ISIS leader killed in Syria
Not by a drone strike; by a US commando raid.
Note this [emphasis mine]:
U.S. commandos mounted a rare raid into eastern Syria overnight, killing a senior Islamic State leader in a firefight, capturing his wife and rescuing a Yazidi woman held as a slave, the Pentagon said Saturday.
Remember the Yazidis?
We don’t have information on what led the raid to be launched, since (as the article indicates) that is not the usual modus operandi these days:
The raid was the first known U.S. ground operation targeting IS militants in Syria. A U.S.-led coalition has been striking the extremists from the air for months, but the only previous time American troops set foot on the ground in Syria was in an unsuccessful commando mission to recover hostages last summer.
My guess is that they had particularly good intell on this one.
It is reported that there was heavy fighting, including hand to hand combat, but that no US forces were killed or injured nor were any women and children although both were present. The captured wife of the terrorist is being “debriefed to obtain intelligence about IS operations” by US forces in Iraq. Would those be the small group of advisers Obama finally consented to send there a while back?
Not sure how much is this report is true, but it’s a bit of success in a mostly dark picture these days.
“It is reported that there was heavy fighting, including hand to hand combat, but that no US forces were killed or injured nor were any women and children although both were present.”
People may tend to think it’s our technology that makes our military dominant.
It’s really the quality of the troops. Right now there’s a guy somewhere walking back and forth on the bottom of a swimming pool holding a 45lb plate. Because he wants to. Because it will help keep him alive.
I didn’t believe it either. Until I saw a SEAL do it.
The fact that no women or children were killed is a testimony to our training as well. We have one of the few militaries in the world that considers it a failure if the hostages get killed. The British and commonwealth SAS/SBS and the IDF operate the same way. I’d also trust my life to the Japanese SDF Special Security and Special Boarding teams. But most of the rest of the world considers it a success to surround the objective and make sure no bad guys get out alive. Think Moscow theater, or the Algeria gas tank attack.
“the Algeria gas tank attack”
Algeria gas plant attack.
“We have this guy’s wife. I say we cut off her head on prime time TV.”
As much as it sickens me to say it I think Obummer feels more loss since this Ahole got his 72 raisins than he would if one of the SEALS were taken out. I wonder how many of our concerned MSM even care that the Yazidi woman was being held as a slave? I’m for having his wife be the Yazidi woman’s slave for a while.
I guess the saying a fish rots from its head first is true. I fail to see any strategic leadership being used in either the Republicrats or the Democraps in charge in DC.
(The only exception being people like Lee and Cruz and others that have principles. But to Obummer, Fox News is a bigger threat than ISIS. And to Boener and McConnel, those few principled conservatives are a bigger threat than those on the other side of the aisle.
There was a time when the general population would tar and feather those that took away their freedoms. Nowadays, not so much as long as the “bread and circuses” continue. 🙁
I believe our guys were Delta Force. The report is they killed over a dozen bad guys.
A few months ago I read that the British SAS has death squads operating in Syria.
Unlike the Viet Cong hiding in the jungle, we know where ISIS lives.
May the dead ISIS slimebag turn on a spit-in-hell for eternity with Yasser Arafat joyously playing pitcher to his catcher.
The scuttlebutt is that al Baghdadi is either dead or injured to the point of delegating his day-to-day operations to — the very dude that just got popped.
This op was a de-capitation strike not all unlike the OBL quest.
Because opfor electronic dark arts are so well established — it’s a pretty good bet that we got the goods on this jihadi by way of human intel.
BTW, for such a high ranking fanatic, it’s a sure bet that the Yazidi gal is an absolute knock-out — in keeping with Mo’s custom of ‘only the best for the boss.’
See: the Hadiths, and Mo’s enslavement rights for himself as the Big Man.
The Left has no problems allying with another religion that keeps sex slaves. After all, the Left itself loves making slaves.
Remember the next time some Leftist spits in your face or the face of a patriot, calling them a baby killer or rapist.
Remember that, for if you do not, no one will be allowed to.
The best statement in the entire post:
“Not sure how much of this report is true,”