Monday, October 6, 2014

Obama: Intelligence underestimated organized "Daash" .. and Al-Qaeda threatens West

Obama: Intelligence underestimated organized "Daash" .. and Al-Qaeda threatens West


Wrote: Reuters
Monday, 09/29/2014 - 18:59
Acknowledged President Barack Obama that American intelligence underestimated the rise of guerrillas of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, where he warned the leader of a branch of al-Qaeda that militants would attack the West in response to the air strikes led by the United States.

Turkish tanks and taken positions on the Syrian border in exchange besieged border town where increased density of organizing the bombing of an Islamic state and a stray bullet landed in the territory of Turkey.

He said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a watchdog group said the air strikes hit a natural gas plant controlled by organizing an Islamic state in eastern Syria in the framework of a campaign against what seems to disable one of the main sources of income for the fighters.

The Observatory said the planes also struck a silo for grain in northern Syria, which has caused the deaths of civilians. Could not be sure of that immediately.

The air strikes have failed so far to stop the advance of the fighters in the north of Syria towards Kobanî Kurdish town on the border with Turkey, where battles have caused last week in the fastest process exodus of refugees in the Syrian civil war has been going on for more than three years.

And 15 tanks were stationed on the Turkish least on the front face of each Vohath toward the Syrian territory. And moved more tanks and armored vehicles towards the border after shells landed inside Turkey on Sunday and Monday.

The United States bombed the Islamic state and other groups in Syria for nearly a week with the help of Arab allies and strike targets in Iraq since last month.

And European countries to have joined the campaign in Iraq, but did not participate in strikes in Syria so far.

State regulation has rung alarm bells in the Islamic West and the Middle East Bajtiaha northern Iraq in June.

The organization is fighting the governments of Iraq and Syria, which supports them as Shiites fighting other Sunni groups in Syria and Kurdish groups in the two countries.

Said Abu Mohammed Joulani victory Branch Front leader of al Qaeda in Syria-a rival group, the Islamic State and the American strikes also targeted the Islamists would launch attacks on the West in response to the campaign.

He said in an audio message posted on the forums in favor of the front "will not stand Muslims as audience sees his sons are bombing and killing in their country and you are safe in your country Vdharabh war will not be paid by your leaders alone, but you will pay the bulk of them."

He also called on his supporters not to seize the opportunity to attack the U.S. strikes organizing the Islamic state. And caused the American air strikes in the pressure on the front of the victory to come to terms with the Islamic state, which could lead to the formation of a single Islamic force in Syria and expands the territory under their control.

Obama is working since August to build an international coalition to fight the militants, whom he described last week in a speech before the United Nations as "the death of the network."

He admitted in an interview aired Sunday that the CIA had underestimated the group the Islamic State, which offers explanation of what appeared as if Washington took a surprise when the fighters swept through the organization of northern Iraq in June.

Obama said the militants hid when crushed United States Marine Corps al-Qaeda in Iraq with the help of Iraqi tribes during the war which ended in 2011.

"But over the past two years and in the midst of the chaos of civil war, the Syrian where you have large areas of land are not subject to the rule of one were able to regroup and exploit the chaos."

And sought some opponents of the American president on the inside to take advantage of a statement he made in January, using an expression for the athletes would trivialize the Sunni fighters in Iraq and Syria. The team then compared them Obama novice teachers of basketball that he pretends to have a professional team.

"If the team wore uniforms Novice Team (Los Angeles) Lakers will not make them so Kobe Bryant (star of the team)."

* Battle on the Border

Did not stop the progress of the Islamic state in Syria as fighting Kurdish forces near the town of Kobani fled the border where 140 thousand refugees a week ago.

Echoed shooting across the border and the plume of smoke rising above the Kobanî with continued sporadic shelling by the guerrillas of the Islamic State of town. He said the Kurds are pursuing the fighting from the Turkish side of the border that the group units protect the people, the largest Kurdish armed groups in Syria defends solidly town.

He said a Turkish Kurd named Ayhan spoke over the phone with a friend of his fight with the group "killed many of the fighters of the Islamic State. Bodies do not take them."

He added that the Kurdish forces recovered the bodies of eight fighters from the Islamic state.

When crossing near Morctbenar had dozens of youths returning to Syria, saying they will join the battle. More refugees fled in the opposite direction.

Khalil said an engineer in the thirty-ninth-old escaped from Kobanî on Monday, "everyone fleeing because of the bombs. Heard that the people who were killed." "The units protect the people have small arms, but the Islamic state has big guns and tanks."

A local official said from inside the Kobanî The Islamic State continued the siege of the town from the east, west and south, but militant fighters at a distance of ten kilometers from the outskirts of the town.

Idris said Nassan official in the administration of local Kurdish over the phone "since the morning drop shells on Kobanî ... maybe about 20 rockets." He added that the missiles killed at least three people in the town.

Turkey did not allow its citizens to cross the Kurds to join the battle. He said a Turkish official at the border, where they were tightening security measures "if the identity card with them or Turkish passports, they can go. Syrians, not only the Turks."

* Obama is still seeking the fall of Assad

Turkey is a member of NATO and has the strongest army in the region, but have so far remained outside the alliance led by the United States, which angered a lot of Turkish Kurds who regarded this policy is an abdication of their cousins ​​in Syria.

Obama said that the decline in the last moments before about a year for air strikes against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that he is aware of the apparent contradiction in opposing Assad at the time of the bombing of his opponents. Obama still wants to leave power, but the lion is the Islamic state's most pressing threat.

Obama said, "to stay united Syria is not possible that the whole process is headed by Assad."

"And on the other side with respect to the direct threats to the United States regulation is an Islamic state and a group of Khorasan these humans could kill Americans." The group Khorasan separate cell belonging to the base targeted last week.

And threw Arabia, which participated in the air strikes led by the United States blamed the other countries in support of the Islamic state although it did not mention countries by name. The Qatar Riyadh criticized in the past for its support of Islamic movements.

He said Saudi Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, "We know that al-Daash (Islamic state) were not made randomly, but under the auspices of states and organizations to its full potential and bad intentions and resolutely face of this organization and others."

He said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict aided by a network of sources on the ground that the strikes led by the United States hit a gas station for Conoco controlled by the Islamic State outside the city of Deir al-Zour in eastern Syria, which led to the injury of a number of fighters.

The Observatory said that the gas station feeds a power plant in Homs extend several provinces with electricity and running generators operating in the oil fields.

He added that the planes involved in the campaign led by the United States also bombed mills and grain storage areas in the town Manbej northern Syria, killing one civilian workers. Were not immediately sure of the information was no immediate comment from Washington.

The aircraft also attacked areas in the city of Al-Hasakah in northeastern Syria and the outskirts of the city of Raqqa in the north, a stronghold of the Islamic state. The agency said the Syrian Arab News Agency also said that the forces led by the United States carried out strikes in the province of Raqqa.

It is feared that some opponents of Assad's shelling, which helps the US-led Syrian president to stay in power through damage to the strongest enemies. The Syrian army has stepped up its bombing campaign in the west of the country, although the Washington launched attacks in the east. The Syrian Observatory said that the Syrian army carried out air strikes overnight in the province of Aleppo and in Hama.

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