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As Islamic State advances, CENTCOM claims it’s still on “defensive”

May 30, 2015 1:10 pm By Robert Spencer

Baghdad_BobBaghdad Bob at the helm. “Amid new attacks, CENTCOM says Islamic State still on ‘defensive,’” by Travis J. Tritten, Stars and Stripes, May 29, 2015 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):

WASHINGTON — U.S. Central Command on Friday downplayed a rash of Islamic State attacks in the Middle East, again maintaining that the hardline Islamist group remains on the defensive.

Col. Pat Ryder, a CENTCOM spokesman, said a twin car-bombing that killed 15 people late Thursday in Baghdad shows the Islamic State has only a limited capability to attack the Iraqi capital. He said a bombing Friday at a Shiite mosque in Saudi Arabia may not have been carried out by the Islamic State.

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for both the Baghdad bombings and the Saudi attack, the second against a Shiite mosque in the kingdom in a week. Four people were killed in the Friday Saudi blast.

Despite the Islamic State’s claim, Ryder told reporters at the Pentagon that it was unclear who was responsible and that some militants claim affiliation with the Islamic State simply because it’s the “popular terrorist group of the month.”

On May 15, Marine Brig. Gen. Thomas Weidley, chief of staff of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, told Pentagon reporters that “we firmly believe (the Islamic State) is on the defensive throughout Iraq and Syria.” As he spoke, the Islamic State was launching a major attack on the Iraqi city of Ramadi, which was well within two days after the Iraqi army fled the city.

That triggered an outcry from critics in Congress and elsewhere that the U.S. military was sugar-coating the situation in Iraq….

No kidding, really?

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), United States, willful ignorance Tagged With: Brig. Gen. Thomas Weidley, CENTCOM, Col. Pat Ryder


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  1. Angemon says

    May 30, 2015 at 1:21 pm

    On May 15, Marine Brig. Gen. Thomas Weidley, chief of staff of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, told Pentagon reporters that “we firmly believe (the Islamic State) is on the defensive throughout Iraq and Syria.”

    You know, I haven’t met a muslim who, when inquired about the islamic conquests (for example, on the 7th and 8th centuries, where they conquered the middle east, northern Africa and entered Europe) who doesn’t answer by saying “oh, those were merely defensive actions. They were defending themselves”. Now, we have a self-proclaimed caliphate, whose execution of islam is attracting tens of thousands of muslims from all over the world, conquering territory in northern Africa, and Brig. Gen. Thomas Weidley claims they’re “on the defensive”.

    What’s the logical conclusion one could make?

    (just to clarify: I don’t believe the guy is a muslim – I don’t attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity)

    • spot on says

      May 30, 2015 at 4:55 pm

      B.O. may be rooting for ISIS and B.O. runs our Baghdad Bob division.

  2. Don McKellar says

    May 30, 2015 at 1:33 pm

    You know, I’m starting to really believe that Obama has put these fools up to using the term “defensive” because that is how moslems look at and frame and explain away their aggressive behavior. By Obama having these mouthpieces describe ISIS as being “on the defensive” it’s like a wink and a nod to other moslems who get the jargon. And Obama uses lots of moslem word games — so I don’t think it’s a far-fetched concept at all.

    Just read Angemon’s post above! Yes, I think this is a strong possibility.

    • spot on says

      May 30, 2015 at 4:58 pm

      The muzzies wrote the book on playing the victim. B.O. agrees with their book.

  3. G. Gardiner. says

    May 30, 2015 at 1:45 pm

    I imagine this is similar to how my parents and others like them felt in the 1930s, when news kept coming in about the Nazis.

    Concerned voices throughout Europe expressed their fears. But nothing was done until it was nearly too late to halt Hitler and his genocidal cohorts.

    Nearly too late for the threatened nations that is, but certainly too late for more than six million Jews.

    Please, please, let’s not make the same mistakes this time round. Kill this cancer NOW.

    • spot on says

      May 30, 2015 at 5:00 pm

      Agreed!

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    May 30, 2015 at 1:54 pm

    ISIS will claim what its wants so . So the claim made by ISIS of being on the “defensive” only shows that the saying is true .Which is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.” The fiends of very ignorant of many things. One of which is the fact that the ISIS savages will not get away with the all the hideous evil that they commit in their jihad. For as they say “What goes around comes around.” The reason that this saying is true is because it’s upheld in the Bible.. Which teaches that “A man reaps what he sows.” Galatians 6:7. Furthermore the evil and mad mindset of the thugs who compose the heinous jihad entity ISIS are described in the Bible. Which teaches “The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.” Ecclesiastes 9:3. Moreover, of all the odd and strange things. it might be that the callous characters of ISIS are so very wicked,warped, sick, and deluded, because of their religion. that they actually view all the brutal and deadly violence that they engage in as something that is “good.” If this is the case with them then the Bible informs its readers about those who are so wicked, warped, sick, and deluded as to think of evil as “good” For the Bible reads “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil…” Isaiah 5:20. In addition to all this, the ISIS fiends are so terrible that they gather together against Christians and then go even further in their extreme wickedness to even murder children. Such a ruthless atrocity as this is describes in the Bible .Which reads “They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.” Psalm 94:21. The ISIS villains are so very violent that the curse that is found in the Bible might well be on them. For the Bible reads “May disaster hunt down men of violence.” Psalm 140:11. [N.I.V.]

  5. zulu says

    May 30, 2015 at 2:22 pm

    OT

    in the news today…

    Zimbabwe cricket match blast was ‘suicide bomb’: Pakistan minister

    Islamabad (AFP) – A Pakistani minister admitted on Saturday that a suicide bomber was responsible for an explosion outside Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium that killed two people during a Pakistan-Zimbabwe cricket match, despite police insisting the explosion was accidental.

    Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-zimbabwe-cricket-match-blast-was-suicide-bomb-pakistan-minister-2015-5#ixzz3beBZcedf

    —————-

    Nigeria mosque suicide bomb kills 10 in Maiduguri city

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/nigeria-mosque-suicide-bomb-kills-10-in-maiduguri-city-10286702.html

    —————

    Second Saudi Arabia suicide bombing fuels Isis campaign fears

    Attacker detonates bomb in car park of Shia mosque in Dammam, killing four people a week after suicide blast kills 21 at another mosque in east of country
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/29/saudi-arabia-suicide-bomb-attack-kills-four-in-damman

  6. Renee says

    May 30, 2015 at 4:31 pm

    Can someone tell me if the man in the picture is the Iraqi general who was sort of giggling that no American forces in Iraq while in the background you could see the US soldiers? He was really funny. He knew it too.

    • Renee says

      May 30, 2015 at 4:36 pm

      So it’s him. He is so cute in his wording. Actually, I think he was a really nice guy in the wrong place and in the wrong position.

  7. Aton says

    May 31, 2015 at 5:41 am

    The UK used to call this joker “Comical Ali”.

    There had been a terrorist called Chemical Ali, so the joker propaganda minister was nicknamed Comical Ali.

    Aton

  8. shrugger says

    May 31, 2015 at 1:42 pm

    Have I got this right? They’re aggressively defensive? Or are they retreating in reverse?

  9. Jay Boo says

    May 31, 2015 at 10:35 pm

    test

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