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White House map shows Islamic State still expanding, contradicting public claims

Aug 6, 2016 10:33 am By Robert Spencer

“I don’t think they’re gaining strength,” said Obama, while they’re expanding all over the world. And the Pentagon has previously been caught publishing maps that hid the territorial gains the Islamic State had made in Iraq and Syria. This administration has proven itself to be completely untrustworthy regarding not only the motivating ideology of jihad terrorists and how best to combat them, but also about what progress is being made against them.

Islamic State world map

More on this story. “White House Map Shows Islamic State Still Expanding, Despite Public Claims,” by John Hayward, Breitbart, August 3, 2016:

In a profound embarrassment for the White House, NBC News obtained a classified map that shows the Islamic State continuing to expand, despite administration insistence to the contrary.

As NBC noted, the map emerged as the administration was ordering at least a month of airstrikes against ISIS targets in Libya and Italy was announcing its willingness to let the United States use its airbases for the campaign.

The White House “heat map” is dated August 2016 and reveals “a stunning three-fold increase in the number of places around the globe where ISIS is operating.”

“U.S. State Department documents indicated that in 2014, when the U.S. military began its campaign to destroy the extremists, there were only seven nations in which the fledgling state was operating,” NBC News said. “By 2015, according to the State Department’s own numbers, there were nearly double that – 13 countries.”

ISIS is still expanding because the 2016 map lists eighteen countries where “ISIS is fully operational,” plus “aspiring branches” in Egypt, Indonesia, Mali, the Philippines, Somalia, and Bangladesh.

While NBC terrorism analyst Malcolm Nance said the effort to attack the Islamic State’s “core” in Iraq and Syria had been successful, “it’s fair to say the whole battle space is expanding for ISIS.”

It has been a constant Obama administration talking point that terrorist attacks somehow prove the Islamic State is desperate, essentially lashing out in its death throes.

Secretary of State John Kerry, for example, said after the attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport, “If you’re desperate and you know you’re losing, and you know you want to give up your life, then obviously you can do some harm.”

The day before the horrific November massacre in Paris, President Barack Obama boasted that ISIS had been “contained.”

“I don’t think they’re gaining strength,” said Obama in November. “What is true, from the start our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq and in Syria. They’ll come in. They’ll leave. But you don’t see this systemic march by ISIL across the terrain.”

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  1. Moses says

    Aug 6, 2016 at 10:39 am

    And yet Obama says ISIS will be defeated inevitably.What a joke,THIS MAKES ME SICK!!!!

  2. Myrtle Linder says

    Aug 6, 2016 at 10:54 am

    Obama is working for ISIS!!

  3. Angemon says

    Aug 6, 2016 at 10:58 am

    Politicians that can’t even lie properly? I’m speechless.

  4. Keith says

    Aug 6, 2016 at 11:20 am

    Until Obama, Kerry, Clinton, Hollande, May, Merkel and other western governments realise that you can not defeat an ideology without exposing that ideology to the public with the truth and ridicule you will never defeat that ideology. Especially when that ideology is currently being protected by those same governments in the name of deversity and not allowing “hate speech”.

  5. Suzanne says

    Aug 6, 2016 at 11:49 am

    Last June 29, ISIS announced that it was now operational in 19 countries, among which, France, classified as an “Area hosting Covert Units”. Not quite reassuring! https://m.reddit.com/r/JihadInFocus/comments/4qke19/amaq_agency_two_years_since_announcing_the/

  6. mortimer says

    Aug 6, 2016 at 12:08 pm

    The ‘tiny minority’ proves constantly that it isn’t ‘tiny’. The vast majority of ‘peaceful Muslims’ show they are supporting jihad-terrorism under the table.

  7. biff says

    Aug 6, 2016 at 12:15 pm

    Obama is not a Muslim, he’s just working for them..

    • overman says

      Aug 6, 2016 at 1:59 pm

      l wouldn’t be so sure. Robert says Obama’s father and Grandfather were muslim [in lslam it’s the male line that decides your religion, l believe]. He attended muslim schools and was brought up muslim. He professes to be Christian, of couse. l doubt he’s left lslam – wouldn’t that make him an apostate [although, they would make an exception in his case, because he’s furthering their cause].

