Abu Sayyaf killed in raid
The White House is claiming that US forces killed an ISIS chieftain in an operation that was approved by the President. According to CNN;
The ISIS commander, Abu Sayyaf, was killed after he fought capture in the raid at al-Omar in eastern Syria, Carter said in a statement. His wife, an Iraqi named Umm Sayyaf, was caught and is being held in Iraq.
Carter said he had ordered the special forces raid against the terror group, also known as ISIL, at the direction of President Barack Obama. All the U.S. troops involved returned safely.
“Abu Sayyaf was involved in ISIL’s military operations and helped direct the terrorist organization’s illicit oil, gas and financial operations as well,” Carter said in the statement. “The operation represents another significant blow to ISIL, and it is a reminder that the United States will never waver in denying safe haven to terrorists who threaten our citizens, and those of our friends and allies.”
The New York Times reports a bonus for the raiders;
“The operation also led to the freeing of a young Yazidi woman who appears to have been held as slave by the couple,” Ms. Meehan said. “We intend to reunite her with her family as soon as feasible.” The Yazidis are a religious minority persecuted by the Islamic State.
But, you know, so much for not using US troops in direct action. Not that I’m against it or anything – just sayin’….
Category: Terror War
http://www.nationaljournal.com/defense/white-house-u-s-forces-kill-senior-isis-leader-in-syria-raid-20150516
“A Pentagon spokesman told The Guardian Saturday morning that Umm Sayyaf will not be transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba.
“No one’s going to Gitmo,” Colonel Steve Warren said.”
Send her half way, then. About 400 NM South of Hawaii’s the Big Island will do nicely.
I was thinking Rat Island in the western Aleutians. But that works, too.
But they claimed to have killed off all the rats on Rat Island…
Oh. Got it. I like the way you think.
“Wheresoever you may be, death will overtake you even if you are in fortresses built up strong and high!”
Thus endeth today’s lesson.
Mike
Not get me wrong but. I thought we waxed this turd 6 weeks ago in a air strike ??
You might be thinking of Baghdadi, who was apparently overall ISIS commander and got a spinal injury during an airstrike. The guy in this story, Abu Sayyaf, was evidently the one in charge of selling captured oil on the black market, a key source of ISIS funding.
Another senior guy, Al Afri (spelling?) was also killed in a US-led airstrike a few days ago.
Al-Baghdadi isn’t dead yet.
Abu Alaa Afri was apparently second in command to Baghdadi. Sayyaf was the financial bag man.
Here’s an interesting question from the standpoint of intel fu:
Both Baghdadi and Afri were taken out with relatively no-muss no-fuss airstrikes. The original objective for Sayyaf was to use Delta on the ground to capture him alive, a far more difficult task. Why the difference? It makes you wonder if Sayyaf was thought to have known things Baghdadi and Afri might not have been aware of.
Or the DOD might be running short on virgins. If so, killing him made it worse.
Identification would be easier with code names: Goatfucker 01, Camelballs 09, etc.
Much easier to spell and pronounce.
nbcguy– I like your thinking on this name issue 2/3rds of them have the same last name LMAO !!!!
It would clear up some confusion and would be easier to keep tract of on a score card
🙂 🙂 🙂
They had a pic of him with a Red Goatee who ever this turd was ???
There’s an old rumor in the ME that goats prefer redheads.
Thus explaining the shortage of Red Dye #7.
That explains a lot LMFAO ! !
Bahahaha !!!???
Do you mean Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri? If so, there was bad news about him last week: http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/150520152
…we were a NO GO at that station, second time through…good thing is we get unlimited attempts…
SSG E, That’s the one.
Ding ding ding…
A fellow SSG gets the prize LMAO !!!!
Bummer.
If we have zero combat troops in Iraq, as the chief clown always says, how did we bag anyone in a raid. We must have the best cooks in the world.
According to one version on TV it was a Delta Force unit and some hand-to-hand combat was involved. Would like to hear that story. Nothing like telling the enemy our order of battle rather than keep them guessing and looking over their shoulder.
SPEC-OPS guys : BIG. BRASS. BALLS.
They knew how bad it would be in case of mission failure and capture.
Roger That! Bravo Zulu!
Tier 1 forces tend to go only when the scale is tipped way on the certainty side rather than failure.
There are so few fully qualified Tier 1 Teams and members the loss of one hurts let alone the degradation of capabilities.
The Extortion incident sent ripples through DEVGRU.
Hey, that was so much fun to read, can we do it again…soon? I’m sure there’s no shortage of targets.
I want to hear that he died screaming in pain and agony
Surprized by assault on his hide-a-way and wondering what would happen to him and his wife … The last thing to go through his head before he died …
A 9mm round.
Another one down, good riddance!
She’s being sent to Chicago, for JOB Training and will later be hired for the Presidential Library of our current POTUS. Now THAT’S how you stop terrorists ! wink,wink,nudge,nudge. Say no more…..
No boots on the ground they said. Must have been US navy seal twirling around with sticks…
Another secret mil operation being disclosed to improve Hussein’s image? I’m shocked.
No boots on the grund. About a half a million spec-ops guys in sneakers but no boots on the ground. Technically sound.
Sing it Freddie!
Another one bites the dust!
One more down another billion to go. They absolutely hate Americans and its really for a few reasons. We treat women as equals…we don’t believe in their insane religion although the US anyone can practice their faith without discrimination and we have freedom of speech. So much more, so take them all down, the world would benefit from these murdering terrorist groups….