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# Five "Most Wanted" ISIS Leaders Captured, Trapped Using Smartphone App

Out of the blue, on Thursday morning a euphoric President Trump tweeted on Thursday that five of the "Most Wanted leaders of ISIS" have been captured.

> Five Most Wanted leaders of ISIS just captured!

> — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 10, 2018

Hours before, a security advisor to Iraq's government said that Iraqi agents had detained a top aide to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, then used an app on his smartphone to lure four commanders from the terrorist organization into a trap - convincing the four Iraqis and one Syrian to cross the border from Syria to Iraq where they were captured by officials.

Iraqi state television broadcast images of four of the men arrested in the operation.

The aide, Ismail al-Eithawi (a.k.a. Abu Zaid al-Iraqi) was captured in Turkey by authorities and handed over to Iraqi counterparts, according to an account told to Reuters by Iraqi security advisor Hisham al-Hashimi. What followed was a three-month operation to track a group of senior Islamic State leaders hiding in Syria and Turkey.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, believed to be in hiding in the Iraqi-Syria border region

> Those arrested included Saddam al-Jammel, a Syrian who had been the head of the Islamic State territory around Deir al-Zour, and Abu Abdel al-Haq, an Iraqi who had been the head of internal security for the group. Two other Iraqis were also arrested, the officials said. -New York Times

> Iraqi Intelligence announce they have captured 5 high ranking ISIS commanders in a daring mission which lured to across the border. One captured is Saddam Al-Jamal, originally from Al-Bukamal #Syria #ISIS #Iraq pic.twitter.com/T3bUq0Xku0

> — Gareth Browne (@BrowneGareth) May 9, 2018

> Al-Jamal AKA Abu Udai Al-Jamal was particularly prominent in his hometown. He is reported to have lead a massacre of more than 70 in 2014 near Al-Bukamal. (2)

> — Gareth Browne (@BrowneGareth) May 9, 2018

> Iraqi agents used the Telegram messaging app on Eithawi's mobile phone to lure other Islamic State commanders to cross the border from Syria into Iraq, where they were captured. Those held include Saddam Jamal, a Syrian who served as the group's governor of Syria's eastern Euphrates region.

> Hashimi described Eithawi and Jamal as the two most senior Islamic State figures ever to be captured alive. The capture of all five was announced on Iraqi state TV on Wednesday.

> Hashimi said the operation was carried out in cooperation with U.S. forces, part of an American-led coalition fighting against Islamic State on both sides of the Iraqi-Syrian border. -Daily Mail

Following the capture of Eithawi, US and Iraqi intelligence agents worked to uncover bank accounts used by the terrorist organization, as well as secret communication codes they had been using, Hashimi said.

The other three men captured were ISIL field commanders: Syrian Mohamed al-Qadeer and two Iraqis, Omar al-Karbouli and Essam al-Zawbai, according to Hashimi - who said 'The noose is tightening around him,' referring to Baghdadi, whose real name is Ibrahim al-Samarrai.

Baghdadi is believed to be in hiding in the Iraqi-Syrian border region after the loss of once-captured cities and towns of his self-proclaimed caliphate.

Iraq, meanwhile, is committed to eradicating Syrian-based militants, according to Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.

> The Iraqi air force has carried out several air strikes since last year against Islamic State positions in Syrian territory.

> Abadi declared final victory last December over the ultra-hardline group within Iraq. But the militants still pose a threat along the border with Syria and have continued to carry out ambushes, killings and bombings across Iraq.

> Islamic State militants last month restated their loyalty to Baghdadi, in what is believed to be their first public pledge of allegiance to him since his self-proclaimed caliphate collapsed last year in both Syria and Iraq. -Daily Mail

Adding this to the three rescued hostages from North Korea, and it's clear that the Trump administration is having a very good day.

> Wow. I wonder if these are the guys Obama have back in exchange for Bergdahl? The count for the past 12 hours is pretty impressive. 3 captive brought home 5 isis leaders captured. Today is a good day. https://t.co/Xjo900RKGp

> — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 10, 2018

> This is a remarkable story. The level of coordination and cooperation between the U.S., Iraq, and Turkey is also noteworthy. https://t.co/Gr6WHUclDU

> — Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 10, 2018

> ✅ Set a summit to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula
> ✅ Secure the release of American hostages in North Korea + welcome them back home
> ✅ Capture the Top 5 most wanted members of ISIS
> Pretty damn good week for the President @realDonaldTrump and his Administration.

> — Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) May 10, 2018

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Chupacabra-322 Thu, 05/10/2018 - 12:35 Permalink

I CIA SIS

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Stan522 Chupacabra-322 Thu, 05/10/2018 - 12:38 Permalink

What..... Are they all Millennial's.....?

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fauxhammer Stan522 Thu, 05/10/2018 - 12:42 Permalink

The app simply said "please RSVP for McCain funeral"

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StackShinyStuff fauxhammer Thu, 05/10/2018 - 12:44 Permalink

And when they find out they were actually with the "Moderate Rebels" we have been arming? Catch and release? Nope - we'll never hear another word about it.

