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2019-10-27 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Killed or Captured in Raid, According to Report
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Posted by Frank G 2019-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11149 views ]  Top
 File under: Islamic State 

#1 3 miles from Turkish border. Bets he was living in Turkey?
Posted by 3dc 2019-10-27 00:07||   2019-10-27 00:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Would be a good troll to give partial credit to al qaeda intel
Posted by Lord garth 2019-10-27 00:09||   2019-10-27 00:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Let us hope they're saying he's killed, while they waterboard the he$$ out of him.
Posted by Old Patriot  2019-10-27 00:28||   2019-10-27 00:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Hopefully this will change some of the political talk
Posted by Sherry  2019-10-27 01:00||   2019-10-27 01:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Seen on the net:
The Problem is with Turkey. They knew where bagdahdi was ? And He was in god damn idlib??
Posted by 3dc 2019-10-27 02:41||   2019-10-27 02:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Congratulation to vice leader.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-27 02:59||   2019-10-27 02:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Well that should do it! Victory is surely just around the corner. Now there is even less need for America to be meddling in Syria.
Posted by Herb McCoy  2019-10-27 03:02||   2019-10-27 03:02|| Front Page Top

#8 He blew himself up by detonating a suicide vest. At least that's what the US DoD says.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-27 04:31||   2019-10-27 04:31|| Front Page Top

#9 https://twitter.com/mohmad_rasheed

Video from the area. Anything newer than the nearby refinery fire is of the US raid.
Posted by Pancho Flerens6518 2019-10-27 04:38||   2019-10-27 04:38|| Front Page Top

#10 https://syria.liveuamap.com

Zoom in above Idlib at the Turkish border and go to the live links reporting on the raid.
Posted by Pancho Flerens6518 2019-10-27 04:45||   2019-10-27 04:45|| Front Page Top

#11 "victory is just around the corner."

The trash will be needing taken out again next week. The toilet will need to be scrubbed again. It never really ends but the only thins that go away if you ignore them are your teeth and your wife.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-27 04:46||   2019-10-27 04:46|| Front Page Top

#12 If this is true:
ISIS cells in Idlib might have convinced ABB that this was his best bet after the events of the last two weeks. So if Trump authorized the raid a week ago, it might have directly followed from the Turkish invasion and intel tracking ABB’s migration from the Jazira.

... then Trump deserves a lot of credit. We'll see.
Posted by Lex 2019-10-27 05:13||   2019-10-27 05:13|| Front Page Top

#13 #11😊😊😊
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-27 05:19||   2019-10-27 05:19|| Front Page Top

#14 So, endless war. Forever. You're supposed to be arguing against me, not accidentally proving my points! An "own goal" right there.
Posted by Herb McCoy  2019-10-27 05:53||   2019-10-27 05:53|| Front Page Top

#15 Troll
Posted by Frank G 2019-10-27 05:58||   2019-10-27 05:58|| Front Page Top

#16 As I thought. Whatever Trump does, will prosper. This is a win at the right time.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-27 06:03||   2019-10-27 06:03|| Front Page Top

#17 I think the point I'd make is, if one side stops fighting and the other side doesn't, who's driving the "endless war?" Seems jihad is are pretty up front about what they consider victory from their standpoint. If I don't want to live in the caliphate, I'd say they have also defined my victory conditions for me.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-27 06:05||   2019-10-27 06:05|| Front Page Top

#18 Somehow, I don't think he could have blown himself up.

Would be better if the fire team actually strapped him with C4, and said it happened that way.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-27 07:19||   2019-10-27 07:19|| Front Page Top

#19  told Newsweek that Baghdadi was killed in the raid.


What's Newsweek?
Posted by AlanC 2019-10-27 08:38||   2019-10-27 08:38|| Front Page Top

#20 a $1 Company
Posted by Frank G 2019-10-27 08:41||   2019-10-27 08:41|| Front Page Top

#21 He died like a dog. He died like a coward.

