[BREITBART] Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad echoed Russian doubts about the death of 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
"caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an extensive interview published Friday, attributing most American political developments to "Hollywood."
The regime-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) published Assad’s interview in full, which touches on, among other topics, the al-Baghdadi raid, his opinion of President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
, a potential hot war with
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
, and his hope to integrate Kurdish groups into his regime.
President Trump announced that American forces surrounded al-Baghdadi at a secret compound outside Idlib, Syria, last weekend. When al-Baghdadi found himself captured, he ran into a dead-end cave with two of his children and detonated a suicide bomb vest, killing all three. Only one American troop, a canine officer, was injured touching a livewire, according to the Pentagon, but has since returned to duty.
"He died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way," Trump said. "These savage monsters will not escape their fate, and they will not escape the final judgment of God."
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the majority-Kurdish militia responsible for taking ISIS
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...down in its "capital," Raqqa, was reportedly responsible for extracting from Islamic State jihadists the intelligence necessary to find al-Baghdadi. Trump thanked them, as well as Turkey, Russia, and Syria for their participation in the operation.
Assad told friendly Syrian media that he did not understand why Trump thanked his dictatorship.
"Maybe, the reason behind including a number of countries as participants in this operation is to give it credibility so these countries will feel not embarrassed, but have the desire to be that they are part of a ’great’ operation, as the Americans have tried to portray it. And in this way, they are credited with fighting terrorism," Assad speculated. "We do not need such credit. We are the ones fighting terrorism. We have no relations and have had no contact with any American institutions."
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