Anonymous ID: 1a7ba9 March 11, 2019, 12:10 p.m. No.5626084   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Former Texas A&M Forest Service firefighter ordered to serve 30 years for sexual assaulting a girl for 9 years

 

CONROE, Texas — A former Texas A&M Forest Service wildland firefighter was ordered to serve 30 years in state prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting a girl for more than nine years, starting when she was 8 years old.

 

This case was investigated by the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO), with assistance from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the Montgomery County Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Taskforce.

 

On March 6, in the 359th Montgomery County (Texas) District Court, Jeffrey Pittman, 47, from Porter, Texas, pleaded guilty to and was ordered to serve 30 years in prison for continuous sexual assault of a child; he was also sentenced to 20 years for sexual assault of a child. Pittman’s sentences are to be served concurrently. He is not eligible for early parole.

 

In March 2018, MCSO began investigating Pittman for allegations of child sex abuse. After it was discovered that he had taken inappropriate photographs of a girl, HSI Houston and the Montgomery County ICAC Task Force were brought in to assist with the investigation.

 

A forensic search of Pittman’s cellphone revealed numerous pornographic images of children. Investigators subsequently uncovered evidence to confirm suspicions that Pittman had engaged in sex acts with a girl for more than nine years, from the time she was about 8 years old.

 

Following the announcement, Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Mark Dawson, HSI Houston, commended the lengthy sentence and assured the public that removing child predators from the streets remains a top priority for HSI.

“Today’s sentence sends a strong message to child predators everywhere,” said SAC Dawson. “HSI will continue to aggressively pursue those who seek to abuse our most vulnerable population to ensure they are brought to justice for their heinous acts.”

 

Montgomery County Prosecutor Laura Bond credited the strong partnerships in the Houston-area law enforcement community for ensuring that justice was served.

 

“It was because of the collaboration with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, and other members of the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office Taskforce that this child was able to get the justice she deserves,” said Prosecutor Bond.

 

This investigation was conducted under HSI’s Operation Predator, an international initiative to protect children from sexual predators. Since the launch of Operation Predator in 2003, HSI has arrested more than 19,000 individuals for crimes against children, including the production and distribution of online child exploitation material, traveling overseas for sex with minors, and sex trafficking of children. In fiscal year 2018, more than 3,000 (3191) child predators were arrested by HSI special agents under this initiative and more than 850 (859) victims identified or rescued.

 

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/former-texas-am-forest-service-firefighter-ordered-serve-30-years-sexual-assaulting

Anonymous ID: 1a7ba9 March 11, 2019, 12:11 p.m. No.5626101   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Saudi Airstrike Kills 21 Civilians in Northwest Yemen

 

House destroyed was used by women to hide during fighting

 

Saudi warplanes attacked and destroyed a house full of hiding civilians in Yemen’s northwestern Hajjah Province on Sunday, killing 21 civilians within. Locals say the victims were 20 women and a child.

 

Tribesmen familiar with the situation said that the house, in Tallan village, was commonly used by the women in the village to hide during clashes in the area. Since these tribes have recently aligned with the Saudis, this is information that the Saudis ought to have had access to when selecting targets.

 

This is a recurring problem with the Saudi War in Yemen, with Saudi warplanes regularly hitting obviously civilian targets for no apparent reason. As usual, the Saudi coalition itself has so far declined all comment on the matter.

 

It is incidents like these that have led to a recent warning from the UN refugee agency that the Saudi war in Yemen averages 100 civilian casualties per week. Large civilian casualties throughout the war have fueled international outcry, and growing calls to stop arming the Saudis.

 

https://news.antiwar.com/2019/03/10/saudi-airstrike-kills-21-civilians-in-northwest-yemen/

Anonymous ID: 1a7ba9 March 11, 2019, 12:12 p.m. No.5626110   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6455 >>6735

Trump Regime Electricity War in Venezuela More Serious than First Believed

 

On Thursday, Venezuela’s Guri dam hydroelectric power plant was cyberattacked at 5:00 PM during the late afternoon rush hour to cause maximum disruption.

 

Up to 80% of the country was affected, damage done more severe than initially thought. Weeks or months of planning likely preceded what happened – US behind it? considerable expertise needed to pull it off.

