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Home Front: WoT

DOJ announces charges against senior Hamas leaders over October 7 attack

2024-09-04

Self-righteous, masturbatory nonsense. Israel’s war and possibly a subsequent court martial take precedence over anything America might want to do.

[POSTMILLENNIAL] Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Tuesday that the Justice Department has charged six senior Hamas
Hamas

..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
leaders with terrorism, murder conspiracy, and sanctions-evasion counts.

According to a blurb from the DOJ, those charged are Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
, Yahya Sinwar, Mohammad al-Masri, Marwan Issa, Khaled Meshaal, and Ali Baraka. "The defendants charged in the complaint are all big shots of Hamas who have orchestrated, overseen, and supported Hamas’s decades-long campaign of terrorism, including the October 7 Hamas Massacres," the blurb stated.

The six senior Hamas leaders were charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization resulting in death, conspiracy to provide material support for acts of terrorism resulting in death, conspiracy to murder US nationals, conspiracy to bomb a place of public use resulting in death, conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction resulting in death, and conspiracy to finance terrorism, conspiracy to violate the international emergency economic powers act.

Haniyeh was the chairman of Hamas’s Politburo, the terrorist organization’s political branch, from 2017 until "his reported death on or about July 31." He was previously the deputy chairman of the Politburo and the leader of Hamas in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip. Sinwar, also known as Abu Ibrahim, is the leader of Hamas, and "previously, beginning in approximately 2017, he was the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and is one of the founders of the al-Qassam Brigades."

Al-Masri, also known as Mohammed Deif and al Khalid al-Deif, held the position of commander in chief of the al-Qassam Brigades from around 2002 until his reported death on or about July 13. Issa, also known as Abu Baraa, held the position of deputy commander of the al-Qassam Brigades from around 2007 until his reported death on or about March 10.

Meshaal, also known as Abu al-Waleed, served as chairman of Hamas’ Politburo between approximately 2004 and 2017 and now serves as the head of Hamas’ diaspora office, "effectively responsible for Hamas’ official presence outside of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank." Baraka has led Hamas’ National Relations Abroad since around 2019 and previously served as Hamas’ representative in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
"The charges unsealed today are just one part of our effort to target every aspect of Hamas' operations. These actions will not be our last. The Justice Department has a long memory. We will pursue the murderous Moslems responsible for murdering Americans and those who illegally provide them with material support for the rest of their lives," Garland said.

The Attorney General said in a statement, "The Justice Department has charged Yahya Sinwar and other big shots of Hamas for financing, directing, and overseeing a decades-long campaign to murder American citizens and endanger the national security of the United States."

Idiot. The targets weren’t American, except incidentally. The targets were Israelis of all faiths and none, and those who dare to support Israel.
The Times of Israel adds:

The impact of the case may be mostly symbolic given that Sinwar is believed to be hiding out in tunnels underneath Gaza and at least three of the other defendants named by the Justice Department are thought to have been killed. But US officials say at least one person, whom they did not name, is expected to be brought to New York for prosecution.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Secret letters written by Hamas boss who planned October 7 attack reveal Iran paid the terror group £200million

2024-04-13

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Letters exchanged by Hamas leaders have revealed how Iran appears to have awarded at least £200 million to the Palestinian militant group since 2014.

One document, seemingly written in 2020 by a top official in Hamas' armed wing, Marwan Issa (Abu Baraa), and addressed to the group's leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar (Abu Ibrahim), showed a table of payments totalling $154 million from the Islamic Republic to Hamas coffers.

A second handwritten letter in November 2021 goes on to show the receipt of at least another $68 million and references to further expected payments.

The Israeli military, which allegedly uncovered the letters amid their operations in Gaza, told The Times they believe the documents prove Iran's systematic funding of the Hamas group prior to the October 7 attacks which prompted the outbreak of war.

