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| U.S. Raid in Syria Killed 32 IS Members, including 4 Leaders |
| 2015-05-18 |
| [AnNahar] A U.S. special forces raid in eastern Syria killed 32 members 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.... jihadist group, including four leaders, a monitoring group said Sunday. "The U.S. operation killed 32 members of IS, among them four officials, including IS oil chief Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... , the deputy IS defense minister, and an IS communications official," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. U.S. officials have said "about a dozen" people were killed in the operation on Friday night, which was conducted by Iraq-based U.S. commandos in order to capture Abu Sayyaf. Abdel Rahman said three of the four leading officials killed in the raid were from North Africa, but that the IS communications official was Syrian. U.S. President Barack Obama teachable moment... approved the special forces operation, a rare use of "boots on the ground" by the United States, which has fought the jihadists almost entirely from the air. The operation targeted an IS compound at al-Omar, one of Syria's largest oil fields, which is located in the eastern Deir Ezzor province. A U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... said the commandos engaged the jihadists "at very close quarters... there was hand-to-hand combat". U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter called the operation a "significant blow" to IS, while Adam Schiff, a Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said U.S. attacks "have put increasing pressure on the economics undergirding the terrorist organization". |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Perhaps the 44% approval rating was a factor. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-05-18 11:44 |
| #1 Why do we acknowledge such raids? Shouldn't we just credit UFOs for them? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-05-18 08:20 |