Jihad Watch reported yesterday about Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s claim that the Islamic State had returned in Syria, took 700 hostages, and was threatening to murder 10 of them every day. It remains certain that jihadists will do any and everything they possibly can to conquer territory, no matter how violent and abusive their actions. For this reason, Western countries remain at risk because of Islamic State infiltration of the refugee stream.
Following up on Putin’s claim about the return of the Islamic State to Syria:
A senior U.S. official told Fox News that the claim was “fake news” and that ISIS has been virtually eradicated in the region by Assad and the U.S.-led coalition…..the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats also issued a stark warning to Americans to be aware of propaganda messages put out by foreign governments that may be untrue.
Let’s continue to hope that America remains vigilant to protect innocent people and the virulent growth and prevent any new expansion of Islamic State domains, as well as act to protect Americans and other Westerners, who are at risk of suffering jihad violence in their own countries.
“U.S. Officials: Putin’s Claim of Hundreds of Islamic State Hostages in Syria Is ‘Fake News,’” by Ben Kew, Breitbart, October 19, 2018:
U.S. officials told Fox News on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that the Islamic State (ISIS) is holding around 700 people hostage in Syria, including several European and U.S. Nationals, is “fake news.”
Speaking at a conference in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, Putin claimed that ISIS had resurged in U.S.-controlled territory and had taken hundreds of people hostage.“Islamic State terrorists have delivered ultimatums and made certain demands, threatening to shoot ten people every day,” he said. “This is just horrible, it is a catastrophe. Some U.S. and European citizens are among the hostages.”
A senior U.S. official told Fox News that the claim was “fake news” and that ISIS has been virtually eradicated in the region by Assad and the U.S.-led coalition.
“While we have confirmed that there was an attack on an IDP camp near Deir Ezzour last week, we have no information supporting the large number of hostages alleged by President Putin and we are skeptical of its accuracy,” Pentagon spokesperson Cmdr. Sean Robertson later explained. “We are also unaware of any U.S. nationals located in that camp.”
“We reject Russian assertions that the U.S. and Coalition have failed to address the threat posed by ISIS. On the contrary, the Coalition has liberated more than 99 percent of the territory previously held by ISIS,” he continued. “We will continue to work by, with and, through our local partners to pursue the remnants of ISIS in the Middle Euphrates River Valley. Despite our successes, there is still much work to do with our partners to ensure the lasting defeat of ISIS.”
Robertson also attacked Russia’s involvement in Syria, where they continue to support the Assad regime and its alleged war crimes as his Syrian Arab Army edges closer to victory. The U.S. has continued to focus on destroying ISIS but has also ordered missile strikes on areas of Damascus in response to Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons.
“Russia, on the other hand, has focused its efforts exclusively on aiding the Syrian regime with limited steps to address the threat posed by ISIS and without regard for the laws of armed conflict, civilian casualties, or regime use of chemical weapons,” he contested.
On Thursday, the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats also issued a stark warning to Americans to be aware of propaganda messages put out by foreign governments that may be untrue…..
Guy Forester says
Putin is not our friend. While we should avoid getting into conflict with Russia, we need to remember Putin is from the KGB. He is a little napoleon, and not to be trusted.
Putin seems to think he can be the master of the Eastern Mediterranean by being cozy with Syria, Iran, and Turkey. These three all hate each other. Turkey, Russia, and Iran have all been at odds over who will be king of the poop pile in that part of the world for centuries. This will not last long, nor end well.
christianblood says
Guy Forester
Russia and US don’t have to be friends but don’t have to be enemies as well but instead they should work together as equals and respect each other! The problem is that US considers itself to be an “exceptional” nation and because of that very exceptionalist” attitude US tends to look down up on other nations like Russia and others and tries to dictate its own agenda as if other nations and its vassals! This will definitely create all kinds of problems for all, including for the US! History tells if someone or some nations deludes themselves to be exceptionally superior beings how that ends for that nation or for that person and those who are around them! Nazi Germany is a fresh example of that!