 

On Friday, another cyberattack occurred, followed by a third one on Saturday, affecting parts of the country where power was restored, further complicating resolution of the problem, Maduro saying:

 

After power was restored to about 70% of the country, “we received another attack, of a cybernetic nature, at midday…that disturbed the reconnection process and knocked out everything that had been achieved until noon,” adding:

 

“(O)ne of the sources of generation that was working perfectly” was sabotaged again…infiltrators…attacking the electric company from the inside.”

 

Power is being restored “manually,” efforts continuing to learn precisely why computerized systems failed – things further complicated after a Bolivar state substation transformer exploded and burned, suggesting more sabotage.

 

What’s happening in Venezuela is similar to infecting Iran’s Bushehr and Natanz nuclear power facilities with a Stuxnet malware computer virus in 2010, a likely joint US/Israeli intelligence operation. Edward Snowden blamed them for what happened.

 

At the time, operations were halted indefinitely. Iran called the incident a hostile act. General Gholam-Reza Jalali said if the affected facilities went online infected, Iran’s entire electrical power grid could have been shut down.

 

It took months to fully resolve the problem. Following the summer 2010 attack, the malware continued to infect the facilities’ centrifuges, requiring their replacement.

 

An Institute for Science and International Security analysis said

 

https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-electricity-war-venezuela/5670970

Anonymous ID: 1a7ba9 March 11, 2019, 12:13 p.m. No.5626128   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6221 >>6455 >>6735 >>6768

Judicial Watch Files Ethics Complaint Against Adam Schiff Over His Shady Contacts with Glenn Simpson, Michael Cohen

 

Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch announced Monday it filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Adam Schiff over his contacts with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson and Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen.

 

The official complaint filed by Judicial Watch with the Office of Congressional Ethics, requests House Intel Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) be investigated in connection with recent revelations that he secretly met with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson in Aspen, Colorado in July of 2018.

 

The complaint also requests Schiff be investigated after it was revealed his staff traveled to New York and met with Michael Cohen for 10 hours prior to Trump’s former lawyer testifying to the House Intel Panel.

 

“Rep. Schiff has an ethics problem. His and his staff’s irregular communications with anti-Trump witnesses reflect poorly on the credibility of the House and its committees’ investigations,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “It has long been apparent that Rep. Schiff can’t be trusted to lead the Intelligence Committee, so we hope that Democrats on the Ethics Committee stop protecting Mr. Schiff and take action.”

 

Excerpt of the ethics complaint via Judicial Watch:

 

Dear Chairman Skaggs,

 

Judicial Watch is a non-profit, non-partisan educational foundation, which promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government and fidelity to the rule of law. We regularly monitor congressional ethics issues as part of our anti-corruption mission.

 

This letter serves as our official complaint to the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) concerning the activities of Rep. Adam Schiff. Rep. Schiff appears to have violated House Code of Official Conduct, Rule 23, clauses 1 and 2, by inappropriately communicating with witnesses. Clauses 1 and 2 provide:

 

1.A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House.

 

2.A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall adhere to the spirit and the letter of the Rules of the House and to the rules of duly constituted committees thereof.

 

Rep. Adam Schiff attended the Aspen Security Forum conference in July 2018, which was also attended by Glenn Simpson, the founder of the firm Fusion GPS. Press reports have detailed evidence of a meeting and discussion between Rep. Schiff and Glenn Simpson at the July 2018 Aspen Security Forum. As noted in The Hill newspaper:

 

At the time of the encounter, Simpson was an important witness in the House Intelligence Committee probe who had given sworn testimony about alleged, but still unproven, collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.

 

Fusion GPS is the political opposition research firm involved in procuring “unverified” information claiming the Trump presidential campaign had “colluded” with Russia, among other things. That Fusion OPS-supplied information was the basis upon which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtained Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) surveillance warrants against Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/judicial-watch-files-ethics-complaint-against-adam-schiff-over-his-shady-contacts-with-glenn-simpson-michael-cohen/

Anonymous ID: 1a7ba9 March 11, 2019, 12:16 p.m. No.5626165   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6217 >>6455 >>6735

The Dark Secret Behind a British Billionaire’s “Parallel State” In Argentina’s Patagonia

 

A sinister plan involving the world’s most notorious oligarchs, as well as the IMF and key elements of the global Zionist lobby, lurks beneath the de facto independent state created by one of England’s richest men in the heart of Argentina’s Patagonia.