They claim the money was transferred into Hamas accounts in Gaza via a complex system that sees members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds force (IRGC-QF) deliver huge sums of cash to Hamas contacts in Lebanon.

Once in Beirut, the money is squirrelled across the border by a network of money-changers using shell companies, crypto-currency, shipping transactions and various credit schemes to funnel the money to Hamas chiefs.

The documents detail how much of the money was paid directly to several top Hamas officials including Issa and Sinwar, as well as Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh and military commander Mohammed Deif, all of whom were implicated in planning the October 7 attacks on Israeli civilians.

But Israel and the US have targeted the Hamas elite and have also worked to dismantle the networks that continue to fund the Palestinian group.

Issa is believed to have died in an Israeli airstrike on March 11, according to the IDF and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.

And though Haniyeh is sheltering from the IDF's bombs in Qatar, three of his sons and several of his grandchildren are said to have been killed in a strike in Gaza earlier this week.

Meanwhile, Saleh al-Arouri, another Hamas official marshalling the group from Beirut who was thought to be a key link in the money-changing chain, was killed in a drone strike in January.

Then on April 1, an Israeli strike on an Iranian consulate building in Damascus, Syria, killed 13 people, including Quds force generals Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Hajriahimi.

Zahedi is thought to have worked with al-Arouri to deliver IRGC funds to money-changers in Lebanon.

Mohammad Surur, a man said to be connected to Hezbollah facilitating payments to Hamas, was found dead near the Lebanese capital earlier this week.

For its part, the US has launched a battery of sanctions designed to cripple the money-changing network Hamas relies on to receive payments from Iran.

Financial exchanges in Gaza, an Iraqi airline and backers of Iranian-linked militias in Iraq were just some of the entities subject to economic freezes in measures announced in January by the US Treasury.

'Sanctions are just one of the many levers at our disposal when it comes to holding Iran and some of its proxies accountable,' State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel told a news briefing.

The moves would have 'tangible impacts' on groups Washington blames for destabilising the Middle East, Patel said.

For example, he said, the US hoped blacklisting Iraq's Fly Baghdad airline and its chief executive would 'disrupt' the airline's alleged role in carrying supplies and personnel into Syria for the Quds Force.

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Terror Networks

Global coalition quells ISIS leadership lifespan

2023-08-17

[Shafaq News] The Global Coalition against ISIS conveyed that the lifespan of the organization's leaders has considerably diminished, attributed to the concerted efforts exerted by the coalition to dismantle the terrorist group.

I guess they are not the beloved of Allah after all. Or contrariwise, America and friends are the instrument Allah has chosen for their punishment.

The coalition, formed in the aftermath of ISIS's widespread expansion across Iraq and Syria, released a statement on its social media platforms, asserting, "The leadership of ISIS remains in a state of constant flux, with each successive leader meeting their demise more swiftly than their predecessor. If this trend signifies anything, it underscores the destructive path they tread, as well as the resolute commitment of the international coalition to eradicate terrorism."

Illustrating the notable reduction in the tenure of these leaders, the coalition, established in 2014, disseminated an image showcasing the evolving timeline of their command. Notably, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who led the organization for six years, met his demise in October 2019. Following this, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi led for a span of 15 months, followed by Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi who held the position for 10 months, and Abu al-Husayn al-Husayni al-Qurashi whose leadership lasted five months. Curiously, the name of Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi bears a question mark, signifying uncertainty surrounding his fate.

Get inside their learning curve, and each generation will do moe poorly than the last, until they die before they find the key to the executive washroom.

This month, ISIS disclosed the selection of Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi as its new leader, marking the first confirmation of the demise of its previous leader, whom ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
claimed to have eliminated in April.

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Africa Subsaharan

More Nigerian Army Officers Testify Before Human Rights Panel Over Alleged Abortion For Girls, Women Raped By Boko Haram

2023-05-13

[PUBLISH.TWITTER] The General Overseer of the Seraphic and Sabbath Assembly, Lagos State, Priest Azuka Kenrick Nnodu and two others have been convicted by the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos for drugs offences.

