A Pause To ISIL

"ISIS Leader Wounded In Airstrike, Report Iraqi Officials"
By: Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Vivian Salama
Source: Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/09/isis-leader-wounded_n_6129350.html

         Iraqi reporters have announced Sunday that the head of the ISIL terrorist group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was injured in an airstrike in an area near western Anbar. Pentagon officials were not aware of this attack and declared it unknown. Iraq's Defense and Interior ministries issued statements saying that Abu Bakr-al Baghdadi had been injured, without any details. They had broadcasted this on state-run television Sunday night. This was announced around the same time when President Barrack Obama said the U.S.-led coalition was ready to begin to go offensive towards the Islamic State militants. Al-Baghdadi is believed to be in his early forties and to have transformed a branch of al-Qaida to an independent military force. He has gotten his followers to kill thousands of innocent people and to take over areas in Syria and Iraq. He has also drawn the US troops and warplanes back into the region. An Interior Ministry intelligence official mentioned to The Associated Press that he had been wounded by an airstrike that came during a meeting on Saturday, in the town of Qaim. This operation was taken care of by Iraqi security forces, but no one knows yet how he was injured. Rami Abdurraham, the director for the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that a few Islamic State militants were injured in an airstrike near Qaim and then taken to Boukamal, a Syrian border town. Although, there was no indication of who was taken to Boukamal, Bakr al-Baghdadi could have been one of them. These airstrikes have been slowing down ISIL in the advance that they were making.
           This announcement is quite important to readers and the people because the chief of the ISIL group has been injured and this can be taken as an opportunity. If Obama reacts now, it could be possible that there is a chance to overthrow this group. These airstrikes have been helpful to pausing their terrible work against innocent people and their homes.