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Sunday, November 22, 2015

ISIS is not a threat to America Europe or West

ISIS is not a threat to America Europe or West ---

Stupidity:  . “ISIL is not Al Qaeda pre-9/11” with cells operating in Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States.

Before the 2015 Paris attacks, experts believed that ISIS unlike Al Qaeda was oriented to building control over territory, and not external attacks like Al Qaeda. Brian Michael Jenkins, Obama's top counterterrorism expert in the first term said that there is no evidence ISIS followers who are now found in almost all 50 states were gaining any traction in the US Muslim community, and they were just troubled loners who try and fail to orchestrate attacks. This obviously excludes the failed attacks on the Garland Texas cartoon exhibition which was claimed by ISIS, and attacks on Fort hood, Chattanooga and University of California in Merced by Muslims who have not been linked by authorities to ISIS inspired religious radicalism

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  • Barack Obama - ISIS is not a great industrial power
    • Obama: ISIS 'cannot strike a mortal blow' against U.S. | PBS  PBS Nov 22, 2015
    • Sept 10, 2014 white house statement ISIL poses a threat to the people of Iraq and Syria, and the broader Middle East -- including American citizens, personnel and facilities.  If left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region, including to the United States.  While we have not yet detected specific plotting against our homeland, ISIL leaders have threatened America and our allies. 
    • Obama: ISIS "not an organization that can destroy" America ... CBS News Dec 21, 2015 "This is not a huge industrial power that can pose great risks to us institutionally or in a systematic way."..  same way that al-Qaeda was able to carry out one spectacular attack,..but at no point was there ever a sense that in fact it could do catastrophic damage to us."
  • Brian Michael Jenkins: "There is no evidence they are gaining any traction in America's Muslim community...troubled loners who try, and fail, to orchestrate attacks..[not a] genuine threat...meaningless communication [is not] a threat. It's a tweet."
  • Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) says that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is not a direct threat to U.S. security: “I don’t see where that’s a threat to our national security,
  • Daniel Benjamin: State Department’s top counterterrorism adviser under Obama.  The group has no known experience carrying out long-distance covert operations,  “ISIL is not Al Qaeda pre-9/11” with cells operating in Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States. ISIS has no ability to attack inside the United States...upping our involvement in Iraq and Syria makes it more likely that we will be targeted by the people we are attacking,”
  • Hillary Clinton:

    • Hilllary Clinton's State Department refused to place Boko Haram on the list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2011, after the group bombed the U.N. headquarters in Abuja.

  • General Martin Dempsey: ISIS is not a direct threat to the United States
  • Rand Paul a couple of months ago there was a quote from [Hillary Clinton] saying that ISIS is not a threat to America.”
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*Daniel Benjamin

Daniel Benjamin is the director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. He previously served as ambassador-at-large and coordinator for counterterrorism at the State Department.

Daniel Benjamin on the Threat from ISIS | The John Sloan ...
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Dartmouth CollegeOct 21, 2014 - Update (10/21/14). Read in Dartmouth Now how Dickey Center DirectorDaniel Benjamin has become a regular contributor with the ...

Daniel Benjamin | Brookings Institution
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Brookings InstitutionDaniel Benjamin is a nonresident senior fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy program. ... The King and ISIS.

Don't Exaggerate the Threat From ISIS or Escalate ...
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The New York TimesJun 1, 2015 - ISIS seeks territory for its caliphate, and to stoke Sunni-Shia conflict. While Al Qaeda’s strategy focuses on catastrophic attacks against the United States, ISIS seeks to capture and hold territory for its caliphate and to stoke a sectarian conflict between Sunni and Shia. The group has no known experience carrying out long-distance covert operations, and no senior federal official has yet pointed to any ISIS plotting against the U.S. at home... fighters making their way to Syria and Iraq to join the cause could also, if they survive the current slaughter, return home to carry out attacks, but there is no certainty of that. Comments: * Let them have the Sudetenland. It's no concern of ours. We have an Ocean between us.

Hawks exaggerate ISIS threat to the United States - The ...
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The Boston GlobeBy Daniel Benjamin August 17, 2014. To judge by the doom-laden prophecies cascading in from Washington, the United States faces a towering and imminent ...

The King and ISIS | Foreign Policy
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Foreign PolicySep 10, 2015 - By Daniel BenjaminDaniel Benjamin served as coordinator for counterterrorism at the U.S. State Department from 2009-2012. He is director of ...

Daniel Benjamin: ISIS 'an unproven threat' to the U.S. ...
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Jan 6, 2015 - Uploaded by APB SpeakersIt is a fact that terrorism has been woven into the fabric of the American experience, and like crime, or war itself ...