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, had in February arrested Azuka Kenrick.

He was arrested along with a student of Emmanuel College of Theology, Samanda, Ibadan, Udezuka Udoka and their freight agent, Oyoyo Mary Obasi over attempt to export methamphetamine and skunk consignments concealed in kegs of palm oil through the NAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The trio were arraigned by the NDLEA for conspiracy, procurement of persons to unlawfully export, unlawful export of 14.90 kilograms of Cannabis Sativa and 204 grams of Methamphetamine and unlawful possession of the hard drugs.

However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
Justice Akintayo Aluko on Friday convicted Nnodu (58) and his two co-defendants Udezuka Udoka (26) and Oyoyo Mary Obasi (40), following their "guilty" plea to a six-count charge.

Abu Ibrahim, the prosecution counsel alleged that they committed the offences with one Chisom, now on the lam, on February 9, 2023.

The defendants were arrested with the drugs at the NAHCO Export Shed, a Customs Point of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, Ibrahim told the court.

The court heard that the offences contravened sections 14(b); 21(2)(d) and 20(1)(a) of the NDLEA Act, 2004, and were punishable under Sections 11(b) and 20(2(a) of the same Act.

All the defendants pleaded guilty.

Ibrahim reviewed the fact of the case and urged the court to convict and sentence the defendants in accordance with the NDLEA Act, Following their plea.

But the defendants’ counsel Chief Benson Ndakara expressed shock at the defendants’ guilty plea, saying he was "taken by surprise at their change of mind, after dissipating extra energy and time to prepare and file their various bail applications."

Ndakara pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy in sentencing the defendants, on the ground that they were first-time offenders without any record of previous conviction.

Justice Aluko who convicted the trio, but reserved judgment till an undisclosed date, remanded the defendants in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Services (NCoS), pending judgment.

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Africa Subsaharan

Nigerian High Court Convicts General Overseer, Two Others For Drug Offences In Lagos

2023-05-13

[SAHARAREPORTERS] The General Overseer of the Seraphic and Sabbath Assembly, Lagos State, Priest Azuka Kenrick Nnodu and two others have been convicted by the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos for drugs offences.

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, had in February arrested Azuka Kenrick.

He was arrested along with a student of Emmanuel College of Theology, Samanda, Ibadan, Udezuka Udoka and their freight agent, Oyoyo Mary Obasi over attempt to export methamphetamine and skunk consignments concealed in kegs of palm oil through the NAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The trio were arraigned by the NDLEA for conspiracy, procurement of persons to unlawfully export, unlawful export of 14.90 kilograms of Cannabis Sativa and 204 grams of Methamphetamine and unlawful possession of the hard drugs.

However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
Justice Akintayo Aluko on Friday convicted Nnodu (58) and his two co-defendants Udezuka Udoka (26) and Oyoyo Mary Obasi (40), following their "guilty" plea to a six-count charge.

Abu Ibrahim, the prosecution counsel alleged that they committed the offences with one Chisom, now on the lam, on February 9, 2023.

The defendants were arrested with the drugs at the NAHCO Export Shed, a Customs Point of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, Ibrahim told the court.

The court heard that the offences contravened sections 14(b); 21(2)(d) and 20(1)(a) of the NDLEA Act, 2004, and were punishable under Sections 11(b) and 20(2(a) of the same Act.

All the defendants pleaded guilty.

Ibrahim reviewed the fact of the case and urged the court to convict and sentence the defendants in accordance with the NDLEA Act, Following their plea.

But the defendants’ counsel Chief Benson Ndakara expressed shock at the defendants’ guilty plea, saying he was "taken by surprise at their change of mind, after dissipating extra energy and time to prepare and file their various bail applications."

Ndakara pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy in sentencing the defendants, on the ground that they were first-time offenders without any record of previous conviction.

