Barack Obama admits to underestimating IS
(Baonghean.vn) - While airstrikes continue in Syria and Iraq, President Barack Obama admitted that US intelligence agencies underestimated the threat from extremist jihadists of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS).
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| Since early August, the US President has admitted that the jihadists have grown significantly compared to the predictions of intelligence agencies and leaders in the region. Photo: Susan Walsh |
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President Obama said that in the chaos of the two-year civil war in Syria, the place was completely out of the government's control and became a promised land for terrorism to revive. Then, terrorist groups succeeded in "attracting foreign fighters to their pointless jihad." And Syria became "Ground Zero for radical jihadists around the world." The term "Ground Zero" is known to refer to both the concept of the explosion and the name given to the place where the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York were crashed by terrorists using hijacked planes on September 11, 2001.
Since early August, the US President has acknowledged that the jihadists have grown significantly more than intelligence agencies and political leaders in the region had predicted. Once again, Mr. Obama has said that the US overestimated the Iraqi army's ability to repel the terrorist groups and accused former soldiers of Saddam Hussein's regime of aiding the terrorist groups.
In early September, following the beheading of two American journalists by the Islamic State, Barack Obama announced a strategic plan to counter terrorism aimed at “destroying the self-proclaimed Islamic State.” President Obama also decided to form an international coalition to repel the threat of terrorism and expand attacks in Syria. In an interview with CBS, Mr. Obama said, “It is important that we recognize that part of the solution is military… We need to destroy the headquarters, the weapons depots, cut off the ability to refuel, the sources of funding, and stop the flow of foreign fighters to terrorist groups, especially to places like Iraq and Syria.”
Chu Thanh
(According to LeFigaro September 29)
