A great headline…….shame I just made it up…….

What should be the big story of the day………a story that should have all the haters running around high fiving themselves……..but I guess someone had to pee on the parade…….

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is in rough shape after a March 18 airstrike near the Syrian border in western Iraq, sources tell the Guardian, but there are conflicting reports on the matter. The leader of ISIS initially faced life-threatening injuries as a result of the strike by the US-led coalition but is now recovering, one source says, but he adds that the leader isn’t yet in a state that he can control the terrorist group as he once did. A western diplomat and an Iraqi adviser tell the Guardian that an airstrike took place that day in the al-Baaj district of Nineveh, targeting local ISIS leaders in a three-vehicle convoy. Three men were reportedly killed. The Iraqi official says al-Baghdadi was injured in that strike; however, the Pentagon says it can’t confirm the report.

A Pentagon rep says an airstrike did occur on the date in question, but it didn’t target the leader or any other high-ranking officials. “We have no reason to believe it was Baghdadi,” the rep tells the Daily Beast. Sources have inaccurately claimed that al-Baghdadi was wounded in airstrikes at least twice before, but Iraqi spokesman Brig. Gen. Saad Maan tells the BBC that al-Baghdadi was indeed injured this time. A Guardian source adds that the leader was known to hide out in al-Baaj because the US military “barely had a presence there” during the Iraq War. “It was the one part of Iraq that they hadn’t mapped out.” The Sunni tribal area has become a focus of US surveillance this year.

There will be lingering doubts until it can be confirmed…….after all this will be the second report of him being wounded badly………..and for once the MSM may be doing the right thing by NOT reporting this without independent confirmation……..maybe they should try this on ALL there reports…..it would help them appear more “fair and balanced”.

Thoughts?