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| ISIS leader flees to Syria fearing US airstrikes: Kurdish official | ||
| 2014-08-16 | ||
| [AAWSAT.NET] Leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and self-proclaimed caliph Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi fled the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... to return to Syrian territory after the US authorized In comments to Asharq Al-Awsat, Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) front man Saeed Mamo Zinni said: "Caliph of the Islamic State Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi left Mosul for Syria a few days ago." "According to our intelligence sources, Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi traveled to Syria as part of a convoy of 30 Hummer vehicles after fearing being targeted by US Zinni, a media official for the KDP regional office in Nineveh, went on to claim that Kurdish Peshmerga fighters had repelled an ISIS attack in the Zammar district of Diyala province. ISIS continued its attack on Iraqi Yazidis on Wednesday despite US An informed source in Mosul, speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat on condition of anonymity, said that ISIS had killed all Yazidi men in the villages it had besieged around Sinjar after a deadline for them to convert to Islam expired. "[ISIS fighters also] raped the women and girls, and took the children to Mosul," he added.
The source said: "Whoever has authorization from ISIS is transferred to areas near Mosul. Others are sent to the fighting in Syria after three days of military training at the Kindi training camp."
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) Peshmerga Ministry announced on Wednesday the arrival of French military aid. Brig. Gen. Halgurd Hikmat, the official front man of the Peshmerga Ministry, told Asharq Al-Awsat: "Many countries expressed willingness to help the Peshmerga forces militarily, including the US, Britannia, La Belle France, Finland, Italia and Canada." "The French military aid arrived over the past few days. Aid from the US and other countries also arrived, but I do not want to name those other countries now . . .We are still waiting for more arms from our allies," he added. Hikmat said the new arms were a mixture of light and heavy weapons, and that 130 additional US military advisors had also arrived in the region to assist Peshmerga with advice and planning. He added that a number of foreign countries had also offered to train Kurdish troops in the use of their new weapons. | ||
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Syria, most likely. The other possible is Baghdad and environs, once they close the southern gap. My take is that ISIS is using the crazies and fanatics as shock troops. The captured equipment is bonus; it it's destroyed, no big deal. There's also maintenance and support base for it, so they'll use it until it breaks. I'll go so far as to say the "self-proclaimed caliph" is not much more than a distraction. The hardcore element is safely ensconced someplac eelse , possibly in another, non-affected country. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-08-16 19:24 |
| #3 Where are they planning on using that held back fire power, Joe? Any word on that? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-08-16 08:22 |
| #2 Be nice if those captured vehicles squirted their position when triggered to do so on the GPS downlink. |
| Posted by: KBK 2014-08-16 08:01 |
| #1 MilBloggers claim the ISIS/ISIL is holding back most of their firepower, + instead are using only those captured US equipment, MBTS, + CSVS, etc. from the defeated Iraqi Army garrisons in Mosul to fight the Kurds + Yazidis??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-08-16 00:07 |