Washington: Indian American Bobby Jindal has called for the extermination of the ISIS, saying the terrorist group has declared a war on the US and mere containing the oufit is the not the way forward. “I know the President doesn’t like to use these terms. we are in a war with ISIS. They’ve declared war on us, and whether he wants to call it that are not, that is a fighting conflict. We need to win that. We need to exterminate ISIS,” Jindal, the Louisiana Governor, said.
“This is not about containing them. It’s not about expelling them. It’s about hunting them down and killing them. Obviously, we’ve got to complete that effort. America must prepare our defense forces not just to be able to win wars but to decisively win wars, to act as a deterrent against future conflict,” he said in his address to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a Washington-based top US think-tank.
Asserting that the world cannot accept a nuclear-armed Iran, Jindal said that is not only an existential threat to Israel and other US allies in the region but a threat to the United States as well.
American teen arrested for trying to flee US to join ISIS
An American teenager has been arrested by the FBI after he allegedly tried to travel to Turkey to join the Islamic State terror group, officials said. Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, a US citizen, was arrested at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on October 4 before he attempted to fly to Vienna, Austria, on his way to Turkey.
He was charged on Monday in a criminal complaint filed in US District Court with one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. He appeared on Monday in US District Court in Chicago and remains in federal custody pending a detention hearing on Thursday.
According to FDI, law enforcement agents observed Khan passing through the security screening checkpoint at O’Hare’s international terminal. Federal agents then executed a search warrant at Khan’s residence and recovered multiple handwritten documents that appeared to be drafted by Khan and/or others, which expressed support for ISIL, the affidavit alleges.
Some of those documents, including travel plans and materials referencing ISIL and jihad, are described in the complaint affidavit. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a USD 250,000 fine. According to the criminal complaint, Khan wrote to his parents before leaving for the Chicago airport he was leaving the United States and on the way to join ISIS. (Agencies)