White House: U.S. Special Forces Kill Senior IS Leader in Syria

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U.S. special forces killed a senior Islamic State group leader and captured his wife in a daring raid in eastern Syria, the White House announced on Saturday. 

The raid was carried out at the direction of U.S. President Barack Obama, his spokeswoman on national security matters, Bernadette Meehan said in a statement.

"Last night, at the president's direction, U.S. personnel based out of Iraq conducted an operation in al-Amr in eastern Syria to capture an ISIL senior leader known as Abu Sayyaf and his wife Umm Sayyaf," the statement said.

"During the course of the operation, Abu Sayyaf was killed when he engaged U.S. forces."

Meehan added: "Umm Sayyaf was captured and is currently in U.S. military detention in Iraq.  

"The operation also led to the freeing of a young Yazidi woman who appears to have been held as a slave by the couple. We intend to reunite her with her family as soon as feasible," said Meehan, spokeswoman for the president's National Security Council.

Comments 3
Thumb EagleDawn 16 May 2015, 17:41

but mowaten said the USA founded, funded, and armed ISIS?

Thumb _mowaten_ 17 May 2015, 00:48

They did, and still do. insignificant operation achieves nothing, just barely enough to support the media stunt and fool the brainwashed masses into thinking they're acting against ISIS

And who is this "abu sayyaf" anyway? Anyone ever heard of him before?
And if he was such a big deal, how come he was rotting away with just his wife and a slave girl? The white house statement makes no mention of any other da3eshit casualties.

Thumb Mystic 16 May 2015, 18:32

No U.S boots on the ground? American CIA goes where ever they please to collect the bill.