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| Fate of 'critically wounded' ISIS chief unclear |
| 2014-11-09 |
| [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 |
| #20 #19 Source is a YouTube video loaded today by Kurds defending Kobane. 1) Inappropriate for this forum to embed a video showing animals feeding on carcases. 2) Will be removed at any moment when Youtube moderators see that on their forum. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-09 23:14 |
| #19 @#10: Source(s) please. |
| Posted by: Sluting Whairt4294 2014-11-09 21:48 |
| #18 Both the US + ISIS are repor denying Bagdadi's death. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-11-09 21:34 |
| #17 I prefer radioactive isotopes I was thinking 'Earth Shattering Kaboom', but those would work too. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-11-09 20:43 |
| #16 Those 'Medical Gases' can be nasty sometimes. I prefer radioactive isotopes. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2014-11-09 13:00 |
| #15 After the strikes, the fighters evacuated a nearby hospital and used loudspeakers to ask for blood donors, Sky News reported. Can't believe they ASKED for blood. Usually they just take it. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-09 12:53 |
| #14 Rite of ascension infighting? |
| Posted by: Nero Uneack3742 2014-11-09 12:52 |
| #13 Two months ago ISIS was on a rampage committing horrendous and terrifying atrocities. But in Kobane, Syria the YPG and YPJ showed the rest of the region and the world the task of stopping ISIS is merely a Kurdish woman's job. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-09 12:27 |
| #12 I agree with you there Rambler. We do hold ourselves to a higher code, and yes, the MSM would ensure that the optics were bad. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2014-11-09 12:27 |
| #11 My original point was that the US, despite what the MSM and other detractors say, generally tries to follow the Geneva Convention, even if the other side is not a signatory and does not follow them. Besides, the kinetic action against ISIS is being run by Susan Rice. Every target has to be reviewed and approved. I can't see her approving a strike on a hospital (or mosque), even if it was the al-Baghdadi Hospital, Command Center and Ammunition Storage building.The optics would be bad. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2014-11-09 12:15 |
| #10 Around Kobane, Syria, Kurdish fighters are entering villages to find them abandoned by ISIS. Kurdish front lines in Kobane are moving forward with very little resistance. They are making gruesome discoveries, finding only the bones and the black clothing of ISIS fighters in the streets and rubble as dogs and cats in the city who were abandoned have consumed the bodies of ISIS fighters. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-09 11:55 |
| #9 I'd have an "accident" at the hospital too Those 'Medical Gases' can be nasty sometimes. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-11-09 11:06 |
| #8 I'd have an "accident" at the hospital too. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-11-09 09:24 |
| #7 Is Al-Baghdadi a cat? This is what , the fourth time he has been critically wounded in an airstrike. |
| Posted by: chris 2014-11-09 06:34 |
| #6 p.s. In Islam hospitals and command centers are usually co-located. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-11-09 02:09 |
| #5 Wrong Rambler. Geneva Convention, unlike the "Laws of War" invented by Tranzis in recent decades requires mutuality. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-11-09 02:05 |
| #4 ISIS isn't (and can't be) a signatory to the Geneva protocols. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2014-11-09 01:36 |
| #3 Very true Ram. When ISIS captures and beheads it's first American GI we should remind them of their obligation as non-signatories of the meaningless convention. I'm afraid Marquess of Queensberry desperately needs to be set aside. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-11-09 01:18 |
| #2 Besoeker, deliberately attacking a hospital is a violation of the Geneva Conventions, no matter who is being treated there. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2014-11-09 00:58 |
| #1 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. Er huh, and al-Qaim hospital wasn't a follow-up target, or objective ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-11-09 00:42 |