Posted on 06/17/2014 11:44:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The U.S. military has the capability to conduct air strikes over Iraq within hours. The problem is they dont know exactly who they are supposed to be targeting.
President Obama is repositioning military assets closer to Iraq, in case he wants to strike at the terrorists that are threatening to tear the country apart. The problem is, the U.S. doesnt know who its supposed to hit.
Current and retired American defense and intelligence officials tell The Daily Beast that the CIA and the Pentagon are not certain who exactly makes up the forces that have taken so much of Iraq. Moreover, these intelligence and defense officials says that they believe that some of the people fighting with Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) are former U.S. allies who could be turned against the hard-core fanaticsif they can be identified.
We dont have boots on ground providing intelligence and we dont have confidence in information that the Iraqi government provides, because theyve [been] so heavy-handed in the use of force against Sunni villages, said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee.
In other words, the American intelligence community is only now scrambling to draw up a potential target list in Iraq, and possibly Syriaeven though the threat of ISIS has been visibly growing for years. And while the analysts are trying to figure out who they should zero in on, Obama administration lawyers are wrestling with what legal authorities the president might have to carry out an attack.
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Whoa boy-what a mess .
Here is a clue for you, they are waving giant black Al Qaeda flags.
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