House Intel Chair Worried About Westerners in 'Jihadist Disneyland'

CNS News ^ | June 16 2014 | Susan Jones

[PoloSec]

(CNSNews.com) - The United States needs to be very worried about "Westerners who have come to jihadist Disneyland" in both Syria and Iraq, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the House intelligence committee, told "Fox News Sunday."

"You have an al-Qaida army on the move. This isn't just Sunnis versus Shia...This is as dangerous as it gets. Why? We have thousands of Westerners and Americans in both eastern Syria and Iraq who have Western passports," Rogers said.

"[W]e know we have these Westerners who have come to jihadist Disneyland in eastern Syria that we can further radicalize, train and send back to Europe and send back to the United States."

Rogers said the "rising al-Qaeda army" is a problem that the U.S. will have to face: "And we're either going to face it in New York City or we're going to face it here" (in Iraq and Syria).

"These are not monkey-bar terrorists out in the desert somewhere, planning some very low-level attack. These are sophisticated command-and-control, seasoned combat veterans who understand the value of terrorism operations external to the region, meaning Europe and the United States. That is about as dangerous a recipe as you can put together."

[bert]

OK, I’ll concede that good was a poor choice of words.

What I believe is that the events will eventually result in stability and stability is good. There will be a lot of bad while it is all getting sorted out.

[justa-hairyape]

It was a mix of US paper money and Iraqi paper money. Obviously both will be worthless soon, but the gold and the safety deposit box items were the real haul.

[Justa]

The US funded the Syrian FSA not ISIS. ISIS essentially destroyed the FSA in internecine warfare. Then the Syrian Al Qaeda rejected ISIS initiating the ISIS attack on Iraq.

[nascarnation]

I’ll be happy to take all your US paper money and promise to recycle it.

[grania]

What I believe is that the events will eventually result in stability and stability is good

Thank you for the rewording. At this point, I wonder how bad things are going to get before there's any resolution.

[grania]

So I should’ve said the US funded ISIS through an intermediary. I should’ve said that the US enabled ISIS to get the oil profits by trying to topple Assad. People keeping up on things have been appalled since McCain’s meeting with terrorists and still the US looking for freedom fighters to fund. The original freedom fighters were replaced by ISIS long ago.