Justice Aluko who convicted the trio, but reserved judgment till an undisclosed date, remanded the defendants in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Services (NCoS), pending judgment.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Islamic State accountant detained in Azerbaijan

2023-02-23

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The special services of Azerbaijan reported on the detention of an accountant of the Islamic State, who had been hiding in different countries for a long time.

The State Security Service of Azerbaijan announced the arrest of a man who is an accountant of the Islamic State* terrorist organization on February 21.

According to the State Security Service, the detainee was hiding for a long time in different countries, informs APA.

On this fact, large-scale operational and investigative measures are underway, writes oxu.az.

Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" wrote that citizens of the country suspected of involvement in terrorism are regularly arrested in Azerbaijan. So, in October 2019, Bahram Gulaliyev, known as Abu Ibrahim Dagestani, was extradited to Azerbaijan from Pakistan. According to the State Security Service of Azerbaijan, he was engaged in the manufacture of explosive devices and trained other militants in Afghanistan in this, and was also engaged in the recruitment of Azerbaijani citizens.

In September 2020, a court in Baku found Gulaliev guilty of teaching militants how to make bombs. Together with him, three more accused of involvement in a terrorist organization were arrested. On August 9, the court upheld the verdict on Azerbaijani citizens sentenced to terms ranging from two and a half to eight years in prison.

In September 2021, Azerbaijani special services detained Mansur Dzhumaev and Nasir Jahangirov on suspicion of involvement in militants .

It should be reminded that the orientalists previously interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" stated that many militants of the "Islamic State"*, including natives of Azerbaijan, moved to Afghanistan after the defeat of the group of militants in Syria and Iraq, but the flow of volunteers recruited by the militants from Azerbaijan itself has already dried up.

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Europe

French Man, Wife On Trial Over Joining ISIS In Syria

2023-01-18

A French man and his Moroccan wife face 30 years term in prison over #ISIS affiliation and terrorist acts in #Syria. https://t.co/7hc81DcylE
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) January 17, 2023

French man Jonathan Jeffrey and his wife were seen in court over charges of links to the Islamic State (ISIS) and participating in terrorist acts with the group in Syria.

Jeffrey, joined the radical group in 2015 along with his Moroccan wife Latifa Shadley when their baby was two months old. On Monday, Jeffery and Shadley appeared in court.

Jeffery’s mother, Denise B., is also accused of financing a terrorist organization for sending thousands of euros to her son while he was in Syria.

Jeffery, who is the only accused under arrest, was captured by the opposition’s Free Syrian Army in 2016 as he sought to leave Syria after contacting French intelligence services. He was extradited to France the next year where he revealed that ISIS was planning to send “Cubs of the Caliphate” to French soil to carry out suicide acts.

On the French soil Jeffrey told French investigators ISIS was also planning to “spread terror in the French countryside” and “target a French nuclear power plant.” He also provided the names of dozens of French people who joined radical group. This could be helpful to Jeffery to receive a shorter term that could reach 30 years in prison.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

US kills two ISIS officials in Syria

2022-12-12

[Rudaw] The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) forces on Sunday announced the killing of two Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) officials in Syria as a result of a helicopter raid, adding that no non-combatants were killed or injured in the operation.

The operation was conducted in the early hours of Sunday in eastern Syrian, according to a statement from CENTCOM, killing two ISIS officials who were allegedly involved in facilitating the group’s operations in the area.

The statement reaffirmed Washington’s commitment to combating the threat of ISIS in cooperation with their allies in Syria.

"ISIS continues to represent a threat to the security and stability of the region. This operation reaffirms CENTCOM’s steadfast commitment to ensuring the group’s enduring defeat," said Joe Buccino, a CENTCOM spokesperson.

An American dronezap in July killed Maher al-Agal, leader of ISIS in Syria, in the country’s northwest, five months after a secret US operation took down the terror group’s top leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi again in northwest Syria’s Idlib, a region largely controlled by rebel groups backed by ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...

