Of course, Hil Clinton's statement that ISIS was utilizing Donald Trump's speech as a recruiting tool wasn't true either, but the media spent absolutely no time on reporting on that story:
DEMOCRATS <http://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/elections/democrats.html>Clinton claim on ISIS using Trump videos to recruit panned by fact-checkers Published December 21, 2015 FoxNews.com <http://www.foxnews.com/> Facebook <http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/12/21/clinton-claim-on-isis-using-trump-videos-to-recruit-panned-by-fact-checkers.html#> 19330 Twitter <http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/12/21/clinton-claim-on-isis-using-trump-videos-to-recruit-panned-by-fact-checkers.html#> 2 livefyre <http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/12/21/clinton-claim-on-isis-using-trump-videos-to-recruit-panned-by-fact-checkers.html#> 10095 Email <http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/12/21/clinton-claim-on-isis-using-trump-videos-to-recruit-panned-by-fact-checkers.html#> Print <http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/12/21/clinton-claim-on-isis-using-trump-videos-to-recruit-panned-by-fact-checkers.html#> NOW PLAYING Does Hillary Clinton owe Donald Trump an apology? <http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/12/21/clinton-claim-on-isis-using-trump-videos-to-recruit-panned-by-fact-checkers.html#> <http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/12/21/clinton-claim-on-isis-using-trump-videos-to-recruit-panned-by-fact-checkers.html#> Hillary Clinton’s claim that the Islamic State is using videos of Donald Trump to recruit more fighters is being panned by fact-checkers – and sharply challenged by Trump himself. As might be expected, the Republican front-runner fired back Sunday at the former secretary of state’s claim from Saturday’s debate. “It's nonsense. It's just another Hillary lie. She lies like crazy about everything,” Trump said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Clinton alleged during the debate in New Hampshire that Trump is becoming “ISIS’ best recruiter.” “They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists,” she said. Like Trump’s claim that “thousands” of Muslims in America celebrated 9/11, this claim by Clinton was swiftly vetted by fact-checkers -- and found to be lacking concrete evidence. 2016 Election Headquarters <http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2016/presidential-election-headquarters> The latest headlines on the 2016 elections from the biggest name in politics.See Latest Coverage → <http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2016/presidential-election-headquarters> PolitiFact rated <http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/dec/19/hillary-clinton/fact-checking-hillary-clintons-claim-isis-using-vi/> the claim “false.” The outfit noted that the Clinton campaign cited an NBC News article quoting the SITE Intelligence Group’s Rita Katz. In the piece, Katz said of terror groups, “They follow everything Donald Trump says. … When he says, 'No Muslims should be allowed in America,' they tell people, 'We told you America hates Muslims and here is proof.'" Another analyst in that piece said Trump’s “anti-Muslim comments” would be used by ISIS social media to “demonize” the U.S. and draw in recruits. Yet such comments refer to expectations about what ISIS will do – and not what ISIS is currently doing. “For now, it seems that Clinton has turned speculative left-of-center rhetoric into fact,” PolitiFact wrote. “… We were unable to find any evidence to support [the claim]. The Clinton campaign did not provide any evidence that this is already happening -- only that it could be happening, or that it may in the future. If ISIS was using Trump for recruitment videos, we would expect a frenzy of media coverage over it.” The Washington Post Fact Checker <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/12/20/fact-checking-the-third-democratic-debate/> also caught up with Katz, who told them that ISIS has not featured Trump in a video – “but ISIS supporters and recruiters have used Trump’s rhetoric to promote ISIS’ ideas and agenda.” The Associated Press fact check also said Clinton has “no evidence” to back up her debate claim on the videos. Clinton spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri acknowledged Sunday the campaign is aware of no such ISIS video but maintained that jihadis are capitalizing on Trump's comments about Muslims through social media. "She didn't have a particular video in mind, but he is being used in social media,” she told ABC News’ “This Week.” "If you go back and look at social media, if you look at what's going on, they are definitely pointing at Mr. Trump," Clinton campaign chairman, John Podesta, said on "Meet the Press." But he cited no ISIS videos. The conservative RedState.com <http://www.redstate.com/2015/12/20/bill-clinton-barack-obama-donald-trump-isis-recruiting-video-video/> also pointed out that an existing ISIS recruiting video actually shows an image of Bill Clinton – but not Trump. *The Associated Press contributed to this report.* On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 5:29 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected]> wrote: > how the Islamic State was founded > --- > The group originated as *Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jama%27at_al-Tawhid_wal-Jihad>* in 1999, > which pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda> and participated in the Iraqi > insurgency > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_insurgency_(2003%E2%80%9311)> following > the March 2003 invasion of Iraq > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq> by Western forces. > Joining other Sunni insurgent groups to form the Mujahideen Shura Council > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujahideen_Shura_Council_(Iraq)>, this > group proclaimed the formation of the Islamic State of Iraq > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq> (ISI) in October > 2006. > > On Friday, August 12, 2016 at 2:04:57 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> https://news.vice.com/article/this-is-how-the-islamic-state- >> was-founded?