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U.S.: No Reason to Think al-Baghdadi Wounded
[AnNahar] U.S. forces have no reason to think 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.... leader 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 maimed in an air strike against an Iraqi target last month, the Pentagon said Tuesday. British daily The Guardian had earlier reported that the bully boy, who styles himself caliph of the jihadists' territory in Iraq and Syria, had been "seriously maimed" in an allied raid. But Pentagon front man Colonel Steve Warren told news hounds the report appears to have been "recycled" from a March story and that Baghdadi had not been a target of the raid in question. "We said that there was nothing to indicate that Baghdadi had been maimed or killed," Warren said. "There's nothing to indicate that there's been a change." U.S. and allied Western and Arab forces are engaged in an air campaign against Baghdadi's so-called Islamic State, a jihadist group that has seized cities in Syria and northern Iraq. U.S. and Iranian-backed Iraqi forces and Shiite militias have made some progress in recent weeks against the Sunni bully boys, but the group has itself launched an offensive in western Iraq. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-04-22 |
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