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Terror Networks

BREAKING: Islamic State says leader killed ‘in combat with enemies of God’

2022-11-30

The Times of Israel article is time-stamped 6:31 p.m. I understand Israel local time is six hours ahead of Eastern Time, meaning the report was published at 12:31 p.m. ET. Also, ULULULULULULULULULULULULU!!

[IsraelTimes] Jihadist group gives no further details on death of Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, announces his replacement

The Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadist group said Wednesday that its leader Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been killed in battle and announced a replacement.

A front man for the group said Hashimi, an Iraqi, was killed "in combat with enemies of God," without elaborating on the date of his death or the circumstances.

Speaking in an audio message, the front man identified the group’s new leader as Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi.

Qurashi refers to a tribe of the Prophet Mohammed, from whom IS leaders must claim descent.

After a meteoric rise in Iraq and Syria in 2014 that saw it conquer vast swathes of territory, IS saw its self-proclaimed "caliphate" collapse under a wave of offensives.

It was defeated in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria two years later, but sleeper cells of the Sunni Moslem krazed killer group still carry out attacks in both countries and claim attacks elsewhere in the world.

IS’s previous leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi, was killed earlier this year in a US raid in Idlib province in northern Syria.

His predecessor Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed, also in Idlib, in October 2019.

This tweet was attached to the article:

Islamic State group leader Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi killed in battle, replacement announced#AbuHasan #ISIS pic.twitter.com/bOZFqW42wq
— Amit Sahu (@amitsahujourno) November 30, 2022

Rudaw spells the name Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurashi.
Al Ahram adds:

The front man did not provide details on the new leader, but said he was a "veteran" jihadist and called on all groups loyal to IS to pledge their allegiance.

Hassan Hassan, who authored a book on IS, said one "unprecedented" but possible scenario was that the Hashimi "was killed 'accidentally' during a raid or fighting without him being known to whoever killed him".

In October this year, US forces killed a "senior" IS member in a pre-dawn raid in northeastern Syria, the US military's Central Command said at the time.

It said a later air strike had killed two other senior IS members.

The US leads a military coalition battling IS in Syria.

In July, the Pentagon said it had killed Syria's top IS jihadist in a dronezap in the north of the country.

US Central Command said he had been "one of the top five" IS leaders.

~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
in September said security forces had arrested a "senior executive" of IS known as Abu Zeyd, whose real name was Bashar Khattab Ghazal al-Sumaidai.

~~Ottoman~~ Turkish media said there were some indications Sumaidai might have been the IS leader.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

US airstrike kills two more senior ISIS officials in Syria: CENTCOM

2022-10-08

[Rudaw] The United States announced late Thursday it had killed two bigwigs of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) in an ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
<del>Arclight</del> airstrike

...KABOOM!...
in Syria, on the same day that American forces eliminated another prominent ISIS official in the country.

"U.S. forces conducted a successful airstrike in northern Syria, killing both Abu-Hashum al-Umawi, a deputy Wali of Syria, and another senior ISIS official associated with him," the American military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said.

CENTCOM added that the operation did not cause any civilian casualties and its forces conducted the task unscathed.

"This strike will degrade ISIS’ ability to destabilize the region and strike at our forces and partners," General Michael "Erik" Kurilla, the CENTCOM commander, said about the operation. "Our forces remain in the region to ensure the enduring defeat of ISIS."

US forces earlier in the day carried out a raid in a part of northeast Syria (Rojava) controlled by the Syrian government south of the Kurdish-held city of Qamishli, killing an ISIS official and wounding two of his associates.

CENTCOM later confirmed on Twitter that the raid had taken down "Rakkan Wahid al-Shammri, an ISIS official known to facilitate the smuggling of weapons and fighters to support ISIS operations."

"During the operation, the targeted individual was killed and one of his associates was maimed. Two additional associates were detained by U.S. forces," the statement added.

