Donald Trump: US will wipe out 'Islamic terror groups'
After inauguration, White
House announces immediate policy to 'unite civilised world' to defeat and
destroy 'terrorism'.
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The Trump administration pledged to
use 'cyberwarfare' to disrupt ISIL propaganda and recruitment efforts [Reuters]
The Trump administration will make defeating "radical Islamic
terror groups" its top foreign policy goal, according to a statement
posted on the White House website moments after Donald Trump's inauguration as
US president.
Trump used his inaugural address on
Friday to promise to "unite the civilised world against radical Islamic
terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth".
In the statement titled "America
First Foreign Policy," the Trump administration said: "Defeating ISIS
and other radical Islamic terror groups will be our highest priority."
ISIS is an acronym for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also called ISIL.
In order to "defeat and
destroy" ISIL and similar groups, the new American administration said it
"will pursue aggressive joint and coalition military operations when
necessary", work to cut off funding for armed groups, expand intelligence
sharing, and use "cyberwarfare" to disrupt propaganda and recruitment
efforts.
The statement offered no indication of
how Trump's policies might differ from those of his predecessor Barack Obama.
The Obama administration also pursued
those broadly described strategies: working with European and Middle Eastern
allies in a bombing campaign targeting ISIL leaders and their oil
infrastructure, authorising US special forces operations against the group, and
using sanctions and other methods to cut off its financing.
Trump's speech and the statement echoed
his campaign criticism of Obama and his election rival, Hillary Clinton, for
not using the phrase "radical Islamic terror" to describe ISIL and
other hardline groups.
Obama argued that using the term would
conflate "murderers" with "the billion Muslims that exist around
the world, including in this country, who are peaceful".
Clinton said using the phrase would
play into the hands of armed groups that want to portray the United States as
at war with Islam.
Trump has been criticised after pledging
during the election campaign to implement a
"total and complete" ban on Muslims from entering the United States.
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