Obama--hitting other targets-not ISIS

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http://news.yahoo.com/activists-us-strike-hits-syrian-rebel-compound-072924447.html


Activists: US strike hits Syrian rebel compound


Associated Press
By DIAA HADID
5 hours ago

BEIRUT (AP) — U.S. airstrikes hit the compound of a powerful hard-line rebel group that is not affiliated to the Islamic State extremist organization early Thursday, activists said, in an apparent widening of targets that could further strain relations between Washington and the Western-backed opposition.


The Syrian rebels have complained that the aerial campaign against the extremist group is indirectly aiding President Bashar Assad's forces, and have been infuriated by the U.S. willingness to attack other Islamic militant groups that the rebels view as allies while refraining from targeting the government.

At least one strike hit a compound belonging to Ahrar al-Sham in the town of Babsalqa in the northwestern province of Idlib, according to local activist Ahmad Kaddour and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Ahrar al-Sham is a rebel group that follows an extremely conservative interpretation of Islam.

One of its founders was a senior al-Qaida operative known as Abu Khaled al-Souri. The group is not affiliated with the global terror network, although it has close relations with the Nusra Front, al-Qaida's Syrian branch.

Ahrar al-Sham is part of the Islamic Front, an alliance of seven powerful conservative and ultraconservative rebel groups that merged in November last year. The Islamic Front wants to create an Islamic state in Syria governed by Shariah law and rejects the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition, but cooperates with some of its fighters on the ground.

There was no immediate U.S. comment on the strike.

Activists said the strike was among several that occurred early Thursday in towns along the Syrian border with Turkey.

Other strikes hit compounds of the Nusra Front in the border towns of Sarmada and Harem. The strike in Harem killed at least two children, said Kaddour and the Britain-based Observatory.

Just as I suspected Obama would do--switch away from hitting ISIS to hit opponents of ISIS. Remember how he first declared ISIS NO THREAT, then later when forced stated we need only "degrade but not destroy" them.
Now after the election he goes about hitting their opponents.
And the American people will get propaganda lies and pure deception to cover his true agenda. -Tyr

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

More deception from Obama..
The idiot Republicans leaders will likely give him a free pass to hit opponents of ISIS INSTEAD OF DESTROYING ISIS TOTALLY.



http://news.yahoo.com/obama-seek-war-powers-congress-231936229--politics.html


Obama to seek new war powers from Congress

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Associated Press
By DEB RIECHMANN
14 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Wednesday he would work with Congress on new war powers to fight Islamic State militants and expressed cautious optimism about whether the international face-off over Iran's nuclear program will be resolved — two issues that could prove harder for the White House to maneuver with Republicans in charge on Capitol Hill.



Obama spoke at a news conference the day after his party was thrashed by Republicans in midterm elections, leaving the GOP soon to be in charge of both the House and the Senate.

When he approved U.S. airstrikes in late September against extremists who have captured territory across Syria and Iraq, Obama used legal grounds of congressional authorizations that President George W. Bush relied on more than a decade ago. The White House maintained then that the Bush-era congressional authorizations for the war on al-Qaida and the Iraq invasion gave Obama authority to act without new approval by Congress under the 1973 War Powers Act.

That law, passed during the Vietnam War, serves as a constitutional check on presidential power to declare war without congressional consent. It requires presidents to notify Congress within 48 hours of military action, and limits the use of military forces to no more than 60 days unless Congress authorizes force or declares war.

Now, however, Obama said a new military authorization is one of a few areas where he will seek to work with lawmakers during the lame-duck session before a new Congress is seated in January.

"The idea is to right-size and update whatever authorization Congress provides to suit the current fight rather than previous fights," Obama told reporters at the White House.




He said he would update congressional leaders about the fight against IS during meetings on Friday. He said he wanted to start now to craft new authorization, but that completing it could carry over into next year when a new Congress will usher in GOP control of the Senate.

Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Wednesday that he has made clear that a new authorization was needed and that any prolonged military campaign requires a new authorization approved by Congress. He said he would start the process in the days ahead and that the committee would hold hearings on Iraq and Syria beginning next week. "It is incumbent that Congress take the lead in authorizing the use of force," Menendez said.

In September, during a heated congressional debate over training moderate Syrian rebels, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said a new authorization was something that lawmakers should consider. But he also suggested the lame-duck session was the wrong time to do it and that the vote should wait until next year.

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the House Intelligence Committee, on Wednesday called on Boehner to schedule a vote on a new authorization before the current Congress draws to a close. In a letter to the House speaker, Schiff said no president has the power to commit its citizens to war without Congress, insisting it was "not a decision that can or should wait until 2015."

On Iran, Obama said it was an "open question" as to whether international negotiators and Iran can reach a deal over Tehran's nuclear program. With a Nov. 24 deadline looming, Obama said the next three to four weeks will be key.

Many Republican leaders have criticized the administration's desire to ease sanctions on Iran while the talks are underway, or to embrace any agreement that would allow Tehran to continue generating nuclear power. The upcoming deadline, therefore, could represent the last chance the White House will get at reaching a comprehensive agreement that would prevent Iran from being able to develop a nuclear weapon. Iran says its nuclear program is for civilian applications.

Obama knows he can lie his ass off and do as he pleases in regards to hitting which groups HE decides to wipe out..
And those groups will be opponents of the Caliphate promoting ISIS.
I knew after the election he would do this but was shocked at how soon he implemented it!

He asks now but before he said FU, I do this.
They had best not increases any of his damn powers! Are they mad??? -Tyr