https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/world/middleeast/iraq-isis-islamic-state-arrest.html
Posted on 05/10/2018 7:52:29 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Five Most Wanted leaders of ISIS just captured!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/994586105822564353
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So much winning and the left doesn’t even SEE it.
I watched a John Oliver episode where he was foaming about the loss of the great Iran deal. They are living in an alternate universe. The number one rule is “IF TRUMP DOES IT, IT IS BAD.” How do theoretically intelligent people hold onto this in direct evidence of all that is happening that is so good for Us, the People?
Donald Trump Jr
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/994593936277753856
Mr. Ithawi, described by the Iraqis as a top aide to the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al- Baghdadi, had been in charge of fatwas, or religious rulings, in the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate. He was also in charge of the education curriculum, and was a member of the body that appointed security and administrative leaders for the Islamic State’s territory, which had included large parts of Iraq and Syria.
He had been living in Turkey with his Syrian wife under his brother’s identity, one of these officials said.
The Iraqis sent the Turks an intelligence file they had amassed on Mr. Ithawi, and the Turkish security forces arrested him on Feb. 15, and extradited him to Iraq, this official said.
Iraqi and American intelligence officials then spent weeks interrogating him, learning the details and whereabouts of other ISIS leaders in hiding, the officials said.
The American-led coalition used this information to launch an airstrike in mid-April that killed 39 suspected Islamic State members near Hajin, in the Deir al-Zour district of Syria, the second official said.
The joint Iraqi-American intelligence team then set a trap, according to these officials. They persuaded Mr. Ithawi to contact several of his Islamic State colleagues who had been hiding in Syria and lure them across the border, the officials said.
The Iraqi authorities were waiting, and arrested the group soon after they crossed the frontier, the officials said.
Those arrested included Saddam al-Jammel, a Syrian who had been the head of the Islamic State territory around Deir al-Zour, and Abu Abdel al-Haq, an Iraqi who had been the head of internal security for the group. Two other Iraqis were also arrested, the officials said.
Iraq’s state television broadcast images of four of the detainees. Wearing yellow prisoner jumpsuits, the men, some with long beards and some clean-shaven, explained in short statements their responsibilities in the Islamic State. Each appeared to be in good health.
It was unclear where they were being held or whether they had been given access to a lawyer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/world/middleeast/iraq-isis-islamic-state-arrest.html
The raid actually happened March 24. They are:
Saddam al-Jammel (Syrian), and 4 Iraqis: Mohamed al-Qadeer, Ismail al-Eithawi, Omar al-Karbouli and Essam al-Zawbai. Al-Jammel supplied IS with weapons stolen from Syrian troops.
They were captured by Iraq, after 3 months of our intel tracking them in Syria.
Abu Bakar Al-Baghdadi is still on the loose in the Hajin, Shaddadi, Suwar and Markadah areas with four or five people, including his son and son-in-law.
Also got some info regarding bank accounts. Winning !
Meanwhile, on CNN it is Stormy, Stormy Stormy. Love it!
Abu Zeid al-Iraqi AKA Ismail al-Eithawi
Exactly right. We need to let the Kurds interrogate them.
We can kill them *after* we’re satisfied we’ve gotten absolutely everything they know.
btt
Add a dog, a couple pigs, some bacon!!
Breyer and RBG
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