Living indoors for years really does take a toll. He looks pale as feck.
ISIS in Iraq and Syria
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Inside Syria’s Secret Torture Prisons: How Assad Crushed Dissent
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/world/middleeast/syria-torture-prisons.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/world/middleeast/syria-torture-prisons.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...reveals-role-in-helping-cia-hunt-for-baghdadi
Isis wife reveals role in helping CIA hunt for Baghdadi
Umm Sayyaf, sentenced to death in Iraq, tells how she exposed fugitive’s secrets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Night
Isis wife reveals role in helping CIA hunt for Baghdadi
Umm Sayyaf, sentenced to death in Iraq, tells how she exposed fugitive’s secrets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Night
Hundreds of Islamic State militants are slipping back into Iraq. Their fight isn’t over.
QAIM, Iraq — Islamic State militants who escaped the defeat of their self-declared caliphate in Syria earlier this year have been slipping across the border into Iraq, bolstering a low-level insurgency the group is now waging across the central and northern part of the country, according to security officials.
About 1,000 fighters have crossed into Iraq over the past eight months, most of them in the aftermath of the caliphate’s collapse in March, said Hisham al-Hashimi, a security analyst who advises Iraq’s government and foreign aid agencies.
These fighters, mostly Iraqis who followed the Islamic State into Syria, are returning home to join militant cells that have been digging into rugged rural areas, sustained by intimate knowledge of the terrain, including concealed tunnels and other hiding places.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...be4262-a259-11e9-a767-d7ab84aef3e9_story.html
QAIM, Iraq — Islamic State militants who escaped the defeat of their self-declared caliphate in Syria earlier this year have been slipping across the border into Iraq, bolstering a low-level insurgency the group is now waging across the central and northern part of the country, according to security officials.
About 1,000 fighters have crossed into Iraq over the past eight months, most of them in the aftermath of the caliphate’s collapse in March, said Hisham al-Hashimi, a security analyst who advises Iraq’s government and foreign aid agencies.
These fighters, mostly Iraqis who followed the Islamic State into Syria, are returning home to join militant cells that have been digging into rugged rural areas, sustained by intimate knowledge of the terrain, including concealed tunnels and other hiding places.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...be4262-a259-11e9-a767-d7ab84aef3e9_story.html
Panorama on IS brides tonight (on iPlayer now), if you don't mind Stacey Dooley. She's definitely not bothered about siding with their stories or being sympathetic, which is good in my opinion. Most of them come out with crap excuses based around ignorance. Yet apparently at least 6000 were actively fighting and others were policing with AK47s.
She's laying into them at the mo. It's quite good viewing. They're proper attitudey little dickheads.
She's laying into them at the mo. It's quite good viewing. They're proper attitudey little dickheads.
Hopefully a case of good fecking riddance
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to have been killed in a raid conducted by the US military in northwest Syria on Saturday, according to a senior US defense official and a source with knowledge. The final confirmation is pending while DNA and biometric testing is conducted, both sources tell CNN.
The defense official said it appears that Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest during the raid.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/10/26/po...t-sunday/index.html?r=https://www.google.com/
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to have been killed in a raid conducted by the US military in northwest Syria on Saturday, according to a senior US defense official and a source with knowledge. The final confirmation is pending while DNA and biometric testing is conducted, both sources tell CNN.
The defense official said it appears that Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest during the raid.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/10/26/po...t-sunday/index.html?r=https://www.google.com/
Strange area for him to be hiding out, although perhaps that was the point.
I’m going to laugh if much of these recent shenanigans were a play for Donald to get his Bin-Laden moment in the end.
Or cry, I dunno...
Or cry, I dunno...
depending on how this is covered, it will be big for re-election
Trump said Obama getting credit for Bin Laden was crap. Be interesting to see how he feels now. Unless he was there, doing his bit....
Convenient fecking timing init?
I doubt Trump will get much credit unless he specifically made the call to allow the troops to kill him, as Obama did with Bin Laden. He will however get a momentary distraction from all things impeachment.
He will take credit though and he'll receive plenty from his twitter bots.
People are actually mourning the potential death of Al-Baghdadi just because Trump may score a political win off it.
Derangement Syndrome reaching levels that didn't think woud be possible
Derangement Syndrome reaching levels that didn't think woud be possible
People are actually mourning the potential death of Al-Baghdadi just because Trump may score a political win off it.
Derangement Syndrome reaching levels that didn't think woud be possible
Who specifically is mourning it ?
Come on...you're smarter than that. There are some people who genuinely rather see Trump burn than Al-Baghdadi. Wasn't specifically referring to forum members, but overall on Twitter and Social Media.
Some people just want to watch the world burn..
Can we get Ed Woodward out there to plan out a succession?
I don’t see much in the way of mourning. There is however a distinction to be drawn between Trump and Obama in that the latter actually green lit the Bin Laden raid after being told there was a 50% chance it was him in the compound at great political risk to himself if it all went wrong (see Jimmy Carter’s botched hostage rescue attempt in Iran).
Trump, by all accounts seems to have done nothing other than just happen to be President when all of this unfolded, and you could even make a good case that it happened in spite of his actions since he is removing resources in Syria.
Good riddance. I hope he suffered as much pain as possible before he was killed.
I suspect it will (at least in his press conference / twitter feed) all be down to the plan of a stable genius to let turkey into Syria and to force Isis to change tactics exposing them to attack... Or some similar explanation
I doubt many people will be talking about this even in a weeks time.
This. Though Trump will be sure to remind everyone on a weekly basis.
Trump’s presser has been great so far. Significantly better than the usual dry announcements that Obama and Dubya used to make.
What is great about it? Praising himself for defeating ISIS while Iraqis gave thousands of lives on the ground to do that and never mentions them.
Oh dear. He is now boasting about taking the oil.
He’s mainly focusing on the operation to kill Baghdadi and throwing in a few examples of how he cried and fled and ultimately detonated himself and his three young children. Whether true or not, it’s far more in-depth (and chilling to other terrorists) than what we usually hear from other leaders. This is Trump after all so the chances of it not being a reality show spectacle are slim to none.
The other way of looking at it is that he's come out of this conference with less dignity than a dead man.
@2cents who's the second in line?
Oh God now he is talking how he could taken billions from Iraq for the Iraqi war but the bill in the congress failed by one vote.
sounds like he did. I'm glad too.
Man I feel Donald trump is a great selfish leader for the American people.
Yes! Mission accomplished!
Ffs, he's Ralph Wiggum.
They've been sleeping with the vests? Just to be prepared?
I’ve no idea, any figure I might have known was killed ages ago.
Trump thanks Russia before the US special forces or intel community and then suggests Baghdadi was a bigger threat than Osama bin Laden. Plus he claimed the US could've prevented 9/11 if only the government had read his book, which doesn't say what he claims it does.
'He was almost as big as my inauguration crowd.'
Beyond any shadow of a doubt he has mental issues.