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spanish inquisition StackShinyStuff Thu, 05/10/2018 - 12:52 Permalink

What app? Tinder?

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IntercoursetheEU spanish inquisition Thu, 05/10/2018 - 12:54 Permalink

McCain already in custody, must have left his phone someplace. Groupon most likely.

Five? Only four in the picture... "where the hell is my phone??"

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ufos8mycow IntercoursetheEU Thu, 05/10/2018 - 12:57 Permalink

They weren't captured. Mueller wanted to ask them some questions regarding Trump and they needed a ride to Washington DC.

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Manthong ufos8mycow Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:00 Permalink

..Give them to Haspel..

Ve hav vays to make zem tok.

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CuttingEdge Manthong Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:07 Permalink

The headlop fundies and Dems share a common trait.

Fucking clueless about technology.

Keeps getting them both in hot water.

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Gazooks CuttingEdge Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:20 Permalink

not hot water

sulfuric acic

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Gaius Frakkin'… Gazooks Thu, 05/10/2018 - 14:32 Permalink

They should testify against McCain. I'd believe them over that old tumor any day.

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revolla Gaius Frakkin'… Thu, 05/10/2018 - 14:45 Permalink

The MOST SENIOR ISIS Member is Satanyahoo of Israhell

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RAT005 Gaius Frakkin'… Thu, 05/10/2018 - 14:46 Permalink

MAGA: We're going to keep winning and winning and you'll say please stop winning so much.... :-)

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a Smudge by an… CuttingEdge Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:28 Permalink

abu: sup!

abas: sup homeys

aben: yo yo yo sup yo let's kick it u guys down?

abu: my place at 10. pls tie up camels this time.

abel: u guyz sure this is secure?

abas: no worries my nephew uses it all the time

abu: do you have the bomb?

aben: gotta new radio installed on my camel yeah it's da bomb baby boom!

abu: stop screwing around.

abel: u guyz really sure this is secure?

abas: my nephew is a whiz with technology! u should see his facebook page

abu: 10 then.

abas: have you guys tried Google Maps?

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JRobby a Smudge by an… Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:42 Permalink

Curses!

Ratted out by AI

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brianshell CuttingEdge Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:51 Permalink

Sun Tzu would be proud.

On the other hand, the middle easterners have a policy of catch and release.

We shall see.

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torabora brianshell Thu, 05/10/2018 - 14:51 Permalink

So does Governor Brown.

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IridiumRebel Manthong Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:07 Permalink

Holy WaterBoarding

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BennyBoy Manthong Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:07 Permalink

They crossed the border to pick their checks from the CIA.

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IntercoursetheEU BennyBoy Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:18 Permalink

nope, 10 virgin advance

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Kayman BennyBoy Thu, 05/10/2018 - 14:47 Permalink

We can catch ISIS, but the Washington Mob's inside moles operate with impunity under the cloak of "National Security."

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Oldguy05 Manthong Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:09 Permalink

Verrry eenteresting. But shtupid! ...Shtrudel?

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pippi68 Manthong Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:10 Permalink

Bring them to McCain's funeral. They are McCain's good friends as proved by pictures from his meetings with them. They thought they were still protected as deep state CIA assets. Ha ha! Nope.

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oddjob Manthong Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:19 Permalink

Haspel will most likely feed them, then blow them, then arm them again.

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RAT005 oddjob Thu, 05/10/2018 - 14:48 Permalink

I think addressing the weeds to McStain would be better.

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Kayman oddjob Thu, 05/10/2018 - 14:49 Permalink

Blow them with an air hose glued to their johnsons.

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Jack Oliver IntercoursetheEU Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:19 Permalink

The Zio/US thinks that people still fall for their banal FUCKING bullshit !

Anybody left that believes this complete spewing of SHIT should immediately book themselves into their closest FEMA camp !!

They will find all the details on the FEMA app !!

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Expendable Container Jack Oliver Thu, 05/10/2018 - 14:53 Permalink

Its timely to demonize Muslims at this moment to pacify the rest of the world when Israhell is attacking Syria yet again and Israhell is spewing 'hate' propaganda against innocent Iran.

SIX MILLION IRANIANS' LIVES THREATENED BY SATANYAHOO's LIES!!!

Rothschild's satanyahoo is lying yet again folks - this time about innocent Iran.

For pseudo-justification of their Greater Israel ambition. Yet another SIX MILLION LIES about Iran - I kid you not!! [See photo of newspaper articles with dates using the '6 million' lies again and again: HERE

They started the '6 million' lies repeatedly over the years against Tsarist Russia (starting in 1869!!) decades before Hitler was even born!

They used the '6 million' lies against the Germans after WWII,

another '6 million' lies again against Iraq more recently to bring that nation down,

and now yet again another '6 million' Lies against IRAN!!:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-09/netanyahu-meets-putin-as-russia-debates-deal-for-syrian-missiles

"....After attending a military parade in Moscow commemorating the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, the Israeli leader warned that seven decades after the Holocaust, “there is a country in the Middle East, Iran, which calls for the destruction of another 6 million Jews.”....

