[ April 20, 2024 ]
The Syrian Obaservatory for Human Rights said it had received “confirmed information” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed — and President Donald Trump reacted swiftly on Twitter, writing of the huge defeat for ISIS and huge win for the war on terror.
Big wins against ISIS!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 11, 2017
The report came just days after Iraq’s government forces ousted ISIS from Mosul.
Story continues below advertisement
Reuters has more:
Russia’s Defence Ministry said in June that it might have killed Baghdadi when one of its air strikes hit a gathering of Islamic State commanders on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Raqqa. But Washington said it could not corroborate the death and Western and Iraqi officials have been skeptical.
Reuters could not independently verify Baghdadi’s death.
“(We have) confirmed information from leaders, including one of the first rank who is Syrian, in the Islamic State in the eastern countryside of Deir al-Zor,” said Rami Abdulrahman, the director of the British-based war monitoring group.
In Iraq, U.S. Army Colonel Ryan Dillon, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State, said he could not confirm the news.
Abdulrahman said activists working with him in Deir al-Zor had been told by the Islamic State sources that Baghdadi had died, but not when or how. The sources said Baghdadi had been present in the eastern countryside of Syria’s Deir al-Zor province in the past three months.
The Pentagon has yet to confirm.
And in fact, Baghdadi’s death has been announced on previous occasions — on several previous occasions, in fact. But the Syrian Observatory is a credible source.
In fact, it has a solid background in reporting on the breaking news of Syria’s long-running conflict.
The United States has previously placed a $25 million reward for Baghdadi’s capture — the same amount that had placed on Osama bin Laden.
The Truth Must be Told
Your contribution supports independent journalism
Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more.
Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible.
Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too.
Please contribute here.
or
Make a monthly commitment to support The Geller Report – choose the option that suits you best.
Quick note: We cannot do this without your support. Fact. Our work is made possible by you and only you. We receive no grants, government handouts, or major funding.Tech giants are shutting us down. You know this. Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Adsense, Pinterest permanently banned us. Facebook, Google search et al have shadow-banned, suspended and deleted us from your news feeds. They are disappearing us. But we are here.
Subscribe to Geller Report newsletter here— it’s free and it’s essential NOW when informed decision making and opinion is essential to America's survival. Share our posts on your social channels and with your email contacts. Fight the great fight.
Follow Pamela Geller on Gettr. I am there. click here.
Follow Pamela Geller on Trump's social media platform, Truth Social. It's open and free.
Remember, YOU make the work possible. If you can, please contribute to Geller Report.
Join The Conversation. Leave a Comment.
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spammy or unhelpful, click the - symbol under the comment to let us know. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.
If you would like to join the conversation, but don't have an account, you can sign up for one right here.
If you are having problems leaving a comment, it's likely because you are using an ad blocker, something that break ads, of course, but also breaks the comments section of our site. If you are using an ad blocker, and would like to share your thoughts, please disable your ad blocker. We look forward to seeing your comments below.
21 Comments
6 years ago
Donald did state people would get tired of winning – nice one.
6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Suresh, I meant in the wider context of winning with the free world hopefully finding its feet through this mess. The enemedia has tried to demonize Russia but Putin and Trump are men of the world and I think pragmatists, they will hopefully continue to tag team on things where they can.
6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
He is dead and that’s a good thing for the world!
I would like to know the situation and the whereabouts of australian Dr. Jihad?
6 years ago
While defeat of ISIS in iraq / syria is positive step Donald has lot to learn.
Lots of ISIS fighters have moved into EU as “refugees” and most jihadis present and future will continue the jihad. you cannot defeat ISIS because the original ISIS started 1400 years ago and killed over 270 Million and will continue to kill.
Recently Trump got conned by Al-taqiya from Abbas but once he learnt the truth, boy was he furious as hell http://bit.ly/2rOmfyJ
He does not mince words unlike previous spineless Presidents.
6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Unfortunately, history does repeat itself, for mankind was not embued with the ability to learn from history. There is nothing new that we see today, or experience today, that was not known or seen through the struggle of man and time over the Millennia. They who are stronger, more unified, of single mind, of greater numbers shall win. But the winners shall always face challengers, imho. I can’t really know, just how I feel at the moment.
6 years ago
Reply to
Tm.
Agreed. If I didn’t know any differently I would guess you have been reading from the book of Ecclesiastes.
6 years ago
DNA? I don’t know if I believe this, or even that the leader of Boko H. was killed. Kayla M. was tortured, raped, and killed by this man and his followers, but so were thousands upon thousands of others. Do we have valid counts?
D
6 years ago
Wasn’t Bag-buggered also pawning himself off as the indestructible Grand Mufti or something?
The guy who couldn’t be killed, thus symbolizing to the world the Pillars of Islam are aligned to signify the return of Allah or Mohammud or whatever.
Maybe I’ll just go read 1001 Arabian Nights again to get things straight.
Speaking of which, did anybody ever read the actual book? The Voyages of Sinbad in particular?
Boy have we ever censored things.
A wealthy Sinbad brags to a poor Sinbad, how he got rich.
On one of his voyages, he was shipwrecked on an island, and there married a wealthy woman. She died, and custom is surviving spouse, all the wealth, a some supplies are sealed in a massive mountain burial cavern.
Sinbad tells the other “I didn’t know what to do but rationed my supplies and luckily, just before they ran out another funeral happened. Seeing it was a widow, I waited until the cave was sealed, then I killed her and took her supplies. This enabled me to explore the caves until I found an opening to an isolated beach but, it surrounded by insurmountable cliffs. With no way off the beach, my only hope was to wait for a ship to signal, and in the mean time I moved the wealth of the dead to the beach. And thankfully Allah provided because every once in a while there would be a new spouse, whom I would kill and take their supplies.
What the heck kind of a culture worships THAT as a hero?
It’s no wonder they’re so screwed in the head.
6 years ago
Good riddance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Brilliant Mahou!
This filthy pig held Kayla Mueller as his “sex slave” before she was tortured to death. Here’s what our Military brought him: https://youtu.be/_mRwp-vzZJY
6 years ago
Well, not to worry……they’ll make more.
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Exactly. Al-Baghdadi, like OBL is completely replaceable. Did islamic terrorism cease once OBL was dead?
6 years ago
Who cares? It’s not like there aren’t millions of other muslums who can take his place. The f’ing muslums slaughtered more than 6 million assorted kafir in the 20th century without Al-Baghdadi. Muslums will go on merrily killing people for allah without him.
6 years ago
Better a Russian bomb for Al-Bahhdadi than an American court for his rape of US hostage Kayla Mueller. The ACLU might have gotten him off with the liberals quickly following suit by building him a mosque.
6 years ago
Consider this: the Trump administration has only been in power for six months and has already set about correcting the weaknesses and catastrophes of the Obhammud regime’s eight years of destructive international relations.
6 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
For Trump to fix all the evil done by the 0madhi is like trying to complete the 12 trials of Hercules:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/labors.html
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
and outnumbered by the obstacles, which are outnumbered by those cheering on his behalf – but doing nothing for him. Sad – I hate full circles. Huit clos.
6 years ago
Obama would have done everything he could to prevent Putin’s “interference” in obama’s pro-terrorist plans.
6 years ago
He who boasts before he puts on his armor shouldn’t boast like one who takes it off. Winning a battle doesn’t win a war. DAESH are still out there. The only way to eradicate them is to eradicate Islam.
