British Hostage In New Isis Propaganda Video Panning Obama Strategy

[Purveyor]

Published time: September 30, 2014 12:23
Edited time: September 30, 2014 14:22

The Islamic State (IS) has released a third video showing John Cantlie, a British journalist held prisoner for two years, in which he delivers a scripted propaganda speech criticizing US President Barack Obama's strategy against IS in Iraq and Syria.

Cantlie slams Obama’s tactics of using airstrikes and coalition plans to use Iraqi troops, Kurdish Peshmerga and Syrian rebels to fight the IS. The journalist delivered a response to Obama's recent speech on the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, which he described as “prideful chest banging.”

"It was all disappointingly predictable; America is good, the Islamic State [formerly ISIS] is bad; and they will be defeated using aircraft and a motley collection of fighters on the ground,” he said, commenting on Obama's speech.

Criticizing the US airstrikes in Iraq, Cantlie said, “Air power is good at taking out specific targets, but it is not good at taking and holding ground. For that you need effective and disciplined troops and it's hard to see how this hodgepodge army with a long history of underperforming is going to be any form of credible infantry."

The British hostage says organizing the Iraqi army will take months, and he dismissed the Free Syrian Army as an “undisciplined, corrupt and largely ineffective fighting force.” Cantlie adds that weapons, that the West provides to Syrian rebels, are sold by the rebels on the black market and then end up in the hands of IS fighters.

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http://rt.com/uk/191776-john-cantlie-isis-third/

Indeed there are other sources reporting this so 'choose your flavour' and click the following...

https://www.google.com/search?num=40&newwindow=1&hl=en&gl=us&authuser=0&tbm=nws&q=John+Cantlie&oq=John+Cantlie&gs_l=serp.12..0.6377306.6379661.0.6381784.2.2.0.0.0.0.405.533.0j1j4-1.2.0....0...1c.1.54.serp..1.1.127.1deobO9HyCE

[underthematrix]

1. yawn

[Purveyor]

2. So this is what it has come down to eh? A 'yawn'? Telling, indeed. eom

[CJCRANE]

3. Who's writing the script?

[flamingdem]

4. They've identified one Jihadi John who was

the most intelligent of the group holding foreign hostages - according to those who got out with ransom payments. The other "Beatles" might not write as well I suppose.