Bye-bye Baghdadi
The most evil man in the history of the 21st century has killed himself and murdered three of his children by activating a suicide vest rather than face capture by American forces.
Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, leader of DA'ESH and self-styled caliph of the so called "Islamic State Caliphate" committed suicide by running into a tunnel with his children and blowing himself and them up when a raid by US special forces arrived at his hideout.
This was the head of the most evil organisation the world has seen since the demise of the Nazis and one of very few groups who can justly be compared to them.
DA'ESH beheaded hostages and released videos boasting about it. When they captured villages they often took the young women and girls as slaves while murdering older women, men and boys.
They tied up gay people and threw them from the roofs of tall buildings.
They killed young boys for such "crimes" as an interest in music, football or keeping pet birds.
They burned prisoners of war alive and on camera.
DA-ESH's crimes of murder, enslavement and rape against human beings were their most sickening acts but they were also cultural vandals who destroyed irreplaceable historical monuments.
In his press conference announcing Baghdadi's death President Trump mentioned assistance given to the US in this operation from a number of other sources including Syrian Kurdish forces who provided intelligence a couple of weeks ago which contributed to today's successful raid.
The irony of this speaks, of course, for itself. It demonstrates the importance of building and maintaining alliances.
John Donne once wrote that "Any man's death diminishes me" and I would have preferred if Baghdadi could have been captured and put on trial. But the choice to blow himself up - taking his children with him - was his.
Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, leader of DA'ESH and self-styled caliph of the so called "Islamic State Caliphate" committed suicide by running into a tunnel with his children and blowing himself and them up when a raid by US special forces arrived at his hideout.
This was the head of the most evil organisation the world has seen since the demise of the Nazis and one of very few groups who can justly be compared to them.
DA'ESH beheaded hostages and released videos boasting about it. When they captured villages they often took the young women and girls as slaves while murdering older women, men and boys.
They tied up gay people and threw them from the roofs of tall buildings.
They killed young boys for such "crimes" as an interest in music, football or keeping pet birds.
They burned prisoners of war alive and on camera.
DA-ESH's crimes of murder, enslavement and rape against human beings were their most sickening acts but they were also cultural vandals who destroyed irreplaceable historical monuments.
In his press conference announcing Baghdadi's death President Trump mentioned assistance given to the US in this operation from a number of other sources including Syrian Kurdish forces who provided intelligence a couple of weeks ago which contributed to today's successful raid.
The irony of this speaks, of course, for itself. It demonstrates the importance of building and maintaining alliances.
John Donne once wrote that "Any man's death diminishes me" and I would have preferred if Baghdadi could have been captured and put on trial. But the choice to blow himself up - taking his children with him - was his.
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