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Islamic State has “fully operational branches” in 18 countries

Aug 3, 2016 12:25 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

According to a leaked document, the Islamic State has “fully operational branches” in 18 countries, representing a tripling in the expansion of areas the jihadi group is now operating in around the world.

Not long ago, it was reported that the Islamic State was quietly preparing for the loss of the caliphate, due to the dwindling numbers of its jihad fighters in Iraq and Syria, which was attributed to the U.S.-led coalition and Russian-backed forces. Intelligence officials warned that this loss was already making the Islamic State desperate, so the jihad group was compensating for the loss via a new phase of jihad planning in the West, including more insidious and covert operations.

The Islamic State issues repeated calls for lone wolf attacks; it has foreign fighters in the tens of thousands; it has promised to infiltrate the refugee stream; and in today’s news, it was announced that 36-year-old Nicholas Young, a Metro Transit police officer in DC,  was arrested at his workplace, Metropolitan Police Headquarters in Washington, and charged with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State, marking the first time a U.S. law enforcement officer has been accused of trying to aid the Islamic State.

Still, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and their liberal cronies — at home and abroad — a group that sadly includes the Pope, refuse to publicly acknowledge that the West is at war with Islamic jihadists. Yet this is a religious war that could ultimately be a terminal threat to public safety and freedoms.

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“Terrorism ‘heat map’ shows Isis network spreading across the world”, by Samuel Osborne, UK Independent, August 3, 2016:

Isis has “fully operational branches” in 18 countries, a leaked briefing document received by the White House has revealed.

The briefing map suggests a three-fold increase in the number of areas the terror group are operating in around the globe.

Previous US State Department documents from 2014 stated Isis were only active in seven nations…..

….It identifies the Isis “core” states of Syria and Iraq along with nations where it has “official branches”, including Algeria, Nigeria, Libya, the Sinai Peninsula, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Caucasus area to the south of Russia.

The map also shows “aspiring branches” in Mali, Egypt, Somalia, Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Isis has used pledges of allegiance by existing terrorist and insurgent group to establish franchises around the world.

The terror group has also encouraged lone wolf attacks throughout Europe.

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  1. WorkingClassPost says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 12:30 pm

    If they get any more organized, they’ll be making donations to Hilary next.

    • Resist says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 12:46 pm

      Saudia Arabia already has…..
      Clinton is a traitor and a vile scum

    • Rob says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 3:37 pm

      …and hosting her email server.

    • CrossWare says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 11:51 pm

      They are already do. They just a bit shy and use different names: Muslim Brotherhood, Saudi-Arabia, CAIR etc…

    • ninetyninepct says

      Aug 7, 2016 at 10:34 am

      Next?? The Obamidiot keeps sending money to Muslim terrorist countries so of course there would be “donations” to the Clinton Fund. That is how CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood and BLM get some of their financing in the USA. Soros gives millions as well.

      I suspect America would be a lot more secure and fewer riots when Soros dies.

  2. Angry Aussie says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 12:31 pm

    I don’t believe it’s a complete list. They exist here in Australia

  3. Michael Copeland says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 12:34 pm

    All these wolves: they certainly are not “lone” now.

  4. Diane Harvey says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 12:35 pm

    18 operational sites?

    Just imagine if they were the varsity?

    Or a professional team?

    • WorkingClassPost says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 6:02 pm

      Yes, they could start a league, and publish stats for the number of ‘hits’ and home suicide runs.

      End of season could have a fancy (posthumous) prize-giving ceremony.

  5. Jay Boo says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 12:36 pm

    ” …Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton … refuse to publicly acknowledge that the West is at war with Islamic jihadists.”

    At DNC Hillary did do some tough talking against ISIS, however in preparation to defend her years of willful neglect while Muslim Brotherhood (family) associate, Huma gave her shoulder rubs, no doubt.

    Hillary used to claim Boko Haram was not a terrorist organization — before she had no other choice.

  6. Angemon says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 12:45 pm

    Isis has “fully operational branches” in 18 countries, a leaked briefing document received by the White House has revealed.

