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United States President Barack Obama acknowledged that the U.S. intelligence community underestimated threats that might emerge from the catastrophic Syrian civil war during part of an interview with 60 Minutes that will be broadcast on Sunday
The president also acknowledged that the U.S. had put too much faith in the Iraqi military before realizing that it was unfit to combat Islamic State militants that overran Iraqi troops in much of northern and western Iraq in mid-June
"I think our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper's acknowledged that they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria," Obama said. "Over the past couple of years, during the chaos of the Syrian civil war...they were able to reconstitute themselves and take advantage of that chaos." President Obama is referring to al-Qaeda in Iraq, which fled Iraq toward the end of the Iraq War in 2011 and re-emerged in Syria as ISIS, without the al-Qaeda affiliation. Read more...
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