Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), is believed to have been killed in a top-secret operation, according to Newsweek.
(Via Newsweek)
The United States military has conducted a special operations raid targeting one of its most high-value targets, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), Newsweek has learned. Donald Trump approved the mission nearly a week before it took place.
Amid reports Saturday of U.S. military helicopters over Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, a senior Pentagon official familiar with the operation and Army official briefed on the matter told Newsweek that Baghdadi was the target of the top-secret operation in the last bastion of the country’s Islamist-dominated opposition, a faction that has clashed with ISIS in recent years. A U.S. Army source briefed on the results of the operation told Newsweek that Baghdadi was killed in the raid. And the Defense Department told the White House they have “high confidence” that the high-value target killed was Baghdadi but further verification is pending.”
The president will make a statement on Sunday morning at 9 a.m. eastern time, according to NBC News.
DEVELOPING: "Something very big has just happened!" President Trump tweeted at 9:23 p.m. ET.
A White House official tells @NBCNews that the president will be making a statement Sunday at 9 a.m. ET.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 27, 2019
ISIS target believed to be Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi is killed in Syria: sources https://t.co/7cn2eYSV7f #FoxNews
— William Amos (@WilliamAmos) October 27, 2019
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been the leader of ISIS since June 2014. In that year, ISIS declared itself a worldwide caliphate and claimed authority over the Muslim world, and an international coalition led by the United States targeted ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Russia intervened in Syria against ISIS the following year. In December 2017, it was reported that ISIS had lost 98 percent of the territories it once held.
But the withdraw of U.S. troops from Syria this month led to the release of several captured ISIS fighters. When Turkey took advantage of the opportunity and invaded northern Syria, Kurdish soldiers who were guarding the ISIS prisoners left their post in the ensuing fighting. At least 100 ISIS fighters broke out of a Syrian detention facility after the facility came under attack from followers of al-Baghdadi.
Following the invasion, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on Turkey, forcing a permanent ceasefire between Turkey and Kurdish forces. The sanctions have since been lifted.
The U.S. also announced on Friday that three ISIS fighters were killed in a U.S. airstrike in the Golis Mountains of northern Somalia.
A reward of up to $25 million for information leading to the terrorist’s death or capture had previously been offered by the U.S. State Department.
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What great news. Now we can reassemble on the USS Missouri, declare victory and come home.
Or not.
They’ve killed him at least twice before. I hope this time it works.
Maybe he is part cat and has 6 more lives, all to be sacrificed at a politically appropriate time.
You’ll know he’s truly dead when they perform the time-honored Muslim practice of burial at sea.
I’m so glad you said that, Farmer. I was thinking “Wasn’t this guy already dead?” “Maybe it’s just that all of those names sound alike and I’m just confused.”
I was browsing a website filled with conspiracy theorists last night right after the story broke and one poster had amassed a couple of dozen MSM archived stories concerning his killing in the past.
This morning none of those links were were still working and Google had completely scrubbed the search engine of matching results.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I’ve noticed changes in our ability to record and save the information. Has anyone noticed there are places you cannot take a SCREEN SHOT? Not only can they change reality… they can deny you the ability to record it easily.
My son was explaining his job as a software engineer helping build and maintain an extensive database of gathered data which will be used for all sorts of well-intended purposes to the medical community. And, my son reminded me, the “medical community” is global, not national. That is why his double dog secret security clearance was a nice tool in his pocket.
Guess what? the brat humbled himself and thanked me for being a red rope.
Not to go all PopGun22 but isn’t the timing a bit suspect…kind of like Baghdadi was in a secret bunker with JFK and JFK jr being held until the proper time for optimal political leverage?
I would have much preferred having Baghdadi put on trial and have the opportunity to testify about where his money and armaments came from…..SmallHats, Obama via Libya etc. and then he could rant on about the Caliphate and show what a psychobabble religion Islam is….I am sure he would not disappoint.
You notice these Jihadist wingnuts never get a day in open court….Good Heavens the things they might say…..
“The things they might say”
You mean like “The CIA trained us, funded us, and gave us all of the armaments we needed to do whatever they told us to do”
Yep, that’s why we kill them outright or we can’t seem to find them…..
