(a Templar – We had ours too)
"Two U.S. service members, one Department of Defense (DoD) civilian and one contractor supporting DoD were killed and three service members were injured in the recent attack in the northern Syrian city of Manbij, the U.S. Army Central Command (CENTCOM) announced at the late hours of January 16.
“Initial reports indicate an explosion caused the casualties, and the incident is under investigation,” CENCTOM said in a short press release.
Earlier, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack and revealed that it was carried out by a suicide bomber named “Abu Yasin al-Shami.” According to local sources, al-Shami blew himself up in a patrol of the US-led coalition in front of the Prince Restaurant in the center of Manbij.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that the attack could be meant to dissuade the U.S. from leaving Syria. However, he stressed that he believes in President Donald Trump’s determination to withdraw troops from Syria.
This was the bloodiest attack against US-led coalition troops in Syria since the beginning of the war on ISIS in 2014. Prior to it, the terrorist group’s cells targeted Kurdish fighters and prominent local figures mostly." SF
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Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you.
Senator Rand Paul tried to explain to the Fox and Friends people today that, as George Carlin used to say, "These are ancient feuds, now fought with better weapons." Well, maybe a suicide belt is not all that much better a weapon but you get the idea. Senator Paul attempted to make the point that the peoples of the region however divided tribally, religiously, politically, have a strong inclination to fight each other on a zero sum game basis. Where this is not true that change is usually the result of foreign influences that have altered the pattern. Brian Kilmeade the loudest and most simian of the morning crew on Fox attempted to shout down the senator with the usual hyper-aggressive drivel about fighting in Manbij rather than Bayonne, but Paul persisted and Kilmeade finally shut up, probably after a producer spoke to him. Some of these men on Fox need a white plastic pocket protector to complete their costuming as tribunes of the Deplorables.
Paul's essential point was correct. This was the simple fact that there will always be Islamic extremists of various sectarian allegiance in the ME. Should we be surprised that there are IS stay behinds in northern Syria? We should not be.
Trump is correct. Get the hell out and let the Russians try to make peace in Syria. pl
https://southfront.org/u-s-army-central-command-reveals-details-of-manbij-attack/
