Good thing McCain didn't get his way.
Posted on 08/15/2014 6:07:52 AM PDT by GonzoII
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and self-proclaimed caliph Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi fled the northern city of Mosul to return to Syrian territory after the US authorized airstrikes on ISIS positions in Iraq, a Kurdish official said.
In comments to Asharq Al-Awsat, Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) spokesman Saeed Mamo Zinni said: “Caliph of the Islamic State Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi left Mosul for Syria a few days ago.”
“According to our intelligence sources, Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi traveled to Syria as part of a convoy of 30 Hummer vehicles after fearing being targeted by US airstrikes,” Zinni said. He added that Kurdish Peshmerga forces have been able to kill a number of ISIS senior leaders.
Zinni, a media official for the KDP regional office in Nineveh, went on to claim that Kurdish Peshmerga fighters had repelled an ISIS attack in the Zammar district of Diyala province. ISIS continued its attack on Iraqi Yazidis on Wednesday despite US airstrikes.
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Glad to hear this.. maybe things are beginning to change for the better over there. Just keep arming and equipping the Peshmerga, give them some close air support, and they’ll take it the rest of the way.
Good thing McCain didn't get his way.
With friend like that...
“When they know were he is and he’s with supporters..”
That should be a piece of cake. He’ll be in the middle of a few hundred children and pregnant women. He’s as much a coward as is obama.
If Obama had even threatened air strikes when ISIS first attacked they never would have left Mosul.
If Obama actually had allowed air strikes on ISIS at the start of this ISIS would have been wiped out in a matter of days.
It seems Obama and ISIS have similar policy goals for Iraq, and Obama has no problem with ISIS in control .
IS is all over the place.
So afraid of being targeted he fled amongst a convoy of 30 Humvees..
Why was he not bombed?
“Why was he not bombed?”
Obama wants the caliphate so badly he can taste it.
agree odds ... isis = al qaeda = moslem brotherhood = every other name islam goes by = those that do not cair but claim to.
May the Syrians send this bastard to hell.
Killing him will help the world.
If the Syrians can’t kill him, maybe the Iranians and Russians can take him out.
Our Sunni White outhouse will never issue a kill order for their Sunni/ISIS/IS buddy.
Leadership got rid of the A-10s.
why didn’t we know about his movemnts and kill him?????
BECAUSE OBAMA IS ONE OF THEM, A COWRAD AND A TRAITOR....
How true, though I was thinking primarily about recent events in Libya.
Interesting. If this isn't deception, then it's target acquisition.
Most recent video of Abu-Bakr al Baghdadi.
I’d say Chicken shiite but I think he’s a Sunni so maybe Chicken Sunni?
> Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi traveled to Syria as part of a convoy
> of 30 Hummer vehicles
Should’ve been very easy to spot, and very easy to destroy. This Al Baghdadi needs to be introduced to his 72 Helen Thomases.
> ISIS continued its attack on Iraqi Yazidis on Wednesday
> despite US airstrikes.
Of course, the Yazidis are unarmed.
American airstrikes need to intesify, with .50 cal cannon, as well as bombs and missiles.
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