Analyst: There's been a lot of hyperventilation about the ISIS ...
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Fareed Zakaria GPSOct 18, 2014 - Daniel Benjamin, you've written that you believe that the ISIS threat to the United States, and I think to the West, is being exaggerated.

'Quite dubious' ISIS will evolve into a true state Neither its ...
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APB's Daniel Benjamin Debates if Victory Over ISIS Can Be ...
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American Program Bureau, Inc.Jun 26, 2015 - June 26 2015 | Former State Department counterterrorism coordinator and APB speaker Daniel Benjamin recently debated the question “Can ...

Terrorism Blown out of Proportion? Daniel Benjamin ...
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May 7, 2015 - Daniel Benjamin, former advisor to both President Bill Clinton and ... one of the arguments that I've made often is that in spite of the rise of ISIS, ...

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Rand Paul cbslocal Rand Paul: Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Have The ‘Wisdom’ To Be President
September 5, 2014

“I don’t think we really want a commander-in-chief who’s battling climate change instead of terrorism,” Paul stated. “She also has been out there stating that ISIS is not a threat and so not a threat to America. Those I think were here exact words. I believe a couple of months ago there was a quote from her saying that ISIS is not a threat to America.”


Hillary: Taliban 5 'Not a Threat to the United States' | The ...
The Weekly Standard Jun 11, 2014 - Hillary Clinton says the Taliban 5, released more than a week ago by President Obama, are "not a threat to the ... "These five guys are not a threat to the United States," says Clinton. ... ISIS Manual Cites Edward Snowden ...

Hillary's State Department Refused to Brand Boko Haram as Terrorists or Threat to US The Daily Beast May 7, 2014 - Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department repeatedly declined to fully ... What Clinton didn’t mention was that her own State Department refused to place Boko Haram on the list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2011, after the group bombed the U.N. headquarters in Abuja. was a local grievance and therefore not a threat to the United States or its ..... ISIS'sagenda, Nahas told The Daily Beast, is to “exterminate or kill gay ... Gen. Carter Ham, the chief of U.S. Africa Command, said that Boko Haram “are likely sharing funds, training, and explosive materials” with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. And yet, Hillary Clinton’s State Department still declined to place Boko Haram on its official terrorist roster.

Secretary of State John Kerry eventually added Boko Haram and its splinter group Ansaru to the list of foreign terrorist organizations in November 2013, following a spate of church bombings and other acts that demonstrated the group’s escalating abilities to wreak havoc.

Meehan and others believe that the Clinton State Department underestimated the pace of Boko Haram’s growth and the group’s intention to plan operations that could harm U.S. critical interests abroad.  “At the time, the sentiment that was expressed by the administration was this was a local grievance and therefore not a threat to the United States or its interests,” he said. “They were saying al Qaeda was on the run and our argument was contrary to that. It has metastasized and it is actually in many ways a growing threat and this is a stark example of that.”

Islamic State presence in every state in the U.S. is 'the new normal,' FBI director says In US  neither Al Qaeda nor Islamic State has pulled off a major strike since Sept. 11, 2001. Despite the track record, FBI director James B. Comey has warned that Islamic State, an organization that was added to the agency's list of foreign terrorist groups only last year, is now in virtually every state.

"There is no evidence they are gaining any traction in America's Muslim community," said terrorism expert Brian Michael Jenkins,... Nowadays, Jenkins says, U.S.-based Islamic State sympathizers tend to be troubled loners who try, and fail, to orchestrate attacks before being caught....remain at this amateurish level," said Jenkins... who questioned the degree of threat in this country... "I sometimes think we lose our ability to discern what is a genuine threat,"  "This is somebody beating their chest, sounding off," said Jenkins. "It encourages a high volume of meaningless communication. It's not a threat. It's a tweet."



Charlie Rangel breaks with Pres. Obama, says ISIS not a ...
twitchy Oct 23, 2014 - says ISIS not a threat to national security. Posted at 2:07 ... How deluded is #CharlieRangel in saying that #ISIS isn't a threat to the US? The day ...Hillary Clinton calls for 'reshuffle' of deck stacked in favor of wealthy.

How deluded is in saying that isn't a threat to the US? The day after an attack in Ottawa!

An excerpt from the linked piece:
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) says that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is not a direct threat to U.S. security and is questioning President Obama’s strategy against the terror group.
“I don’t see where that’s a threat to our national security,” Rangel said Thursday on MSNBC, when asked about the group’s advance on the Kurdish town of Kobani in Syria and attacks in Baghdad’s Green Zone.
Hey, Rep. Rangel: How about getting on the same page as President Obama, heh? Because the president told the American people numerous times that ISIS is a threat to our national security:
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"This is a core principle of my presidency: If you threaten America, you will find no safe-haven." —President Obama #ISIL

The ISIS threat to the United States is real - Communities ...

