Five Top ISIS Officials Captured in U.S.-Iraqi Sting
Source: NYT
BAGHDAD Five senior Islamic State officials have been captured, including a top aide to the groups leader, in a complex cross-border sting carried out by Iraqi and American intelligence, two Iraqi officials said Wednesday.
The three-month operation, which tracked a group of senior Islamic State leaders who had been hiding in Syria and Turkey, represents a significant intelligence victory for the American-led coalition fighting the extremist group and underscores the strengthening relationship between Washington and Baghdad.
Two Iraqi intelligence officials said those captured included four Iraqis and one Syrian whose responsibilities included governing the Islamic States territory around Deir al-Zour, Syria, directing internal security and running the administrative body that oversees religious rulings.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/world/middleeast/iraq-isis-islamic-state-arrest.html
MontanaMama
(23,295 posts)Team Dotard will be taking all the credit for this...it'll be obnoxious.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)rurallib
(62,379 posts)no doubt our Dear Leader will take all credit and will brag about it ceaselessly whether it is anything or not.
There will probably be some more Top 5 ISIS members in the near future as well.
Freethinker65
(9,999 posts)rollin74
(1,971 posts)4139
(1,893 posts)😛
Bengus81
(6,928 posts)Hell,he was going to show Obama and others how he would "bomb the hell out of them" early on and that would be the end of ISIS. Took out some leaders,so fucking what,just shows your FAILURE to rid the planet of ISIS as you promised in 2016 over and over and over.
DFW
(54,281 posts)A cruel, perverse concept all by itself.
humbled_opinion
(4,423 posts)they will be off to a CIA black site, For Gina Haspel to not authorize torture, wink nod.
SkatmanRoth
(843 posts)They got suckered across the boarder with a "I lost my iPhone app". How smart can they be?
tclambert
(11,084 posts)in Room 101 of This-is-not-a-trap Building. Just stand on the big X on the floor while waiting for your claim to be processed."
RainCaster
(10,832 posts)He said so anyhow. M