Kurd announce the death of al-Baghdadi in battles Kobanî and published a picture of his body

[yota691]

 Kurd announce the death of al-Baghdadi in battles Kobanî and published a picture of his body

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09-10-2014 01:35 AM

 

 

 Declared the site 'Voice of Kurdistan' on the Internet killed the leader of the 'Daash' terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the site published a photo said it represents the body of al-Baghdadi.

 The Kurdish website that the leader of the so-called Islamic State (Daash) was killed during the clashes in the area Kobanî (appointed Arabs), which ignited the fuse of the battles in which between Kurdish fighters and Daash a few days ago that killed more than 400 fighters from both sides so far did not outweigh win Kobanî in which to continue the fight now.

 Media reports have picked up a Kurdish news 'Voice of Kurdistan' and said that the units protect the Kurdish people managed to kill the leader of the state of Iraq and the Levant Islamic "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi," yesterday.

 The reports, that there is a body of a person believed to be for "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi," the commander of the organization of the Islamic State "Daash."

 

 He said, "the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights," he was able to document the deaths of 412 people since the start of an attack organization "hard-line", known as "Daash", the city of Kobani, or "Eye of the Arabs," according to the label Arab, near the border with Turkey, in 16 September last year.

 

[billio0]

Yep, it looks just like him to me. Hope that necktie wasn't too tight (Not)!

 

Now,whose next on the list?

 

Billio0

[rw.sutton]

Sadr, get up from there, just like you wanting another photo op.

[fishing]

Good news, if true.

[blueskyline]

I'd still like to see the gold Rolex watch

[calkid11]

Thank you Yota for bringing it over.

[WheresmyRV?]

If true this will definitely be a huge blow to ISIS.

[moneysoon]

Finish the job.

[Calijim]

And another one bites the dust

[MyLadiesDaddy]

Now he's a good Muslim.

PRAY FOR REVIVAL EVERYDAY

another day closer

[SnowGlobe7]

who isi next in command...lets get him by Sunday.....lets knock out this deck of cards!!!

[ronscarpa]

Thanks YOTA (+1) for the article ... One down and 30,000 to go...! At least they got a key instigator...!   

[hammer911]

Hope it is true.. Dont see any other articles out there yet. Will keep watching!!! GO RV!!!~~~

[k98nights]

I haven't seen anything else on it myself...but I sure hope it's true!

[TennesseeCherokee]

I really don't mean at all to sound cliche,but don't many of these folks "look alike"?

I mean, all the facial hair, most are brunette, and the turbans?

Certainly looks similar to Sadr to me.....

[uncirculd]

Why is everyone saying Sadr, it's baghdadi who died a few weeks ago also.  Nine lives like maliki.   Hopefully this is baghdai's last photo op.

[Boozer]

The sad part about this is.. Its not MALIKI    

[nannab]

I hope it is true. But I cannot find an article with his name.

Iraqi news stated that a leader and two assistants were

killed.

[blitzer]

It will be great if true.

 

I just have one question........why was their top general involved in a fight to take a town?  He has historically only showed up AFTER a town is taken, if he shows up at all.  SOB is as secretive as Osama was, lol, with good reason!!!  And this is at least the 2nd or 3rd report of his death in the last couple of months.  I keep hoping, lol, but so far, he has still been alive; lets "hope" the Kurds are right, has to be an imporvement of the overall human condition if he is dead. 

 

But I have also not seen or heard anything else of confirmation yet, so........

[kostaske]

I hope he is not faking it...

[fnbplanet]

A tragic loss of perfectly good bug infested hair.

[Rayzur]

It wouldn't be at all surprising if Baghdadi  were in Kobani/Kobane... It's strategically significant... despite Obama's statement (apparently) that it was not of interest to the US.... wot??

Note the Turkish Border:

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If Kobani were to fall to the Islamic State, the group would be in control of more than half of Syria’s border with Turkey.
 

Though part of it "not being important" may be a mere translation error?? as expressed in the frustrated observations a few hours ago, by  Syrian military who noted:

United States CENTCOM thinks Kobani and Ayn al Arab are two different places and makes major spelling errors for other places in Syria

 

 

 

 

 

Kobani and Ayn Al Arab are the same location!!!!.

عين العرب 'Ayn Al-'Arab is the Arabic name and کۆبانی/ كوباني Kobanî (Kobanê) is the Kurdish name for the exact same place.

United States CENTCOM which is coordinating the airstrikes thinks otherwise.

 

Hopefully the US will get the memo, and brief Obama as to why it might be the same strategic place referred to as a different target...(or not, its hard to tell who is briefing who about what and if those are at all coordinated)
 

In the meantime, Kobane is under attack. ISIS is bombing the city with heavy artillery. The city is surrounded by American-made armored vehicles and close to 50 tanks. Over 10,000 Daesh (ISIS) terrorists are about to launch a full-scale assault on the city... with thousands of Kurdish civilians, who are seen as ''infidels'' by ISIS, still in the city.The Kobane Campaign has been going on for months. The town itself has been under siege for the past 22 days. Several thousand exhausted Kurdish fighters, armed with old Russian-made weapons, are defending the city... And the Kobane citizens are not about to give up the fight....

