The U.S. raid in Syria was a coup in the now decades-long campaign to contain, curtail, or eliminate jihadi militants, wrightr writes. But the ISIS threat could linger for years.
. U.S. officials spent months planning the operation, at one point working off a tabletop model and doing multiple “physical rehearsals.” Biden described the preparations as “meticulous.”
After landing, U.S. forces used bullhorns to encourage everyone in the building to leave, Kirby said. Several children fled, but Abdullah soon set off the bomb that destroyed his quarters on the third floor. His unnamed deputy and his wife barricaded themselves on the second floor and both opened fire on U.S. forces, according to the Pentagon. They were both killed. After the Americans left,thirteen deaths, including four women and six children. Kirby said that U.S.
Whatever the short-term victory, jihadism retains a strong ideological appeal among alienated, marginalized, and unemployed young Muslims. In the past, U.S. attacks by air, ground, or sea have only generated new activism, anger, and recruits. “Taking down terrorist leaders has various political and psychological effects negative to that terrorist movement and positive to those fighting terror—but the impact has been tactical, not strategic, in every case,” James F. Jeffrey, the former U.S.
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