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Aug 25, 2014 - General Martin Dempsey says ISIS is not a threat to the United States. 




Dempsey is wrong: The ISIS threat to the United States is real



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WASHINGTON, August 25, 2014 — General Martin Dempsey over the weekend said ISIS is not a direct threat to the United States. This revelations comes a week after Dempsey committed the cardinal sin of telling the truth by stating that ISIS is a real, direct threat.
Dempsey’s first statement was correct: ISIS is a direct, absolute threat to the United States.
Since the United States began launching air strikes against ISIS targets in early August, the jihadists have taken to social media with horrific threats against America. It has initiated a Twitter campaign, #AMessagetoAmerica, promising death and destruction in America. Militants have threatened to attack U.S. targets around the world and posted a video of a blood-splattered American flag and the words, “We will drown all of you in blood.”
So far, we are not aware of any terrorist attacks by ISIS on U.

Read more at http://www.commdiginews.com/world-news/ruth-the-isis-threat-to-the-united-states-is-real-24273/#RiDT0o3Ov07aRH37.99

http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/09/03/united-states-counterterrorism-chief-says-islamic-state-is-not-planning-an-attack-on-the-u-s/

 "ISIL is not al Qaeda pre-9/11," Olsen told a Brookings Institution audience on Wednesday, Sept. 3. Osama bin Laden’s network had covert cells in European countries and Southeast Asia, as well as a home base in Afghanistan. The Islamic State is "not there yet," Olsen said. There is "no indication at this point of a cell of foreign fighters operating in the United States."


http://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/counterterrorism-experts-isis-not-threat


Counterterrorism Experts: ISIS Not A ThreatBy Anonymous
http://forum.huskermax.com/vbbs/showthread.php?64086-Counterterrorism-Experts-ISIS-Not-An-Immediate-Threat

Daniel Benjamin, who served as the State Department’s top counterterrorism adviser during Mr. Obama’s first term, said the public discussion about the ISIS threat has been a “farce,” with “members of the cabinet and top military officers all over the place describing the threat in lurid terms that are not justified.”“It’s hard to imagine a better indication of the ability of elected officials and TV talking heads to spin the public into a panic, with claims that the nation is honeycombed with sleeper cells, that operatives are streaming across the border into Texas or that the group will soon be spraying Ebola virus on mass transit systems — all on the basis of no corroborated information,” said Mr. Benjamin, who is now a scholar at Dartmouth College.“As formidable as ISIL is as a group, it is not invincible,” said last week, using an alternate name for the group. “ISIL is not Al Qaeda pre-9/11” with cells operating in Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States.Despite the attention ISIS has received, when American counterterrorism officials review the threats to the United States each day, the terror group is not a top concern. Al Qaeda and its affiliates remain the most immediate focus. That is because ISIS has no ability to attack inside the United States, American and allied security officials say, and it is not clear to intelligence officials that the group even wants to.
“It’s pretty clear that upping our involvement in Iraq and Syria makes it more likely that we will be targeted by the people we are attacking,” said Andrew Liepman, a former deputy director at the National Counterterrorism Center who is now a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation.
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Struggling to Gauge ISIS Threat, Even as US Prepares to Act

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The New York Times
Sep 10, 2014 - “ISIL is not Al Qaeda pre-9/11” with cells operating in Europe,Southeast Asia and the United States. Mr. Olsen's assessment stood in contrast to  ...

Despite the attention ISIS has received, when American counterterrorism officials review the threats to the United States each day, the terror group is not a top concern. Al Qaeda and its affiliates remain the most immediate focus. That is because ISIS has no ability to attack inside the United States, American and allied security officials say, and it is not clear to intelligence officials that the group even wants to.



In a speech Wednesday morning, Jeh C. Johnson, the Homeland Security secretary, said, “We know of no credible information that ISIL is planning to attack the homeland at present.”

While ISIS may have long-term aspirations for war with America, the group’s immediate focus is forming an Islamic state under a puritanical version of Sunni Islam.

American officials have said publicly that their greatest fear is that ISIS has inspired radicals in the West. The concern is that jihadists with American or European passports will fight alongside ISIS or other terrorist groups in Syria, then return home trained to carry out an attack of their choosing. 

United States Counterterrorism Chief Says Islamic State Is ...

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Foreign Policy
Sep 3, 2014 - Although the group could pose a threat to the United States if left ... and global threat" unless directly countered in Syria, its base of operations. ... "ISIL is not al Qaeda pre-9/11," Olsen told a Brookings Institution ... Osama bin Laden's network had covert cells in European countries and Southeast Asia, as  ...


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