Posted on 05/11/2018 8:31:08 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
SDF’ Operation Cizire Storm to bring about the end of ISIS.
It is claimed that ISIS leader al-Baghdadi is associated with a very small number of members within the organization and therefore only a very few people have information about him.
In the past few years, a number of people said to be closed to the ISIS leader have said to have been seen in this or other area, which makes even more complicated establishing where al-Bagdadi is hidden.
Iyad al-Jamili, who is considered one of the man closest to Baghdadi, has been seen in the vicinity of Hajin, in Bukemal and Mayan cities, in the past two years. This situation certainly gives a clue but there is another data that strengthens the possibility that Baghdadi may be in the region.
According to one controversial Islamic interpretation, it is necessary for a person to control a certain piece of land in order to be regarded as a caliph which would explain why in the videos published by ISIS, gang members still refer to al-Baghdadi as "our shaykh".
Al-Baghdadi was first and last seen in Mosul in 2014. In these images, which was taken after the occupation of Mosul, al-Baghdadi proclaimed his calm. Since then, numerous claims have been made of al-Baghdadi being killed or wounded.
However, suspicions that he was indeed dead, were weakened after the ISIS mercenaries broadcast a voice recording allegedly belonging to al-Baghdadi on 28 September 2017.
The Russian Defense Ministry says there is no conclusive evidence of al-Baghdadi’s death, while the US continues to award $ 25 million for his capture.
Hiding in Hajin?
Abu Ali al-Basri, Director of Intelligence and Fighting Bureau of the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced that al-Baghdadi may have been hiding in the Syrian town of Hajin.
Many terrorist experts, including researcher and Iraqi war media secretary Said al-Ceyyasi, think al-Baghdadi is indeed hiding in Syria near the Iraqi border, in ISIS-occupied territory.
Al-Ceyyasi argues that if Baghdad is alive, the best place to hide would be on the Iraq-Syrian border, along the Euphrates river.
Hisham al-Hashimi, a consultant for the Baghdad administration and a specialist in "jihadist groups" in Iraq, says that the place where Baghdadi hides is the region he called "Euphrates Province”. More precisely, it refers to a place corresponding to the area in which the small town of Hajin is located.
The fact that ISIS has lost a lot of the land that was in its hands, meant the hiding options for the organization leader are also narrowing. The fact that the ISIS-controlled area south of the Euphrates river is surrounded by the Syrian army and the connection with Iraq has been interrupted, is making this region inconvenient for the leader. North of the Euphrates river, the areas controlled by ISIS are being cleared by the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces).
Hajin town and Operation Cizire Storm
The Operation Cizire Storm is carried out by the Democratic Syrian Forces (SDF) in rural Deir ez-Zor. This move was hampered by the Turkish forces bombing and subsequent occupation of Afrin since January 20. The operation, which had been halted during the occupation of Afrin, has resumed on 1 May. SDF fighters have been deployed along the Euphrates valley and the Iraqi border, progressing about 20 kilometers since May 1st.
The SDF fighters are actually only 5 kilometers away from the village of Bagos on the border. The village of Bagos is under control of the ISIS. Being the last village on the Iraqi border it is gaining importance.
SDF commander Sêrgo Hesekê, who directs the operation, says that once this village will be taken from ISIS, the mercenaries will be completely besieged by the SDF.
Aware of the fact that the SDF were only 5 kilometers away from Hajin town, where the civilian population is the largest in the area, Hesekê said that many of the ISIS leaders were trying to hide among the civilians as a last resort.
The end of ISIS is one village away
Speaking to ANF, Hesekê said: "The area involved by the operation runs about 30 kilometers along the Euphrates River. We are about to cut the connection of ISIS with the Iraqi border. Except for the town of Hajin, there is no densely populated residential area in the region. Which is why the mercenaries are using Hajin as their headquarter. Our forces are now about 6 to 7 kilometers from the town centre and the operation is ongoing”.
Confirming that clearing this area would mean the end of ISIS, Hesekê added: "This is the last area that ISIS can use to get logistics and ammunition. We also know that most of the leaders of the organization are hidden here because they had nowhere else to go to. Therefore, we will rescue the place and declare the end of ISIS”.
Evil this bad, is hard to extinguish. If he is in Syria, this is likely the last place he can hide.
5 other top ISIS leaders were tricked into capture this week.
When I speak of the end of ISIS in Syria, I'm discounting the thousands that Erdogan the Islamist resettled in Afrin. Solving that problem will be a sensitive matter.
Someone should his American sponsor, John McCain, I’m sure he knows...
Al Baghdadi has 3 wives and can’t go outdoors for fear of being spotted.
If he ain’t dead, he wishes he was.
I'm sure "out of a sense of duty," he won't reveal Baghdadi's whereabouts.
-—tricked into capture-—
Interesting. How was that accomplished?
I think John McCain might actually be Al Baghdadi.
thanks for this and prayers for the guys going into a very rough battle. Hope they have a lot of dachshunds to burrow into those tunnels.
I would too since his wives look like these ugly arabs:
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.
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.
Why didn’t they kill this guy when he was making trouble in Fallujah?
Ask McNuts! Isn’t he one of Bag Daddy’s buddies?
Of the recently captured ISIS head-loppers, how many met with Senator NoName as a cover that they were somehow on our side? Was Senator NoName’s little buddy, Senator Linda, with him at those meetings?
He has been killed 4-5 times now....he is probably safe in Turkey in Erdogans palace sipping coffee...
“thanks for this and prayers for the guys going into a very rough battle.”
Mazel Tov!
“Hope they have a lot of dachshunds to burrow into those tunnels.”
Robots. Check.
This Kurdish offensive is moving in the direction of Iran’s strategic land route into Syria/Lebanon, at the Iraqi/Syrian border crossing at Abu Kamal, at the same time that the Israeli operation is pounding Iranian Quds Force in Syria.
The Kurds are not only close to the last hideouts of ISIS, they have now closed within artillery range of Iran’s ground line of communication, for trucking any resupply or reinforcement into Syria/Lebanon.
Not a mere coincidence, in my view. I anticipate that strategic door being closed to the Iranians as part of upcoming operations. If the Kurds control that border crossing, it will be a strategic asset, making them worth a lot to the Gulf Arabs and Israel, as well as big leverage over the Government in Damascus, even if the Iranian regime falls.
It looks like the Israelis have established air supremacy already in Syria - no jets lost, apparent freedom to attack. So aerial resupply/reinforcement from Iran is possibly cut off already.
Free Iran!
Eighty million new friends.
“he (Baghdadi) is probably safe in Turkey in Erdogans palace sipping coffee...”
It sure looks like much of the leadership of ISIS has relocated to Turkey (e.g. all five of those recently captured).
The article points out that their ideology requires the leader to stay with his flag, controlling territory, to maintain their legal status as a Caliphate, and Baghdadi as Caliph. So he might go down with the ship, or wait to slip into Turkey at the last minute (which is about now).
Why would anyone even attempt to collect the $25 million reward, since we made the same offer for Bin Laden -and then let the poor Doctor who helped us find him get thrown into a Pakistani jail.
Where I am sure his life is not pleasant.
They tried. He is so very evil, he must represent the devil himself.
I’ve read descriptions of his eyes that would support that.
Far worse than “dead eyes”, pure “evil eyes”.
Latest I’ve heard:
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.
It’s just a matter of time.
Source?
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