Friday, December 08, 2017

THOUSANDS OF ISLAMIC STATE FIGHTERS WERE ALLOWED TO ESCAPE FROM RAQQA

It wasn't hundreds.

IT WAS THOUSANDS!!

Back in mid-November, Maj. Gen. Talal Silo, a commander and spokesman for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), defected from Syrian Kurdish territory into Turkey. Today, he offered new insight on the evacuation deal for the ISIS capital of Raqqa.

Silo’s revelation was that, far from evacuating “fewer than 300” ISIS fighters, the secret deal, which the US approved, had Kurdish forces providing buses to evacuate every remaining ISIS fighter from the city, and that this was several thousand fighters.

[source : Defector: Thousands of ISIS Fighters Left Raqqa in Secret Deal, Antiwar, http://news.antiwar.com/2017/12/07/defector-thousands-of-isis-fighters-left-raqqa-in-secret-deal/, 7th December 2017]

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