Friday, May 27, 2016

Inside The Hunt For Islamic State Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi



Martin Chulov and Spencer Ackerman, The Guardian: Inside the hunt for Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Intelligence officials have pieced together details of the recent movements of the world’s most wanted man.

At the closest point they can reach to the Islamic State heartlands, the Kurdish Peshmerga can almost feel their enemy. Most days Isis fighters fire mortars or bullets at their frontline, 10 miles south of Sinjar, sometimes crawling through long grass for hours until they are close enough to shoot.

Several miles further south, some of Isis’s most senior leaders regularly gather in the grey concrete villages of the terror group’s northern vanguard, which for more than a decade had been the safest corners of Iraq for them to come and go. Moving among the nearby towns of Ba’ej and Billij, according to the Kurds watching from the ground, and intelligence officials keeping tabs from other vantage points, is the world’s most wanted man, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

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WNU Editor: I can only imagine the enormous resources that have been (and are now being) deployed to find him. I am sure that one day he will be found and killed (no war crimes trial for him) .... but when will that day happen is something that no one can predict.

6 comments:

RRH said...

There is something about these extra-judicial executions that doesn't sit right with me.

RRH said...

By the way,

The Cookie Monster got pinched by Matt Lee. This one is a classic.

She should of just said "me love cookie" and left it at that.

War News Updates Editor said...

I am looking forward to that report. The U.S. State Department usually posts stuff a day or two later.

RRH said...

http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/owned-victoria-nuland-totally-shut-down-matt-lee-one-question-video/ri14634

Country said...

Obamas waiting to use him to go out with a bang.

War News Updates Editor said...

RRH .... an oldie but goodie.