 

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[iRaQi_VeT_716]

I hope it is true. But I cannot find an article with his name.

Iraqi news stated that a leader and two assistants were

killed.

Exactly my point! The news hasn't mentioned him being killed at all. And that's "US" News!

[skeetdog]

You would think with all the Heavy Artillery, Assault Vehicles and Tanks around the City that would make for some kind of land mark. A simple satellite imagery could and would confirm any offensive activity. There seems to be some type of Fox playing in the Hen House and I'll have to call BS on the misinformed locations....I've got a hunch it's tied to previous operations and I'm going to ''Hide n Watch'' to see who gets their hand stuck in the cookie jar....  

Thanks Rayzur......

[Rayzur]

You got a good point Skeetdog....people probably just trying to understand why one thing is said and another happens...  which I guess would bring us back to the Obama administration:

 

 

Let’s think about the practicality of the approach. All military analysts and administration officials agree that between 9,000 and 16,000 Kurdish fighters are currently trying to defend the city of Kobane (Kobani) in Syria from ISIS.

If they fail, they will die.

President Obama has sold the U.S. operation against ISIS in Syria on the premise we will train fighters, the “Syrian moderates”, to be the ground forces to fight. In advocating for this approach President Obama has set a goal of training and equipping 5,000 of these Syrian fighters within the next year and congress has appropriated $500 million.

Currently in Kobane the administration is willing to watch 10,000 “moderate” Kurkish Syrian fighters die, in order to train 5,000 “moderate” Syrians’ to take their place.

 

We intervened in Libya, 2011, under the Obama Doctrine of a “Responsibility To Protect”, or R2P.

The “rebels” President Obama, Samantha Power, Susan Rice and Hillarious Clinton were responsible for protecting were located in the Libyan city of Benghazi. They numbered around 9,000.

President Obama and team organized the entire U.N. and NATO coalition to defend those 9,000 Benghazi “rebels”, and took us to war in Libya on their behalf.

Would it help if the Kurds in Kobane changed their name to “rebels” also?  Why would the same R2P principle not apply?

 

 

 

IS battles Kurds in Syrian Kurdistan over border town to maintain oil trade

Islamic State terrorists have been fighting for the past week for control of a key town straddling the Syrian-Turkish border. A victory by IS in Kobani, better known in the Arab world as Ain al Arab, would be a setback for the U.S.-Saudi-led alliance fighting the world’s most dangerous and most powerful terrorist organization.

More importantly, a victory for IS would give the group prestige among the dozens of groups lined up in the fight against Syrian President Bashar Assad. It would also secure the terror organization’s flow of oil to a lucrative market – its link to the outside world via Turkey, as I reported last week.

Proof that this conflict is far from being a religious war, as IS would have the world believe, is the current battle to the finish between the Sunni militant group and the Kurds in Kobani.
The Kurds are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, yet IS is going after them with a vengeance. It’s a revealing detail about who’s in power in IS: former members of the regime led by Saddam Hussein, who, it should be recalled, used chemical weapons against the Kurds, gassing entire villages.

Today that battle continues in Kobani. IS has surrounded the Kurds on almost every side with tanks and shelled the city with heavy weapons. Kurdish fighters are resisting as much as they can with the few weapons they have.

In moving the front line to another region entirely, IS has once again shown that it is as agile on the battlefield as it is in its business operations.

The group shifts troops and materiel from one theatre of operations to another, easily adapting to the changing political and economic outlines of the conflict. At the end of the day, their fight is not for control of the mosques, but oil fields.


Why Kobani? Why the Turkish border? Why now? Three reasons.

First: IS has devoted so much energy and fighters to winning control of this otherwise non-descriptive town mostly because of its close proximity to the Turkish border. Much of the IS’s clandestine trade -- selling oil it has illicitly acquired from Syrian and Iraqi oil fields -- transits through Turkey.

Second: It gives IS a chance to further weaken the Kurds. Although they are from the same branch of Islam, IS sees the Kurds as an obstacle on their road to total domination of the caliphate declared by their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Third: Kobani represents an opportunity for IS to expand its influence in the region.

Turkey -- a regional “superpower” -- is the only country with enough troops and armor and air support to inflict serous damage on IS. Yet the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems extremely reluctant to intervene, despite a government pledge to do whatever it takes to prevent Kobani from falling.

That’s the equivalent of Ankara playing with fire where relations with its own Kurdish population are concerned. Turkish Kurds are furious that Ankara is holding back from intervening inwww.Ekurd.net Kobani until the U.S.-led coalition meets certain demands, like establishing a no-fly zone and a buffer zone in northern Syria. Turkey also wants a clearer understanding about how, or whether, Washington is going to help drive Assad from power.

Meanwhile, Kurds have watched helplessly from across the border as the battle rages and Turkish ambulances race to bring the wounded to hospitals near the frontier.

Turkey is playing a dangerous game by using the Kurds as currency in this situation. It should remember that playing with fire so close to oil can be explosive.

Setting into motion yet one more event of unintended consequence we will be living with for decades if we don't get this figured out...

Edited October 9, 2014 by Rayzur