| And yet they have been more effective with their 30% than America has been with our almost 100% (we also went after that Al Qaeda special unit that wasn't Al Nusra at all a couple of times). For the rest, one imagines they've also gone after Al Nusra, Muslim Brotherhood affiliates, Turkey-supported Turkmen, and so forth, worthy targets in their own right. |
[AnNahar] Only 30 percent of Russian air strikes in Syria target the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group while the rest are against opposition forces not affiliated with the jihadists, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.
"The Russian air strikes in Syria, primarily, are not attacking (IS)," Brett McGurk, U.S. President Barack Obama
I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money ...
's special envoy for the international anti-IS coalition, told a news conference in Baghdad.
"If you run the numbers, it's about maybe 30 percent are actually attacking (IS) and the rest of the air strikes are attacking other opposition groups... that are not affiliated" with the jihadists, McGurk said. |