These Are The Most Wanted Members Of The Islamic State

MOST WANTED: Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and five top commanders. Daily Star

Tara John, Time: These Are the Most Wanted Members of ISIS

And why picking off top leaders won't be enough

U.S. forces killed another to ISIS leader this week, but experts say removing top officials won’t be enough to take the terror organization down.

The U.S.-led coalition against ISIS confirmed the death on Tuesday of one of the group’s biggest operatives, Omar al-Shishani. The Georgian national, who is also known as Omar the Chechen, is believed to have died from injuries sustained in a U.S. airstrike earlier in March.

But while killing top ISIS officials is sure to negatively affect the organization, it’s unlikely to be decisive. Patrick Skinner, special projects director of the Soufan Group, a private intelligence firm based in New York, says that ISIS has become so large that, like al-Qaeda, killing even its top leader won’t bring it down. “They are not going to fall apart if they lose one person,” Skinner says.

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WNU Editor: Some of these guys are dead (maybe), but it is going to take more than just killing a few leaders to have an impact.