Report: Airstrike Hits ISIS Leader Baghdadi’s Convoy

Posted by | October 11, 2015 11:13 | Filed under: War & Peace

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Early reports have just crossed the wire with sketchy information about an Iraqi airstrike targeting both an ISIS convoy and meeting. Did Iraqis just take out Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, one of the region’s most hated power players? We’re not holding our breath, but you never know:

Iraq’s military claims its air force struck a convoy in western Anbar province that included ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The fate of al-Baghdadi is unknown, the military statement said.

“The Iraqi airforce carried out a heroic operation by striking al-Baghdadi’s convoy while he on his way to attend a meeting with senior ISIS leaders in Karabelah,” the statement said.

The site of the meeting was also struck and several ISIS leaders were killed and wounded, the statement said.

Claims that al-Baghdadi has been hit in airstrikes have been made twice over the past year. In November, Iraqi officials said he had been wounded in an airstrike. In March, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said the Iraqi air force wounded al-Baghdadi in an airstrike on the Iraqi town of Al-Qaem.

Each time, audio recordings of al-Baghdadi showed up on social media within days after the airstrikes.

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By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.

12 responses to Report: Airstrike Hits ISIS Leader Baghdadi’s Convoy

  1. StoneyCurtisll October 11th, 2015 at 11:30

    “Iraqi air force”?

  2. William October 11th, 2015 at 12:56

    Very soon ISIS will have an air force.

    • bpollen October 11th, 2015 at 20:44

      Why am I hearing the tornado music from Wizard of Oz?

  3. robert October 11th, 2015 at 13:57

    KUDOs they didn’t give away everything Just most of what we left behind

  4. rg9rts October 11th, 2015 at 15:59

    No prisoners…just a body count…remember ??? I do….

  5. bpollen October 11th, 2015 at 20:40

    Unfortunately, the convoy was parked in the middle of a MSF hospital…

  6. fahvel October 12th, 2015 at 03:49

    never happened!!

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