...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
said on Thursday that five "most wanted" leaders 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....
Lion of Islam group had been captured, an apparent reference to the capture of five commanders of the Lion of Islam group by Iraq.
"Five Most Wanted leaders of ISIS just captured!" Trump wrote on Twitter, providing no further details.
Iraq had described the capture of the Isis commanders as "some of the most wanted" leaders of the group. The list did not include Isis leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...The US-led coalition said that Iraqi forces working with US-backed Syrian rebels had captured five senior Isis leaders.
In a statement Thursday coalition front man Army Col. Ryan Dillon called the arrest a "significant blow to ISIS," using the Arabic acronym for the turban group.
Earlier on Thursday, the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported that the five suspects including an aide to Baghdadi had been captured following a three-month operation carried out by Iraqi and US intelligence agencies.
The operation tracked senior Isis leaders who had been in hiding in Syria and
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
, the report said.
| The Daily Mail adds photos and information about the five Numbers 2 and 3, courtesy of Mercutio: |
I suspect Tinder - Lonely caprophiles seek like-minded for love-in and jihad
The encrypted app was officially named by ISIS as one of its favored mobile messaging services in 2015 and has been regularly used by the terror group for private communication and to spread propaganda.
Al-Eithawi, who also uses the alias Abu Zaid al-Iraqi, was captured in February by Turkish intelligence and handed over to the Iraqis.
Eithawi was a direct aide to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, responsible for fund transfers to the group's bank accounts in different countries, and served as ISIS governor in Syria's eastern Euphrates region and as a minister in charge of the group's so-called education department.
Saddam al-Jamal, a Syrian who was accused of taking part of a massacre in the province of Deir Ezzor in 2014 which killed 700 members of a tribe that rose up against ISIS, was the second most senior member to be captured. He had previously been a commander in the Free Syrian Army and then leader of a western-allied 'moderate' Islamist group called Ahfab al-Rasoul.
This was effectively destroyed by ISIS following a military campaign, and al-Jamal reappeared in an ISIS video to say he had defected from his former group which he branded 'stooges' of the West, according to The London Times.
As head of ISIS in Deir Ezzor, he is accused of overseeing the murders of 700 members of the Shaitat tribe after it rebelled against ISIS.
Apart from al-Eithawi and al-Jamal, the operation captured three field commanders: Syrian Mohamed al-Qadeer and two Iraqis, Omar al-Karbouli and Essam al-Zawbai, Hashimi said.