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Trump, Macron spar over need to return fighters from ISIS
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Trump, Macron spar over need to return fighters from ISIS

| @indiablooms | 04 Dec 2019, 05:15 am

Washington/Sputnik/UNI: President Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron appeared at odds on Tuesday during a press conference in London when the two leaders discussed efforts to take back citizens who joined the Islamic State terror group (banned in Russia).

"Would you like some nice ISIS fighters? I can give them to you. You can take every one you want," Trump told Macron at the start of a bilateral meeting in London on the sidelines of the NATO summit.

The quip produced a brief moment of tension, when Macron replied: "Let’s be serious."

Trump then praised Macron’s political savvy in delivering what he called a great non-answer to a question on whether France would take back citizens who joined the IS terror group.


When asked whether France should do more to return IS terrorists, Macron said jailed European fighters, many captured by US-allied Kurdish allies in Syria, represent a minor problem compared with an ongoing buildup of Islamic State terrorists on the ground in both Syria and Iraq.
"The No. 1 priority," Macron said, "is to get rid of ISIS [Islamic State]."


Trump then replied: "This is why you’re a great politician because that was one of the greatest non answers I’ve ever heard. But that’s OK."
Of about 2,000 foreign fighters held by US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria, an estimated 800 are thought to be from Europe, according to media reports.


The estimate does not include thousands of Islamic State terrorists in Iraqi prisons.

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