PUNJAB EXPRESS NEWSPAPER 3 3 NOVEMBER 2019
OPERATION OBLITERATION
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi before he killed himself
KIN OF SOME
ISIS VICTIMS
ARE HAPPY
a significant step in the campaign
against ISIS.”
OLIVIA CAMPBELL
HARDY:
The 15-yearold
was killed
in the Manchester
terror
blast when Ariana
Grande was
performing. Her
mother, Charlotte
Coleman, told the Sun: 'If
they've killed him, good on
them. No one will ever forget
what they've done. Nothing
will help at all with what I've
been through but at least they
have done a good thing and
got one of the leaders.'
DAVID HAINES: The British
aid worker was captured by
extremists in 2013 and
beheaded the following year.
His brother Mike Haines said:
“His evil and cowardly beliefs
and actions lack any humanity
and caused the death of innocent
people.”
LADEN KILLER COMES UPWITH FAREWELL MESSAGE
THE US Navy SEAL who
claims to have killed
Osama bin Laden had some
parting words for ISIS mastermind
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi:
'tell bin Laden I said
what’s up.'
After President Trump
announced Sunday morning
that al-Baghdadi 'died
like a dog' as the result of
an overnight U.S. Special
Ops forces raid on his hideout
in northwestSyria,
Robert J. O'Neill took to
Twitter to bid adieu to the
ISIS leader.
'Hey scumbag, tell bin
Laden I said what’s up,'
O'Neill tweeted Sunday.
O'Neill, 43, is the former
US Navy SEAL who says he
fired the fatal shots that
killed bin Laden during
SEAL Team 6's May 2011
operation in Pakistan that
left the Al-Qaeda leader
dead. O'Neill also tweeted
congratulations to the
members of the US Special
Forces team that was
involved with the al-Baghdadi
operation. “We’ve once
again proven that it doesn’t
matter where you hide... we
will find you. Great job
guys,” O'Neill tweeted.
IS chief’s aide key to his capture
IN their long hunt for Abu
Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi
intelligence teams secured
a break in February 2018
after one of the IS leader’s
top aides gave them information
on how he escaped
capture for so many years,
said two Iraqi officials.
Baghdadi would sometimes
hold strategy talks
with his commanders in
moving minibuses packed
with vegetables in order to
avoid detection, Ismael al-
Ethawi told officials after he
was arrested by Turkish
authorities and handed to
the Iraqis.
“Ethawi gave valuable
information which helped
the Iraqi multi-security
agencies team complete
the missing pieces of the
puzzle of Baghdadi's movements
and places he used to
hide,” Iraqi officials said.
“Ethawi gave us details on
five men, including him,
whom were meeting Baghdadi
inside Syria and the different
locations they used,"
he told Reuters. — Reuters
US military dogs
chased the elusive
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
down a dark underground
tunnel in northern
Syria before the ISIS
chief detonated a suicide
vest that injured one of
the specialised dogs,
according to President
Donald Trump. He said
neither the US military
dogs nor the American
soldiers died in the raid.
Our 'K-9,' as they call it,
Trump said, I call it a dog.
A beautiful dog a talented
dog was injured
and brought back.
— PTI