if you get caught in crossfire, life’s a bitch and then you die.

  16. NAN says

    August 17, 2016 at 3:49 pm

    THE ENEMY IS WITHIN. GOD BLESS AMERICA. GOD BLESS, HELP AND PROTECT MR. TRUMP. HE’S OUR ONLY HOPE, FOLKS. OUR ONLY HOPE. EVERY GREAT NATION DECAYS FROM WITHIN … WE’RE ON OUR WAY THANKS TO BO. (APPROPRIATE INITIALS)

  17. female tax payor says

    August 17, 2016 at 3:56 pm

    Hope we get an update on this story. I pray we let them leave cuz our drones etc. were right there to track where they went. Take me to your leader type thing & then we let loose the bombs.

  18. Ray says

    August 17, 2016 at 4:44 pm

    Every Trump supporter needs to make sure you get to the poles in Nov. we have to overpower the libs and free bee voters enough that Trump wins !
    You can not say I hope he wins without helping him. Vote!!!

  19. Justin W says

    August 18, 2016 at 12:34 am

    Hopefully the vehicles were tracked and the U.S. military plans to destroy the ISIS hideouts and training camps.

  20. MeanOldSoldier says

    August 19, 2016 at 7:50 pm

    This is not a retreating army from a legitimate nation state. This is a mob of ruthless, brutal, sadistic, rapists and murderers. They should be exterminated to the last “man.” Showing them mercy will be seen as weakness. They will regroup and return. Obama is a spineless pansy and should be given to them, dressed in a burqa.

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