Five Top ISIS Officials Captured in U.S.-Iraqi Sting

[Equinox Moon]

Source: NYT

BAGHDAD — Five senior Islamic State officials have been captured, including a top aide to the group’s 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 State’s 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]

1. Good news, and

Team Dotard will be taking all the credit for this...it'll be obnoxious.

[mr_lebowski]

2. Ooooh, did they also nab Bin-Laden's 2nd in Command (for the 20th or so time)? (nt)

[rurallib]

3. Sorry to be skeptical - is this like the Al Qieda #2 we killed about 20 times?

no doubt our Dear Leader will take all credit and will brag about it ceaselessly whether it is anything or not.

[Crowman2009]

10. +1

There will probably be some more Top 5 ISIS members in the near future as well.

[Freethinker65]

4. Good

[rollin74]

5. good news

[4139]

6. "Top" is apparently the most common Muslim name according to the military establishment...

😛

[Bengus81]

7. ISIS is STILL around a year and a half after Donnie signed on??

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]

8. "Religious rulings"

A cruel, perverse concept all by itself.

[humbled_opinion]

9. Just in Time

they will be off to a CIA black site, For Gina Haspel to not authorize torture, wink nod.

[SkatmanRoth]

11. They will probably turn out to be low level recruits whose job it was to answer the phone

They got suckered across the boarder with a "I lost my iPhone app". How smart can they be?

[tclambert]

12. "Dear ISIS senior official, you have just won a cash prize of $10 million. Please come pick it up

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]

13. ISIS disappeared 30 days after Cheeto Tweeter swore in

He said so anyhow. M