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ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi acknowledges defeat in Iraq
Al Arabiya English ^ | Wednesday, March 1, 2017 | Staff writer, AlArabiya.net

Posted on 03/01/2017 12:27:03 AM PST by Jyotishi

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi issued a statement acknowledging the group's defeat in Iraq, as he urged supporters to either hide or flee, Iraqi television network, Alsumaria, quoted local sources as saying.

According to the sources in the Iraqi governorate of Nineveh, Al-Baghdadi's statement was titled 'farewell speech' and was distributed among ISIS' preachers and clerics on Tuesday.

Al-Baghdadi ordered the closure of the ISIS office regulating their fighters and ordered non-Arab fighters to either return to their countries or detonate themselves, promising them "72 women in heaven."

Many of ISIS' leaders in Iraq has now fled towards the group's controlled areas in neighboring Syria, the source added.

Iraqi forces backed by international and US aid have been advancing towards ISIS-occupied areas in Iraq over the past weeks, where the terrorist organization suffered one defeat after another in Mosul.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arab; iraq; isis; syria

1 posted on 03/01/2017 12:27:03 AM PST by Jyotishi
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To: Jyotishi
Al-Baghdadi ordered the closure of the ISIS office regulating their fighters and ordered non-Arab fighters to either return to their countries or detonate themselves...

Well, that's one way to balance the books on the pension plan...

2 posted on 03/01/2017 12:31:41 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Jyotishi

“Al-Baghdadi ordered the closure of the ISIS office regulating their fighters and ordered non-Arab fighters to either return to their countries or detonate themselves, promising them “72 women in heaven.””

I noticed he didn’t promise 72 virgins. He figured that by now those poor 72 women would have lost their virginity a while back.


3 posted on 03/01/2017 12:32:22 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Jyotishi

What a difference a month makes


4 posted on 03/01/2017 12:33:04 AM PST by BRL
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“ordered non-Arab fighters to either return to their countries or detonate themselves”

Time to shut of travel from those countries and carefully vet. These ISIS jihadis are unlikely to ever reform. They should be killed or kept away.

Fortunately, Trump has a new executive order ready for tomorrow, just in time.

Thank God that we have a competent, pro-American President for a change.


5 posted on 03/01/2017 12:36:55 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: Jyotishi

They are just redeploying to Europe and USA.


6 posted on 03/01/2017 1:03:40 AM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: BRL

What a difference a President makes!


7 posted on 03/01/2017 1:20:59 AM PST by KyCats
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To: Jyotishi

I’d keep pounding their tanks and personnel vehicles with A10 ordnance.


8 posted on 03/01/2017 1:52:59 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: BRL
What a difference a month makes

Elections have consequences.

9 posted on 03/01/2017 1:55:09 AM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: BeauBo

“These ISIS jihadis are unlikely to ever reform. They should be killed or kept away.”

No, just killed!


10 posted on 03/01/2017 2:02:46 AM PST by vette6387
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To: Lazamataz
"ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi acknowledges defeat in Iraq"

This headline would not exist had Hillary been elected.

11 posted on 03/01/2017 2:23:03 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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“....and ordered non-Arab fighters to either return to their countries or detonate themselves, promising them “72 women in heaven.” “

Can you imagine this setting?

George Patton (Addressing Troops as Bastogne): Men it appears hopeless. I see no way that we can continue this fight. We are like the troops we came to rescue, trapped. I am asking you to return to your trucks and go home, OR OTOH if you’ve got any interest, I’M RECOMMENDING THAT YOU GO BACK TO YOUR TENTS AND BLOW YOURSELVES UP, AND BY DOING THAT YOU WILL BE ASSURED TO SEE AT LEAST 70 VIRGINS. Good bye and so long. Buglar, please play When the Saints Go Marching In.


12 posted on 03/01/2017 3:19:02 AM PST by nikos1121 (We are about to see The Golden Age of Pericles in the new Trump Administration.)
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To: Billthedrill

Bwahahahahahahaaaaahhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaa!!


13 posted on 03/01/2017 3:21:28 AM PST by nikos1121 (We are about to see The Golden Age of Pericles in the new Trump Administration.)
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To: Jyotishi

Abu Bakr was one of the (false) Prophet Mohammed’s successors. So is this guy trying to claim some sort of apostolic mantel?

I used to have a parrot. I named him Abu Bakr because the went around parroting Mohammed.


14 posted on 03/01/2017 3:28:28 AM PST by Fai Mao (I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
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"Listen, you guys. I said 'raisins'. See here, 'raisins.' Not 'virgins'. Not 'women'. Raisins."
15 posted on 03/01/2017 5:02:54 AM PST by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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So, Trump gets credit for killing ISIS in Iraq!


16 posted on 03/01/2017 5:17:03 AM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Jyotishi

There has been so many news in the past about Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi being either killed or severely wounded that I have grown skeptical of this latest press release.


17 posted on 03/01/2017 8:37:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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