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Fate of 'critically wounded' ISIS chief unclear
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The leader 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , was "critically maimed" when a U.S.-led air strike targeted the western Iraqi border town of al-Qaim, tribal sources told Al Arabiya News Channel on Saturday. Pray for sepsis... Senior ISIS members were reportedly meeting in the town of al-Qaim near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... . After the strikes, the fighters evacuated a nearby hospital and used loudspeakers to ask for blood donors, Sky News reported. And bandages for a sucking chest wound... U.S. Central Command confirmed in a statement that U.S.-led air strikes targeted ISIS leaders near their northern Iraqi hub of Mosul late Friday, without confirming whether Baghdadi was killed, AFP reported. "This strike demonstrates the pressure we continue to place on the ISIL [ISIS] terrorist network and the group's increasingly limited freedom to maneuver, communicate and command," US Central Command said. Anbar province MP Mohammad al-Karbuli told Al Arabiya News Channel that coalition aircraft had targeted a gathering of ISIS leaders in al-Qaim that led to the killing of tens of people and maimed. Karbuli said chaos ensued the air raid with ISIS members scrambling to transport their maimed to al-Qaim hospital which was overwhelmed with the number of patients. Rooters news agency quoted two witnesses as saying an air strike targeted a house where senior ISIS officers were meeting, near al-Qaim. The witnesses said ISIS fighters had cleared a hospital so that their maimed could be treated. ISIS fighters used loudspeakers to urge residents to donate blood, the witnesses said. The agency also quoted residents as saying there were unconfirmed reports that ISIS' local leader in the western Iraqi province of Anbar and his deputy were killed. If we only do eight air strikes a day, but in those we kill eight ISIS leaders every day, I'm fine with that... U.S. officials would not confirm or deny whether Baghdadi, the group's overall leader, had been targeted, the agency said. Posted by: Fred 2014-11-09 |
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