These camps have been very successful for ISIS, so much so that Islamic State leaders are considering expanding the camps into Libya and Yemen. Both of those countries have become largely ungoverned areas in recent years.
The failure to target the training camps with U.S. and allied airstrikes is raising questions among some defense and intelligence officials about the commitment of President Obama and his senior aides to the current anti-IS strategy of degrading and ultimately destroying the terror group.
“If we know the location of these camps, and the president wants to destroy ISIS, why are the camps still functioning?” one official critical of the policy asked.
The camps are regarded by U.S. intelligence analysts as a key element in the terror group’s successes in holding and taking new territory. The main benefit of the training camps is that they are providing a continuous supply of new fighters.
An additional worry of intelligence analysts is that some of the foreign fighters being trained in the camps will eventually return to their home countries in Europe and North America to carry out terror attacks.
A White House spokesman declined to comment on the failure to bomb the terror camps and referred questions to the Pentagon.
Pentagon spokesman Maj. Roger M. Cabiness declined to say why no training camps have been bombed. “I am not going to be able to go into detail about our targeting process,” he said.
Cabiness said the U.S.-led coalition has “hit ISIL [an alternative abbreviation for the Islamic State] with more than 6,000 airstrikes.”
“The coalition has also taken out thousands of fighting positions, tanks, vehicles, bomb factories, and training camps,” he said. “We have also stuck their leadership, including most recently on Aug. 18 when a U.S. military airstrike removed Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, also known as Hajji Mutazz, the second in command of the terrorist group, from the battlefield.”
Source: freebeacon.com
In addition to all of this, military pilots have come forward stating they have grown weary with the DoD tying their hands in the airstrikes could carry out. Gee, makes one wonder if we are really trying to win this war with a much inferior enemy…no, we don’t really have to wonder.
2016 is not going to get here before he destroys us I’m afraid.
It would seem a lot of military br$#%&!@* should be gone along with their leader Obama.
No OBAMA wants more so we can’t beat them that’s his people.
Did you really expect something different from the Muslim Commander and Chief???
Bomb them to ashes.
I read Russia..Egypt..Jordan and others have been attacking issi without s$#%&!@*bama for weeks. of course we won’t hear that on the news