Posted on 10/26/2019 8:15:30 PM PDT by ALASKA
Translated from Arabic by Microsoft #عاجل- United States: A raid targeting ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and killing him
Solid reporting there.
We did not have an exact location until 3 weeks ago.
“Libya was then used as a staging area to arm jihadists in Syria.”
CORRECT
Sounds to me like Justa has been duped about Benghazi by Susan Rice.
Or by Ben Rhodes.
Amaq said, that Al-Baghdadi nominated the Turkmen Abdullah Qardash, from the district of Tal Afar west of Mosul,
Al-Basri also said that Al-Baghdadi suffers from paralysis of his limbs due to missile shrapnel injuries in the spinal column during an operation by the Falcons Intelligence Cell in coordination with the air force. This occurred during a meeting between Al-Baghdadi in Hajin, southeast of the Syrian governorate of Deir ez-Zor, before its liberation in 2018.
In other words, ABB is just a symbolic figure not the head of Daesh, perhaps Erdogan dropped ABB under the bus?
Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi has been decentralizing for some time. He knew his days were numbered. However, he had a number of subordinates that were much closer to him in location.
Remember, they rarely used cell phones so word of mouth means being local.
It’s the locals that we are hot on the trail of. We just degraded his ISIS spokesman, Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir, about 2 hours ago driving out of Ain al-Baydah, near Jarablus, heading for Turkey.
Hopefully we can degrade more of his command before the site intel gets stale.
Yes, Mazloum Abdi said something about addition operations 5 h ago see https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3789345/posts?page=134#134
Here is the likely raid location:
The compound was built last spring. Zoom out and see how close the Turkish border is. This area is controlled by the Turks, there is a Turkish Post office in town. Hmmm.
Unconfirmed: Here are the other ISIS leaders possibly killed during the raid:
Abu Said al-Iraqi
Ghazwan al-Rawi, bodyguard to Abu al-Yaman, head of ISIS security in Syria.
Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, a commander of Horas al-Din, a local militia.
“Yeah, sure we never had anything to do with jihadists.”
So hiring some unvetted guards who were affiliated with al qaeda = actively supporting Jihadists?
Do you know what “unvetted” means? Of course you do. It means the State Dept. contracted with a company that lied about the qualifications and identities of its employees. And this equals official US support of Jihadists?
Your only intention is to blame America first so facts be damned. You thread any fact you can find in order to Blame-America-First.
RT Troll.
Neocon apologist
Thanks for that post
” Al-Baghdadi suffers from paralysis of his limbs “
hmm...was he wheeled into the tunnel where he died?
more from the SDF commander:
International community must investigate seriously about why all high claass #ISIS members were hiding in the western #Syria which is under #Turkey’s control.
https://twitter.com/cmoc_sdf/status/1188549981617164288
another informative article
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/world/middleeast/al-baghdadi-dead.html
Gen. Mazlum tells @NBCNews Kurdish intelligence helped track down ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by stealing his used underwear and a sample of his hair to test for DNA, and that US intelligence confirmed a match months ago.
https://twitter.com/RichardEngel/status/1188867567349391361
Kurdish Intelligence doing the dirty work.
“Kurdish Intelligence doing the dirty work.”
eewww
Ya got that right!
Correction: it was used underwear + blood (not hair)
The Kurds are getting a little out of hand here.
They also claim to have had a deep mole, onsite when the raid began, etc.
We’ve had ABB’s DNA since he was our prisoner at Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca.
If DNA was available to prove his recent location, we would have hit him immediately.
We found him by watching for known associates and watching at previous known safe houses that had been divulged by one of his wives this last summer.
Kurdish sources provided key info that ABB was preparing to move to Jarabulus (a Turkish held area) and that speeded up the decision to strike in Idlib, they have now taken down Daesh targets in Afrin and Jarabulus.
some of this is described here https://twitter.com/Mekut_Mallet/status/1188967071255793664
https://twitter.com/matthew_petti/status/1188948316710735872
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