 

EL BOLSÓN, ARGENTINA – At the “end of the world,” spanning the southernmost regions of Argentina and Chile, lies the land of Patagonia, much of which remains a pristine wilderness that has inspired countless naturalists and would-be adventurers with its dramatic landscapes and natural beauty. For many, it is a place that still feels remarkably untouched and removed from the chaos of the modern world.

 

Yet, it is these very qualities, as well as the region’s great oil and gas potential and its abundance of glacier-fed freshwater reserves, that have placed it in the crosshairs of predators — predators armed with billions of dollars, powerful influence over Argentine politics and the country’s press, as well as alliances with controversial international financial organizations and key elements of the global Zionist lobby.

 

Coveted for its still largely unplundered resources, Patagonia has become the target of a close-knit network of notorious billionaires and global elites, who have spent much of the last two and a half decades seeking to transform this area into their own independent state.

 

Indeed, though several of these billionaires have already created de facto private states where they enjoy near-total impunity within Argentine Patagonia, others have been behind major efforts that have pushed for the territory’s secession. Still others have pushed Argentina’s government to exchange its claim to Patagonia for “debt relief” as a way of easing Argentina’s economic plight that, incidentally, was largely created by this very same group of billionaires. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), whose connections to this billionaire network are considerable, has had an outsized role in this effort.

 

Yet this appears to be more than just a venture on the behalf of notable oligarchs and the global elite, as prominent elements of the international Zionist lobby are intimately involved, as is the state of Israel, though the extent of the involvement of the latter is subject to debate. Their interest revolves around claims that date back to the founding of Zionism in the 19th century, when revered Zionist figures like Theodore Herzl discussed Argentina as a potential homeland for a Jewish ethno-state.

 

Since then, other notable Zionists, including past Israeli ambassadors to Argentina, have argued that Israel is for “European Jews” while “American Jews” must take Argentina for themselves. Notably, the method suggested by Herzl as a means of creating a Zionist state in his seminal work “The Jewish State” involves the exchange of debt for territory.

 

In the first part of this investigative series, MintPress explores the de facto independent state that has been created by British billionaire and Zionist Joe Lewis, a long-time associate of controversial Hungarian-American financier George Soros. Lewis has essentially bought out the local, regional and even national government of Argentina, allowing him to operate with impunity while he acquires more and more territory through land purchases of dubious (if any) legality, intimidates and threatens locals, usurps crucial water and energy resources from local towns, and operates his own international private airport that no one but he controls.

 

Subsequent reports in this series will examine the other key players in this effort to create a Patagonian state, namely Argentine oligarchs Marcelo Mindlin and Eduardo Elsztain, who are both deeply connected to the global Zionist lobby and the Rockefeller-founded Americas Society, and are also both close Soros associates. Finally, the role of these individuals and their associates in efforts to use IMF debt slavery to pressure the Argentine government to swap debt for territory will be revealed, as will the role of the Zionist lobby and prominent figures in the global elite.

 

https://www.mintpressnews.com/dark-secret-behind-british-billionaire-joe-lewis-parallel-state-in-argentina-patagonia/256068/

 

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Anonymous ID: 1a7ba9 March 11, 2019, 12:19 p.m. No.5626217   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6254

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Beyond the alleged IDF “vacations” on Lewis’ land, his presence in the area has been controversial for other reasons, namely for concerns that he sought to usurp key regional resources. Indeed, journalist Gonzalo Sanchez noted in his 2004 book Patagonia Sold: The New Owners of the Land:

 

In El Bolsón, there are more than a few locals and city council members that believe that, behind his [Lewis’] generosity, there are other hidden objectives, like the possible control of the water reserves of this part of Patagonia (pg. 50).”

 

Inklings of the truth in relation to these concerns were evident as soon as Lewis acquired the property surrounding Lago Escondido. This large mountain lake, which Lewis’ property surrounds, is the water basin for two important regional rivers, the Manso and Puelo, which later unite in Chile and drain into the Pacific. It is also the lake the feeds other nearby lakes including the Soberanía Lakes and Montes Lake, among others. Lago Escondido itself is estimated to contain as many as 400 billion liters (~105 billion gallons) of freshwater.