BTW, KGB or (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti) or (Committee for State Security), was the main legitimate security agency for the USSR!
Newman says
The whole US intent via a continuing barrage of media propaganda is to demonize Russia and China because these two mammoth countries are the only real threats to US hegemony . Together they have the capacity to defeat the US in war and economically too. I believe that the US is arming itself to the teeth at a staggering cost to taxpayers of over 700 billion dollars for this fiscal year to be able to provoke conflicts with these powers before they are united against the US economically and militarily and it is too late to win against them. The policies of the Trump presidency will be disastrous for the US and the world. He is uniting Russia and China and also even Europe against the US. These policies he and his administration justify based on a false idea of American moral and cultural superiority that is completely unreal. America has become one of the most immoral countries in the world and the popular culture is abysmally evil If you believe that there is a God that punishes evildoing (as I do) , then all three of these countries will be His instruments to punish each other and
most of the rest of the world. as well
Ties says
Putin is the worlds greatest leader. And Putin don’t rely on propaganda, what Putin says is truth. I wish Americans could get back their country…. America and the EU over through Ukraine and Syria.
christianblood says
Newman posted
(…The whole US intent via a continuing barrage of media propaganda is to demonize Russia and China because these two mammoth countries are the only real threats to US hegemony . Together they have the capacity to defeat the US in war and economically too…)
Well-said, Newman! US thinks it is an “exceptional” country that can do anything it wishes! The whole world knows where that kind of kind of mentality led to Germans, let us how goes for the US!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeL_nNT-oDs
christianblood says
Ties posted
(..Putin is the worlds greatest leader. And Putin don’t rely on propaganda, what Putin says is truth. I wish Americans could get back their country..)
Exactly, Ties! I wish Americans grow up and stop being spoiled children because Putin and Russia won’t play games! Putin and Russia are NO kids like the US and Western leaders are! These (Western) kids need to grow up before its too late for the whole world!
gravenimage says
Sounds as though Newman is fine with tyrannical Communism.
Darryl Kerney says
“KGB…was the main legitimate security agency for the USSR” ?
LEGITIMATE ?
only if you consider the power to be investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner all in one “legitimate”….
christianblood says
Darryl Kerney
Do you think US and its CIA are saints? USA killed More Than 20 Million people In 37 Nations Since WWII!!! More of this on the link below:
https://popularresistance.org/us-has-killed-more-than-20-million-in-37-nations-since-wwii/
Darryl Kerney says
You consider killing commies that invaded to impose ruthless dictatorship on their neighbors “murder” ?
Then it must have been “murder” to kill nazis too….
And the poor jihadi loyalists of the Butcher of Baghdad, well certainly they should have been left alone to practice their religion of peace and love through terror, right ?
But it surely wasn’t “murder” when the commies and jihadists killed their own fellow citizens by the millions eh ?
They’re noble “freedom fighters” defending their right to force everyone to live as they demand under their totalitarian rule !
christianblood says
Darryl Kerney
Sovereign states have the right to form and follow governments of their own political persuasion and US and has NO right to intervene or bomb these countries and murder their people! US invades, bullies and bombs small countries that cannot defend themselves but you know no bully, no matter how strong they look will forever get away with their bullying and therefore this bully known as the US will one day be stopped for good!
gravenimage says
christianblood wrote:
Guy Forester
Russia and US don’t have to be friends but don’t have to be enemies as well but instead they should work together as equals and respect each other!
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This is true–but difficult if Russia is constantly lying to us.
Another difficulty here is that christianblood has said that he wants ravening Muslims to conquer the United States and the rest of the West. How is *that* respecting us and treating us as equals, unless he also wants the same horror for Russia?
