Kurdish Peshmerga Kill Top IS Military Commander

RUDAW ^ | 6 hours ago

[GonzoII]

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—Kurdish security officials said that Peshmerga forces had killed senior Islamic State (IS) commander Yasin Ali Suleiman Shlash known as Abu Abdullah near Khazir on Tuesday.

“He was killed with a number of other terrorists during a military operation by Peshmerga forces in coordination with the US air force to liberate Hassan Sham and its vicinities,” Kurdistan Region’s Security Council said in statement.

According to the statement, Abu Abdullah was a senior military commander and a top IS official in the state (Wilayat) of Mosul.

“Abu Abdullah was the mastermind behind the 2007 explosion in front of the ministry of the interior in Erbil,” said the security statement.

The Kurdish Security Council described Abu Abdullah, also known as Abu Sumaya, as a native of Mosul, 39 years old and former Arabic language teacher in Mosul.

“In 2010 he was arrested by the American forces and later transferred to the jurisdiction of the Iraqi government, where he was set free during the infamous Abu Ghraib jailbreak in 2013 and fled to Syria where he joined the Islamic State group,” read the statement.

Abu Abdulla is said to have had strong ties with the former Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

The security statement said that Abu Abdullah was in charge of IS’s military operations in Nineveh and responsible for the abduction of many Yezidi women after the capture of Shingal last month.

 

[GonzoII]

ISIS Command has taken yet another hit in Iraq.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Who’s going to pay for the pizza he ordered?

[Viennacon]

They can afford the losses. They’re metastasizing by rates of triple within months and getting sophisticated weapons from Obama

[G Larry]

No...this was IS....but that still won’t help Obama’s war on ISIL.

Besides, Kerry says its not a war.....

[allendale]

The US cannot be too picky about who it supports. If any group is doing the hard on the ground work of engaging ISIS, be they Kurds, Iraqis, Sunni tribesmen, Lebanese, Syrian or Iranian, they should receive discreet and effective air support. Only committed infantry willing to risk all can win a war. The American people will not support the long term deployment of US ground forces. Nor does Obama have the capability or disposition to be an effective, fierce wartime President

[morphing libertarian]

Time for the hero of Benghazi to release a few more

[ArmstedFragg]

Shlash is dead?? Darn, I loved him in the Guns and Roses days.

[Mark17]

ISIS Command has taken yet another hit in Iraq

It is good to see another scum bag take a dirt nap. I just hope thousands more join him. Do you suppose there are enough virgins for all of them?

[Chgogal]

Well done! Godspeed to the Kurdish forces.

[lee martell]

Yay! Let’s hear it for the Mighty Kurds!! See that, Obama, you too can be a War Leader. Just follow the examples of the Egyptians and the Kurds. Ask the Kurds what they would do with the (refusnik)Turks. I’m sure you’ll get a detailed response.

[scooby321]

Offer the Kurds weapons and Land if the wipe out ISIS

They are the only ones who will fight

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The US cannot be too picky about who it supports."

I disagree. No one has any qualms about supplying the Pershmerga forces with arms and support. The Kurds are our strongest ally in the region. We should be buying the oil they are shipping through Turkey also instead of letting it sit off the coast because the Iraqi government claims it's theirs. The rest of these forces I am very wary of. I guess we have to supply the Iraqi army even though they are dicey, but I wouldn't supply any of these "freedom fighters" in Syria.

More and more, this looks like the Spainish Civil War of the 30's. No good guys as far as we're concerned.

[blackdog]

Deploying the British Royal Gherkas would go a long way toward a solution. They are covert, quiet, killing machines. They really don’t care for Muslems either.

[mcshot]

That is a great idea. They could make short work of the situation or at least shorten the height of a bunch of Muslims. Now what about the Sikhs?

[blackdog]

The silence and darkness of night, methodical selection of targets, and their up close attack with hand to hand tactics is exactly what is needed to sever the command and communication structures of ISIS/L.

[blackdog]

Involving Indian Sihks would bring more troubles to India, which is already unstable with Islamic unrest courtesy of Pakistan and their agents. The Gherkas are seen as extensions of the British Crown more so than of their Indian heritage.