The two operations are the latest in a series of US attacks against senior ISIS officials, with the terror group continuing to pose a serious threat to Syria and Iraq despite being territorially defeated.

A July dronezap by American forces in the country’s northwest killed Maher al-Agal, the leader of ISIS in Syria, five months after a secret US operation took down the terror group’s top leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi again in northwest Syria’s Idlib, a region largely controlled by rebel groups backed by ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...

Expanding on this Daily Mail link Skidmark gave us in comments two days ago:

US carries out airstrike in Syria and kills TWO ISIS leaders - just hours after killing another terror commander in US special forces raid

US special forces killed two ISIS leaders in an airstrike Thursday evening

Officials say the operation killed Abu 'Ala, a deputy leader of ISIS in Syria, and Abu Mu'Ad al Qahtani, an ISIS official responsible for 'prisoner affairs'

It comes hours after they carried out a raid deep in government -controlled territory in Syria and killed a commander

Authorities said they were successful in that raid of killing Rakkan Wahid al-Shammri, a weapons dealer

He is believed to have killed an American officer in an ISIS controlled area

Officials say he was responsible for coordinating sleeper cells

Several other people were captured by US forces in the raid, reports state

US Central Command forces killed #ISIS leader Rakan Wahid al-Shammari in a helicopter raid in #Qamishli region in North East Syria which is under the control of #Assad regime.https://t.co/qCN9leN11G pic.twitter.com/NbHZOOlxaj
— SAMRI (@SAMRIReports) October 6, 2022

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

US special forces conduct midnight raid deep in government-held area of Syria killing 'ISIS leader' and taking several others captive

2022-10-06

[Daily Mail, where America get its news]

US special forces carry out raid deep in govt-controlled territory, it's reported

The operation killed one person, thought to be an ISIS leader, in Syria's northeast

Several other people were captured by US forces in the raid, reports state

A resident named the victim as Rakan Abu Hayel, from nearby Hassakeh provence

Local sources said that US troops landed in the village Muluk Saray in the countryside of the Qamishli region in northeast Syria, where territory is controlled in part by US-backed Kurdish fighters and partly by the Russia-backed government.

Sources told news channel Al Mayadeen that the victim was named Rakan Abu Hayel, originally from the village of Tuwaimin in the eastern countryside.

The family of the slain man and members of another family were arrested and taken into US custody, they claim, with some saying that at least two of those captured were part of a pro-Assad militia — though that remains unconfirmed.

Security officials later told Reuters that the man killed was 'a key IS leader present' responsible for coordination among the ISIS sleeper cells in the area.

The unnamed source added: 'This operation aims to expand the scope of targeting this organization's members across different parts of Syria.'

More information about the raid is expected to be provided in the coming hours, Central Command officials told DailyMail.com.

Unnamed sources originally told Syrian news channel Al Mayadeen that US occupation forces 'carried out a landing operation using several helicopters in the village of Muluk Saray, in the southern countryside of Qamishli, and killed one person.'

But a local village resident had said the victim was Hayel, a little-known displaced person from ISIS stronghold Hassakeh.

The resident said that three US helicopters carrying troops had landed in the overnight operation near the Turkish border.

'They used loudspeakers to call on residents to stay indoors' during the operation,' the resident said.

He added that the operation lasted several hours, and there was no exchange of gunfire with American troops.

During the operation, US forces engaged in a firefight with auxiliary forces of the Syrian army, according to the Russian news agency Sputnik. There are no reports of casualties.

Around 50 US special forces soldiers in 13 helicopters were reported to be involved in the daring raid.

The person killed in the operation 'had been a resident of the area for years and is likely an Islamic State' group leader, the Britain-based Observatory for Human Rights said.

It is the first such operation in government-held territory, the war monitoring group added, which relies on a wide network of sources in Syria.

