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Islamic State: “Our goal is killing Obama and the worshipers of the cross”

May 16, 2015 6:44 pm By Robert Spencer

Islamic StateThe Islamic State will probably never kill Obama. It probably will kill a lot of Christians. And it has a detailed plan to sow mayhem in the West. That is coming — and no amount of appeasement or self-censorship is going to head it off.

“ISIS Supporters Shaken By U.S. Killing Of Abu Sayyaf, Vow Revenge,” by Jamie Tarabay and Gilad Shiloach, Vocativ, May 16, 2015:

Shaken by a daring U.S. military strike deep in ISIS territory, supporters of the extremist organization were vowing revenge for the killing of senior leader Abu Sayyaf or claiming the special operations mission never took place, a Vocativ analysis reveals.

“If they took Abu Sayyaf, we will take Obama,” one ISIS supporter posted in the hours after the raid, which took place near the eastern Syrian city of al-Amr.
05/16/15 15:16 UTC
@ebn_alkim

لئن كان هدفكم قتل سياف فهدفنا قتل أوباما وعباد الصليب…فبإذن الله لنا صولات وجولات معكم ياعباد الصليب.
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Translation: If your goal is killing Abu Sayyaf then our goal is killing Obama and the worshipers of the cross. We have attacks coming against you.

Elite American commandos carried out the rare, overnight military operation, killing Sayyaf, capturing his wife, and freeing a Yezidi woman believed to have been held as their slave, the Pentagon said Saturday. Defense Secretary Ash Carter heralded the mission as a “significant blow” to the Islamic State.

Vocativ analyzed social media across Syria in the wake of the strike and discovered some ISIS supporters claiming the news was U.S. propaganda intended to counter the momentum ISIS gained after it took most of the Iraqi city of Ramadi this week. Others tweeted from outside the Syrian city of Raqqa vowing revenge for the strike, saying they heard explosions and helicopters.

Carter said Sayyaf was responsible for directing many of the group’s military activities and much of its funding, directing its “illicit oil, gas, and financial operation.” No U.S. forces were killed or injured during the operation, which represented “another significant blow” to the group, Carter said. “And it is a reminder that the United States will never waver in denying safe haven to terrorists who threaten our citizens, and those of our friends and allies,” he continued in the statement.

The mission included the arrest of Sayyaf’s wife, Umm Sayyaf, and the freeing of the Yezidi woman. The trading of Yezidi women has been a major inducement and reward for ISIS fighters in the past. The Yezidis follow a strain of Islam that is rejected by mainstream Muslims as heretical. ISIS last year surrounded the Yezidis’ villages in northern Iraq, killing and capturing dozens, and taking many of the girls and women as slaves.

“U.S. forces captured Umm Sayyaf, who we suspect is a member of ISIS, played an important role in ISIS’s terrorist activities, and may have been complicit in what appears to have been the enslavement of a young Yezidi woman rescued last night,” Carter said.

The White House said in a statement that Umm Sayyaf had been moved to a U.S. military detention facility in Iraq. The Yezidi woman would be freed. “We intend to reunite her with her family as soon as feasible,” Bernadette Meehan, the National Security Council spokeswoman, said in a statement….

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  1. Gary says

    May 16, 2015 at 7:00 pm

    Why do Muslim extremists hate “Worshipers of the cross”…..

    “Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people! If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed, then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. Jesus is: ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’

    Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

    Acts 4:8-12

    • Truth Seeker says

      May 17, 2015 at 1:14 pm

      Who is against cross? Cross is whose enemy? What Bible says about it? The Motivation comes from that source, who comes for stealing and killing.

  2. Yohanan says

    May 16, 2015 at 7:01 pm

    A mission well done. As reported, the US Army’s Delta Force. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/world/middleeast/abu-sayyaf-isis-commander-killed-by-us-forces-pentagon-says.html?_r=0

    • Jerry says

      May 17, 2015 at 8:27 pm

      I only wish they would also take out the enemy in the Shiite House!

  3. underbed cat says

    May 16, 2015 at 7:08 pm

    Stay safe, thank you US. military.

  4. jewdog says

    May 16, 2015 at 7:10 pm

    I just want to express my surprise and appreciation for Rand Paul’s observation that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein helped Iran by removing a counterweight, and that therefore the Iraq war was a mistake. It’s a welcome thing to hear a politician speak clearly and logically about something, instead of the usual platitudes.
    While this raid was excellent, since IS is evil, let’s keep in mind that it is also a counterweight to Shiite power. Islam cannot be effectively defeated by proxy, only by conquest.

