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The Grand Turk

Turkey Captures Al-Baghdadi's Wife In Syria - Report

2019-11-07

[Jpost] ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
has captured a wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, more than a week after the former Islamic State

...formerly ISIS
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
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....
leader killed himself during a raid by U.S. special forces.

"The United States said Baghdadi killed himself in a tunnel. They started a communication campaign about this," Erdogan said

"But, I am announcing it here for the first time: We captured his wife and didn't make a fuss like them. Similarly, we also captured his sister and brother-in-law in Syria,"

...that would be Rasmiya Awad (65), who with hubbie, daughter-in-law and five kiddies lived in a trailer near the town of Azaz...

he said in a speech at Ankara University. He gave no details.

Would he have said anything if he hadn’t needed to show he was still relevant after President Trump neglected to inform him of the purpose of that raid?

A senior ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish official said earlier this week that Turkey had captured Baghdadi's sister, her husband and daughter-in-law, and hoped to gain intelligence from them about Islamic State, although Ankara has not said what knowledge they may have had about the group's operations.

“Dear Abu B. loved my chocolate-chip-banana pancakes with lots of maple syrup and extra crispy bacon,” she told the interrogator yesterday as they sat cozily over yet another pot of Sultan Erdogan’s truly excellent tea. He showed always the deference of one Ummah leader to the relatives of another, though she couldn’t help feeling that he lacked the intellectual depth of her beloved younger brother.

Baghdadi rose from obscurity to lead the ultra-hardline group and declare himself caliph of all Moslems, holding sway over huge areas of Iraq and Syria from 2014-2017 before Islamic State's control was wrested away by a U.S.-led coalition.

Last month, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said two of Baghdadi's wives had also been killed at the site of last month's raid.

The group said a successor to Baghdadi, identified as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi, had been appointed. A senior U.S. official said last week that Washington was looking at the new leader to determine where he came from.

Posted by:trailing wife

Even the dimwit commenters at ZeroHedge get it. She's a Turkish asset. She was "captured" by the people she works for.

Any similarities are purely coincidental.

Posted by: Besoeker 2019-11-07 06:33

#2 We captured his wife and didn't make a fuss like them.

"Sending dogs to do a musalman's job, bleh ! In fact she came to us. And so did his sister-in-law, uncle, aunt, cook, cook's mother, about fifty chickens and a chained leper."

Posted by: Dron66046 2019-11-07 05:02

#1 Even the dimwit commenters at ZeroHedge get it. She's a Turkish asset. She was "captured" by the people she works for.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-11-07 03:40

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