Malcolm Nance says Syria could release 3,000 ISIS fighters when US pulls out

President Donald Trump likely hasn’t considered the blowback his withdrawal from Syria will have on the so-call global “war on terror.” One unintended consequence is that allies are holding 3,000 ISIS combatants and their families captive.

According to terrorism, intelligence, insurgency and torture expert Malcolm Nance, Syria has little interest in holding these combatants.



“If the United States withdraws, they will release them back to ISIS, because then their security is not — their worry is not ISIS,” Nance explained. “Their worry is a multi-divisional invasion by the Turkish army hoping to stamp them out of existence. This entire policy is madness. One quick little aside: Two years ago Donald Trump told TIME magazine the last book he read was my very large tome Defeating ISIS. Nowhere in there did I recommend we abandon our allies to our enemies in the region and to Vladimir Putin. I guess he didn’t get that message.”

He noted that the most significant problem is that no one knows what Trump agreed to in his conversation with Turkish President Erdogan. To make matters worse, any foreign leader Trump bows to could change the plain in a single call.

More plus video: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/counter-intelligence-expert-warns-syria-will-release-3000-isis-fighters-us-pulls/