U.S. Special Ops Troops Aim To Round Up ISIS Leaders In Iraq

[jpak]

Source: NPR

American troops in Iraq are interrogating a leader of the Islamic State after capturing him in a special operations raid, according to national security officials in Washington.

The Pentagon will not say much about the ISIS leader, including his name, where in Iraq he was captured or what role he played in the terrorist group. Revealing too much about the raid would imperil a new push to target and capture ISIS leaders, officials warned.

One thing national security officials will say is that they do not intend to keep the ISIS captive in American custody any longer than necessary for interrogation. Once American military and intelligence officers have finished their questioning, the U.S. plans to hand the man over to the custody of the Iraqi government for trial, although American troops would still have access to him in the Iraqi system.

Washington has no desire to get back into the terrorist detainee business if it can avoid it, national security officials say. President Obama is pushing to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and his administration does not want to run prisons like the one in Abu Ghraib, in Iraq, which became infamous after abuses by American troops.

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[Kelvin Mace]

1. This won't end well

[maxsolomon]

3. It's Iraq; nothing ends well

or ends.

[AngryAmish]

2. When the Mosel Dam breaks, IS is done.

Of course a million folks may die but that is not our problem anymore.

[maxsolomon]

4. Why will that end Daesh?

Because they'll lose Sunni support?

[AngryAmish]

5. Their biggest city will be under 21 feet of water.

That is a setback.

[maxsolomon]

6. they still have Syria right?

is IS command and control in Mosul?

I hope that dam doesn't break - that's not enough of a silver lining to the deaths of so many.