President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the U.S. military had killed the person who likely would have succeeded Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as the leader of Islamic State.
‘Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops,’ Trump said on Twitter.
‘Most likely would have taken the top spot – Now he is also Dead!’
The U.S. on Monday confirmed the killing of Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir – the Islamic State spokesman and a high-ranking figure within the jihadi group.
Muhajir was killed in a separate operation in northern Syria in a joint raid between Kurdish-led and U.S. forces.
Syrian Democratic Forces General Commander Mazloum Abdi said it was ‘a continuation of the previous operation’ in which Baghdadi was killed over the weekend.
Mazloum described the jihadist spokesman as Baghdadi’s right-hand man.
Muhajir was killed in the Syrian town of Jarablus in Aleppo province, according to a senior State Department official.
The official said the operation led to ‘the demise of (Baghdadi’s) No. 2, or one of his No. 2s’.
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The old one-two punch.
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Another jihadi finding out that he believed and lived a lie. No 72 virgins, no paradise full of boys, no one catering to his every whim. The eternal of truth of “we reap what we sow” has been fulfilled.
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For may of the little jihadi buggers it’s a paradise full of virginal little boys.
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Exactly! They call them “pearls”…filthy philosophy!
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I can explicitly remember a familiarization briefing given to us in the mid-90s about Afghan ‘cultural’ practices that we sholudn’t be shocked at or interfere with.
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Oh, there are 72 virgins all right, perhaps as you and czar said, 72 virginal young boys.
The kicker is, they all receive the same 72 virgins, and the virgins perpetually remain virgins, i.e. the virgins are never touched.
Quite a paradise, huh?
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Two down and how many millions to go?
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Another one bites the dust.
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