More:
The problem is that US considers itself to be an “exceptional” nation and because of that very exceptionalist” attitude US tends to look down up on other nations like Russia and others and tries to dictate its own agenda as if other nations and its vassals! This will definitely create all kinds of problems for all, including for the US! History tells if someone or some nations deludes themselves to be exceptionally superior beings how that ends for that nation or for that person and those who are around them! Nazi Germany is a fresh example of that!
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Nazi Germany was a Fascist state that considered itself racially superior to the rest of the world, and thought that other races like Slavs and Jews should be enslaved and slaughtered.
The idea that the United States–which considers herself exceptional for her freedom and democracy–is the same is just sickening calumny.
But then, christianblood has said before how much he hates freedom and democracy, so this should not surprise.
More:
BTW, KGB or (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti) or (Committee for State Security), was the main legitimate security agency for the USSR!
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This is *just horrifying*. The KGB mostly arrested, imprisoned, and murdered *Russians* and others unfortunate enough to have fallen behind the Iron Curtain.
The main victims were non-violent dissidents, who wound up in the Gulag or murdered. The Soviet Union murdered *millions*, many under the aegis of the KGB.
And now christianblood makes it clear that he does indeed condone the horrors of Communism–something he had always been rather coy about before. *Ugh*.
Wellington says
With you again, gravenimage. Well done.
Christianblood doesn’t “get” it and very likely never will. Meanwhile, he’s still in “God bless Hezbollah” mode as well as defending the Iranian regime, hated by millions of its own citizens for its many repressions.
Most irritating about christianblood is that he never has anything critical to say about Putin and Russia, contra people like you and me who esteem the West at its best (e.g., ancient Athens), America at its best (e.g., the Marshall Plan) but never do we overlook the faults of the West and America while christianblood is all Russia, all the time.
If he were smart, which he is not, he would throw in an occasional criticism of Russia and Putin from time to time. But he doesn’t and this speaks volumes.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Wellington.
And christianblood is getting worse and worse. He has always been an apologist for Russia–that’s a given–but of late has taken to lauding Communism, and–even worse–Jihadists.
And while he has always hated the West, he has recently become increasingly unhinged, saying that the existence of gay parades in the West is a mortal threat to Russia, but that Jihad terror in Russia itself is not a big deal–even attacks on Churches.
And his claiming that God wants Muslims to conquer the West is bizarre, ugly, and troubling.
christianblood says
gravenimage
Nazi Germany considered itself a superior, pure blooded “aryan” race.
America considers itself an “exceptional & indispensable” nation that has the right to boss around others, invade and bomb countries and change their governments by force and illegally occupy sovereign lands and steal their wealth! What is the difference between the two?
gravenimage says
Now christianblood thinks that freedom and democracy are no different from Nazism? Good God…
J D S says
Anyone here on JW knows that ISIS is good at telling lies and Putin seems to be right in there with them…getting the FAKE NEWS out there. ISIS is so depleted that it now has to fabricate lies just to keep its base alive.
Charles says
Guy Forester, Your post sounds anti-Slave and therefore racist. As well, remember that Russia is not Soviet anymore. Typical U.S ueber alles !
gravenimage says
Guy Forester never said that Russia was still the Soviet Union–this is quite false. Can you point to anything he actually said that is incorrect?
Older Canadian says
And what does Putin gain by spreading fake news?
Wellington says
“And what does Putin gain by spreading fake news?”
Why, it’s quite simple actually, i.e., further denigration of the West, particularly America, since Russia remains trapped in a centuries-old antipathy to the West (sometimes justified, usually not) and still does not realize that its best interests lie with entities like America and NATO rather than with entities like Iran and China.
gravenimage says
True enough, Wellington.
christianblood says
Wellington
Putin merely pointed out the presence of thousands of ISIS terrorist groups in and around the region of Syria where US is illegally occupying and the best way to defeat those ISIS terrorists is the US to GET OUT of that region where it is illegally occupying, breaking all international and national rules
and as soon as the US moves out of that region where it is sheltering terrorists, ISIS will be completely annihilated within a week by the Syrian army and the Russian air-force!
