Where have all the ISIS jihadis gone?

The Islamic State has been getting their collective butts kicked by U.S.-backed forces now that the rules of engagement have been relaxed by President Trump to the point where we can actually destroy them. 

But we haven't destroyed them all and of the estimated 40,000 who have traveled from all around the globe to fight for Allah a few hundred still survive and are thought to still be fighting as the terror organization lost most of its territory.

But what about the rest of the scumquats? Where did they go?

Thousands have been killed in the intense fighting, but it's believed that many survived and will continue to be a real threat in the future.

"The issue is: how many have died? How many are still there and willing to fight? How many have gone elsewhere to fight?" Seth Jones, director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the Rand Corporation said. "How many have given up? I don't think we have a good answer."

Counterterror groups are trying to answer these questions and are doing all they can to name and track foreign fighters.

In France, about 1,700  jihadists went to Syria and Iraq since 2013 to join IS. Of those, about 400 have been sent to their virgins in the sky and 250 returned to France.

Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that around 500 are still in the Iraq-Syria theater and it's now going to be very difficult for them to return to France. However, that still leaves about 500 whose whereabouts are unknown.

Terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman of Georgetown University believes that "thousands" have escaped the war zone. How he knows this is a mystery, but that's why he's the expert.

"Today, some of them are most likely in the Balkans, lying low for the time being, waiting for the opportunity to infiltrate themselves to the rest of Europe," he said.

No less than 80 IS jihadis from Russia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Yemen have joined since May, the IS-allied Abu Sayyaf fart-weasels who now fight government forces in the southern Philippines, kidnapping unsuspecting tourists and beheading them for fun and profit.

In the northern Afghanistan province of Jowzjan, local people in the area told the AFP that French-speaking IS fighters from France or northern African countries have recently arrived there. 

There remains escape routes from the battlefields of Syria and Iraq. IS militants were able to blend in with civilian refugees or bribe their way, or sneak into Turkey.

Many of the IS jihadis never planned on going home and have no choice but to continue the fight for their Sixth Century values against the civilized world where folks take regular showers and don't fool around with children or the livestock.


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Breaking: US airstrike kills 2 Serbian embassy staffers

F-15E Fighter Bomber

Breaking: U.S. airstrikes may have killed two Serbian embassy staffers, Sladjana Stankovic, a communications official,and his driver, Jovica Stepic, on Friday. Serbian foreign minister Ivaca Dacic reported the news Saturday.

The men were captured in November when their convoy came under fire near Sabratha, Libya. 

Dacic spoke at a news conference in Belgrade, Serbia and the information regarding the deaths have not yet been confirmed by the Libyan government. But Dacic said they have photographic evidence that this indeed is the case.

F-15E fighter bombers struck an ISIS training camp near the Tunisian border killing dozens of scumcrumpets, one of whom was likely an IS operative considered responsible for the deadly attacks in Tunisia in 2015.

According to Dacic, Serbia knew the location of the hostages and tried to get them back, possibly through a military operation. They had information that it was a group associated with ISIS that was demanding ransom for the men, and it was this site that was bombed.

"I believe we had been close to the solution for them to be freed," Dacic said. "Unfortunately, as a consequence of the attack against ISIS in Libya, the two of them lost their lives. We will seek official explanation from both Libya and the United States about the available facts and the selection of targets."

The U.S. has said that it was an ISIS training camp that was bombed and Dacic said that this information needs to be checked. "It wasn't in the interests of the people who held them to kill them, because there were no other demands but financial," Dacic added.

Perhaps ISIS was planning to use the ransom to buy food and medicine for the injured townsfolk, but I think not, However, it is sad that two people, aka 'collateral damage' were killed.

The United States and Israel take incredible pains, often to the danger that it places upon themselves, to avoid killing non-combatants. But our rules of engagement are ridiculously rigid. 

In Afghanistan, for example, we have to wait to be attacked first before we can engage the enemy. Imagine if a professional boxer had to wait to get hit before he could strike back.

It's horrible that this happened, but death is the inevitability of war. Death of the innocent is sadly part of that equation. If we continue fighting a war where we give ourselves rules that our adversaries refuse to comply with, we are never going to win it.

Knowing the enemy and what motivates them. 

I am convinced that we can defeat ISIS within weeks, months at worst case. In spite of the fact that ISIS is only part of the Islamic jihad problem, this needs to be done with shock and awe.



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Hey, Mr. Obama, They're Running the Wrong Way

They fought a bloody three-day war, and when it was over the Al Qaeda – affiliated jihadists raised their flag over government buildings of Fallujah, Iraq. If you recall, Fallujah had been secured by the US who withdrew from the country two years later.

Eight people were killed, dozens injured while the Iraqi army tried to regain control of the city. Tribesmen from Ramadi, a Sunni stronghold, joined forces with the Army. The death toll from the fighting, which began earlier in the week, is still unknown.