Is Baghdadi Still Breathing?

[georgephillip]

Apparently one of his top aides is not:
"A key aide to the leader of Islamic State (Isis) was killed in a US strike on a convoy near the Iraqi city of Mosul that destroyed 10 vehicles carrying a number of the group’s top militants.

"Abdul Rahman al-Athaee, also known as Abu Saja, is known to have died in the attack on Friday. A key aide to the Isis leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, he travelled frequently with the group’s top leadership.

"Colonel Patrick Ryder, a spokesman at US central command, said on Saturday: 'I can confirm that coalition aircraft did conduct a series of air strikes yesterday evening [Friday] in Iraq against what was assessed to be a gathering of Isil [Isis] leaders near Mosul. We cannot confirm if Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was among those present.'”

Will it matter much if he was?

US air strike on Islamic State convoy killed leader s key aide World news The Guardian

 

[deltex1]

One down...ten million to go.

 

[deltex1]

and that number does not include their goats.

 

[georgephillip]

One down...ten million to go.

I thought IS had 15,000 - 50,000 fighters?

 

[georgephillip]

and that number does not include their goats.

US air strikes and bombings over Iraq - Fallujah and Sadr City photos The WE News Archives

 

[deltex1]

One down...ten million to go.

I thought IS had 15,000 - 50,000 fighters?

I'm talking total extremist world wide horde. Just like ebola...ya gotta get em all.

 

[georgephillip]

I'm talking total extremist world wide horde. Just like ebola...ya gotta get em all.

OMG!
How many in America...?
"'We buried them here, but we could not identify them because they were charred by the use of napalm bombs used by the Americans,' said one resident of Saqlawiya in footage aired on Aljazeera on Sunday."
How much money will Wall Street make from that napalm concession?
US air strikes and bombings over Iraq - Fallujah and Sadr City photos The WE News Archives

 

[deltex1]

I'm talking total extremist world wide horde. Just like ebola...ya gotta get em all.

OMG!
How many in America...?
"'We buried them here, but we could not identify them because they were charred by the use of napalm bombs used by the Americans,' said one resident of Saqlawiya in footage aired on Aljazeera on Sunday."
How much money will Wall Street make from that napalm concession?
US air strikes and bombings over Iraq - Fallujah and Sadr City photos The WE News Archives

Too bad they didn't surrender, build schools, roads, bridges, enter the civilized world. What were they fighting for? They could have had it all..

 

[georgephillip]

Too bad they didn't surrender, build schools, roads, bridges, enter the civilized world. What were they fighting for? They could have had it all..

All they got was cancer:
"According to the authors of a new study, 'Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009,' the people of Fallujah are experiencing higher rates of cancer, leukemia, infant mortality, and sexual mutations than those recorded among survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the years after those Japanese cities were incinerated by US atomic bomb strikes in 1945."
Who should pay those reparations, Halliburton?
Cancer rate in Fallujah worse than Hiroshima - World Socialist Web Site