KTFA Members "News and Views" Sunday Afternoon 10-27-19
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Samson: Senior official: 301 telegrams to Abdul Mahdi's office before the demonstrations warn of violence
27th October, 2019
A senior Iraqi official revealed on Sunday that he has sent 301 telegrams to the office of Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, warning of the possibility of violence.
"Before the protests broke out, more than 301 telegrams were sent to the prime minister's office warning that violence and riots could lead to chaos in the country," the official said.
Baghdad and the southern provinces have been witnessing since the beginning of this month, a wave of mass protests resulted in the death of more than 60 demonstrators and the injury of more than two thousand people, including security men, as well as the burning of the headquarters of political parties. LINK
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Don961: Barham Saleh holds an emergency meeting to discuss the dismissal of the government and the announcement of a transitional government
The political scene Sunday , 27 October 2019 at 14:48 pm (3034 Views)
Baghdad / Sky Press
The President of the Republic Barham Saleh in the Palace of Peace in Baghdad in the meantime, a meeting with a number of heads of blocs and the judiciary and representatives of the Kurdistan Alliance to discuss several options, including the dismissal of the government of Adel Abdul Mahdi and the declaration of an emergency government.
A source familiar with the presidency said that the meeting began a hawala an hour from now to discuss meeting the demands of the demonstrators and a number of solutions, including the dismissal of the current government and the announcement of a government to lead the country in the transition. LINK
ChrisC: If you really look at the situation, this could have been predicted but is even more bold than I had anticipated. Remember the picture of him talking to Trump? Wasn't it this very guy that Trump said we have some really important things to talk about in private?
Who is going to stop this? Maybe the UN can stop it with their army, oh wait, they don't have an army. Russia isn't, Iran can't, the people want it and the Iraqi army is with the people and they were trained by us and are our allies, not to mention the Peshmerga if needed.
I bet Trump had every person already picked for another govt., they just needed the people to make the choice of getting rid of the old one. I told you these guys are masters of this move. They come in and save the day and the people say "who was that masked man?".
Watch Maliki run now and every other Iranian plant. Iran HAS to be sweating now. Banks cut off, oil sales restricted, illegal cash flow stopping. Cue sharpened Iranian pitchforks and torches. IMO.
Samson: US official: Baghdadi's body was identified by DNA analysis LINK
Photoman57: Ok, so here is my question. How long does it take to do a DNA test ? I think this dude has been gone for awhile and the current situation gave a pefect/planned time to announce this.
Mike100: the untimely demise of Al baghdadi i refuse to believe to be a mere coincidence, funny how one of the most sought after leaders of ISIS has been killed as we pull our troops out of syria and the planned protests occurring in Iraq alongside the ousting of the iranian puppet politicians in the GOI. Lets be real here does anyone truly believe we just killed this guy or has he been on ice for a while? timing of this ALL is very interesting and has to make one think was this ALL planned out?
ChrisC: This is why I didn't jump up and yell. It smells like the Bin Laden raid. I don't like to think of Trump pulling an Obama move, but he is a showman and business is business. They needed ISIS majorly over and for other reasons I believed this would come right before this was over. DNA isn't hard to match, but it is rather convenient there isn't any identifiable piece left apparently. I would completely believe it if there had not been the reports from Russia and the stories of his capture in Aleppo last year. There will never be any certainty. At least this time I don't expect the capture team to have a helicopter crash and wipe them all out in a week or two.
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Don961: Details of the US "covert" landing operation against al-Baghdadi in Idlib, Syria
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ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in a US landing operation in the Barisha area of northern Idlib province.
US media reports quoted a Pentagon official as saying that the Islamic State leader had killed himself by detonating an explosive vest he was wearing as US forces approached as members of his family were present.
According to the source, no child was injured in the US raid, but two wives were killed, possibly as a result of the explosion of the vest.