    “Leaked”, eh? By whom and by what reason? My bet is that the only “18” that gets Obama’s attention is on a golf course…

    • bostongal912 says

      Aug 4, 2016 at 10:15 am

      Lol! That’s a good one and so true!!!

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 1:44 pm

    The cruel ,vicious and murderous jihadists thugs who compose the brutal and deadly jihad entity ISIS are actually putting in to the practice ,with all their ruthless actions, the violence and killing that is part of the teaching of the “holy book” of Islam ,the Koran. Which contain the doctrine of extreme violent force for the advancement of Islam. As seen in the Koran, for example, 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. So in spite of the strong denials by many, ISIS is an actual Islamic organization. Likewise the malicious, bloodthirsty violence jihadists who make up ISIS are real Muslims. Nevertheless, there are some who might , understandably, wonder and then ask “Just how can those jihadists of ISIS ,being so very religious , also at the time also be so very malice-filled ,unfeeling and deadly ? “ The answer to that question is found in the Bible. For the Bible teaches that there are some people who are extremely heartless, cold, callous and dangerous because they have had “their conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2. [ K.J.V.] In this case of the members of ISIS this “hot iron” is Islam.

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 1:45 pm

    The fiendish and heinous jihadists of ISIS t based their violent and murderous behavior on the instruction of violence and killing that is found in the Koran Sura 2:191. 4:89; 5:33. 9:5, 111,123. 47:4. For a more full understanding of the actual nature of the Koran a person need to look back in time before the coming of Muhammad and then the Koran. Back to the First Century AD which was the time of early Christian church. For the Early Christian Church had and now in modern times the Christian church still has the Gospel of Christ, First Corinthians 15:1-4. Much later, in time, came Muhammad and he gave much information, that many believe to be divine, some of which is said to have been obtained from an angle from heaven. This information was written down on different objects and things Those written words in different objects was then compiled together and then eventually went into the composition of what is now called the Koran, As some also call it the Qur’an. The Koran is actually, that is in reality, another gospel, apart and greatly different from the Gospel of the Christian Church. Such a thing was predicted in the Bible. For the Bible does warn about those who will come and offer to people another gospel other than the one shown above, First Corinthians 15:1-4. For it is warned about any other “gospel” in the Bible. For it is written in the Bible “Though we or an angle from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so I say now again, if any man preaches any other gospel unto you than ye have received, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:8, 9. [K.J.V.] Therefore, the Koran is the result of the deception of a false prophet, Mathew 7:15., who may have come in contact with a fallen angle, a demon, So the imams and mullahs who preach it a truth to other are accused of and by God.

  9. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 1:45 pm

    One of the explanation as to how such totally unconscionable, ruthless, vicious actions and murderous are committed by the Muslim terrorists who compose the brutal and deadly jihad entity ISIS is answer in the following . The jihadists of ISIS are engaging in the Islamic doctrine of “Muruna” which is the dogma of Islam that teaches committing evil for the greater good is a noble part of the jihad for Islam. This is, in essence, the same type of “philosophy” that the communists had gone by in the twentieth century. That it’s a “good thing “ to commit many evils to obtain a “worker’s paradise.” Likewise, during World War II even the Nazis had this line of thinking.” To express, as in to illustrate this idea, even more, is by using a twenty-first century movie. Near the end of this movie, just before the final defeat of the super-arch –villain General Zod , that super villain said “No matter how brutal and deadly I was I did it for the greater good.” That is the common mindset of many villains including those of ISIS.

  10. Georg says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 4:37 pm

    In case it makes anyone feel better: That geek in the front is dead.

    • LR says

      Aug 5, 2016 at 2:10 pm

      One down, thousands more to go…

  11. Ed Lee says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 5:26 pm

    Christine Williams, you are restating the obvious when you write that many liberal politicians, “a group that sadly includes the Pope, refuse to publicly acknowledge that the West is at war with Islamic jihadists.” We are all nauseatingly aware of their public pronouncements on the subject. The more important questions are, what are they saying in private? Who do they converse with about this, in private? Do you have any insight on these questions?

