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CENTCOM announces that US forces arrest an ISIS facilitator and two assistants in eastern Syria
2023-04-13
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Wednesday that US forces conducted a helicopter raid in eastern Syria on April 8, capturing Hudayfah al Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i, a controller of the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems...
(ISIS) attack, and two of his associates.

The CENTCOM tweeted that arresting the ISIS controller and his lovers assistants "will disrupt the organization’s ability to plot and carry out operations."

Joe Buccino, the CENTCOM spokesperson said, "Operations against ISIS are important for the security and stability of the region."

In addition, he stressed that ISIS still poses a great threat to the region and the world, as the group "retains the capability to conduct operations in Iraq and Syria with a desire to strike beyond the Middle East."

The CENTCOM said that such kind of operations "reaffirms our commitment to the enduring defeat of ISIS."
Rudaw adds:
The statement of CENTCOM reveals that the operation was carried out on Saturday evening in eastern Syria, without providing a more specific location, adding that no civilians were harmed.

The three detainees were identified as Hudaydah al Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i, an ISIS attack controller, and two of his associates.

UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) first reported the story on Sunday, saying that the turbans were captured as a result of a joint-operation by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces and a counterterrorism group from the Kurdistan Region, with the support of helicopters of the US-led global coalition against ISIS.

SOHR did not identify which party the counterterrorism group belonged to.

The SDF and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) have seemingly developed closer relations in recent months, with their links first exposed in March when a helicopter carrying SDF counter-terror forces crashed in Duhok due to bad weather, killing nine. The forces were going to Sulaimani for training, three months after PUK leader Bafel Talabani visited northeast Syria (Rojava) and discussed joint anti-terror efforts with Abdi.

About a thousand US troops stationed in Syria are part of an international coalition that has fought ISIS in the country since 2014. The coalition has been an ally of the SDF since 2017, providing the forces with weapons, military equipment, and advisers.
Posted by:Fred

#3  WTF? Our military is not supposed to be 'arresting' the enemy. Their job is to turn the enemy into faint red mist or one of those splatter paintings.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2023-04-13 08:17  

#2  "Arresting a man for murder here was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500."

Capt. Willard, Apocalypse Now
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-04-13 07:58  

#1  arresting the ISIS controller and his assistants "will disrupt the organization’s ability to plot and carry out operations."

"We can ask them many hard questions and follow the money. Then kill them."

"After reprogramming they will be released back into the wild to convert others."
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-04-13 06:42  

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