Sunday, September 18, 2016

Teaghan Ortega - post #4 U.S. Military

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/16/politics/drone-strike-isis-minister-information/

 Just weeks after ISIS suffered a major loss when its chief spokesman was taken out in an air attack, the US announced it had killed his close associate in a strike. The US targeted ISIS leader Wael Adel in a September 7 airstrike. The strike took out one of the very limited number of ISIS leaders who had direct access to Abu Bakr, the leader of ISIS. The US conducted the strike using a drone, hitting him on a motorcycle just outside a house in Raqqa. The US has now killed in the last two months two of the very few ISIS leaders with direct access to Baghdadi. Mohammad al-Adnani was killed in Syria in a US airstrike on August 30. He was thought to be in charge of external terror operations. Salman is assessed to have been one of the five most-senior officials in ISIS before he and Adnani were killed. Salman was responsible for overseeing the production of terrorist propaganda videos showing torture and executions. I think we should do everything we can to stop ISIS for destroying people's lives and property of America. The article talks about an anti- ISIS group that is slowly decreasing because ISIS children and men are killing them of silently. I believe that the military needs to be more aggressive about the ISIS group because they are threatening to take so many lives. We need to put and end to this!


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