  12. Guest says

    Aug 3, 2016 at 11:40 pm

    And Obama didn’t tell us this because?

  13. Rufolino says

    Aug 4, 2016 at 2:13 am

    This report does not mention the apparent growth of ISIS support in Albania, a country on the fringe of Europe and a stone’s throw across the Adriatic Sea from Italy.

  14. sham says

    Aug 4, 2016 at 4:42 am

    ISIS = ISRAELI SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE
    “To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism, and religious dogmas.” – Brockman Adams, Director UN Health Organization

    “There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.”

    …. that’s right out of the communist manifesto

    “…And now a new legendary terrorist leader of the Islamic State has emerged: Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, who allegedly ordered the kidnapping and murder of the 3 Israeli teenagers (which served as a pretext to bomb Gaza) was trained by Mossad: “[He] took intensive military training for a whole year in the hands of Mossad, besides courses in theology and the art of speech.” (Gulf News, July 15, 2014)

    The former employee at US National Security Agency (NSA), Edward Snowden, has revealed that the British and American intelligence and the Mossad worked together to create the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

    Snowden said intelligence services of three countries created a terrorist organisation that is able to attract all extremists of the world to one place, using a strategy called “the hornet’s nest”

    NSA documents refer to recent implementation of the hornet’s nest to protect the Zionist entity by creating religious and Islamic slogans.

    According to documents released by Snowden, “The only solution for the protection of the Jewish state “is to create an enemy near its borders”. (Gulf News, July 15, 2015)

    Let us be under no illusions, the Islamic State is a CIA-Mossad creation. It is an intelligence asset.

    The incursion of IS brigades into Iraq in June was part of a carefully planned military-intelligence operation supported covertly by the US, NATO and Israel. In Syria, the ISIL is said to be part of “opposition” fighting government forces. The Israeli military is directly supporting the ISIL out of bases in the occupied Golan Heights…”

    Who is Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi? From Al-Zarqawi to Al-Bagdahdi: “
    The Islamic State” is a CIA-Mossad-MI6 “Intelligence Asset” | Global Research

  15. Rachel Cohen says

    Aug 4, 2016 at 9:48 am

    Its time for people to wise up–Roman Catholicism–is not Biblical Christianity–and the pope is not a Biblical Christian, nor does he speak for God. This communist heretic pope–is as his father Satan–a liar, a thief and a murderer.

  16. Florida Jim says

    Aug 4, 2016 at 9:56 am

    Where muslims who want Sharia, jihad, taqiyya, Dhimmitude and beheading , the basis staff of Islam, these people should b deported wherever they are in the world. They deserve to live with one another in Mideast hellholes and pray to whomever they wish but live us alone. One step at a time they infiltrate everywhere and then take over proclaiming Islam and beginning the jihad which ends when all convert or are beheaded no other way. Stop then now.

  17. Jeremy says

    Aug 4, 2016 at 12:55 pm

    This is a video that discusses what religion is not. Get behind this idea, if you live in America!

  18. unbeliever1 says

    Aug 4, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    While Obama and other Western leaders remain willfully ignorant ISIS is becoming more sophisticated.
    http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/how-a-secretive-branch-of-isil-built-a-global-network-of-killers-sending-hundreds-of-operatives-back-to-eu

  19. gravenimage says

    Aug 4, 2016 at 11:45 pm

    Islamic State has “fully operational branches” in 18 countries
    ……………………

    Not exactly what we thought the promise of globalism would bring when we were kids, huh?

    God, I hate Islam.

  20. Dov Berrol says

    Aug 5, 2016 at 6:46 am

    I re-iterate what I asked before: why are we allowing so many Muslims to work as doctors and nurses in our hospitals in North America? With the Quran as their primary rule of law, what’s to stop any of them from going against the Hippocratic Oath of “do no harm” and surrepticiously killing Jews, Christians and other infidels through medical error, negligence and deadly infections? It is scary to think about this part of stealth jihad.

    • LR says

      Aug 5, 2016 at 7:57 pm

      There is already medical error that doesn’t get prosecuted. Maybe we should start tackling that.

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