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ISIS leader goes into hiding after abandoning his fighters
NY Post ^ | March 8, 2017 | Reuters/ NY Post

Posted on 03/08/2017 1:09:28 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie

US and Iraqi officials believe the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has left operational commanders behind with diehard followers to fight the battle of Mosul, and is now hiding out in the desert, focusing mainly on his own survival.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: endgame; isis; mosul
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Self preservation is a high priority with their fearless leader. Not eager to claim his 72 virgins?
1 posted on 03/08/2017 1:09:28 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Too many stories on this guy, poisoned, injured badly.


2 posted on 03/08/2017 1:15:45 PM PST by BeadCounter
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To: The_Media_never_lie

“Off the face of the earth”

Who said that a few months ago...? I don’t think it was Hillary.


3 posted on 03/08/2017 1:16:48 PM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Reminds me of something a friend who was in the Israeli army told me years ago.

He fought in the 1973 war.

He told me that when they defeated an enemy camp, they would always find hundreds of discarded boots left behind, because the Egyptians preferred to run in bare feet.

He also told me that they found out (from interrogating captured Egyptian soldiers) that the Egyptian officers would go home to their families on Friday evenings, leaving all the low-level soldiers by themselves at their forward positions.


4 posted on 03/08/2017 1:18:51 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

al-Baghdadi must have gotten a look at the ugliness of his 72 virgins and taken a pass.


5 posted on 03/08/2017 1:19:31 PM PST by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

I thought he was a messiah or something.
oh, well, inshallah.................


6 posted on 03/08/2017 1:24:21 PM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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The Caliph's new palace.

Allah not so Akbar anymore.


7 posted on 03/08/2017 1:30:20 PM PST by BeauBo
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The Caliph's new palace.

Allah not so Akbar anymore.


8 posted on 03/08/2017 1:30:21 PM PST by BeauBo
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Drone time...


9 posted on 03/08/2017 1:34:01 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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They should hunt his ass down and when they find him, saw his head off and videotape it.


10 posted on 03/08/2017 1:36:33 PM PST by Kevin in California
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Maybe he’s actually headed to DC, for a fundraiser/meeting with McCain/Graham?

He might could change his name and become a commander of al-Nusra or one of the other 2 dozen rebel groups (or maybe he already has that uniform in his closet?!). Other ISIS members, likewise. Maybe some of them will blend in and offer to help with the siege of Raqqa? /s

The crap I hear emanating from that part of the world is pretty hard to believe. Sorry.


11 posted on 03/08/2017 1:37:29 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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He’s probably making his own arrangements for a flight to rendition right now. Intel can be sweeter than revenge.


12 posted on 03/08/2017 1:42:41 PM PST by LurkedLongEnough
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And the Iraqi desert is bone-chilling cold at night.


13 posted on 03/08/2017 1:44:24 PM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA FIRST.)
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And the Iraqi desert is bone-chilling cold at night.


14 posted on 03/08/2017 1:44:24 PM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA FIRST.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Should be easy to find - look for a figure with broad shoulders in a burkha that has a prominent brown stain running down its back, starting about about half-way down.


15 posted on 03/08/2017 1:44:25 PM PST by Stosh
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McCain just visited over there ,check his house


16 posted on 03/08/2017 1:48:30 PM PST by butlerweave
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Maybe he is in Germany as a newly arrived refugee.


17 posted on 03/08/2017 1:48:52 PM PST by JimSEA
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From the Article: “The game is up,” US Air Force Brig. Gen. Matthew Isler told Reuters at the Qayyara West Airfield south of Mosul, adding that some of the Islamic State’s foreign fighters are trying to leave the city.

“They have lost this fight and what you’re seeing is a delaying action,” he said.

We have a $2 million dollar soccer field down at Club Gitmo that needs to be used - I hope that they save some of these yahoos for enhanced interrogation...


18 posted on 03/08/2017 1:54:58 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: The_Media_never_lie

thought he just recently met with mc cain... to renew his contract...???


19 posted on 03/08/2017 2:03:46 PM PST by zzwhale
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He should be shown movies of what his followers did to some of their ISIS comrades who retreated from battle, just to warm him up.

Then he should be air-dropped into some remaining Christian village that has been abused by ISIS for a welcome party.


20 posted on 03/08/2017 2:06:53 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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