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Nancy A Yousef, Daily Beast: Iraq’s B.S. About Killing ISIS Bosses
Another day, another dubious claim about a top terrorist’s death. What’s going on here?
On Wednesday, the Iraqi Defense Ministry said ISIS’s No. 2 leader, Alaa al-Afri, had been killed in an airstrike targeting a mosque in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar. The ministry released a video of what it called the Iraqi strike that killed al-Afri. The problem: The video was actually May 4 video of a coalition strike in Mosul, 40 miles away.
And given that Al-Afri spoke at a mosque in Mosul Friday, it is impossible that the released video could have been of the No. 2 commander’s death.
It’s not the first time Iraq has made dubious claims about offing ISIS chiefs. The question is: why do they keep doing it?
WNU Editor: When Iraq announced last week that they had killed the Islamic State's #2 leader .... even the U.S. expressed its doubts. This has become a case where the Iraqi government has cried wolf one too many times.
2 comments:
"why do they keep doing it/" Ask the Iranians as they are who run things at least among the Shi'ites any way. Since the Shi'ites dominate the central government or so it seems, they'd be the ones to ask.
WNU Editor,
The US claimed they Killed Zarquari 14 times, before his " death" took.
The ugly reality is, rumour , innuendo, supposition and "allies" misdirection for their own reasons replace HUMINT when you have no " in the chain" HUMINT on the ground.
If Canada were Iraq, I could easily call in drone strikes on all my enemies, just by cultivating the "right" relationship.
There's a neighbor's section I have been trying to buy for a decade. It has a lake right in the middle of it. He won't sell.
(In BC water is public, and the land under the water is too) but if you control access, it's defacto private water.
One "targetted killing" and his Wife would sell the land.
Not that I would do that, even though it's a damn nice lake.
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