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Unpunctual Baghdadi barely survives Iranian attack by showing up late to meeting
2018-10-06
[ALMASDARNEWS] Sometimes it pays to be late, which is especially the case for 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 (ISIS) 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...
, as he allegedly escaped the Iranian attack on eastern Syria.

According to a report from Iraqi News, the Islamic State leader barely survived the Iranian attack this week after showing up late to the terrorist group’s meeting near the strategic city of Albukamal.

Citing a Baghdad Today interview with Hashd al-Sha’abi leader Jabar al-Ma’amouri, the report claimed "the Iranian shelling against specific pockets of Islamic State, east of Euphrates in Syria, using missiles few days ago targeted an important meeting for the so-called Islamic State’s war council, to which Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was on way."

The terrorist leader "was about to get killed in the shelling but he survived as he was late few minutes for the meeting."

They would add that ’Ali al-Mashadani, Baghdadi’s deputy, was killed during the attack; he was reportedly in line to be his successor.
Love the tone of the above, missing from the original Iraqi News report. Iraqi News does add:
According to Maamouri, "Ali al-Mashadani, Baghdadi’s deputy, who was killed in the shelling. He was nominated to be the coming caliph."

Several Islamic State leaders were killed by the strikes, he added.
Posted by:Fred

#10  Uh huh...keep on with that
Posted by: Frank G   2018-10-06 16:46  

#9  Why would we kill our allies?

Hell, US intelligence may have tipped him off to arrive late. The fact that we keep missing him is very telling, eh? Almost as if he's useful.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2018-10-06 14:27  

#8  Accidentally late on purpose? Maybe he didn't want a successor.

Someone dropped dime on the meeting.
Posted by: The peanut gallery   2018-10-06 12:46  

#7  Herb I'm pretty sure you are at least close to right. Promoting infighting that is. Barry was funding them. Guessing Trump has ended that but onto Iranian intelligence.

It would make sense that Iran has more spy-boots on the grounds there. In TW's point on a global picture, Islamic fundamentalist jihad groups, well there are lots.

When Obammer declared, "we have Al Qaeda on the run" I just about spit. At the time there were about 36 Muslim terror organizations worldwide.
Posted by: Woodrow   2018-10-06 12:43  

#6  American intelligence, despite vastly greater resources, can't.

We’ve just missed him a number of times, too, Herb. And given how ISIS had exploded outward, conquering in all directions until President Trump changed our rules of engagement, with the result that ISIS in Iraq is reduced to small remnants hiding in the desert and in smaller cells hiding in reconquered areas, it looks an awful lot like we are not on ISIS’ side.

As for the stupidities Mr. Obama engaged in when he was in the White House, it seems unfair to blame President Trump for those. Mr. Trump has disengaged from a number of groups, others have openly deserted to either Al Nusra or ISIS or merged with other third parties in Toad The Wet Sprocket fashion, such that parsing the extremely long list of parties involved in the various factions is well beyond my capabilities. Wikipedia’s page on the armed groups of the Syrian civil war is exceedingly long, extensively footnoted, and appears to have been updated as recently as September 2018. Link.

For those interested, the Wikipedia list of armed groups in Iraq is considerably shorter, but still — to me, at least —startling. Link.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-10-06 11:38  

#5  So Al Qaeda AND ISIS?
Posted by: Frank G   2018-10-06 10:55  

#4  Uh, so we haven't been allied with Al Qaeda? Wow, people don't know this?
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2018-10-06 10:37  

#3  Sure, Herb. Tinfoil hat tight this AM?
Posted by: Frank G   2018-10-06 10:30  

#2  Huh. Iranian intelligence can figure out where he's going to be, and target him. American intelligence, despite vastly greater resources, can't. It's almost like we've put ISIS on our side against the Syrian government!
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2018-10-06 06:27  

#1  Reminds me of the German Wolfsschanze. This could easily happen in my opinion to Trump. So many undermining him.People who cannot accept reality."Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor". Benjamin Disraeli
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/benjamin_disraeli
Posted by: Dale   2018-10-06 05:14  

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