| More on this story from yesterday. |
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
released new details Monday about its successful operation against the ISIS global chief, saying he died by setting off a boom jacket to avoid being detained.
| At least he had the courage of his convictions, though he won’t have nearly as much fun in Hell as he would have had if he’d died whole instead of widely scattered. |
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...announced Sunday the death of the "suspected leader of [ISIS], codename Abu Hussein al-Qurashi".
Turkey's Anadolu state news agency gave his full name as Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi,
| ...that’s even worse than his nom de guerre. Does he have no personal name, something his mother or wife might call him in moments of tenderness or extreme annoyance? |
A section of the two-story house was sheared off, apparently from blasts.
ISIS announced the death of its previous leader, Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, on November 30.
Anadolu said Turkey's MIT intelligence agency conducted a four-hour operation during which it located and surrounded al-Hussein al-Husseini on Saturday.
MIT agents blasted apart a stone wall that surrounded the house, before entering it through a rear entrance and side windows.
Al-Hussein al-Husseini set off his boom jacket when he realized he was about to be captured, Anadolu said, adding that no
An AFP correspondent in northern Syria said the operation had targeted an abandoned farm that was being used as an Islamic school.
| All those human shields did no good when the kids went home for the weekend. |
At its height, when it controlled swathes of Iraq and Syria, the ISIS group grabbed credit for a series of attacks in Europe.
In October 2019, Washington announced it had killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in northwestern Syria, and several of the group's top commanders have since been killed in raids.
Despite having been driven out of much of the territory it once controlled, the group still launches attacks in Syria.
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