Speculation is flying fast and furious today about the fate of ISIS Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, after a US airstrike on the outskirts of Mosul reportedly killed some 50 people.
The Pentagon said they reckoned that the targeted group were “ISIS leaders,” but as of yesterday that they had no information on whether or not Baghdadi was there, let alone if he was hit.
That didn’t stop a flurry of reports claiming he was either mortally wounded or slain, though even the Iraqi officials who are putting many of these claims out there concede the reports are from “unofficial sources” and yet to be confirmed. A tweet reportedly from ISIS claimed he was injured, but doing fine.
The US is keen to kill Baghdadi, who is the high-profile leader of ISIS, but intelligence on the group is so scant that it is unclear how much control he has over it’s day to day operations, let alone who might be his successor.
That’s a danger the US has faced in the past with assassinations, as with the 2009 assassination of Baitullah Mehsud, the sickly, relatively moderate leader to the Pakistani Taliban, who was replaced by the much more aggressive Hakimullah Mehsud, who dramatically expanded the group’s attacks across Pakistan.
Oboomer, it appears supports State-sponsored (killings)
when he's the one doing the (killings).
What is this, an advertising coordinated by chevron, BP and shell oil companies for ISIS. I personally and many others be happy to hear that Baghdadi so as others alike him are killed and dead, goon to hell where they belong. These barbarians are slave merchant as their supports are, they are in business in selling and buying women's by killing their children's, these illegitimate sons of saudis shiiiittttes are not human they are not even animals, they are the devils created by Prince Sultan Bandar to bring the hell to people of Iraq and Syria and rest of the world.
What do we know about how IS works anyway? How are things on the ground organized? Who runs things. Where is HQ? If the US wants to know where and how al-Baghdadi is, the quickest way would be to get MadMcCain to give him a call.
Ayman al-Zawahiri – said to be al-Qaeda's no. 2 leader – has been "killed" a dozen times. Baghdadi may prove equally resilient, as long as he's still useful to the warmongering "elite."