    • linnte says

      Aug 6, 2016 at 10:35 pm

      Because my little tablet isn’t able to post links, I can’t show you solid evidence that Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim. Even his darned NAME screams Muslim. He never disclosed his affiliation with Islam to the depth he is in and I think if he had, he would never have been elected. Twice. If one understands Islam, one knows ya just don’t leave Islam and be in public without a price or target on your head. Surely the Muslim Brotherhood here in the USA knows his hidden agenda, because his actions clearly conform to Islamic ideology. He can’t even say Islamic Jihadis or terrorism! And Hillary’s VP nominee has ties to MB also.

      Yes, Obama is a Muslim. His history proves it.

      • Sibila says

        Aug 7, 2016 at 2:33 am

        It is not his Islamic name nor his paternal bloodline but his pro-Islamic rhetoric and his anti-Christian preaching and obstructive deeds.

        • linnte says

          Aug 7, 2016 at 5:12 am

          When doing an assessment of a patient, a nurse collects head to toe data. Every seemingly small deviance from the “norm” helps with diagnosing a problem or patient status. For instance, letting the MD know that the patient has clubbed fingernails, tells the Doc that this person’s lungs have been malfunctioning for over a year.

          My point is, every detail is important in “diagnosing” who and what Obama is. Including his name and his heritage. Leaving out small facts weakens the diagnosis. Certainly we see the fruits of his bent toward Islam in his dedication to protecting it and encouraging it’s spread in our country.

          Another person posted an interview of Obama when he was newly elected Senator. Obama claims to be a Christian. How often have we heard him mention Jesus the Messiah? I no more believe Obama to be a Christian than Atilla the Hun. Taqyyia is an Islamic characteristic after all.

  8. mortimer says

    Aug 6, 2016 at 12:42 pm

    Whistling past the graveyard. No one believes the Obama slogans, not even themselves. Their followers pretend to agree.

  9. Steve Klein says

    Aug 6, 2016 at 1:04 pm

    Every time I hear Mr. Obama use the term ISIL (“Islamic State of Iraq and the LEVANT” — comprising much of Syria, Lebanon, part of Jordan, most critically Israel whose prime minister Obama abhors, Sinai, maybe parts of Trukey — rather than Islamic State or ISIS (“Islamic State in Iraq and Syria),” I cannot help but imagine he wants the jihadi group to expand its reach. Amil Imani wrote: Obama’s ‘use of ISIL could be a strong indication that he supports re-establishing Muslim rule and sharia law throughout the Levant, and good riddance to Israel’.

  10. pennant8 says

    Aug 6, 2016 at 1:07 pm

    They need another color code for ISIS sympathizers, it would be speckled all over the globe.

  11. Guest says

    Aug 6, 2016 at 1:49 pm

    Where’s Obama and his excuses now?

  12. overman says

    Aug 6, 2016 at 2:05 pm

    This is their plan, although l think France and Germany are well on the way.

    “From book titled Empire Of Fear: Inside The Islamic State. The terror organization plans to control Africa and European targets within the next five years.

    Their Caliphate [state governed by sharia law] covers the reign which will start with Spain from the West to China in the East. And if things do actually turn up, India will also be a part of the Islamic State”.

    ISIS Domination By 2020, Total Madness

    http://dontgetserious.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/isis-world-map-700_1439214380.jpg

  13. gravenimage says

    Aug 6, 2016 at 11:12 pm

    White House map shows Islamic State still expanding, contradicting public claims
    ………………….

    Surprise, surprise…

  14. Cheesecake says

    Aug 7, 2016 at 4:51 am

    I am surprised Isis does not have a branch in london.

  15. Daniel Triplett says

    Aug 7, 2016 at 3:55 pm

    This map is misleading.

    The problem is MUCH greater. For example, the map would have us believe Somalia isn’t a threat, yet we know Somalia is crawling with near 100% devout Muslims.

    I don’t care if they’re called ISIS, Al Qaeda, Taliban, or whatever. There are about 100 different militant Islamic organizations. They’re ALL Muslims who want us dead.

    Even if we killed every ISIS member today, tomorrow another group would organize under a different name, with the same objective: Worldwide Caliphate.

    And what about Iran? They’re more dangerous than all the rest put together. They’re just months (or weeks) away from nuclear-tipped ICBMs, and they promise to kill us with them.

    Kerry is just a naive dumbshit and traitor, but the Iranian nuke deal is proof-positive that Obama is a Caliph bent on sabotaging America for the advancement of Islam.

  16. Warrior says

    Aug 8, 2016 at 2:47 am

    Shame on you Obama for speaking diplomatic lies that islamic state is un-islamic.

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