Leila Molana-Allen:
The Syrian Democratic Forces estimate there are at least 10,000 ISIS fighters still active in the area, and that number is growing.
Now, in a speech posted online, ISIS leaders have called on their supporters to plan fresh attacks on cities around the globe. Former U.S. Army Colonel Myles Caggins was the coalition spokesman in Iraq and Syria at the height of the battle to defeat ISIS. For him, Northeast Syria’s overflowing jails are a ticking time bomb.
Col. Myles Caggins (Ret.), U.S. Army: The world doesn’t really want to deal with these 10,000 detainees. President Biden and his administration have followed the policy of the previous administration, where nobody really wants to talk much about Syria.
The American public, in particular, does not hear much about ISIS until there’s something like a massive attack that happened in Russia. It is important, though, for the world to pay attention to ISIS.
There are wealthy individuals who support ISIS’ ideology. The scale and type of attacks that they conduct do not require a lot of money, but they’re able to get a large effect out of them by having these attacks in highly visible places and recording the attacks and sharing it as propaganda, propaganda that is desired — designed to inspire other members of ISIS. It’s designed to inspire potential recruits.
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