- Envoy said it was vital to kill terrorists to stop them mounting attacks back home
- Comes after the remaining ISIS fighters in de facto capital fled after a standoff
- Thousands of people have left Europe to join the jihadists in Iraq and Syria
Foreign Isis fighters fleeing the group's fallen stronghold of Raqqa must be killed on the battlefield, according to a senior US adviser.
Brett McGurk, a top envoy for the American coalition fighting the terror group, said it was vital to kill foreign terrorists to stop them mounting attacks back home.
The comments come after the remaining Islamic State terrorists holed up in their de-facto capital fled after a final bloody standoff.
'Our mission is to make sure any foreign fighter who is here, who joined ISIS from a foreign country and came into Syria, they will die here in Syria,' Mr McGurk said.
'So if they're in Raqqa, they're going to die in Raqqa.'
The city's final days under Isis control were brutal, with 75 coalition airstrikes in 48 hours and a flurry of desperate terrorist car bombs.
Around 300 extremists hiding around a sports stadium and a hospital argued among themselves about whether to surrender, according to Kurdish commanders.
No government publicly expressed concern about the fate of its citizens who left and joined the Islamic State fighters plotting attacks at home and abroad.
In France, which has suffered repeated violence claimed by the Islamic State, Defence Minister Florence Parly was among the few to say it aloud.
'If the jihadis perish in this fight, I would say that's for the best,' Parly told Europe 1 radio last week.
The coalition has given names and photos to the Kurdish fighters to identify the foreign jihadis.
They are checking for wanted men among the dead or the few foreigners among the captured.
An official with the YPG Kurdish militia said foreigners who decided to fight until the end will be 'eliminated.'
No country will admit to refusing to take back citizens who joined the Islamic State, including women and their children.
But few are making much of an effort to recover them.
In Iraq, hundreds of Islamic State fighters have surrendered or have been taken into custody, and their families have been rounded up into detention camps.
The men are put on trial and face the death penalty if convicted of terrorism charges - even if they are foreigners. One Russian fighter has already been hanged.
Britain has not said how many of its former citizens are believed still fighting.
But one Briton posted a furious 72-minute monologue earlier this month from Raqqa as airstrikes and artillery fire boomed behind him.
He said Muslims around the world should be outraged at the treatment of Islamic State's followers.
'This is not me being an extremist. I'm a very moderate, mild person, hamdullah (thanks to God), and I find Islamic State to be very moderate and mild,' said the man.
He called himself Abu Adam al-Britani and was identified as Yasser Iqbal, a Porsche-driving lawyer who defended Islamic State's brutal practices as ordained by God.
He did not mention the group's routine public beheadings, enslavement of women or brainwashing of children to become hardened killers.
#1: Tooconservative To: cranky (#0)
A more extreme version of "We'll fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here at home".
Simple enough. Lure them to a war there so your allies can kill them for you with no legal complications or pesky due process.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-10-21 21:32:15 Reply Private Reply
#2: Hank Rearden To: cranky (#0)
Hank Rearden posted on 2017-10-21 23:50:52 Reply Private Reply
#3: cranky To: Hank Rearden (#2)
I hope they do.
cranky posted on 2017-10-22 07:48:37 Reply Private Reply
#4: A K A Stone To: cranky (#0)
A K A Stone posted on 2017-10-22 07:52:26 Reply Private Reply
#5: cranky To: A K A Stone (#4)
Absolutely.
Take no prisoners.
It's tough on the dogfaces that have to carry out the order but it has to be done sometime.
Might as well be now.
cranky posted on 2017-10-22 08:53:44 Reply Private Reply
#6: misterwhite To: cranky (#0)
Yeah. C'mon guys. We were just kidding.
misterwhite posted on 2017-10-22 10:24:37 Reply Private Reply
#7: sneakypete To: cranky (#0)
Works for me!
I hope MrMcGurk runss for public office when he returns to America.
sneakypete posted on 2017-10-22 12:04:21 Reply Private Reply
#8: sneakypete To: A K A Stone (#4)
Me,too,and I'm not even religious.
sneakypete posted on 2017-10-22 12:05:12 Reply Private Reply
#9: buckeroo To: A K A Stone (#4)
But ... but ... but ... Jesus said:
"Turn the other cheek." Where is your compassion?
buckeroo posted on 2017-10-22 13:30:38 Reply Private Reply
#10: interpreter To: buckeroo (#9)
I surely hope that you are kidding. In Luke 19:27, Jesus says kill them all, every last one of His enemies.
Yes, we are commanded to love our personal enemies, turn the other cheek, etc. But we are also commanded to show absolutely no compassion at all to the enemies of Jesus, defined by Jesus as anyone who does not want Christians (i.e., Christian nations) ruling over them. They must be killed off, and especially so with ISIS.
interpreter posted on 2017-10-22 15:51:50 Reply Private Reply
#11: buckeroo To: interpreter (#10)
I regard you as a complete liar, no matter your posts.
Why do you even post your SHIT? A CLONE OF gatlin OR YUKON?
buckeroo posted on 2017-10-22 15:56:13 Reply Private Reply
#12: interpreter To: buckeroo (#11)
You need to be careful, very careful. If you call me a liar, you are calling Jesus a liar, and telling Jesus to go F... Himself. I'm pretty sure you are going to hell for that remark if you do not repent.
interpreter posted on 2017-10-22 16:13:28 Reply Private Reply
#13: buckeroo To: interpreter (#12)
YOU ARE STUPID, CRASS AND A BOLD ASSHOLE SUGGESTING ANY ORIGINAL CERTIFICATION FROM YOUR RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND. ONCE AGAIN, GO FUCK YOURSELF.
buckeroo posted on 2017-10-22 16:26:09 Reply Private Reply
#14: interpreter To: buckeroo (#13)
Now you have removed all doubt. Now I am certain you are going to hell because twice now you told Jesus to go F... Himself.
interpreter posted on 2017-10-22 16:47:54 Reply Private Reply
#15: buckeroo To: interpreter (#14)
buckeroo posted on 2017-10-22 18:57:18 Reply Private Reply
#16: interpreter To: buckeroo (#15)
I was only repeating what Jesus clearly says (in Luke 19:27). You do not get to pick just 4 or 5 verses that you like, and then poo poo on the rest of the Gospels. It doesn't work like that.
interpreter posted on 2017-10-22 19:38:17 Reply Private Reply
#17: buckeroo To: interpreter (#16)
buckeroo posted on 2017-10-22 19:42:29 Reply Private Reply
#18: interpreter To: buckeroo (#17)
All I've got to say is, I've been studying the Bible for about 60 years now, and in recent years, I've been studying the original Greek (because Jesus spoke in Greek, not English). Have you done that?
interpreter posted on 2017-10-22 20:36:51 Reply Private Reply
#19: buckeroo To: interpreter (#18)
Nope. I am not as STUPID as you. Moreover, you haven't learned a thing.
buckeroo posted on 2017-10-22 20:57:54 Reply Private Reply
#20: goldilucky To: sneakypete (#7)
That mission also includes foreign fighter McGurk as well. He should know where they originated from.
https://public.isishq.com/public/about/default.aspx and should thank those clients for being so accommodating in fulfilling this mission.
goldilucky posted on 2017-10-22 21:05:04 Reply Private Reply
#21: sneakypete To: goldilucky (#20)
BullBush.
sneakypete posted on 2017-10-23 13:09:46 Reply Private Reply