 

In Argentina, as is also the case in neighboring Chile, water – whether in lakes, rivers or seas – is a public right and public access to all bodies of water is guaranteed by law. This legal concept — likely foreign to Lewis and other Westerners, whose home countries often enshrine private property rights over the public’s right to vital resources — has been the most visible way in which tensions between Lewis and locals have manifested. It was also the first real test of Lewis’ resolve to carve out his “independent state” in Patagonia and keep locals out.

 

Lewis closed off the public road from the highway to the lake and also closed the private road he built at a separate point from public access. According to several locals interviewed by MintPress who had tried to enter the area, private security in civilian clothing prevent people from using the roads either by vehicle or on foot. Federico Soria, who has himself tried to enter the area on several occasions, described the guards to MintPress as “intimidating” and “aggressive” and also said that the Montero family, the old owners of the land, block one of the roads before it enters Lewis’ property and are “heavily armed.”

 

The only remaining path is a steep – and in places, dangerous – mountain path that takes at least two days in each direction to traverse. The path is poorly marked and maintained and is only usable in summer, as it is blocked by snowfall in other seasons. Every person interviewed by MintPress who had seen or traversed the path described it as being suitable only for “experienced mountaineers.”

 

In 2009, Lewis suffered his first major defeat in his efforts to keep locals out of his “parallel state” when the regional court ruled that the Tacuifi road — which connects the lake to the main highway, Route 40, and crosses Lewis’ property — be opened. The ruling stated that this must be done in order to “ensure access to Lago Escondido with appropriate signaling and ensuring transability.” The court gave Lewis 120 days to comply.

 

However, he didn’t comply and instead his regional associates began openly threatening any who tried to visit “his” lake. The clearest threat came from Van Dittmar himself in 2011, when he publicly stated that he and other Hidden Lake S.A. employees would defend Lewis’ private property by “fighting with blood, if we have to.” Van Ditmar also said that he would keep locals from accessing the lake “with a Winchester [rifle] in hand, with blood if necessary.”

 

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Anonymous ID: 1a7ba9 March 11, 2019, 12:22 p.m. No.5626254   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Clearly unhappy with this turn of events, the Laderas firms challenged the suspension of the project in court. Around this same time, members of local groups that had opposed the Laderas project reported several incidents of violence and intimidating acts, including threatening phone calls, their cars being set on fire, and the burning of a radio station as well as a community center in Mallín Ahogado.

 

In the case of architect and local politician Luis Martin, he was threatened with “lynching” by two Lewis associates – local businessmen Juan Carlos Martínez and Fabián Tornero – and his home was later broken into by armed thugs, one of whom accidentally cut himself with his machete and later fled the scene. Before escaping, the man had told Martin, “They have you targeted, they are going to kill you.”

 

In a 2011 article in Tiempo Argentina, Martínez referred to Lewis as “my friend” and was noted as a regular participant in meetings with Van Ditmar. The same article goes on to note that, in those meetings with Van Ditmar, Tornero is “influential” and further notes that Tornero is a known associate of Lewis.

 

In 2015, after García’s decree was challenged in court by Lewis’ firms, a judge ruled that the decree was legal but had not been written properly and therefore cancelled it. Soon after, a new pro-Lewis mayor and city council took charge and quickly signed a legal agreement with the Laderas companies, allowing them to build a “smaller project,” while claiming that any attempt to block the project – as García had done – could lead to another costly, lengthy legal battle that the municipal government just couldn’t afford. However, as Guido Augello told MintPress, this was hardly accurate, given that the local government could have appealed the decision regarding the decree, suggesting that this was just a convenient excuse to fast-track the project.

 

A few months after signing this agreement with the Laderas firms, the city council held a public hearing at which the vast majority of attendees from the community overwhelmingly rejected and criticized the project. Not getting the response it had hoped for, the council held a “secret” extraordinary meeting — secret because they declined to give the public the required notice needed to register to attend and participate in the meeting. With no one having registered, Pogliano decided to keep the meeting “closed” and placed police officers at the entrances to keep the townspeople out by force. The council subsequently decided to approve the Laderas project. Angry locals moved to occupy local government buildings in response, where they were targeted by riot police with tear gas.

