hell they had a whole convoy of them pinned down in the desert that should have been ground to dust... i am SOOOO sick of this crapHas the pact, which stood as Raqqa’s dirty secret, unleashed a threat to the outside world - one that has enabled militants to spread far and wide across Syria and beyond?
Great pains were taken to hide it from the world. But the BBC has spoken to dozens of people who were either on the convoy, or observed it, and to the men who negotiated the deal.
They should have gassed them all like rats or roaches.
I feared that might happen. There should have been A 10 Warthogs circling above until nothing was left below.
War is horrible and awful. But sometimes, treating a city to Dresden, Hamburg, Tokyo experiences is fully justified, IMHO. This could have been one of those cases if it cleaned out 1000s of jihads and their spawn.
McCain’s buddies saved, to start another war in another place in another day.
How many were given free tickets to the US?
It is longstanding local practice to allow withdrawals.
The reality is that the majority of ISIS in Raqqa were killed, even if some escaped.
There was also a lengthy period of orderly withdrawal of ISIS personnel from Raqqa during the months in which it was being surrounded.
Not perfect perhaps, but the battle of Raqqa was a thorough defeat for ISIS.
hell they had a whole convoy of them pinned down in the desert that should have been ground to dust... i am SOOOO sick of this crapThe BBC article is not correct.
No foreign fighters were allowed to escape from Raqqa.
There were NOT thousands who were released. Almost all were local converts and Arabs.
Neighter YPG/YPJ or the Coalition wanted any to escape. Local conscripts under death threat were considered. Local converts were considered. Those who had committed great crimes, were not released.
The BBC article is written for the benefit of Turkish Propaganda.