Indiana Tom says
I thought it was interesting that a couple of the Ukrainian vloggers I follow pointed out that Russia loves to blame the USA for everything and takes responsibility for nothing.
Peggy says
Ukranians will say that. They hate Russians.
They are not necessarily unbiased.
christianblood says
Older Canadian
+1
gravenimage says
American officials call Putin’s claim about Islamic State hostages in Syria “fake news”
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Who knows at this point? Certainly, Putin will happily lie like a rug if he thinks it will give him a leg up on the Americans.
On the other hand, this is exactly the sort of thing ISIS would do.
I think we need information from a more plausible source.
christianblood says
gravenimage
What president Putin said is a fact! US and its “coalition” are sheltering thousands of ISIS members in the region of Syria where they are illegally occupying. US is hoping to create a plan B for their agenda to regime-change Assad and that is why they are trying to keep those ISIS terrorists in that region of North East Syria. Graven, Don’t forget that US IS UNINVITED TO BE IN SYRIAN TERRITORY IN THE FIRST PLACE, SO US SHOULD BACK UP AND JUST LEAVE AND SYRIA WILL BE PEACEFUL AGAIN!
WPM says
Yes Christian bloody nose
You are on the ground in Syria you know what going on in the chaos of that hell hole , the west is always wrong Putin is always right .Sunnis evil Islam, Shites good Moslem it is all black and white .Israel ,America ,Western Europe should all be taken over by Islam you be jumping for joy. Do you think they will leave your beloved ” Christian “Russia in peace with the demise of the West? Has any Moslem group had peace in 1400 years with non-Moslems ,if the West falls they will have more time numbers and power to take over Russia ,China, and India. There are no good Islamic players ,Saudis , Iran ,Turkey , Syria ,they are all fighting to be king of the dung hill that is Islam. They try using America , Russia ,China and any non-Moslem run country to help them with their goal of ruining and running the world. They are using America and Russia old cold war mentality to achieve their goals. The unstable Syria is not a goal of America if ISIS did not spring up some other group would have show us some proof we are supporting ISIS .
christianblood says
WMP
Al-Nusra jihadist leader to a German journalist:
“America is on our side!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THO9672lRNQ
gravenimage says
christianblood wrote:
gravenimage
What president Putin said is a fact!
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You have proof that ISIS has taken hundreds of hostages in its former “Caliphate”, including Americans and Europeans? Can you provide any of that proof here?
More:
You know for a fact that ISIS has taken US and its “coalition” are sheltering thousands of ISIS members in the region of Syria where they are illegally occupying. US is hoping to create a plan B for their agenda to regime-change Assad and that is why they are trying to keep those ISIS terrorists in that region of North East Syria. Graven, Don’t forget that US IS UNINVITED TO BE IN SYRIAN TERRITORY IN THE FIRST PLACE, SO US SHOULD BACK UP AND JUST LEAVE AND SYRIA WILL BE PEACEFUL AGAIN!
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Wait–you prefer the hideous Islamic State to the United States? I suppose I should not be surprised that you think the Islamic State was “peaceful”. Good lord…
christianblood says
gravenimage
USA+UK+France+Saudi-Arabia=ISIS!
gravenimage says
Note that christianblood is unable to address a single one of my points.
alex Reid says
Putin is ex- KGB & the KGB was the old USSR’s version of the Gestapo. If he takes this ISIS & other groups of that ilk, into dimly lit, little cellars & puts a bullet through their melon, then so be it.
gravenimage says
But he isn’t doing that at all–he’s just castigating the United States.
Indiana Tom says
If he takes this ISIS & other groups of that ilk, into dimly lit, little cellars & puts a bullet through their melon, then so be it.