 

Cont. from images:

As will be explored in Part Two of this series, the Soros-led oligarch network, of which Lewis is a part in Argentina, has expanded its efforts to control Patagonia’s vast and strategic resources, including the region’s oil and gas wealth in addition to the domination of its freshwater resources and hydroelectricity production. Subsequent articles will then show that this effort is just the beginning, as this network and its close ties to the International Monetary Fund are being used to transfer ownership of vast state lands to their control in exchange for “debt relief.” The ultimate endgame appears to be the expansion of this “parallel state” — which Lewis has already helped to create in Río Negro and beyond, and which is controlled by small number of mostly foreign oligarchs — into a full-scale operation for extracting the region’s riches and exploiting its people.

Anonymous ID: 1a7ba9 March 11, 2019, 12:24 p.m. No.5626270   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6319 >>6327

Here’s why 5G is NOT allowed in Israel where it was developed

 

5G is Part of Sterlizing the Goyim — Not Allowed in Israel

 

Alert Reader writes in:

 

Smart meters and mandatory vaccinations/pesticides are the “Final Solution” to the cattle goyim…especially the white anglo saxon protestants! 1G, 2G, 3G and 4G use between 1 to 5 gigahertz frequency. 5G uses between 24 to 90 gigahertz frequency. Within the RF Radiation portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, the higher the frequency the more dangerous it is to living organisms. 5G, developed in Israel, is exported — it is FORBIDDEN in Israel.

 

The safety of 5G technology is finally being brought into serious question

 

Genetic sequencing science breakthrough just proved that measles “outbreaks” are caused by the measles vaccine

 

RELATED (Long Input from Alert Reader):

 

*The most referred to site for these studies is

https://www.emf-portal.org/en – Univ of Aachen. I corresponded with the

director of this site, asking how many of their current 27,000+

published NIR studies show harm? She said for an advocacy rule of thumb

use 20,000. David Carpenter was copied in and also estimates 20,000.

Moskowitz doesn’t seem to object. As everyone knows who has even a

little familiarity with the EMR field, Carpenter (SUNY Albany, co-author

of /Bio-initiative Report/, a summary of several hundred of the best of

these studies) and Moskowitz (U Cal Berkeley) are the most influential

scientists in EMR in N. America.

 

*Carpenter’s site is the Bio-Initiative site, updated 2017:

*https://bioinitiative.org/

 

*with Henry Lai’s Research Summaries:

***https://bioinitiative.org/research-summaries/

 

Moskowitz’s site: * https://www.saferemr.com<https://www.saferemr.com/>/*

 

Here are links to many of those 20,000 or so studies

 

EMR INSTITUTIONAL SITES

<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lZCADqKW4twIb5MIqhKFcO49KlPaER9zVpJiQ0hhsnQ/edit?usp=drive_web>

 

EMR GENERAL SITES

<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rQMR5fywlXDdr-UgpmBfmngVounsO5KQbxanBj4PXFs/edit?usp=drive_web>

 

*Obviously if there are about 20,000 published studies showing harm from

EMR, there are going to be thousands of scientists who have done those

studies who are aware of the acute dangers of childish, impulsive,

obsessive, and superficial dive into cell phones, smart meters, wifi,

and 5G (led by the US, and potentially prevented mainly by the IAA).

Here is a list of most of the visible scientists who know how dangerous

EMR can be, many of whom are warning about it (Maharishi warned about

it, and said not to use cell phones, and told all the Rajas to tell all

their Governors not to use cell phones):*

 

EMR SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS

<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oR–UQg9AUc0NKNwx4WMZAVQSekZtaHXTVDoFc8KyrA/edit?usp=drive_web>

 

*The reason for many studies showing no harm from cell phones and other

EMR is: there are many poor studies, for two reasons: *

 

*1. Political and financial influence on the studies: Industry funded

studies are of lower quality, seemingly designed to show no harm (short

term, small sample, and incorrect EMR measuring)*

 

*2. Poor research method: two initial studies in 1976 showed harm but

were poorly done (they got lucky) but many studies were done after that

using that same poor research design and did not show harm (due to poor

research methods). *

 

Political and financial influence: The three primary documents are:

 

1. Hertsgaard and Dowie’s landmark expose in */The Nation/ magazine:

*https://www.thenation.com/article/how-big-wireless-made-us-think-that-cell-phones-are-safe-a-special-investigation/

 

*revised and published in /The Guardian/:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/14/mobile-phones-cancer-inconvenient-truths*

 

*2. Norm Alster’s landmark Harvard paper on FCC corruption:

https://ethics.harvard.edu/files/center-for-ethics/files/capturedagency_alster.pdf*

https://phibetaiota.net/2019/03/koko-5g-is-part-of-sterlizing-the-goyim-not-allowed-in-israel/#more-138964

Anonymous ID: 1a7ba9 March 11, 2019, 12:27 p.m. No.5626297   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6462

“Lights Out!” Did Trump and His Neocons Recycle Bush-Era Plan to Knock Out Venezuela’s Power Grid?

