He blew up his family and one of the IS deputies was also killed.
Hajji was a senior leader of IS when it slaughtered entire villages. Also enslaved women and children. His final act was to kill his own family rather than let them live without him.
Another Blackhawk went down. Glad there were no American casualties.
It sounds like they had brief but pretty intense firefight. This mission reminds me of the Osama bin Laden raid.
And people are claiming this was some sort of fuck-up on the US’s part because this clown decided to blow his own family up, and apparently killed a bunch of other noncombatants in the process.
Sometimes there will be collateral damage, even when one side tries their best to minimize it, and I think in the final analysis taking this guy out is a net win for the world.
It is hard for me to wrap my brain around the idea it was the US’s fault this asshole blew himself up and his family with him.
That’s Reddit for you… some people on there are making the claim that had the US not carried out the raid, the innocent bystanders wouldn’t have been killed by this guy blowing himself up.
Which is absurd, IMO.
Terrorists kill children and other innocents indiscriminately all the time. That’s why they’re the bad guys.
This guy is a terrorist who blew up innocents, including children. The scorpion is going to sting.
When the US does this kind of thing directly, such as with an errant or risky drone strike, then they deserve all the condemnation coming their way. But not for this.
I don’t know. Some of us might be a little skeptical of the official reporting in light of how the killing of an international aid worker and most (all?) of his children was initially described as a “righteous strike” with “secondary explosions” detected, indicating ordinance.
From the BBC story:
“Qurashi’s blowing up tactic was also used by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi when he encountered US forces in 2019.”
“Baghdadi killed himself and three children by detonating an explosive vest during a US special forces raid on a hideout that was only 16km (10 miles) away from Atmeh.”
Why do these people bring children into the world? Recruits for a pediatric celestial jihad?
I suspect Abu Ibrahim wanted to lure our soldiers into the building and then blow it up.
I’m glad the trap didn’t work.
They probably already have another top guy, but perhaps there are fewer guys who want the job.
I remember there was a time there that it sounded like “the #2 man at Al-Qaeda” was getting it like every year.
Yeah, I’d suspect that a lot of this is that those who are blaming the US think this is a “shot himself in the head five times” scenario.
Yes, because the US has literally never lied about missions that went bad. That last drone strike in Afghanistan, which absolutely killed IS bad guys, not some poor bastard and his family. And it totally didn’t happen that the USG kept to the story, until literally every news organization in the world had shown it was bullshit.
“Good news! We killed Osama Bin Ladin’s right hand” is a running gag at some of the more serious blogs I read. Bin Ladin seems to have more right hands than an octopus, Al Kaida more heads than Medusa.