Two Iraqi officials and state television say an airstrike in western Iraq wounded the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Pentagon officials said they had no information on such a strike or al-Baghdadi being wounded.
An Interior Ministry intelligence official told The Associated Press on Sunday that the strike happened early Saturday in the town of Qaim in Iraq’s Anbar province. The official, citing informants within the militant group, said the strikes wounded al-Baghdadi. A senior Iraqi military official also said he learned in operational meetings that al-Baghdadi had been wounded.
Neither knew the extent of al-Baghdadi’s apparent injuries. Both spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential material. State television later also reported that al-Baghdadi had been wounded.
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You can’t just do it with airstrikes, blah blah blah blah blah. These guys could get completely decimated and the media would give Obama no credit. There’s another story nobody is covering, the Russian ruble is pretty much collapsing and the Russian economy is in such disarray that Russian business leaders are getting seriously pissed with Putin. Check out the story in the FT. Of course President Obama had nothing to do with that either.
Blast him again.
It’s just crazy how the “liberal media” covers politics when the Democrats are in the White House: Republicans can do no wrong; Democrats can do nothing right.
Funny how we have heard nothing about Ebola since the election, eh?
that too
If true, will ISIS’s patrol, Turkey, take in Baghdadi for medical treatment?