Ex-Envoy Brett McGurk: No expert would say ISIS is defeated

Source: Washington Examiner | January 21, 2019 | Diana Stancy Correll

Contrary to what President Trump has said, experts would not conclude that the Islamic State has been defeated, according to Brett McGurk, the former special presidential envoy for the global coalition to counter ISIS.

McGurk, who resigned from his post last month, said on Monday that none of the military contributors to the global coalition that he and former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis met with believe ISIS has met its demise.

“In early December, Secretary Mattis and I met with all the military contributors of our coalition, including many countries that had been attacked from ISIS out of Syria and the unanimous view is that ISIS is not defeated, this mission is not over,” McGurk said in an interview with CNN on Monday. “I do not think there would be a single expert that would walk in the Oval Office and tell the president that this is over.”

Just last week, four Americans were killed in a suicide bombing in Syria. ISIS subsequently took responsibility for the attack.

ISIS also claimed responsibility for a suicide car-bombing in Syria Monday and said that 13 people — including Americans — were killed as a result. However, Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S-led coalition against ISIS, said that the attack did not result in any U.S. casualties.

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