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New clues bolster belief that ISIS leader is still alive |
2018-05-20 |
![]() ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... summoned some of his top aides to a meeting in eastern Syria last year. The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... ’s capital in Iraq had already fallen, and its Syrian headquarters was under siege. Yet the terrorist leader had something else on his mind: schoolchildren. ![]() Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in a joint operation by "Several top leaders were present, as well as the curricula committee, which I headed," the captured officer, known as Abu Zaid al-Iraqi, said in a videotaped statement aired on Iraqi television. The meeting, said to have occurred in mid-2017, was the third convening of a committee that had been a pet project of the man at the top, having been "established by caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi," the officer said. The incident provides a rare glimpse into the secluded life of the Islamic State’s leader, a man who has allowed himself to be photographed only once, in July 2014, and has spoken publicly only a handful of times since then. His prolonged absences have given wings to countless false reports portraying Baghdadi as either dead, or gravely maimed and incapacitated. Despite such rumors, U.S. counterterrorism officials are convinced that Baghdadi is alive and is helping direct long-term strategy for the dwindling numbers of Islamic State fighters defending the group’s remaining strongholds in eastern Syria. The U.S. view is supported by intelligence intercepts and detainee interrogations, as well as writings and statements by operatives within the terrorist group’s network. [’We are in your home’: After losses, ISIS steps up campaign to inspire attacks] The evidence, while spotty and difficult to confirm, depicts a leader who has opted to make himself invisible, even within his organization ‐ a decision that has drawn complaints from followers and arguably undercuts his ability to rally his beleaguered forces, terrorism experts say. But the intercepts and reports also suggest that Baghdadi has shifted his attention in recent months to crafting an ideological framework that will survive the physical destruction of the caliphate in Iraq and Syria. In addition to his effort to revamp the group’s school curriculum, Baghdadi appears to have been behind a series of missives in recent months that sought to settle ideological disputes between factions of Islamic State fighters. Viewed together, such actions convey the impression of a disciplined retreat, with Baghdadi helping manage preparations for a shift from caliphate to underground insurgency and international terrorist movement, current and former U.S. officials said. "Even as they were losing djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and Raqqa, we were seeing indications that they were planning to operate anew, as a clandestine organization," said Nicholas Rasmussen, who served as director of the National Counterterrorism Center before stepping down in December. "As they were being driven out of these places, they were leaving behind a kind of cell structure." |
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Iraq says 5 Islamic State leaders arrested, 40 others killed in operation in Syria |
2018-05-12 |
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi military has announced arresting five Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... leaders and killing 40 others in a major operation in Syria, saying those Death Eaters took part in attacks against Anbar and djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... A statement on Friday by the Security Media Center said "a major operation was carried out upon commands from the commander in chief of the armed forces, Haidar al-Abadi, and in collaboration with the Iraqi intelligence service and the Joint Operations Command. The operation resulted in arresting two IS leaders who took part in attacks against Anbar and Mosul. The enjugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! were Saddam Omar Yehia al-Jamal, known as Abu Ruqaia al-Ansari, and Mohammed Hussein Hadar, known as Abu Saif al-Shouaity, according to the statement. In addition to "Essam abdul Qadir Ashour al-Zawbaie, known as Abu Abdul Haq al-Iraqi, Omar Shihab Hammad al-Karbouli, known as Abu Hafs al-Karbouli, Ismail Elwan Salman al-Eithawi, known as Abu Zaid al-Iraqi, who is one of His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ![]() ’s aides." The arrests "were carried out in Syria in the border area with Iraq in the wake of an intelligence information. According to investigations with them, crucial information were used to carry out an ![]() |
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Isis: Trump says five 'most wanted' leaders captured | |
2018-05-11 | |
[THEGUARDIAN] Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... said on Thursday that five "most wanted" leaders of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... Lion of Islam group had been captured, an apparent reference to the capture of five commanders of the Lion of Islam group by Iraq. "Five Most Wanted leaders of ISIS just captured!" Trump wrote on Twitter, providing no further details. Iraq had described the capture of the Isis commanders as "some of the most wanted" leaders of the group. The list did not include Isis leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ![]() The US-led coalition said that Iraqi forces working with US-backed Syrian rebels had captured five senior Isis leaders. In a statement Thursday coalition front man Army Col. Ryan Dillon called the arrest a "significant blow to ISIS," using the Arabic acronym for the turban group. Earlier on Thursday, the New York Times ![]() ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported that the five suspects including an aide to Baghdadi had been captured following a three-month operation carried out by Iraqi and US intelligence agencies. The operation tracked senior Isis leaders who had been in hiding in Syria and ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... , the report said.
I suspect Tinder - Lonely caprophiles seek like-minded for love-in and jihad The encrypted app was officially named by ISIS as one of its favored mobile messaging services in 2015 and has been regularly used by the terror group for private communication and to spread propaganda. Al-Eithawi, who also uses the alias Abu Zaid al-Iraqi, was captured in February by Turkish intelligence and handed over to the Iraqis. Eithawi was a direct aide to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, responsible for fund transfers to the group's bank accounts in different countries, and served as ISIS governor in Syria's eastern Euphrates region and as a minister in charge of the group's so-called education department. Saddam al-Jamal, a Syrian who was accused of taking part of a massacre in the province of Deir Ezzor in 2014 which killed 700 members of a tribe that rose up against ISIS, was the second most senior member to be captured. He had previously been a commander in the Free Syrian Army and then leader of a western-allied 'moderate' Islamist group called Ahfab al-Rasoul. This was effectively destroyed by ISIS following a military campaign, and al-Jamal reappeared in an ISIS video to say he had defected from his former group which he branded 'stooges' of the West, according to The London Times. As head of ISIS in Deir Ezzor, he is accused of overseeing the murders of 700 members of the Shaitat tribe after it rebelled against ISIS. Apart from al-Eithawi and al-Jamal, the operation captured three field commanders: Syrian Mohamed al-Qadeer and two Iraqis, Omar al-Karbouli and Essam al-Zawbai, Hashimi said. | |
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India-Pakistan |
Al Qaeda figure believed killed in US drone strike |
2011-02-22 |
![]() The officials said the man, identified as Abu Zaid al-Iraqi, handled the terrorist group's finances in Pakistain. He was not known to be on any published US lists of wanted al Qaeda leaders, and US officials do not normally acknowledge the existence of the CIA-led missile program or talk about who is being killed. The strike was the first since the arrest of US citizen, Raymond Davis, who shot two Paks in late January. Three missiles hit a house in the village of Kaza Panga in the Azam Warsak area of South Wazoo tribal region, said two intelligence officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to news hounds. Al-Iraqi was believed to be one of several foreigners among the dead. He was described as being in his late 30s and going by the local name "Ali Khan." Al-Iraqi is believed to have shifted to South Wazoo in 2008 after time spent in Afghanistan. The officials said they learned of his death through agents on the ground in South Wazoo, as well as sources in the Taliban. |
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