The same official said Baghdadi was killed in a "secret" operation approved by US President Donald Trump and carried out by helicopters in Idlib, northwestern Syria, according to the magazine "Newsweek" American. Ahead of the news, the US president tweeted on Twitter that "something very big has just happened," without giving further details, while the White House announced that Trump will make a "very important" statement at 9:00 local time on Sunday Greenwich Mean Time).
On the details of the operation, Newsweek magazine reported that the US Special Operations Command commissioned a team to carry out the operation after receiving information from the American intelligence, adding that the team broke into a compound where Baghdadi was located, and there was a firefight for a short time, and then killed Baghdadi himself by detonating an explosive vest.
“The team broke into a compound where al-Baghdadi was in, there was a brief firefight, and Baghdadi himself was killed by an explosive vest.“
According to local sources who spoke to“ Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed ”, an air landing took place at 1:00 am Damascus time in Barisha area, north of Idlib, in which helicopters and F-16 aircraft participated. Gunship guided site.
The sources confirmed that between six and eight helicopters, accompanied by a warplane, circled circularly in the Barisha area near the Turkish border and fired several shots from its machine guns and small-sized rockets.
She explained that in the area where the helicopters flew, there are many military headquarters of the faction of the "guards of religion" Al-Qaeda and the "Islamic Party of Turkistan", noting that at least seven people were killed during the operation, three men, three women and a girl.
According to the agency "Smart" local that the helicopters carried out a landing on the two-storey house of a person known as "Abu Mohammed al-Halabi," known among the residents as a civilian, where they arrested him after clashes with gunmen in the neighborhood, and after the withdrawal of helicopters and warplanes carried out several raids On the place of engagement.
“Helicopters carried out a landing on a two-story house for a person nicknamed“ Abu Mohammed al-Halabi ”
The sources said it was not known whether Baghdadi was killed or captured by special task fighters who carried out the airdrop, stressing that Baghdadi was at the targeted location.
The source pointed out that the elements of "HTS" hit a security cordon around the landing site, and made sure of the presence of al-Baghdadi after asking the residents of the neighborhood and children, "whether they saw the owner of this picture in the neighborhood," where they said they saw him on Saturday afternoon enter the neighborhood.
On Thursday, July 18, 2019, HTS announced that al-Baghdadi's personal companion was killed in a clash with her in Idlib province, following media reports that he was being held.
For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that eight helicopters took off from inside Turkish territory accompanied by a warplane participated in the operation, where the helicopters clashed with elements entrenched in a house near the area west of the village of Parisha in Idlib in a position controlled by the "Guardians of religion" and elements of ISIS, where the helicopters targeted the sites of the organizations with heavy and heavy strikes for about 120 minutes, accompanied with the targeting of the militants of the helicopters with heavy weapons.
“The helicopters targeted ISIS positions with heavy and heavy strikes for about 120 minutes “
According to the Observatory, the participation of this number of helicopters indicates that the operation involved landing and a desire to arrest al-Baghdadi, who was holed up in that house, belonging to a "jihadi leader" he had bought a few days ago, and identified himself to the people of the region as a Aleppo citizen, without He should be certain whether al-Baghdadi was or not, pointing out that nine people were killed as a result of the operation, including the leader, his wife and a number of children.
A video posted by activists from the area showed the site was completely destroyed.
Idlib governorate is controlled by factions that fall under the banner of the Syrian National Army and HTS, in addition to some jihadist factions close to al-Qaeda. The National Army and Tahrir al-Sham often advertise operations targeting IS cells in Idlib province.
The area of Barisha, which took place in the attack, is under the control of HTS, but there is a strong presence in the organization of the "guards of religion" close to al-Qaeda, which was targeted by a US raid on June 30 last. The Pentagon also targeted al-Qaeda leaders in Idlib, most notably its number two Abu al-Khair al-Masri, on February 26, 2016.
Al-Baghdadi's last photographer appeared on April 29, along with three masked men, during which he talked about his heroism and vowed more operations around the world.
The New Arab LINK