Admin l Sunday, October 27, 2019
SYRIA – Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the founder and leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria(ISIS) is dead. He was killed during a raid on his hideout by U.S. Special Forces in northwest Syria last night.
Announcing the death of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi , Secretary of State, Mr. Mike Pompeo said there is still work left to do to ensure ISIS’s enduring defeat but that Baghdadi’s death follows the path of scores of other ISIS leaders that have been removed from the battlefield and can no longer commit heinous atrocities or spread their vile ideology of hatred to poison and recruit vulnerable minds.
“His evil acts of beheadings, enslavement of women, rape, torture, and pure brutality follows him to his grave”, the U.S said.
Mike Pompeo said this administration came to Washington committed to applying relentless pressure on terrorists around the world, adding that working with the Global Coalition, the United States has been able to destroy ISIS’s so-called caliphate earlier this year.
“Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi’s demise is further evidence — available for all to see — that the United States will not stop in the pursuit of bringing evil to justice and delivering on our promise to do everything in our power to keep America safe and to bring this scourge to its knees”, he said.
He explained that this success underscores the importance of “our continued D-ISIS mission in Syria and our determination to continue working with our partners in the Global Coalition to pursue ISIS wherever they may be, and ensuring its enduring defeat”, he said, adding that “This is a great day for United States, the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, and people all across the world who have suffered far too long from the cruelty of terrorism”.
