Posted on 03/25/2016 8:05:05 AM PDT by NRx
WASHINGTON — The United States killed a top Islamic State commander in Syria who was believed to be in line to lead the terrorist group, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said on Friday.
The killing of a top commander, Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli, who is also known by other names, comes as the United States is having increased success targeting the Islamic State’s leadership. Last week, Defense Department officials concluded that American strikes had killed the group’s minister of war, Omar al-Shishani.
“We are systematically eliminating ISIL’s cabinet,” Mr. Carter said at a news conference, using an acronym for the group.
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They blow up so fast these days....
Bambi pretends this will slow Islamic terror attacks elsewhere in the world.
“We are systematically eliminating ISIL’s cabinet,” Mr. Carter said at a news conference, using an acronym for the group.”
This reminds me of the Vietnam War enemy dead count.
BFD...If they could get him today, they could’ve gotten him before Belgium. This all smoke and mirrors to show that we did “something”. All the sudden Obama’s “serious” until the heat blows over.
Big deal.
Uh...if you say so Mr.Carter.
Standard BS they come out with every time there’s a major attack on the West. Team Obama wants us to think he’s actually making progress against ISIS... I say BS.
One less worm. Thousands more to go.
I dont believe these stories. Its the US media.
I think they just make it all up.
Obama gets Bad Press (Dancing while people suffer),so he kills a few ISIS
Seems ISIS has more leaders than we have members of congress.
I wonder if the DOD has a wheel of Muslim sounding names and they create one every time they need to say a “leader” has been dispatched.
Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli—could be a made up name—who knows?
The government crows every time this happens and acts like they have ALMOST defeated them. Ever notice how killing a leader doesn’t slow them down a bit?
ISIS will use this incident as a recruiting tool.
Killing their commander will only trigger more attacks.
We must not provoke.
We must offer them human sacrifices and appease appease appease.
It’s the only way.
(channeling the left isn’t as easy as I thought)
One down, several hundred thousands to go.
Why has Iman Obama/Jarrett banned their spokesidiots from saying ISIS and can say ISIl?
Killing them one at a time isn’t going to work, we need to be killing them in droves, 24 hours a day...
People can say what they want, if Russia was doing such a smash up job in there, why didn’t they get Omar the Chechen or this guy? Looks like the Russkies barely laid a glove on ISIS.
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