John Kerry Strikes
Again: Terror Attacks Prove Islamic State Is ‘on the Run’
by Edwin Mora 18 Jul 2016 Washington, D.C.
U.S. Secretary of State John
Kerry stressed that the recent wave of terrorist attacks linked to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) suggest that the
jihadist group is “on the run” in Iraq and Syria.
His comments came in reaction to the Bastille Day attack in Nice,
France, that left 84 people dead, including 10 children, and at least another
202 wounded. ISIS has taken responsibility
for the assault.
The Islamic State has also been affiliated with various
attacks that occurred during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan (June
5 through July 5), including the Orlando, Florida, massacre and some attacks in
Iraq and Syria. Hundreds of people were killed and injured during that period.
Nevertheless, the secretary of State downplayed the
attacks, telling CNN’s
Jake Tapper on State of the Union they are not a
reflection of the group’s strength in their home base of Iraq and Syria.
He described the attacks as “the desperate actions of an
enemy that sees the noose closing around them.”
Citing the recent wave of attacks connected to the
jihadist group, Tapper immediately challenged Kerry on the claim that ISIS “is
on the run,” telling the top U.S. diplomat:
With all due respect, sir, I’m not sure that it looks
that way to the public, that ISIS is on the run. In just the last few weeks, we
have seen a series of ISIS-inspired attacks… I don’t think ISIS is on the run.
Kerry responded:
If people are inspired, they are inspired, but ISIL,
which is based in Iraq and Syria, is under huge pressure, and that’s a fact…
If you’re saying that one person standing up one day and
killing people is an example of ISIS moving in Iraq and Syria, I think you’re
dead wrong.
Reiterating what other Obama administration officials have been emphasizing in the last few
weeks, Kerry said ISIS is “shrinking,” adding that the group has lost “40, 45
percent” of the territory it once held.
CNN reports, “Kerry’s comments about ISIS come
as U.S. intelligence officials have said the terror group isn’t desperate, but
is adapting.”
“ISIS is expected to continue going after so-called soft
targets such as airports and shopping areas,” indicated the unnamed senior
administration official, adding, “It’s not a sign of weakness or desperation.
They are adapting in a different way.”
The Obama administration has repeatedly sought to deflect
criticism of the president’s anti-terrorism record by portraying the escalating
number of attacks as evidence that ISIS is losing.
On June 28, President Barack Obama’s envoy to the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS,
Brett McGurk, suggested to lawmakers that
ISIS has been significantly weakened, saying the jihadist group has lost
territory, fighters, leaders, financial resources, and influence online.
His comments came as ISIS inspired terrorist attacks in Yemen, Lebanon, Turkey, and
Malaysia on June 27 and 28, leading to the death of at
least 93 people and the injury of another 290.
Echoing his recent comments, Kerry asserted that
the June 28 ISIS-linked attack on Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport proved the group
was “desperate” and “know [they] are losing.”
McGurk acknowledged
that ISIS has expanded to at least eight countries and regions, including
Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sinai, Nigeria, Algeria, the Caucuses, and
Afghanistan-Pakistan.
The envoy added that the terrorist group is trying to
officially establish branches in the Philippines, Bangladesh, and Somalia,
where ISIS already has supporters.
Syria
Bashar al-Assad
is the president of Syria,
supporting the hacker group Syrian
Electronic Army, and permitted the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL, Muslim) in Syria.
Note: Syrian
Electronic Army reportedly hacked Amnesty
International, and the Human Rights
Watch.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for Amnesty
International, and the Human Rights
Watch.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and
a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for Amnesty International, the Human
Rights Watch, the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and the Sundance
Institute.
Cameron F. Kerry
is a fellow at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and John F. Kerry’s
brother.
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and married to John F. Kerry.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Edward P.
Djerejian is a trustee at the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, and was a U.S. ambassador for Syria.
Ryan C. Crocker was
a U.S. ambassador for Syria, a U.S.
ambassador for
Iraq, a director of governance for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq,
a deputy assistant secretary for the U.S.
Department of State, and is a governor for the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
John
F. Kerry is the secretary at the U.S.
Department of State for the Barack
Obama administration, a governor for the Broadcasting Board of Governors, Cameron F. Kerry’s brother, and married to Teresa Heinz Kerry.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Edward P.
Djerejian is a trustee at the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, and was a U.S. ambassador for Syria.
Newton N. Minow
is an honorary trustee at the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
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Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
R. Eden Martin is
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, the candidate for the 2008
Barack Obama presidential campaign, a parishioner at the Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago),
and is the president for the Barack
Obama administration.
African
American Religious Leadership Committee was an advisory group for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign.
Jeremiah A.
Wright Jr. was a member of the African
American Religious Leadership Committee, and is a senior pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago).
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Damn America"
Published on Nov 27, 2012
A longer reel of the famous
"God Damn America" sermon from President Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright,
of Trinity United Church of
Christ in Chicago.
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Newsmagazine is a publication for the Trinity
United Church of Christ (Chicago).
Louis Farrakhan
was awarded the 2007 Jeremiah Wright Jr.
Trumpeter award from the Trumpeter
Newsmagazine, and is the acting head for the Nation of Islam (Muslim).
Oprah Winfrey was
a parishioner at the Trinity United
Church of Christ (Chicago), and a guest at Mellody L. Hobson’s 2013 wedding.
Mellody L. Hobson
was married in 2013 & Oprah Winfrey was
her guest, a trustee at the Sundance
Institute, and is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Patricia E.
Mitchell is the vice chair at the Sundance
Institute, was the president of CNN
Productions, and a director at the Human
Rights Watch.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Sundance Institute, the Human
Rights Watch, Amnesty International,
the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank).
George
Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch, is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and friend of
Michael Douglas.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Human Rights Watch, Amnesty
International, and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Syrian
Electronic Army reportedly hacked the Human
Rights Watch, and
Amnesty
International.
Bashar al-Assad
is supporting the hacker group Syrian
Electronic Army, the president of Syria,
and permitted the rise of the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL, Muslim) in Syria.
Ted
Turner is the founder of CNN,
and a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank).
Michael Douglas
is a director Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank), and a friend of George
Soros.
David A. Hamburg
is an adviser for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and the president emeritus for the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Edward P.
Djerejian is a trustee at the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, and was a U.S. ambassador for Syria.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is
a director at the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
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Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United States in war)
Cameron F. Kerry
is a fellow at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and John F. Kerry’s
brother.
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and married to John F. Kerry.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Edward P.
Djerejian is a trustee at the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, and was a U.S. ambassador for Syria.
Ryan C. Crocker was
a U.S. ambassador for Syria, a U.S.
ambassador for
Iraq, a director of governance for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq,
a deputy assistant secretary for the U.S.
Department of State, and is a governor for the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
John
F. Kerry is the secretary at the U.S.
Department of State for the Barack
Obama administration, a governor for the Broadcasting Board of Governors, Cameron F. Kerry’s brother, and married to Teresa Heinz Kerry.
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