  5. John Gehrke says

    May 16, 2015 at 7:10 pm

    One down, plenty more to go. And here’s one woman you don’t often here about taking more action: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/05/16/American-mother-of-three-joins-Kurdish-troops-to-fight-ISIS.html

  6. Westman says

    May 16, 2015 at 7:38 pm

    “Well, this is a disaster, and this is monstrous—in what’s going on today in the way of illuminating the mind, to go back to something that’s four thousand years out of date, in every sense whatsoever—in the sense, in the first place, of realizing what humanity is. They had no historical knowledge of anything but their own little corner of the Near East—no knowledge of the Americas, no knowledge of the Far East at all. And to pull back in[to] that, I think it’s criminal. That’s what I say.” –Joseph Campbell Author, lecturer.(1904 – 1987)

    A perfect fit to Fundamental Islam.

  7. Angemon says

    May 16, 2015 at 8:08 pm

    “If they took Abu Sayyaf, we will take Obama,” one ISIS supporter posted in the hours after the raid

    Sure thing. How about we schedule that for the day your caliph comes to NYC, like he promised? Would that work out for him? Does he have some special needs? Food, beverages, catheters, another drone strike?

    “U.S. forces captured Umm Sayyaf, who we suspect is a member of ISIS, played an important role in ISIS’s terrorist activities, and may have been complicit in what appears to have been the enslavement of a young Yezidi woman rescued last night,” Carter said.

    And things went without a hitch? Let me guess: the first time Obama heard about the mission was when he was told it was a success.

    • Betty says

      May 17, 2015 at 1:43 pm

      well now did he give out sweets and dance in the white house? got to remember obama they said they want to kill you. are you afraid? are you worried? do you need to go underground?, and be where all that food,ammo.water, weapons are stored? bet you are doing practice runs right? this is the second group of ISIS members have said that. wander if he is the first one on the most wanted list by ISIS?

  8. Istanbul_Chick says

    May 16, 2015 at 8:57 pm

    As someone “who personally knows (mohammadans)” and is therefore well aware that the ovaried mohammadans are often much more vicious than their male owners I am overjoyed that this Umm Sayyaf is in custody. I sincerely hope the special forces operators who rescued the Yazidi woman handed her a very large and heavy stick or brass knuckles, told her she has five minutes, turned their backs and let her serve her own justice on that wretched mohammadan moll (Credit to DDA for being the first to use that fitting moniker for islam’s shrieking demonesses).

    • Westman says

      May 16, 2015 at 9:59 pm

      It great that a Yazadi woman was rescued. Now she may be at risk from her own people who are unlike Western Christians and do carry out honor killings.

      Some references: “The Yazidi community, like much of Iraq, has a tradition of honor killings,” he said. “When these young women are released, as I hope they will be, those who have suffered sexual attacks or sexual violence could be susceptible to honor killings.”

      https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2014/09/23/enslaved-yazidi-women-subject-to-isis-rapes-could-be-susceptible-to-honor-killings-by-their-own-families/

      Huff Post: “The Yazidi culture has its problems in the treatment of women, honor killing, and prohibition of intermarriage. This became public after the stoning death of a Yazidi teen when she converted to Sunni Muslim to marry outside her faith.”

      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janet-ritz/who-are-the-yazidi_b_5659916.html

      The American administration was not honest about the great differences between this Christian group and typical Christianity. The Huff Post article points them out.

      • Kepha says

        May 16, 2015 at 10:31 pm

        Yazidis are not a Christian group. They’re adherents to Mauwiyya, a caliph wannabe in the early Muslim centuries.

        • Westman says

          May 16, 2015 at 11:26 pm

          Sorry about that, they seem to be under a branch of Yazdanism, claiming to pre-date Islam. Looking further into it.

          Thanks for pointing it out.

  9. Gary says

    May 16, 2015 at 9:07 pm

    “then our goal is killing Obama and the worshipers of the cross. We have attacks coming against you.”

    What? Are we “the worshipers of the cross” suppose to be afraid? Do Muslim extremists expect us to submit to allah the false moon god by the threat of the sword?

    “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

    No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

    Romans 8:35-39

  10. Jay Airahs says

    May 16, 2015 at 9:27 pm

    Their imam is hauling tainted cargo pages full of vile verse in his manifest of death.