Not there is anything wrong with killing the Jihadists…..
Good Mornin, MC….
This will support your comment:
https://armswatch.com/us-task-force-smoking-gun-smuggles-weapons-to-syria-serbia-files-part-2/
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <——== The Plan ! A New Order for the Ages
Some people seem to always have dirty hands.
Profound things are happening in the spiritual world, I think. At least, I hope so.
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/09/911-the-week-before/100142/#img27
Like that the U.S. gave Sadam the training to make biological weapons in Iraq. I watched this on the evening news once and then it was never mentioned again.
The money and armaments came and come from American taxpayers and those items have been provided for a very, very long time…America’s secret intelligence services et al. have been creating and funding proxy armies for years.
I see a quick cremation and spreading of the ashes at sea for this fella. The four widows will be seeking civil damages against the US government in addition to residency in Miami and a fat contract for a TV special with either Okrah Winfrey or Ellen Degenerate.
Peq.
Government creates the terrorists, then kills them and say’s “look, we’re fighting terrorism”!
Again?
All right, I know it is juvenile and immature. I can’t help it. I’ve been wanting to ask since I heard this on the local news this morning.
Is this the Big Bag Daddy or is there yet another even Bigger Bag Daddy we have to worry about out there?
I believe the “BIG BAD DADDY” is safely ensconced at Langley Va.But we are apparently not attempting to do He or They any harm.
MG.
Yes there’s a bigger Daddy and we all know who. Just don’t bring it up or TBPr’s start moaning like 5 dollar porn stars.
Whoopdy fuckin doo !
A billon Muslims on the planet with a third radicalized , 2 are congressional cunts in our front yard and I’m supposed to believe our nations military has done something to some sand nigger on the other side of the planet !
Wait let me get a yellow ribbon wave a flag and cozy up with my wounded warrior blanket !
Stop this endless war evacuate all American military around the world bring everybody home and put them on our border .
You here illegally round them up and ship them out !
Sanctuary towns and cities “FUCK YOU” cooperate with another operation wet back or find your legislatures tried for treason !
18 years in Afghanistan and all we have to show for it is body bags and heroin laced with fentinol thanks to our friends in Mexico & China
My thoughts exactly.
Peq.
Meanwhile back at the ranch. Boy Trump decided he didn’t really want to pull troops out of Syria after all. We are going to keep the oil and continue destabilizing the Middle east to please our Big Daddy.
BTW. Russia claims there was no U.S. air activity recorded during this time. Must have used those invisible F-35’s.
Yeah you know those invisible F-35’s that have the performance of a Piper Cub and the uptime of a heroin addict on a binge (aka none!)….but they cost untold billions….has anybody actually seen an F35…..where indeed did those trillions go! ARRRRRGH!
Hammer
Nobody has actually seen Q or JFK but they are running things behind the scenes. I read it in the Enquirer at Walmart yesterday.
If the gossip about F-35’s is true, someone put wings and lipstick on a pig.
Paper airplanes!
Survey says: “Spaceforce”…I can’t hear that without cracking up!
You are purposefully downplaying the coordination between US, Russia, Turkey, and Syria, the real story, notice the only fucks getting decimated are Deep State ISIS.
Looks like a swan song.
Hunted like dogs.
I think you mean they are being accelerated at ballistic speed to their ultimate reward….rapist torturing bastards….a little WP liberally applied will adjust their heathen ways.
Has the Obama presidency jaded us so much, that when an enemy is killed, we just shrug our shoulders?
Have we got so much Obama on the brain that we automatically assume he really isn’t dead but “buried at sea?”
However he got to his position, he was the leader of ISIS and a sick MF in his killing of those who will not submit to Islam and as such, good riddance.
I don’t think President Trump would suffer the idiocy of the previous administration of making a comment like he is dead if there was any doubt; he’s not Obama. His details of his demise is graphic and without apology; war is hell and bad guys should die and not be wept over; haven’t seen this kind of reality since, well, I’ve never seen this kind of honest speaking of taking out the enemy and boasting in the victory.
