U.S. OFFICIAL SAYS NEW ISIS LEADER IS 'NOT GOING TO ENJOY HIS PROMOTION'
By Tom O'Connor On 11/07/19 at 6:38 PM EST
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A senior official within President Donald Trump's administration has issued a new threat against the individual who succeeded Islamic State militant group (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi following his death in Syria during a U.S. Special Operations raid.

ISIS announced last week that newly-vacated leadership positions had been filled after Baghdadi detonated his suicide vest in the face of assaulting Delta Team personnel in an Idlib operation first reported by Newsweek and ISIS spokesperson Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir was killed in CIA strikes in Aleppo.

In an audio message, new spokesperson Abu Hamza al-Qurashi declared that Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi—both names also sometimes spelled Qurayshi—would take over, but the Trump administration has warned he would meet the same fate.
"He is probably not going to enjoy his promotion," a senior State Department official told reporters Thursday.

"We intend to subject him and any other ISIS leader to unrelenting pressure, using all the tools at our disposal," he added. "That was true of previous ISIS leadership; that's going to be true of future ISIS leadership." ....

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