The village targeted lies 17 kilometers (10 miles) south of the city of Qamishli, which is controlled by Syrian government forces, according to the Observatory and AFP correspondents.

In July, the Pentagon said it killed Syria's a top IS jihadist in a drone strike in the northern part of the country.

CENTCOM said he had been 'one of the top five' leaders of Islamic State overall.

The July strike came five months after a nighttime US raid in the town of Atmeh, which led to the death of the overall Islamic State leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi. The one-legged ISIS chief had rigged his house with explosives and blew himself and his family to pieces when US Special Forces arrived, because his disability stopped him using a suicide vest. Officials believe al-Qurashi, who was tracked down after a drone spotted him bathing on the building's roof last year, himself detonated the explosives that killed him and his family at his home in the sleepy village of Atmeh near the Turkish border on February 2.

They also revealed officials had thought they had a good chance of taking al-Qurayshi alive because of his issues with a suicide belt and had made plans to turn him over to another government.

The troops safely brought four children from the second floor out of the house. But a toddler was found dead there. Officials said the child was likely killed by the concussive effects of the third-floor explosion and not shot in the gunfight.

An ISIS member, described as a lieutenant of al-Qurashi's, and his wife were on the second floor, with as many as five children. All are believed to have been killed in the blast.

After losing their last territory following a military onslaught backed by the US-led coalition in March 2019, the remnants of IS in Syria mostly retreated into desert hideouts. They have since used such hideouts to ambush Kurdish-led forces and Syrian government troops while continuing to mount attacks in Iraq.

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ISIS Changes Its Strategy In Syria

2022-07-19

[NPASyria] Since the beginning of this year, the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Organization (ISIS) has transformed from launching individual attacks to mass ones, and is awaiting the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish invasion of northern Syria, said Zana Omar, a Qamishli-based journalist, on Monday.

This was turned out during ISIS attack on al-Sina’a prison in the city of Hasakah early in January, and during planning several attacks in Hawl Camp, Omar added.

Since the beginning of 2022, the camp management has registered 29 murder cases for 12 Syrians, among them a paramedic for the Kurdish Red Islamic Thingy (KRC), 14 Iraqi refugees who constitute more than half of the camp’s population, 3 unidentified corps, and 15 failed attempt
...Curses! Foiled again!...
ed murders.

Hawl Camp, 45 km east of the city of Hasakah, is a house for 55.829 individuals, including 28.725 Iraqis, 18.850 Syrians and 8.254 of foreign nationalities, according to the latest statistics obtained by North Press.

Omar believes that ISIS has made plans to release 11.000 members and families of the terrorist organization, including people called Jihad Sheikhs, who participated in critical operations in Europe, the Gulf States and the Arab countries during the years of the organization’s control.

If ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
launches its military operation, the SDF’s priorities in fighting ISIS will change, as it will shift to the stage of defending and repelling ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish attacks, Omar noted.

He described that ISIS is awaiting the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish operation to escape the security pressure imposed by the SDF and to take advantage of the security gap in the deserts of Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa and Hasakah.

Last month, the Syrian Desert returned to the conflict forefront again between ISIS sleeper cells on one hand and the Syrian government forces along with Iranian-backed militias on the other.

In June, ISIS carried out about 11 operations in the Syrian Desert, during which 42 soldiers of the government forces were killed and 31 others were maimed to varying degrees, in addition to the death of a civilian and the injury of 14 others with varying injuries, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

Omar pointed out that Deir-ez-Zor desert poses the greatest danger, since it is open to al-Anbar desert in Iraq, where ISIS sleeper cells are present. This brings back the fears of 2014 scenario and the return of ISIS.

The journalist indicated that the second level of danger lies in the fact that any area "occupied" by Turkey is turned into a safe haven for ISIS members and leaders, through the support they get from the so-called ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA).

"Al-Baghdadi and Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi appeared in those areas, and finally Maher al-Aqal, and the list goes on," he added.

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