{"id":55032,"date":"2014-09-06T10:28:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T14:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55032"},"modified":"2014-09-06T10:28:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T14:28:24","slug":"abu-hajar-al-sufi-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55032","title":{"rendered":"Abu Hajar al-Sufi dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CBS News<\/a> reports that Abu Hajar al-Sufi, one of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s commanders was killed by a US airstrike according to the Iraqi government. The US is being more cautious on the announcement, though;<\/p>\n

The White House confirmed the air raid, but deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes, brother of CBS News president David Rhodes, said the U.S. is still investigating reports of al-Sufi’s death.<\/p>\n

“We are very careful not to make declarative statements until we know with certainty that someone like that, who’s a very high value individual in the organization, has been taken out,” Rhodes said. “Any time that there’s a leader taken off the battlefield in a terrorist organization like that, it does have an impact on their ability to operate as effectively as they did before.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, while I’m glad that they’re killing these folks, the strategy of killing leaders doesn’t seemed to have slowed the Taliban any more than it slowed al Qaeda in Iraq in the early years of that war. They should really just come to the conclusion that they need to kill all of the ISIS trigger pullers, not just place importance on the leaders. You know, return to the days when the Democrats used to think that killing the leaders has no real effect, like they did when someone else was in the White House. Kill them all equally, by the thousands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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