Donald Trump
Posted by One Eyed Ghibelline9404 2019-10-27 09:56||   2019-10-27 09:56|| Front Page Top

#22 Cleanup on Aisle 22 (?)
Posted by Raj 2019-10-27 10:14||   2019-10-27 10:14|| Front Page Top

#23 Syrian Kurdish-led forces - one of the main US allies in northern Syria until President Trump withdrew US troops from the area this month - said they had carried out a "historic" joint operation.

Mr Trump praised them, as well as Russia, Iraq, Turkey and Syria for giving "certain support" to the operation.
Posted by 3dc 2019-10-27 10:20||   2019-10-27 10:20|| Front Page Top

#24 #Russia opened up airspace for the #US operation to take place, the intel does appear to have come from #Iraq as per reports earlier.
Posted by 3dc 2019-10-27 10:41||   2019-10-27 10:41|| Front Page Top

#25 Based on the information available so far here's the locations of the Baghdadi compound destroyed in the raid (36.165804, 36.627401), and the destroyed van (36.165769, 36.631570). This is about 5km away from the Turkish border.
Posted by 3dc 2019-10-27 10:43||   2019-10-27 10:43|| Front Page Top

#26 Rantingly.com keeps adding links — 15 thus far. Some are tweets with video clips from President Trump’s announcement this morning. I lack the skill to share a screen grab or a copy of that section of the page, and there are good reasons (spam!) why Fred’s code does not allow more than two links per comment. Apparently Iraqi intelligence gets credit for having found him. Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff were not informed ahead of time for fear of leaks.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-27 11:04||   2019-10-27 11:04|| Front Page Top

#27 ABAB has been killed several times in the past. Let's hope this he is really on his way to hell this time. It does seem like it. The world is better off. Good going Trump, military and whomever else helped us bring this about.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-10-27 11:06||   2019-10-27 11:06|| Front Page Top

#28 blew hisself up? Mount his head on a pike on the WH lawn. Let the ravens pick at it
Posted by Frank G 2019-10-27 11:33||   2019-10-27 11:33|| Front Page Top

#29 Trump says we already have the next leader of ISIS in our sights, but IIUC only al Bagdadi's children have the proper linage to claim the Caliph.

This was a great win but difficult (for a westerner) decisions are ahead.
Posted by The peanut gallery 2019-10-27 11:36||   2019-10-27 11:36|| Front Page Top

#30 AOSHQ: "How does Ace put it?

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi loses life trampled by stampeding camel spiders and U.S. air raid. But mostly by air raid."
Posted by Frank G 2019-10-27 11:46||   2019-10-27 11:46|| Front Page Top

#31 I think the point I'd make is, if one side stops fighting and the other side doesn't, who's driving the "endless war?" Seems jihad is are pretty up front about what they consider victory from their standpoint. If I don't want to live in the caliphate, I'd say they have also defined my victory conditions for me.

M. Murcek’s expansion on his previous about ignoring wives and teeth nails it. As did his previous, but not everyone appreciates metaphoric language.

Congratulations to all involved. Especially to those who knew something was up, but didn’t even so much as hint to outsiders.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-27 12:07||   2019-10-27 12:07|| Front Page Top

#32 Separately, I found this bit of speculation interesting:

Trump's Syria pullout lured the big ISIS rat out of his hole and ... boom!

So much for all that "expert" opinion in the last few weeks in the mainstream media that President Trump's pullout of U.S. troops from Syria would inevitably bring the recrudescence of ISIS. Even Saturday Night Live mocked that one, and on the night of the rubout, that didn't age well from even the first minute.

It almost makes one wonder if the terrorists themselves were fooled by the media/expert naysaying.

The terrorists, who are known to be voracious watchers of CNN and other mainstream news, decided that Trump was a wimp, a pacifist, a non-fighter for pulling U.S. troops out; Trump wouldn't fight them, they thought, leaving them with a field day. The coast was clear and it didn't take long before they popped out of their holes.