Don’t stop me I’m on a roll.
The media was doing their damndest to spin this as orange man bad and frankly, I’m getting sick of it. Their hatred of the president is glaringly obvious and that’s the second thing that pisses me off; they think we are too stupid to see their bias and think we still believe they are just reporting the news. They should have been dumped into oblivion with their ratings drop, but now that they are a necessary component of taking the president down, they will continue in their reporting even if their viewers drop down to single digits.
Step back and look at the president boasting in his military and allowing them to fight without BS Rules of Engagement and your seeing the re establishment of American exceptionalism that is rapidly causing the democrats to lose their ground of orange man bad and needs to be defeated at all costs. KAGA.
Um, Yes … Don’t Believe It and Even if I did, it Wouldn’t Matter.
And the Whack A Mole game continues. Well, in this case it’s the Whack A Goatfucker game. Has his replacement been announce yet?
For now, I will be referring to him as the Ultimate Bag Daddy.
When a shark loses a tooth another immediately rolls forward to replace it. The ‘leaders’ in ‘radical’ Islam are like shark’s teeth, there’s always another to replace the first one.
I find it disturbing that Trump is making like Obama when Bin Laden was supposedly killed, such braggadocio is unseemly. Remember cackling Hillary with her ‘we came, we saw, he died” statement of glee for a man she made sure died and died horribly. Let us not forget her and Obama’s role in Benghazi, and, more importantly, let us not forget how Bin Laden came into being, ditto ISIS. All are creations of the CIA, State Department and Pentagon.
Those are very good points, Girl. However, bragging is part of Trumps persona. He can’t help himself. I would be more worried if he didn’t act like that. I would wonder who took control of his mouth. It’s unseemly, but it’s definitely like him to do that.
That is why he is bragging. Maybe it is true, how the fuck would I know, if they smoked a key asset, it is just more bad news. Watching trump smirk burns their ass, which makes me smile, anal discomfort in those that put that scheme together.
Come on now let’s be accurate…the goatfuckers are in Afgh. ISIS specialized in raping and torturing Yazidi men women and children to death….when they were done kicking ass with weapons provided by Hillary Clinton, Backdoor Barry from Libya…..That is what is so heinous about this….ISIS was a rebranded creation of AQ supported and courted by the USA……fuck.
Man, the times sure have changed. It used to be that when you killed someone, well, they stayed killed. Now it’s like Hollywood where they kill a famous actor at the end of a flick, and before you know it, he’s making another movie…
Nkit..
If he’s as hard to keep dead as Bin Laden he will die more times than Victor on Days of Our Lives.
Perhaps a silver steak(MC) will do it.
only gay men watch soap operas,do you also post as gayvet?
Red.
Why are you so obsessed with labeling people as gay. EC, Nikky, now me. I remember encountering straight acting gays in the bars outside the Navy bases that did the same thing you do. Pretend to look and whistle at all the girls while trying to pick up sailors.
Are you getting even with me for not getting your non joke, joke and hollering at you. Another sure sign, Hell hath no fury like a scorned fairey.
ouch,you outed me !!
Red..
I noticed on Drudge that Florida is looking for experienced Python Hunters. Your experience with hunting snakes might be transferable.
flea,
funny you posted this,i’m actually considering signing up 4 the python program–
most of the areas would need to be worked from the east coast but from what i understood there are a couple of areas on the west side of the glades that might be open–
i could use some help,maybe you & nkit could come also & we’ll share a tent–
Share a tent to hunt snakes….gotcha…
Girl
With separate sleeping bags of course.
separate sleeping bags….of course…reminds me of a bad joke about a traveler seeking shelter in a monastery. The Abbot welcomes him and offers a dinner of beans and cabbage. That night the traveler is lying in his bed in the dormitory with the other monks and he keeps hearing these soft, almost sibilant noises. A bit later he has to break wind and he lets rip with a mighty fart. No sooner has he farted then he hears the Abbot shout, “quick, grab him boys, we caught us a virgin.”
Girl.
Now that’s funny.
Red.