I wish, but not really happening.
christianblood says
alex Reid
And the CIA who help destroyed countless countries and murdered millions are saints! We got it! With the help of the CIA, US has bombed, invaded and killed more civilians, millions of them than any other nation since 1945! Click on the link below to see the simple graphics of it:
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/US/Bombing_campaigns_since_1945
gravenimage says
Sure–defeating the Nazis and wiping out the Islamic State were very, very bad things…
christianblood says
gravenimage
USA neither defeated Nazis nor wiped out ISIS!
USA=ISIS!
gravenimage says
How were the Nazis not defeated? And while ISIS is not wiped out–I never said that they were–they have indeed lost their Islamic State.
How can christianblood deny these obvious facts?
Indiana Tom says
And the CIA who help destroyed countless countries and murdered millions are saints!
Yes, such saintly people as Nazis, Bushido crazed Japanese, Communists,Fascists, Jihadis, and other feral dictatorial people inhabiting wonderful dysfunctional countries.
gravenimage says
Indiana Tom–with all respect–you don’t find Nazis, Bushido crazed Japanese, Communists, Fascists, and Jihadis in the CIA.
Magars says
One of serious problems our nation is facing is the absence of teaching history and civic in our public schools.The socialist idea were introduced long time ago,it was well explained in the document The Nation at risk of 1983. No changes were lroduced,and now we are paying the consequences for not allow our children of thinking by themselves. Now our adult professionals are repeating what they were indoctrinated.
The thinking about Putin is the result of the lack of logical in our thinking. We should ask ourself who benefits of attacking Putin? Remember the support of Obama to the criminals that organized the Coup detate in Ukrania,the President elect was deposed and the Nazis took over with the blessing of Obama,McCaine and Biden, the CIA was involved,but nobody is talking about it,like never happaned, Obama not only open the doors to Islamic States sympathizers,but to Nazis too is not a coincidence that he established alliance with Soros.
Syria is only 3,774 air travel miles from Russia. Add to that the countries between Russia and Syria by land are 3 former by imposition socialist republics with strain islamic traditions.
KGB or not KGB,Putin has restablished the Christianity in Russia,has protected the country from illegal immigrants and has established serious regulation to avoid for them to entry.
Assad was or is the only president without islamic ties, with secular roots; chrystians,catholics,muslim practicing in what they believe,and he is inconvenient for the Political Islam ,u fortunately we allow ‘Syrian refugees “ to enter our country God helpus!
If ISIS takes over Syria,the stability of Eastern Europe is in danger.,and this is exactly what Soros and his Democrats puppets want. Our government approach to Russia is wrong,Trump should be very careful with the people who advice him. The Shadow government and the Deep State never sleep,and they are ready to form a globalist world.
Christianblood says
Magars posted
(…KGB or not KGB,Putin has restablished the Christianity in Russia,has protected the country from illegal immigrants and has established serious regulation to avoid for them to entry.Assad was or is the only president without islamic ties, with secular roots; chrystians,catholics,muslim practicing in what they believe,and he is inconvenient for the Political Islam ,u fortunately we allow ‘Syrian refugees “ to enter our country God helpus!…If ISIS takes over Syria,the stability of Eastern Europe is in danger.,and this is exactly what Soros and his Democrats puppets want. Our government approach to Russia is wrong,Trump should be very careful with the people who advice him. The Shadow government and the Deep State never sleep,and they are ready to form a globalist world…)
God bless you for speaking the Truth!
Indiana Tom says
On Thursday, the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats also issued a stark warning to Americans to be aware of propaganda messages put out by foreign governments that may be untrue…..
Surely Pravda would never lie.
Hey, I have bowled with Dan Coats in Decatur sometime ago. He was fairly good at it.
Vicky says
I looked at an Aussie news source, A UK news source and an Arabic news source available in English and so far the U.S. is the only country claiming this didn’t happen. I’m gonna keep looking.
gravenimage says
All the articles I have found cite only Vladimir Putin as a source.