Such was the suggested thinking of one military expert featured on Fox News,
Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-27 12:13||   2019-10-27 12:13|| Front Page Top

#33 Frank G: It might have been the Camel Spiders sent down the dead-end tunnel Baghdadi was in. We don't know. I mean, if I was over there for years, I'd be trying to train those things for tunnel-clearing...
Posted by Charles 2019-10-27 12:16||   2019-10-27 12:16|| Front Page Top

#34 Nancy Pelosi is in a snit because she and her Dem leaders weren't briefed ahead "as were the Russians", and hence not able to leak it
Posted by Frank G 2019-10-27 12:19||   2019-10-27 12:19|| Front Page Top

#35  decided that Trump was a wimp, a pacifist, a non-fighter for pulling U.S. troops out

For a moment there, I almost thought so too. The man just made Sin Tzu Great again. Salute.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-27 12:41||   2019-10-27 12:41|| Front Page Top

#36 I don't celebrate Diwali but I enjoyed some pyrotechnics with colleagues. It is auspicious in a way. Diwali being the festival of celebration of victory of good over evil.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-27 12:50||   2019-10-27 12:50|| Front Page Top

#37 Just wondering here, why Pelosi, Schiff et al would "need to know" beforehand?
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-27 12:58||   2019-10-27 12:58|| Front Page Top

#38 Next she'll say it was something like high treason that Trump didn't inform Congress. And he could say, "You were all busy beating your breasts for Cummings, I thought it best not to disturb you further."
Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-27 13:01||   2019-10-27 13:01|| Front Page Top

#39 #29 blew hisself up? Mount his head on a pike on the WH lawn. Let the ravens pick at it

Nah, put it in Lucite and keep it at our desk at the UN.
Posted by Silentbrick 2019-10-27 13:25||   2019-10-27 13:25|| Front Page Top

#40 His Whack-a-mole replacement arrives in 48 hours. Little is gained here besides the media frenzy.

M ≠ P

(Motion does not equal progress)
Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-27 13:29||   2019-10-27 13:29|| Front Page Top

#41 And inertia does not equal strength. Ya gotta take advantages of the opportunities that present themselves, B.
Posted by JHH 2019-10-27 16:03||   2019-10-27 16:03|| Front Page Top

#42 Abu Marion Berry: "Bitch set me up!"
Posted by Frank G 2019-10-27 19:09||   2019-10-27 19:09|| Front Page Top

#43 Forgive me, you are probably right JHH. I'm just weary of the half-assed efforts, media grab, and politics.

My addled brain is experiencing intermittent circuitry loss. I should probably look for another pastime or hobby.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-27 19:18||   2019-10-27 19:18|| Front Page Top

#44 A cute, cuddly critter was Ida,
Whose human had pampered and dyed her.
Awww, who could stampede her?
Somebody call PETA
To fight for this shy little spider!
Posted by Skunky Sforza6003 2019-10-27 20:28||   2019-10-27 20:28|| Front Page Top

#45  Forgive me, you are probably right JHH. I'm just weary of the half-assed efforts, media grab, and politics.


Illegitimi non carborundum, man!

I agree whacking the guy isn't a world-changing event, but there finally has been a reckoning, and we get to see the roaches scuttle. Looks like we bagged at least one more from that.

Plus we get some organizational friction. The top guy is whacked, someone gets picked from the admittedly endless ranks of Number Twos and Threes. Maybe he is competent, maybe not. In any case, the various factions are jostling for position and influence. People who were In are suddenly Out. Plans change. If they were able to whack *him*, how much more do they know? Suspicion is a terrible thing.

Not world-changing and waaay too much MediaFrenzy, but anything that disrupts these sumbitches is a positive.
Posted by SteveS 2019-10-27 21:23||   2019-10-27 21:23|| Front Page Top

#46 Also, there are no doubt all sorts of devices and paper records for our clever boys and girls to play with, full of accounts and contacts and calendars... heaven only knows what next will be discovered, prevented, tracked down...

Happy hunting, guys!
Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-27 22:27||   2019-10-27 22:27|| Front Page Top

#47 Not world-changing and waaay too much MediaFrenzy, but anything that disrupts these sumbitches is a positive.

Hahaha, that it is Steve. That it is.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-27 22:27||   2019-10-27 22:27|| Front Page Top

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