Joint U.S. - Iraq Operation Captures 5 Top ISIS Commanders Who Were Lured From Syria To Iraq With Fake Telegram App Messages

Iraqi state television broadcast images of four of the men arrested in the operation.

Daily Mail: Trump announces capture of five 'most wanted' ISIS terrorists who were lured from Syria to Iraq with fake Telegram app messages - including top aide to 'caliphate' leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

* President Trump tweeted on Thursday that five ISIS leaders had been captured
* Iraqi agents took one of them – top lieutenant Ismail al-Eithawi - in February
* They used Eithawi's cell phone to reach four of his top commanders with the Telegram messaging app and lure them into a trap
* Telegram has become the messaging app of choice among ISIS terrorists
* The ISIS terror army was created in 2012 as an al-Qaeda offshoot, re-branded from the previous group known as 'al-Qaeda in Iraq'
* ISIS was the most aggressive and effective rebel force in Syria before the U.S. and other Western nations started pushing back with vigor

A jubilant President Donald Trump announced Thursday on Twitter that five of the 'Most Wanted leaders of ISIS' have been captured after they were lured from Syria to Iraq with fake Telegraph messages.

A security adviser to Iraq's government used the phone of captured ISIS lieutenant Ismail al-Eithawi to send the messages via the app and snare the other four leaders.

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WNU Editor: I would not have announced how these ISIS commanders were captured .... but it is still a huge blow to ISIS.

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