The US has announced an airstrike in Iraq that it claimed killed the deputy leader of ISIS.
US Central Command said that on March 13, its forces “conducted a precision airstrike in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, that killed the Global ISIS #2 leader, chief of operations and the Delegated Committee Emir – Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, alias ‘Abu Khadijah.'”
President Trump also announced the killing in a post on Truth Social. “Today the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed,” he said. “He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters. His miserable life was terminated, along with another member of ISIS, in coordination with the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Regional Government. PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!”
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani also announced that Abu Khadijah was killed, describing him as the “deputy caliph” of ISIS and as “one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world.”
The US has continued military operations against ISIS in Iraq in recent years despite the government repeatedly saying it doesn’t need the US’s help against ISIS remnants. In 2024, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani called for the withdrawal of US and other foreign troops, and Washington and Baghdad entered talks about the US presence.
Those talks resulted in the US and Iraq announcing a deal to officially end the mission of the US-led anti-ISIS coalition by September 2025, but it said the US will remain in Iraq under a “bilateral partnership.” The Pentagon said at the time that the US was “not withdrawing from Iraq.”
Better to negotiate peace, not bomb it!…
”Angry red drips from the skies, flowing into shallow graves, were sustenance eyes, in haloed skulls, gaze at mornings dawn”…
“Walk a mile in my shoes! Walk a mile in my shoes!”….
President Trump also announced the killing in a post on Truth Social. “Today the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed,” he said. “He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters. His miserable life was terminated, along with another member of ISIS, in coordination with the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Regional Government. PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!”
Donny numbnuts must think pudding brain Biden wasn't killing #2's during his presidency too. That must have been a different kind of "peace through strength".
"Peace through Strength" means kill as many people who do not agree with you and attack as many countries you can without declaring war and declare yourself the peace emperor of the world.
JFK said something similar to 'peace achieved through bombs and nukes is no real peace'.
He likes saying "kill", music to the ears of MAGA-landia.
Brainwashing US public and showing the world that US is doing something being in Iraq…! Soon you hear similar announcement in Syria since HTS and SDF merger is shaking US presence there…!
I guess since the CIA is under new management ISIS, the rebranded Al Qaeda that murdered Syria is no longer needed.