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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Too many stories on this guy, poisoned, injured badly.
“Off the face of the earth”
Who said that a few months ago...? I don’t think it was Hillary.
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.
al-Baghdadi must have gotten a look at the ugliness of his 72 virgins and taken a pass.
I thought he was a messiah or something.
oh, well, inshallah.................
Allah not so Akbar anymore.
Allah not so Akbar anymore.
Drone time...
They should hunt his ass down and when they find him, saw his head off and videotape it.
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.
He’s probably making his own arrangements for a flight to rendition right now. Intel can be sweeter than revenge.
And the Iraqi desert is bone-chilling cold at night.
And the Iraqi desert is bone-chilling cold at night.
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.
McCain just visited over there ,check his house
Maybe he is in Germany as a newly arrived refugee.
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 States foreign fighters are trying to leave the city.
They have lost this fight and what youre 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...
thought he just recently met with mc cain... to renew his contract...???
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.
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