The Islamic State is suffering as they have been “dealt a series of devastating blows” over the past months, according to U.S. military spokesman, Colonel Steve Warren, for the U.S.-led global coalition against IS.
- The terror group’s ability to make millions of dollars every day selling oil on the black market and pay its army of jihadis has been vastly reduced by repeated air attacks on IS-held oilfields;
- Coalition forces are preparing to mount a final assault on their stronghold of Raqqa in Syria;
- The remains of Jihadi John were ‘like a greasy spot on the ground’, according to the first eyewitness account of the drone strike that killed the British executioner.
Col Warren said: ‘Much like a boxer, Daesh [Islamic State] has taken several hard blows to the mid-section. We believe the knees are getting weak, and the head is starting to drop, and they are beginning to feel the effect of the exceptional pressure we’ve placed on them over 20 months.’
In his interview with Daily Mail, he shared that “600 fighters had been killed in the past three weeks alone, and recent precision drone strikes and covert Special Forces missions to take out senior leaders had left the extremists ‘paranoid and in chaos’.”
Almost two years of air strikes have not been able to utterly destroy the IS army, but Col Warren’s comments have helped give hope in a long and ugly war against fanatical Islamists.
Islamic State extremists seized swathes of eastern Syria in 2014 during its bloody civil war, before sweeping into northern Iraq and proclaiming itself an Islamic caliphate. However, Col Warren said the terror group now appeared to be on the back foot, and announced a huge bombing campaign would soon be unleashed on its capital, Raqqa, to pave the way for a ground attack by Kurdish troops.
He added: ‘We are not going to telegraph our timeline, because it is something they [IS] want to know, but it is coming.’ Speaking from his base in Baghdad, he also said it was only a matter of time before either a US or a British drone targeted the elusive IS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Continuous, relentless diligence, to seek out and destroy IS, utilizing a “three-pronged attack’ by hitting battlefield fighters, taking out leaders in precision strikes and attacking oilfields” is what seems to be working. Cutting off the finances has been effective in slowing the IS progress.
About damn time they take care of business
Good work keep it up fry the bastard.
Good
GEt The Rest Of Them
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