Battle to liberate Mosul rages and ISIS fighters flee the city dressed as women

ISIS fighters who do not have the courage to stand up and fight are believed to be fleeing Mosul, some of them dressed in women's clothing after orders had been given for wives and girlfriends to evacuate the city. Even as the battle to liberate Mosul enters the fourth day in Iraq, the terror group's commander Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has apparently issued orders to women affiliated with the group's leaders to get themselves out of the firing line.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 20 October 2016.

It is evident that Baghdadi is cornered in Mosul and his band of spineless terrorists have used his orders as an opportunity to escape the war by dressing as women. Two men, presumed to be ISIS fighters, were caught by Kurdish Peshmerga troops near Mosul as per media reports.
A Major General of the US Army, who is in-charge of the anti-IS coalition's land component has indicated that ISIS commanders are 'fleeing the city' ahead of 'multiple assaults' that have been planned. In his opinion, many foreigners among the 6,000 IS fighters would likely end up forming the core of the holdout jihadist force.
The women were evacuated by orders from Baghdadi to avoid being captured by the security forces or rebellious people of Mosul after Mosul was liberated.


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Media reports indicate that the dreaded terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghadi, the chief of ISIS, is dead

#ISIS #Pentagon #albaghdadi #alBaaj #RadioIran #Nineveh Media reports indicate that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the creator of the terrorist organization Islamic State, is dead – this would be a major setback to the terrorist outfit ISIS. The news has been released by Radio Iran and also Al India Radio.
This is as per zeenews.india.com dated 27 April 2015.

If true, it could mean the end of a period of nightmare and a quick end to violence and deaths in the areas controlled by the ISIS that had made the lives of people uncertain. The global powers should move in now and take necessary steps to eliminate the ones who would be hungry to take the reins of the rogue outfit because it is reportedly worth billions of dollars.
But, in the absence of a strong leader, the next rung leadership could begin to fight among themselves to pick up the largest possible shares.
There had been reports in the media that Baghdadi had received serious 'life-threatening' injuries during a US-led airstrike in March and that the strike had left him seriously wounded. It had also been suggested that Baghdadi was no more in control of daily operations of ISIS since he had not recovered. But, there was no confirmation.
The Pentagon had also not confirmed the report of Baghdadi being injured – they have said that there was no evidence to prove that the ISIS chief had suffered injuries when the US-led coalition planes bombarded the al-Baaj a district of Nineveh, near Syrian border on March 18.
Obviously, they are playing it safe and could, possibly, be planning to launch an offensive to flush out the next rung leaders. There is already a bounty of $10 million on the head of al-Baghdadi.

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ISIS seizes Iraqi town al-Baghdadi located 5 miles from US air base

#ISIS #albaghdadi #iraq #alanbar #pentagon #alasadairbase ISIS has ideas of spreading its wings beyond Syria and Iraq in order to establish militant affiliates in other countries and hence have, apparently, seized the town of al-Baghdadi, in Iraq’s Anbar Province, located hardly 5 miles from an air base staffed by U.S. Marines.
As per reports on foxnews.com dated 15 February 2015, hundreds of Islamic State fighters have captured nearly the whole of the city of al-Baghdadi. This city is 55 miles from the capital Ramadi.
It seems earlier, Iraqi soldiers had retaken several government buildings, but the soldiers had to subsequently withdraw handing the town back to the militants. As one local Iraqi official has admitted – ninety percent of al-Baghdadi district is now under the control of the insurgents.
It has been revealed by the Pentagon that the ISIS militants had launched attack on the town of al-Baghdadi from two directions before advancing inward. This is seen by observers as the first territorial gain by the militant group in months.
Incidentally, the Islamic state fighters had led a suicide attack on the Ayn al-Asad air base, where U.S. Marines are training Iraqi troops. In this attack, most of the ISIS fighters died – they were either killed by Iraqi government forces or by detonating their suicide vests.
As per estimates, there were 20-25 militants, most of them in uniforms of the Iraqi military, involved in the attack on the air base located in Iraq's Anbar province.
American intelligence officials believe that the number of fighters in the terror group have reached as many as 31,000 in Syria and Iraq. Alongside, there are nearly 2,600 U.S. forces in Iraq and, out of these, about 450 are training Iraqi troops at three bases across the country. The base at al-Asad is one of these bases.

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