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaig >> n=Mil%20EBB%208.12.16&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military% >> 20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief >> >> >> This is how the Islamic State was founded >> >> · >> >> · >> >> · >> >> · >> >> · >> >> · >> >> · >> >> · >> >> By Benjamin Gilbert <https://news.vice.com/contributor/benjamin-gilbert> >> >> August 11, 2016 | 12:50 pm >> >> Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump repeated on Thursday his >> claim that President Barack Obama founded ISIS, and that Hillary Clinton >> co-founded the radical Islamist group best known for keeping sex slaves and >> cutting off its prisoners' heads. >> >> "You know they honor President Obama. He is the founder of ISIS. And I >> would say the co-founder is Crooked Hillary Clinton," Trump said at a >> campaign event in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. >> >> He began his remarks talking about his opposition to the invasion of >> Iraq, and then turned his scorn on the withdrawal from Iraq. >> >> "We should have never gotten out the way we got out. And then Obama came >> in, and normally you want to clean up. He made such a mess of it. And then >> you had Hillary with Libya," he said. >> >> And yet none of his statements about the founding of ISIS are backed up >> by facts. It may be true that the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the >> alienation of Sunnis by both the US occupation in the initial years of the >> war, and the Iraqi government in the wake of the US withdrawal, created the >> conditions that gave rise to the Islamic State. But the Iraqi insurgency >> and the rise of the Islamic State are far more complicated than Trump would >> lead his supporters to believe. >> >> Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is the real founder of the Islamic State. The >> Jordanian convict and violent Islamist extremist came to Iraq after the US >> invasion, to wage holy war on the occupation forces, the United Nations, >> and Shiite Muslims, whom he viewed as apostates. He had founded the group >> Jama'at >> al-Tawhid wal-Jihad >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jama%27at_al-Tawhid_wal-Jihad> in Jordan >> in 1999, which means "The group of Monotheism and Jihad." >> >> The group conducted a number of bombings and attacks, and in October 2004 >> pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, and renamed the group >> "al-Qaeda in the land of the two rivers." The US military referred to it by >> a shorter acronym: AQI, or al-Qaeda in Iraq. >> >> AQI was responsible for kidnappings, executions, and suicide bomb attacks >> in Baghdad, Anbar province, and other areas of Iraq. It was one of the main >> targets of the US storming of Fallujah in November 2004. >> >> Zarqawi was killed in an American airstrike in June 2006, and later that >> year the group changed its name to the Islamic State in Iraq, or ISI. >> >> During the US "surge" of troops into Iraq in 2007 and 2008, ISI lost much >> of its power and by the end of the US occupation, many of its leaders and >> operatives had been hunted down and killed. >> >> During this time, Nouri al-Maliki, a Shite, was elected prime minister >> and alienated many of Iraq's Sunnis, who had been the backbone of the >> violent insurgency and some of whom had joined ISI. Maliki targeted Sunni >> political leaders, and the Sunni groups that had worked alongside US troops >> to evict ISI from much of Iraq. (The Obama administration's backing of >> Maliki during this time is one discussion that could be had about whether a >> different policy approach would have put pressure on the Iraqi prime >> minister to stop alienating the Sunnis and thus indirectly facilitating the >> rise of islamic State). >> >> The current leader of the group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi>, took control of >> ISI in 2010. His organization didn't receive much attention for a few >> years, until the Syrian civil war erupted, and the group expanded its >> operations into Syria, and put the country into its name, thus becoming >> ISIS. >> >> A feud in 2013 with al-Qaeda's wing in Syria, Nusra Front, led Baghdadi >> to sever ties with al-Qaeda in 2014. The group renamed itself simply "The >> Islamic State," and in 2014 swept back into Iraq, this time as a potent >> ground force with battle-hardened troops. That force overran the corrupt >> and weakened Iraqi security forces, capturing Fallujah in January, and one >> of Iraq's largest city's, Mosul, in June. >> >> President Obama ordered airstrikes on June 15 against Islamic State, and >> thus began Operation Inherent Resolve, the US-led military operation that >> targets IS in Syria and Iraq. >> >> On July 5 of 2014, Baghdadi proclaimed himself Caliph of the new "Islamic >> State," and called on Muslims around the world to follow him. The group's >> sophisticated media operation regularly targets Obama and other world >> leaders whose countries are involved in the fight against the Islamic >> State. >> >> As for Trump's crude equating of the US withdrawal of troops from Iraq to >> Obama having "founded" the Islamic State: the US troop withdrawal from Iraq >> in December 2011 was an agreement reached with the Iraqis by President >> George W. Bush's administration in 2008. Under this "Status of Forces" >> agreement with the Iraqi government, any US troops remaining in the country >> and not given diplomatic immunity by their association with the US embassy >> in Baghdad after December 31 of 2011 would have been subject to Iraqi law. >> No US military commander would have tolerated that. >> >> It's interesting that, in addition to failing to mention Obama's backing >> of Maliki as he pissed off Iraq's Sunnis, that Trump didn't mention another >> Obama policy decision that Middle East and Islamic State experts say may >> have helped give the Islamic State so much power: the administration's >> position on the Syria war. 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