Day: May 13, 2015

ISIS: Another One Bites The Dust? (Breaking News)

About a month ago I reported that the leader of ISIS, al-Baghdadi, had been seriously wounded….I kept my ears open in Middle East news and found confirmation….he has been serious wounded with severe spinal trauma……because of that a second in command had taken over the day to day running of ISIS……

Today it is being reported by the Iraqi Defense Ministry that the man named to take al-Baghdadi’s place as leader ….one al-Afri has been killed in an airstrike…….

Second-in-command of Daesh (ISIS), Abu Alaa al-Afri, was killed in an airstrike by the US-led coalition, the Iraq Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.

Afri, a former physics teacher in Iraq, was in charge of the extremist group after leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was allegedly seriously injured in March, leaving in question the state of Daesh’s senior leadership.

A video posted on the defense ministry’s website showed a US-led coalition airstrike that pounded the compound of where Afri was allegedly meeting other Daesh leaders, including the supreme judge, International Business Times reported.

Afri was based in the city of Mosul who had “begun to head up Daesh with the help of officials responsible for other portfolios,” Iraqi government adviser Hisham al-Hashimi told Newsweek.

The airstrikes seem to be decimating the leadership of ISIS…..maybe our intel is getting better…..

So far this has not been confirmed outside the Defense Ministry….but I shall continue to check for that confirmation…….

Can We Ever Make Anti-War Fashionable? by Lucy Steigerwald — Antiwar.com

It does my old heart good to see that Americans are once again taking to the streets….as an aging hippie protester I believe in the power of the people….even though it has been degraded in the past we can still make a difference……..Americans are protesting mostly around economic issues and social issues

I recently did a post on anti-war protests and where they have gone…….Americans No longer see the need to fight against war…..basically because only a small percentage has some skin in the game of war…..

So my question is….will Americans ever be protesting war again?

 

Can We Ever Make Anti-War Fashionable? by Lucy Steigerwald — Antiwar.com.

Where Have All The Protestors Gone?

Yesterday was the most boring day I have experienced in years…..news wise that is……enough already with Brady’s Balls!

Seeing the protests recently in the death of man in police custody in Baltimore started me thinking about my youth and the protests that I participated in…….like why is there not more concern on America’s path to endless war?  Where is the anti-war protests?

Seeing my fellow Americans in the streets protesting makes my heart smile……..we are protesting the Wall Street thieves……we are protesting for social justice………we are making a stand for civil rights…..again……but where is the anti-war protests?

There is a sad state of affairs here in the US….we are at war and NO one cares……not the public…..not the media…..not any politician……it will not become important until bodies start coming home and the media has something they can fixate upon…….then only then will a snowstorm in winter become a non-starter…..

What has happened to the US anti-war movement?  I have asked this question many times and in posts on IST…….we have a decades long war being fought by Americans and yet there is NO substantial protests…….yes we have a anti-war movement….but it has been marginalized…..why?

The question has been asked and now there is a response……

 

How the Anti-War Movement was Demobilized; Remembering I.F. Stone | Informed Comment.

Legality of Drone Warfare or Illegality of Drone Assassination? by Coleen Rowley — Antiwar.com

I have written in opposition to the targeted assassination by the US government……I have questioned whether it is acceptable to kill innocent civilians in the effort eliminate a “terrorist”?

Another question is whether or nor it is internationally legal to do so….please read the article and let me know what you think of the tactic……

 

Legality of Drone Warfare or Illegality of Drone Assassination? by Coleen Rowley — Antiwar.com.