Brett McGurk US envoy to anti-ISIS coalition, resigns

Brett McGurk, U.S. envoy for the global coalition to defeat Islamic State, has resigned, following the resignation of Secretary of Defense James Mattis' resignation. Both for apparently the same reason: President Trump's unilateral decision to pull all 2,000 U.S. forces out of Syria.

Trump had tweeted that “we have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.”

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We have not defeated ISIS, and there is more than one reason for being there, particularly this ally trust thingy reason and the fact that our pullout is going to likely cause the emboldenment of IS and subsequent bloodshed and heads without bodies.

Ground troops moved into Syria in 2015 to fight ISIS amid the Syrian civil war. Trump talked about pulling out of Syria before, but military leaders had warned about ISIS re-emerging should the U.S. do so. He did not listen to them and this has frustrated military people who know military things like strategy and consequences.

On Thursday, Trump announced that Mattis was retiring in February. Mattis’ resignation letter can be seen here in full.      

The AP reported that McGurk's resignation letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Islamic State was on the run, but it still wasn't defeated. He also said that the U.S.'s work in Syria wasn't completed. McGurk was appointed by former President Barack Hussein Obama in 2015.

In a December 11th press conference McGurk explained that “enduring defeat of a group like this means you can’t just defeat their physical space and then leave.”

“Nobody is saying that they are going to disappear. Nobody is that naive,” he told the press. “So we want to stay on the ground and make sure that stability can be maintained in these areas.”

According to one official as per the AP, McGurk's plan was to leave the job in mid-February. However, he felt that due to Trump's decision to leave Syria, and Mattis' resignation, he could no longer continue.

Fox News has learned that McGurk submitted his resignation letter on Friday, a day after Secretary Mattis resigned. His resignation is effective December 31st.

McGurk previously served as a deputy assistant secretary of state for Iraq and Iran, and led secret talks with Iran about the release of American prisoners during the negotiations for the crappy Iran nuclear deal.

McGurk also previously worked as a Supreme Court law clerk to the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist and had also served on former President George W. Bush’s National Security Council staff, where in 2007 and 2008, he was the lead U.S. negotiator on security agreements with Iraq.

On Saturday, Trump said that ISIS is “largely defeated” and that other countries, such as Turkey could take care of whatever is left.

Turkey will also take care of our allies, the Kurds, once we're gone--you can almost count on it.

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Another top ISIS terrorist killed

Another Islamic State lunatic scumcrumpet was killed, the Pentagon reported Friday.

U.S. forces in Syria killed a top Islamic State operative, a terrorist who played a key role in the New Year's Eve attack on an Istanbul nightclub known for its homosexual clientele.

Abdurakhmon Uzbeki (aka Mohammad Mahmoud Muhammed Mohammed; aka Mo) was a "close associate of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of the snake called ISIS.

Brett McGurk, Special Presidential Envoy for Global Coalition to Counter ISIS tweeted: "Confirmed: death of senior #ISIS terrorist & Baghdadi associate via US military operation near Mayadin, #Syria. We will reach u anywhere." (@brett_mcgurk).

According to Central Command spokesman, Col. John Thomas, said Uzbeki (aka Mo) was killed in a ground operation on April 6th. He said Uzbeki assisted ISIS to move foreign jihadists and money and played a key role plotting terror attacks.

Uzbeki leaves behind a goat, a pound of goat cheese, an unused suicide vest, two grenades and a banana-shaped vibrator.


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U.S. acquires a ton of ISIS intelligence

Washington D.C. -- There is a vast trove of new intelligence about ISIS jihadists who have traveled into Iraq and Syria that the U.S. has gotten its hands on and is currently reviewing. Some of the fighters have returned to their home countries and this information may be able to help fight these militants and also prevent potential terror-plotters from worming their way into Europe.

The Syrian Kurds and Arab militias have gotten hold of over 10,000 documents along with 4.5 terabytes of digital data over the past several weeks. while fighting the scumcrumpets in Manbiji in northern Syria near the Turkish border. This is a major hub for jihadists entering and leaving Syria.

The data gives us new information about "foreign fighters, the networks, where they're from," said Brett McGurk (no relation to Bernie McGurk of Imus radio fame) an Obama special envoy for combating ISIS.

Other officials say the information includes the jihadists' identities, countries of origin, routes into Syria and the illicit networks that recruited and transported them to the region. This information is being shared with allies to help decrease the flow of militants.

"We want to make sure that all information is disseminated in a coherent way among our coalition partners, so that we can track the networks from the core and all the way to wherever the dots might connect, whether that is in Europe or in North Africa or Southeast Asia," McGurk said at a meeting of foreign and defense ministers in Washington.

This is the largest single data treasure seized against ISIS since Delta Force commandos raided the home of a top ISIS financier in eastern Syria in May 2015. That operation netted laptops, cellphones and other materials that resulted in airstrikes against the top ISIS leaders and showed us how ISIS manages its finances and brokers deals with hostages and the like.

American intelligence (which immediately disqualifies most liberals) estimated that about 43,000 jihadists from over 120 countries--including 250 Americans among 7,400 Westerners--have gone or attempted to go to Syrian and Iraq since 2011.

In spite of the tightening of Turkey's borders, it's estimated that there still may be as many as 500 to 1,000 jihadists a month pouring in, with hundreds of others heeding the ISIS call to go to Libya or Afghanistan instead, just as long as they can carry out their religious war in those countries.

Jean-Paul Laborde, a UN assistant secretary general and head of its counterterrorism committee, said that about 30,000 foreign fighters remain in Syria and Iraq--a hell of a lot more than Western intelligence estimated, and added that "we are seeing them return, not only to Europe, but to all of their countries of origin, like Tunisia, Morocco."

Meanwhile back at home, Obama is painting a rosy picture of the world because, well, he doesn't want you voting for Donald Trump.

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