Pentagon: ISIS finance minister killed (Second In Command)

[onehandle]

Source: CNN

(CNN)The Pentagon said Friday that it had killed ISIS' finance minister, Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli, whom many analysts consider the group's No. 2 leader.

Those analysts believe al-Qaduli would have been expected to take control of the day-to-day running of ISIS, also called ISIL, if its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed or incapacitated.

The U.S. operation was intended to capture him alive, a U.S. official told CNN. Helicopters loaded with special operations forces swooped in on a vehicle carrying al-Qaduli, but at the last moment something happened that caused them to decide to fire on the vehicle instead. The official would not say what it was that caused them to modify the plan.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced the death at a news conference Friday morning.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/25/politics/isis-no-2-in-command-killed-u-s-believes/index.html

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While Republicans were attacking President Obama for his Cuba and South American events, President Obama was killing the ISIS second in command.

Game, set, match.

[NBachers]

1. Reminder to self: "Never take the Number 2 in Command position of a terrorist organization."

[central scrutinizer]

3. Same as being an unnamed intern in a red Star Fleet uniform beaming down

Unless you are a cute blond who Kirk can rescue

[yurbud]

6. maybe the same writer who invented the anonymous red shirt death came up with #2 terrorist

[christx30]

28. O a drummer in Spinal Tap. n/t

[forest444]

2. Forget the stinking Finance Minister.

You need to shut down their money laundering apparatus - theirs and all the other criminals in this world.

If Obama or any other U.S. President ever really wanted stamp out terrorism and/or narco-trafficking, they'd be much better off invading the Caymans, Bermuda, and the Turks & Caicos (plus, raiding a number of Miami banks).

All I'd ask, is that they do so humanely. But that they do it, and soon.

[yurbud]

7. or just tell our Gulf allies to cut them off.

[forest444]

8. That too.

Starting with our friends the head-choppers. You know, the "close allies" in the war on terror.

[Socal31]

13. Or stand up to a NATO ally.

That ISIS oil doesn't magically turn into liquid currency. Turkey seems to have no problem making that exchange for them.

[azurnoir]

4. boy that 2nd in command seems to be a death sentence

[flamingdem]

5. The ole number 2

Does the State Department realize it's always No. 2?

Anyway, a job well done.

[yurbud]

9. Did the person who posted this mean it seriously?

[Chemisse]

10. Not a lot of brag, just quiet, well-thought-out action.

That's Obama. He doesn't waste his time arguing about how much he is doing to fight ISIS. He just does it. I like that.

[lastlib]

11. GOP Presidential candidates immediately issued statements.....

...telling how *THEY* would've taken out the #1 guy......on a waterboard......

[tclambert]

12. Followup: ISIS desperately trying to recruit anyone who knows how to use Quickbooks.

"Payday is coming up, and nobody knows how to work our payroll program," says one ISIS administrator. "We could have a mutiny on our hands if paychecks don't go out."

[smirkymonkey]

14. Again?

[Crowman1979]

15. And yet the head chef of ISIS is still alive?!?!

[Sunlei]

16. a firefight. seized 'electronics & documents'. Those comps/cellphone should show who the heck aided

aided IS 'leadership' in Syria.


Confirmed death[edit]

US DoD announced his death on 25 March 2016 in Syria,[19] correcting previous Iraqi claims. Forces commanded by JSOC on the morning of Thursday, March 24, 2016 originally planned to capture Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli in eastern Syria while he was travelling in a vehicle near the Syrian-Iraqi border coming from Al-Raqqa with three other IS fighters. Pursued by United States of America special forces in helicopters, a fire fight ensued and all fighters and al-Qaduli a.k.a. al-Afri were killed. USA commandos also seized electronics and other documents during the operation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ala_al-Afri

[CJCRANE]

17. I doubt that info will see the light of day.

[Sunlei]

18. Financing,safe harbor & escape providers should be public info. That would whither IS on the vine.

That tiny-town in Syria was bombed hundreds of times especially by the Russians, how did they miss hitting him? And how did they miss convoy on the only road out?

Seems odd to me, Russia/Assad totally ignores the IS top leadership traveling.

[CJCRANE]

21. The Russians destroyed 1000 Isis oil tankers that the western coalition ignored for fifteen months.

NPR even showed the footage of Russian airstrikes destroying Isis oil facilities.

We don't have anything to brag about.

[freebrew]

19. 'Turned another corner'...

'a light at the end of the tunnel'

Where have I heard all of this shit before?

IS is an invention of the * admin's secret gov't.

I listened to the pentagon guy this a.m. Shocking. How can a group of 'who the fuck knows', have so much power
to be so far ahead of even our brightest internet guys. ISIS is ahead in social media?!

Really!!? A bunch of young and even younger kids are beating every army in the world.

Something smells fishy.

[Socal31]

20. Daesh is far from a conspiracy.

Their lineage is fairly easily traceable. Did some super-secret squirrel government seek to "invent" it? No. Did the actions of the US government took in the 2000s directly lead to what we now call ISIS? Absolutely.

[freebrew]

24. Someone(group) is funding them...

if they even really exist. How do Americans get there? Are these Americans rich or what?

Here's why: no ordinary, working/middle-class American can afford to vacation in Europe.
How does someone just get up and go 'join' some internet group of terrorists?

Sorry, it just doesn't all add up to me. And really, WTF are they after?

Maybe, like *, they just like to blow shit up?

It still smells. Follow the $$$. It leads straight back to MIC and BFEE.

[CJCRANE]

22. Yep. It's just a reboot of the war on terror.

I called it back in 2014 but other DUers pooh-poohed me.

[freebrew]

23. "War On Terror(tm)'"?...

Hell, I was thinking of Vietnam. It's the same M.O.

Just more $$$ all the time, but not enough for the people of the U.S.
Even our over-priced weapons of war are being made outside our borders.

Now, we're sending troops to Iraq? Again? After it was called over? Twice?

I can't believe anything coming from TPTB or M$M.

[Doctor_J]

25. Game set match? These are reruns from the Bush presidency

Amazing that people cheering this sort of swill consider themselves Democrats.

[onehandle]

26. Obama = Bush?

Really?

[Doctor_J]

27. No. Did you reply to the wrong post? And did you get the OP straight from freeperville 2004?

Game set match? Really? Troops coming home tomorrow? Game set match usually means the war's over. Can we take your word on that? Can we put all of the saved money toward SP HC that the hillarians don't want us to have? Or can we increase SS benefits, against the wishes of her highness? How soon does this "game set match" translate into money to fix our roads? This summer?

[Kaleva]

29. Give the new #2 guy a red shirt.