Top Iraqi officials are claiming that ISIS leader Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was “seriously wounded” in a US airstrike in March, and that he has not been the day-to-day leader of the caliphate since then.
It’s the second major report of Baghdadi being hit by a US strike in recent months, as he was similarly believed to be on death’s door after an early November airstrike, but resurfaced, apparently unharmed, almost immediately.
While Iraqi officials are talking up Baghdadi’s injury, the Pentagon is downplaying the reports, saying they have no evidence that the man wounded in the airstrike in question was actually Baghdadi.
While Iraqi officials wanted to talk up the possibility of Baghdadi not being in charge of ISIS anymore, but intelligence on how much any individual leader is running any particular part of ISIS is unclear.
Even if one of these woundings turns out to be true, ISIS’ strategy doesn’t seem to have changed markedly in either November or March.
USG military spending is (UP) 45% since 9/11 (which) was a staged event to
justify USG aggression and wars for profit. Perpetual (war) is big business
for the crooks in control of this country.
I saw a video on the Federal Reserve. 10 (common) citizens in the USG were
interviewed. Neither one had a clue about the Federal Reserve. One person also
(quipped) 'Money grows on trees'.
Most were shocked to learn that the Federal Reserve is (an) independent
entity, run by a corrupt banking cartel that charges the USG taxpayer
interest on every buck of paper money it prints (each) month to keep
funding the USG's bogus wars around the planet.