 

Even as the Venezuelan government blamed the recent power outage on U.S.-led “sabotage,” the U.S. has long had a plan on the books for targeting the civilian power grid of adversarial nations.

 

CARACAS, VENEZUELA — For nearly four days, much of Venezuela has been without power, bringing the country’s embattled economy to a near standstill. Though power is now returning, the outage saw U.S. officials and politicians blame the Venezuelan government for the crisis while officials in Caracas accused the U.S. of conducting “sabotage” and launching cyberattacks that targeted its civilian power grid as well as of employing saboteurs within Venezuela.

 

Although many mainstream media outlets have echoed the official U.S. government response, some journalists have strayed from the pack. One notable example is Kalev Leetaru, who wrote at Forbes that “the United States remotely interfering with its [Venezuela’s] power grid is actually quite realistic.”

 

Leetaru also noted that “timing such an outage to occur at a moment of societal upheaval in a way that delegitimizes the current government, exactly as a government-in-waiting has presented itself as a ready alternative, is actually one of the tactics” he had previously explored in a 2015 article detailing U.S. government hybrid warfare tactics “to weaken an adversary prior to conventional invasion or to forcibly and deniably effect a transition in a foreign government.”

 

https://www.mintpressnews.com/did-the-us-recycle-a-bush-era-plan-to-take-out-venezuelas-power-grid/256113/

Anonymous ID: 1a7ba9 March 11, 2019, 12:32 p.m. No.5626364   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6378

US, France, UK in talks to prolong Syria presence: Bolton

 

US National Security Adviser John Bolton says he has discussed a long-term military presence in Syria with his British and French counterparts, despite an order by President Donald Trump to evacuate American troops from the Arab country.

 

Speaking to ABC News on Sunday, Bolton was hopeful that Britain and France would also join the US efforts to prevent Daesh’s resurgence.

 

"It hasn't happened formally yet, but they're looking at it. I think it's very important that we try and get this up. The ISIS threat, the al Qaeda threat, the terrorist threat is an ideological threat worldwide and it's something that I think we have to be vigilant against for the foreseeable future," he said using another acronym for Daesh.

 

Bolton reaffirmed President Donald Trump's assessment of Daesh’s defeat in Syria but cautioned that the threat still persisted because members of the group were spread around the world.

 

"The president has been, I think, as clear as clear can be when he talks about the defeat of the ISIS territorial caliphate," Bolton said. "He has never said that the elimination of the territorial caliphate means the end of ISIS in total.

 

"We know that's not the case. We know right now that there are ISIS fighters scattered still around Syria and Iraq, and that ISIS itself is growing in other parts of the world. The ISIS threat will remain."

 

The remarks once again highlight Washington’s shifting messages since Trump’s announcement of a swift withdrawal from Syria.

 

In a video posted to Twitter in December, Trump declared that "we have won against ISIS" and "it’s time for our troops to come back home" from Syria. Back then, the president said he had directed his commanders to complete the process in three months.

 

While some of the nearly 2,000 US troops in Syria have already moved to the neighboring Iraq but the process has reportedly come to a halt to address concerns in Washington.

 

Last month, the Trump administration announced that some 400 American troops will stay in Syria indefinitely after the withdrawal was completed to allegedly protect allied Kurdish militants in Syria from possible Turkish attacks while keeping an eye out for Daesh’s reemergence.

 

Bolton said Sunday that the decision was out of concern that Daesh could regain its footing.

 

"One reason that the president has committed to keeping an American presence in Iraq and a small part of an observer force in Syria, is against the possibility that there would be a real resurgence of ISIS, and we would then have the ability to deal with that if that arose," he said.

 

Last week, General Joseph Votel, commander of US Central Command which oversees US military operations in the Middle East, said the fight against Daesh was "far from over."

 

He told the House Armed Services Committee that Daesh had made a "calculated decision" to preserve its resources and wait "for the right time to resurge."

 

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/03/10/590703/US-Bolton-UK-France-Syria-presence-Trump