Washington sources reported that a bullish US President Donald Trump predicted Wednesday that the Islamic State group would be wiped off the map within hours, as he unfurled printouts showing the jihadists' shrinking presence in Iraq and Syria. Trump claimed American forces have inflicted significant casualties on the battlefield in the past month. Meanwhile he has signaled the group's imminent demise on several previous occasions, although IS, also known as ISIS, has yet to wave the white flag of surrender.
Furthermore in one map shown by Trump to reporters in Washington and then again at a rally to workers at a military tank factory in Lima, Ohio, IS territory marked in red extends over large areas. Accordingly a second map, he said, shows the extremist organization about to be wiped out. "There is no red. In fact, there's actually a tiny spot which will be gone by tonight”.
Moreover Trump claimed US forces in the last month "have killed the terrorists responsible for the attack in Syria that killed four Americans." Further Trump also said US forces have killed those who attacked the Bataclan theater in Paris in 2015, and who orchestrated the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole which left 17 American servicemen dead. "We killed them all”.