Thanks but my Great Aunt Millie is sick and I can’t leave her alone, someone else might steal her checks out of the mailbox before I do.
On a more serious note. I saw that on drudge and wondered if they were a problem in Tampa. When I was at Bay Pines it sure looked like ideal Python habitat. I bet the Nutria’s don’t get much sleep.
at this point they’re mostly confined to s fla,esp the glades–we haven’t had any seriously cold weather 4 a bunch of years now,which keeps the non native animals /plants in check so they are creeping northward–
iguanas are incredibly out of control–
the next time we have a hard freeze that goes all the way south of tampa/orlando the governor ought to mobilize the natl guard & put em out into the glades hunting pythons & other exotics–the cold mostly immobilizes them & we could put a huge dent in the population–
imo,it should be a serious felony to smuggle or release non native animals or plants into the country–
Red.
Heaven forbid we should propose reintroducing bounties. Too effective and efficient as opposed to govt. relocation specialists.
btw,
judging by the # of upvotes vs down votes on your reply above when i mentioned gay vet,we must have a bunch of guys on this site who watch soaps–
Those are the closet TBPers. As to non-native creatures being brought into the country, if you really want some nightmares then realize that King Cobras, black mambas, taipans and other horrors are not only in the country, they’re being bred and the offspring are sold.
NOOOOOO! Cobras are not too bad except the spitters…but a mamba is a confident aggro bit of nastiness…that would be horrible.
Girl.
But black mambas only live in ghetto’s.
Maybe they have to suffer through them at Cardio Rehab. The wives bring Their men in for rehab and then head for the TV’s and turn on 3 different soaps. After two hours us men are begging for anti depressants.
Dude it is over the Burmese python population is widespread and ubiquitous….they have found some 20’ers….between the hogs and the snakes and alligators and the skeeters Florida ain’t worth inhabiting…Florida native here as you know!
Of course Mr. Skunk Ape now has a wide variety of protein sources no wonder those damn things are getting as common as Japanese beetles! You go poking around for pythons you may have a very unsettling experience….
Texas has all those critters except for the pythons, too dry for the most part. Don’t move to Texas, you get the snakes, bugs, hogs, cactus, and now the kissing bugs that spread Chagas and let us not forget dengue. Come to think of it, there’s also brain eating amoebas in the water, ditto flesh eating bacteria.
Texas has swamps so probably only a matter of time for the pythons. Did I mention alligators, snapping turtles and roaches the size of kittens that can fly? We call them water bugs and you haven’t lived until you’ve had one of those crawl across your face at three am.
Stay away from Texas, you’ll be glad you did.
Then again, there’s a serious chicken problem in Key West…not sure but I’ve been told that python tastes like Key West Chicken,
i just saw what you posted last night–
i’m one of the most anti govt guys you’ll ever meet who is also not insane but non native animals & plants can devastate the environment,why do we allow that?
a few years ago a legal breeder was keeping his snakes in his home,which was a mh in a large park–he was bitten & when fish & wildlife officers investigated,he had a mamba in his house–
we also have a few piranha in the canals down around miami/lauderdale–
just a matter of time till we get crocs–
And just like that BAM! Another NOTCH!
Is Florida becoming Australia?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/27/us/great-white-shark-south-carolina-trnd/index.html
I’m old and a bit slow, but now I know why Red addressed me as “Hey Thaylor” some time ago…..
Nkit.
That Thwang comes from deliberately putting his Prep H on his toothbrush. Keeps the throat Virgin like.
Speaking of wars, this poetry/video is worthwhile if you haven’t seen it.
https://youtu.be/2pzI8PBBRKw
Profound. Mixed reaction to some lines, but that is what poetry is supposed to do. It wants us to examine our reaction to the poet’s observation. It doesn’t want our standing ovation.
Unless it is just flattery (propaganda).
I wonder if the Delta guys at Bragg have his Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra watch in one of their war trophy curio cabinets.
These stories have lost all gloss and shine for me. They are meaningless, even if they aren’t intended to be.
BULLSHIT
short article,”does location of isis leader hint at turkish help”
Someone killed some people somewhere…. but you’ve got to believe us they were real dicks.