ISIS chief ‘critically wounded’ in air raid: reports
Source: Al Arabiya
The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was critically wounded when a U.S.-led air strike targeted the western Iraqi border town of al-Qaim, tribal sources told Al Arabiya News Channel on Saturday.
U.S. Central Command confirmed in a statement that U.S.-led air strikes targeted ISIS leaders near their northern Iraqi hub of Mosul late Friday, without confirming whether Baghdadi was killed, AFP reported.
This strike demonstrates the pressure we continue to place on the ISIL [ISIS] terrorist network and the group's increasingly limited freedom to maneuver, communicate and command," US Central Command said.
Anbar province MP Mohammad al-Karbuli told Al Arabiya News Channel that coalition aircraft had targeted a gathering of ISIS leaders in al-Qaim that led to the killing of tens of people and wounded.
Read more: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/11/08/Reports-ISIS-leader-critically-wounded-in-air-strike.html
rollin74
(1,974 posts)and I hope he doesn't make it
Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)Archae
(46,327 posts)demosincebirth
(12,537 posts)Central Casting: Somebody get Dreyfus!
kwassa
(23,340 posts)or so was a report about 6 weeks ago.
I try to follow this as close as possible & I have read nothing about prior attempts on his life via airstrikes or any other attacks...Got a link?
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)couldn't happen to a not nicer guy.
bucolic_frolic
(43,162 posts)now that the election is over.
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)The media SUCKS!
FEARBOLA 2014!!!!