As for the mother of all False Flags nation, its Isra hell:

Now read this! Scroll down....we need to all know this about the extent of Isra hell's lies and dirty tricks to justify their eternal need to Destroy the Goyim: HERE

"World War 1: Britain was losing the war against Germany. The Zionists stepped in and bribed President Wilson to get the US into the war to help them. In return, the Jews asked the British Empire to deed them Palestine to create Israel. Their wish was granted in the form of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which cost the world 18 million dead.

World War 2: The Zionists fomented that war (just like they’re doing today with Iran and other countries in the Middle East), so that European Jews could feel threatened. The deception worked as European Jews fled in droves to Palestine and took over the homes of Palestinians, who were evicted at gunpoint and then either massacred or driven out of their land into neighboring Arab countries. With enough Jews on the ground, Israel was created in 1948 at a cost of 80 million dead.

World War On Terror: Jewish neocons, in cahoots with their bought-and-paid-for politicians in the US government, perpetrated their act of terrorism on 9/11. Then they conveniently blamed it on Muslims so as to obtain a green light to destroy the Middle East using the armies of the US and NATO and the terrorist groups they finance, with the ultimate view to creating Greater Israel. So far, the death toll is over 3 million, including Christians.

World War 3: With Russia protecting Syria and Iran from Israel’s Machiavellian design, will the Zionists succeed in bringing the world once again to the brink of disaster to create Greater Israel?"

"'Greater Israel': The Zionist Plan for the Middle East:
The Infamous 'Oded Yinon Plan'":
(By Israel Shahak;
Introduction by Michel Chossudovsky)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-isra el-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5 324815

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NumberNone IntercoursetheEU Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:33 Permalink

McCain offline due to dying...suddenly ISIS leaders are captured. Is it possible they didn't get their usual heads up of what's coming their way?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mccain-sneaks-across-turkey-syria-border-m…

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Chuck Norris spanish inquisition Thu, 05/10/2018 - 12:54 Permalink

They're much easier to capture when McCain can no longer protect them

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charlewar Chuck Norris Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:28 Permalink

is mcSame still living? I'm ready to send flowers (actually weeds) to his funeral.

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hxc charlewar Thu, 05/10/2018 - 14:11 Permalink

How bout "novichok" lmao 😂

Edit - this is a JOKE retards.

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Harry Lightning spanish inquisition Thu, 05/10/2018 - 12:54 Permalink

Fucking towel heads are a bunch of stupid asses. The five top clowns all nabbed at once, how funny is that ?

I will bet they were lured by a porno web site app...told them they won an all-expenses paid night with Stormy Daniels if they return home at once. hahahahaha, what imbeciles.

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the cork Harry Lightning Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:07 Permalink

They don't like to be called towel heads because those are sheets.

Therefore we should call them sheet heads!

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Harry Lightning the cork Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:08 Permalink

8-)

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charlewar Harry Lightning Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:32 Permalink

muslim filth prefer sex with young boys....stormy not a boy, not young and not even desperate muslim filth would fuck her.

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Harry Lightning charlewar Thu, 05/10/2018 - 14:14 Permalink

Good point. Maybe they were lured by naked photos of her slimebag lawyer.

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pods spanish inquisition Thu, 05/10/2018 - 12:55 Permalink

The "find my phone" app showed their location:

Tel Aviv.

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null pods Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:03 Permalink

Ah, the ol’ brilliant dumbass angle.

Not very original ... but in all fairness, you got nothing else.

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pods null Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:21 Permalink

Just cause you didn't tell them to turn off location services don't get mad at me.

You should have done that when you gave them the phones.

pods

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any_mouse pods Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:05 Permalink

Have they been trained well enough not to reveal their CIA/Mossad handlers?

Then again, have they really been "captured" and even if "captured", will they ever be in a prison?

We only have these images and a narrative.

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dirty fingernails any_mouse Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:21 Permalink

Maybe the Brits can drive a tank through the wall of the prison and rescue them like they did in Basra.

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ad_vincula spanish inquisition Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:00 Permalink

More likely Grindr.

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Metalredneck spanish inquisition Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:13 Permalink

Goat Grindr.

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SWRichmond spanish inquisition Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:18 Permalink

What app? Tinder?

You beat me to it. Swipe right those hotties in burkas.

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RationalLuddite SWRichmond Thu, 05/10/2018 - 14:22 Permalink

"Hey Mohammed! Check out this hotty's slit!!"

"Phhh! They all look the same to me"

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charlewar spanish inquisition Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:27 Permalink

islamic filth are not the brightest bulbs in a chandelier.

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whackedinflorida spanish inquisition Thu, 05/10/2018 - 13:27 Permalink

Not Tinder. Goatnder.

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sebmurray spanish inquisition Thu, 05/10/2018 - 14:11 Permalink

GOATinder

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konputa StackShinyStuff Thu, 05/10/2018 - 12:56 Permalink

I'm sure Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, otherwise known by his real jewish name, Simon Elliott, is safely under the protection of the Mossad and CIA.

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