  11. Average American says

    May 16, 2015 at 9:31 pm

    Aaahhhh…….
    The stench of fear. That pit in your stomach that makes you want to soil your arab bedsheet. Knowing that at any minute your enemy could suddenly appear and cut you down with weapons of the latest technology, or incinerate you before you even hear the roar of our jets. It will not be long before a light from the sky shines down upon you. But, it isn’t the light from heaven, no, it is the light from a satellite mounted laser that will set you and your brethren on fire. I don’t think you need to be reminded of what our soldiers are capable of.

    Terror?
    Fear?
    I think you know all about that.
    Not even your leaders are safe.

    Your attack in Texas was pathetic. You should be ashamed of your ineptitude. Definitely not something to brag about.

    Go ahead try to kill the president and you bring destruction and ruin upon yourself as you have never seen. Simply put, Joe Biden has no family or religious ties to islam. There will be nothing to hold him back from self preservation, not even those goons from CAIR.

    ISIS, for all of your barbarity, you really are a pathetic bunch. Your whining and threats are laughable. You’re even getting your asses kicked by women who are fighting by the side of the good men in the Peshmerga.

  12. Georg says

    May 16, 2015 at 9:45 pm

    “…supporters of the extremist organization were vowing revenge for the killing of senior leader Abu Sayyaf or claiming the special operations mission never took place…”

    How Islamic.

  13. Gary says

    May 16, 2015 at 9:56 pm

    “He canceled the record that contained the charges against us. He took it and destroyed it by nailing it to Christ’s cross”

    Col. 2:14

    Is it any wonder I’m a…….. ‘Worshiper of the cross’

    Will I bow to Islam? Will I fear the sworn? Will I submit to allah the false moon god? Will Islam stop my free speech?

    Not on my life! 😉

  14. Westman says

    May 16, 2015 at 10:47 pm

    ISIS is so far off in delusion land that it becomes amusing.

    Just a quick reality check for you math-challenged Jahadis. You have, at most, 100k fighters + support personnel. That is 0.0014% of the world population. If you added all the worlds’s Muslims, who will watch, even send money but never fight for ISIS, your fighters would only be 10% of the population. Forget about them, they’re not coming.

    You don’t have enough men to even administer your current holdings.

    You radical Jihadists are in a fight that you can never win on a global scale. Even one of your creators, Saudi Arabia, is after you. You will be the testing fodder for new weaponry and tactics for as long as you want to persist. You will see if Jannah is really there. Please come back and tell us about it.

  15. abad says

    May 16, 2015 at 10:49 pm

    It is time to drop an atomic bomb on ISL

  16. Kepha says

    May 16, 2015 at 10:53 pm

    They want to kill Obama? Think what they’ll do to people who don’t like them!

  17. William Lucas Harvey Jr. says

    May 17, 2015 at 1:30 am

    THIS IS Islam’s “REWARD” to Obama, for HIS Assistance to ISLAM, by being VERY apparently Pro Islam, and Pro Muslim, “Pandering”, while seemingly Anti America, Anti Constitution, Anti Christian, Anti Israel and Anti Christian – through his OWN Administration’s WELL DOCUMENTED Actions, Words, and Deeds.

  18. Wilson says

    May 17, 2015 at 3:33 am

    No they love Obama. They know exactly who he is. That is merely to fool the world and gain as much time as possible for Obama to set the stage in America.

  19. duh_swami says

    May 17, 2015 at 6:53 am

    ‘Killing Obama’…The Movie, starring Marie Harf who single highhandedly saved the President by offering Abu Bakr Baghdadi a job in the State Dept…Screen play written by Bill O’Rielly…With a cameo appearance by Joe Biden, who told Abu a thing or two about Islam…

  20. Col says

    May 17, 2015 at 9:11 am

    “And it is a reminder that the United States will never waver in denying safe haven to terrorists who threaten our citizens, and those of our friends and allies,” he continued in the statement.

    Yeah, right! They just let terrorists live everywhere in the west and keep telling us ‘it’s nothing to do with Islam! Let’s build some more mosques!’

  21. Baucent says

    May 17, 2015 at 9:36 am

    This operation is a huge success on a number of fronts. The target money bag man will soon be replaced so the financial transactions will be stalled only for a while. But what potentially is more damaging is the recovery of computer hard drives, cell phones and other reported “documents”. These could very well lead to identifying the traders, bank accounts and individuals and their locations.
    Then there is the propaganda value. The US having that depth of reach into ISIS’s backyard will be very worrying, as no leader such as JIhadi John is now safe.

  22. Charlie says

    May 17, 2015 at 9:46 am

    Keep on dreaming!!!

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