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| Pentagon: US has ‘no information’ to support Russia reports of IS leader’s death |
| 2017-06-17 |
| [IsraelTimes] Moscow says it’s verifying whether His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi among 30 killed in May 28 The Pentagon said on Friday that it had no supporting information to confirm reports from Moscow that its forces may have killed 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.... group in an "We have no information to corroborate those reports," Pentagon front man Navy Captain Jeff Davis told Rooters on Friday, after Russia said it was verifying whether 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 killed in the raid targeting a meeting of IS leaders just outside the group’s de facto capital of Raqqa, in Syria. The Russian Defense Ministry said other senior group commanders may have also been killed, adding that the information about his death was still "being verified through various channels." Asked about that claim at a news conference in Moscow, however, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said: "I don’t have a 100-percent confirmation of the information." The Defense Ministry said the air raid on May 28 that targeted the meeting may have also killed about 30 mid-level holy warrior leaders and about 300 other fighters. The ministry said the IS leaders were gathered to discuss the group’s withdrawal from Raqqa. It said the military began planning the hit after getting word that the group’s leadership was to meet in order to plan IS’s exit to the south. The Russian military sent drones to monitor the area and then dispatched a group of Su-34 bombers and Su-35 fighter jets to hit the IS gathering. "According to the information that is being verified through various channels, IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi also attended the meeting and was killed in the The Defense Ministry added that it had warned the US of the coming strike. Syrian opposition activists reported The Russian ministry said that among other holy warrior leaders killed in the raid were IS leaders Abu al-Khadji al-Mysri, Ibrahim al-Naef al-Khadj and Suleiman al-Shauah. Al-Baghdadi is a nom de guerre for a man identified as Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai. The US is offering a $25 million reward for information leading to his death or capture. There had been previous reports of al-Baghdadi being killed but they did not turn out to be true. The IS leader last released an audio on Nov. 3, urging his followers to keep up the fight for djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... as they defend the Iraqi city against a major offensive that began weeks earlier. As the forces of Evil take a pounding in their eroding strongholds, US officials and Syrian activists say many commanders have fled Mosul and Raqqa in recent months for Mayadeen, a remote town in the heart of Syria’s IS-controlled, Euphrates River valley near the Iraqi border. |
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